Seeing that Wang Chuan and Jiang Yi were doing a little better, Chen Miao prepared to take them out of the Wood Banner's territory first.
But as they passed an alley, Chen Miao suddenly spotted a figure leaning in a corner inside it.
He froze for a moment, then quickened his pace once he realized who it was.
Before long, however, he was forced to stop.
A figure had stepped around the corner of an alley not far ahead.
The figure wore tattered clothes and was withered all over, little more than skin and bones.
The instant Chen Miao saw that person, hunger began surging wildly inside him, completely beyond his control.
The power inside Wang Chuan and Jiang Yi also skyrocketed the moment that thing appeared. It might even have reached Grandmaster level!
But after that brief surge of strength, their soul bodies rapidly shriveled like punctured balloons.
Feeling the two shriveled corpses go completely still in his hands, Chen Miao had no time to lament.
[Status: Deer Immortal’s Favor] activated, and branches emerged beneath his feet.
Just as Chen Miao was about to escape using the Wood-Merging Art, he discovered to his horror that the branches he had just grown beneath his feet had withered!
Not only had they withered, but some unknown power had also taken over the wood.
Before Chen Miao could merge into it, the wood beneath his feet began growing rapidly, becoming a dead tree four or five meters tall in the blink of an eye.
The instant that dead tree appeared, Chen Miao dropped his two subordinates' desiccated corpses, turned, and ran.
He had no intention of using the Wood-Merging Art to merge into that dead tree.
But soon, Chen Miao realized something was wrong.
That thing he suspected was the Mountain-Bound Starveling