Sensing the Mountain Stone Beast's terrifying will lock onto them, Ye Han knew they had both been discovered...
Old Fox cursed in frustration too. "Damn it! What rotten luck!"
There was no way to evade them. The three Mountain Stone Beasts were closing in from three directions, each stride covering hundreds of zhang and rapidly shrinking the space the two could hide in...
They were already within the Mountain Stone Beasts' two-thousand-zhang detection range.
Moreover, once they exposed themselves and the Mountain Stone Beasts locked onto their position, even fleeing beyond that detection range and hiding again would be useless.
As Old Fox had said, these Mountain Stone Beasts were nature spirits. In places in the Cultivation World where Heaven and Earth spiritual energy was exceptionally abundant, rocks and trees could develop self-awareness after being steeped in that energy for countless years.
Without deliberate interference or destruction, those rocks and trees-even lakes and rivers-could develop forms capable of cultivation, becoming mountain beasts, tree spirits, river monsters, and so on...
However, such beings had only existed in ancient, primordial times, when Human Race cultivators were scarce and the populations of all the other races were sparse as well.
Alternatively, special circumstances could give rise to such beings. For instance, an incredibly wondrous heavenly treasure might emerge on a giant mountain, remain unharvested, and eventually perish and merge into the mountain, imbuing it with special Heaven and Earth spiritual energy. The mountain would then develop self-awareness and become an enormous mountain monster...
Such cases did exist.
There were all sorts of reasons behind the formation of these mountain monsters and tree spirits.
How they had dwindled away on the continent, however, was perfectly clear: cultivators or demon cultivators had killed them all.
Generally, these nature spirits had extremely long lifespans, but their