"There are birds this strange?" After hearing Cai Zhuoxia's description of the Emerald Bird, Xiao Hua's original soaring ambition had long since been doused by a basin of cold water! Never mind anything else—the Emerald Bird could freely change its color according to its surroundings. This... was absolutely not something a Qi Cultivation stage cultivator without divine sense could easily discover! Not to mention that the Emerald Bird was only the size of a thumb, flew exceedingly fast, and could dart freely through these mountains stretching dozens of li. The difficulty of this was hardly any less than fishing a needle from the sea!
After cupping his hands and bidding Cai Zhuoxia farewell, Xiao Hua could not even be bothered to fly. He simply walked slowly downhill, breathing in the intoxicating fragrance of flowers as he calculated in secret. Needless to say, it was truly unrealistic for him to catch an Emerald Bird himself. However, the Huanhua Sect disciple had made it clear: deaths and injuries were not prohibited, and whoever possessed an Emerald Bird by noon tomorrow would be the victor of the selection!
In other words, the Huanhua Sect did not care how one obtained an Emerald Bird!
Xiao Hua had no ability to catch an Emerald Bird, but he had the ability to snatch one from someone else's hands. Aside from those Lineage disciples at the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation and the eighth stage of Qi Cultivation, against whom he had no confidence for now, he had a seventy to eighty percent chance of success against any cultivator at the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation or below, so long as he was careful and struck by surprise!
With his plans settled, Xiao Hua became even more unhurried. The first to act was not necessarily the first