Chapter 1228: Obtaining the Map, Ghost Crown Prince, Demon Pagoda (First Update)
Xu Zimo stopped, looking at Ji Jiuning with a half-smile.
"The Northern Fox is in this village," Ji Jiuning replied.
"Did you only sense it now, or did you discover it as soon as we entered the village?" Xu Zimo asked.
"Nothing can be hidden from Young Master Xu," Ji Jiuning said with a smile.
"But just now, that Seven Kill..."
"Don't ask about things you shouldn't know," Xu Zimo directly interrupted her.
Ji Jiuning nodded slightly and began searching through the village.
Her figure passed through several streets, stepping over the corpses of White Wood Trees as green blood drifted through the air.
At last, she stopped before a White Wood Forest.
Over a thousand White Wood Trees grew here, but they differed from those within the village.
They possessed no intelligence. They had only just sprouted and were still in the stage of gestation.
Above those White Wood Trees hung dark yellow spheres resembling amber.
Those spheres nurtured their intelligence. Like fruit, once they ripened and fell to the ground, the trees could become cultivators.
This was likely how White Wood Village reproduced.
"Dig," Ji Jiuning said, stopping before an open patch within the White Wood Forest.
She stomped her foot, and the ground immediately cracked apart.
When her right palm struck the earth, the open ground before her was blasted into a deep pit, damp soil flying into the sky.
Countless bones and corpses that had yet to rot were sent flying out.
Ji Jiuning's eyes swiftly swept over the pile of corpses.
"They hunt other living creatures, using the nutrients from their corpses to nurture these White Wood Trees into gaining intelligence," Ji Jiuning said blandly.
"This village isn't anything good either."
Having sensed