The dreamlike sensation left Chi Wang momentarily dazed, and he couldn't help wanting to reach out and touch the swirling, colorful mist.
"This colorful mist, and all these pretty flowers and plants, are poisonous, you know."
Frightened, Chi Wang immediately pulled his hand back and pressed it firmly against his side.
"Sometimes, the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is."
Chi Wang nodded emphatically, committing those words firmly to memory.
Staying close beside Lan Changsheng, he noticed that all the poisonous vapors remained five meters away from Lan Changsheng, as though blocked by an invisible field.
Not only that, whenever Lan Changsheng approached, the poisonous flowers and plants closed themselves up, hiding their thorns as though worried they might frighten them.
This deepened his admiration for Lan Changsheng even further.
The two continued onward as the terrain gradually descended. Weathered cliffs appeared on either side, exposing jagged, strangely shaped rocks, while vines clung tightly to the cracks, stubbornly putting down roots.
Lan Changsheng walked ahead with steady steps, silently treading through every dangerous spot for Chi Wang. Chi Wang only needed to step where Lan Changsheng had stepped.
The colorful poisonous miasma churned and surged around Chi Wang, but it could only add to the scenery along his way, rippling with tiny streams of colored light whenever the wind brushed past.
The deeper they went into Sunset Forest, the more even the chirping of insects and roaring of beasts all but vanished. The entire mountain forest was oppressively quiet, with only the faint rustle of flowing miasma.
Yet as long as Lan Changsheng's figure was ahead of him, Chi Wang felt much less afraid, even gaining a little courage to explore.
He sniffed lightly. Besides the poisonous, rank odor that had accompanied them all along, two utterly opposing