Star Wheel Turn activated.
Squelch!
Entangled and strangled by the Blue Silver Vines, the thousand-year serpent Soul Beast was killed in an instant.
[Ding! Killed a 1,041-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent. Gained 15 skill points.]
Jiang Che made a preliminary estimate of his current strength. If he faced that four-thousand-year mutated Echoing Illusion Flower now, he could handle it easily even without the bronze bell.
Jiang Che turned his gaze toward the girl crouching on the ground, already scared witless.
"Are you all right?" Jiang Che asked.
Only then did the girl come back to her senses. She hurriedly nodded, still looking somewhat shaken, her gaze falling on the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent that had been cut into several sections.
"Th-thank you..."
"It's almost dark. If you still want to stay here, keep lying on the ground." With that, Jiang Che paid her no further attention and turned to leave.
After freezing for a few seconds, the girl hurriedly got up and followed Jiang Che.
Only after calming down did the girl notice that the person before her was actually about her age?
Unable to bear the silence, Jiang Che asked, "You're from Skywater Academy, right? Did you get separated from the teacher leading your group?"
At that question, the girl looked a little embarrassed. "Well, after the teacher helped me hunt down a Soul Ring, they took me to the outskirts of the forest and told me to wait outside first... and then..."
Seeing her awkward, fidgeting manner, Jiang Che had already guessed most of what had happened.
The girl lowered her head in embarrassment. "It was my first time coming to Sunset Forest, so I wanted to look around the outskirts. I never expected to encounter a thousand-year Soul Beast even there."
Jiang Che was somewhat speechless. "Didn't