Chapter 106: The Golden Thorn Forest

Leaving behind the scorched, yellow-brown lands of the Molten Fire Domain, the air gradually grew damp, and the vegetation began to flourish.

Yet Bai Yuening had followed the jade slip’s records concerning Golden Thornwood to this forest, and the place exuded an extraordinary, unsettling eeriness.

The trees before her were neither the usual brown nor verdant green, but a deep, somber iron gray.

Their trunks and branches twisted together in tangled knots, their forms jagged and rugged. The bark was smooth and hard, reflecting a metallic sheen.

The most

Snake venom could be used to prepare poisons, making it somewhat more valuable—enough to fetch more than a dozen broken spirit stones.

At first, she had not noticed anything unusual. But when she saw those around her advancing one after another, she realized that her spirit pool was expanding too slowly. Yet internal cultivation demanded consistency from beginning to end; if she switched to someone else’s method, she would have to start over from scratch. Xu Qianyu thought about it for a long while, but ultimately chose to trust Wuzhen.

The Heavenly Star Sword Sect was a powerful Golden Core sword sect. Its disciples mainly cultivated a rare astral sword path, and its inheritance had endured for several thousand years. Nearly every generation had produced Golden Core masters, with the legacy never once broken.

At that moment, countless questions circled through Su Cheng’s mind. For instance, why had his eldest and second uncles never told him about this?

“So don’t make a fuss, and don’t cry. Slowly tell him who you’re looking for. He’ll go inside and bring the person out for you, all right?”

Old Man Ye nodded as well. Over the past few years, Ye Linyuan had been primarily responsible for training the family’s Dao soldiers, while most of the meat needed to nourish them had been obtained through the hunting of Ye Qinyang and the others.

The moment Guo Heng lifted the curtain and entered, someone followed him in. His robes were white as snow, his features elegant and rakish, and he had arrived in a lavish carriage. He had already attracted attention outside.

Thus, although Lu Li’s hand-to-hand combat skills were suppressed by the captain-general, he was not instantly defeated.

Afterward, Chen Qingdu brought Yang Simu with him and searched everywhere above the Sword Qi Great Wall, but they were never able to find the ancient sword intent that the Chen family lineage had left behind ten thousand years ago.

Who could have known that the moment he rose to his feet, the people in the courtyard would rush inside? Yet their furious expressions vanished instantly when they saw Xie Yuchun.

Nevertheless, Ji Rushi was delighted. Since Long Xiao did not treat her as an outsider, she could hardly stand on ceremony. She sat down openly, and Long Xiao took out a bottle of Maotai and poured her a drink. Ji Rushi took a blissful sip and said, “Mayor Long, I came to thank you.”

These unfamiliar martial heroes, positioned at the very outer perimeter, had in turn encircled the military experts of the Prosperity Group. From various street corners in the distance, the faint sounds of war drums and fighting could also be heard.

Then Han Li raised his hand and beckoned toward a nearby pile of crystals. A Heavenly Dipper Diamond immediately floated over.

“Nonsense! All living beings are equal. Why should the lives of you Celestials be nobler than ours? Come down here—I’ll make sure you regret it.” Even Tathagata was enraged. He had abandoned the dignified bearing of a Buddhist monk and pointed at the descending being as he shouted.

An Dongye immediately withdrew his gaze from the large medicine chest in Bai Qiu’en’s hands. That single glance seemed to have cost him an entire century, as though he had forgotten an entire world.

“Shelly will take you to the villa assigned to you. You can move in tonight. If you still want to return to Baoping, that’s fine too. In any case, before the tournament, you must get yourself into proper condition. You are formidable, but you must not underestimate your opponents. After all, the experts from every region are no pushovers,” Tian Feng said.

Tang Haoying nodded in agreement, then continued, “Mayor Long, you have only just arrived, so there are probably some matters you are not yet familiar with. I would like to discuss them with you.”

After receiving careful instruction from the Four Beauties of Liangcheng and earnest guidance from Leng Beicheng, they might not have lost because of inferior martial skills. Rather, they had been defeated by a lack of experience and presence.

“Who—who are you? Were you sent by someone from above?” The Black Rakshasa hurriedly retreated and raised his black-gold ghost shield, his fear mingled with overwhelming fury.

With a sudden splutter, the most powerful late-stage Dao Integration expert spat out a mouthful of blood. The long sword he had summoned above his head lost control and fell toward the sea below.