"Bang Bang Bang!!"
The sound of knocking on the Bi Fang Cauldron grew increasingly intense, each strike louder than the last!
"What is that thing?"
Mu Jinyu abruptly woke up, his Divine Sense reached out to the Bi Fang Cauldron, and he felt a wave of horror!
Outside the cauldron, several trees resembling evil ghosts were standing there, continuously lifting their ghost hand-like branches to strike the Bi Fang Cauldron.
With their rotten tree bodies, striking the Bi Fang Cauldron should shatter them to dust.
Yet now, their withered branches appeared so indestructible, causing the cauldron to shake violently with each hit.
"What kind of ghostly thing is this?"
Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou also extended their Divine Sense outside the Bi Fang Cauldron, and seeing this scene, couldn't help but turn pale and feel at a loss.
"This is impossible."
Mu Jinyu cursed under his breath, realizing that since entering the Cursed Soul Forest, the source of his constant unease had been these specters.
If even these seemingly insignificant deadwood could turn into such terrifying forms due to intruders, wouldn't the living beings inside be even scarier?
"Boom!"
Mu Jinyu didn't dare to hesitate and quickly activated the Bi Fang Cauldron.
In an instant, ferocious flames burst forth from the cauldron!
The Bi Fang Flame was exceedingly terrifying; even a strong practitioner at the Late Stage of the Fanxu Realm caught off guard by one hit might suffer severe injuries.
But at this moment, as the flames surged out, they only made the ghost trees retreat anxiously instead of burning them to ashes!
"Let's go!"
Mu Jinyu dared not linger, maneuvering the Bi Fang Cauldron to delve further into the forest!
He was rushing toward the location of the Soul Shatter Grass as per Hua Yunfei's information!
He was already in the Cursed Soul Forest and couldn't leave at the moment, so why not take this chance to see if the Soul Shatter Grass was here, rather than risking another dangerous search later?
Furthermore, he genuinely doubted whether Hua Yunfei's information was true.
Didn't Jian Ruyan say this was a place of nine deaths and one life?
Could someone have left the Cursed Soul Forest alive and spread this information, which was then known to the Heavenly Palace?
Mu Jinyu felt it was dubious, suspecting Hua Yunfei was deceiving him.
Therefore, he wanted to go and check, and if he couldn't find the Soul Shatter Grass, he would directly end Hua Yunfei's life!
"Huff huff..."
While steering the Bi Fang Cauldron toward the recorded direction, Mu Jinyu also kept a close eye on the surroundings.
Soon enough, he gloomily noticed that following the attack from a few ghost trees, any remaining ghost trees that were hiding and escaping notice burst out from the ground and chased after them.
This made the path ahead full of ghost shadows, with fierce winds blowing!
"If I weren't inside the Bi Fang Cauldron, I'd definitely let you taste the true power of the Bi Fang Flame!"
Mu Jinyu was enraged as he cursed inwardly.
Now that Zhuo Yue was unconscious and Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou were weak, he dared not let them out in the open because it was too dangerous, so he had to keep them inside the top-grade spiritual treasure, the Bi Fang Cauldron to protect them.
This also meant that he couldn't unleash the most terrifying Bi Fang Flame from the cauldron.
As they were all inside the cauldron, if he were to activate the Bi Fang Flame, they would be the first to get burned!
At this moment, Mu Jinyu desperately wished for a heaven-reaching spiritual treasure.
If the Bi Fang Cauldron were a heaven-reaching spiritual treasure, he wouldn't need it to be much more powerful, just possess an Artifact Spirit so the Bi Fang Flame wouldn't need to be activated from inside the cauldron, making them less vulnerable!
"Screech!"
"Boom Boom Boom!"
"Crash!!"
The decayed ghost trees chased around the Bi Fang Cauldron, continually raising their branches to strike it, producing a dreadful cacophony.
If not for the Bi Fang Cauldron being a top-grade spiritual treasure, it wouldn't have been able to withstand the assault; even as it was, the cauldron periodically trembled, feeling like it was about to fall apart.
They flew for nearly an hour.
Mu Jinyu felt that they were very close to the location of the Soul Shatter Grass.
But they were also gradually venturing deeper into the Cursed Soul Forest, causing Mu Jinyu to feel increasingly uneasy and alert.
Because not long ago, all the sinister ghost trees attacking the Bi Fang Cauldron suddenly stopped, remaining in place and turning into decaying wood, devoid of movement.
This made Mu Jinyu suspect that a great danger lay ahead!
However, having reached this point, he was in a dilemma but finally steeled himself to keep flying forward.
"Puff!"
"Swish!!"
At this moment, an area resembling an abandoned graveyard appeared before Mu Jinyu, and as he maneuvered the Bi Fang Cauldron over it, the slightly raised mounds on the ground all cracked open, releasing fierce Yin energy!
The blasts made the Bi Fang Cauldron wobble in the air, nearly crashing from the sky.
"Roar!"
Then, skeletons and rotten corpses jumped out of those graves, their eye sockets flickering with green light, eerily staring at the struggling Bi Fang Cauldron above!
Mu Jinyu observed these evil beings and found them far more vicious than the ghost trees, no wonder the ghost trees stopped short and wouldn't dare venture near this area.
"What should we do? The Bi Fang Cauldron seems unable to fly over this cemetery!"
Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan noticed this scene, their hearts racing, faces turning pale, feeling even more helpless.
Mu Jinyu's frown deepened, and then he gritted his teeth, preparing to have everyone jump out of the Bi Fang Cauldron, intending to use the full power of the Bi Fang Flame to burn these evil beings!
At that moment!
"Tweet tweet!"
The bald little Phoenix in Jian Ruyan's arms stirred from its coma, letting out a few distinct chirps.
It quickly became fully awake, flapping its small wings energetically, trying to jump out of Jian Ruyan's embrace.
As this little creature's chirping echoed outside the Bi Fang Cauldron.
Those evil beings eager to move on the graveyard below suddenly showed signs of fear, then without hesitation, jumped back into their graves.
With their retreat, the storm-like Yin energy was also pulled back into the graves.
Instantly, the Bi Fang Cauldron, trapped by the Yin energy and unable to move freely, regained its maneuverability.
Under Mu Jinyu's control, it swiftly flew away from the graveyard!
"What just happened? Why did they suddenly hide away?"
Having left the graveyard, Mu Jinyu felt somewhat relieved but also mused with doubt.
"It seems... when the little Phoenix woke up and chirped, those monsters hid away?"
Wen Rou timidly supplemented from the side.
"Impossible, could it be so powerful?"
Upon hearing, Mu Jinyu turned to look at the bald little Phoenix nestled in Jian Ruyan's arms.
He looked at it for a few moments, thinking it totally resembled a featherless chicken, lacking any semblance of awe.
Nevertheless, the creature had once transcended the Heavenly Tribulation becoming the Demon Emperor of the Unity Realm Stage.
Perhaps its cry indeed scared those evil beings away.
Especially since it possessed a trace of Phoenix Bloodline; even though it no longer retained much power, the innate supremacy within its bloodline may have caused the evil beings to retreat on instinct, which wasn't impossible!