90 Posion

Rudra moved towards the Monkey Maniac Cliff, another wood-based demonic sect that had a wood essence pool guarded by it.

Hiding behind the cover of the trees that looked almost no different from his in the terms of color and texture.

Rudra examined the surroundings and it was full of fire pits, silent tents, etc. His expression suddenly changed. "Something's not right!"

He went up and noticed cuts on the tents, flipped pots and bowls, and the bloodstains on the ground. He became interested. "Internal conflict?"

At this point, he had no other doubts, and he opened the tent flaps.

"Whoosh!"

A pungent smell of rot filled the air and in the tent stood two people. They were the cultivators who were still standing on their feet, but both of them had no signs of life.

"Dead... Poisoned?!"

Rudra looked at the weird smile that both corpses had, and looked at the embers in the fire pit. He remained speechless.

"Who would've known... Someone accomplished what I set out to do!"

He scavenged the tent and found even more corpse within the tent. Accompanying the morning peace in the forest, this was a scene filled with fear.

"Seeing how it is, it seems that most of them did not see it coming and died in their sleep, and the remaining ones who found out what was happening tried to retaliate..."

Rudra came to the boundaries of the campsite and found even more cultivators corpses, and their cause of death, being stabbed by a weapon. There were slash marks on the neighboring trees as well, evidence of a fight.

He closed his eyes, and it was as though he could witness the scene last night. "Only one person has the ability to poison so many on such a large scale, and that is... The elder from the Poison Valley!!!"

Rudra only knew one person who would know of such colorless and odorless quick-acting poison. Rudra was reminded of the veiled woman from the Poison Valley.

"It seems that the reinforcement from the sects was quick to arrive!" Rudra commented looking at the camp of one of the other demonic groups!

"Well, this makes it easier for me, as long as I don't get discovered by the Righteous faction who might just decide to exterminate me for being a demon!"

Rudra used his omniscient eyes to check the location of the well-hidden wood essence pool, seeing two core formation elders still guarding the pool.

"It seems that these demonic sects are already aware of the attack, Are they willing to give up so much life to just accomplish their goals!" Rudra was astonished at the fact that how the demonic groups were giving misleading directions to the righteous faction by hiding their true goals and protecting the main part of the rituals, the essence pools.

"Hehe, he... don't worry I will not tell them your plans for now!" Rudra said as he quickly bore his roots into the ground which then started sucking the wooden essence from the pool quickly emptying it.

"Not enough for me to reach the fourth stage of the Ent body!" Rudra's smile dropped as he stood up not minding the core stage demonic elders guarding the pool who were freaking out at the fate of the pool.

Rudra moved towards the direction of the next Demonic faction, being extra careful to not run into any faction be it demonic or righteous on the way.

"Hooo," Rudra breathed out, he was standing still waiting for the elders from the before to pass by.

He had many close encounters these pasts days letting him know that many sects were attacking into the Tranquil forests and he could be spotted any of these days.

This filled him with a sense of urgency at the fact that he was in no way strong enough to defend himself if he was besieged by all sides.

Rudra then breathed a sigh of relief looking at the sect in front of him which was also destroyed.

"It looks like raiding the pools at the periphery first is the way to go about this plan!" Rudra said, absorbing the wood essence in the pool once again which allowed him to break through into the 4th stage of the Ent body.

Rudra continued on the path without any rest as he walked in the camouflage provided by the forest.