This tree was three meters tall and one meter thick. Although it had a large body, its movement speed was not as fast as the wind.
In the blink of an eye, Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu had lost him, but they did not give up, it was not easy to find such a mystical tree, how could they let it go so easily.
"He escaped in this direction. Keep chasing!" Fang Chen said in a low voice.
Following that, he followed Xiahou Wu in a flash and chased after him once again.
After roughly two hours, Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu finally stopped in their tracks. The two of them were panting from exhaustion, the tree was still nowhere to be seen, but Fang Chen had a feeling that they were headed in the direction in which the tree had escaped.
"This damn tree is way too fast, isn't it?" Xiahou Wu said while gasping for breath.
Fang Chen squinted his eyes, his face filled with helplessness. He had already made the decision that when he had time, he would practice a movement technique, otherwise, he would not have the slightest advantage in speed.
"Xiahou, I feel that it's nearby." Fang Chen slightly said.
"But we can't find it? Or should we continue to pursue him? " Xiahou Wu asked.
"I have an idea." Fang Chen's eyes lit up as he whispered.
Under Xiahou Wu's attentive gaze, Fang Chen quickly found a demon beast. Without saying a word, he immediately exterminated the demon beast, and then, he placed the demon beast's corpse on the empty ground.
At this time, a large hole had been opened up in the demon beast's corpse by Fang Chen, and blood kept flowing out.
Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu walked to a stone far away and sat down.
"Let it take the bait?" Xiahou Wu asked.
"I don't know if it'll work, but let's give it a try." Fang Chen said.
However, what made Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu speechless was that the demonic beast had already lost all its blood and the old tree did not appear. This made Fang Chen suspect that the old tree had already escaped.
However, he could faintly feel a special aura in the air. He had felt this aura from the old tree before.
"Is it gone?" Xiahou Wu looked at the corpses in the distance and asked.
"Maybe it doesn't like the blood of demon beasts." Fang Chen muttered to himself.
Just as Fang Chen's voice fell, the Star-Hidden Sword was immediately taken out. After that, it slashed and a sword scar appeared on the palm of his hand.
Fang Chen dripped his blood on the stone. Seeing that, Xiahou Wu followed Fang Chen's instructions and dripped his own blood on the stone.
Because Xiahou Wu had absorbed the blood essence of the Huangquan Sect Protector before, his blood had changed color now. Normal people would get a bright red color, but Xiahou Wu's blood would actually get a black one.
Seeing Xiahou Wu's blood, Fang Chen instantly felt a bloodthirsty killing intent. He couldn't help but turn and glance at Xiahou Wu.
"I'm fine, I can control it." Xiahou Wu nodded and said.
Fang Chen did not speak further. After doing all this, he followed Xiahou Wu to a distance and sat cross-legged, waiting for the hook on the old tree.
Time slowly passed, but there was not the slightest movement from the blood on the stone pillar. This made Fang Chen wonder if the old tree had left long ago.
After about an hour, in a forest beside a rock, an old tree suddenly swayed.
Soon after, it seemed to be struggling with itself. Finally, it made a decision. It carefully moved closer to the rock.
The old tree clearly knew that Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu were luring it over, but facing the fresh blood, it had no way of resisting.
After persevering for an hour, he was finally unable to hold it in and wanted to secretly absorb the blood.
The old tree had only just started moving, Fang Chen already noticed it, but he maintained his composure, afraid that he would alert the others.
Although Fang Chen's soul was only at the Red Rank middle stage, his soul had once reached the middle stage of the Orange, and was forcefully suppressed to the early stage of the Red Rank. It could be said that the soul of some of the current warriors, could not compare to Fang Chen's soul at all.
When Fang Chen noticed the old tree's movements, his face revealed a trace of a strange smile.
The old tree was afraid of scaring Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu, it did not dare move too quickly. It took a full minute for the old tree to get close to the boulder.
When the old tree neared the stone pillar, a branch suddenly fell from the old tree and rested on the stone pillar.
Hiss, hiss, hiss …
The old tree happily absorbed Fang Chen's blood. In the blink of an eye, all of the blood was absorbed by the old tree.
After absorbing Fang Chen's blood, the old tree felt exceptionally comfortable. It even gave Fang Chen a glance.
The next step was to absorb Xiahou Wu's blood, and when the old tree's leaves came in contact with Xiahou Wu's blood, it suddenly let out a miserable cry.
Hearing this, Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu moved at the same time, immediately jumping onto the tree, and appeared in front of the old tree.
At this moment, the branches on the old tree had become scorched, as if they had been burned by fire.
The old tree's branches and leaves were scorched, obviously burnt by Xiahou Wu's blood. Seeing this scene, Fang Chen turned his head and looked at Xiahou Wu, as if he had thought of something.
"It hurts."
Its body swayed, and retracted the branches and leaves of the tree. It wanted to escape, but it was surrounded and killed by Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu.
The old tree suddenly said a few words, causing Xiahou Wu and Fang Chen to be surprised, could it be that the old tree had really Awakened? Why did she speak human language?
Fang Chen had seen many continent's wild histories, and had a certain understanding of the Ancient Sword Continent in the Ancient Era. According to legends, a long, long time ago, when the Ancient Sword Continent did not have much vitality, there were already legends of the cactus.
"Could it really be the cactus s?" Fang Chen was shocked.
Hearing Fang Chen's words, the old tree continued to speak.
After saying that, the old tree slipped away, ready to escape. However, Fang Chen had long since made preparations, his body flashed, his hand clenched, and directly grabbed onto the old tree's burnt leaves.
"Ah …" "It hurts like hell." The old tree cried out miserably.
Crash …
The old tree was decisive as well. It immediately endured the pain of its burning branches and leaves before disappearing like a wisp of smoke.
"Chase …"
Fang Chen looked at the broken branch in his hand. After a moment of shock, he roared and chased after Xiahou Wu.
This time, no matter what, he couldn't let the old tree escape.
The old tree could speak, it could move, and it could even absorb the blood of human martial artists. From all of these situations, one could tell that the old tree was extraordinary.
"This time, let's see how you'll escape."
Xiahou Wu roared. Using all the strength in his body, he circled around his feet and chased after the old tree at an extremely fast speed.
Sou sou sou …
After chasing for around an hour, Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu saw that the old tree had entered a valley.
"Come, let's go in." Fang Chen said directly when he saw the old tree enter the valley.
Soon after, Fang Chen and Xiahou Wu entered the valley together. When the two entered the valley, they instantly felt the changes in their surroundings.
"Where is this place?"
Fang Chen felt his vision go black, and then he opened his eyes and turned around. He realized that there was no entrance to the valley, and that he was in a sealed space.
This space was extremely small, and one could see the end of it at a glance. The entire space was filled with a sinister aura.
No, to be more accurate, these ghastly auras were death auras.
"What a dense aura of death, where did we come from?" Fang Chen looked around with a serious face.
"The old tree is gone." Xiahou Wu said.
Fang Chen nodded, but just as he was about to look for the old tree, he suddenly realised that at the end of the space, there were a lot of skeletons.
"Skeletons, why are there so many skeletons?"
Seeing that, Fang Chen cried out, at the same time he completely understood, in this sealed space, such a dense death aura, was most likely produced by the skeletons.
In the sealed space, it was dark and filled with dense death aura. If he were to absorb it for a long time, it would definitely affect his body.
Just as Fang Chen was looking at the densely packed skeletons in the distance, Xiahou Wu suddenly roared out to the sky. His eyes were scarlet, and his entire body was emitting a terrifying killing intent.
"Not good."
Fang Chen cursed inwardly. The death aura here had triggered the bloodthirsty killing intent in Xiahou Wu's blood, causing him to be unable to control himself.
"Xiahou, hang on." Fang Chen roared at Xiahou Wu and the sound of trembling caused Xiahou Wu's head to instantly clear up.
"Fang Chen, the death aura here will trigger the bloodthirsty killing intent in my blood." Xiahou Wu said in a heavy voice.
"Look for a way out of these skeletons." Fang Chen said.
Xiahou Wu nodded his head, the two of them quickly went forward, and after a while, they appeared at the end of the sealed space. There were a large number of skeletons, and it was clear that these skeletons had been dead for a long time, their bodies were filled with an endless deathly aura.
Just as Fang Chen was getting closer to him, a fight broke out from within the skeleton.
There were five skeletons, standing in confrontation with the other skeletons.
"Roar …"
There was a silver skeleton in the mass of skeletons. It was roaring at the five skeletons, and its whole body was emitting a wild aura.
The five skeletons didn't retreat at all, and in the next moment, a great battle broke out. The five skeletons began to fight with the large number of skeletons in front of them.
"Did they have an internal conflict?" Fang Chen said as he and Xiahou Wu looked at each other.
However, just as the five skeletons were fighting against the large number of skeletons, Fang Chen's face finally darkened.
This was because he discovered that the clumsy moves performed by the five skeletons were actually exactly the same as one of the sword techniques used by his Baimei Sword Sect.
"They... Was it a disciple of our Baimei Sword Sect who died in the God Illusory Realm? " Fang Chen's eyes flickered as he exclaimed.
It was not only Fang Chen, but even Xiahou Wu had discovered the abnormality of the five skeletons. On the other hand, there were also a large number of other skeletons, and some skeletons.
"Xiahou, do it." Seeing that, Fang Chen bellowed.