Chapter Thirty-Three: The Tree Covered in Mouths

  Since that day, Luo Yu spent the remaining half month of her journey in closed-door cultivation. By the time the spaceship arrived at Yun Tian Fang City, her cultivation had reached the middle stage of Qi Refining 5th layer. In fact, she used half of her spiritual power to temper her body, and with the additional 80% of her spiritual power being extracted by space, only one-tenth of her spiritual power remained in her meridians and dantian. Even so, her cultivation had reached the middle stage of Qi Refining 5th layer, which showed that Hunyuan Decree was indeed a divine-level technique, with an absorption speed of spiritual power that was hard to find in the world. No wonder her ancestor Lin Yu ascended to the Spiritual Realm in just over 200 years.

  After getting off the airship, he only greeted the heroine Luoxue and then rushed to the Trial Forest of Yuntian Mountain Range with his siblings. As for Huangluoyi, the relationship has already become like this, and Luoyu is also a person with a temper, so she naturally won't go to please her, just treat each other as strangers from now on.

  The Trial Forest is not called a forest in vain, as it is a separate mountain range from the northern part of the Cloud Heaven Mountain Range, covering an area of five thousand miles. This is a territory directly under the Tian Xuan Sect, but also allows non-Tian Xuan Sect cultivators to enter and exit. This is to allow sect disciples to contact the cruel outside world in advance, understand the difficulties of scattered cultivation, and avoid being killed by others as soon as they leave the door. It can also improve the cohesion of the disciples to the sect.

  The spiritual medicine in the trial forest is still relatively abundant. If too much is collected, the Tianxuan Sect will seal off the forest and prohibit loose cultivators from entering, allowing it to rest and recover for a while. The highest cultivation level of the demonic beasts inside is only 9th stage, equivalent to the cultivation level of humans after forming their golden elixir. They have already been able to transform into human form and have an agreement with the Tianxuan Sect, designating the inner area of the trial forest as their habitat. The middle and outer areas are then hunting grounds for both demonic beasts and human cultivators, except for a small number of necessary spiritual medicines, they do not interfere with the middle and outer areas. At the same time, if the Tianxuan Sect needs it, they will provide some help when appropriate.

  The demonic beasts outside the trial forest are only below 4th rank, and those above 4th rank stay in the middle. They usually don't wander to the outer area. Luo Yu is going to the outer trial forest because she didn't travel with the main characters or other high-risk groups, so Luo Yu isn't worried about encountering a 4th rank demonic beast on the outside.

  The forest is lush and green, with strange flowers and grasses scattered throughout. Clouds and mist linger year-round, and from a distance, it has a somewhat desolate and vast atmosphere.

  Luoyu carefully followed behind her brother's back, while Ziyun kept instructing her on the survival skills in the forest.

  "Don't touch the trees around you casually, they look calm and most of them are indeed calm, but some trees are not to be trifled with. See that tree in front of you on the left? The little bird flying over is going to be in trouble."

  Luo Yu hastily turned her head to look, and saw a gray bird flying to rest on a tree in the front left. The tree was straight and tall, with sparse branches and oval-shaped leaves that were densely packed, looking like an ordinary tree in every way.

  The bird was only a low-ranking demon beast, named for its whistle-like sound. It would attack people with its voice, but it wasn't very powerful and could be resisted by anyone who had reached the middle stage of Qi training. This first-rank Whistle Bird used its tender yellow beak to preen its feathers, then charged at Luo Yu and the others, letting out a loud whistle that seemed to say "You can't catch me, haha!"

  The situation changed suddenly, and a branch on the top of the bird's head shook violently. A stream of milky sap shot down from the leaves, covering the bird's body and sticking it to the trunk. The bird was frightened and wanted to fly away, but found itself unable to move. It panicked, struggling hard and crying out loudly, as if its cries were blood-curdling. At this moment, the name "cuckoo" might be more suitable for it.

  Luoyu stared at the struggling bird, its voice growing weaker and lower, until it finally closed its eyes, still gazing pitifully at the two of them. In her heart, Luoyu mourned for it: Little Grey, rest in peace; it's not that I didn't want to save you, but if I went up there, I'd be dead too.

  Luo Yu thought that was the end of it, but unexpectedly a crack suddenly opened up on the trunk, just big enough to swallow the bird that had been making the noise.

  This... this is all mouth! Luo Yu was shocked and her body hair stood on end.

  "Sister, don't worry. The poisonous tree only affects those who touch it, and its venom can only paralyze cultivators at the Qi Refining stage. As long as you pull the person away and have them take an ordinary antidote pill, they'll be fine."

  If no one helps, and there's no antidote, anyone below the middle stage of Qi training is a goner! Although Luo Yu was better off, she still had some lingering fear. At this time, just entering the trial forest, they encountered such a dangerous demonic plant, going inside to train would definitely be fraught with danger.

  Zi Ye discovered Luo Yu's tension, but pretended not to know and continued walking forward. After all, his sister had to cultivate herself, so let her get used to everything as soon as possible!

  One moment later, Luo Yu and the others' first target on this trip - Flame Snake. There were only second-stage Flame Snakes here, which could spit fire and attack with their bodies.

  A piece of fire crystal was thrown out, and Zi Ye hid aside, leaving only Luo Yu standing alone.

  Huǒ Róng Jīng is a second-order refining material that can enhance the Flame Snake's cultivation, allowing it to advance to third-order, so Zǐ Yè uses this item to lure the second-order Flame Snake.