Digging up spiritual roots and seizing blood? You scumbags, wait and tremble.

The man paused, looked around, and said softly, "It's just you and me here. As long as we do it cleanly, and you don't say anything and I don't say anything, who will know?"

The young man hesitated for a moment, but was persuaded by him.

After all, who in the cultivation world doesn’t want to become strong?

Now they have such an opportunity in front of them. If they miss it, they will never have another chance in the future.

"While she's practicing, let's rush over, quickly subdue her and hide her first, and then find time later."

After the two of them discussed it, they quickly reached a consensus.

The two men slowly approached Zhong Ran, and then prepared to separate to subdue her from the left and right.

However, before they could get close, a huge ferocious beast suddenly rushed out from the woods on the side.

Just as the two men realized something, one of them was bitten on the head and was quickly swallowed.

The other young man was so frightened that he tried to run away in a panic.

The Golden Wind Leopard pounced and bit off his upper body in one bite.

The poor young man was so frightened that he lost his voice and was swallowed up before he could even make a sound to notify others.

From beginning to end, Zhong Ran didn't even move his eyelids.

Although she had not yet advanced in cultivation, after absorbing the spiritual energy, she did not return it to her dantian, but instead dispersed it throughout her limbs and bones to temper her body.

This is also a kind of body training, especially since her body has been tempered by the power of magma and lightning, it has become much stronger.

At this time, spiritual energy circulates through the limbs and bones, slowly filling up and accumulating a layer of strength around the body.

Although she didn't know what kind of practice method this was, she just did it for no reason.

The spiritual energy in her dantian was also constantly refined, compressed, refined, compressed, and condensed into true essence by her.

When I first started practicing, I relied entirely on elixirs in the Marquis' Mansion, a place with extremely poor spiritual energy.

Moreover, in order to become stronger as quickly as possible, her promotion speed was very fast. Although her foundation was not unstable, it was not very high either.

Now that she has the chance, she will temper and compress the spiritual energy in her dantian.

Zhong Yan was seriously injured, so he started to heal his wounds first, and only began to practice formally after his injuries were completely healed.

He now has some experience. Having just been promoted to the eighth level of Qi Refining, he did not rush to improve his cultivation, but instead began to temper and compress the spiritual power in his body.

As he began to practice, the devouring power emanating from his body gradually became stronger.

However, the surrounding spiritual energy is extremely rich, so the devouring power will not spread too far at the beginning.

It didn't spread outwards until the surrounding spiritual energy was completely devoured by him.

The small animals nearby sensed something was wrong and ran away.

A patrol team came from a distance, chatting as they walked, and some of them looked around.

This place is remote and deep in the mountains. Patrolling is just routine. Nothing has been discovered for so long, so no one cares.

"Huh? Have you noticed that I feel a bit uncomfortable walking here?"

A man suddenly touched his arms, and he didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt goosebumps all over his body.

Another person said, "I have some feelings too, but I didn't have them before. Why do I have them this time?"

"The wind is picking up. I think it's going to rain soon. Let's walk faster. After this patrol, we'll go back and rest."

The group quickened their pace until they left that area and no longer had that feeling.

"Strange, I don't feel that uncomfortable feeling anymore."

The man muttered something but didn't care.

When they returned to the front and it was their turn to hand over, they discovered that two people were missing.

"Where are Zhou Cong and the others? Why aren't they here?"

The captain of that team then remembered that he had noticed something unusual before and sent two people to investigate the situation, but they have not returned yet.

"Oh no! When we were patrolling over there before, we noticed some fluctuations in the spiritual energy. We sent them to check on the situation, but they haven't returned yet. Could something have happened?"

"Where did you find it? I also noticed something strange in the southeast direction today."

"Now that you put it that way, I feel like something's not right about the north either. I feel really uncomfortable when I go there, and then it disappears after I leave."

"We found it in the southwest."

"Spiritual energy fluctuations? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" An elder happened to pass by and heard their discussion, and immediately roared in anger.

"Where are they? Go over and see what's going on."

Two grown men just went to check on the situation, but they haven't come back yet. I'm afraid something must have happened.

Moreover, unusual movements were detected in three directions, but these brats did not pay attention. Something bad will happen sooner or later.

"Elder, this is impossible, right? Who would find their way here in this remote mountainous area?"

"Yes, we have been stationed here for more than half a year and have found nothing."

"Maybe it's just a vicious beast?"

"Ridiculous! Would the beasts agree to be in several directions at the same time? Hurry and check the situation. If you find anything unusual, send out a signal flare immediately."

It was only after the elder's angry curse that they reacted.

At this moment, several patrol teams headed back to the places where they had sensed something unusual before, and this time they were moving much faster.

"This is it. Coming here makes you feel particularly uncomfortable. Do you feel this way?"

"Yes, let's go see what's going on."

A group of ten people walked in that direction, but the further they walked, the more obvious the uncomfortable feeling became.

The reactions of two cultivators with weaker cultivation were the most obvious: "I feel the spiritual energy in my body dissipating. It seems that something is consuming my spiritual power. What's going on?"

"You too? Me too. I feel so powerless. Could it be that some demons are cultivating here?"

"That's impossible? I've never heard of any demons appearing before. Some ordinary demon cultivators don't have such great abilities."

"No, I also feel that the spiritual energy in my body is dissipating. Something is consuming my spiritual energy."

"I've noticed it too. Let's retreat and quickly inform the elders."

The group quickly retreated, and the leader took out the flare from his arms and fired it up.

On the other side, Zhong Ran was also discovered.

"Why is there a young girl cultivating here? Judging from her cultivation level, she's only at the eighth level of Qi Refining, but the speed at which she devours spiritual energy..."

"She's still practicing, so don't disturb her. Let's leave and let the elders take a look."

The captain felt that this girl was a little weird. What's more, the two companions he sent out before disappeared inexplicably, so there must be something wrong.

So he ordered his men to step back.

After retreating to a safe distance and making sure that Zhong Ran would not be disturbed again, he sent someone back to inform the elders.

A young man asked in confusion, "Didn't the elder tell us to send out a signal flare if we noticed anything unusual? Why did you ask us to walk back and notify them?"