My ancestors were spiritual plant growers, so it's not surprising that I hunt demons every day,

The next moment, a golden light flashed from the center of the thorns, revealing the golden talisman.

"puff"

The void trembled, and the talisman shattered and exploded out of thin air, releasing a layer of golden light that firmly protected the Golden Crown Crimson Sun Flower.

Then Lei Yi suddenly opened the crimson feather fan in his hand, and at the same time, he quickly began to chant some kind of incantation with his lips slightly moving.

"Buzz"

After a strange sound rang out in the air, the feather fan in his hand suddenly lit up with a red halo, and at the same time, purple-red runes floated out from it and kept flying around the feather fan.

A moment later, the entire feather fan emitted a suffocatingly high temperature, making it extremely hot.

Lei Yi, however, seemed oblivious to the temperature of the feather fan in his hand, and instead casually swung it towards the thicket of thorns ahead.

"Boom boom"

A crimson pillar of fire roared out from the feather fan, transforming into a rolling sea of ​​fire that engulfed the entire area in front.

In an instant, the bloodthirsty thorns began to dance and twist wildly again in the flames, but the flames released by Lei Yi were also extraordinary, and as they burned, there were faint sounds of thunder.

In just a few breaths, the once arrogant and bloodthirsty thorns were all turned into black ash.

Within the sea of ​​fire, only the golden light curtain still flickered faintly. Even more incredibly, the Golden Crown Crimson Sun Flower inside remained completely intact.

After Lei Yi once again made a hand seal to retract all the raging flames into his feather fan, he immediately stepped onto a patch of scorched ground and walked towards the golden light screen.

At the same time, in another dense forest on this low peak.

Cui Ying followed the golden scorpion and quickly moved forward, soon arriving at an underground cave whose walls were covered with crystals of various sizes.

"This is truly an effortless stroke of luck!"

Inside the small cave lay the mutilated corpse of a cultivator, along with several grotesque beasts torn to shreds.

After sensing that there was no danger inside, Cui Ying slowly walked to the vicinity of the corpse, searched it thoroughly, and then buried it on the spot.

Then her gaze shifted and landed on a small, golden blade of grass in the corner. After leaving the cave, she quickly arrived at another dense forest.

After signaling to Jin Xie and Ta Xue not to approach, he moved with lightning speed, wielding the Yao Guang sword in his hand, and engaged in fierce combat with a seven- or eight-zhang-long gray-brown giant python.

Suddenly, Cui Ying let out a long howl. With the rapid movement of the Yao Guang sword, it transformed into a silver full moon once more. Her agile figure crossed paths with the giant python, and a huge python head was immediately severed and fell to the ground writhing, spraying blood.

Under the adoring gaze of Ta Xue, Cui Ying then circled in mid-air before landing steadily on the branch of a nearby giant ancient tree. After glancing at the giant python's corpse, which was still lashing the ground, she put the Yao Guang Sword back into her storage bag.

When it flew back to the ground, the little golden scorpion had already used its front claws to dig out a seven-colored spirit flower, mud and soil, and quickly came to Cui Ying.

Three days later, Cui Ying appeared at the top of the mountain. She reached out and plucked a black and red Ganoderma lucidum from the cliff. Then, the gray clouds beneath her feet moved again, and she flew to another place on the mountaintop.

There, a magical flower exuded a rich fragrance.

This mountain range truly lives up to its reputation as the place with the richest spiritual energy in the Thousand Maple Secret Realm. Various spiritual herbs that were previously difficult to find in the Phoenix Mountain Range were discovered one after another after she went up the mountain.

Furthermore, several of these types can immediately increase magical power after consumption and refinement.

This greatly encouraged Cui Ying. She selected some spiritual plants to feed the Golden Scorpion and Snowwalker, and in a short period of time, their cultivation levels were raised to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

She patted Taxue's big head, sent a message to Lei Yi saying that she was leaving the mountain to search elsewhere, and then rode on a cloud to quickly descend the mountain.

In fact, she had been searching for various spiritual herbs and medicines on this low peak for the past few days and had made quite a harvest.

During this time, they also killed several powerful demonic beasts and encountered cultivators from other cities on several occasions.

However, out of mutual distrust, neither side had any intention of making a move. They simply retreated as if they hadn't seen each other and went about their own business.

Clearly, these people all knew that few of the people still alive and present in this mountain range were pushovers.

Without sufficient certainty, no one would rashly provoke trouble.

Just as Cui Ying arrived at a very steep mountain peak, a long scream suddenly came from above, followed by the whooshing sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. A dark object fell from the sky.

Judging from the position, it looked like it was about to hit Cui Ying.

A chill ran through her, and without thinking, she swayed and retreated to a rock several feet away.

Just as she regained her footing, a loud bang was heard in front of her, and a corpse dressed in a crimson robe crashed heavily onto a rock opposite her, instantly turning into a bloody mess.

Cui Ying frowned slightly and quickly glanced at the sky a few times.

Unfortunately, nothing unusual was found.

After instructing Little Golden Scorpion to keep watch nearby, she flew forward with Ta Xue, took a closer look at the face-down corpse, and suddenly kicked it over.

Although her face was bleeding profusely from being hit by the uneven rocks on the ground, Cui Ying still recognized that this person was not Lei Yi.

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time began to speculate about the cause of the man's death.

The body was mangled in many places, but it was not hard to see that these were not the causes of death.

Suddenly, her eyes flashed and she noticed the center of his head.

On the top of the corpse's head, there was a deep, bloody hole, revealing red and white stuff inside.

Cui Ying's brows, which had just relaxed, furrowed again. Suddenly, she bent down and picked something up from the corpse's hair, examining it carefully in her palm.

"Bird feathers!?"

The thing was clearly a black feather, which felt somewhat hard to the touch, and its edges were as sharp as a knife.

After Cui Ying identified the black feather in her hand, her face darkened slightly.

This is going to be troublesome, as there are terrifyingly powerful demonic birds up there.

Although she didn't know what kind of beast it was, she could almost picture the male cultivator being unable to resist as the beast shattered his skull with a single claw.

The avian-type demonic beasts are extremely difficult to deal with. Even if they are no match for a strong enemy, once they spread their wings and take flight, no one can do anything but watch helplessly from behind.

If you encounter some demonic birds that can attack from a distance, then you can only hope for the best.

Cui Ying shook her head, immediately abandoning any thought of continuing upwards. After looting everything from the male cultivator's body, she immediately incinerated his corpse with a fireball.

She changed direction and led Ta Xue and Jin Xie towards another nearby mountain peak.