Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

"Lin Kuo, you've pulled off a few heists in Daicheng. Do you really think you can snatch food from the jaws of our Changshao faction now?"

Old Goose Zhang spoke with sarcasm and without any politeness.

Song Chuan's heart skipped a beat; it seemed they were at odds.

"Snatching food from a tiger's mouth?" Lin Kuo asked, seemingly noncommittal.

"Could this King Corpse Flower have been planted by your Changshao Sect? In the middle of nowhere, it's best not to mention any sects."

I think it would be better if both sides took three pieces. Otherwise, I'll break your "qi-locking talisman" and let these demons get a share too!

Old Goose Zhang was furious: "We discovered this creature years ago, and we're the ones harvesting it now. Are you really going to break ties with me?"

Lin Kuo shook his head and smiled slightly:

"I wouldn't dare to talk about a complete falling out with you, a disciple of the Changshao Sect, but everyone who sees these rare and exotic plants should have a share. I think we shouldn't waste any more words; time is running out."

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, you should heed my advice, otherwise no one will get anything, and wouldn't that be a complete waste of effort?"

The middle-aged woman suddenly interjected.

She stared intently at the Great Corpse Flower, her eyes filled with greed.

"Liu Yan, who do you think you are? You've got some nerve, daring to talk to me like that!" Old Zhang shouted, his eyes wide as copper bells.

The middle-aged woman's face instantly flushed red and then turned pale, and she fell silent.

The one-eyed man beside her looked furious, but he only stared at Zhang Lao'e and dared not speak up.

Song Chuan observed everyone's expressions and his mind raced.

Just as Lin Kuo was about to say something to Zhang Lao'e, Song Chuan suddenly took out a jade-green talisman.

He slapped the talisman onto his chest, muttered something, and the talisman shook before suddenly turning into a flowing "green liquid"!

These liquids, seemingly ethereal and illusory, gradually spread throughout Song Chuan's body, enveloping him.

In the blink of an eye, he mysteriously transformed into a green figure.

Under the watchful eyes of the group, Song Chuan's green humanoid form dissolved into water and vanished as if evaporated.

Song Chuan used that "Wood Escape Talisman"!

At this moment, he had merged into the nearest tree, a very strange feeling.

Song Chuan had already thoroughly studied the talisman, and his spellcasting was so seamless that the people present didn't even have time to react.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, he's trying to escape!" Li Kefeng shouted.

Lin Kuo's gaze sharpened slightly, and he frowned, but waved his hand dismissively:

"Never mind him, he can't have gone far! Old Zhang, if you don't agree, don't blame me for being impolite. Now you're one person short, are you three going to fight the five of us to the death?"

In Lin Kuo's mind, the importance of the Great King's Corpse Flower at this moment was far greater than that of the cultivator who used the strange escape talisman.

Zhuang Xiuya and the other two were furious. Song Chuan had actually used a teleportation talisman to escape. It was truly despicable!

"Quack!" Zhuang Xiuya suddenly let out a strange cry, whether out of anger or not.

She patted her neck, looking somewhat annoyed.

"Pfft!" One of the people opposite burst out laughing when they heard Zhuang Xiuya's squawking.

Zhuang Xiuya's pretty eyes widened as she glared at Li Kefeng, who was dressed in flowing white.

Li Kefeng quickly suppressed his smile, but a lewd glint appeared in the corner of his eye.

"Fine! You've gotten off easy." Old Goose Zhang looked unwilling, but still relented.

Lin Kuo nodded and smiled, about to direct someone to pick the fruit, when the middle-aged woman's eyes lit up and she said:

"Fellow Daoist Lin, how about we, husband and wife, go and pick some?"

Lin Kuo glanced at her and the one-eyed man, then shook his head:

"You two should stay here with Fellow Daoist Zhang to guard against these demons. Let them handle the harvesting."

He pointed to Li Kefeng and Mi Cheng.

The middle-aged woman snorted angrily. This King Corpse Flower was so precious that whoever picked it would naturally get the credit and a bigger share of the profits afterward.

Li Kefeng and Mi Cheng were overjoyed. The two quickly arrived at the Great King Corpse Flower and focused all their attention on the petals.

Just as they were about to reach out and pick them, another unexpected event occurred!

Suddenly, a surge of spiritual energy appeared on a tree two or three zhang away. Immediately afterward, dozens of ice crystals radiating cold air rushed towards them like lightning, arriving in front of Mi Cheng in the blink of an eye.

Mi Cheng only saw a dazzling burst of crystal light, and before he could react, his whole body was pierced by ice crystals, and blood spurted out.

His body was thrown back several feet before collapsing to the ground. He didn't even let out a scream.

For a moment, the forest was quiet, and insects and beasts were silent.

Lin Kuo's expression changed drastically as he looked at Mi Cheng's corpse. He glanced at the spot where the ice crystals had been launched, and strangely, the spiritual energy there fluctuated briefly before disappearing.

As he continued to explore with his divine sense, Li Kefeng, his face filled with horror, abandoned all thoughts of picking spiritual plants and hurriedly used his lightness technique to leap towards Lin Kuo.

Li Kefeng was still not at ease, so he stuck another talisman on his body while flying.

Just then, from a tree to his left, only a zhang away from him, another surge of spiritual energy appeared, and a small black hammer flew towards him at an even faster speed than the ice crystals from before!

Li Kefeng was terrified. With his Qi Refining Level 3 strength, and being ambushed at close range, it was simply wishful thinking to try to dodge such a magical artifact with his movement techniques.

He could only keep sticking talismans to his body, instantly covering himself with several layers of colorful defensive shields.

After doing all this, he finally had time to shout, "Fellow Daoist Lin, save me!"

Lin Kuo was shocked and furious. He had already recognized that Mi Cheng had been hit by a mid-grade first-level ice spike talisman when he died, and Li Kefeng was now encountering an even more powerful mid-grade magic weapon, a hammer-type magic weapon!

Let alone Li Kefeng, even he would be seriously injured if he were hit by this small hammer in a sneak attack!

In particular, this person also used an extremely strange "wood escape talisman" to conceal his whereabouts, so even he was unable to stop him immediately.

He reached into his pocket and a rusty iron block appeared in his hand.

He quickly tossed the iron block into the air, then pointed his finger, and the iron block instantly grew larger. With a "whoosh," it sped toward the black hammer at an extremely fast speed.

However, because Lin Kuo was a little far away and it was a magic weapon activated later, the iron block only lightly touched the handle of the black hammer in the air, causing the small hammer to deflect slightly.

The hammer, which was originally aimed at Li Kefeng's head, struck his left shoulder instead.

Li Kefeng's defensive shield was as fragile as paper in front of Xiao Chui, and was instantly pierced by Xiao Chui.

Li Kefeng's left shoulder and arm were smashed to pieces!

"Ouch! My arm!"

Li Kefeng's blood splattered all over the ground, and he screamed in agony.

Lin Kuo snorted coldly, rushed to Li Kefeng's side, and pressed several acupoints on Li Kefeng's body to barely stop the gushing blood.

He shook his head. Although the man wasn't dead, he was crippled.

Lin Kuo's face turned ashen; he had truly been careless.

Unexpectedly, the person did not flee in fear, but instead went into hiding and cleanly and efficiently killed one of their own men and wounded another.

The one-eyed man and the middle-aged woman were even more astonished and uncertain.

"These two men harbored ill intentions towards me, so I had no choice but to unleash a massacre!"

Everyone looked toward a tree, where the sound was coming from.

But then the spiritual energy fluctuations on that tree disappeared, clearly indicating that the person had moved to another tree.

At this moment, Song Chuan held the retrieved small hammer, feeling both nervous and lingering fear.

This was his first time engaging in a magical duel!

Although it was a sneak attack, he didn't expect that he could use this Wood Release Talisman to unexpectedly kill Mi Cheng and seriously injure Li Kefeng.