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

At this moment, Song Chuan had a terrible headache.

The Wind Fox Beast followed him like a leech.

He suddenly grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, threw it into the air, and disappeared as the soil particles fell.

To his great annoyance, even as he traversed the ley lines, he still felt two beams of light staring intently at him from the air.

This is because his "Earth Escape Technique" includes an earth escape technique. Although it can use the bead to escape into the earth veins, this escape technique is too low-level and cannot be fully integrated into the earth veins.

For those with powerful spiritual senses, and for a strange beast like the Wind Fox, discovering it is not difficult.

I was really careless just now. When using the Concealing Breath Bead, if you use too much magic power, your spiritual energy will leak out and your aura will be exposed!

I wonder if the Wood Release Talisman can shake off this beast.

A moment later, Song Chuan's figure came to a stop and he returned to the ground.

He couldn't possibly remain trapped in the unknown Kongsang Mountains forever, who knew what strange demonic insects and beasts might lurk beneath the surface?

The Wind Fox Beast hovered in mid-air, its pointed nose twitching from time to time.

Song Chuan's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that he possessed something he wanted?

Orchid worm?

Song Chuan reached out and touched it, then sprinkled some silk. The mermaid net instantly expanded, tightly protecting him.

He held the fire-cultivating hoe in his hand again, waiting to see if the monster would attack him before making a decision.

The Wind Fox Beast's pupils shifted, glancing at Song Chuan's magical artifact, before suddenly uttering a single word:

"honey!"

Song Chuan could hardly believe his ears. This was... refining a portion of the transverse bone?

Monsters can only speak after refining their cross bones, but this is something that only extremely special second-tier monsters can do.

Suppressing his shock, Song Chuan silently took out several bottles and jars from his storage bag and threw them forward.

These are all the secrets of the Straw Hat Man.

The Wind Fox Beast leaned closer to sniff it, then shook its head.

Song Chuan took out two more small bottles and threw them out. These were royal jelly from demon bees; there were only two bottles in total, and they were worth several dozen spirit stones.

"laugh!"

The Wind Fox Beast grabbed a small bottle in each of its front paws, shook its eyebrows, ignored Song Chuan, and flew away in a flash.

Song Chuan watched its retreating figure, a thoughtful expression on his face.

He then shook his head and leaped away again. As for flying artifacts, he dared not take them out and use them here.

……

Halfway up a mountain, there is a small grove of trees.

There were only a few dozen trees of varying heights in the forest, but the trunks of these trees were all as black as ink, while the leaves on the branches were an eye-catching green.

A figure stood outside the woods, peered inside for a moment, and then stepped inside.

After this person disappeared, two more people appeared outside the forest, judging from their clothing, they were from the Beast Taming Sect.

The two stood outside the woods, listening intently.

At that moment, the person who had entered the woods was carrying a worn-out compass and searching around for something.

Suddenly, the compass needle began to move erratically, eventually pointing to a certain direction.

The man looked in the direction of the compass needle, his brow furrowing; there was nothing there.

So he looked up at the tree and saw a group of red-eyed, black-feathered demonic birds, about a dozen in number, each about the size of a palm.

Sensing their auras, one was at the mid-stage of the first rank, one at the early stage of the first rank, and the rest were only at the demon transformation stage. They didn't seem particularly remarkable.

These strange birds remained silent, unlike other birds that chirp and chatter.

Their eyes seemed to have been watching him ever since he entered the woods.

However, this person's cultivation level was already at the eighth level of Qi Refining, so he didn't take these demonic birds seriously.

Seeing that these demonic birds remained motionless in the tree, he continued to walk back and forth under the tree with his compass.

After searching for a while, he snorted impatiently, tossed the compass aside, and began to chant incantations and make hand gestures towards it.

Just as he uttered a spell, the mid-stage first-tier demonic bird suddenly let out a cackle, its voice extremely unpleasant.

The man was furious that this demonic bird dared to disrupt his spellcasting.

However, before he could make any move, the other demonic birds began to cry out one after another.

Soon, the cries of the demonic birds merged into one, noisy and clamorous, and grew louder and louder.

A few breaths later, the man was dizzy and could no longer stand.

He was terrified, but was shocked to find that his breathing was disordered and he could not move.

Fresh blood was gushing out from his ears.

A moment later, the man collapsed to the ground and died.

The demonic birds, however, did not quiet down and continued to chirp incessantly.

But the sound now was quite different from before; it was just ordinary birdsong.

Outside the forest.

"Senior brother, is that person dead?" one of them asked, perking up his ears.

"Heh heh! They must be dead. That man was foolish; he didn't recognize the flock of cuckoos in the forest, nor did he know how powerful they were!"

This bird has extremely strange habits. It is usually silent and waits for other birds to call out first. Whoever calls out first will be attacked.

If someone accidentally wanders in, they'll wait for the person to speak first, then use their sonic powers to kill them. Then they can sing without restraint.

Another person explained.

"Is it still dangerous for us to go in now?"

"Don't worry, someone has taken the fall, and Zao Juan won't be using his innate abilities for a while! Let's go in and check what this person has on him, and see what he's looking for."

……

Just as the two entered the forest, far away, there was a mountain waterfall.

The waterfall is enormous, about thirty or forty feet wide and over a hundred feet high.

Five or six cultivators stared expectantly at the waterfall.

After a long while, a splash of water appeared somewhere in the waterfall, and a person quickly flew out from it.

This person was at the seventh level of Qi Refining, standing on a flying sword artifact. His hair was disheveled, and his face was covered in cuts and bruises, as if he had been pecked by some kind of bird beak.

He landed in front of the crowd and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Fellow Daoist He, why are you alone? And so badly injured? Where are Fellow Daoists Yang and Zhou?"

A cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining glanced at him and asked with a frown.

"Those two were pecked to death by the large black swifts inside," the man surnamed He said with a grim expression.

"Oh? So, the place behind the waterfall really is the nest of the great black swift?"

"I asked the cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining," a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes.

"That's right, there are hundreds of large black swiftlets, and their bird's nests are exquisitely crafted."

However, there was a male and a female Great Black Swift, both at the late first stage, which was extremely powerful.

There are also four mid-stage Tier 1 monsters, six early-stage Tier 1 monsters, and dozens of monsters in the Demon Transformation stage. I think we should leave them alone.

The man surnamed He said with some lingering fear.

The others were all at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining. Upon hearing this, their expressions changed slightly, and they all looked at the man at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"No problem! I have a top-tier level one fire talisman, specifically designed to counter the Great Black Swifts. Now that we've located their nest, let's wipe them all out today, and we'll make a fortune!"

Upon hearing that this person possessed talismans capable of subduing demonic birds, the group's expressions brightened with joy.

The cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining took out a flying artifact and had everyone board it, then flew towards the waterfall.

Only the man surnamed He seemed to still have a very bad expression, but looking at the backs of the others, he gritted his teeth and followed.

As for the two who died while scouting the way, no one mentioned them again.