"Someone must have helped him escape," a man with a pale green face and dark eyes, a powerful cultivator in the Rongtian realm, spoke.
"Hmph, since he's shown himself, he won't escape," Jiang Ge snorted. He turned to the people behind him and said, "As long as he hasn't left Bohai Forest, we must find him. We absolutely cannot let him get away."
Cheng Yu, the Rongtian realm cultivator who spoke earlier, revealed a confident smile in his dark eyes. "I've already sent word to the sect. They'll be here soon."
A fierce glint flashed through Jiang Ge's eyes. Dare to snatch someone from their Hehuan Sect? They were tired of living.
Meanwhile.
Chu Lingwei, leading Yu Qinghong, had entered the central area of Bohai Forest, where high-level spirit beasts roamed everywhere.
"Grandpa Yu, it should be safe here for now."
"Alas, I've caused you trouble," Yu Qinghong's eyes were filled with regret. Standing in a clearing, his expression was somber. "My days are numbered. I only wanted to see what the outside world was like. I never expected to bring such great tribulation to Bohai Forest."
Chu Lingwei's heart stirred. A bold guess formed in her mind.
"Grandpa Yu, are you saying they won't let you go?"
Yu Qinghong remained silent. He looked at the vast Bohai Forest and sighed. "Weiwei, you should leave. Staying here any longer will bring you danger."
"Grandpa Yu, they wouldn't dare harm me." Even if those people turned their attention to her, Chu Lingwei was unafraid.
"Listen to me, leave," Yu Qinghong waved his hand. His entire body seemed to have aged considerably, radiating a sense of exhaustion.
"Grandpa Yu, if you trust me, tell me if you encounter any danger, and we'll figure out a solution together."
Although Yu Qinghong had been following Chu Lingwei and eating her top-tier spirit meals, he had paid with spirit stones and had not taken any advantage of her.
Chu Lingwei felt at ease accompanying him. He was a friend worth associating with.
"As long as they know of my existence, they will mobilize the entire Xuan Tian Continent to find me. You cannot protect me," Yu Qinghong said with a wry smile. "Perhaps this is my fate."
Chu Lingwei was curious about Yu Qinghong's identity, which could cause the entire Xuan Tian Continent to covet him.
"How are you now?" Based on their escape earlier, Yu Qinghong's cultivation was very high, but in a real fight, it would be difficult to escape their encirclement.
"Bohai Forest is my home. It will be difficult for them to find me in my home," Yu Qinghong said, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.
Three days realm cultivators, supreme realm cultivators, if they joined forces, it was possible they could overturn the entire Bohai Forest.
Chu Lingwei fell silent, her heart sinking.
"Why don't I take you away from here?" Chu Lingwei thought of her spatial abilities. Taking Yu Qinghong out might not be impossible.
"It's too late now."
As Yu Qinghong looked up, a purple mist began to spread across the sky above Bohai Forest, quickly enveloping it.
"What is this?" Chu Lingwei frowned. Purple mist, she had never seen anything like it before.
"This is the externalization of spiritual power by a Dominator realm powerhouse. No one can escape. It seems they are eager to capture me," Yu Qinghong tilted his head back, a smile appearing on his lips. "It seems today is my final day."
Chu Lingwei was shocked.
Dominator realm powerhouse, on the entire Xuan Tian Continent, she hadn't met a single living one.
"Why do they want to capture you?" Chu Lingwei looked at Yu Qinghong and voiced her thoughts. "You're not a human cultivator, are you?"
"Are you a shapeshifted spirit beast? Or a divine beast?"
A shapeshifted spirit beast shouldn't be enough to draw out a Dominator realm powerhouse.
Yu Qinghong gave a wry smile and shook his head. "Weiwei, knowing this won't do you any good."
Chu Lingwei: "..."
"Hurry and go. If they find you with me, even Bei Chenfeng won't be able to protect you," Yu Qinghong was ready to fight.
...
"Not good, Weiwei is in trouble."
Leng Xingzhi felt the sensation from his sword spirit. Chu Lingwei was in danger.
Bei Chenfeng looked at the corpses in front of him, which slowly turned into ghostly energy and coalesced in mid-air.
His gaze fell upon the purple mist filling Bohai Forest, his expression grave. "It's a Dominator realm."
Leng Xingzhi's eyes widened. There were Dominator realm powerhouses on Xuan Tian Continent, but they were usually in seclusion preparing for tribulation. It was impossible for them to appear in such a small place as Bohai Forest.
Unless there was something they desired here.
Bei Chenfeng and Leng Xingzhi's eyes darkened simultaneously, and they rapidly headed towards Bohai Forest.
In an instant, what was once a training ground for Spirit Moving realm and Spirit Wheel realm cultivators became a gathering place for all the powerhouses and great figures of the Xuan Tian Continent.
Chu Lingwei, holding the Ice Jade Cold Frost Sword, fought with a cold expression against a seventh-rank Golden Horn Mammoth Ironhide Elephant.
"What is going on? Why can't I harm it?" Chu Lingwei felt that her Ice Jade Cold Frost Sword, when stabbed into it, was ineffective. Its former power seemed to have no effect on it.
"Weiwei, it's already seventh-rank. Its physical defense is comparable to a top-grade magic artifact," Feng Ming leaped around in the air, spitting Netherfire towards the Golden Horn Mammoth Ironhide Elephant, but it was all blocked.
"We are no match for it," Feng Ming was becoming exhausted.
Chu Lingwei retreated continuously. She had thrown out many talismans, but they had no effect on it.
"Run."
Chu Lingwei had been chased for a hundred miles by this seventh-rank Golden Horn Mammoth Ironhide Elephant. She couldn't shake it off, couldn't defeat it, and was injured.
Feng Ming nodded. Wings grew from its body, and it quickly carried Chu Lingwei towards the outskirts of Bohai Forest.
The Golden Horn Mammoth Ironhide Elephant was intelligent. Finally, there was something that interested it. How could it let her leave so easily?
A seventh-rank spirit beast was a king in Bohai Forest. All spirit beasts accordingly avoided it.
"I'm really defeated. What does it want?"
Chu Lingwei was on the verge of tears. She had never been so disheveled. With Dominator realm powerhouses present, she dared not use her spatial abilities or divine-grade magic artifacts. They were not her master; they would not care for her life.
"Illusion."
Phantom Cat stood behind Chu Lingwei. Various illusions could not stop the Golden Horn Mammoth Ironhide Elephant's advance.
Even this was useless?!
"I'll risk it."
Chu Lingwei jumped off Feng Ming. She unleashed wave after wave of spiritual power, combined with the Xuan Tian Burning Fire, towards it. This time, the Golden Horn Mammoth Ironhide Elephant finally stopped.
"Can someone tell me its weakness?" Chu Lingwei dared not relax. She had already set up an attack formation around it, took two steps back, and activated the formation.
"Its weakness is its eyes, but we can't get close at all," Phantom Cat mercilessly revealed.