The Beautiful Young Man in the Tree

A figure in ivory-colored clothes was leaning against the dense branches of an old tree.

The young man was dressed in an expensive long robe, his eyes were like a painting, and he seemed to have come from a different world. His silver hair cascaded straight down beautifully as if it was the night sky that was filled with stars and sparkled dazzlingly.

His exquisite and incomparably handsome face also had a pair of platinum-colored eyes that looked like starlight under his well-defined eyelashes. He looked so incredibly pure as if he was the son of a god who had just walked down from heaven. He was pure, clear, untainted, and so beautiful that he seemed like he didn't belong to the earth, and giving him a second look would be blasphemous.

His long fingers were like a work of art, and they gently touched his impossibly exquisite left collarbone. The budding golden lotus there immediately shrank to one side. It was as if a faint gold gleam shone, and scriptures were being chanted as if this was sacred and pure.

The strange warmth in his collarbone lasted for only a moment before it disappeared. Gong Moxi's platinum-colored eyes looked at the figure that disappeared into the distance.

The figure wearing black fitted clothes seemed to sense him and looked in his direction.

"Rustle rustle rustle…"

The sun shone brightly, and there was nothing but the swaying of branches in the forest.

A faint smile spread across Gong Moxi's lips. The look in his eyes slightly changed as he glanced in the southwest direction, and he disappeared slowly like a bright gleam turning into sparkles.

Yun Qingyan blinked several times as she stared at one old tree in particular. After she was sure that there was nobody on the tree, she used her hand to gently touch the area where her energy center was. Just a moment ago, she could feel that the Bitter Sea Green Lotus resting inside her energy center become slightly warm. That feeling had disappeared too quickly, so she wasn't really sure if she was just imagining things.

Just at this moment, Xiaoxuan was about to leap out of the Magic Ring soon as it shouted, "I feel it! I feel it! The chance to unlock the Forbidden Zone is in the southwest direction!"

The southwest? Yun Qingyan's eyes blazed, and she clenched her fists tightly. Once she opened up the Magic Ring's Forbidden Zone, she would be able to find a way to fix this body of hers. Once she could fix it, then she would be able to cultivate again and rise to the peak.

She soon put out the fire in her eyes and became rational again.

"Don't be anxious," Yun Qingyan said comfortingly to the little black ball as her eyes gleamed slightly.

She quietly suppressed the excitement in her heart as she started using her wooden stick to look around for holes again.

Unlike the young and foolish Lin Wanyue, Yun Qingyan knew the various habits and characteristics of Magical Beasts like the back of her hand. When she heard the sound in the wind earlier, she knew immediately that the sound belonged to a Magical Beast that often lived in groups—the cry of a Cloud Brocade Rabbit.

Cloud Brocade Rabbits were Third Stage Magical Rabbits. They weren't very good at attacking, and their strong hind legs were their most powerful weapon. However, the fur of Cloud Brocade Rabbits was extremely smooth and tough, making so nothing could pierce through it. A good piece of Cloud Brocade Rabbit leather could sell for a thousand pieces of gold in the market.

Cloud Brocade Rabbits were rather stealthy creatures; they moved very quickly and were extremely difficult to capture. That was also why the market couldn't keep up with the demand for them.

Her main aim of entering the Forest of No Return was to look for that opportunity to open the Forbidden Zone, and she didn't intend to do anything else. But she couldn't hold up against the "passionate pleas" of Lin Wanyue and the rest.

Since Yun Qingyan had decided to make a move, she couldn't possibly return empty-handed.

Cloud Brocade Rabbits were timid and very stealthy. One group of Cloud Brocade Rabbits would create four or five holes, and that made it very difficult for them to be caught.

Right now, she was blocking the opening of those holes. She was going to leave them with only one hole and catch them all at once.

An evil smile spread across her face. After she was sure that she had found most of the holes, Yun Qingyan pulled out the fire starter that she carried with her at all times. She mixed in some Modan Pollen with dried branches, lit everything on fire, and threw it into the hole.