Why did you provoke me?

Wu Lanhua looked at Yu Meng and said, "You should leave. You can't handle this." She looked at the distant sky and added, "There are too few of you."

"We can't leave. That flower-picking old woman knows we're here, and we're being followed." Yu Meng patted the petals off her clothes. "Besides, are you sure you'll become the next flowering tree without our help?"

"I reserved my place; I knew this day would come sooner or later," Wu Lanhua said casually, as if this wasn't a matter of life and death for her, but just an ordinary little thing.

"You have a great eye." Yu Meng gave a thumbs up.

Zhang Zhen and the others felt a chill run down their spines as they listened to Yu Meng and Wu Lanhua's conversation.

They chatted like two old friends. There was no tension, no heart-wrenching screams. And no awareness of being enemies. One was dying, the other was preparing to be buried.

Wu Lanhua suddenly remembered something, "Why is my poison ineffective against you?"

"Sigh, your path to advancement has been too smooth. You haven't experienced any of the hardships you should have. If you had to go through all the hardships to get to this level like I have, you would know why." Yu Meng said a lot, but it seemed like she didn't really say anything.

"I've heard that there's another type of person who possesses these lines, and they're incredibly powerful. Someone like me could take on ten of them. Are you one of those people?"

"Who told you that? There's no such thing!" Yu Meng denied it.

"It's the flower-picking old woman. She went abroad when she was young, but then she came back for some reason. After that, she stopped coming. She said that none of the flowers here are edible."

Wu Lanhua's eyes were vacant. She murmured, "But I left her the cleanest flowering tree."

She looked at Yu Meng with deep eyes, "Those locust trees by the roadside wouldn't have grown so well without my care. You know, that's the highest point, where water and fertilizer are scarce."

Yu Meng's throat felt a little itchy. She had heard with her own ears that she was going to use that flower to make steamed buns for her grandson.

Looking at Yu Meng's expression, Wu Lanhua said, "Are you scared? But all of this is for survival."

Yu Meng walked away; she didn't want to hear anymore. All she needed to know was that none of the people here were innocent.

Wu Lanhua stood up unsteadily, straightened her clothes, and then walked in one direction.

"There's something in the treehouse. If you don't mind, you can take it." Her voice drifted away on the wind.

Yu Meng didn't move, and neither did the others. Who knew what was hidden in her lair?

Yu Meng watched as Wu Lanhua stopped beside a small tree. She reached out and touched the tip of the tree. "I've come to keep you company. Are you happy?"

She lay down, and no one knows what she touched, but the soil there tumbled a few times before settling down.

The person was gone, and a small tree took up the spot.

"A trap formation!" Zhang exclaimed in shock. "We need to retreat quickly."

As she spoke, Yu Meng's feet left the ground. She felt the ground tremble.

"You two take Zhang Zhen and leave."

Four-Three-Two and Four-Nine each grabbed one of Zhang Zhen's shoulders and followed Yu Meng, quickly running uphill.

"She's insane," Si Jiu cursed. "She said she had something good to give us from the treehouse, but she was up to no good."

Zhang Zhen looked at his feet, which were off the ground, and then at Yu Meng, who was flying ahead of him. His heart pounded.

As if sensing his shock, 432 said, "You need to calm down. Once you join the sect, as long as you work hard, these are all basic skills. There's a saying in our sect: it's not shameful to lose a fight, but it's shameful to lose a race."

Zhang Zhen nodded mechanically; he couldn't think of anything right now, his mind was completely blank.

The flowering trees under their feet seemed to have been rehearsed, moving rhythmically in rows. Si San Er swallowed hard, "Have these flowering trees grown legs? They can even walk."

"It's a formation, I've seen it before." Zhang Zhen looked at everything in front of him. "I've seen moving mountains, which are even more terrifying than this."

Where have you seen me before?

"On the front lines. So many people died that time. For some reason, the entire legion was parasitized by aliens. They all lost their autonomy and turned into their most primitive form. It was terrifying. They even bit each other."

"You were there? How did you survive?"

"I was on the plane, originally scheduled to provide support, and hadn't even landed yet. Those mountains were moving smoothly, like they were on a track, and then..."

Zhang Zhen's throat bobbed. "They drove people into a space, then squeezed them in, leaving no survivors."

"You witnessed this and weren't silenced?" Si Jiu asked in surprise.

"It had already entered the secret interrogation stage, but for some reason, they made me sign an agreement, and then everything was fine." Zhang Zhen also looked relieved.

"You have someone guarantor, don't you know who it is?"

Zhang Zhen shook his head. "I only figured it out later, because I never saw those people who went with me again."

"So, are you particularly prominent in your family? Do you have a group of followers?"

Chang Chen smiled wryly, "I barely say a few words at home all day. They all avoid me. Only my silly younger brother stays around me, but later, for his own good, I chased him away too."

"Your approach is quite unique. Will he accept it?"

At this moment, Yu Meng suddenly turned around and headed towards the center of the flowering trees.

49 and 432 followed without hesitation.

"What kind of operation is this? Is it really okay?" Zhang Zhen asked in a low voice.

"Hehe, you have no idea how capable our Teacher Yu is. As long as you can keep up with her, this is no problem." Si Jiu said smugly.

"But if this continues, we'll get entangled in the flowering trees." Zhang Zhen looked at the trees beneath his feet, which were spinning in circles.

"Look, Teacher Yu's direction seems to be towards that treehouse, and only that tree hasn't moved," shouted 432.

"Is it the core of the formation?" 432 muttered again.

"You didn't understand?" Si Jiu asked.

"I've never encountered anything like this before, and this is the first time I've seen something like this."

"You know all this?" Zhang Zhen looked at Si San Er with curiosity.

"I only know a little bit; in the eyes of a true array master, I'm nothing."

"Don't be modest. You've forgotten your masterpiece, which is unprecedented and will never be repeated."

432 glared at 49, "If you let it slip, see if your skin will still be intact."

Si Jiu pursed her lips tightly, offering no explanation.

Zhang Zhen sighed inwardly. It seemed he still had to work harder to become one of them as soon as possible. Hearing only half of what he was told was too frustrating.

Yu Meng hovered above the treehouse. She only realized halfway there that the energy in this place was the most stable.

It seems that Wu Lanhua's dying words truly intended for them to live? Yu Meng remained skeptical. She had activated the entire formation; there was no reason for her to let them live. Moreover, she was a fanatical person.

"Teacher Yu, is this the core of the formation?" Si San Er asked softly.

"That's probably not true. The energy in other places doesn't resonate with the energy here. There's a gap between them."

Actually, Yu Meng didn't understand it very well, but her eyes could see the distribution and trend of energy. She didn't believe that a single energy source could be the core of the formation.