We agreed to seek enlightenment together, but how did you end up seeking enlightenment for my mother

Ten minutes have passed since the giant bird fell from the sky.

Beside the place where the chicken fell, the sparse forest was leveled by the gale and the raging fire. All the withered stems and rotten wood around were broken and burned. Two figures stood in the center of the flat ground, facing each other silently, five feet apart.

At this moment, the wolf-like girl's battle suit was torn in many places, and her fair skin was faintly visible. She leaned on the ground with her arm supporting a long spear, her eyes remained vigilant, her breathing was steady and long, and her hair was damp with a thin layer of sweat, which stuck to her neck and cheeks.

"What bad luck! The challenge hasn't even started yet, and we've already bumped into another team by accident."

The priest stood calmly opposite the girl.

After a brief but intense battle, the buffs from the Blood Burning Secret Technique had dissipated. Although Chi Feng was weak, he was still in better shape than the girl.

"I was also surprised. This layer of the celestial world should be incredibly vast, yet we still managed to run into it. I don't know whether to say this place is big or small."

Chi Feng stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes fixed on the distance, asking a question as if casually.

Where are your teammates?

The rules of this invitation challenge limit each team to a maximum of two people, so Chifeng held back in the previous encounters to guard against the possibility of the opponent having partners.

The girl gave a strange look, but responded with a smile.

"You're lucky, Wu Lulu is in a solo team."

Chi Feng frowned. He could sense that the other party was not lying, but being naturally wary, he would not take unverified speculation as a conclusion.

He preferred to believe that the seemingly innocent young woman opposite him, who called herself Wu Lulu, possessed such superb acting skills that she could even fool him.

Seeing that the priest hadn't moved for a long time, Wu Lulu felt anxious and uneasy. She had already been injured when she fought the giant bird, and now she had fought several rounds with the bald man. Her whole body was full of stinging and dull pain.

Most importantly, several patches of her tail hair were singed off, which was almost fatal.

If the stalemate continued, she would definitely be the first to give out, so Wu Lulu took a deep breath and finally couldn't help but speak tentatively.

"So, shall we settle this here?"

Chi Feng's gaze narrowed slightly as he carefully observed his opponent's instinctive, subtle movements, pondering silently in his heart.

"The Wolf-like race is either absolutely loyal or absolutely disloyal. Unless you can completely gain their trust, there's virtually no possibility of cooperation."

Thinking of this, Chi Feng had no choice but to give up his plan to ask the other party to help track Xu Zhou.

It was also his fault that he was consumed by rage and lost his mind. In addition, his rationality was low, and all that was left in his mind was the impulse to kill and destroy. He was provoked by the other party's words and attacked without thinking.

"What a pity. I've heard that dogs have a very keen sense of smell, and I was thinking that maybe you could help me find something," Chi Feng said with a shake of his head.

"It's a wolf! Not a dog!"

Wu Lulu stomped her feet in anger, her tail fur standing on end.

Chi Feng scratched his head indifferently, seemingly ignoring the other party's protest, and muttered to himself.

"Fine, we'll see each other again once the challenge officially begins. It's only a few days, I can wait."

Then, as if dismissing a beggar, he waved his hand at the girl, making a gesture as if to drive her away.

"Get out of here!"

Wu Lulu gritted her teeth, knowing that her trip had probably been a waste of effort. She glared angrily at the strange bird, then turned and ran away without even looking at Chi Feng.

The girl felt extremely wronged after working for nothing all day and being beaten up for no reason.

But she hadn't run far when she suddenly remembered something.

"Hey! I remember that bald guy had a teammate, right? I only glanced at him, but he didn't seem very strong."

Suddenly, a brilliant idea popped into the wolf-like girl's clean, blank mind.

"Hmph, I might not be able to beat you in my current state, but surely I can beat your weak teammates? This is called playing to your strengths and avoiding your weaknesses, achieving victory through surprise! Just you wait, bald man!"

"Sniff... Hehe, found it! This is the smell!"

At the same time, Chi Feng squatted beside the giant bird's corpse, his palms covered in flames, and used his hands as blades to quickly slit open the giant bird's neck.

As an experienced superhuman, he naturally knew the operating rules of the [Infinite World]. The materials from the giant bird could be used to craft equipment by the local natives or exchanged for wealth.

Before the blood could flow, the giant bird's bloated body suddenly withered and shrank, as if its flesh and blood had been drained in an instant, leaving only a skin and bones skeleton.

Although it didn't stop him from collecting materials, this strange scene made Chi Feng frown and feel suspicious.

"The regional overlord... is a blood servant?"

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Under the blazing sun, in a forest of withered trees, a figure moved nimbly and gracefully along an arc through the woods.

"Yaaaaaahh ...

For some reason, Xu Zhou instinctively uttered this strange cry, as if it were some kind of innate instinct derived from his genes.

One end of the golden thread wrapped around his palm, while the other end, under his will, precisely bound to the branch in front of him.

Xu Zhou swam through the forest, occasionally bumping into trees, but after a few tries he mastered the technique. It wasn't difficult to learn, but it required a high level of concentration.

A few minutes ago, taking advantage of the falling object, he seized the opportunity to make a quick escape. As for what fell, it had nothing to do with him.

It couldn't possibly be a beautiful girl who fell from the sky!

Even a cute girl with animal ears won't help; you still have to run!

"Both of the relics were stolen from Chi Feng, so I guess he hates me to the extreme."

Xu Zhou couldn't be sure how well the priest could pursue them, so he had no choice but to run wildly, ignoring his exhaustion, until he burst into a dense forest with thick, towering trees and lush foliage.

A gentle breeze caresses the face, vibrant vegetation once again covers the earth, and the faint sounds of insects chirping and birds singing fill the air, creating a lively atmosphere everywhere.

The woods were deep and quiet, and the faint fragrance of the grass and trees slightly soothed Xu Zhou's tense nerves.

He finally stopped and looked back.

The acrid fog in the distance was clearly visible, where decay and vibrant earth were connected without any transition, as if two different plots of land had been forcibly spliced ​​together.

"A bizarre world," Xu Zhou commented.

He clearly remembered Chi Feng's description of this place—the Celestial World.

If the priest did not intentionally conceal or mislead, then this space likely exists in the high heavens of the present world, and only extraordinary beings can enter it.

Xu Zhou lowered his head, his feet on the damp soil covered with broken branches and fallen leaves. Looking up, he saw green leaves and branches intertwined, forming a dense, impenetrable dome.

A few rays of sunlight pierced through the dark forest, casting scattered beams of light.

The midday heat was kept out of the tree canopy, as if the world was divided into two layers, inside and out.

"It seems safer than the previous area."

More importantly, if he didn't leave that corrupt place soon, Xu Zhou felt he would be pickled and spoiled.

Are we free?

As it is!

Xu Zhou sighed, leaned against a tree, and sat down wearily to slowly recover his strength.

"The immediate crisis has been averted, but the long-term crisis remains."

The Zoroastrian stronghold is not a good place, and this celestial world may not be safe either.

Xu Zhou closed his eyes, gently rested the back of his head against the tree trunk, and let his hands hang naturally in front of him with his fingers interlaced. This was his habitual action when he was preparing to think for a long time.

"First, I need a way to understand the secrets of the extraordinary. Studying it blindly will eventually lead to a dead end. At the same time, I also need to be careful not to expose my talents."

"Secondly, what does Chifeng mean by the 'invitation challenge'? It seems I've formed a team with him. Will this force me to meet him again in the future? What will happen if I fail this challenge?"

"As for the last thing... what should we eat today?"