After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

Wolf watched Zhou Yan leave, then turned back to look at Lin Anru beside him.

"Aren't you going to stop them?"

Lin'an shook his head.

"I believe in Zhou Yan."

Wolf nodded secretly; these children were quite interesting.

When Zhou Yan arrived at Ghost Mist Village, Bai Ze's sense of danger still didn't react. Instead, mist formed from paper ash began to spread outwards, but it dissipated automatically when it reached Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan reached his hand into the mist, and the mist quickly dispersed before his hand, leaving not a drop sticking to it.

Zhou Yan stepped into the mist, and instantly the mist cleared a space of 27 cubic meters, which surrounded Zhou Yan and moved with him.

Zhou Yan arrived safely at the paper tree. The tree's crown trembled, and its two largest branches slowly fell down, crossing in front of Zhou Yan, and a ball of blue flame appeared before him.

The annotation reads "Nine Netherworld Fireflies".

Zhou Yan looked at the paper tree, which was covered with images of the eighteen hells and began to tremble.

This is like collecting protection money.

Zhou Yan smiled, reached out and took the Nine Netherworld Firefly, then turned and left.

……

The nearest mountain to Ghost Mist Village.

Wolf waited another five minutes after seeing Zhou Yan enter Ghost Mist Village.

Wolf asked Lin Anru, who was standing nearby.

"Should I call the rescue team now?"

Although Wolf One didn't think any of the fools at his outpost would be willing to come to Ghost Mist Village to rescue people, he still had to show his attitude.

At least when Zhou Yan was held accountable after the incident, he could say that he had tried his best and that it was all Zhou Yan's fault, and that it had nothing to do with him.

As soon as Wolf finished speaking, a large gap appeared in the fog at the entrance of Ghost Mist Village, and Zhou Yan, holding a blue flame, walked out.

The wolf opened its eyes wide.

The next moment, Wolf One was overjoyed.

This child is a real gem!

Wolf Yiyi changed his previously somewhat indifferent attitude and happily descended the mountain to meet Zhou Yan halfway down.

Zhou Yan raised the blue flame in his hand and asked.

"What is this? I found this thing after I went in."

Wolf glanced at the blue flame. He didn't know what it was, but judging from the fact that Zhou Yan had brought it from Ghost Mist Village, it must be quite valuable.

Wolf patted Zhou Yan's shoulder affectionately.

"It's definitely good stuff. Wolf will sell it later, and we'll split the profits 70/30, you get 70% and I get 30%."

Wolf put his arm around Zhou Yan's shoulder and led him to his SUV. He then took out a fist-sized black sphere, wrapped it around the Nine Nether Firefly, and asked Zhou Yan a question.

"Brother Zhou, where do you think we should go next?"

Zhou Yan opened the map in the passenger seat, looked at it for a while, and then asked a question.

"What's the story behind this 'Hanging Ghost Forest'?"

Wolf clicked his tongue.

"That place is incredible. A vast forest of trees grows densely even when there is no sunlight, and their growth is astonishing. Later, an awakened person studied it for a period of time and discovered that this Hanging Ghost Forest does not eat soil, but it eats people."

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Chapter Nine: The Forest

Now that Zhou Yan's abilities had been assessed, Wolf One stopped worrying and quickly drove to the Hanging Ghost Forest that Zhou Yan had specifically mentioned.

While driving, Lin Anru, who was in the back seat, leaned in and asked curiously.

What's inside Ghost Mist Village?

Zhou Yan said smugly.

“There’s a tree inside. The fog and hallucinations in this village are all caused by that tree. I walked around, grabbed a few things, and came back.”

Lin'an tilted her head and asked.

"That's interesting. If possible, how about I go with you to this Hanging Ghost Forest?"

Since Zhou Yan could guarantee a minimum return, Lin Anru felt that she could also try going on an adventure.

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"Let's wait until we get to the Hanging Ghost Forest. I don't know the specifics there yet."

Lin Anru sat back down.

……

An hour later.

The vehicle drove to a new hilltop. Three kilometers down the hilltop, there was a dark forest with twisted and chaotic branches. Many tree trunks had distorted human faces on them, and further in, there were dried-up skeletons hanging from different black trees.

Wolf One poked his head out of the vehicle's windshield and spoke towards the dark forest.

"This is the Hanging Ghost Forest. People who enter this forest will suffer from headaches, followed by various hallucinations and emotional confusion. I have often heard of expedition teams that went into this forest and then killed each other, with the survivors hanging themselves from different trees."

Lin Anru moved closer to Zhou Yan and asked.

"How about it? Can you take me inside to have a look?"

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes.

Name: Tree Ghost.

Type: Plant-based evil creatures that have transformed into demons.

Origin: It is a demon that has lived for three thousand years.

Supernatural powers.

Cluster: The entire forest has only one consciousness; apart from the tree spirit itself, the others are all differentiations of the main consciousness.

Clustering: Once inside, the collective consciousness of the entire forest will influence the entrant, and in the most severe cases, it will cause the entrant to self-annihilate and become part of the forest's consciousness.

Zhou Yan opened his eyes.

"That won't work. Senior, please wait here for a moment. I'll go take a look myself."

Zhou Yan got out of the car, put his hands in his pockets, and walked down the hill, approaching the Hanging Ghost Forest.

As soon as he got close, a stench of rotting corpses hit him, forcing Zhou Yan to put on a gas mask before entering the woods.

A gentle breeze, so strong that Zhou Yan could feel it even through his gas mask, swept by. The next second, several trees around Zhou Yan, their trunks twisted like human bodies, exploded all at once, spraying black pus across a large area.

Zhou Yan immediately used the "All-Around Permissions" technique to control all the pus, preventing it from spraying onto him.

Continuing on, things were much more peaceful this time. After walking two kilometers, we encountered two more gentle breezes, followed by trees bursting open. The area affected by these bursts expanded from the initial ten square meters to a hundred square meters, and then to three hundred square meters.

Wherever Zhou Yan went, pus was everywhere.

After walking another two kilometers, Zhou Yan arrived at the heart of the forest, in front of a giant tree that was a hundred meters tall, with a canopy that could cover an area of ​​a hundred meters in radius.

The roots of this giant tree were covered with exposed bones and corpses, and hundreds of bodies of varying degrees of decay hung densely from its countless branches beneath its canopy.

Zhou Yan scanned them one by one.

With a whoosh, the corpses that had fallen from the trees with their heads facing different directions suddenly turned around, their unseeing eyes looking down at Zhou Yan.

Perhaps the movement was a bit too forceful, as a large amount of bodily fluids flowed down between the legs of these corpses, making the area under the tree canopy look like it had experienced a foul-smelling drizzle.

Zhou Yan said jokingly.

"I'll leave after you pay the protection money."

The canopy of the three-thousand-year-old tree demon trembled a few times, and the light rain of corpse water turned into a heavy rain. A moment later, a fist-sized black fruit fell from the canopy and rolled in front of Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan took off his coat, wrapped the fruit, which was covered in corpse fluid, in the coat, and then picked it up.

Name: Essence and Blood Fruit.

Type: Plant-based evil spirit.

Origin: The fruit formed by the tree spirit gathering yin energy, earth energy, and human essence and blood.

Supernatural powers.

Replenishes Qi: Consuming this can restore a huge amount of physical strength and mana.

Changyin: Consuming it can increase the awakening level of ghost-type awakeners, stimulate their potential, enhance their physical attributes, and give them a chance to obtain additional bloodline skills.

Judging from its properties, this fruit looks good. Zhou Yan took the fruit and left.

……

The opposite mountain peak.

Wolf pursed his lips and watched Zhou Yan walk all the way to the tree demon, then bring back a fruit.

how to say?

Wolf One knew that the Six-Eared Macaque had amazing hearing and could definitely know some information that Wolf One didn't know. But now, Zhou Yan's unimpeded journey seems somewhat inconsistent with the Six-Eared Macaque's abilities.

Of course, Wolf One himself didn't know what attributes or skills the Six-Eared Macaque had. There wasn't another Six-Eared Macaque in this world besides Zhou Yan. After thinking it over and over, Wolf One finally realized that he was overthinking things.

As long as Zhou Yan can bring me money, that's enough. Why think too much about other things?

Annoying.

Zhou Yan walked up to the hill where Wolf One was. Wolf One laughed and went up to greet him, but unfortunately a gust of wind blew by, and a foul stench that could make one question life itself and was truly an eyesore blew over him.

Anyone with experience knows that foul odors can sting your eyes.

Zhou Yan, who was holding the essence blood fruit, had his clothes soaked with corpse fluid. Zhou Yan himself was wearing a gas mask and hadn't felt anything, but the wolf, who was unprepared, suddenly gagged. Lin Anru, who was still sitting in the off-road vehicle, also vomited a few times with her head facing out of the car.

Zhou Yan stopped.

"It's alright, it's alright."

Wolf One, suppressing his nausea, retrieved a box from the off-road vehicle, helped Zhou Yan put away his clothes and essence blood fruit, and then led Zhou Yan into the off-road vehicle.

As soon as he entered, Lin Anru shouted.

"You stink, Xiao Zhou!"

Zhou Yan, having removed his gas mask, wiped the sweat from his undershirt.

Indeed, it smelled like the stench of rotting human flesh.

"Sigh, men are like that, these are all trivial matters."

Wolf smiled obsequiously at Zhou Yan and then unfolded his map.

"Brother Zhou, come on, where are we going next? I'll go with you."

Zhou Yan glanced at the map, then shook his head.

"No, going to other places is too dangerous."

After a pause, Zhou Yan asked Lang Yi.

Do you have a map of the second level of the Abyss Underworld?