"Husband! We have to retreat now!" Nan Jing Jing is seen shouting at Long Feng as the latter is still bothered to fight against the huge group of Wooden Beast Soldier. Their surrounding is currently seriously infested by the corruption that even Long Feng has no capability to handle at the moment. While at the same time, rough numbers of around two to three hundred Wooden Beast soldier is charging towards the trio's position, as the trio is trying to take their chances to retreat.

But due to their current situation is exactly on the period of Seventh Sun, where the Wooden Beast Storm is currently on its most active at this time, the trio failed to retreat successfully, the path they were intended to use, is filled with even more danger compared to when they planned this escape route.

It feels like they actually walked into their enemies trap as they proceed.

"Jing Jing, Gou Yu, make sure you protect yourself. Do not face the Wooden Beast soldier directly as their body strength is way above your overall physical strength. Utilize your Elemental Essence more, and do not hesitate to refine some Tempering Pill if you are forced to do so!" Long Feng knows that sooner or later, his shield that formed by the Xuan Wu Sword Art will soon be broken, and the attacking Wooden Beast Soldier will soon enter their perimeters.

Not even a minute after Long Feng finished his words, the shield begins to crack in all direction, as the trio tossed a ridiculously large amount of Vermilion Lord Pill out to their surrounding. The ignition happened as the trio begins to activate the Sealing Sphere surrounding the three of them, and as the explosion happened, the chain destructive damage had turned the 50 metres ground around them into burnt soil that was filled with desolated feeling.

But minutes after the Sealing Sphere is shattered, the trio sight is greeted with another large group of Wooden Beast Soldier. Not only that, there is at least thousands of Wooden Beast that were beginning to enters their metamorphosis period as well. Green Veins started to appears within their body as they begin to transform into something less beast, and more demonic. Horns begin to grows on each of the Wooden Beast, and not only that, the Wooden Beast soldier reacted differently. As if they received their rewards of forcing the opponents to a corner, their god is blessing them with evolution abilities, where they begin to become bigger, stronger, and taller.

Soon, the Wooden Beast soldier started to entangled with each other, one absorbing ten, ten absorbing hundred, and soon, almost with a hundred of them is forced to combined and assimilated with each other, as they form a total of three different beings. But for this three beings, one similarity remains.

Their strength.

Each of them possesses the strength of at least a middle Heaven Adept Realm cultivators, and be it in size, figure and threat, they are at the top among the top. The three started to slowly get close to where the trio stands, as they chose one opponent each for themselves. "I am Minorous. The one facing Long Feng speaks. Long Feng was slightly shocked as he heard the sentence the beat spokes. Later, the one facing Gou Yu speaks as well. "I am Minorous." Gou Yu expression changed slightly. Without needed to guess, the one facing Nan Jing Jing too introduced itself as Minorous.

"hahaha," the trio laughed for a while as they looked at each other. "I guess they all share the same brain and mind controlled by the centralized memory." Nan Jing Jing comments, as she took out her Qian Kun Soul Wheel and aimed it at her opponent. "Let us see who managed to defeat their opponent first, and the slowest one lost this bet! When we get back, let us get a good meal together and the loser will pay for that!" Gou Yu held his spear up and prepare to fight as well. "Jing Jing, Gou Yu, be careful with the cage on their chest, it will shift according to what element traits they use. You will need to be extremely cautious, especially if they use the Opposing Element against you." Long Feng speaks and made the other two to look at him for a moment.

But before the two could ask a question, the three Minorous had already made their move, and force the trio to be separated from each other. Meanwhile, at the same time, those Wooden Beast started to be attached to each other, as they started to metamorphosis as well. Long Feng jump up above to escape from his opponent attack and noticed that from his view from the air, the surrounding forest around them actually was entirely corrupted, without any part is left uncorrupted.

"Minorous, do you think that I am really unable to fight against you?" Long Feng raise his hand up until his face level, and as the Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring started to shine, two different kinds of Pills started to appears in the air awaiting Long Feng to grab on them.

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Three hours ago.

Long Feng, Nan Jing Jing, and Gou Yu are happily walk into the Missing Woods area as they spotted that there is no corruption at all. They peacefully entered the deeper of the woods, and depending on Long Feng's Geology Map, the group of three easily went into the forest until they finally reach the location believed to be a settlement. As the Map quickly shows a good amount of Tribesmen within the settlement, the trio happily walks over to its entrance with much anticipation.

They guess the tribesmen current condition, as they might just suffer some slight damage from the previous Wooden Beast Storm. The finally reached the entrance of the settlement, but weirdly, there is no invitation to enters the settlement at all. Gou Yu first knock the gate, to get some of the tribesmen attention, but it is not working.

Nan Jing Jing shouted next and tries to get the tribesmen attention. Using the Metal Element of hers, Nan Jing Jing form a huge bell and rang it for a few times, but still, no movement could be seen within the Geology Map. The trio waited for a while more, as the time for Wooden Beast Storm finally came, the trio has no choice but to climb on the wall and head into the settlement for further protections.

But the moment they entered into the settlement, another shocking sight appears before them immediately. At least a thousand, if not about eight to nine hundred of cocoons could be seen maturing all around the settlement. Each of the cocoon releasing a blinding green light, that would cause one person to feel eerie the moment they look at the cocoons.

On that exact moment, the Crimson Sun finally appears, and howling could be heard from within the woods. "This is impossible! We checked the woods and there isn't any corruption at all!" Nan Jing Jing is shocked with the incident. The trio has no choice but to be very cautious with their surrounding, as the Wooden Beast started to be heard from outside of the settlement wall. It was like an invitation, as the Wooden Beast slowly climbs into the settlement without any disturbance at all.

Very quickly, the settlement is full with Wooden Beast, but none of them is aggressive at the moment. Long Feng and his group take cautious on all the Wooden Beast scattered all around the settlement, but no matter how cautious is the three of them, the one that makes its first move is unexpected, the cocoons. One of the cocoons begins to get active, as a hand came out from within and grabbed a Scarlet Wood Praying Insect's neck. The insect begins to struggle for a while, but it quickly gets absorbed by the hand and caught into the cocoon without any resistance.

The cocoon soon hatched, and the metamorphosis Tribesman was born from the cocoon. Its overall figure is comparable to Tulujin whom Long Feng saw before. The figure did not stop there. It continues to grab hold of other Wooden Beast and like there is a suction mouth at both of its hand, each single Wooden Beast that was captured by the figure instantly vanished into its hand without any remains left.

The next moment, more cocoons started to hatch, as all the Wooden Beast begin to panic and run. The situation turns chaos in that moment, as the predator started to get active and hunt the Wooden Beast like a bunch of escaping ducklings. Then, the Metamorphosis Tribesmen begin to turn their attention towards the trio. [HUMAN!!] the tribesmen begin to scream the same word altogether, causing a fearful warcry to be heard within the whole settlement, as the trio begin to escape from the settlement

Their escape went well, as they were supported by the Wind Elemental the moment they leap across the settlement wall, but as they step on the outer ground, the next sight before them, begin to turn into the worst nightmare. The trees and vegetation that seen before, became corrupted as it turned into an extremely different plant and begins to have fruits growing from all over the plants. No matter it was the same kind of a different one, each of them bears a same kind of fruit, that once it was ripe enough, it will give birth to the Wooden Beast soldier.

Why the trio knows it, because the moment those fruit before them is started to mature, those from behind already begin to ripe and born from the fruits. They were like little infants, but the moment they could stand, they had already grown into adults, and ready to fight anytime. The trio quickly escapes without any words needed, and run towards another location that is not too infested by the newborn Wooden Beast soldier.

But they have no choice, and fight because just a few minutes after their escape, the trio had already been stopped in their track and forced to fight with their opponent, and from far away, a whispers could be heard only by the owner of the sound, speaks as if she has an extreme hatred on the trio.

"This Inheritor Long Feng, I will make sure you will be killed! It is you who force me to get into this stage!" the owner of the voice appeared to be a hollow female figure, with half of her legs was deep within a White Porcelain Square Food Vessel. This figure is yet to be revealed to Long Feng, but in the future, she will be introduced to Long Feng and the other disciples, as the only sentient treasure among the seven life bound Sovereign Treasure belonged to Ancestor Mu Dou, the one that is known as "Mother Gaia!"