Youyou breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, it was attached to the fruit, not the tree.
She thought for a moment, then took out the box that Yuan Qi had prepared beforehand to seal the soul's breath. She reached out and picked the fruit that the soul's breath was attached to. Just as she was about to put it in the box, the entire tree suddenly seemed to have something taken away from it, and it withered visibly. Almost instantly, it turned into ashes and disappeared before her eyes.
Yuu, still holding the fruit: "..."
What the heck?
"ah!"
Before she could react, she heard Wu Yue suddenly cry out in alarm from under the tree. A red flame ignited from the ground, spreading like a spiderweb across the entire forest, causing the ground to crack inch by inch. The once lush and green forest seemed to have been dyed red, and suddenly, wisps of ominous black energy began to emanate from the dense woods.
Wu Yue lost her footing and nearly fell into the crack beside her. You You reacted quickly and flew down to help her.
"What...what happened?" Wu Yue was startled, looking at the suddenly changed forest.
Youyou looked at the fruit in her hand, then glanced at the increasingly intense red color around her, and suddenly realized something. Her face darkened. "This is not an ordinary forest, it's the Forest of Vengeful Spirits!"
"What!" Wu Yue's face turned pale instantly.
No wonder such a large tree only bore one fruit, and the soul's essence fell here of all places. These red lights, and the black, resentful energy that suddenly appeared in the forest—this must be the Forest of Vengeful Spirits she had read about in the book.
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