At a mere three kilometers away from their team, on a high mountain, a burly middle-aged man with a ferocious face was sitting cross-legged on a rock.

The middle-aged man's eyebrows furrowed. It turned out that he had just sensed the loss of connection with one of his Blood Crows.

Under normal circumstances, losing contact with a Blood Crow meant that it had died.

"What's going on?"

Just now, the middle-aged man had been in seclusion and did not use his Telekinesis to control the Blood Crow, allowing it to act freely.

It was only after Duan Gujin shot the Blood Crow dead that he sensed its demise.

So, he immediately halted his seclusion, desiring to find out the cause of the Blood Crow's death.

He quickly bonded his spirit with a nearby Blood Crow and directed it towards the spot where the previous Blood Crow had died to locate its corpse.

After a while, the middle-aged man saw a team of about seventy people appear in front of him.

The middle-aged man slightly furrowed his brow, letting the Blood Crow continue to observe for a while. Finally, he managed to discern clearly what kind of team was in front of him.

"So, it's a team from the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce. I didn't expect them to come here! Fortune truly favors me!"

A fierce smile immediately appeared on the middle-aged man's face, as his mind began to rapidly consider how he could ambush the people from the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce.

After pondering for a moment, he came up with a good plan.

"Yes! This is what I should do!"

The middle-aged man took a deep breath, his body flashed, turning into a residual image, disappearing into the Void.

Soon after, over a dozen nearby Blood Crows heeded his call, flapping their wings and flying into the sky with a flutter.

On the other hand, the team with Duan Gujin had traveled several kilometers further.

Along the way, although they encountered some Demon Beast ambushes, the beasts were not strong, and they were already prepared on their side. The ambushing Demon Beasts did not succeed, ultimately either being killed by them or driven away.

As the team continued to move forward, Duan Gujin noticed that the vegetation around them was becoming increasingly dense, and a thick miasma permeated the Void.

Ordinary Martial Artists who inhaled this miasma often got poisoned.

However, the adventurers entering this area had made all kinds of preparations, swallowing Detoxification Elixirs.

Hence, the miasma in the air could not harm them.

Duan Gujin's brow furrowed tighter, knowing that the Demon Beasts capable of surviving in this deadly poisonous miasma were anything but simple.

Quickly, the person in charge instructed everyone to disperse and search for a blood-red colored plant.

"Could it be the Blood Dragon Tree?"

After listening to the person in charge's explanation, the Blood Dragon Tree immediately came to Duan Gujin's mind as a possible Spiritual Medicine.

"Baffling! Could it be that the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce's directive for this mission was a lie, that killing and chopping down Demons was just a ruse, when their real intention was to search for the Spiritual Medicine known as the Blood Dragon Tree?"

He thought for a moment and felt that his speculation was likely correct.

He looked around and discovered that the area was filled with a powerful force that shielded against Divine Sense Inspection.

Now, their Divine Sense could probe no more than thirty meters around them, and they could only scatter and slowly search for the Blood Dragon Tree.

Just as the team was preparing to move forward, suddenly, they heard a deafening cawing sound from the sky.

Everyone looked up to see countless crows suddenly appear in the sky.

"Could it be? They've come again?"

The martial artists below inhaled sharply, recalling the overwhelming number of crows that had appeared in the sky, they thought that surely these crows were controlled by a leader with awakened Divine Wisdom.

"Everyone get down immediately! Prepare for battle! Those with bows and arrows, get ready to fight! Listen well, everyone! Among these crows, some are rather special. These special crows are called Blood Crows, and your goal is to find the Blood Crows hidden among them. These Blood Crows will feast on human flesh, and for each Blood Crow killed, I will reward a hundred Jiuzhou coins!"

Soon, a person in charge shouted loudly.

Many people, upon hearing this reward, became excited.

Duan Gujin heard the offer from the person in charge and shook his head slightly; he hadn't expected that people from the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce would be so miserly.

Duan Gujin scanned his surroundings and quickly realized that they were completely surrounded by these crows, trapped with no way out.

He frowned, coming upon a possibility.

"These crows are divided into over ten different groups. It seems very likely that each group of crows has its own Blood Crow, which controls that group."

He recalled the Blood Crow he had just shot down and thought that the Blood Crow was on the edge of its flock, and that flock moved almost simultaneously in the same direction.

"With so many different Blood Crows appearing all at once, could it be that the Blood Crow Demon has appeared?"

A thought crossed his mind, and he immediately began to shout loudly.

"Everyone! Pay attention! The flocks of crows in the sky are controlled by different Blood Crows! Look carefully! Each flock should have a leading Blood Crow, and once that leader is shot down, the flock will disperse! Remember, when searching for the Blood Crow, know that only one can control a group of crows!"

Upon hearing Duan Gujin's shout, everyone had a sudden realization.

The person in charge frowned upon hearing Duan Gujin's words; he had never heard of such a demon beast as the Blood Crow before and had no idea about its characteristics.

Duan Gujin's shout had immediately drawn the attention of the people from Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce sitting in the sedan chairs.

One of them promptly sent an elder to summon Duan Gujin to inquire about any additional characteristics of these Blood Crows.

Duan Gujin responded, "Senior, I think the sudden appearance of so many Blood Crows implies that there is someone controlling them from behind!"

"That's right! Your reasoning makes a lot of sense!"

The person in the sedan analyzed and felt that Duan Gujin's words were spot on.

Hence, the person inside the sedan quickly asked, "Then what do you think we should do to find the person controlling these Blood Crows?"

After pondering for a moment, Duan Gujin shook his head and said, "Senior, I think it's extremely difficult to find the person controlling the Blood Crows! That person can easily connect their mind with the Blood Crows, seeing everything on the ground through the eyes of the crows, and is well aware of our every move! What we need to do is to try every possible means to eliminate those Blood Crows first!"

"That's absolutely correct!"

The person inside the sedan hurriedly agreed.

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