Seeing that the fire attack was much more effective than he had anticipated, Huang Boxiong couldn't help but revel in his triumph. For a moment, he even forgot about his younger relatives waiting to be rescued and took advantage of the situation to launch a ferocious assault on the Azure Deer, determined to capture it in one fell swoop.
However, Wood Charms have an extraordinary home field advantage in the forest that's beyond ordinary people's imagination.
But as its figure flickered, it suddenly crashed into a nearby large tree.
In the blink of an eye, the Azure Deer's figure merged into the tree.
Immediately, a blue and red flame ignited atop the tree!
Then, with a flash of blue, the Azure Deer reappeared in the forest, the flames on its body completely extinguished, and its wounds healed, as if it had never been injured.
But a careful sensing would reveal that its aura was much weaker than before, barely maintaining the edge of a third-order Demon Beast, as if it could fall back to the second order at any moment.
Seeing this, Huang Boxiong couldn't help but laugh and said, "Ha ha, I knew it! Your temporarily increased cultivation level is not a true advancement to the third order!"
This discovery made him completely let his guard down again, and he regained his confidence in capturing the Wood Charm.
Just as he was about to press on and seize the Wood Charm, it stopped playing his game!
All one could see was the Azure Deer's figure move, its silhouette instantly vanishing on the spot.
When it reappeared, it was already under a certain tree several miles away, and with a few more such movements, it had put a distance of twenty or thirty miles between itself and Huang Boxiong.
Such a scene caused Huang Boxiong's expression to change dramatically, his face instantly becoming extremely ugly.
The previous battle had confused him, nearly making him believe that the Wood Charm would fight to the death with him.
He had forgotten that Wood Charms are, by nature, timid creatures that would not persist in fighting a formidable opponent to the end.
Once the Wood Charm started to flee, he, Huang Boxiong, was suddenly at a complete loss.
"Good-for-nothing beast, enjoy your freedom for a little while longer. I'll come back for you!" Huang Boxiong said.
In the end, Huang Boxiong could only curse bitterly and immediately turned around to fly toward where his younger relatives were.
By this time, it had been over a quarter of an hour since the Messenger Firework had been launched.
By the time Huang Boxiong arrived at the deserted scene, Zhou Chun had already escaped dozens of miles away.
"What a chaotic aura!"
At the scene of the incident, Huang Boxiong landed with an unsightly expression. He carefully sensed the residual aura with his Divine Sense, feeling it foreign and chaotic, something he had never encountered before.
However, the last place where the auras of the Huang Family Cultivators dispersed was giving him a very bad premonition.
"Who is it? Who dared to land such a vicious blow!"
Huang Boxiong's face was filled with rage as he couldn't help but take to the sky to look around.
But all he saw was vast emptiness. Besides the smoke and ash floating in the sky from the burning forest, no trace or shadow of anyone could be seen.
Seeing this, his eyes flickered with ferocity, and he snorted coldly, "Hmph, no one can kill my Huang Family's people and get away with it!"
As his words fell, he closed his eyes slightly, made a hand gesture, and then lightly touched his eyes with his fingertips that radiated a green light.
When he opened his eyes again, his black and white eyes suddenly emitted a green spiritual light.
With these green light eyes, he immediately saw what was invisible to ordinary people.
His gaze shifted quickly and soon turned in the direction Zhou Chun had fled.
In the seemingly empty sky, a faint golden aura trail appeared like a rainbow in Huang Boxiong's vision.
"Found you!" he exclaimed in a low voice, and immediately followed the golden aura trail.
But barely twenty or thirty miles into the chase, the golden trace vanished.
Now in front of Huang Boxiong was a sea of fierce flames, the forest ablaze with roaring fire.
His target had entered the fiery sea and had not used mana since, thereby evading his pursuit.
"Think hiding in there will let you escape my tracking? Naïve!"
His eyes flashing with ferocity, Huang Boxiong immediately flew into the smoky area above the flaming sea, his powerful Divine Sense sweeping over the ground, searching for the hidden culprit.
But even after a thorough search of the surrounding area for dozens of miles, he found no trace of the vanished attacker.
It was as if the assailant had been melted by the fiery sea, completely disappearing without a trace.
This situation made his expression turn very ugly.
He hovered in the air, eyes gazing down at the sea of flames below, unsure whether to continue the search or go after the Wood Charm first.
After a long moment of hesitation, he snorted coldly, turned away from the site with a foul expression, and continued to look for the Wood Charm.
In a cave underground, Zhou Chun, through his possession of the "Flying Sky Fire Scorpion," saw Huang Boxiong's figure leave and heaved a sigh of relief.
Of course, he knew that even with the head start, he could not outrun a mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator. So, escaping directly had never been his plan.
After the killing, he ran into the fiery sea to use the fire to cover his own aura.
He then quickly crossed back through the fiery sea and hid in a burrow made by some unknown animal.
Of course, a mere burrow could not shield him from Huang Boxiong's Divine Sense probes.