Big Rooster looked at Chu Mo, "Kid, I understand what you're saying, but the Blood Demon Ancestor is a true adversary. With your current strength, it's simply impossible to be his match! If your enemies were the cultivators of the Spirit Realm, no matter how many, Big Rooster believes that you would find a way to deal with them. But the Blood Demon Ancestor is an exception!"
"I know," Chu Mo nodded. "But according to Wan Dahai, if the Blood Demon Ancestor really motivates the top sects and families in the Spirit Realm to besiege Jinxiu City, then Jinxiu City won't be able to withstand it!"
Big Rooster cursed angrily, "Damn it!"
"So, Big Rooster, I'm entrusting Jinxiu City to you. I believe that you definitely have a way to hold it, right?" Chu Mo looked at Big Rooster.
Big Rooster said furiously, "Why do you have so much faith that Big Rooster has a method?"
"Hehe, who are you? The world's number one rooster!" Chu Mo laughed.
He indeed had absolute confidence in Big Rooster. He had known Big Rooster for so many years and understood him quite well. Despite Big Rooster often doing some unreliable things, its foundation was very deep. Back in the Mortal Realm, various restrictions made Big Rooster seem somewhat down and out.
But now in the Spirit Realm, and having refined that drop of True Phoenix Blood, Big Rooster's realm was improving by leaps and bounds every single day. Not to mention that this rooster, fundamentally, was also a terrifying demon! Its level of terror might not be as great as that of the Blood Demon Ancestor, but compared to the cultivators of the Spirit Realm, it was many times more powerful!
Hence, Chu Mo believed as long as Big Rooster returned, it would definitely have a way to help him protect Jinxiu City!
"Then, you must promise Big Rooster one thing; otherwise, Big Rooster will definitely quit when the time comes!" Big Rooster looked at Chu Mo. "You cannot die!"
Chu Mo was silent and hesitated for a moment.
This journey through the Endless Forest, he really could not guarantee whether he could make it back alive. After all, he wasn't facing the cultivators of the Spirit Realm.
"Big Rooster is very aware that you have the ability to escape. Promise Big Rooster, if things really can't be changed, you must come back alive!" Big Rooster said earnestly, looking at Chu Mo and speaking in a deep voice. "Promise me!"
Chu Mo looked into Big Rooster's eyes and after a long while, he nodded, "Okay, I promise you!"
"Then, there's no problem. Rest assured, kid, protecting a city isn't the same as protecting an entire world. Big Rooster guarantees those bastards won't get the slightest advantage!" Big Rooster promised, thumping his chest.
"All right, I'm leaving them to you!" Chu Mo gratefully looked at Big Rooster. "I don't ever want the incident that happened at Chu Kingdom's Royal City to happen again!"
Big Rooster nodded, "Don't worry. Obliterating those people, Big Rooster might not have the power, but guarding a city, Big Rooster can still do it!"
"Okay, that's settled then, goodbye!" Chu Mo did not say much more, trusting that Big Rooster understood everything in his heart.
The two went their separate ways; Big Rooster flew back towards Jinxiu City, while Chu Mo, with unswerving determination, flew towards the vast Endless Forest in the north.
In the Northern Spirit Realm, an endless forest stretched as far as the eye could see.
It was not cold here; instead, it was like spring all year round.
The vast forest extended for tens of thousands of miles, seemingly boundless!
A large variety of spirit beasts lived here, some with such profound realms that they were terrifyingly powerful.
The Elf Clan lived here. They got along very well with all the creatures in the forest.
Many of the outside world's news were brought back by various creatures from this forest. Therefore, the Elf Clan was not isolated. Although they never walked out of this forest, they knew as much about the world as anyone else.
At this moment, inside a house built upon an ancient tree as colossal as a mountain, sat more than a dozen Elf Clan women.
They all appeared to be in their twenties, dressed in beautiful gowns. Exquisitely beautiful beyond description.
But these individuals were all far from young, with their actual ages having surpassed a hundred years, even reaching several centuries old.
All of them were elders of the Elf Clan, who had lived on this land for many years, truly putting down roots in this soil.
Over the years, although members of the Elf Clan had continually broken through to the Spirit Refining stage and left the Spirit Realm, the entire population of the Elf Clan had still maintained a number tens of thousands strong.
The elder elves, seated together here, all wore grave expressions on their faces.
They were now aware of some matters from the outside world, but those matters had little impact on the Elf Clan. The real problem that worried them was the impending emergence of the dark lord!
Once that individual emerged, the Elf Clan would face a tremendous problem: whether to sacrifice their princess, Qi Xiaoyu, to ensure the safety of the entire Elf Clan, or to gather all of their collective strength and engage in a fight to the death with the dark lord!
"We've already hidden ourselves here, who would have thought... that the dark lord... would still track us down," an elder of the Elf Clan said with a trace of sorrow on her stern face, looking at the others, "Anyway, I do not agree with sacrificing Her Highness the princess."
"We don't agree either," another elder of the Elf Clan said, tapping the table in front of her with slender fingers before musing, "Is that person mentioned in the prophecy already in the Spirit Realm?"
"Yes, lately the rumors about that person have been increasing," one of the elf elders replied.
"Should we go see that person in secret?" the first elder to speak suggested, "I've heard that individual is very powerful, stirring up quite a commotion in the realm of illusions!"
"Indeed, I have heard of it too. But it seems the princess... doesn't wish to involve that person," another said.
"At such a critical juncture, we cannot manage so much. We should send someone to Jinxiu City to make contact with that person first," the first speaking elder of the Elf Clan decided firmly.
Just then, a rush of urgent knocking came from outside. The door opened, and an elf maidservant from Qi Xiaoyu's side, with tear-filled eyes, ran in and cried out to the gathering of elf elders, "Elders, it's terrible, the miss... she... she took the dark holy artifact and said... said she would..."
More than a dozen elder elves in the room suddenly all stood up, their faces displaying shock.
"Where is she?" the grand elder asked anxiously.
"Quick, take us to find her, or it will be too late!" another elder's complexion turned pale.
"What is she trying to do? Fall into eternal damnation?" an elder of the Elf Clan shouted sharply, "Hurry and stop her!"
"But but but... it seems it's too late!" the little maidservant burst into tears and said, "The miss left two hours ago..."
"Why didn't you stop her!"
"Why didn't you come to report earlier?"
Crying, the little maidservant said, "How could I have the power to stop the miss? Moreover, when she left, she restrained me, saying that after two hours... I would naturally recover..."
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
None of the Elf Clan elders in the room waited to hear the maidservant finish her words; they all flew out of the place like bolts of lightning.
In all of their hearts rose an exceedingly dreadful thought: It's ruined!