Zhao Yunxiao had made up his mind by now.


    After making sure that Cheng Kai had indeed left, he began to look around for tracks left behind by the giant tree ostriches.


    Thankfully, Zhao Yunxiao already knew that these monsters enjoyed living in the trees, so that severely narrowed down the areas that he had to search, making things much easier.


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    Spiritual energy gushed out from the nest like a tide, just like lava erupting escaping the mouth of an erupting volcano.


    The sudden emergence of so much spiritual energy not only rustled the branches and leaves, but even the trees in the direct vicinity swayed along, as though they were performing a welcome dance for the arrival of precious spiritual nourishment.


    However, collecting the darkpetal lily was not as simple a task.


    Its roots had already started growing into the bottom of the nest, so removing it without damaging the roots was a tricky matter.


    Zhao Yunxiao could slowly pick away at the nest to free the roots of the darkpetal lily, but he simply did not have the luxury of time to do so right now.


    Without hesitation, Zhao Yunxiao brought out a dagger and started tearing away at the nest, cutting it into pieces.


    Since he did not have the time to separate the darkpetal lily from the nest, he simply had to bring the nest with him!


    That said, there was no need to bring along the entire nest either.


    That would not only be unnecessary, but the bulky nest would also impede his ability to remain stealthy while travelling through the forest.


    Instead, all he needed was the bottom part of the nest where the darkpetal lily had secured itself to.


    The giant tree ostrich’s nest was large and sturdy, but its walls were still nowhere near strong enough to survive an essence energy imbued attack by a cultivator.


    Once he was left with only the bottom part of the nest, Zhao Yunxiao carefully placed it, along with the attached darkpetal lily, into his bamboo backpack as well.


    Now that he had already obtained everything that he needed, Zhao Yunxiao did not dare linger and quickly left the area.


    He had absolutely no intention to wait and see which creatures would be drawn to this spot by the sudden emergence of spiritual energy earlier.


    In fact, he no longer had any intentions to continue with the rest of day’s hunt as well.


    This was an unexpectedly huge reward that he was carrying in his backpack right now.


    He could always try to hide it with his pushcart and continue with his hunt just like what he did with his previous preys.


    But if it were to end up going missing, he was definitely going to feel like stabbing himself for the stupidity!


    Being on Purple Plum Mountain where most were members of the Black Tortoise Sect, he would need to be quite unlucky to have someone discover his hidden pushcart and decide to raid it as well.


    However, he was not intending to take chances here.


    Zhao Yunxiao always believed in preparing for the worst, and the worst outcome this time was definitely not something that his tender little heart could bear!