CHAPTER 145: CHAPTER 132: MYSTERIOUS POWER, FORBIDDEN ZONE!_1

Ye Feng possessed the body of a Mutated Sparrow and swiftly flew along, yet his thoughts were whirling rapidly as he pondered what was going on.

According to his best guess, the most likely possibility was that the Old Locust Tree had left.

As for how a tree could move, once it reached the Fourth Order, it could indeed control its roots to walk as if they were legs.

Of course, doing so would cause a commotion, the movement would be slow, and it would also harm the tiny roots that absorbed nutrients from the soil, so it was unlikely that any tree would choose to relocate unless it was necessary.

He had also seen comments online that if the Old Locust Tree were to leave its original place, it should leave behind a large pit.

In fact, that’s not necessarily true. For example, if he really wanted to leave, he could just gather the surrounding soil as the roots were being pulled out, to avoid creating a huge pit.

Naturally, all these actions required conscious effort.

But according to his estimate, even if the Old Locust Tree had developed intelligence, it would be at most equivalent to a toddler of two or three years old, making such an inference somewhat unreasonable.

This was precisely why he needed to check the situation on site since he couldn’t find an answer within himself.

The flying speed of Mutated Sparrows wasn’t particularly fast among the bird species.

However, it was a different story for a Third Order Mutated Sparrow.

In less than 5 minutes, the Mutated Sparrow covered a distance of seven or eight kilometers in a straight line and approached Small Phoenix Mountain.

He didn’t even need to land to clearly see the situation atop Small Phoenix Mountain from afar.

His heart sank immediately.

If the Old Locust Tree had indeed left, no matter how it tried to disguise its departure, there should have been traces left behind, but he found nothing.

Could it be that the Mutated Old Locust Tree had been targeted by some powerful Mutated Animals and then suffered a lethal attack?

But where was the corpse?

So no matter how he thought about it, it all seemed unreasonable. Various ideas rapidly circled in his mind, and at the same time, he kept drawing closer to Small Phoenix Mountain.

However, when he was still a hundred meters above Small Phoenix Mountain, he suddenly felt a chilling sensation.

This sense of fatal danger made Ye Feng instantly control his descending form.

He hovered in the air and scanned every corner below inch by inch, searching for the source of the danger.

The trees on Small Phoenix Mountain were not very dense. If there were Mutated Animals of the Third Order or higher hiding here, they shouldn’t be able to evade his search.

Yet he found nothing.

And the chilling sense of crisis persisted without diminishing in the slightest.

"Damn it, what on earth is going on?" Ye Feng felt impatient.

Just then, he noticed a pair of Mutated Sparrows flying by in the distance.

He immediately flew towards them. The aura of a Third Order being was released without reservation, easily subduing the two Mutated Sparrows.

He then commanded them to fly toward Small Phoenix Mountain, hoping to find the source of the danger.

As the two Mutated Sparrows entered the range of Small Phoenix Mountain,

a horrifying scene unfolded.

The life force of these two Mutated Sparrows dissipated at a terrifying speed, their bodies plummeted straight down, and they died before even hitting the ground.

Throughout the entire process, Ye Feng watched intently and saw no creature attacking them.

Of course, if that was all there was to it, it wouldn’t be considered horrifying.

The truly terrifying scene happened after the two Mutated Sparrows died; their bodies decayed at a visible speed.

In less than a minute, the two Mutated Sparrows had decomposed into a pool of pus that seeped into the ground.

"Damn! What the hell is going on?" Ye Feng’s eyebrows knitted tightly.

He gritted his teeth and, controlling the Mutated Sparrow, cautiously advanced.

He stopped when he was 50 meters away from where the two Mutated Sparrows had fallen.

Getting this close, Ye Feng finally sensed that something was amiss.

"It seems like there is some Mysterious Energy ahead, the same energy that just caused the deaths of those two Mutated Sparrows,"

"Too bad this Mutated Sparrow has limited sensory capabilities. If it were my true body here, I could use spiritual power to investigate," Ye Feng frowned deeply.

This was the drawback of possessing Mutated Beings; his abilities were limited by the host creatures.

"Hm? No, that’s not right! That Mysterious Energy seems to be expanding outward," Ye Feng’s eyes sharpened, genuinely feeling the difficulty of the situation.

If the danger was only confined to this area, that wouldn’t be too bad; he could just treat Small Phoenix Mountain as a forbidden zone and avoid it in the future.

But if this Mysterious Energy kept expanding, it meant the forbidden zone would continue to grow, and that was a different matter.

An expanding forbidden zone would squeeze the living space of other creatures, including his own.

At that moment, Ye Feng had to take the matter seriously. With a thought, he issued orders to the Mutated Eagle and Mutated King Cobra to come here.

In less than three minutes, a gigantic eagle with a wingspan of 50 meters appeared in the sky, and wrapped in its talons was a 50-meter-long king cobra.

Soon, the eagle and snake landed, and Ye Feng switched his possession to the two Mutated Beings.

Indeed, after the Mutated Eagle broke through to the Third Order, its Loyalty had also reached 100%, allowing him to possess it.