Lieao stared at the precise coordinate sent by his wife on the communication wristwatch, locating its position on the map: “Hmm? They’ve already entered the interior of the island?” Rather than alarmed, Lieao was pleased. If that location had remained static, he would have suspected that Luo Feng had abandoned the wristwatch there.
Now that the location was moving,
it likely meant Luo Feng was still wearing the wristwatch.
“First, recover from my injuries. With my body’s healing ability, I’ll be fully healed in two days. Half a day should be enough to stabilize,” Lieao decided, ignoring the urge to chase Luo Feng and instead sitting cross-legged on the beach to recuperate.
…
Thick mist blanketed the island.
“This is indeed strange,” Luo Feng, fully armed and alert, carefully advanced through the island’s forest, gazing at the surrounding trees and vegetation, growing increasingly puzzled. “I’ve already gone two or three miles deep into this island and still haven’t seen any trace of monsters. It seems this island truly has no monsters.”
“The only oddity is—”
“In mainland Australia, it’s the end of winter, yet the temperature on this island is unusually warm, and the trees and flowers are as lush as in spring or summer,” Luo Feng thought, puzzled.
What secret did this island hold?
The trees were flourishing, the flowers blooming vibrantly, and thorny thickets abounded—seeming full of life.
Yet there were no living creatures.
Luo Feng advanced cautiously step by step.
About a hundred meters away from him, hidden among the flowers, was a pink blossom. This flower was larger than a washbasin, far bigger and more vivid than the surrounding blooms. At this moment, Luo Feng was walking steadily toward the flower patch, drawing closer and closer. Finally, he arrived.
“What a vivid flower! In the late winter of mainland Australia, seeing a flower this vibrant is rare indeed,” Luo Feng admired it for a while before turning to continue walking.
Just as he took two steps forward—
Whoosh!
The once face-sized pink flower suddenly expanded, blooming into a diameter of three to four meters. This enormous flower shot toward Luo Feng like lightning, descending from the sky like a net, aiming to engulf him entirely.
Ever since entering this misty island, Luo Feng had remained constantly vigilant, maintaining an extremely cautious state.
“Hmm?” His eyes flashed with cold light.
Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!
Three black streaks of light instantly shot from Luo Feng’s side toward the giant flower. Each throwing knife carried a powerful, terrifying piercing force, like three rays of death, instantly piercing through the giant pink flower descending upon Luo Feng. The three blades spun several times, slicing the flower into pieces that scattered like snowflakes.
One throwing knife even severed the elongated blood-red stem of the giant flower!
Chi!
It was like cutting through steel rebar, cleanly slicing the stem.
“A man-eating flower?” Luo Feng turned to look at the flower fragments on the ground, then at the severed stem. Gurgling sounds came from the broken end as blood-red liquid continuously oozed out—an eerie sight.
“Mutated man-eating flowers are extremely rare.”
“The most man-eating flowers in the world are still found in the Amazon rainforest of South America,” Luo Feng frowned, puzzled. “How come there’s a man-eating flower on this isolated island?”
The mutations during the Great Nirvana period mainly affected animals.
Humans are a type of animal.
As a result, many mutant beasts and human warriors emerged! However, plants did not mutate. Trees remained trees, and flowers and grass remained as they were… except for one flower—the man-eating flower. Originally with several species, it now had dozens of mutated variants.
Because no other plants mutated, only the man-eating flower did, many scientists even proposed classifying the man-eating flower as a ‘special form of animal.’
“What strange things! This island actually has a man-eating flower.”
Shaking his head, Luo Feng continued forward.
To him, a powerful mentalist, this man-eating flower posed no threat at all.
…
After the man-eating flower’s attack, Luo Feng became even more cautious, advancing very slowly. This slowness was only relative—he was still significantly faster than an average person.
Half an hour later.
“Ah?”
“A willow tree!” Luo Feng smiled as he saw the distant willow tree… Most of the trees on this island were quite rare, but willow trees were very familiar to him. The streets of Yangzhou City were often lined with willow trees for greenery, so Luo Feng had a special fondness for willow trees.
Perhaps because no one had visited in a very long time, the willows here had grown extremely tall and thick.
“One, two, three, four… a total of nine!”
“Nine willow trees, how massive they are.”
Luo Feng walked closer.
Indeed, these nine willow trees were exceptionally thick. The thinnest one was about a meter in diameter, while the thickest reached three meters in diameter… Such massive willows were rarely seen even in normal circumstances. With the island’s lush vegetation, the countless willow branches of these nine trees danced freely in the wind.
Hu~~ Hu~~
Nine colossal willow trees, each with a trunk as thick as that, had countless willow branches flying in the wind.
“This island is truly miraculous, capable of growing willows this massive.”
“And not only willows, other plants here also seem full of vitality. Even in late winter, they sprout branches and leaves,” Luo Feng marveled.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
Just as Luo Feng was marveling beside the nine giant willow trees, in an instant, all the willow branches from these trees wildly lashed out, rapidly entangling Luo Feng like countless threads. Their speed exceeded the speed of sound. Even Luo Feng, at such close range, faced with the overwhelming onslaught of countless willow branches, couldn’t possibly evade.
“What the hell?!” Luo Feng’s expression changed drastically.
After all, the thinnest of these nine willows stood thirty to forty meters tall, comparable to a ten-story building! As for the thickest willow tree with a three-meter diameter trunk, its height reached nearly a hundred meters… Such towering, terrifying willows had an unimaginable number of branches, each over a hundred meters long.
Spreading out…
Covering the sky and earth!
“Break!” Luo Feng surged forward, while the six throwing knives around his body rotated like fiery wheels, madly slicing through the surrounding willow branches! His throwing knives could kill many high-level warriors. Under such an attack, the willow branches were rapidly severed.
Yet each cut felt like slicing through steel rebar.
Based on Luo Feng’s perception through his mental power, each willow branch’s toughness could withstand the furious slash of a high-level warrior! At this level, it would take a missile strike to destroy them.
Of course—
Under Luo Feng’s charge, with the knives rotating and slicing rapidly, countless willow branches were cut in half. It seemed Luo Feng was about to break free.
“Boom~~”
The central, thickest willow king, with a trunk three meters in diameter, suddenly shot out countless willow branches glowing with a faint golden hue. Their number was close to ten thousand! Each branch reached hundreds of meters in length, instantly enveloping Luo Feng and colliding head-on with his flying knives.
“Chi chi!” The rotating throwing knives struggled to slice through a single golden willow branch.
“Not good.” Luo Feng’s expression changed drastically.
He retreated violently!
Quickly dodging the golden willow branches descending upon him.
“I found it hard to cut through even one golden willow branch. If I get wrapped up by thousands of these golden branches… I’ll be in danger.” Although even if bound, he could still control his knives to cut… he couldn’t afford to take risks.
After all, failure meant death!
Facing the golden willow branches swirling around him, Luo Feng violently retreated and dove into the ground!
Pu!
Three throwing knives rotated and instantly drilled through the earth, and Luo Feng plunged in directly. His mental power acted upon his feet, making his entire body like a diamond drill, rapidly piercing into the underground.
“Chi chi~~”
A large number of golden willow branches quickly inserted into the ground, but the golden branches, only hundreds of meters long, couldn’t penetrate too deeply underground. Moreover, their main attack method was to entangle and kill their prey… their ends were forked, and their digging ability couldn’t compare to Luo Feng’s throwing knives at all!
After a while of flying about, the golden willow branches retracted back to the limbs of the giant willow king.
Other ordinary willow branches still danced in the wind as usual…
…
Deep underground, in the rock layer.
Here, Luo Feng had blasted out a small cave.
Luo Feng, covered in dirt, leaned against the rock behind him. “Drip, drip!” Water from the rock layer continuously dripped down.
“Quite a mess I’ve gotten into,” Luo Feng chuckled self-deprecatingly.
“Now I understand why there are no flying beasts or land beasts on this misty island,” Luo Feng recalled the scene earlier, still in awe. “Incredible! Absolutely incredible! Even willow trees have become aggressive. If this news spreads, the whole world would be shocked.”
On Earth, plants hadn’t mutated, except for the man-eating flowers.
But…
On this misty island, Luo Feng wasn’t too surprised when he encountered the man-eating flower. However, when the willow tree attacked him, he was truly astonished.
“Especially that willow king. Even a high-level warrior might not be its match.”
“If willows can attack, then probably many plants across this island’s vegetation are also aggressive. Any beasts daring to come here would have been killed by these plants long ago,” Luo Feng marveled inwardly.
Mainland Australia had been uninhabited since the Great Nirvana period.
It had become a paradise for beasts.
The beasts likely already knew about the island’s uniqueness and thus none dared to enter.
Occasionally, some warriors came here for training.
But very few warriors ever came to mainland Australia. For the vast millions of square kilometers of Australian land, in just a few decades, most areas remained unexplored by warriors. This misty island was one of them, its secrets never discovered by humanity before.
Now, Luo Feng had discovered them!
“Li Yao doesn’t have the various abilities of a mentalist. He can’t fly, and his digging speed is too slow.”
“On this misty island, whether he can survive is uncertain. If he encounters danger, I’ll gladly add insult to injury,” Luo Feng thought, not minding his ruthless methods at all.
Deep underground in the rock layer, Luo Feng was quite relaxed.
Suddenly, he took out a mobile phone from his backpack.
“Expensive phones have their advantages. Even underground, the signal is this good,” Luo Feng smiled and dialed the number.
“Hello.”
“Brother!” His younger brother Luo Hua’s surprised and delighted voice came through. Earlier, Luo Feng had already called home from his phone, telling them he was in Australia in August and that calls would be infrequent.
“How are you doing?”
Luo Feng looked around at the surrounding rocks and the continuously dripping water, smiling slightly. “Very well. The place I’m at now is safe. Heh, there’s even water here.”
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