Chapter 34

For a time, even a demonic beast like Xiaobai was looking forward to the arrival of mealtime.

As time slowly passed and it drew closer to mealtime, the handyman disciples all over Divine Jianfeng couldn't help but start to become restless.

It's time to eat; it'll be time to eat soon.

"Quick, put in some effort; let's finish up here and go eat."

At the logging yard behind the mountain, several handyman disciples were swinging the axes in their hands with great effort.

These were not ordinary trees, but Black Iron Wood. The entire trunk was pitch black and extremely hard, comparable to steel.

And this was the main material used by Divine Jianfeng to build houses—sturdy and not easily damaged—but it took a lot of effort to fell them.

Five handyman disciples working together could fell at most three Black Iron Wood trees a day.

And the one right now was the third one; once they cut it down, today's task would be finished.

Hearing that it was almost time to eat, the handyman disciples, who had been exhausted, suddenly seemed as if they had been injected with adrenaline; the axes in their hands were swung so fast they left afterimages.

"Holy crap..."

Another group of handyman disciples nearby saw this scene and were completely dumbfounded.

Their tasks for the day were all to fell Black Iron Wood, and everyone had been working for about the same amount of time. They had clearly been exhausted just a moment ago, so why did this group suddenly become so full of vigor?

However, what shocked them even more was yet to come.

Seeing that the efficiency was still too slow, one of the handyman disciples spoke up.

"Brothers, burn your blood essence, otherwise we won't make it in time for the line."

"That's right, that's right, if we go late, we won't be able to get in line."

"A little bit of blood essence is nothing; a bowl of stir-fried meat will make it all back."

Immediately, wisps of blood energy were seen radiating from the bodies of several people, which made the other handyman disciples, who were already stunned, start to doubt their own lives.

Big brother, is it really necessary? Isn't it just cutting down a Black Iron Wood? Why do you have to burn blood essence? Anyone who didn't know better would think you were about to have a life-or-death duel with this Black Iron Wood.

Burning blood essence was not a sophisticated technique; every Body Refining Realm cultivator possessed such a method.

However, after burning blood essence, a person would fall into a state of weakness for a certain period, and afterwards, they would have to undergo recuperation and replenish their blood essence to slowly recover.

Generally, people only used such methods during combat, but now it was just cutting down trees—was it necessary to go to such lengths?

They couldn't understand it at all, but under the boost of blood essence, this group of handyman disciples quickly cut down the last Black Iron Wood, completing their task for the day.

They had thought that these people should be extremely weak at this moment, but who would have thought that these guys had absolutely no intention of stopping the burning of their blood essence? With a flash, taking advantage of the fact that they were still burning blood essence, they ran toward the foot of the mountain like madmen.

"Charge, charge, charge, while we still have the strength."

Are they crazy? Running wildly while burning blood essence—even if their house was on fire, it wouldn't be like this, right?

Facing the strange behavior of this group of handyman disciples, the surrounding handyman disciples were all stunned on the spot, until someone spoke up.

"These guys are acting a bit strange."

"Indeed."

"I remember now, there have been quite a few people like this lately; it seems like every time it reaches a specific time, they become like this, all of them acting like they've been injected with adrenaline."

"There's a problem; they definitely have something they're hiding from us."

"Then what should we do?"

"Let two people follow them quietly."

"Can do."

Sensing that something was wrong, two handyman disciples quietly followed them.

At the same time, Lu Youyou had finally managed to endure until it was almost time to eat at her residence, and she hurried toward the foot of the mountain in a great mood.

In order to be a little faster, she even unleashed a movement technique, pushing her speed to the absolute limit.

But she didn't notice that a figure was following closely behind her—it was none other than Third Senior Brother Xu Jie.

Having followed from her residence all the way here, Xu Jie's doubts only grew deeper.

"Little Junior Sister even unleashed a movement technique; what is she going to do? Why is she in such a hurry?"

In daily travel, it was absolutely impossible to use a movement technique because it consumed spiritual power extremely quickly, especially like Lu Youyou was doing now, using it at full strength.

What kind of urgent matter could make Lu Youyou go to such lengths? ===== CHAPTER 35 =====