Spoiled by Eight Uncles (Lily)
Chapter 1357 The Misunderstanding Has Gotten Out Of Hand

Ivan gently set aside the small ghost beast, and it gazed at him with teary eyes.

Reaching out, Ivan rubbed its small head and took out a spirit fruit the size of a coconut from his ring before stuffing it into the small ghost beast's arms.

The small ghost beast held the spirit fruit, which was even bigger than itself, and excitedly widened its eyes.

"Squeak... Squeak, squeak!" It looked eagerly at the spirit fruit, then at Ivan, and then quickly hugging the fruit tightly.

Its expression seemed to say, "Once you give it to me, you can't take it back!"

Ivan chuckled and whispered, "What's given to you is yours, but you can't disturb her."

Enlightenment could not be interrupted, as every second was crucial for those in it. Sometimes, an accidental bump or a single breath or movement could startle the person in enlightenment.

Being startled was one thing, but if it happened at a critical moment, it could easily lead them astray.

Not to mention that the small ghost beast wants to perch on her shoulder.

Ivan placed several hexagonal objects around Lilly, including a spirit gathering talisman, a defense talisman, and an invisible talisman.

These were the best formation talismans he could produce, obtained through his own opportunities.

Afterward, Ivan picked up the small ghost beast and walked to the side, muttering to himself, "Enlightenment is something that can be encountered but not sought after... Let's stay away and not disturb her."

The small ghost beast happily hugged the huge spirit fruit, thinking that basking in Lilly's enlightenment didn't matter anymore now that he had this fruit.

After all, it may not be able to enter enlightenment just by staying around Lilly.

But this was such a big spirit fruit, and it would be its once it consumed it.

In practical terms, this spirit fruit was more useful than basking in Lilly's enlightenment.

After dealing with the black-robed man, Blake, Jean, and Crawford Ancestor immediately follow Crawford Ancestor's intuition to replace Lilly despite their confusion and heavy-heartedness.

No matter how the world was, as long as Lilly was fine, everything was fine. Otherwise, thinking about anything was meaningless.

"Wait!"

Blake suddenly stopped. "Something doesn't seem right."

Crawford Ancestor also stopped and carefully sensed for a while, nodding in agreement. "There's an aura of an ancient formation..."

Could there be someone else here?

The three of them became alert.

At that moment, Crawford Ancestor felt that they were getting closer to the small ghost beast, so he focused his mind and tried to communicate with it.

The spirit beast, who was busy munching on the large spirit fruit, looked up and squeaked, "Squeak?"

My real master has arrived! Oh, no. I better finish this quickly! Otherwise, Master will snatch it away if he sees it.

The small ghost beast started eating the fruit faster.

On the other side, Crawford Ancestor finally communicated with the small ghost beast. His eyes hazed over for a moment as he saw the scenes that the small ghost beast saw.

Crawford Ancestor frowned.

Knowing that the small ghost beast was his soul contract beast, Jean hurriedly asked, "What did you see?"

Crawford Ancestor replied, "A sea of blood..."

Jean's heart tightened. "What?"

Blake felt a sense of great danger. It was definitely the aura of an ancient formation.

However, it wasn't the golden runes he had learned but another kind of ancient runes.

Ancient runes, combined with the sea of blood that Crawford Ancestor saw.

Lilly couldn't possibly be...

All three of them became anxious. Although they continued moving forward steadily, they were all worried. Finally, they were getting closer!

Crawford Ancestor said, "The small ghost beast is only about fifty meters away from us."

Blake instinctively gestured that he understood and stared ahead at the forest like a hawk.

The forest was silent.

The aura of the runes was present among the trees, but there was nothing there at first glance.

Blake was cautious. If he hadn't learned the golden runes, he wouldn't have been able to sense the hidden formation in the forest. There were definitely people hiding inside, just like the black-robed man who had stayed hidden and waited for them before.

He tightly gripped his Dark Flame Sword, Jean tightened her grip on her pistol, and Crawford Ancestor held onto a "bomb," ready to launch a surprise attack if things didn't go well.

In the meantime, Ivan settled down the small ghost beast and thought, I need to help Lilly replace her parents, but I can't just leave her alone.

He looked at the small ghost beast, who was eating ferociously and anxiously, with a resigned expression. Then, he decided to let it replace Crawford Ancestor once it finished eating.

Having made his decision, Ivan sat on a tree branch with his knees bent and leaned against the tree trunk, closing his eyes.

But his consciousness extended outward. Currently, his cultivation only allowed him to sense a range of 10 meters with his spirit consciousness, so he would have to work harder to catch up to Lilly. Suddenly, he thought of something.

Does spirit consciousness only cover a flat plane?

With that thought, his consciousness immediately delved into the ground and found that it could easily enter the ground, even allowing him to see everything clearly within the soil!

Ivan suddenly became excited. This was the excitement he felt from his cultivation. He was full of enthusiasm and changed his question.

Does my spirit consciousness only cover a 10-meter radius? If I gather all the consciousness within this 10-meter radius and explore it in one direction... how far can it reach?

Calculated mathematically, if he accumulated the multiple 10 meters within the diameter and left only a range as thick as an arm, his spirit consciousness could extend infinitely.

Ivan immediately tried it but found that the theory was not valid. When he exerted all his efforts to gather all his spirit consciousness in one direction, he could only explore up to 30 meters at most, and it was limited to a single direction.

"Three times as far... I see." Ivan suddenly realized that the spirit consciousness did not have a fixed shape but could be transformed into any shape.

Using this 30-meter spirit consciousness, Ivan began to scan his surroundings.

It felt like looking through a telescope, but with a limited field of view, and needed to be constantly moved around.

Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his spine. Someone was approaching!

Thirty meters was too short, and that person should be just a little outside the 30-meter range because Ivan could only see one of his legs.

Ivan felt a killing intent surge inside him.

On the other end.

Blake felt the icy killing intent.

Crawford Ancestor pondered to himself, Indeed! Someone's waiting for us here!

Jean mused to herself, Here we go again!

Both parties unsheathed their swords, prepared to strike.