sovbooks Chapter 133 Fleeing in Panic
Chapter 133 Fleeing in Panic
Chapter 133 Fleeing in Panic
A blizzard raged, and under a leaden sky, the mountains were swallowed by white snow.
All they heard was a muffled, earth-shaking sound that shook the mountain and caused the snow to crack.
The pine forest, bent under the weight of the trees, snapped with a deafening roar, and a dark shadow rose from the mountain folds—a colossal monster the size of a mountain.
It stood silently, the wind and snow parting around it. Under the gray sky, a huge black shadow stood between heaven and earth. The raging wind and snow swirled around the mountain-like monster, outlining a black and white comic book-like snow trail in the night.
"Hey, that's way too much!"
"Is that thing really a living being?"
Lu Ren looked up at the terrifying creature, towering over mountains and blocking out the sky, more than ten kilometers away. Under the snowy night, it was a huge shadow in the gray curtain.
He stammered, "The mountain god of Dongtian Mountain—?"
He had already foiled the Goddess Cult's plot, so why was that monster still released?
Yu Zaomian looked at him anxiously and asked, "Xiaolu, do you know what that is?"
Lu Ren's heart sank, and he casually said, "The legend says it's a mountain-eating monster sealed in the Tianshan Mountains, but over the centuries it has evolved into a local belief in the Tianshan region."
Long You's expression was also not good at the moment, but as the team leader, he remained calm.
He reassured everyone, "Don't be afraid, everyone. That kind of monster shouldn't notice us—"
At most, a ferocious beast would notice a little rabbit; it would never bother with an ant at its feet. Although it's not quite appropriate to say that, in the eyes of such a beast, their group was no different from ants.
But as if to slap him in the face, after Long You finished speaking, the monster suddenly started to move.
He awkwardly turned around, the pebbles on his body falling off with a clatter, raising a cloud of dust that stretched for kilometers.
Everyone saw that two moons suddenly appeared in the sky. No, those weren't moons, but two huge, glowing pupils!
That thing is looking this way!
"Is he... is he watching us?"
"Ah, Ah-you, you jinx!"
"Now, what do we do now?"
The moment I suddenly met its gaze, my blood froze, and even my breath stopped.
The mere realization that the thing was alive filled me with despair!
Lu Ren turned and ran, shouting to them, "That monster just woke up and isn't fully awake yet. The Four Ministers of Dayu are already heading this way. Let's run!"
Wasn't Suzaku already on his way here? It's been over ten minutes! What happened?
It's less than 50 kilometers from here to Luntai. A few minutes is enough time to make several round trips between Ranri and Luntai!
The next second, the mountains trembled!
That thing actually walked this way, and every step it took caused the earth to shake!
"Run! Run!"
"Where do you want to run?"
"Ah, Ayu!"
"Where are Haruki and the others!?"
Black Mountain High Moon, Listen to the Dragon's Roar. The two teams turned and ran without saying a word!
Even with the white storm, the mountains and forests are dangerous, but if that monster targets you, staying here will really mean certain death. Lu Ren rushed into the house first, startling the girls who were still changing clothes. But after the earthquake-like commotion, they knew that something serious had happened outside.
Ji Liguang was the fastest at getting dressed. While putting on his boots, he asked anxiously, his face pale, "Lu Ren, what's going on outside?"
"We have to run! There's a huge thing outside!"
Jiang Yueying stood on one leg, hopping along as she put on her cotton-padded trousers, and said anxiously, "Wait, wait a minute, Lu Ren, you, you—"
Lu Ren squatted down in front of her, grabbed her cotton pants and pulled them up, even tying a bow on the waistband. He then hurriedly grabbed a sweater and put it on her, just like dressing a doll.
Jiang Yueying blushed and panicked, "Oh, you, what are you doing!"
"What time is it? Stop dawdling!"
"Wait, wait a minute, my shoes aren't on yet—"
"Why bother wearing anything? I didn't expect you to run away anyway!"
Lu Ren picked her up in one go, then grabbed Lu Youhe by the hand, and rushed out of the village, with Ji Liguang and Shen Yaoxing following closely behind.
As soon as they stepped outside, the cold felt like a leech clinging to their bones, and all the women shivered.
"boom""
A tremendous impact resounded behind him, like a meteorite falling. The earth trembled with each boom. Ji Liguang turned around and stared in shock.
"What's that? Is the mountain chasing us?!"
"What are you asking? Run!"
"Yahoshi, Yuuka!"
The fish in front, who were fast asleep, waved to them.
Their squad was similar to Lu Ren's; Long You carried Yu Zaomian on his shoulder like a sack, while the shield warrior Shi Tieshan carried the sorcerer's mountain.
The Black Mountain High Moon Squad consisted of Li Haoke carrying the white paper and Lin Hei alone.
The three silver-level squads were running wildly through the mountains and fields, fleeing for their lives like rats crossing the street.
Upon seeing this, Lu Youhe exclaimed with delight, "Sister Xiaoyu, what are you doing here?!"
Yu Zaomian looked angry: "We should be asking you! This place is so dangerous, how dare you come here!"
"In this situation, even a Star Cocoon Realm expert would be in danger. Besides, we only accepted the mission to subdue Salt West Village; we never expected so many things to happen!"
"To accept a raid on the Eastern Heavenly Mountain, you need at least a Silver-level team. How dare you, a bunch of Candle Illumination Realm cultivators, take on such a mission?"
"No, my brother broke through to the Flame Realm a few days ago. We're already a Silver-level team!"
"So fast, Xiao Lu has actually reached the Flame Rebirth Realm? That's amazing!"
At this moment, Lu Ren and Long You were running for their lives. One was being carried like a sack, and the other was being tucked under their arm like an Ansai waist drum. They started chatting.
The Black Mountain High Moon Squad was also desperately trying to escape in the mountains, but they were horrified when they heard the two women talking.
That powerful divine mage had only recently broken through to the Flame Realm!
The giant behind them moved extremely slowly with each step, yet it could traverse mountains and fields in a single stride.
Suddenly, a dull drumbeat made everyone feel suffocated, as if a heavy hammer had struck their hearts.
"Come back, come back—"
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The two little ones in Lu Ren's arms turned deathly pale. Jiang Yueying let out a soft moan and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth just from hearing the monster speak.
"Cough, cough, Lu Ren—"
Seeing this, Lu Ren felt extremely distressed!
Everyone was horrified: "That thing spoke!"
True-seed Void Beasts actually possess considerable intelligence, and some humanoid True-seed Void Beasts can indeed speak human language.
Everyone looked behind them, where the mountain skeletons were frozen in time, draped in snow and wind, emerging like a throne from an ancient dream, their outlines slowly coalescing in the chaos.
The mountain giant's raised body was covered in millennia-old ice, and magma seemed to flow deep within the fault lines where its eyes were positioned.
At the center of that chest cavity forged from frozen soil and obsidian, a heart of the earth pulsed, with scalding lava like blood vessels densely covering the surface of this heart, like the earth's incantation!
"Come back, come back—"
His movements were slow, but his voice could penetrate for miles, startling all the beasts into a stampede. Lu Ren held the two little ones tightly in his arms and tried his best to use his spiritual power to resist them.
"What is it saying? Who is it telling us to go back to?"
"Forget about him, run!"
Lu Youhe suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, Sister Lu, don't you have a fairy boat?!"
Bai Lu shook her head: "No, the storm is too big right now, I can't handle it."
The air was filled with storms and turbulence, so Lu Ren did not choose to fly. Bai Lu glanced at the two people hanging on Lu Ren and asked if he could help. Lu Ren then tossed Lu Youhe to her.
The prop master is also a physical cultivator. As a genius-level prop master at the Fire Realm, her physical attributes are also over 500.
However, at that moment, something suddenly appeared from the forest.
"Oh no, Bai Lu, watch out!"
In the direction of the white deer, a giant scorpion the size of a campervan stirred up the wind and snow, hissing and screaming as it rushed out.
Silver-grade Void Beast, Crimson Sand Scorpion!
"Little Blue Face!"
The white deer reacted extremely quickly; a huge, predominantly blue Peking Opera mask with blue, white, and black accents suddenly appeared, blocking the red sand scorpion's charge.
"Bronze Buddha statue!"
Then, a giant smiling Buddha, the size of a house, appeared on the head of Red Sand Scorpion in the blink of an eye, crashing down and creating a huge crater in front of him!
"So strong!"
The Black Mountain High Moon Squad was horrified. The Silver-level Void Beast, which required the entire squad to defeat, was defeated in just two rounds by this woman.
But there was more than one red sand scorpion in the forest at that moment!
Suddenly, countless ethereal beasts emerged from the mountains and forests, but they were not there to attack the group; rather, they were fleeing for their lives, just like the group itself.
The beast tide was heading in the same direction as them. In addition to the Rock Shell Lizard and Red Sand Scorpion, there were several other types of Void Beasts from the Flame Continent and even the Oasis Continent!
A bronze-level Void Beast, Loulan Shadow Servant; a silver-level Void Beast, Loulan Boling; and a giant centipede emerged from the ground—a gold-level Void Beast, Loulan Bone Station!
This monster, which could wipe out Lu Ren's team dozens of times over, fled in panic like a tiny insect from the ground.
"Why are there so many Void Beasts here!?"
Lu Ren then looked around and suddenly felt a chill in his heart: "This is no longer the real world, this is the virtual world!"
No wonder, no wonder Suzaku and the others haven't arrived yet. Whether it's the Void Realm Rift or the methods of that Mountain-Eating Beast, the area around Dongtian Mountain has clearly been drawn into the Void Realm.
The distance in the virtual world is a hundred times that in the real world. That is to say, if the straight-line distance was originally only 10 kilometers, it would become a thousand kilometers!
This is no fun at all!
As a result of this sudden surge of beasts, the few small teams that were still trying to escape were instantly scattered by the endless stream of beasts.
"Don't scatter! This is a virtual realm; if you disperse, you're doomed!"
With a massive wave of Void Beasts ahead and Mountain-Eating Beasts behind, it truly seems that Heaven has no way out for us.
Lu Ren let Lu Youhe lie on his back and hug him tightly, holding Jiang Yueying in one arm and drawing his knife with the other.
A monster over two meters tall, dressed in ancient Loulan patterns, with a blank face, charged toward them from the side.
The Loulan Shadow Servant, a bronze-level void beast in the Oasis Realm, is a weak bronze-level creature and is not strong.
With a loli and a young girl hanging on his body, Lu Ren instantly killed the attacking Loulan shadow servants with a sword in one hand.
Seeing this, Yu Zaomian exclaimed in amazement, "Xiao Lu has become so amazing!"
Tonight has been one crisis after another. I just dealt with the Rat, and this happened in just one hour.
After he killed the Loulan Shadow Servant, he used his telekinesis to grab a spirit corpse from the ground, brought it to his mouth, and swallowed it with a snap.
With things having come to this point, Lu Ren had no way to hide anything, so he directly started eating the spirit remains in front of the outsiders in the team.
Strength began to grow in all four limbs and bones, and at the same time, I felt that I had mastered a new skill.
[Quicksand Thrust]: Quality: Bronze, Learning Requirements: 220 Constitution, 280 Element. Effect: The arm transforms into a sand spike and thrusts rapidly, causing slight sandification upon hit. It has a significant effect on the people of Loulan.
A melee skill with spell damage appeared, and several more Loulan Shadow Servants swarmed out beside him. Lu Ren sheathed his sword. "Quicksand Spit—"
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His arm transformed into a streak of white light, and with just a slight exertion, the Loulan shadow servants he touched turned to ashes.
This skill doesn't consume much energy and has a special effect on these monsters, so Lu Ren used the new skill to break through them all.
The Black Mountain High Moon Squad, who were watching his methods from the side, were all secretly shocked, as if they suddenly understood why this young man had so many tricks up his sleeve.
It can actually devour spirit remains, and after eating them, it gains the corresponding skills. What a terrifying talent!
Moreover, in the white storm, they struggled to escape even with all their might.
The dark-skinned girl, Xiaomei, quickly said, "Brother Lu, let me take your companions!"
Lu Ren thought about it and agreed, asking him to help take care of Jiang Yueying.
Lu Ren, who had no burdens on his shoulders, took the initiative to clear the way ahead.
Compared to the rest of the Listen to the Dragon's Roar team, his time was not particularly strong, or even outstanding. However, as long as he could continuously use the Spirit Remains to sustain himself, he could fight indefinitely as long as he kept killing the Void Beasts.
"Xiao Lu, you've improved so much in just a few days!"
Long You's eyes were full of admiration: "After all, it's the ascension stage, and it has even broken through to the Torch Realm—truly worthy of Yao Xing's discerning eye."
"It looks like someone's fighting that monster! Look!"
Everyone turned around and looked behind them. A huge sun had appeared in the sky at some unknown time, and it struck the mountain-eating monster, making it stagger!
"The Vermilion Bird, one of the Four Symbols of the Great Yu Dynasty, has arrived!"
Everyone was thrilled. In the eyes of professionals from commoner backgrounds, the Four Symbols of the Great Yu Starfield Prefecture were practically invincible!
However, it's too early to be happy. In a battle at the Burning Sun Realm level, let alone participating, even getting close would turn you to ashes. They need to get out of the center of the battle as soon as possible. At this moment, there are turbulent storms in the air and a frenzy of Void Beasts below!
Large groups of ethereal beasts fled in the same direction as them, but upon seeing humans, they seemed to instinctively attack them.
Several small teams fled forward amidst the beast tide, fighting off the surrounding Void Beasts.
In just a few minutes, Lu Ren killed a bunch of Void Beasts, some from the Yan State and some from the Oasis, and also learned a lot of random skills.
In addition to the Bronze-level Hardening from the Salt-Shelled Lizard and the Fire Resistance Ring from the Red Sand Scorpion, there are three new skills.
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