Chapter Thirty: The Monster Beast Arrives

  Night

  Xu Ziyuan and twenty others were lying in the forest, when suddenly a massive earthquake struck. Everyone jumped up from the ground at once, rushed to high ground, and looked out into the snowy night ahead.

  The road ahead in the snowy night was still desolate, but the sound like thunder was getting closer and closer.

  "The monster has arrived!" someone whispered.

  As soon as he spoke, everyone's nerves tensed up. Their eyes strained to look towards the far end of the road.

  In the distance, a flickering shadow suddenly leapt out and rapidly approached, like a tidal wave surging over. The air was suddenly filled with thunderous beastly howls, causing the snowflakes in the sky to change their trajectory, scattering and fluttering about in all directions.

  It's near!

  The beast that suddenly ran forward fell into the pit, and immediately a mournful howl of the beast echoed. It was the effect of the trap set up. Countless beasts fell into the pit, with sharp wooden stakes arranged at the bottom of the pit. The fallen beasts, as long as their rank was relatively low, had almost no chance of survival. However, some high-ranking beasts still jumped out of the pit and rushed over like madmen.

  Due to the large number of demonic beasts falling into the traps, all the traps were soon filled with the corpses of the demonic beasts, and the remaining few hundred demonic beasts charged over even more fiercely.

  The monsters didn't go far before the various traps set up by them gave them another devastating blow. Rows of spears, spiked boards, falling logs, and giant nets came crashing down on the monsters. This time, more than half of the monsters were eliminated, but over a hundred monsters still charged forward.

  At this time, Xu Ziyuan had already heard the sound of fighting coming from other small paths not far away, and knew that each path had already engaged in battle with the demon.

  "Kill!"

  The team leader's younger brother shouted, and everyone charged towards the monster with their weapons. Xie Ziyuan had just rushed down the mountain slope when an ice arrow flew past her cheek with a "whoosh". She heard a cry of "ah" behind her, and turned around to see that the ice arrow had hit a new outer sect disciple's forehead, its tail still shining with crystal light. However, the new disciple's eyes were wide open like a dead fish, and fresh blood was gushing out from between his eyebrows as he fell backwards onto the snowy ground.

  Xu Ziyanyan's hair stood on end as she was shocked out of a cold sweat. She composed herself, turned her head and looked forward, only to see that everyone had already rushed up and intercepted the demon beast at the entrance, engaging in an intense battle. Xu Ziyanyan peeked through the gaps between the moving figures, and her heart couldn't help but be greatly shocked - how could there be so many demon beasts?!

  At this moment, a large group of demonic beasts appeared before them. Some had bodies as hard as copper and iron, colliding head-on with the crowd, while others continuously spewed out spells, ice arrows, and fireballs from their mouths. The people also gave it their all, not only raising their swords but also throwing down the talismans passed down by their families towards the demonic beasts. For a time, the spells released by the talismans exploded constantly among the demonic beasts, and the speed of releasing the talismans was clearly much faster than the demonic beasts' release of spells. Therefore, although Xu Ziyuan's side had fewer people, they were able to fight the demonic beasts to a stalemate.

  Xu Ziyanyan's heart was that the talismans in her hand couldn't be thrown around randomly, because although there were many talismans in the family, they weren't distributed to every person. If she threw them all away in one breath, when the next wave of demonic beasts came, they would have no choice but to rely on their own magical powers. And even if they were inner sect disciples, even at their strongest, their cultivation was only at the Qi Refining stage, how could they withstand so many demonic beasts? Probably her twenty people... hmm, now it's nineteen people already. Without the support of talismans, probably can't withstand more than two hundred demonic beasts.

  "Boom!!"

  Dozens of talismans suddenly exploded together, their power causing the earth to shake, sparks flying everywhere, and smoke billowing up. Xie Ziyuan was startled and jumped back, looking forward into the darkness, only to see that a large crater had been blasted open in the center of the ground, with dozens of demonic beasts lying inside, some still not dead, but writhing in agony in the pool of blood.

  The monster was startled by the thunderous sound and stood there in a daze, even those inner and outer disciples had never seen the power of more than a dozen talismans exploding together. To know that talismans are a very expensive luxury, where can you see such a magnificent scene? So, they also stood there like the monster, stunned.

  "What a great opportunity!"

  Xu Ziyuan took advantage of the demon beast's daze, and with a single stomp of her feet, her figure shot out like an arrow. At this time, the smoke had not yet dispersed, covering Xu Ziyuan's figure. In an instant, she appeared in front of one of the demon beasts, her long sword fiercely stabbing towards its throat, then quickly withdrawing it. With a single leap, she charged towards another demon beast. Behind her, the first demon beast's throat sprayed out a blood arrow as its massive body crashed to the ground.

  As the smoke slowly dispersed, everyone also recovered from their daze. Suddenly, everyone's eyes shrunk abruptly, and they saw a human figure flashing swiftly between the monsters, pausing for an instant, her hand holding a cold light that accurately pierced the monster's throat. Then she instantly pounced on another monster, and behind her, the other monster's throat sprayed out a blood arrow, before slowly falling to the ground.

  That figure moved quickly, and behind her, there were constantly monsters falling down, like a row of dominoes.

  Everyone suddenly came to their senses, realizing that they had missed the best opportunity to kill the demon beast just now. The inner disciple who led the way was even more ashamed, and just wanted to give the order to kill the demon beast, but heard those outer disciples shouting in unison:

  "It's Sister Ziyan!"

  "It's Sister Ziyan!"

  "Follow Sister Purple Smoke and kill!"

  "Kill him!"

  "Hula hula ~~" The remaining nine new disciples rushed towards the monster wildly, but at this time, the monster also woke up from its shock, roaring wildly and killing towards everyone.

  "Kill!"

  That inner disciple finally gave the order, leading the charge against the demon beasts. At this point, the demon beasts had already been killed by dozens of talismans earlier, and more than 30 were killed by Xu Ziyin when they were stunned earlier. Now there are only about 40 left.

  However, these forty or so beasts were extremely ferocious. Although their quality was not very high, with the highest being only third-grade demon beasts and only five of them at that, the rest were all first- or second-grade demon beasts. But now, having smelled the bloody scent, the demon beasts had completely lost their rationality, their ferocity bursting forth as they charged fearlessly towards Xu Ziyue and the others.

  New and old friends, if you feel that this book is still short of words, then just keep it for now. You can go take a look at my previous book "Phoenix Chirps in Song", the link is below.