Two Star Guards attacked the monster stealthily from different directions, and the moment the monster made a move to attack, they would immediately dodge and look for an opportunity to counterattack.
The monster seemed stubborn, too stubborn to burrow back into the ground and wait for a chance to launch a surprise attack. Instead, relying on its rough and tough skin, it continued with its fierce onslaught, twisting and turning in a way that made onlookers wish they could chop it into eighteen pieces right away.
All these events actually happened within a very short time. Less than a minute had passed since the monsters appeared, yet the outcome of the battle was already clear.
Zhang Xiaoman observed the situation on the field and always felt something was off. When he looked up at the wall beside him, he suddenly realized that the figures he had sensed through the Spirit Detection Technique seemed to be more than just two!
But looking at the situation on the field now, there were obviously only two such monsters. So where had the remaining one gone?
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoman couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat, and he quickly used the Spirit Detection Technique again to survey the area. As he turned around, he saw a figure stealthily moving in a wall not far behind him, having somehow circled around him through the rocks on either side without being noticed.
By then, the people from Dragon Sleep Mountain had already retreated over fifty meters away, each craning their necks and looking around.
However, there were always exceptions. Ten meters behind Zhang Xiaoman, one person had not left!
This person was Ye Fei!
At that moment, Ye Fei was leaning against the wall and watching the battle, the shock in his eyes almost tangible.
While everyone was retreating, as the person who had been standing at the back, he should have been able to leave first. However, because he had been thrown by Zhang Xiaoman’s One Flash earlier and later injured his leg when he fell, he inevitably got pushed to one side in the chaos.
By the time he regained his senses, the battle had already begun, and the monster side seemed to be completely dominated by what he initially thought was a charlatan... Ye Fei then simply did not run anymore and turned to watch this astonishing battle instead.
When Zhang Xiaoman turned his head and saw this scene, his pupils shrank rapidly, and his face showed a trace of horror because the monster had already quietly approached the man!
Ye Fei was still unaware of this. These elongated creatures, while visible to Zhang Xiaoman, were difficult to notice from a normal person’s perspective. These monsters did not make much noise while moving through the rock layers; unless one leaned in closely to listen, they were very hard to detect.
Ye Fei was standing by the wall when he suddenly heard a slight creaking noise near his ear. But before he could figure out what it was, he saw Master Pei suddenly shouting in his direction—
Danger? What danger? Why run?
Ye Fei’s brain hadn’t reacted to the information at first but suddenly felt a loud bang next to him. An ugly monster burst out of the wall, and a mouth full of sharp teeth immediately snapped at his neck.
Stones splattered around Ye Fei as he instinctively reached out to block, and the monster’s big mouth bit down on his arm. With just one snap, his whole arm was severed cleanly, like weathered sandstone, pulverized instantly by the writhing teeth.
All this happened too quickly. Zhang Xiaoman’s warning still echoed faintly in the cave, but by then, Ye Fei’s entire arm had been shattered.
A heart-wrenching scream echoed in the mine. He fell to the ground, howling in agony, his blood wildly spraying, turning the ground into a startling red.
The monster snapped at Ye Fei’s position a few more times, but its own length was not enough, and missing him by just a little.
Zhang Xiaoman’s eyes bulged, and he took advantage of the moment the monster pursued its attack to prepare a Burst Spirit Skill.
Raising his hand, he pointed, and as the monster was about to retract into the wall to reposition, it was pierced by the swiftly cast purple energy in the next second.
Another strike as chilling as ice from head to toe!
Zhang Xiaoman’s Burst Spirit Skill was different from using conventional firearms; he did not need to aim for a long time.
Since the energy beam shot directly from his finger, it felt as instinctive as swinging one’s arm to strike, nearly worry-free about accuracy at short ranges.
The monster’s shriek was short-lived, then abruptly stopped amid the booming sound of shattering rocks. Its body slumped loosely, and a yellowish fluid, either blood or something else, spilled all over.
At this moment, the onlookers, including disciples who were afraid to approach the fearsome creature, and others close to Ye Cang and Ye Yunxiu, instantly rushed over.
Ye Fei lay on the ground, his earlier screams turning into faint moans. Below him, blood dyed a large area of the ground, signaling a grave situation.
Seeing this, Ye Cang’s face turned deathly pale; as a master of traditional medicine, he knew that his great-grandson had one foot in the grave.