We can't stay here!
The same thought flashed through all three of their minds.
With a sweep of Liu Mei's jade-like hand, she also brought out a jade-comb-shaped Dharma Treasure and was just about to join the other two in attacking the mountain wall before them. But just then, a sudden change erupted...
The ground beneath their feet suddenly split apart to either side in a bizarre manner. Cracking sounds reached their ears, and from within those fissures, several tongues actually shot out.
That's right—they were indeed tongues!
However, they were pitch-black as ink, clearly formed from some kind of rock.
Like venomous snakes, they swept toward the three old monsters.
"Not good!"
Although Liu Mei was only at the Nascent Soul Early Stage, she possessed a mutated wind-attribute Spirit Root, and the cultivation method she practiced focused mainly on lightness and agility. Her spiritual perception and reactions both surpassed cultivators of the same rank by a notch, so the instant the ground split open, she sensed something was wrong. Her figure made a nimble turn and shifted to the side.
Thud!
The tongue failed to coil around her, and unable to stop its momentum in time, it slammed into the mountain wall beside her.
The entire cavern shook. That strike carried no less than several hundred thousand jin of force. Whether her Spirit Power Shield could have blocked it was probably still hard to say.
Thinking of the consequences if she had been caught, Liu Mei, though a cultivator who had lived for several hundred years, still turned somewhat blue in the face. And just then, a scream reached her ears. Liu Mei was greatly alarmed and hurriedly turned her head.
What entered her eyes made her expression grow even darker.
Those few giant stone tongues just now had