"Look up!"
Someone suddenly cried out in alarm.
In the distant sky, a mass of dark clouds came bearing down. In the blink of an eye, it had already drawn close, accompanied by shrill cries of "li, li."
Only when the dark clouds reached them did everyone realize it was a flock of huge black birds.
Their feathers were black as ink, yet carried the cold, hard sheen of steel. From their beaks, the birds' heads extended upward into a single horn, making them look like giant eagles wearing horned helmets.
The huge black birds dove down, and their targets were precisely these Thunder Salamanders.
Their talons were as sharp as iron hooks. As they swooped down, their claws snapped shut and seized a Thunder Salamander, then they soared high into the air.
Once in the sky, the birds opened their hooked claws again, dropping the Thunder Salamanders from high altitude and letting them free-fall to their deaths on the ground.
Then the huge black birds landed again and happily feasted on the Thunder Salamanders' corpses.
Although the huge black birds' main targets were the Thunder Salamanders, Bai Pu's group was not spared either.
One huge bird dove down, its hooked talons coming straight for Bai Pu's head and face.
Bai Pu swung his spear backhanded and thrust it into the huge bird's feathers.
With a clang, it actually rang out with the clear sound of metal striking metal!
That huge bird was jolted high into the air, and seven or eight ink-black feathers drifted down on the wind.
It actually didn't pierce through? Those feathers are strange. They converted Sharp Damage into blunt damage... just like the Protect Master special effect on my Dark Gold Tower Shield, providing a full-body parry and block effect!
Bai Pu understood.
The fact