When Food and Warmth Are Secured, One Thinks of That

Kurumi, Li Jiayu, Chu Xiang, and the others followed at the rear of the group. Xijiang University's defenses had never been stronger.

Xijiang University, which had nearly fallen to the very back of the refugee convoy, paid no attention to the convoy's strange progress that day.

Several dozen Swamp-Devouring Giant Earthworms churned through the soil behind them, seeming to possess inexhaustible strength as they diligently searched the dirt for the scent of prey.

Who that prey was went without saying.

Kurumi and the others concealed their auras, looking no different from ordinary people. The low-intelligence Swamp-Devouring Giant Earthworms were easily fooled.

Their enormous bodies tunneled through the earth like fish leaping through water. With a hiss and a roar, they burst from the ground, flinging clods of dirt, shattered stones, and dust into the air and creating a small cloud of gray haze.

They could be regarded as earthworms magnified tens of thousands of times over, except... Swamp-Devouring Giant Earthworms were carnivores.

The Swamp-Devouring Giant Earthworms had no eyes and relied solely on their keen sense of smell to locate prey. Before the dust had even settled, one massive worm traced a perfect parabola through the air, opening the serrated maw at its front as it tried to swallow the lovely figure before it whole!

The Swamp-Devouring Giant Earthworms only swallowed one person at a time. After devouring their prey cleanly and efficiently, they would immediately burrow underground to evade attacks from the inheritors.

This was also one of the insects the refugees of Xijiang City feared most. Even Tier 2 Advanced inheritors found them extremely troublesome.

A shadow enveloped Kurumi. The flying pebbles from earlier had long been blocked by a membrane of Yuan Force, and not a speck of filth could come near her.

A sharp glint flashed