They hid inside before the bone-chilling night wind had fully arrived.
This night was even harder to endure than the last. Not only was there an icy, piercing wind, but Tang Lan even saw the Faceless Giant Worms known as the Desert Death Gods.
These creatures could freely burrow through the sea of sand. Every time they burst from the ground, they swallowed large numbers of Crimson Flame Scorpions.
Yet for some reason, these giant worms had begun slaughtering one another tonight, crazily attacking and biting each other.
Tang Lan alone spotted four giant worms killing one another around the Sand House, while dark green bloodstains covered the ground everywhere along the way.
The blood was incredibly corrosive, easily eating away even the yellow sand.
Tang Lan had originally had no intention of involving himself in the conflict between these soul beasts. After all, there were simply too many unknown things within this desert.
But he soon discovered that the worms contained fist-sized crystals that emitted a brown glow.
After one giant worm was torn apart by its own kind, another immediately swallowed the brown crystal in a single bite.
"What is that? It seems to give those things immense power!"
Tang Lan was deeply shaken by the sight and muttered under his breath.
He could clearly sense that after swallowing the crystal from its companion's body, that giant worm's aura was rising at a visible rate.
Such a speed of increasing one's strength was simply terrifying.
Tang Lan began to wonder just how powerful the final surviving giant worm would become if they slaughtered one another until only one remained, after it devoured all the other crystals.
"That crystal should be an Earth Soul Crystal from beneath this desert!"
"Each one is irreplaceable. They are generally guarded by geocore