"If I'm not mistaken, there must be countless demons and monsters lurking ahead."
Li Yuanba said with a grin, making Sun Wukong and Yang Jian roll their eyes.
Ji Bubai said irritably, "We're not blind."
The forest ahead was suffused with baleful aura. Even in its silence, they could sense the danger hidden within.
As they continued forward, they began to hear roars from the forest. The sounds were deep and filled with savagery, likely from enormous beasts.
The farther they went, the more roars they heard, accompanied by the shrieks of birds, making their scalps tingle.
Patriarch Bodhi stood at the rear and Buddha at the front, forming an absolute defensive formation.
Before long, they entered the forest, and Qin Jun felt as though he had arrived in a kingdom of giants.
The surrounding trees were nearly all over five hundred zhang tall, their trunks several zhang wide at the very least. Some saplings that had only just emerged from the soil were shooting upward at a rate visible to the naked eye, a truly wondrous sight.
"Save... save me..."
A weak voice suddenly came from ahead, drawing Qin Jun and the others toward it.
When they approached, they saw a horrifying scene. Lin Yuqi screamed and quickly covered her eyes.
A man leaned against a tree trunk amid overgrown weeds. Half of his face remained, while the other half was a bloody mess of flesh, exposing stark white bone. His lower body had been swallowed by a black worm over a zhang long. Its fanged mouth clamped around his waist, constantly devouring his body. If this continued, he would soon be completely eaten by the black worm.
He raised his left arm and reached out to Qin Jun and the others for help. At that moment, he wished