While Qin Fengming was conversing with the young girl, everyone suddenly felt a tremor coming from the stone ground beneath their feet. Then, a chaotic thudding sound rang out.
Through the black radiance, everyone saw dozens of soul beasts charging across the hill several dozen zhang away. Gravel and shattered stones were sent flying in all directions by the massive beasts' rapid advance, as though a hurricane had swept through.
Seeing that the soul beasts were not charging toward them, Qin Fengming felt somewhat relieved.
Although he had previously used the Azure Cloud Maze movement technique and sharp blades to injure more than twenty soul beasts, the experience had been perilous to the extreme. Leaping and darting among those enormous demonic beasts, he had faced dangers too difficult to describe.
With the slightest lapse in caution or the slightest delay in movement, he might have been trampled beneath the sturdy bodies of those soul beasts.
Now that he had neither protective spiritual light nor a magical treasure shield, being merely struck by one of those giant beasts would inevitably leave him with shattered bones and torn flesh.
Faced with such a horde of beasts, Qin Fengming naturally had no desire to try anything further.
As the horde passed by them and disappeared into the distance, everyone let out a long breath. Although they possessed the tribe's treasured artifact, it was impossible to say they had not been nervous.
As his divine sense swept across the light screen before him, Qin Fengming was also deeply shocked.
The soul-force treasure that the young girl had brought forth revealed not the slightest trace of incantation or talismanic inscription. Its appearance was entirely different from that of ordinary formation treasures. Yet the black light screen it released was extraordinarily powerful. Judging by its might,