The situation had been on the verge of a complete victory, but in the blink of an eye, it had taken a shocking turn.
Liu Xinchang lay among the rubble, struggling to sit up. He clutched his injured chest with his left hand and stared at the smug Black-Eyed Lion in the distance, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Why does my strength keep draining away? What did it do?"
Guan Xitao and Zhang Jiangqi braced themselves against the ground to keep from collapsing. Their faces were filled with horror; they couldn't understand what was happening.
"Roar..."
The Black-Eyed Lion looked smugly at the three enemies before it, all of whom had lost their ability to fight, and let out an exuberant roar.
Its roar spread through the surroundings. The ground not far away suddenly split open, and with a BOOM, a five-meter-long exotic beast with a formidable pair of horns and purple scales burst out of the earth.
Hearing the noise, Liu Xinchang and the others immediately looked up. When they saw the exotic beast that had burst from the ground, all three cried out under their breath, "Drilling Ground Crawler!!!"
The exotic beast before them had emerged from underground, and powerful Spiritual Energy radiated from its body, no weaker than the Black-Eyed Lion's. It was another formidable beast with Second-Order Peak strength.
One Black-Eyed Lion had already driven Liu Xinchang and the others to the brink of despair. Now another had appeared, plunging them into utter hopelessness.
"This is it for us."
"We shouldn't have hunted it down..."
Guan Xitao and Zhang Jiangqi looked weakly at the ferocious Drilling Ground Crawler, both regretting that they had pursued the Black-Eyed Lion.
But Liu Xinchang wasn't as utterly despairing as his two companions. He noticed that after the Drilling Ground Crawler