Within Lishou Mountain, Pai Gang leader Lu Hou'er and the Tan-surnamed man left the wooden hut where they had been staying the moment the mountain began to quake. Sure enough, before long, the hut was shaken apart and collapsed, while several terrifying fissures split open across the mountainside, as though they led straight to hell.
After the great quake, the two of them also endured three waves of Beast Tide attacks. The scale and danger of each wave far surpassed those faced by Meng Zhao and his group in the Guardian Forest.
The reason was that the two were already inside Lishou Mountain. Though they were only in its outer region, the number of ferocious beasts living within the mountain was still beyond estimation. After the massive tremor frightened them, far more beasts fled out, and their destructive force was naturally much greater.
Lu Hou'er's martial arts were somewhat stronger, while the Tan-surnamed man's were somewhat weaker. Still, both were above the peak of the innate realm. So long as they did not confront a Beast Tide head-on and instead avoided its sharp edge through evasion, they could still handle it with ease.
However, just as Meng Zhao and the others had been scattered by the Beast Tide, Lu Hou'er and the Tan-surnamed man were briefly separated by its onslaught. By the time they regrouped, both looked considerably more bedraggled.
The Tan-surnamed man noticed that Lu Hou'er had gained an extra wound, while he himself, though appearing disheveled, merely had rumpled clothes and no bodily injuries. Curious, he asked,
"Brother Lu, how did you get that wound? Could it be that you encountered some other danger?"
A Beast Tide of sufficient scale was certainly extremely dangerous, but compared to Lu Hou'er's Martial Dao Cultivation, it did not seem enough to