"Screech—"
A shrill, piercing cry abruptly shattered the rhythm of the battlefield.
Like the sound of a death warrant, the cry pierced everyone's souls in an instant.
Everyone who heard it felt their scalps tingle and every hair on their bodies stand on end.
"A Ghost Beast's roar?"
The Red Robes turned back in alarm.
Even the blood-soaked Minotaur, some distance away, was temporarily forgotten.
Shouye, Black Nether, Xin, and the others all turned toward the source of the screech at once.
"This is..."
At the edge of the Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation, a towering mass of ghostly aura suddenly rose.
That dark presence was unlike Shouye's pure darkness attribute.
Instead, it brimmed with coldness, strangeness, and evil.
"A second Ghost Beast?"
The Red Robes in the field were stunned.
When they entered White Cavern, they had indeed prepared themselves for the possibility of multiple Ghost Beasts within.
But the ones listed in the intelligence were all ordinary Ghost Beasts.
With just two or three Red Robes working together, capturing them would not have been difficult.
Yet now, from this single Ghost Beast cry alone, everyone could tell.
This newly appeared Ghost Beast was likely no weaker than the blood-soaked Minotaur they were fighting at this very moment!
"Xin?"
Shouye immediately turned to Xin.
Xin had been solely responsible for investigating information on Ghost Beasts.
If there was firsthand intelligence on this newly emerged Ghost Beast, it could only be in Xin's hands.
"Don't look at me. Among the Ghost Beasts I investigated, there wasn't one like this..." Xin answered with difficulty.
He was utterly dumbfounded too.
Where had this ghostly thing crawled out from? That Ghost Beast screech, like the cry of a hawk, was a type he had never encountered before.
"Whoosh!"
As everyone watched, the black mist in