Stone Mountain was utterly empty and still.
Beneath a common Spirit Tree, a smear of pale purple light showed through. On closer inspection, one corner of a piece of ore could be seen.
The three of them each hid themselves by different means, waiting for the Two-Headed Armadillos inside Stone Mountain to enter the trap they had set.
Lu Xuan hid in the bushes. Because Qian Dinghong and the other were present, he circulated the Breath Concealment Technique he had learned earliest to restrain his own aura, and did not use the Third Grade Concealing Spirit Cloak, which was even more effective.
Amid rustling sounds, a strange demon beast with two heads burrowed out not far from the ore, a pair of gray-white pupils darting around as it looked in every direction.
The demon beast was grayish black all over, its body long and slender, covered in jet-black scales that stretched from its neck all the way to its tail.
Lu Xuan and the other two waited patiently.
Slowly, three more Two-Headed Armadillos burrowed out from other places. Two kept watch on the left and right, one stayed where it was to provide support, and the first one that had appeared, after confirming it was safe, flickered in and out of the soil as it slowly approached the place where the spirit ore had been placed.
Suddenly, a pair of thin, sharp claws poked out of the soil and seized the pale purple ore in one grab.
"Move!"
Deng Yi's transmitted voice rang beside Lu Xuan's ear. The Violet Lightning Sword was instantly drawn, making its scabbard tremble without end.
At the spirit ore, runes flashed across the ground, and a vine cage swiftly grew out, binding the Two-Headed Armadillo within. Countless barbs sprouted from the blue-black vines and stabbed