"This can't go on!"
Tang Yuan watched as Lu Feng expended vast amounts of his own Fire Essence Qi to shield them from the scorching heat. His face was filled with anxiety.
"Don't act rashly!"
Lu Feng restrained him in a low voice. "Holding on for a little while longer won't be a problem. It'll definitely lose patience before we do. We have to wait for it to show itself—only then will we have a chance to break this deadlock!"
Ye Fan echoed, "Old Lu is right. Beasts rarely possess much patience. Right now, the enemy lurks in the dark while we stand exposed. If we don't endure until it comes out, we won't even have a chance to strike back!"
Tang Yuan's tightly clenched fists gradually loosened. He understood the reasoning well enough, but he could not gamble on that slim possibility.
What if their luck was poor, and they happened to encounter a beast with plenty of patience?
Watching his brother exhaust all his spiritual energy and die before his eyes would hurt worse than killing him.
Though Tang Yuan outwardly agreed with Lu Feng and Ye Fan, the aura around him remained taut to the extreme. The instant anything went wrong, he would charge out without regard for the consequences. Even if he died, he would drag that beast out from its hiding place first!
Fortunately, that grim scene never came to pass.
When Lu Feng had consumed roughly seventy percent of his strength, an enormous beastly shadow suddenly leaped down from the clouds in the distance.
A height of thousands of meters vanished in an instant.
As the beast descended, everyone felt the surrounding temperature surge by several levels.
The aura barrier Lu Feng had erected for protection nearly collapsed beneath that horrifying heat.
The beast