"If I can break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, I'll no longer have to be so wary of great cultivators." Lu Xiaotian's eyes flickered as he glanced around. There was no sign of any other stone demons. After circling these low, rolling hills for some time, he had figured out a few of the patterns of these yellow stinging corals and learned how to avoid provoking them. And among these vast fields of yellow stinging coral, other stone demons rarely came by under ordinary circumstances.
He had chanced upon a rare opportunity to break through, and Lu Xiaotian naturally wouldn't let it slip away. After surveying the area, he fixed on a spot in the distance where the yellow stinging coral grew more sparsely: a stone otter demon's den. Stone otter demons were an exceptionally strange kind of creature found in the Stone Demon Cave. They moved extremely slowly and weren't very strong, but each was as large as a bear, with adults reaching four or five zhang in length. Their bodies were made entirely of hard rock, and their intelligence was extremely low. In the Stone Demon Cave, few creatures took an interest in them.
Their den was quite large, and stone demons sometimes went inside to shelter. But those that tried to seize a stone otter demon's nest were usually not very strong, making it a relatively safe place.
Lu Xiaotian darted forward, avoiding the traps laid by the yellow stinging coral across the hills, and entered the stone otter demons' den.
Inside the den were only two adult stone otter demons, each standing more than five zhang tall. The cave extended underground, where the space opened up even more; for Lu Xiaotian, it was quite spacious.
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