Whenever a tide swept through Ten Thousand Tides Mountain, plenty of fish and sea-dwelling monsters would surge in and become stranded, only to be killed by the monsters that lived here.
Many of their corpses went uneaten. Over time, they naturally rotted and stank.
Lu Xiaotian searched again and again through the rolling mountains, determined to find traces of the Tide Beast before the next tide arrived.
More than ten days passed. He still hadn't found any sign of the Tide Beast, but he did discover several other groups.
"Shi Tian, Tree Charm, you two really are like lingering ghosts."
Lu Xiaotian hid in the shadows. Following the voice in the opposite direction, he spotted a man covered head to toe in rock armor. He was a body cultivator at the Integrated Body Middle Stage, even thinner than Lu Xiaotian—a stark contrast to the unusually burly physiques of most body cultivators.
Beside Shi Tian stood a woman known as Tree Charm. Wood grain marked her skin, and she wore a dress of green leaves. She was tall and slender, with a faint scent of Fire Pujixi about her. She was a Fire-Wood monster of the Fire Pujixi lineage, and her cultivation was on par with Shi Tian's.
The one who had spoken was a black rhinoceros with two horns. It stood alone and looked far more imposing; Shi Tian and Tree Charm together were still smaller than the rhinoceros.
"Everyone knows why we're here. No need to swagger around like a big shot, Rhino. You may be strong, but you're no match for the two of us," Tree Charm said with a coy laugh.
"Together, you two could beat me, but breaking through my defenses won't be so easy. You might overpower me, but you can't do a thing about