An endless expanse of wasteland stretched before them, the yellow sand billowing in great waves.
Seen from the void above, it looked like a yellow curtain spanning millions of li, quietly rippling across the ground in the wind.
The blazing sun hung high overhead, its scorching light pouring down and adding a searing, hazy heat to the dusty wasteland.
Caw-caw! A dozen or so red-beaked sand storks shot up from below, bursting straight through the hazy clouds. They moved as fast as the wind, yet seemed rather panicked, as if something terrifying was closing in from beneath them.
Before long, the ground erupted in a storm of flying sand and rocks. It was as though an invisible giant hand were madly stirring the dust.
The surging curtain of sand blotted out the sky. Then a Rock Toad Beast, over a hundred zhang long, with four legs and a body covered in ocher crystal armor, burrowed up from the ground.
The Rock Toad Beast's aura had already reached the Daluo Golden Immortal level. As long as it did not stray too far from its territory, it was the undisputed tyrant of this region.
Demons like the red-beaked sand storks could only give it a wide berth, fleeing as far away as possible the moment they saw it.
The Rock Toad Beast had an insatiable appetite and a ferocious temperament. Any demon weaker than it was practically scared witless at the mere thought of it.
Yet now, the Rock Toad Beast fled northwest like a stray dog, its expression stricken with terror. It seemed to have encountered some fearsome enemy, too.
The dozen or so red-beaked sand storks had assumed they were doomed. With strength barely at the Profound Immortal or Celestial Immortal level, they would be easy prey if the Rock