In the blink of an eye, the little green furball swelled hundreds of times over, like a gigantic inflated sphere, shielding everyone behind it.
Whoosh, whoosh! The spikes shooting up from the ground were all blocked by the expanding green sphere.
The green sphere shrieked incessantly. Lu Xiaotian took a closer look and saw that the enormous green ball below was actually a living creature, though it had been brutally battered by those spikes. More than a dozen spikes had even pierced straight through the green giant sphere, but their force had greatly diminished, and Lu Xiaotian and the others easily knocked them aside.
"Green Fleece Tree Demon!" Lu Xiaotian narrowed his eyes. He had not expected Old Monster Mu to possess such a rare thing. This type of demon could absorb spiritual power and rapidly expand in size. Its thick hide and tough flesh gave it extremely strong defenses, but that defense came at the cost of burning away its life force. It also had severe limitations. If insufficient spiritual power was poured into it, its defensive effect would be quite limited. Even after gathering the spiritual power of several Golden Core cultivators, it had still been pierced by those spikes. That showed just how formidable they were.
Hm? Lu Xiaotian frowned slightly. The immediate danger had temporarily passed, but what surprised him was that his secondary Primordial Spirit, through the Qiantian Fish Eye, saw two groups of Golden Core cultivators approaching from the direction they had previously traveled. Each group had five or six people. Apart from those two groups, another group had set up an ambush along the way.
They were less than ten li apart, yet three groups had appeared within such a short distance, each numbering between five and seven people. They remained peacefully uninvolved