"Peng Yue, Liang Ji, have you spotted any demon snakes around here?"
After exchanging greetings, Zhang Liangpu immediately asked. He had clearly run into the same problem as Liang Ji and the others.
"No..." Peng Yue shook her head. "It's as if there are no Void Demon Snakes in the depths of this demon lair."
"Has something gone wrong? Or is this part of the Second Mock Exam's arrangements?"
Zhang Liangpu looked just as puzzled.
Just then, a burst of cries rang out from the Ice Soul Serpentfolk ranks below Peng Yue.
Liang Ji and the others looked over and quickly spotted the problem. The demon-seeking Rune Artifacts in the Rune Masters' hands among the Ice Soul Serpentfolk seemed to have returned to normal. They no longer spun wildly, but pointed straight in one direction.
That direction wasn't ahead, or to either side. It was behind them—the direction from which Liang Ji and Peng Yue's armies had come.
"What's going on?"
"Are demon snakes coming from behind us?"
At the same time, the rumble of tremors came from behind. The Star Lord students, Liang Ji among them, stood in the air in manifestations of starlight, and could already see all kinds of demon snakes rolling toward them in a surging tide in the distance.
"Has a beast tide broken out?"
Liang Ji and the others were baffled, but they still quickly ordered their vassal forces below to change formation.
Until now, their vassal forces had been moving forward, searching for and hunting demon snakes. Naturally, Liang Ji's Half-Dragonfolk Retainer had been in front, with Peng Yue's Ice Soul Serpentfolk ranks behind them.
But now that demon snakes were coming from behind, the two vassal forces had to switch positions and formations. The Half-Dragonfolk Retainer quickly moved to the rear, while