Monster Paradise
Almost instinctively, Xu Huo turned and swung his sword. Before his shifting gaze could fully take in what was behind him, a powerful force sent him flying, and a dark shadow immediately pursued him!
He adjusted his posture in midair, kicked off the branches and leaves of a huge nearby plant, and met the shadow head-on. The Bright Red Sword slashed out, then quickly condensed into a thin, narrow plane of Sword Qi—but the shadow was moving too fast. The strike only grazed its edge!
"Its energy level is more than ten times yours! You're no match for it!" Jiang Yihua shouted from nearby, swinging the sickle-like foreleg she'd removed from the mantis at the Man-Eating Flower's branches!
"Crunch!" The branch suspending a human-shaped cocoon was sliced clean through. As its leaves hit the ground, a rustling sound filled the Glass Greenhouse. The Giant Man-Eating Flower's crown trembled, then spat more than ten smaller flower crowns from its center. The moment they emerged, they shot in all directions like cannonballs!
"Squeak!" The shadow blocking Xu Huo's path let out a shrill cry and fled deeper into the flower bed. But as the small flower crowns came crashing down, one of them suddenly snapped up a giant mantis and lifted it into the air. The mantis had no chance to struggle before it was swallowed by the giant flower crown!
The sound of gulping came from the flower crown. Xu Huo and the others took one look and fled without turning back!
"Bang! Bang!" Small Man-Eating Flower crowns kept crashing down nearby, but they weren't targeting the group. One after another, they plucked animals the group hadn't even noticed from the dense foliage. One of them even had a human head in its mouth!
"This place is a fucking