Mo Cheng

The voices rose and fell, filling Mo Cheng with irritation.

He looked toward Mo Ran beside him and thought that, with his strength as a one-star Dou Grandmaster, he should be able to handle most problems.

He ordered, "Mo Ran, go see what exactly is happening ahead."

"Yes."

Mo Ran swiftly accepted the order. With a loud blast, he shot toward the front.

A Dou Grandmaster was already quite fast, and the distance was not very great.

In less than a minute, Mo Ran had arrived at the front.

The moment he got there, he saw several second-rank snake-type Magical Beasts wantonly slaughtering the mercenaries, who were only Dou Zhes.

Meanwhile, Luo Bu was tightly entangled by a third-rank snake-type Magical Beast and could not spare a hand to help the mercenaries.

"Why are there so many Desert Horned Vipers? Have we entered their habitat?"

Seeing the scene before him, Mo Ran muttered to himself in confusion.

Then, a layer of earthy yellow armor swiftly emerged over his body.

This was the symbol of a Dou Grandmaster—Dou Qi Armor!

His body shot forward again, charging at the third-rank Desert Horned Viper.

Clearly, he intended to deal with this nuisance before handling the second-rank Magical Beasts.

However, upon seeing him, the third-rank Desert Horned Viper suddenly hissed. It knocked Luo Bu back, then turned and fled.

The second-rank Magical Beasts did the same, as though someone were directing them from behind.

Seeing this, Mo Ran was immediately puzzled. Since when had third-rank Magical Beasts become so intelligent?

He turned to scan his surroundings. Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply as his gaze fixed on the green flower-shaped mark on the forehead of a Desert Rock Snake.

Unable to believe it, he shook his head and rubbed his eyes hard. When he looked again, he confirmed that he had not been mistaken.

He hurriedly turned toward Mo Cheng and shouted sharply, "First Elder, we found the target!"

Bang!

At Mo Ran's shout, Mo Cheng froze for a moment before becoming ecstatic.

He stomped heavily with his right foot, and his figure rapidly closed in on Mo Ran ahead.

"Where?!"

As his voice rang out, Mo Cheng had reached Mo Ran's side in the blink of an eye. Brimming with excitement, he asked urgently.

"The ones who attacked us just now were snake-type Magical Beasts. One of them had a green flower-shaped mark on its forehead. It must have been a snake-type Magical Beast controlled by the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. But it ran too fast, so I couldn't catch it."

Like beans pouring from a bamboo tube, Mo Ran hurriedly spilled everything he had just seen.

"Very good! It seems the owner of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils learned from somewhere that we were looking for her. That's why she commanded the snake-type Magical Beasts under her control to attack us."

Listening to the wounded mercenaries' cries and wails around him, Mo Cheng's excitement intensified.

The more powerful the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were, the greater the help they would provide him after transplantation.

Thinking of this, he quickly looked at Mo Ran and asked, "Which way did that snake run?"

"That way."

Mo Ran did not dare delay and hurriedly pointed in the direction Little Rock had fled.

"Good."

Mo Cheng looked into the distance, then ordered Luo Bu, "You, immediately lead your men in that direction and pursue it."

"First Elder, we lost nearly twenty members in that attack. How about we rest first? I'll gather the remaining men and go after it right away!"

Halfway through his words, Luo Bu sensed the killing intent in Mo Cheng's gaze and hurriedly changed his tone.

After speaking, he organized the remaining men and, ignoring their complaints, continued the pursuit.

Strangely enough, that Desert Rock Snake seemed to be injured or something.

Even on its home ground, it was only slightly faster than them.

It fled for a long time, yet could not shake off their pursuit.

Before long, the remaining members of the Sand Mercenary Group chased Little Rock into a valley surrounded by sand dunes on three sides, with only one path leading out.

"Captain, that beast has disappeared!"

When the mercenaries saw Little Rock suddenly burrow into the sand and vanish, they turned and shouted.

"Heh, it can't escape."

Mo Cheng gave a disdainful chuckle, then turned and signaled to another trusted subordinate nearby.

The middle-aged man nodded and walked to the side, releasing the aura of a Nine-star Dou Grandmaster.

He suddenly thrust his hand into the sand. The mutated sand-attributed Dou Qi within him began circulating furiously as he started searching for Little Rock's tracks.

Mo Cheng nodded to himself. Mo Xi was the strongest expert in the Mo Clan aside from himself and the clan head.

At the same time, he was Mo Cheng's most capable subordinate. Over the years, he had rendered great service to the Mo Clan's rapid rise.

However, while all their attention was focused on Mo Xi, numerous snake heads suddenly burst out from the sandy ground.

The ceramic bottles that had been lightly buried in the sand were also forced out.

They shattered amid the heavy impact.

In an instant, large amounts of black mist drifted in every direction, enveloping Mo Cheng's group.

"Scatter immediately! The mist is poisonous!"

Casually crushing a Desert Horned Viper in his hand, Mo Cheng shouted coldly.

Although the mercenaries were not particularly strong, most of them had extensive combat experience.

Though they did not know what the black mist was, they all knew it was best not to touch it, and they scattered to avoid it.

However, the entire area was shrouded in mist. Where could they possibly hide?

Although most of them had already stopped breathing, the moment their bodies came into contact with the mist, they still let out agonized screams.

Their outer clothes were the first to be corroded away by the poisonous mist, followed by their skin, flesh, and bones.

Bang!

Seeing this, Mo Cheng and the several Dou Grandmasters all unleashed their Dou Qi, dispersing the poisonous mist around them.

Although the poison did not harm them, for the Dou Zhe-level mercenaries, contact meant instant death.

Once the poisonous mist dispersed, the more than thirty mercenaries were all gone.

In their place, the ground was littered with countless incomplete skeletons.

Of everyone present, only the three members of the Mo Clan and the lone Luo Bu of the Sand Mercenary Group remained.

Hiss!

Seeing the scene on the ground, the few of them sharply sucked in a breath.

"Hmph, what vicious methods!"

With a cold snort, Mo Cheng turned to look atop the sand dune.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin were standing there at some point.

At their sides were four third-rank Desert Horned Vipers, the Horned Viper King, and the fourth-rank Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.

"Five third-rank Magical Beasts, and... what kind of Magical Beast is this? A fourth-rank one?!"

The people below could still remain calm upon seeing the first few third-rank Magical Beasts.

However, when they saw the more than ten-meter-long, fiery red Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, they all drew in a breath of cold air.

What terrified them most was the fork in the Magical Beast's long neck, above which sat two heads!

The four enormous diamond-shaped pupils on those two heads were filled with frenzied, bloodthirsty killing intent as they glared fixedly at them.

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