"We can only take a detour. Running into restrictions is manageable—we have spirit bees and Puppet Beasts to scout the way. But if we encounter a fifth-order demon beast, that'll be trouble."
Lei Hong's voice was heavy, his eyes full of fear.
As long as they did not trigger an especially powerful restriction, they still had a chance of surviving. But if they encountered a fifth-order demon beast, they could only leave it to fate. They had heard there were even demonic corpses here.
They headed into the dense forest on the left side of the canyon. Several hundred red spirit bees scouted ahead, while several hundred azure spirit butterflies spread out. They sat atop the Mantis Spider's back as it slowly advanced.
After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, they still had not left the forest. A rushing river appeared to their left, its channel over a hundred zhang wide. The water flowed swiftly. Across the river lay a desolate plain with sparse vegetation, while the sky above was a dreary gray.
Golden light flickered in Han Changming's eyes. He could clearly see numerous spatial rifts scattered across the plain, some of them moving spatial rifts.
A loud wolf howl rang out.
Thousands upon thousands of azure Wind Blades descended from the heavens like a meteor shower, crashing toward them.
Before the azure Wind Blades even reached them, countless trees had already been sliced to pieces, sending dirt and dust flying.
"Not good, a beast horde!"
Li Xiao cried out, his expression turning ugly.
Tens of thousands of azure demon wolves charged toward them at astonishing speed. There were more than a dozen fourth-order demon wolves alone, along with several hundred third-order demon wolves.
Their bodies were covered in azure manes, and even their eyes