"Good!" The Fox Demon's expression sharpened as she barked, "Prepare to attack!"
At her command, the cultivators of Fox Immortal Valley silently circulated their Spiritual Power and stood ready in strict formation.
"Roar!" A furious howl suddenly came from deep within the mountains and wilderness, startling countless birds into flight. The roar came from at least twenty or thirty miles away, yet even from here, it carried an immense oppressive force.
This was the might of an Overlord-level Demonic Beast!
A moment later, several streaks of light entered everyone's sight. They were Zhou Yuntian and the others who had left earlier.
More than ten of them had gone, but only seven returned. The rest were nowhere to be seen; their fate was easy to imagine.
A towering figure rose and fell behind them, pursuing them like maggots clinging to bone. That figure could not fly. It merely kept leaping across the ground, yet its speed was no less than Zhou Yuntian and the others' Artifact Flight. Each time it landed, the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
The fleeing cultivators' faces were filled with panic. They each pushed themselves to the limit, squeezing out every last drop of strength to maximize their speed, yet they still could not shake off their pursuer.
Lu Ye strained his eyes and saw that the black shadow was a giant ape covered in red fur. It was precisely the Overlord-level Demonic Beast marked on the Ten-Part Map—the Berserk Giant Ape!
No one knew what Zhou Yuntian and the others had done to it, but the Berserk Giant Ape's face was now utterly ferocious. Its icy killing intent seemed almost tangible, making the fleeing cultivators feel as if they had fallen into an ancient ice pit that would never thaw.
The Berserk Giant Ape leaped