From the mountain woods ahead came countless frantic roars, filled with endless despair and terror.
Among them,
were also mixed the roars of some unknown Fierce Beast.
Accompanied by the rustling sounds of bodies darting through the dense forest, a group of men dressed as hunters suddenly burst from the woods and appeared before Shen Xiu.
Every one of them looked utterly bedraggled, their faces etched with terror. The instant they saw Shen Xiu,
they were briefly overjoyed. But upon realizing he was alone, the joy vanished from their faces at once, replaced by disappointment.
"Brother up ahead, run! There's a man-eating ape behind us!"
Seeing the figure ahead standing perfectly still, seemingly frightened stiff, Liu Bantian, who was bringing up the rear, immediately shouted a warning.
That man-eating ape was already a third-tier vicious creature. Liu Bantian considered his cultivation fairly strong; he was now at the second realm.
Yet before that monster, such strength was simply not enough. He had only stayed behind to block it and buy them some time, and even that had been an immense struggle.
If this fellow did not leave, would he not be courting death?
But when Shen Xiu heard that name, he immediately grew excited.
He had previously looked up information on demon beasts. If he remembered correctly, this man-eating ape should be a third-tier demon beast, capable of matching a human martial cultivator of the third realm.
Of course, demon beasts possessed natural physical advantages, making them a notch stronger than ordinary third-realm martial cultivators.
A third-tier demon beast—it should be enough to replenish Golden Cicada's last bit of satiety, right?
With a clang!
Shen Xiu drew the broadsword he had taken from Yang Tiandong. As the blade, over three feet long, slid from its sheath, a fierce killing aura