The north wind howled, its cold biting to the bone.
Snowflakes swept into their faces with a chilling cold, falling on Yu Yuanzhen and his companions like the blades of a death by a thousand cuts, one stroke after another.
At that moment, this party, which had entered Dragon Mountain just over half a day after Yang Ming, had only just struggled through the first ten thousand meters of scorching terrain. They had officially entered the freezing stretch between ten thousand and twenty thousand meters to complete the Second Trial of their Dragon God Nine Trials: finding the Iceberg Snow Lotus.
Suddenly, Feng Xiaoaо, the grand elder of the Wind Sword Sect, heard a deafening rush of air overhead. He jerked his head up, and horror immediately filled his face.
"Look! What is that?!"
Without any prompting from Feng Xiaoaо, Yu Yuanzhen, head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Huo Lang, deputy sect master of the Fire Leopard Sect, and their companions had already looked up in unison. They immediately spotted a meteor streaking across the distant sky, trailing a long tail of flame.
No!
That was no meteor!
After studying it for a moment, they discovered to their horror that an enormous creature lay within that mass of flames. Even from so far above the ground, they could make out a strange Ferocious Beast with brown fur and a face resembling both an ape and a hippopotamus. Judging by its size alone, it stood at least a hundred meters tall.
Yet now, this Ferocious Beast that made their scalps prickle was plummeting toward the mountaintop like a comet!
"This is bad!"
Something seemed to occur to Feng Xiaoaо. He shuddered violently, fear flashing through his eyes. Even an old schemer like him, normally capable of keeping a straight