An Unexpected Discovery

As Huo Hai pressed onward, he suddenly heard the sounds of a fierce battle ahead. Then the Star Gu informed him that a large number of Three-Eyed Toads were attacking several people up ahead.

Huo Hai froze for a moment. Three-Eyed Toads were actually fighting people? Anyone who came here at a time like this was almost certainly hostile to him. All the more so if they had silently approached this close and were blocking his path.

But could people capable of making it this far really be driven into such a corner by a mere swarm of Three-Eyed Toads? Their poison was certainly potent, but it fell far short of overcoming the spiritual power defenses of a Spirit Practitioner Realm expert. No one below that realm could possibly have reached this place. Could these Three-Eyed Toads really be that powerful?

Normally, when Spirit Practitioner Realm experts encountered a colony of Three-Eyed Toads, they protected themselves with spiritual power and forced their way out. According to the information the Star Gu had sent him, these people had not escaped. Instead, they were trapped inside.

Quite a few had already died, and every survivor was wounded. There was no telling how much longer they could live. The Star Gu were highly sensitive to their life auras. Those auras were rapidly weakening; they probably would not hold out much longer.

Huo Hai thought for a moment, then murmured to himself, "Let's go take a look." Others might fear Three-Eyed Toads, but he did not. If these people were not here to deal with him, there would be no harm in saving them along the way.

No matter how powerful the Three-Eyed Toads were, they would never dare offer the slightest resistance against Gu Insects—or rather, against the evolved Star Gu. Even after