"Whoosh, whoosh!"
The ground several yards in front of Xu Yan shook. Then an ocher figure sprang out and lunged at him!
"Not good!"
Xu Yan's heart jolted, and he instinctively retreated.
The creature resembled a demonic wolf, with ocher scales and faint demonic energy swirling around its body. It was roughly ten feet long, and its crimson eyes brimmed with bloodlust. The sight made his scalp prickle.
"It's a Ruin Beast from the Ancient Ruins Battlefield!"
Xu Yan recognized the monster before him.
Rumor had it that Ruin Beasts were born through the Heaven-and-Earth Might of the Ancient Ruins Battlefield. From the moment they came into being, they absorbed the resentment of countless cultivators who had fallen in ancient times, making them incomparably bloodthirsty. Once they set their sights on a cultivator, they would not stop until one side was dead, making them particularly troublesome.
There were even rumors that some Ruin Beasts in the Ancient Ruins Battlefield had absorbed the remnant souls of fallen ancient cultivators, transforming into an exceptionally terrifying kind of monster.
These Ruin Beasts were one with the Ancient Ruins Battlefield, making them difficult to detect even with divine sense.
Cultivators usually noticed them only when they drew close and attacked.
The Ruin Beast before him was not particularly strong, apparently only at the fourth layer of Qi refining. Once Xu Yan recovered from his surprise, he thought little of it.
As the Ruin Beast lunged at him, Xu Yan swiftly formed a finger seal. A compressed mass of scorching flame immediately appeared before him. With a thought, he sent it streaking straight toward the Ruin Beast.
Boom!
The flame struck the Ruin Beast and erupted in a brilliant blaze. Fire scattered in all directions, and the terrifying force of the explosion hurled the beast