Outside Chuanlan Valley, on a stretch of crimson wasteland.
Yu Hong, Luo Si, and several other spirit mine guards panted as they ran with all their might.
Behind them, a pack of hideous, terrifying monsters pursued them relentlessly. These were ghost hounds from the Demon Realm.
Known as Demon Realm hounds, these creatures resembled vicious dogs, but their bodies were as powerful as wolves. Fangs protruded from their half-rotted jaws, and bloodlike saliva dripped incessantly, making them all the more hideous and terrifying.
Individually, they were not particularly strong, but there were over a hundred of them. Yu Hong and the others also seemed to have endured a fierce battle earlier. By now, every one of them was gasping for breath, their spirit essence depleted. They simply had no strength left to turn around and fight.
To avoid falling into the pack of ghost hounds, they could only keep fleeing.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a spirit mine guard whose strength was nearly exhausted cried out. He had stumbled over a loose stone, and his whole body hit the ground with a thud.
Under normal circumstances, this could never have happened. These guards were all Spirit Tamers, each at the sixth or seventh transformation, nimble and swift as they ran and leaped.
But he was simply too exhausted. The wounds he had suffered in battle were also steadily draining his physical strength and mental energy.
A single moment of dazed inattention had led to this disastrous fall.
Before Yu Hong and Luo Si could react, several ghost hounds pounced on him and began tearing into him viciously.
The spirit mine guard let out a bloodcurdling scream. Before long, his throat had been ripped open.
More ghost hounds pounced, beginning to tear at the corpse.
The others fought down their terror and anger, doing