Chapter 553: Chaos descended
Here?
"Lord Sword Saint, what do you mean?"
Restricted by this body, Qin Xiaoxia's perception did not reach very far, perhaps not even as far as it did in his Thoughtform state, but his keen intuition remained unaffected.
"When an unusual environment or a sudden change in weather appears somewhere, there is a good chance that fiends are present. My mentor once said that every world follows the law of the jungle. Fiends crave flesh and souls even more than mortals covet gold and silver."
Rumble, rumble...
Barely had he finished speaking when the ground in the mountains began to shake, and all the packhorses in the camp grew restless.
Rain this heavy was extremely rare in these mountains. The excessive rainwater and hail had loosened the mountainsides.
"Crack... boom..."
The soil on several nearby peaks split apart, and mud and rocks slid down the slopes, carrying vegetation with them.
"Roar... roar... awooo..." "Slap, slap, slap..."
Alongside the thunder of landslides and mudslides came tremendous roars, echoing strangely through the rain in the mountains.
"They're here!"
Qin Xiaoxia gave a low warning to the people around him and was the first to step out into the rain and hail.
Unlike Leit and the others, who braced themselves for a formidable enemy upon hearing those strange roars, Qin Xiaoxia was honestly a little baffled.
Several monsters resembling enormous fish were sliding and bouncing along the continuous mudslides in the distance, slapping their fins.
Clearly, this world possessed an instinctive awareness too. Qin Xiaoxia had confirmed that long ago. To some extent, changes in the weather were the world's way of warning living beings.
But whether on Earth back when mutations were erupting everywhere or in Caslopa, the oppressive Fallen World riddled with danger, he had never seen