Near the entrance to the underground cavern.
Teng Feng's bedraggled figure appeared there, a long diagonal wound glaringly visible across his chest.
Had he not dodged in time, that claw would probably have done more than leave a wound-it would have torn him in half.
Panting heavily, Teng Feng took medicinal powder from his Storage Bag and poured it over the wound to stop the bleeding and help it heal.
"Something's wrong. What's going on? Why are there so many Demon Beasts here?" Recalling everything he had encountered along the way, Teng Feng still felt lingering fear.
Not long before, he had barely gone any distance after leaving the underground cavern when a Rat Demon spotted him. He had finally managed to shake it off, only to encounter a Jade-Patterned Spider soon afterward...
Everything had been fine before he entered the underground cavern. How had this place become a savage wilderness crawling with Demon Beasts by the time he came out?
And the more Teng Feng recalled those encounters, the more something felt wrong. Those Demon Beasts seemed to be deliberately blocking his way back to the Immortal City, refusing to let him leave.
As long as he headed back toward the cavern, he encountered no Demon Beasts. But whenever he dared advance, they kept appearing.
The long diagonal wound across his chest had been gouged by the Jade-Patterned Spider's sharp claw during a moment of carelessness.
"Whew..." Teng Feng panted, his thoughts racing.
Scenes from the time he entered the cavern until he left kept flashing through his mind. Everything had been normal, except...
Once his breathing gradually steadied, Teng Feng suddenly murmured, "Who knows what's happened in the Cloudmist Mountains? Since I can't leave, I'll cultivate here for a while. If someone could set up a Guardian Formation