White light circled Li Xiaoya several times before fading away. His body stirred slightly, and he groaned, slowly sitting up and shaking his somewhat dizzy head. Suddenly, as though remembering something, he jumped to his feet with a startled cry. "What happened just now? What was that demon beast? How did it shatter the protective barrier in a single blow?"
He had remembered being knocked unconscious by the demon beast. Hastily looking around, he saw four of the Five Fiends of Huangling lying nearby with their heads severed, while another lay unconscious beneath a pile of rubble, his fate unknown. Most conspicuous of all was the enormous Claw Beast in the distance, its body torn into pieces.
"What on earth happened? How did they all end up dead?" Li Xiaoya scratched the back of his head in bewilderment.
He was just about to walk over and examine the enormous demon beast when faint voices suddenly drifted over from the distance. Li Xiaoya immediately panicked. The memory of being hunted by the Five Fiends of Huangling still left his heart quaking, and he hurriedly scanned his surroundings. There was certainly no time to run uphill. Though there were plenty of rocks here, the ground was low, leaving him nowhere to hide from anyone looking down the slope.
"Right! I'll hide in the Mountain Cave!" Li Xiaoya suddenly spotted the cave from which the enormous demon beast had charged. Delighted, he hurried toward it.
Li Xiaoya had only just entered the Mountain Cave when the Four Friends of the Wang appeared on the slope above. All four were shocked by the scene of devastation below.
"Look! It's that thing!" Wang Ling suddenly jumped up, pointing at the Claw Beast's corpse with a startled cry.
"It... really... is... that... brute!" Wang Ding had