"Watch out!" Xiao Qian turned into a streak of azure light, suddenly darting across the ground as she shouted to the other cultivators... Whatever divine ability she had used, not a single one of the countless white beams blasting toward her struck her. She seemed to have dodged them all...
"Tch!" The cultivators behind Xiao Qian, however, were caught in the barrage. Dong Santong, following right behind her, clicked his tongue and thrust his large hand forward. With a hum, white-light runes surged forth, and countless rays of white light gathered in the void, forming a gleaming white shield... Amid a dazzling flicker of white light, the shield instantly enveloped all the cultivators...
Then!
Clang, clang, clang!! Metallic impacts exploded in a furious storm. The incoming white beams struck the white shield and ricocheted back... They slammed into the mountain walls with thunderous booms, blasting them apart and sending countless rocks flying in every direction...
"Awoo! Awoo!" Horrifying howls rose like the wailing of ghosts and wolves as countless white figures shot out of the exploding mountain walls...
As it turned out...
Those white figures were enormous wolves several dozen feet long, their entire bodies resembling white spirit stones. Their eyes blazed with vicious hatred as they stared at the cultivators...
"Oh? Mutant wolf beasts?" Xiao Qian remarked casually at the sight, then murmured, "No wonder they were harder to detect. They've fused with light-attribute spirit stones!" With that, she shot forward, apparently giving these mutant wolf beasts no thought at all...
But!
It was hardly surprising that the cultivators thought nothing of these mutant wolf beasts. Their auras were only at the Nascent Soul Realm or Great Void Stage at most, whereas every one of the cultivators was a Great Cultivator at the Immortal Tribulation Stage...
They would not