The two left the forging room and continued to advance north along the presumed route. Most of the day had passed, and although the sky had not darkened significantly, Qin Tiexin could feel that the light was weaker than when they first entered. The light source inside the secret realm seemed to come from somewhere in the dome, which was soft and constant, but also slowly changed over time.
When walking through a half-collapsed corridor, Qin Tiexin stopped.
He heard something.
It was a low, rough breathing with a vibrating feeling - like something breathing, but the breathing was much heavier than that of a human being and an ordinary Demon Beast, and the sound of air gushing out of the chest could be felt through several walls.
Duan Xuan also stopped. The two looked at each other without speaking. At the same time, they lowered their bodies, pressed against the wall at the edge of the corridor, and slowly approached in the direction from which the sound came.
The source of the sound was in a stone palace not far away.
The stone hall was larger than the forging room, and the stone door had been completely opened, revealing the wide space inside. There were seven or eight monks standing in the open space around the stone hall, some holding weapons, some holding Method Formula, all staring at the interior of the stone hall, and no one rushed in rashly.
Qin Tiexin and Duan Xuan held their breath, leaned behind a half-collapsed stone wall bunker, and looked into the stone hall through the gap in the wall.
In the shadow deep in the stone hall, crouched a huge beast. The Demon Beast was shaped like a wild bull, but was much larger than an ordinary spiritual bull. It was nearly two feet tall at the shoulders, and more than three feet long. It was covered with thick and thick black mane. Its head was lowered, and its nose kept spitting out hot white air, making a hissing sound. The moss spread on the stone slab in front of it was burnt black and curled, and there was a burning smell in the air. The most chilling thing was its eyes - a turbid dark red, with purple and black blood vessels spreading like spider webs on the surface, spreading from the eye sockets to the forehead. Every time it blinked, it seemed as if magma was surging in the depths.
A low roar rumbled out from deep in its throat, not like a demonstration, but more like a groan full of pain and hunger. The sound came from the ground, shaking Qin Tiexin's soles of its feet to numbness, and even the stone chips from the bunker were falling.
While observing, a sturdy monk slowly approached the entrance of the stone palace from the other side. The man was wearing leather armor and carrying a mountain axe. Body Tempering Eighth Layer had a solid aura of cultivation. He used the shadow to sneak to the side of the palace door, apparently planning to launch a surprise attack when Demon Beast was unprepared.
The moment he stepped into the palace gate, the cow-shaped Demon Beast moved.
Without warning, the huge body that was originally crawling suddenly jumped up, and its four thick legs stamped on the ground. The stone slabs within a few feet of the radius exploded, and the rubble was scattered like arrows. It lowered its head and smashed the pair of thick legs. The strong black horns were aimed at the entrance, and the entire body turned into an unbridled battering ram, crashing into the air with a sound like wind and thunder. The speed was so fast that only a blurry afterimage and rising waves of dust were left in place.
The monk didn't react slowly. He jumped ten feet to the side at the critical moment, trying to avoid the collision. However, the Demon Beast suddenly swung its body sideways at the top speed, plowing out four dazzling sparks on the stone ground with its four hooves, like a mountain moving sideways. The direction of its momentum was adjusted with almost no hesitation, and it still ran towards him.
Seeing that he could not escape by moving sideways, the monk did not panic. He shouted violently and took out a medium-grade magic shield with a thickness of one foot from the storage ring to protect the front. At the same time, he placed the mountain-breaking ax across his chest and plunged his legs into the ground with all his strength. The muscles all over his body rose like a cast-iron statue, trying to withstand the momentum.
However, the shield was ridiculously fragile in front of the horns. The moment the tip of the horn touched the shield, the harsh sound of tearing metal penetrated the eardrums. The foot-thick shield was pierced like rotten wood, and the face of the mountain ax was twisted and deformed. Horn Penetration Ax The gap in the armor and the gap in the armor sank into the monk's chest and abdomen without any hindrance. Body Tempering Eighth Layer's protective energy did not even last a breath, and was crushed to pieces by the extremely arrogant force, and the flesh and bone Bursting mixed together with a muffled sound.
Moo--!!!
Demon Beast raised his head fiercely, lifted the monk up high with his shield, and splashed hot blood in the air. He then slapped the monk hard on the stone slab at the entrance of the stone hall, creating a shallow pit. The shocking large hole in the chest and abdomen of the corpse made all the peepers instantly understand that the man was too dead to die.
Demon Beast lowered his head, the hot breath in his nose poured on the corpse, and he let out a few low roars in his throat, then slowly retreated into the shadows, crawled down again, and the pain-filled rough breathing rolled in his throat again.
As if by coincidence, its crawling position was only two feet away from the bunker where the two Qin Tiexin were hiding. The bull's head was undulating slightly in their direction, and the heat waves it exhaled from its breath could almost pass through the gap in the stone wall and hit their faces.
All the monks lurking around the stone hall fell silent. Seeing this brutal killing, no one dared to stay any longer. They all turned around and fled far away. They only regretted losing two legs. Some people panicked and missed their way, and disappeared in the ruins.
Qin Tiexin slowly grasped the handle of Edgeless Saber with his right hand, and grabbed Duan Xuan's wrist with his left hand. His eyes were like nails on Demon Beast, and he didn't dare even for a moment. Move away, watching every rise and fall of its breath, while taking Duan Xuan back a little bit. The strength currently displayed by this monster is at least Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and confronting the enemy head-on is tantamount to death.
Duan Xuan's pretty face turned pale, and she retreated as slowly as Qin Tiexin's pace. The slight sound of every stone chip grinding under their feet made their hearts almost jump out of their throats.
Just at the moment when Duan Xuan's figure was about to completely exit the bunker, a ray of pale light leaked from the crack in the dome of the stone palace and passed over her shoulder, making her fiery red outfit seem to be burning. A bit of red light was refracted by the clothing material and fell impartially on the cow's head, jumping in the gray and black shadow.
Not good!
The bull-shaped Demon Beast raised its head suddenly, and its bloodshot pupils instantly locked onto the dazzling red light next to the bunker - in this gray ruins, Duan Xuan's red outfit was like a ball of fire.
A violent roar erupted from the depths of Demon Beast's throat that shook the stone wall to dust. Its limbs sank suddenly, and the stone slabs under its hooves burst into spider web shapes. Its front hooves dug hard into the gravel twice. In the next moment, its huge body turned into a destructive black wave, carrying a suffocating fishy wind, and crashed towards Duan Xuan.