Whenever Mu Guyue lifted her leg now, the muscles along her entire thigh tightened taut as bowstrings. Even with her tough physical body, fatigue had begun to seep in after reaching this place.
Over the next several hundred li, moving freely would require consuming a great deal of physical strength or spiritual power. Yet no one would do that unless necessary; they saved whatever they could.
Mu Guyue had never felt anything from the heavy armor covering her body before, but now she felt as though she were walking while carrying a burden on a shoulder pole. Even her helmet seemed to be shackling her head.
"Where exactly will they intercept us? Or were we wrong, and the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan is simply fleeing at all costs..."
Mu Guyue's phoenix eyes continually swept the surroundings. Since entering this dense stone forest, she had considered it the place where the enemy was most likely to appear. But why was there not the slightest movement?
Though her divine sense could not reach farther away, Mu Guyue still refused to believe that if someone were fighting, she would not sense anything at all. Especially if those Great Devil Kings made a move—it would surely be earth-shattering and rock-splitting...
Yet even as her doubts continued, a flickering black shadow suddenly appeared at the corner of her eye. Mu Guyue sharply turned her face, and in the next instant, she saw a mass of black shadows pouncing toward her!
At the same time she turned, black shadows lunged at her from ahead, behind, and the other side. They had appeared with shocking abruptness; before they moved, Mu Guyue had sensed absolutely nothing.
"This is..."
Mu Guyue's aura erupted. Her hands, which had hung at her sides all along, suddenly swept upward. The crescent bracers