Crisis from the Strange Beasts!

In the dead of night, boundless darkness pressed down upon the earth.

Wushan Village was shrouded in an orange-yellow glow, while white frost covered its surroundings.

Atop the pale city walls, Wei Fan, Lu Qingshan, and Shi Meng all wore grave expressions.

There were simply too many strange creatures—a dense black mass of them, no fewer than a hundred.

"Damn it, how could there be so many strange creatures?!" A flicker of despair flashed through Shi Meng's eyes.

Even the Calamity of Strangeness they had anticipated would merely mean facing several strange creatures. But if more than a hundred appeared at once, anyone would feel helpless and despairing.

"No matter what, prepare for battle!" Lu Qingshan gripped the steel saber in his hand, his muscles swelling until he became a burly man over two meters tall.

Wei Fan also drew the Flame Cloud Saber. His black hair suddenly grew longer and fluttered without wind, a dark bluish sheen spreading across his body as a Tiger Stripe faintly emerged on his forehead.

Roar!

The first strange creature leaped onto the city wall. It resembled a leopard, its entire body dark red as though its skin had been flayed away, exposing muscle fibers and blood vessels. Its appearance was utterly horrifying.

"Die!"

Lu Qingshan charged forward and brought his saber down.

Yet a streak of saber light was faster than him—it was Wei Fan, using the Silver Light Saber Art.

Swish!

The strange leopard's body split into two.

"You've trained your saber technique to this level?" Lu Qingshan was greatly shocked.

Even he had been unable to react to the speed Wei Fan had just unleashed.

Wei Fan nodded. With the Calamity of Strangeness at hand, there was no need for him to hide too much of his strength.

What puzzled him, however, was that killing this strange creature had not earned him any Energy Points.

"Could it not be dead yet?" Wei Fan looked at the strange leopard's corpse, split in half. It was gradually turning into a cloud of black smoke and dispersing.

Several more strange beasts leaped onto the city wall, and Lu Qingshan and Shi Meng both joined the battle.

Wei Fan noticed that after these strange creatures were killed, they immediately turned into black smoke and vanished, as though they had never existed.

"These strange beasts might merely be puppets!" Wei Fan guessed.

Roar, roar, roar—!

By then, dozens of strange beasts had already leaped onto the city wall.

"This is bad—stop them, quickly!" Lu Qingshan shouted repeatedly.

"Kill!" Shi Meng's eyes had already gone bloodshot with slaughter as he began fighting the invading strange beasts for his life.

Wei Fan, meanwhile, used Chasing Wind Nine Steps. His figure was like a ghost, and he could kill a strange beast almost every second.

Yet even so, quite a few strange beasts still entered Wushan Village.

At this point, the Strength Training Realm Night Watchers also joined the battle.

But their cultivation was too low. They were no match at all for these strange beasts that feared neither life nor death.

Kill!

A Night Watcher thrust his saber into a strange beast's mouth, and the Little Flame Talisman on the hilt flared with red light.

But such an attack could not harm the strange beast. Instead, it stirred up its savagery, and in the blink of an eye, the Night Watcher's throat was bitten through.

After biting the Night Watcher to death, the strange beast swallowed his entire corpse.

Its belly then swelled, and its body expanded several degrees more, as though it had grown even stronger.

Roar!

The evolved strange beast let out a howl, and an endless stream of strange beasts charged up behind it.

Within a few breaths, all the Night Watchers had perished in the mouths of the strange beasts.

At this sight, a feeling of powerlessness rose in Lu Qingshan and Shi Meng's hearts.

Lu Qingshan was in the Blood Rage Realm and could fend off the attacks of three or four strange beasts alone, but Shi Meng was only in the Divine Strength Realm. If surrounded, he was highly likely to lose his life.

"Damn it, there are simply too many of them!" Wei Fan's saber flashed as he once again severed a strange beast's head.

With these bizarre beasts, only by smashing or cutting off their heads could they truly be killed.

Wei Fan alone had already killed twenty strange beasts, yet he still could not stop their invasion.

Boom!

One strange beast after another smashed through the mud-and-thatch houses and began relentlessly reaping the villagers' lives.

When it rained, it poured.

Shi Meng suddenly let out a scream. A strange beast had torn a large chunk of flesh from his right arm. Blood gushed out, exposing stark white bone.

Just then, another strange beast pounced from the side, its hideous jaws biting toward Shi Meng's neck.

Shi Meng was attacked from both front and rear and could barely defend himself. He was about to be bitten to death.

Pfft!

A powerful stream of air shot forth and pierced through the strange beast's head.

Wei Fan had used the Gun Finger from the Qi Explosion Fist, compressing and firing the force of air from the air sac within his body to kill a strange beast from afar.

Taking advantage of this chance, Shi Meng broke free from danger and fled into the distance.

"Xiaofan, thank you!" Shi Meng looked at Wei Fan and nodded solemnly.

Then, he took a white porcelain bottle from his chest. It was the Explosive Secret Medicine he had received from the talisman master, capable of increasing one's strength for a short time.

Now, facing hundreds of strange beasts, life and death hung by a thread. Shi Meng could not afford to hesitate. He pulled off the stopper and drank the secret medicine in one gulp.

Boom!

A scorching surge of blood qi erupted from Shi Meng's body, and his aura actually became evenly matched with Lu Qingshan's.

"Beasts, come again!" Shi Meng's momentum surged as he charged back into the herd of strange beasts.

Seeing Shi Meng escape the crisis, Wei Fan held his breath and focused as he looked around himself.

Thirteen strange beasts formed a fan-shaped encirclement, forcing Wei Fan into a dead corner of the city wall.

At the same time, Shi Meng and Lu Qingshan also came under siege.

The three of them encountered danger at the same time!