"Senior Brother... Senior Brother, he..."
"Junior Brother, don't think about anyone else! Saving our lives is what matters!"
Terror had already filled both their hearts. As they suppressed the poison within their bodies, they desperately pushed their wind-riding speed to the limit.
But in their condition, how could they possibly outrun the rock serpent?
Just a few breaths later, it closed in on them from behind once more.
"Split up and run!"
The female cultivator still retained some measure of reason. To increase their chances of survival, she proposed this idea.
Without waiting for her Junior Brother's reply, she turned and darted into a forest of stone.
The rock serpent was in no hurry. It could sense their emotions through their auras.
Thus, once the two separated, it headed straight after the panicked young man.
"Waaah! Stay away! Don't come near me!"
This cultivator had been scared out of his wits. At the sight of the rock serpent, regardless of whether they would work, he flung all the talismans in his pouch out at once.
This utterly uncontrolled fear caused the poison in his body to erupt at once. His body stiffened on the spot, and he fell from the sky like a wooden stick.
The rock serpent opened its jaws wide and swallowed both his fleshly body and Primordial Spirit in one gulp.
When it turned to pursue the female cultivator fleeing in the opposite direction, it likewise took little time to strike her from the air with its stone-spike divine ability.
The female cultivator endured the terror in her heart and activated several defensive talismans to protect herself.
But regrettably, such inferior Late-Spiritual Connection Realm talismans were utterly incapable of withstanding the rock serpent.
With one opening and closing of its great jaws, the female cultivator was stripped