Inside the cave

As long as they dug deep enough, many of them believed the Ferocious Beast would find it hard to keep hunting them down.

It was not a Ferocious Beast that liked digging holes, but a bird.

Its enormous size meant it would have trouble getting through the narrow tunnel, and would ultimately have no choice but to give up.

"Don't let up, everyone. This is a contest of wills now. Can it be that our willpower is weaker than a feathered beast's?"

Wang Haoran dug up great chunks of loess, murmuring encouragement to the others from time to time.

Digging rapidly and forcefully by hand was extremely exhausting, even for people as strong as they were.

Apart from Zhang Xuezhou, who had only just regained consciousness, everyone's hands were covered in blisters, and quite a few had rubbed their skin raw.

They could cast spells to heal their injuries, but under the strain of such intense digging, they had trouble doing so. Taking turns digging also left them little time to recover.

Exhaustion showed on their faces, but the sounds of destruction the giant Ferocious Beast bird made behind them from time to time forced them to keep digging forward with all their might.

Shovelful after shovelful of dirt quickly filled in the places the bird had torn apart behind them, but also rapidly cut off the fresh air coming in from outside.

"Every time that bird shovels away a big pile of dirt, it has to go spit for a while," Ren Anran said quietly after using Yang Corporeal Soul Leaving the Body to check on the situation. "That gives us time to catch our breath and quickly fill in the places it's torn apart!"

"Human strength has its limits!"

There was nothing to fault in human willpower, but