The Cavern

The adventure through the Goblin Caves was truly awful.

Wang Haoran didn't even want to mention how terrible it was.

Wang Haoran didn't want to know what happened when he clashed head-on with the giant moth, but judging from the remote contact, he felt that he had encountered an elite ferocious beast from the Qinmeng region.

Some ferocious beasts are like giant birds, which are silly and have certain flaws, while others are like hyenas, which are not particularly large.

Thick skin, strong flesh, and powerful striking ability are standard features of ferocious beasts; most of them look more like brutes who have evolved into exceptionally powerful beings.

However, Wang Haoran had also heard that some ferocious beasts possessed special abilities, such as breathing wind. The wind exhaled by these beasts was as sharp as a knife and could take a person's life in a short moment.

Furthermore, some ferocious beasts possess the ability to burrow underground, making them impossible for even those at the same level as Zhou Xin to defend against.

Wang Haoran also heard of a special ferocious beast that could turn its breath into ice.

Each of these special ferocious beasts possesses the unique ability to control a region, making them virtually invincible to any individual human at present.

At this moment, Wang Haoran feels that he has discovered another kind of discovery.

Sonic shockwaves, tons of scales falling instantly, venom that rapidly corrodes stone, and flying...

In the brief contact lasting only a few seconds, Wang Haoran felt as if he had truly seen an extremely peculiar ferocious beast.

This is a ferocious beast that even Zhou Xin might have to avoid. He, a Fifth Sequence, couldn't possibly compete with such a spectacle even if he had ten heads.

Indeed, Wang Haoran was fleeing for his life after being injured by the shockwave of the explosion, and even Zhang Xuezhou and the others couldn't help him.

Wang Haoran's skin was cracked by the shockwave, and some parts of his body were cut by the rubble. Poisonous scales also clung to his body, but his legs never stopped moving.

Fleeing frantically in the darkness, Wang Haoran certain that he would only have a chance of survival if he reached the isolation wall, after which he would need to rely on four other isolation walls for protection.

As you approach the exit of the Gobala Cave's corridor, the cave will become increasingly narrow, making it difficult for the ferocious beast to move through.

That was his entire escape plan.

However, Wang Haoran's escape did not last long.

After passing the corpse of the green-haired alien insect he had previously killed, Wang Haoran saw the collapsed isolation wall.

The area was clogged with bricks and various large and small stones, and he could smell gunpowder in his nostrils.

After encountering the dust explosion caused by the giant moth, Wang Haoran didn't expect that the passageway behind him would also be blown up.

Whether it was orchestrated by someone or caused by a dust explosion, the unstable explosives hidden within this area of the isolation wall were detonated.

If Wang Haoran run any faster, he would have been hit by the bomb one moment and then hit by it the next as he rushed into the escape cave area.

"This must be a counterattack against Turkalando. Has their counterattack already begun in just three days?"

Wang Haoran panting heavily.

Being blocked from returning home actually cleared his head a bit.

Realizing he couldn't escape alone, he fled back.

He either picked up two companions who might survive, or charged and defeated the giant moth that would inevitably be damaged at the center of the explosion to eliminate future troubles. Wang Haoran ran back with a look of death in his face, but he did not expect that Zhang Xuezhou and others were still digging for the place where he might be buried.

Feeling ashamed, Wang Haoran truthfully recounted the situation ahead.

"So, this Gobala Cave corridor is currently divided into three sections. The giant moths occupy the back section, we are in the middle section, and the exit is controlled by an elder from which of the Thurs's divine grace Lineage?" Zhang Manqian frowned.

"Paladins and priestesses couldn't possibly be completely subservient to any one Lineage, nor could they cooperate so seamlessly that not a single word leaked out. The explosives in this cave must have been planted by someone," Tulcarando said painfully. "They just didn't expect the Zerg to trigger a dust explosion, and the shockwave from that explosion prematurely triggered their plan!"

"It's not entirely ahead of schedule. We're actually already trapped here. Based on the oxygen tanks we have, we only have about ten hours left to survive," Ren Anran said.

"Go check out the situation over there!"

Zhang Xuezhou recalled the mess in the cave construction area, where various discarded items left by the construction workers could be seen everywhere. He felt that they had been too negligent in entering such a place.

No matter how much you try to guard against it, the hardest people to guard against are undoubtedly those on your own side.

Zhang Xuezhou could only be thankful that they were some distance from both explosion zones. In fact, Zhang Xuezhou was near the location of the giant moth and didn't hear any explosions from other areas at all.

Thinking about the power of the earth-shattering bombs the Turs had buried outside, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but shake his head.

The power of the ground-bombing projectile is weak, so the power of the Turs' cave-blasting is not very high.

He felt that the pile of rubble and debris in the collapsed area ahead was far less thick than the cave area that stretched for hundreds of meters.

In the past, when his cultivation level was weaker, Zhang Xuezhou relied on his fossil technique to escape by digging through the bluestone layer in the Liang King's tomb. It was more difficult for him to dig a passage hundreds of meters long, but digging through a passage blocked by piled stones for several meters was no problem at all. In fact, these piled stones were not a single layer of stone, so it would be even easier to clear them.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Even though the passage was almost completely blocked by rubble for over a hundred meters, the giant moth's cries were still quite loud.

The noise from the other party undoubtedly caused dust and falling rocks to continuously accumulate in some of the already crumbling and corroded areas.

Zhang Xuezhou and his team only had a brief period of communication and adjustments before moving away from the area.

They had traveled no more than a hundred meters when a loud bang was heard again, followed by a wave of heat and a red glow.

At first, Zhang Xuezhou thought that the giant moth had used some kind of ability to break through the blocked area of the cave. Just as he was about to seek a narrow place to hide, he looked back and saw that a tunnel had collapsed and sunken in the distance, revealing a red glowing cave that looked like a furnace.

"The underwater volcano is about to erupt!" Zhang Manqian exclaimed.

"Completely dead!"

Ren Anran's face turned pale.

Behind them, giant moths continued their incessant cawing, while ahead, members of the Tur tribe attempted to target Turkalando. Although the buried explosives did not hit anyone, they did cause a blockage in the cave.

The area in the middle of the road was actually a lava field; if the lava were to surge, the remaining ten miles or so would be a dead end.

Ren Anran had braved wind and rain, but she had never encountered such a desperate situation before. For a moment, she felt that her life had come to an end too quickly.

If there was anything somewhat comforting about it, she felt that at least they were all together, so they weren't too lonely when they died.

"Don't be afraid, it doesn't seem to be lava down there, there's something else!"

Zhang Manqian and Ren Anran were both panicked, Wang Haoran had long harbored thoughts of death. As for Turkalando, she kept patting her itchy, festering skin with her clothes, living a life worse than death.

The crowd was in a state of high anxiety, and in their panicked escape, only Zhang Xuezhou peeked back and looked around carefully.

Once he was standing at a slightly higher position, Zhang Xuezhou realized that the red light seemed to have a center point, rather than the appearance of churning lava.

This made his eyes widen.

When he considered the blessed land that wasn't too far from the giant moth, he felt that the red light area in the underground cave was likely the cause of the blessed land.