Chapter 42: Mo Cheng

The sounds rose and fell, making Mo Cheng feel a surge of irritation.

He looked at Mo Ran beside him, thinking that with his one-star Great Fighter strength, he should be able to settle most problems.

He then ordered, "Mo Ran, go see what's happening ahead."

Yes.

Mo Ran swiftly accepted the order, then with a bang, his figure shot forward...

A Great Fighter's speed is naturally not slow, and the distance isn't far either.

In less than a minute, Mo Ran had already arrived ahead.

Just arriving here, he saw several second-rank snake-type magic beasts slaughtering mercilessly among the Fighter-level mercenary group.

Meanwhile, Luo Bu was also tightly entangled by a third-rank snake-shaped magic beast, unable to free his hands to help those mercenaries.

"Why are there so many Desert Horned Vipers? Have we come to their habitat?"

Seeing this scene, Mo Ran muttered doubtfully to himself.

Soon, a layer of earth-yellow armor quickly appeared on his body.

This is the mark of a Great Fighter, the Fighting Qi Armor!

Then, his body shot forward again, rushing toward that third-rank Desert Horned Viper.

Obviously, he intended to eliminate this trouble first, then deal with those second-rank magic beasts.

However, upon seeing the approaching person, that third-rank Desert Horned Viper let out a sudden hiss, immediately repelled Luo Bu, and turned to flee.

And those second-rank magic beasts all did the same, as if someone behind them were directing them.

Seeing this, Mo Ran suddenly felt puzzled, wondering when third-rank magic beasts had become so intelligent.

He turned to look around, and suddenly his pupils contracted sharply, his gaze fixed on the green flower mark on the brow of a Desert Rock Snake.

He couldn't believe it, shook his head, rubbed his eyes hard, looked again, and indeed it wasn't an illusion.

He hurriedly turned toward Mo Cheng, his voice sharp, and shouted loudly, "Great Elder, target found!"

"Bang!"

As Mo Ran's voice sounded, Mo Cheng behind him was startled, then overjoyed.

He stomped his right foot hard backward, his figure rapidly closing in on Mo Ran ahead...

"Where is it?!"

His voice came, and in the blink of an eye, Mo Cheng had already arrived beside Mo Ran, filled with joy, speaking urgently.

"The beasts that attacked us just now were snake-type magic beasts; one of them I saw had a green flower mark on its brow, which must be a snake-type magic beast controlled by the Azure Snake Triple Flower Pupil, but it fled too fast and I couldn't catch it."

Mo Ran, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, hurriedly spat out all the information he had just seen.

"Excellent! It seems the master of the Azure Snake Triple Flower Pupil must have learned from somewhere that we were looking for her, so she directed her controlled snake-type magic beasts to attack us."

Hearing the wounded mercenaries around them wailing in pain, Mo Cheng's excitement grew even more.

The stronger the Azure Snake Triple Flower Pupil, the greater the help it will be to him after transplantation.

Thinking this, he quickly looked at Mo Ran beside him and asked, "Which way did that snake just run?"

"That way."

Mo Ran also didn't dare delay, quickly pointing his finger toward the direction Little Rock had just fled.

"Good."

Mo Cheng looked not far away, then immediately ordered Luo Bu, "You, immediately take your men and chase that way."

"Great Elder, in that attack just now our mercenary group lost nearly twenty members; why not rest a bit... I'll immediately gather the remaining people to go chase!"

Halfway through speaking, Luo Bu felt the killing intent in that gaze and hastily changed his words.

After speaking, he organized the remaining people, ignoring their complaints, and continued forward in pursuit...

Strangely, it's unknown whether that Desert Rock Snake is injured or something else.

On its home turf, its speed was actually only slightly faster than theirs.

After fleeing for a long time, it still couldn't shake off their pursuit.

Not long after, the remaining members of the Sand Mercenary Group, chasing Little Rock, arrived at a valley surrounded on three sides by sand dunes with only one road.

"Group Leader, that beast has vanished."

The mercenaries saw Little Rock suddenly dive into the sand and disappear, then turned and shouted.

"Hehe, it can't escape."

Mo Cheng snorted contemptuously, then quickly turned his head to signal another aide beside him.

That middle-aged man nodded, stepped aside, and the aura of a Nine-star Great Fighter poured out.

His palm suddenly probed, reaching into the sand, the variant sand attribute fighting qi within his body surged, beginning to detect Little Rock's traces.

Mo Cheng beside him also nodded; this Mo Xi is the strongest expert of their Mo Family aside from him and the family head.

At the same time, he is also his most capable subordinate; over the years, for the rapid development of their Mo Family, he has earned remarkable military achievements.

However, while their attention was focused on Mo Xi, many snake heads suddenly burst out from the sand on the ground.

And the ceramic bottle that had been shallowly buried in the sand was also pushed up.

Furthermore, in that heavy collision it shattered.

In an instant, large amounts of black mist spread everywhere, enveloping Mo Cheng and his party.

"Scatter immediately, the mist is poisonous!"

Casually crushing a Desert Horned Viper, Mo Cheng shouted coldly.

Although those mercenaries are not high in rank, their combat experience is generally extremely rich.

Seeing this black mist, although they don't know what it is.

But they all know it's best not to get touched, so they scattered to avoid it.

However, the surroundings are all shrouded in mist; where is there any space to hide?

Although most had already held their breath, as soon as their bodies came into contact with the mist, they still immediately let out painful wails.

Afterwards, the outermost layer of clothing was first corroded clean by the poison mist, then the skin, flesh, bones...

"Bang!"

Mo Cheng and several senior Battle Masters saw this and all promptly released their Dou Qi to disperse the poison mist around them.

However, these toxins did not cause harm to those few of them.

But for those mercenaries of Fighter level, it is death upon contact.

After the poison mist dissipated, the original thirty-plus mercenaries had all disappeared.

Moreover, on the ground, there were many incomplete skeletons.

Those present were only the three members of the Mo family, and the lone Rob from the Sand Mercenary Group.

"Hiss!"

Seeing the scene on the ground, several people suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air.

"Hmph, what a vicious method!"

With a cold snort, Mo Cheng turned his head to look toward the sand dune.

There, Lin Feng and Qing Lin had already been standing there at some point.

Meanwhile, beside them were four third-rank Desert Horned Vipers, Horned Viper Kings, and that fourth-rank Double-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.

"Five third-rank magic beasts, and... what kind of magic beast is this, fourth-rank?!"

The few people below saw that the first few third-rank magic beasts could still remain calm.

However, upon seeing the double-headed fire spirit snake that was several tens of meters long and entirely fiery red, several people sucked in a breath of cold air.

What shocked them most was that this magic beast's slender neck actually had a fork, upon which were two heads!

And on those two heads' four pairs of huge diamond-shaped eyes, filled with violent and bloodthirsty killing intent, they stared fixedly at them.