Chapter 197

This little thing in front of us is a high-level cold beast?

Not to mention the four hundred people below, even Watching Yue Feng, who was standing beside Director Yu Wen Tao, was dumbfounded at this moment.

"Are you all deaf? Run!"

But Watching Yue Feng was still the one who reacted the fastest.

Realizing that Director Yu Wen Tao had no reason to lie to them, Watching Yue Feng quickly pulled the iron-core bow from his back, and while nocking an arrow, he roared loudly toward the people below again.

The four hundred or so people below finally reacted at this moment.

"Run!"

"Run fast, scatter and run."

Breaking through windows, climbing over walls...

Although the people on the first floor had scattered very quickly, they were, after all, more than four hundred people; how could it be so simple to escape the wooden house all at once?

"Snort..."

The Snow Mane, with a body length of no more than a meter, let out another snort at this moment.

Its cyan pupils, clear as jade, gently turned with the scattering crowd, and a look of human-like cruel amusement actually appeared on its face.

The next second, it was seen gently shaking its body.

Swish...

A swishing sound rang out, and the barbs on the Snow Mane's back, which were only a few dozen centimeters long, flew out from its body surface like steel needles, at a speed so fast that it sparked against the air.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Hundreds of barbs bloomed like a rainstorm of pear blossoms. The originally pitch-black wooden house was actually lit up by the sparks drawn by the barbs, carrying a strange and terrifying beauty.

Puchi... puchi... whoosh...

After the sparks, countless sounds of sharp needles piercing human bodies rang out.

"Ah..."

"Ah!"

"Run, run, you can't dodge those steel needles."

"Ah, run!"

The continuous screams finally echoed throughout the entire wooden house.

Blood splashed, broken limbs and blood mixed together, accompanied by the continuous screams; the wooden house, which originally served as a shelter, instantly turned into a human purgatory.

The force and speed of the sharp needles shot by the Snow Mane were extremely astonishing. They did not stop after hitting one person but went straight through the body. If there was someone unlucky in front of the person hit, they would also be directly pierced through.

After the sharp needles pierced through the human bodies, their force remained undiminished, shooting straight through the walls and flying outside the wooden house.

The four walls of the entire wooden house instantly became riddled with holes.

Of the four hundred or so people here tonight, except for the members of the three hunting squads and a few who came to mine and were in the Earth-Digging Realm, the vast majority were Woodcutting Realm personnel from the Collection Department.

Even those in the Earth-Digging Realm were unable to resist the sharp needles shot by the Snow Mane, let alone these weak Woodcutting Realm personnel.

"Break the wall and escape, don't look back!"

Director Yu Wen Tao's bow and arrow did not stop, and he did not forget to prompt everyone to break the wall and escape, but his voice was also full of panic and even some despair at this moment.

From the time the Snow Mane shook its body until now, only five or six breaths had passed.

In just this short while, at least a hundred people were already lying on the ground.

Not to mention how many died, the problem was that after the barbs on the Snow Mane's back were shot out, a new batch quickly grew out.

This batch of new needles looked even sharper and denser than before.

What was even more deadly was that the iron arrows shot by him, Watching Yue Feng, Hong Guang, and Meng Yi at the Snow Mane had no effect at all.

Clang... clang...

You must know that among the four, except for Watching Yue Feng, whose basic strength was slightly weaker, only a little over twenty thousand jin, the other three had already exceeded the limit of the Earth-Digging Realm, and Director Yu Wen Tao's was even as high as over fifty thousand.

Even the iron arrows shot by Director Yu Wen Tao could not scratch the other party's skin at all, let alone those of Hong Guang and the other two.

"This thirty-shi iron-core bow made of bamboo silk and tendon of a soaring serpent has a draw force of up to thirty thousand jin, yet it cannot even pierce its outer skin..."

Director Yu Wen Tao's voice trembled slightly. In just this short while, the four of them had almost emptied their iron arrows.

But that Snow Mane had not even moved its body once.

Not only did it not move its body, but the Snow Mane even raised its head and looked toward the second floor, the direction where the four of them were standing.

I don't know if it was because of the bloody smell permeating the wooden house, but as the Snow Mane looked at the four of them, those cyan jade pupils were full of violence at this moment, and carried an extremely obvious sense of enjoyment and greed.

Swish...

The Snow Mane shook its body again.

Only, unlike just now, this time the direction of its shaking was clearly upward.

"Scatter and run!"

Director Yu Wen Tao gave a sharp shout, not even wanting the bow and arrow in his hand, and quickly fled toward the rear; Hong Guang, Meng Yi, and Watching Yue Feng heard the sound and acted, each in one direction, quickly scattering and fleeing.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Behind the Snow Mane, another round of sharp needles, greater in number and wider in range, suddenly shot out in all directions of the wooden house.

Less than ten breaths had passed since the first round just now. Everything happened too fast. By the time this second round of sharp needles was shot, less than one-tenth of the four hundred or so people had truly escaped the wooden house.

More than a hundred people had already fallen in the first round just now. As the new round of sharp needles struck, the faces of the people in the back rows were instantly filled with despair.

A few people even gave up running and closed their eyes, waiting for death on the spot.

This time, neither Director Yu Wen Tao nor Watching Yue Feng had the heart or the spare energy to remind them again, because they were already unable to protect themselves.

Bang...

Director Yu Wen Tao crashed through the window head-on and jumped out directly. Looking back, he saw that Hong Guang and Meng Yi on the other side had already escaped, and a look of joy appeared in his eyes. But immediately after, looking at Watching Yue Feng, his pupils tightened again.

Watching Yue Feng's speed was too slow.

Not only was his speed slow, but his movements were clearly more sluggish than the three of them. He failed to dodge the sharp needles shot by the Snow Mane; his shoulder and left lower leg were both pierced through, and he had already fallen by the windowsill on the west side of the second floor.

Whoosh...

"Save him!"

Seeing a sharp needle shooting toward Watching Yue Feng's brow, Director Yu Wen Tao did not hesitate at all. With a sharp shout, he actually turned back and rushed toward Watching Yue Feng.

Hong Guang and Meng Yi turned around immediately upon hearing this. Director Yu Wen Tao had just thrown away his bow, but they hadn't. The two raised their bows and shot three or four arrows in succession at that sharp needle.

Clang...

Two iron arrows actually hit that sharp needle accurately.

It was a pity that the force of that sharp needle was simply too strong.

The two iron arrows only slightly changed the direction of the sharp needle.

Clang...

At the critical moment, a giant broadsword slashed down suddenly.

Director Yu Wen Tao had arrived.

The broadsword hit the sharp needle, but there was not a hint of joy on his face; instead, it was full of horror.

Bang...

The next second, the broadsword snapped, the web between Director Yu Wen Tao's thumb and index finger split, and his whole body was sent flying backward for more than ten meters.

"The impact of this sharp needle is at least several times mine. How is that possible!"

At this moment, Director Yu Wen Tao's face was horrified. Only now did he realize what kind of desperate thing the four hundred or so people below had just encountered.

A common sharp needle on the Snow Mane's back had already been shot dozens of meters away from its body. He slashed across the air, not only did the broadsword break, but he was also sent flying!

The broadsword in his hand was left behind after his father, Director Yu Wen Hu, died. It was a genuine hundred-forged weapon, of the same grade as the ceremonial saber in the hands of the leader Xia Hong, and it was also one of the few hundred-forged weapons in Does Does Da Xia today.

Puchi...

Before Director Yu Wen Tao could recover from the shock of the weapon breaking, the sound of the sharp needle piercing flesh came. He hurriedly raised his head to look at Watching Yue Feng.

Watching Yue Feng's right forehead was directly pierced through, and a large piece of scalp flew away.

"Lord Deputy, you run, don't worry about me!"

Watching Yue Feng was not dead. Although Director Yu Wen Tao's sword just now failed to cut down the sharp needle, it changed its direction, preventing it from piercing Watching Yue Feng's brow, only scraping away a large piece of his scalp.

Hearing Watching Yue Feng's cry, Director Yu Wen Tao gritted his teeth, but still rushed forward to help him up, and the two moved quickly toward the outside of the house.

"Lord, look downstairs!"

Director Yu Wen Tao swayed left and right, dodging the sharp needles behind him dangerously. Just as he jumped off the windowsill, he heard the prompt from Hong Guang on the other side and hurriedly turned his head to look.

At this look, he and Watching Yue Feng beside him had pupils full of horror.

That Snow Mane had grown another layer of dense barbs on its back, but this time it did not shake its body to release sharp needles again, but opened its mouth.

A thick, long, sharp tongue flew out from its mouth, suddenly splitting in mid-air, dividing into nine, and swinging wildly in the house like a dance of demons.

That long tongue was very soft when swinging, but the moment it touched a human body, it would suddenly stiffen and harden, and the two sides of the tongue would also shrink to reveal terrifying sharp edges.

Those who had not yet escaped on the first floor were almost killed upon contact. Even if they were lucky enough to dodge once, they would soon be cut and killed again; some even more unlucky people were entangled by the long tongue and swallowed into its belly before they could even scream.

In just this short while, the Snow Mane, with a body length of no more than a meter, had swallowed at least a dozen people, but its belly did not have the slightest bulge, as if nothing had gone in at all.

"Snort... snort..."

Hearing the Snow Mane make a sound again, Director Yu Wen Tao no longer had any intention of staying. Although he knew there were nearly two hundred people on the first floor who had not run out, he had no heart or spare energy to worry about them anymore.

That Snow Mane, from beginning to end, had not even moved its legs!

It just shook its body twice and opened its mouth, and they ended up like this.

This is the strength of a high-level cold beast!

If they don't run now, they will all die here.

Facts proved that Director Yu Wen Tao's thought was correct.

A long tongue suddenly attacked from behind it.

The Snow Mane had long noticed the four people on the second floor. Realizing that all four had escaped the house, it actually started to take action against them.

Director Yu Wen Tao currently only had half a broadsword in his hand. In his panic, he could only turn around and raise the sword to block, a flash of despair in his eyes.

He couldn't even block the barbs shot from the Snow Mane's back just now, let alone this long tongue.

The sharp tip of the long tongue directly pierced through his half-broadsword and came straight toward his brow.

Although Director Yu Wen Tao was already retreating with all his might, the speed of the long tongue was simply too fast, piercing his brow in an instant and about to pass through his skull.

Hong Guang, Meng Yi, and Watching Yue Feng, who was closest to him, all ran wildly toward him, wanting to save him, but with their speed, it was simply too late.

Ssh...

A sharp pain came from his brow bone, and Director Yu Wen Tao's expression instantly became extremely dim.

His death date is approaching!

At the critical moment, a slender ceremonial saber came into view.

Director Yu Wen Tao's pupils instantly lit up, and his expression was extremely excited.

Crack...

"Retreat quickly!"

Xia Hong's voice echoed through the Jing Valley. Not only Director Yu Wen Tao, but all the terrified crowds inside and outside the wooden house instantly felt hope rise on their faces. "The leader is here!"

"We're saved, we're saved..."

…………

Xia Hong, dressed in black, held the saber with both hands, maintaining a slashing posture, with the blade stuck on the side of the long tongue in front of Director Yu Wen Tao.

Xia Hong's eyes glanced at the Snow Mane on the first floor, his pupils solemn to the extreme.

That "crack" just now was not the long tongue being cut off.

It was his ceremonial saber that had been snapped.

"Leader, this is a high-level Snow Mane. Barbs can be continuously shot from its back, and the nine long tongues can be soft or hard and can swallow people. Hundred-forged weapons simply cannot break its defense, and its strength is at least ten times mine."

Director Yu Wen Tao retreated rapidly, wiped the blood from his brow, and quickly raised his head to briefly tell Xia Hong the situation.

"Ten times? More than that!"

Xia Hong thought to himself, looking at the cracked blade, his expression slightly stern.

No mistakes, look at the content!

Although the front end of the blade was broken, his slash just now had genuinely broken the Snow Mane's tongue. The flesh and blood at the wound of that tongue were different from other cold beasts; they were not deep blue, but a clean, white, crystal-clear ice-ling color.

Not only was the color of the flesh and blood different.

Under the flesh and blood of the tongue wound, there was actually a piece of bone.

That bone was also not the normal white, but cyan, and it also carried a texture as clear as jade, the same color as the Snow Mane's pair of eyes.

Slurp...

It takes a long time to say, but from Xia Hong's appearance to saving Director Yu Wen Tao, it was only three or four breaths in total.

The Snow Mane's long tongue was cut to the bone by Xia Hong, and it clearly felt pain, trying to retract the tongue into its mouth with a slurp.

However, Xia Hong's slash just now was not light. Although the front end of the ceremonial saber was broken, half of the blade was still stuck in the bone of the long tongue.

As the Snow Mane retracted its long tongue, the half-blade also went back with it.

Xia Hong had never let go of the handle of the ceremonial saber from beginning to end.

Consequently, along with it, he was also pulled down.

In the gap of flying toward the Snow Mane, seeing the horrific scene on the first floor of the wooden house, a look of anger flashed on Xia Hong's face, and the killing intent in his eyes instantly rose.

In just this short while, two or three hundred people were lying on the ground.

If he had arrived a little later, it is possible that they would all have died.

Here in Jing Valley, besides the members of the three hunting squads of Director Yu Wen Tao, Meng Yi, and Watching Yue Feng, there were also many in the Earth-Digging Realm who came to mine; the Woodcutting Realm personnel who could come here from far away were likely considered elite layers in the Collection Department.

These are all the backbone of Does Does Da Xia at present. With so many dying at once, Xia Hong naturally felt full of killing intent as he looked at this Snow Mane.

Whoosh...

Before Xia Hong was pulled in front of the Snow Mane, the other eight long tongues attacked him from all directions, either stabbing or entangling.

The Snow Mane was clearly not stupid; it knew that Xia Hong wanted to get close to it, so it stopped when the long tongues were still more than ten meters away from its body, controlling the other eight tongues to attack him.

How could Xia Hong let it have its way?

He pulled out the half-ceremonial saber, and while the eight long tongues had not yet reached him, his body was like thunder, turning into a black wind, and he rushed directly toward the Snow Mane.

Is the Snow Mane's tongue-retracting action faster, or is Xia Hong's charging speed faster?

This question soon had an answer.

Xia Hong rushed directly toward it. The Snow Mane was clearly caught off guard. While the nine long tongues changed course to retract into its mouth, it tried to entangle Xia Hong along the way.

But Xia Hong's speed was so fast that it was somewhat unexpected.

Its nine long tongues had not even retracted half the distance when Xia Hong had already arrived.

A trace of subtle panic flashed in the Snow Mane's eyes. Realizing something, a cruel amusement actually appeared on its face again, and its body shook violently.

Swish...

Xia Hong, who was almost sticking to the Snow Mane's body, saw countless sharp needles shooting toward him. His pupils only slightly condensed, but he still continued to raise the half-ceremonial saber in his right hand and thrust it forward violently.

He did not make any dodging movements.

Clang... clang... rip...

Because the distance was too close, ninety percent of the dense sharp needles hit Xia Hong, but without exception, these sharp needles all seemed to have hit a copper wall and iron fortress; after touching Xia Hong's body, they all fell to the ground.

Only a few occasionally could leave a small wound on some of Xia Hong's vulnerable parts, bringing out a bloodstain.

The Snow Mane saw this scene, its pupils condensed, and its expression changed instantly.

It clearly realized that the strength of the person in front of it was far beyond its imagination.

But realizing it now was clearly a bit late!

A cold light shone into its left eye, and the Snow Mane's expression finally became panicked.

Puchi...

"If I can't break your outer skin, can't I stab through your eyes, you wicked beast!"

The ceremonial saber was 1.7 meters long in total. Excluding the handle, the blade alone was 1.5 meters.

The broken front section from the first slash just now was at most sixty or seventy centimeters.

Xia Hong directly used the remaining half as a short sword.

He did not attack the other parts of the Snow Mane, but jumped up and rode on the Snow Mane's neck, then held the broken saber in reverse and stabbed it into the Snow Mane's left eye.

"Hahaha, here, here."

The broken blade of more than seventy centimeters was completely inserted into its left eye, and the tip of the blade pierced directly out from the back of its head.

"Roar... roar..."

With the eyeball and skull pierced through, the intense pain entered its brain. After the Snow Mane let out two hurried roars, its whole body began to tremble, followed by an even more terrifying, violent roar.

"Roar..."

With this roar, its limbs quickly swelled, and its body constantly expanded.

In just a few breaths, the body of more than a meter actually surged rapidly to more than twenty meters; the head also expanded rapidly, and the dense, terrifying fangs in its mouth grew wildly; even the new barbs on its back constantly expanded and extended.

In an instant, this Snow Mane actually turned into a behemoth more than twenty meters long and more than ten meters high.

The only thing that didn't change was that the broken saber was still inserted in its left eye, and the handle of the broken saber was still held tightly in Xia Hong's hand.

Only, Xia Hong, who was just riding on its neck, was now lying prone on its forehead.

"This... this is a high-level cold beast..."

"Is this the true form?"

"What was that just now?"

"Gulp..."

…………

The people who had just scattered and fled had not gone too far. Everyone, including Director Yu Wen Tao, turned their heads along with the Snow Mane's roar. Seeing the behemoth whose size had already covered the wooden house, their eyes were full of horror and panic.

"Whoosh..."

These people had time to be shocked, but Xia Hong did not!

The moment the Snow Mane's body grew larger, Xia Hong was also slightly startled, but realizing that the part where the broken saber was inserted had not changed at all, he quickly reacted, pulled out the broken saber, and stabbed it toward the other eye.

Bang...

But this time, the Snow Mane did not give him a chance.

It shook its head violently, throwing Xia Hong high into the air, and two sharp, long fangs rushed toward Xia Hong's body.

Whoosh...

The fierce wind caused by the Snow Mane's huge body made Xia Hong in mid-air tighten his expression. He forcibly stabilized his falling posture, aimed at the Snow Mane's fangs, slashed the broken saber on them to borrow force, flipped his body, and grabbed the Snow Mane's right forelimb with one hand.

If you can't break it, then use brute force!

A flash of ruthlessness flashed in Xia Hong's eyes. He bit the broken saber in his mouth, stepped on the ground with both feet, held his breath, and suddenly exerted force with both hands at the same time.

"Hah... ah..."

With a violent shout, Xia Hong's eyes were splitting, his muscles bulging all over, and he actually dragged the Snow Mane's huge body forward.

"Gulp... the leader... the leader's... strength..."

"This Snow Mane, just its body weight must be fifty or sixty thousand jin, right?"

"Even if it were dead, none of us could move it, let alone alive."

"Look at that Snow Mane, its other three legs are struggling on the ground, but it's useless."

"The leader's strength..."

………………

Not to mention the horror of the crowd.

The Snow Mane's other three limbs were constantly struggling and flapping on the ground, but no matter what, they could not break free from Xia Hong's hand.

After more than ten breaths, realizing there was no result, a look of panic and horror finally crawled onto the Snow Mane's face.

And Xia Hong here had already begun his devastation.

He suddenly exerted force, flipped the Snow Mane's huge body from the air, and smashed it directly forward.

Bang...

After a heaven-shaking loud noise, the Snow Mane's body flipped and fell to the ground, lying on its back with its four feet facing the sky. Xia Hong's hands were still firmly clamping its right forelimb. Not only did he not let go, but he also started to use the ground's force to pull and tear it hard.

"Roar... roar..."

The Snow Mane naturally would not sit still and wait for death. Its body flailed wildly on the ground, trying to turn over, while its other three limbs constantly attacked Xia Hong, wanting to break free.

But Xia Hong swayed left and right, simply not letting it grab him.

And while dodging, Xia Hong could also spare a hand to constantly attack the Snow Mane's arm joints with his fists.

Bang... bang... bang...

How terrifying Xia Hong's fists are, you don't need to hear, you can see it with your eyes.

The terrifying shockwaves created by his fists not only caused the thirty or so houses in Jing Valley to start swaying from side to side, but even the people more than a hundred meters away could clearly perceive the vibration of the ground.

"Who did I hear before say that we are no different from five or six-year-old children in front of the leader? I didn't believe it at that time."

"More than five or six-year-old children, this is simply no different from infants."

"I estimate that the leader's full-strength punch could kill us from a distance."

"The leader is too strong."

………………

"Is this the leader's true strength!"

If it is said that those people in the Woodcutting Realm and Earth-Digging Realm only felt respect and excitement when seeing Xia Hong's divine power at this moment;

Then what rose in Director Yu Wen Tao's heart at this moment was horror and shock.

The weaker one's cultivation, the less clear one's perception of strength is.

Others might not be clear about what kind of terrifying strength Xia Hong is showing at this moment, but Director Yu Wen Tao is clear.

"He Yuanhun also forced back the three of Chen Yingyuan before, but he didn't have the ability to fight a high-level cold beast alone. The leader's strength..."

Feeling Xia Hong's true strength intuitively for the first time, in Director Yu Wen Tao's pupils, besides horror and shock, there was also deep admiration.

Even, like the rest of the Does Does Da Xia camp, for the first time, he gave birth to a trace of fanaticism toward Xia Hong...

(End of chapter)