Chapter 288

In the dead of night, the Huling mountains were already in utter chaos; Heihu Yaowang was furious beyond compare, vowing to capture these two little thieves and bring them back.

Countless demon beasts came from all directions to encircle and attack; Wang Wu and Song Yi, although they both carried God-Avoiding Pearls to evade Divine Sense pursuit.

But they still encountered the encirclement and pursuit of numerous demon beasts.

The demon beasts' roars rose and fell one after another, and Heihu Yaowang, relying on these roars, still quickly ascertained the two's position.

His eyes burst with killing intent.

"Still want to run? You're dreaming."

With a roar, he charged straight toward their position; meanwhile, Wang Wu and Song Yi slew many demon beasts along the way, barely breaking out of the encirclement, yet they felt Heihu Yaowang's aura steadily approaching.

The two had no confidence in facing the Demon King; the gap was too great, making them no match at all.

At this moment, seeing Song Yi still wanting to collect corpses, Wang Wu shouted anxiously.

"What time is it now, still collecting corpses? Hurry up and run."

"But these are prime ingredients; it's a waste to let them go."

Song Yi said with some regret; upon this, Wang Wu's mouth twitched in anger.

The ingredients are indeed top-notch, but you need to be alive to eat them—Heihu Yaowang has already caught up; now's not the time to think about that.

"Go, as long as the green hills remain, we need not worry about firewood."

Ingredients can be procured anytime, but life is only one.

Hearing that, Song Yi reluctantly glanced at the food strewn on the ground, but in the end she gritted her teeth and fled together with Wang Wu.

Their position had been exposed, so the two simply stopped hiding and fled at full speed.

But the Demon King's speed was incredible; shortly, Heihu Yaowang caught up, spying Wang Wu and the others ahead, and immediately his eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty gleam.

"Little thieves, don't run!"

"It's them, these two guys, the rice-eater and the rice-eater fairy, right? Today none of you will escape—die for this king."

At last it had caught them; even if it had to chase to the ends of the earth, it would personally seize these two audacious little thieves.

The distance kept closing, and the terrifying aura of the Demon King behind them made Wang Wu and Song Yi's hearts grow ever heavier.

This time it really seems we've bitten off more than we can chew.

Unbeknownst to each other, each had a Formation Disk appear in their hand.

This is their ultimate life-saving trump card; once activated, it can directly link to the main Teleportation Array of the Dao Yi Sect.

But doing so would mean they'd have to return directly to the Sect.

However, it seems there's no other option now; as the distance shrinks, they can only rely on the Formation Disk to escape.

While sprinting, they exchanged a glance and each saw the answer in the other's eyes.

Heihu Yaowang had already caught up from behind; just as the two were about to activate the Formation Disk, a sword qi shot up into the sky from behind them.

Immediately followed by Heihu Yaowang's angry roar.

"Who dares to sneak attack this king, you rat?"

Huh???

Turning his head, he saw for some reason that Heihu Yaowang was suddenly ensnared by countless sword qi; Wang Wu instantly recognized it as a tactic of their Divine Sword Peak.

"Which senior brother set up this trap?"

Unexpectedly, this turned out to be a pleasant surprise; although these sword qi cannot truly harm Heihu Yaowang, they can still delay it for a few moments.

Wang Wu and Song Yi naturally wouldn't pass up this opportunity; after a brief glance, they continued to sprint forward at all costs.

Forcibly shattering the sword qi, seeing the distance pull apart again, Heihu Yaowang gritted his teeth in anger.

"What's a mere sword qi to me? Little thieves, don't run!"

Continuing the pursuit, a simple trap like that would certainly not be able to stop Heihu Yaowang.

But as the two fled Heihu Yaowang's territory, the scene ahead suddenly opened up.

"This is the distinctive mark of our Divine Sword Peak."

"Our Jade Maiden Peak has it too."

"This must be the mark of Dragon Elephant Peak, right?"

"Is it Senior Brother Xu Jie and his group?"

In this area right now, traps are everywhere, and each trap's location bears a distinctive mark of the Dao Yi Sect's disciples, presumably to prevent anyone from accidentally triggering them.

Seeing this, hope instantly welled up in Wang Wu's and Song Yi's eyes.

With these traps aiding them, escaping seems not impossible after all, given that foolish tiger behind them............

Soon, under the duo's deliberate luring, Heihu Yaowang and the many demon beasts continually triggered traps, causing their pursuit speed to grow ever slower.

Having just broken free of the sword qi, they were immediately enveloped by a formation.

After breaking the formation, they hadn't taken two more steps before being damned attacked by talisman seals.

Sword qi, formations, talisman seals—over that damned short distance of just a few hundred meters, Heihu Yaowang could barely move, having already triggered over ten traps.

Although these traps pose no real threat to it, they're damned annoying.

Especially whenever it seemed about to catch those two little thieves, the next second it would suddenly be trapped, forced to watch helplessly as they slipped away from under its nose, which made Heihu Yaowang furious.

"Damn it, who—who the hell did this?"

Heihu Yaowang was about to explode; this damned Huling is their demon race's territory, so why have so many traps suddenly appeared?

Is this damned place even still Huling? Moreover, the way these traps are set up is downright filthy to the extreme.

Take now, for example: having just shattered a formation and preparing to continue the chase, the next second a damned dozen or more talisman seals were triggered.

Beneath the formations lie talisman seals, and atop the traps are stacked more traps.

Who the hell would lay multiple traps in the same spot?

Moreover, besides talisman seals and formations, a damned hallucinogenic drug appeared behind them.

"Junior sister, Gastrodia powder, quickly take the Clear Spirit Pill."

Wang Wu immediately discovered the Gastrodia powder, and Song Yi immediately took the Clear Spirit Pill, but the Heihu Yaowang in the rear had no idea about any of this.

By the time it reacted, it already felt a bit dizzy-headed.

Of course, the Gastrodia powder alone wasn't enough to directly daze the Demon King; at most it just made its head a bit dizzy and swollen.

"Damn it, despicable, utterly shameless."

Its harmfulness is not great, but the insult is extremely strong, and it's also very annoying. Damn, they even used a bewitching drug—who the hell, which bastard, set up so many traps in its Huling.

Damn, this is no longer Huling; it's practically a Forbidden Land.

The familiar Huling forest, at this moment in the Heihu Yaowang's eyes, was no different from those Forbidden Lands.

You never know what will happen next, what kind of trap will be triggered, and beneath this trap, just how many more traps lie hidden.

The Heihu Yaowang was fuming, and the other Demon Kings in Huling naturally also noticed the changes here.

The Demon King whose territory lay beside the Heihu Yaowang—the Xuehu Yaowang—upon hearing the report from the demon beasts below, spoke with a strange expression.

"Has Heihu's treasury been robbed again? What on earth is going on?"

The Xuehu Yaowang was also a bit puzzled—this had already happened three times, and it seemed that Heihu only had one treasury left.