Chapter 374: Beast Riot, Human Greed!

Hum—

A purple light pillar as thick as a water barrel flew over.

Lu Jing stepped on the flying sword, his pupils constricted instantly, and a chill rose behind him.

He controlled the flying sword to change angle, trying to dodge the fierce light pillar.

However, as Lu Jing shifted his position, the purple light pillar actually followed him closely, like a shadow.

Even its speed surpassed before, directly pressing toward Lu Jing's back.

The alien tribe leader stood on the third-floor terrace, gritting his teeth, strenuously driving the light pillar, forming a dazzling purple trace in the air.

"Is it really that important? It's just taking some things, treating it as a dowry."

Lu Jing's rare seriousness, the Minyinfeijian under his feet constantly flashed blinding light, and his speed increased.

Unexpectedly, the purple light pillar split into four, forming a surrounding force that struck Lu Jing from four directions.

The Yuzhao on Lu Jing's wrist suddenly emitted a glossy light, dissipating part of the attack's force.

The flying sword trembled, Lu Jing groaned, the light pillar, having lost too much energy in flight, struck him without causing substantial harm.

"I didn't expect this Yuzhao to have the effect of weakening attacks, what a good thing......"

Lu Jing's eyes lit up, looking at the Yuzhao on his wrist, he saw its surface luster had faded considerably.

Yuanxichengbao

Watching Lu Jing and Ziling disappear, the alien tribe leader stared blankly for a moment.

"Jee‑lah!!"

"Not Sakka!!"

After a brief silence, the alien tribe leader's violent voice echoed for miles around.

Then he issued orders to the alien army, endless streams of aliens poured out like ants, running restlessly, madly charging toward the direction where Lu Jing had vanished.

Boom—

The soaring fury and anger infected the Yuanxi beasts, large numbers of them showing fearful expressions.

One told ten, ten told a hundred, with the fortress as center, nearby beasts began to run and go berserk, forming a rioting beast tide......

"Are these beasts gone mad?"

Lu Jing looked at the beast horde below, like a flood breaking a dam, his brows slightly furrowed.

The alien tribe could actually incite the beasts to riot; Lu Jing watched the flying beasts approaching from the horizon, controlling his flying sword to land on a hilltop.

"Let's regroup here first; we can't stay in Yuanxi any longer."

Lu Jing looked at the floating treasures beside him, feeling a bit troubled.

These things are too conspicuous; going out will surely draw the attention of outside soldiers......

He also glanced at Ziling, covered head to toe in multicolored gems, shook his head, told her to take the treasures, but she only picked the glowing gems.

"By the way, Ziling, can you go back inside?"

Lu Jing drew the Thousand-Blade Demon Sword and patted its blade.

Inside the Thousand-Blade Demon Sword there is a space; Ziling emerged from there.

"Master, I can return, but it's dark inside; Ziling is scared......"

"Just bear with it; once we're outside I'll let you out."

Lu Jing had Ziling hold all the floating treasures in her arms, "Go in, don't be afraid."

Ziling looked pitifully at Lu Jing, then at the Thousand-Blade Demon Sword, and nodded helplessly.

Only to see her figure turn illusory, together with her belongings, turning into a wisp of green smoke that merged into the Thousand-Blade Demon Sword.

"Do we still need to go further in?"

The officer at the rear of the troop rubbed his forehead; as they went deeper, he felt his unease growing.

"Go, we definitely have to go, we're almost there!"

Liuyan led the way, moving extremely fast.

Just now he learned from the officer that Lu Jing had discovered an energy stone mine, not fully mined, and couldn't help but be tempted.

"Hurry, go faster, the energy stone mine is right ahead."

Liuyan looked excited; if he could bring out a large batch of energy stones, this trip would not be in vain.

Ranqingmo said nothing more, walking in the middle of the troop; since Lu Jing had been to the energy stone mine before, it was better to try their luck at the mine cavern than to search aimlessly.

"We've arrived!"

Gongyuande touched the space ring on his ring finger, licked his lips.

He arrived at the hole punched out by Lu Jing's fist, peered inside, and exclaimed, "Holy shit, we struck it rich—there are at least a dozen cubic meters of energy ore left!"

Liuyan, hearing that, was delighted and was about to drill into the hole to mine the ore.

Just then, waves of beast roars came from all directions.

Immediately after, the ground began to tremble, and chunks of stone and dust kept falling in the mine cavern.

"What's going on?!!"

Liuyan, still shaken, hurriedly crawled out of the mine cavern and brushed off the dirt on his head.

"Well...... it seems like a beast riot!"

The sharp-eyed officer looked into the distance and saw a beast army surging like waves.

"What?!!"

"Beast riot!!"

Except for Ranqingmo, everyone else shivered, their faces shocked beyond belief.

A beast riot is no joke; on the battlefield, once beasts riot, it means the frontline soldiers will face a devastating blow.

Those with good luck, abandoning the defense line to flee, might be able to save their lives.

If luck is bad, the entire regiment will be wiped out!

And this place is a Yuanxi, far more dangerous than the Cave battlefield—who knows how many times more perilous......

「Quick, let's hurry back! 」

The officer who had just spoken quickly pressed a few times on the device in his hand, showing a return path.

「Let's go quickly, life is more important! 」

Gongyuande also crawled out of the mine shaft, and taking advantage of the time while a few people talked, he had already loaded quite a few Energy Stones into his spatial ring.

Ranqingmo also well knew how terrible the beast riot was, and followed the others in a frantic sprint back the way they came.

Her speed was the fastest, but she deliberately stayed at the rear of the group.

After all, these few people only entered the Yuanxi because of her; Ranqingmo couldn't bring himself to abandon them.

「We're about to be surrounded; these beasts are heading in the same direction as us! 」

Liuyan's voice trembled; the road ahead was completely blocked by a huge swarm of beasts.

「Charge forward! 」

Gongyuande let out an angry roar, brandishing his knife as he charged forward, sweeping fiercely and knocking the two beasts blocking the path away.

He glanced back; Liuyan was behind him, the two attendant officers were on the flanks, and Ranqingmo was at the rear, blocking the charging beast herd.

Gongyuande's body stiffened; instinctively he wanted to rush over to help, but the next moment he continued charging forward.

At times like this, staying alive is the key!

Just as the few of them were cooperating to break through the Yuanxi's exit...

A huge black shadow over twenty meters long suddenly swooped down from a mountaintop.

It opened its bloody maw and viciously bit down at Ranqingmo.

Ranqingmo dodged, avoiding the giant mouth, but was struck by the monster's skull and flung deep into the beast herd.

Whoosh——

The massive creature vanished instantly, and along with it disappeared the icy, exquisite Ranqingmo......