Chapter 262

Block the left side!

Set up the sword formation!

In a disordered forest, Yu Qiuyi, Ye Hongxue, and Liu Yu led twenty-one low-ranking disciples, desperately resisting the beasts' attack.

Nearby trees snapped one after another, and countless beasts howled and roared, rushing forward wave after wave.

When they burst out of the valley in the morning, over two hundred people were scattered by the endless, restless beast swarms and poisonous insect swarms; they barely gathered into three groups, fighting while retreating, and ended up here.

Originally thirty together, protected by three Primordial Dan Realm cultivators, but facing the relentless, sea-like onslaught of fearless beasts, six died!

The sky was gray, the air filled with an indescribable killing intent, sour stench, and bloodiness; everywhere near and far were piercing beast roars.

Xu Wei and Ye Ling'er stood shoulder to shoulder, following Senior Sister Liu Yu's orders, together with fellow disciples from other sects, they set up a sword formation to block the black bears and wolf pack on the left.

Seeing the towering, sturdy black bears and their ferocious appearance, Ye Ling'er felt a hint of helplessness; she swung her spirit sword desperately while saying, "Senior Brother, my spiritual power is almost exhausted; if I don't cultivate and meditate, I fear I'll have no strength left!"

Xu Wei's face was smeared with blood, his former young master appearance gone; he gave a bitter laugh, repelled two black bears: "Perhaps the beast horde won't give us time—take your pills, I'll protect you!"

Ye Ling'er felt disheartened: "The pills are almost gone; I might die here!"

"Don't talk like that!" Xu Wei scolded, "We've already passed the trials of the dense forest and the strange sea; maybe tomorrow we can reach the ruins of the super sect and obtain the Fate Opportunity."

"Hey, you two, stop chatting—the beast horde is pressing in!" someone shouted nearby.

"Got it!" The two gripped their spirit weapons and fiercely charged at the black bear pack again.

On the other side, Yu Qiuyi manipulated a silk scarf treasure, keeping the beasts within a ten-zhang radius of the southern direction at bay; she glanced at the disciples behind her, seeing the line unbroken, she breathed a sigh of relief and said to Ye Hongxue on the other side: "It's already dusk; if things develop as we previously guessed, the trial will end before dawn!"

Ye Hongxue controlled a large, continuously rotating twin-sword treasure, blocking a swath of demonic beasts and two beast kings: "This night will probably be tough!"

Yu Qiuyi showed a hint of bitterness on her face: "Yeah, who knows how many will remain. Honestly, when we came down, I never imagined we'd face such a scene!"

Ye Hongxue shook her head: "I have thought about it; my master once told me more than once that ancient ruins are unfathomably mysterious, their protective seals and formations will transform into all sorts of strange trials.

Her generation, when they explored ancient ruins, didn't know how many died before achieving today's sect scale; by the way, it's said that…… the young Nangong Liluo of Tianyuan Sect was a standout among those who explored the ruins."

Upon mentioning "Nangong Liluo," one thinks of her disciple Heng Xian.

Yu Qiuyi said: "You say Heng Xian is alone in here, facing not only various trials but also the pursuit of disciples from other sects, all by himself with no help—wouldn't that be even harder?"

"That…… is hard to say?" Ye Hongxue hesitated: "You could refer to Mao Liannan!"

Yu Qiuyi was at a loss for words, then thought: "Mao Liannan probably isn't doing well either; even if you say he's heavenly, he's only a Qi Hai Realm cultivator, and now the beast horde is violent—he can't even hide, let alone dodge."

Just as they were speaking, the northern defense line was breached by a pack of hungry wolves; on the spot, three low-ranking disciples were drowned by the wolf pack.

"Junior Sister!"

Yu Qiuyi let out a loud shout, while continuing to manipulate the silk scarf treasure, she flew her sword forward to attack.

However, the northern low-ranking disciples and the wolf pack were tangled together, leaving no room to strike.

"Ow—"

The seven or eight beast kings outside, smelling the bloodiness, attacked even more frenziedly.

The two felt strained.

Meanwhile, Liu Yu, who was defending against a flock of strange birds above, could not come down to help.

Looking ahead, the eastern and northern "defense lines" were about to collapse.

At that moment, the distant ground trembled as a huge monstrous creature came charging ferociously.

It was that kind of irregular impact—no matter what beast horde, it would be flung away.

In the beast horde, which though violent only knew how to attack human cultivators, such a thing was extremely rare.

Yu Qiuyi and Ye Hongxue couldn't help but look over; they saw a rhinoceros king over ten zhang long, with a steel-like massive body and a horn like a great tree, giving a sense of heavy pressure.

The two felt their hearts sink.

By then the rhinoceros king had arrived; its horn forcefully overturned two beast kings and a group of wild boars, then…… it did not attack them but instead circled around, clearing away the outer layer of ferocious beasts.

All the sect disciples felt the pressure lighten; they all turned to look at the rhinoceros king, someone with sharp eyes pointed at its back and exclaimed in disbelief: "That's……"

The rhinoceros king's huge back actually had a person sitting on it, wearing a golden helmet and iron armor, with a mask.

Who else could it be but Mao Liannan?

"Um……" Yu Qiuyi, Ye Hongxue, and Liu Yu on the other side also didn't know how to express their feelings.

Just moments ago we were talking about him, and here he appears; the key is that this "Mao Liannan" does everything in an utterly unexpected way—what on earth is he up to?

Heng Xian also didn't know what he was doing!

He had been tangled with that rhinoceros king for a whole day, neither could best the other, but he just discovered that there is an air vent on the rhinoceros king's back; touching it makes the rhinoceros king ticklish, causing it to tremble and let out a strange cry.

Moreover, scratching the vent on the left makes it go left; scratching on the right makes it go right.

This is simply a miraculous discovery!

Just now, as he passed by, he saw Ye Ling'er and Xu Wei about to collapse, so he rescued them once—this had nothing to do with the others.

Now, seeing the encirclement loosened, he changed his posture on the rhinoceros king's back and continued to scratch the "air vent"; the rhinoceros king cried out strangely and ran off to the other side, charging straight through, reckless and unstoppable!

He left behind a crowd of onlookers staring in shock!

"Can he control the rhinoceros king?" Liu Yu above asked in a trembling voice.

"This bastard seems to know everything; I really wonder…… has he been here before!" Yu Qiuyi sighed.

Ye Hongxue urged: "Stop being dazed, rush out, find a high hill to hold, otherwise we won't survive till dawn!"

"Kill!"

A group of people exerted all their strength to charge toward one side.

The same scene was also unfolding in the other six places.

Those with luck found an easy-to-defend, hard-to-attack terrain to station and resist.

Those with bad luck directly faced a beast tide like seawater and poisonous insects in the sky "air force"; personnel dwindled, casualties were heavy.

But almost everyone had seen the "Mao Liannan" riding the rhinoceros king, the top of the beast food chain, behaving strangely, charging straight through, reckless and unstoppable!

This is simply insane to the point of making one's hair stand on end!

We're doing everything we can to stay alive!

And yet you're joyriding on the Rhino King??

Why is the gap between people so enormous?!

The key is, how did this person manage to do that?

Night fell quickly, and the beast packs in the darkness grew more violent and bloodthirsty.

The number of disciples from each sect dwindled one by one.

This night felt like a hellish torment for everyone!

At the first light of dawn, the beast herd, as if having received some command, left the ground littered with corpses and retreated like a tide.

On a mountain road, Heng Xian was still lifting his sore, numb arm to give the Rhino King a 'scratch an itch' when suddenly his support gave way; the Rhino King had shrunk a lot and desperately darted off into the distance.

He landed on the ground, glanced at the empty surroundings, let out a breath, a faint smile appeared on his face—finally it was over!

(End of chapter)