Chapter Eighty-One: Soul-Devouring Wasp

  The Taihang Mountains are vast and unknown, with even more ferocious beasts roaming about, making it quite difficult to find someone here.

  Here, the mountains are towering and the trees are dense, the waterfall falls straight down for hundreds of feet, and the Flying Peak rises into the clouds. This is no longer the outer reaches of the Taihang Mountains, and the sound of six breaking through the air comes from the sky. Soon, six figures appear in this expanse of sky, and several roars come from the distant mountains and forests, as if warning these six people.

  "Big brother, we can't go any deeper. This isn't just the outer reaches of the Taixing Mountains. Those few fourth-stage demonic beasts from earlier were already warning us. If we continue to charge in, we'll have to fight those powerful fourth-stage demonic beasts."

  Among the six people, the other five looked at the one who was in charge. His face was gloomy, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light, full of murderous intent.

  "We just stopped for a moment and they were gone. At their speed, they can't have run far. Everyone go down and search slowly!"

  "What about the territory of those four-stage demon beasts?" another person asked.

  "Let's just forget about it. A fourth-stage demonic beast is much stronger than an ordinary martial emperor, and both of them are now severely injured by us, so they naturally won't go looking for death."

  After finishing speaking, the six people descended one after another and began to carefully search this area.

  However, they knew too little about Xu Hua and Luo Cheng. With the existence of life energy, the injuries of the two were not as serious as they had imagined. Luo Cheng's injury was basically unimpeded, although he still couldn't exert his full strength, but it was no problem to exert 70% or 80% of his strength.

  Here, the powerful demon beasts are countless, and it's indeed impossible to continue flying with their aura like that, as they would easily be attacked by the powerful demon beasts. So they hid in the forest. Both of them possess special abilities, one can sense the life energy around him, and the other can control blood, making them much more agile than those six people in the forest.

  Avoiding those powerful monsters, the two of them quickly shuttled through this jungle, and for some reason, they didn't encounter those six people all day. In the end, neither of them knew where they were.

  "Luò Chéng, find a place for me to recover properly. Rushing on the road while treating my injuries is not effective at all." A day later, Xú Huá's injuries had improved significantly, but he still didn't have much combat strength and could be killed by even a single third-tier demonic beast.

  "It's fine here, there aren't any powerful demons nearby, and with me keeping watch, nothing will happen!" Luo Cheng's injuries had already healed. "Who are those people, why do they want to kill the young master?"

  "I don't know what kind of power it is, but with me having a grudge and being able to send six strong martial emperors to kill me, there are only the ruling powers of Luo City and the Red Shadow Sect of Dongyue City." Xu Hua immediately sat down on the ground and began to treat his injuries.

  "It doesn't seem like the Red Shadow Sect's style, after all, that six-man combo wasn't simple." Luo Cheng's eyes revealed a solemn expression, and then his face showed a strong bloodthirsty killing intent: "No matter who it is, I will let them know the consequences of pursuing the young master."

  After finishing speaking, Luo Cheng stood motionless beside Xu Hua like a statue.

  In a certain part of the Taihang Mountains, six middle-aged men wearing black robes were now fleeing quickly and in disarray through the dense forest. At this moment, each of their faces had swollen with many large boils, on their foreheads, noses, cheeks, arms, and even lips, everywhere.

  "What the heck, what are those little bugs? The Chi doesn't seem to have any effect on them." As they ran, the six of them turned their heads back to look at the dense swarm of tiny bugs, each about the size of a finger, chasing after them, with a hint of panic in their eyes.

  "This time we've really stirred up a hornet's nest. Those things seem to be Soul-Devouring Wasps, which feed on spiritual energy. Although true energy is no longer spiritual energy, it is still transformed from spiritual energy, so using true energy to deal with them naturally has no effect. Don't look at their small size, but each one is a second-order demon beast, and that mouth is extremely hard, even stone can be easily bitten off, even some fourth-order demon beasts don't want to mess with them. Running into them can only be considered our bad luck, let's find a pond quickly, it's said they're afraid of water, hiding underwater will be fine." Another person seemed to have seen this kind of demon beast in an ancient book and spoke up.

  At this moment, everyone's face turned extremely ugly. In the Taihang Mountains, there were indeed no water pools, but around each pool, there were many powerful demon beasts. This was already the middle edge of the Taihang Mountains, and fourth-stage demon beasts certainly existed. Although they had six people and knew how to work together, they didn't want to provoke powerful fourth-stage demon beasts.

  "We must find a place to hide immediately, or we will definitely not be able to escape the pursuit of these Soul-Devouring Wasps. Even when facing a fourth-tier demonic beast, we are not without the power to put up a fight, but against the Soul-Devouring Wasps, there is only death!" The leader gritted his teeth and said.

  Wow! Wow!

  A group of people immediately quickened their pace and rushed forward, because there was a pond ahead. Yesterday when they passed by this place, they deliberately avoided it, because there was a powerful fourth-order demon beast, the Wind Leopard, but now they had to grit their teeth and rush past.

  "Humming"

  Behind the six of them, a swarm of razor wasps chased after. Razor wasps were extremely vengeful, and the group in front had destroyed their newly built nest, so they vowed to devour them clean.

  "Water pool!"

  About a hundred zhang ahead, a quiet and serene water pool lay there, with a length of about a hundred zhang and a width of fifty zhang. The six people were extremely excited, almost forgetting the existence of the four-stage demon beast, wanting to jump into the water pool immediately.

  "Chase Cloud Leopard!" The leader of the six pointed to the leopard lying on the ground beside the pond, which looked as big as a small hill.

  "Hoo, hoo"

  The Cloud Leopard lying there suddenly discovered the approach of the six, and immediately raised its head. A pair of pupils with unique flower patterns stared fiercely at the six, and a loud roar came from its mouth, as if warning them: This is my territory, don't come near!

  Chuiyun Bao could also feel the powerful aura emitted by the six people, although it was still not as strong as his own, but it wasn't weak either. If it weren't for this, he would have definitely charged over and swallowed all six of them whole.

  "Big brother, this cloud leopard seems to be very powerful, it's obviously been in the fourth stage for decades, fighting it is too dangerous." However, when he turned his head and saw that group of sky-covering, earth-shrouding Soul-Devouring Wasps, "Big brother, let's hurry up and rush over, the Soul-Devouring Wasps are catching up!"

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

  The six people ignored the warning and immediately rushed forward to the Water Pool, chasing after Yun Bao. Yun Bao was furious and let out a thunderous roar that echoed far away. The demonic beasts in the distance who heard this sound trembled with fear, some of them fleeing in panic. At this time, from the east, south, west, and north, a loud beastly roar came from each direction, apparently from a great demon of the same level as Yun Bao, seemingly responding to Yun Bao's call.

  Just as Chuiyun Bao was about to attack the six people, he discovered a large group of Soul-Devouring Bees behind him that blotted out the sky and sun. He immediately ignored the six people and instead let out an even more intense roar towards the bees. Clearly in Chuiyun Bao's eyes, the threat from these six people was not as great as that from this group of Soul-Devouring Bees.

  Splish-splash! Splish-splash!

  At this moment, the six people jumped into the water pool one after another, leaving only the Pursuing Cloud Leopard, which was as big as a small hill, confronting a large group of Devouring Spirit Bees.

  It seemed that because they had discovered their arch-nemesis had disappeared, this group of Soul-Devouring Wasps, numbering around five to six hundred thousand, all went crazy and immediately charged towards Chasing Clouds Jaguar. The Soul-Devouring Wasps recognized that it was this guy who had let their enemy go, so they vented all their anger on Chasing Clouds Jaguar.

  As the swarm of Soul-Devouring Wasps flew over, Chui Yun Bao also became enraged. Although he dreaded these numerous small insects, at this moment he didn't care about that anymore.

  Roar...... Roar~!

  Chuiyun Bao's massive paws slapped down, killing dozens of Soul-Devouring Bees with a single palm. The other bees had already closed in on his demonic body and began to bite.

  Ahh... Ahh~!

  Although the Cloud Leopard's body had been tempered by heavenly lightning and was extremely hard, especially the thick layer of skin on its surface which was almost as hard as the inner armor of a spiritual artifact. However, its opponent was a Devouring Spirit Bee, and even a first-stage Devouring Spirit Bee could easily bite through stone, let alone a second-stage one. Even the Cloud Leopard felt like it would be bitten into holes under the gnawing of countless Devouring Spirit Bees, constantly rolling around on the ground and making mournful sounds.

  In a short while, quite a few Soul-Devouring Wasps were crushed to pulp by his massive body that was like a small mountain! Although the mouths of the Soul-Devouring Wasps were extremely hard, their bodies weren't as hard. Under Yun Tianhe's trampling, they died one after another.

  But it must be said that the Soul Stingers are extremely troublesome, and their traditional virtues of persistence and perseverance are not to be underestimated. Even with nearly seven or eight thousand Soul Stinger Wasps dying in the process, the remaining ones continued to gnaw at the Cloud Leopard's flesh with big bites. Soon, some Soul Stingers even bit off large chunks of skin and entered the Cloud Leopard's body.

  Aaaaahhhh!!!

  At last, a large number of wasps stung the Cloud Leopard's flesh, and it could only jump into the pond in pain, splashing a lot of water.

  The shore was a mess, with many large trees fallen down, and the ground had many big holes. The bodies of countless Corpse Wasp Beasts were scattered all over the place, most of which only had blood and flesh left, making it impossible to tell that they were Corpse Wasp Beasts.

  Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

  At this time, the ripples rose again in the pond that had just calmed down, and the six people rushed out of the pond quickly.

  "Quickly escape, this clouded leopard will surely hate us to death. Once it comes out, it will definitely hunt and kill us to the end!"

  The six people quickly escaped into the dense thicket, disappearing from view, which made the Pursuing Cloud Leopard that had shaken off the Soul-Devouring Bees extremely resentful! It could only let out a long howl towards the sky, venting its grievances.

  Roar! Rooooaaaar!