Chapter 206 – Crocodile-like Beast (2/2)

“What kind of beast is this? A pangolin?”

Qinghan stood there frowning, and told himself to be aware of this mysterious beast, which was sure quite good at defense. These beasts could plunge into the ground whenever their life was threatened.

Qinghan kept standing at the spot observing, to ensure that these beasts wouldn’t come out to do harm to him again. After a little while, nothing happened, so he sighed and left.

The vastness of the desert made Qinghan believe that he would never be able to reach the exit. Furthermore, the flying sand in the air added difficulty to tell the directions. At last, Qinghan gave up identifying the right direction; instead, he walked randomly without any purpose.

After some while of walking, he stopped and hunkered on the ground. Half of his energy was spent on cultivation, while the other half on watching his surroundings, in case any unexpected danger occurred. In this way, his speed of cultivation was constrained, and the outcome was not satisfactory, but he had no better choice. He had to replenish the Battle Qi he had consumed. The fierce, life-threatening battle was yet to come, so he had to stock as much as Battle Qi as he possible could.

“Eh? What’s that?”

A couple of hours had past, now Qinghan arrived at a black terrace, at the top of which the exit was. The black terrace and the dark exit were so vividly exposed against the large background of the yellow desert.

Being encouraged by this new finding, Qinghan rushed to the terrace at his maximum speed. However… it only took a little while that the whole terrace disappeared all of a sudden, and the whole spot was finally replace by the yellow sand.

“Alas… another mirage!”

Qinghan was pissed off by this rollercoaster of feelings, first he was happy to find the exit but later only found it was nothing but another untouchable illusion.

- Shu! Shu! Shu! -

When Qinghan was cursing at the unreasonable design of the scene, an ear splitting noise emerged from the air. From all four direction, countless black shadows flashed out.

“Fuck, so many of them! Swirling Air Chop!”

To Qinghan’s astonishment, these shadowy beasts came in large numbers. He immediately used one of the Seven Techniques of the Ye Emperor as he attacked the swooping shadows. The dagger went through the shadows but they didn’t disappear as the previous ones.

Qinghan released more Battle Qi to form an armor, so that he could shield away the attacks from those beasts.

- Bang! -

- Ahhh! -

As Qinghan thrust shimmer-edged dagger into the shadowy beasts, he felt, at the same time, that his armor of Battle Qi was torn apart by the sharp claws of these unknown beasts. Some visible wounds could be found on his skin. Qinghan groaned in agony but he had to continue the battle at any expense.

Regardless of his bruises and injuries, he stared at the strange-looking beasts in front of him. As the battle went on, his wounds soon recovered after the white flow from his bronze ring permeated into the crevice of his skin. This miraculous moment was witnessed by all the four shadowy beasts that survived till this minute. Obviously, they were stunned to find this self-healing technique.

The appearance of these four beasts very much resembled the crocodiles Qinghan saw in his previous life. The difference was, their tails looked much shorter than real crocodiles, but their legs were quite long. The most distinguished part was their claws, for they were as sharp as the edge of a steel knife. What made their outlook funny was their pointy heads. But their bloodshot eyes and yellowish scales, which was a little darker than the color of the sand, made them looked ferocious.

“Soul Chaos! Breaking Ground Chop!”

Qinghan was desperate to end this battle as soon as possible, for he was afraid that the clamor here would only attract more beasts to come.

With the flashing of an exotic purple light, Qinghan held his dagger firmly, and spurted to the nearest crocodile-like beast…