349: Zhuang Bifan's tricks

Shen Bei looked around in confusion, like someone who had never seen the world.

Shen Bei was also a bit stunned.

You see, when the two of them jumped down, it was an abyss!

A bottomless abyss!

They floated for about ten minutes before landing in the water.

And when they landed, they discovered that there was no abyss at all, only a small stream.

To compare, it was similar in size to the Huangguoshu Waterfall.

It was completely disproportionate to the scene the two of them had seen before.

At this moment, Shen Bei asked curiously, "What's going on?"

Zhuang Bifan's mouth was almost stretched to his ears, and he spoke quickly, "According to secret intelligence from the military, in the Earth Cave World, there are some top-tier powerhouses. Such powerhouses, as long as they don't instantly turn to ashes, even if their Divine Soul collapses, they still have some time to handle their affairs!"

"This is it, this is a kind of barrier, this is where top-tier powerhouses bury themselves!"

"After this powerhouse passed away, his power dissipated, opening up the Void Realm, creating heaven and earth's surface within it, conjuring something out of nothing, evolving a Secret Realm, just like a real world, but not as perfect."

Zhuang Bifan pointed at the waterfall above, and continued excitedly, "We came in through the entrance, crossing the Void Realm, entering the barrier from Shen Jiang Mountain. I originally thought the news was exaggerated, at most just a tomb left by some Senior expert. I didn't expect such a mysterious place to actually exist!"

"I'm telling you, even if this isn't the Martial Dao Pinnacle place we're looking for, it's still something left by other top-tier powerhouses. This time, we've definitely struck it rich! Even a single leg hair would be thicker than our waist. If we just get a few things, we'll be rich!"

Zhuang Bifan chattered on for a long time.

Shen Bei looked back and finally understood. There was indeed no cave entrance behind them. When they fell just now, the speed was clearly not that fast, nor was the height that great. Otherwise, they would have been smashed to death if they hit the water.

In other words, this was a Small World forcibly opened by a top-tier powerhouse using a barrier.

It was also a technique similar to an illusion.

One can only say that the Dao of martial arts is truly unfathomable. Martial Artists on the earth's surface are still exploring what lies beyond the Martial God level.

But the powerhouses of the Earth Cave World might have already surpassed the limits of Martial Immortals, becoming unnamable existences.

Shen Bei estimated that Martial Gods of Bai Wei's level would more or less know a bit about the ability to open a Small World using a barrier.

But in a situation like this, where the person dies but the Small World remains, Bai Wei and the others would be far behind, dumbfounded, and feel inferior.

It seems that the top-tier powerhouses of the earth's surface Cave are truly hair-raising existences.

At this moment, Shen Bei also became excited and tentatively asked, "Then if we continue to explore, won't we be able to collect many strange items?"

Zhuang Bifan nodded, then shook his head, saying with some uncertainty, "That depends on our luck and fate. Some things, even if they're right in front of you, you can't take them. For example, strange items that have been marked are like being locked with a password; only the owner can use them. Forcibly taking them might lead to some misfortune. You can't not believe this."

Shen Bei hummed in understanding.

To put it bluntly, this wasn't grave robbing, where the dead are just dead and can be messed with casually.

This place was a top-tier powerhouse's Small World; it was their home ground.

Although he had passed away, the energy dispersed within it could still strongly suppress outsiders.

After some discussion, the two of them determined a direction and walked downstream along the river.

However.

They hadn't walked far when a deafening tiger roar came from the dense forest in front of the pool.

In the silent dense forest, fierce winds raged, Demonic Qi soared into the sky, and countless giant trees, tens of meters high, were swept up into the air.

Those giant trees, still in mid-air, were as if they had been cut into a thousand pieces, turning into fragments that scattered with the branches and leaves.

At the edge of the dense forest, the grass and trees trembled.

Shen Bei and Zhuang Bifan immediately stopped.

They stared intently ahead.

In an instant.

A Yao Beast leaped out of the jungle.

It was a pitch-black tiger, with glossy fur, over ten meters tall, and nearly thirty meters long—a colossal creature. Its body surged with fierce Qi, and its steps were like the wind. As it ran, its feet barely touched the ground, and its speed was extremely fast.

Clouds follow the Dragon, wind follows the tiger!

The black tiger's blood-red eyes stared ferociously at Shen Bei and Zhuang Bifan. Its savage nature erupted, and it charged directly at the two of them.

Zhuang Bifan's face turned pale. With almost no hesitation, he stepped on his right foot with his left and immediately turned and ran, "Damn it, there's actually a living creature in here! What are you still looking at! That's an eighth-rank Vicious Beast, run!"

Eighth-rank!

If it were a seventh-rank Vicious Beast, the two of them could still fight.

Eighth-rank... you have to be cowardly when it's appropriate.

This was not something a fifth-rank Shen Bei and a sixth-rank Zhuang Bifan could handle.

Shen Bei immediately turned grim and ran wildly with his head down.

"You damn well didn't say there would be Vicious Beasts here!" Shen Bei shouted, his mouth full of wind.

Zhuang Bifan's body almost left afterimages. "Your complaint is a bit of impotent rage. If I could say whatever I wanted, the first thing I'd say is that you're an ugly monster."

Shen Bei glared at Zhuang Bifan, then turned to look at the black tiger chasing them. At this speed, it would catch up to them in at most thirty breaths.

Shen Bei could only run wildly with his head down. After a short while, he suddenly changed direction and rushed into the dense forest.

Zhuang Bifan stomped his foot in anger. They couldn't escape on flat ground, and he dared to enter the dense forest. He didn't know that in the dense forest, this black tiger was more familiar with the environment than they were. Who could escape this Vicious Beast in the dense forest!

Zhuang Bifan ignored Shen Bei and ran wildly on his own, but after only two breaths, he saw that the black tiger completely ignored Shen Bei and was chasing him.

"Holy crap! Why are you targeting me! Hey, Shen Bei, wait for me!" Zhuang Bifan's face darkened, and he decisively changed direction, following him into the dense forest.

In the dense forest, Shen Bei ran and shouted, "Can we get some light and set this forest on fire?"

Zhuang Bifan was stunned, then immediately understood Shen Bei's idea.

He immediately reached out, grabbed a large ball of light, and slapped it into the mirror.

The mirror surface converged the light, forming a scorching beam of light that shone on the vegetation, continuously igniting the entire forest, with the momentum to set the entire dense forest ablaze.

The flames blazed fiercely. The trees were dense and the vegetation lush. Under Zhuang Bifan's light and heat, it quickly caught fire. In a short while, the dense forest turned into a sea of fire.

Although the black tiger was fast, it was still naturally affected in this situation.

The flames burned more and more fiercely. The black tiger Vicious Beast hesitated slightly, then turned and went around to the side.

Seeing this, Shen Bei secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Logically, with the black tiger's eighth-rank strength, this sea of fire posed no great threat to it, but it was its nature, and it still avoided it.

He was just that donkey whose tricks were exhausted.

He was just bullying the bumpkin black tiger Vicious Beast for not knowing what was good.

However, this method wouldn't buy much time.

"Bei, if we keep this up, we're doomed!" Zhuang Bifan's face was pale, and cold sweat dripped from his temples.

The gap was too big. This Vicious Beast was two ranks higher than him and three ranks higher than Shen Bei. If the black tiger Vicious Beast wasn't a bumpkin, acting entirely on instinct and talent with no knowledge, they would have already died.

"Stop talking nonsense, just run first."

As they rushed forward through the dense forest, the surrounding trees slowly began to change. The towering trees gradually disappeared, replaced by banyan-like trees. The trees were not tall, and aerial roots hung down from their branches. The ground was densely covered with intertwining tree roots.

Roar.

With a roar, strong winds surged from behind, uprooting trees. A gust of malevolent Qi, like wind, howled towards them. Before they even saw the black tiger Vicious Beast, their cheeks were already stinging from the malevolent wind, like the biting cold wind of winter, as if their skin was about to be peeled off.

"Run inside!"

Shen Bei ignored everything and rushed ahead into the depths of the dense forest.

Just then, amidst the chaos, a black shadow arrived in the blink of an eye. A suffocating pressure of life surged towards them. A paw like a fan was about to slap Zhuang Bifan's face.

With this paw, Zhuang Bifan would be miserable even if he didn't die!

In fact, his head might very well explode on the spot!

"Old Bi!"

The despair in Shen Bei's eyes almost spilled out.

And Zhuang Bifan also knew he couldn't dodge, so he suddenly threw his Landing Mirror into the air. The Landing Mirror tumbled a few times, and after floating, its surface faced Zhuang Bifan.

Zhuang Bifan clapped his hands, and with the surging True Qi, his whole body was as if wrapped in a bubble.

"Illusion Mirror Shrinking Art."

"Size is mine, the Realm is born from the heart, open!"

The next moment.

To Shen Bei's astonished gaze, the floating mirror surface shot out a halo of light that shone on Zhuang Bifan's body.

And then, Zhuang Bifan's figure instantly shrunk to the size of a palm!

And the black tiger's attacking paw directly missed!

Driven by inertia, after the black tiger's attack missed, its entire body was flung more than ten meters away.

Shen Bei looked at this scene that happened in an instant with an incredulous expression.

He was completely dumbfounded.

What the f*ck!

Zhuang Bifan's mirror could actually shrink his body!

That's f*cking amazing!

But then he thought, if a mirror can magnify, it can naturally shrink. No problem.

One can only say that Zhuang Bifan truly brought the mirror to life.

"Run!"

Zhuang Bifan instantly returned to his original height, brushing past Shen Bei.

Shen Bei instantly sobered up, "You damn well mean 'die, Fellow Daoist, not poor Daoist.'"

"You weren't thinking that way either..."

"Alright, alright, so this is how we're playing?"

Shen Bei made a hand seal, "Hidden Breath Technique, activate!"

"You f*cking!"

Zhuang Bifan looked back at Shen Bei, only to see his running speed slow down, and at the same time, his entire life aura plummeted like a cliff, becoming like a stone.

In Zhuang Bifan's eyes, Shen Bei was simply cheating.

Giving up speed and strength in exchange for shielding his life aura.

In other words, as long as Shen Bei didn't actively attack or act too cocky in front of the black tiger.

The black tiger Vicious Beast would barely notice Shen Bei, this humanoid stone.

Zhuang Bifan cursed, then threw his Landing Mirror into Shen Bei's arms, muttering, "I'm not being human anymore either!"