82: Chapter 82 Chase and Escape

Outside the Spirit Realm.

From the spatial rift, spirit beasts continued to charge out, and the pile of corpses on the ground had already formed a mountain of flesh over ten meters high.

The Wasteland Mountain Lion snorted impatiently.

Just as it raised its eyes, the body of a spirit beast that had rushed out of the rift exploded without warning—flesh and blood shattered, turning into a rain of debris that poured down.

Centered on the spirit realm rift, over a hundred meters away, a dozen or so native spirit beasts of Earth Star were quietly watching the scene.

They were not looking at the mountain of corpses, but at the rift itself.

In their beastly eyes burned a kind of bone-deep hostility, as if the rift itself was an unforgivable enemy.

More and more native spirit beasts were gathering from all directions, like an assembly on the eve of a great war.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a dragon's roar exploded in the sky without warning, tearing a fissure through the clouds, and a terrifying sound wave rolled over the entire forest.

The beasts in the forest all prostrated themselves on the ground, heads pressed against the soil, trembling, not even daring to breathe.

"Is this... the White Flood Dragon of the Chang City Lord?"

Chairman Cui Geng looked up at the sky. When he saw the White Flood Dragon, over thirty meters long with churning silver scales, he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "This aura... is it level sixty?"

The White Flood Dragon's gaze locked onto the spirit realm rift immediately.

It dove down from the clouds, hovering suddenly just before it was about to crash into the ground, standing in mid-air with mist swirling between its scales.

It cast a casual glance at the Wasteland Mountain Lion and the Savage Earth Bear below, then urged the passengers on its back to get down quickly.

"We're here? That big black eagle couldn't keep up at all..."

The captain of the Third Team slid down the White Flood Dragon's body, looked at the spirit realm rift ahead, and waved to the companions who were jumping down one after another.

"Reiterating: First mission, rescue the people."

"Second, investigate the spirit realm intelligence. This mission focuses on rescuing people; only after the people are rescued will we consider whether to hunt the Beast King. Let's go."

The Third Team did not exchange a single word with Chairman Cui Geng throughout the process. After confirming the mission objectives, they decisively charged into the rift.

"Qin Ding, run!"

"I can see it!" Qin Ding didn't care about the wounds on Da Hei's back and climbed on.

At this moment, the Red Chain Snake transformed into a tether; its head bit firmly onto the shaft of Qin Ding's spear, and its tail stretched and elongated, tightly wrapping around Cui Yan's wrist.

"Awoo!"

[Boss! Why are these crocodiles different from the ones I saw last time? How are they so big!]

The Sha Jin Wolf was clearly quite shocked, its voice trembling, but it didn't stop for a second, sprinting like crazy.

The swamp terrain was no obstacle for it; the Hundred-Refined Body allowed it to step firmly and fiercely with every stride.

Qin Ding looked grave and didn't answer, only glancing back at Cui Yan, who was being dragged along as if surfing, then his gaze moved past her to the group of frantically pursuing crocodiles further away.

Those crocodiles, the smallest were eight meters long, and the largest definitely exceeded ten meters.

But what really made one's scalp tingle was not their size, but their armor.

Even though they weren't submerged by the swamp, black liquid was still slowly seeping from the gaps in their armor, dripping into the muddy water with a harsh sizzling sound.

And there were a full five of these monsters chasing behind them!

[Spirit Beast: Poison-Armored Giant Crocodile]

[Potential: Inferior - Good]

[Element: Water]

[Level: 16-21 (Elite)]

[Abilities: Poison Armor, Corrosive Swamp Giant, Feigned Death Poison Gas, Sluggish]

[Bloodline: Crocodilian (100%)]

[Evolution Path Crocodilian: ...]

[Potential Enhancement: ...]

[Description: A large crocodilian spirit beast living in swamp areas. It has a massive body but average agility, rarely leaves its territory, usually acts in groups, and has good value for positional cultivation.]

"Damn! There are Elite-tier ones too!"

After seeing the level of that group of Poison-Armored Giant Crocodiles, Qin Ding spat fiercely.

The only thing to be thankful for right now was that these crocodiles were not fast, their reactions were slow, and added to the fact that the water level in this swamp wasn't high, these big guys couldn't use the current to accelerate their charge.

Qin Ding's mind raced, his eyes scanning around until he discovered a deadwood forest on the left.

Quickly observing the situation of the deadwood forest, Qin Ding, who noticed it was constantly bubbling, suddenly had an idea. "Earth Dog, run to the deadwood forest on the left! The mud swamp there is very deep. They are large, so they will get stuck more easily!"

"Awoo!"

[Alright, Boss!]

The Sha Jin Wolf responded, and without the slightest hesitation, it sharply changed direction, stepping on the muddy water as it charged towards the deadwood forest.

The five Poison-Armored Giant Crocodiles followed closely behind, their heavy bodies crushing through the swamp with a dull, booming sound.

The deadwood forest was getting closer. The trees here were gray, white, and twisted, and the water surface around the tree roots was bubbling with eerie dark green bubbles, clearly dead wood that had been dead for some time.

The Sha Jin Wolf leaped, accurately stepping on a fallen dead tree trunk to gain leverage, and jumped over a deep swamp.

Cui Yan, who was being dragged behind, screamed, her whole body swinging like she was on a swing.

"Slow down! Slow down!"

"Survival is what matters, I can't slow down!"

Qin Ding retorted mercilessly. Only the Red Chain Snake expressed no opinion, nor could it.

The speed of the Poison-Armored Giant Crocodiles behind them slowed down significantly when they reached the edge of the deadwood forest.

Two of the smaller ones tried to bypass the trees to pursue, but one fell into a hidden deep swamp and struggled a few times before crawling out.

But the remaining three giant crocodiles stopped, lined up in a row, and slowly opened their mouths full of fangs, a thick, putrid odor surging from the depths of their throats.

"The poison doesn't just come out from the scales, it can also be exhaled from the mouth as poison mist?!" Qin Ding's eyes widened, and he shouted sharply, "Earth Dog, accelerate!"

The three Poison-Armored Giant Crocodiles simultaneously spewed out thick, ink-green mist.

The mist spread rapidly along the surface of the swamp, like a plague of locusts passing through; wherever it went, the dead wood sizzled, decaying and vanishing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Sha Jin Wolf sprinted with all its might. In the end, its speed was a notch faster, and it quickly widened the distance between them, so the poison mist from the Poison-Armored Giant Crocodiles didn't catch up.

The end of this deadwood forest was an open shallow beach, with a few huge rocks scattered on the water surface.

The Earth Dog rushed in one breath to the bottom of the largest rock, its four limbs went soft, and it collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.

Qin Ding jumped down, looked at the stones on the ground and the gradually hardening soil, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Looks like we're lucky, finding a patch of solid ground in the swamp."

After muttering this, Qin Ding seemed to think of something and turned to look at Cui Yan, who was deathly pale behind him.

"How are you?"

Cui Yan's face was pale. She looked at Qin Ding, who looked normal, rolled her eyes speechlessly, and shook her head. "Still alive."

Qin Ding nodded slightly upon hearing this.

It was good that the boss was still alive; she didn't look like she had any serious injuries, the biggest ones being just some scratches.

Looking back, the poison mist was still lingering, but the figures of those Poison-Armored Giant Crocodiles were nowhere to be seen.

"Looks like we've managed to shake them off."

"This situation where you get attacked just by being seen... it's not fun..."

The Red Chain Snake was lying on the ground as if dead. If it weren't a high-level spirit beast with extremely strong flexibility and elasticity, then given that escape situation just now?

It would have been torn in two.

Cui Yan, sitting on the ground applying ointment to herself, heard this and rubbed the exhausted Red Chain Snake.

"I had only heard before that every spirit realm is different, and that once discovered by spirit beasts within a spirit realm, you would be attacked indiscriminately."

"But I didn't expect it to be this ridiculous. It's a good thing your Sha Jin Wolf is fast and could shake off that group of crocodiles."