abnabooks Chapter 123 The Former Residence of the Witch Clan
Chapter 123 The Former Residence of the Witch Clan
"Roar!" Feifei, who was clearing the way ahead, suddenly roared. The monsters on both sides immediately retreated instinctively. At this moment, as an ancient beast whose spiritual power level had reached level eight, Feifei's kingly aura was revealed among the monsters.
Under Feifei's charge, the group's progress was slow but relatively easy. Their only worry was how much longer they would have to go, or where they would be able to get rid of these monsters completely.
By now, they had killed dozens of monsters. The battlefield was littered with monster limbs and carcasses, and many stone statues and wild grass were stained red with blood. The strong smell of blood made it almost impossible for them to breathe.
This was a truly bizarre place. The sky was shrouded in a gray mist, and the ground was covered with withered yellow grass. The entire world was shrouded in darkness, making them feel as if they were facing not endless slaughter but the coming of the apocalypse.
"Something's not right, everyone be careful!" Han Kexin, who was in charge of defending against the monster's attack, warned the others.
Something was definitely wrong, because the monsters suddenly stopped attacking and retreated. Of course, they didn't just retreat; instead, they gathered together, and different types of monsters lined up, like soldiers on a battlefield divided into different formations, with a leader in each formation directing the battle.
The leaders were almost all standing on tall stone statues. Qin Xiaochuan looked at the leaders and found that the spiritual power of the three-headed wolf leader and the fish-eyed monster leader had reached level 7.
The leaders howled at each other on the stone statues, seemingly discussing tactics. After about ten seconds, they launched another attack.
First was the leader of the three-headed wolves, with a black ball of spiritual energy gathering in each of its mouths, clearly preparing for an attack. The leader of the fish-eyed monsters stood on a tall statue with a human head and a snake's body, holding a wooden staff and looking up at the sky. Then, the gray mist in the air above everyone's heads began to swirl continuously, eventually turning into an ink-black cloud, from which bolts of lightning would occasionally flash across the sky.
"Run!" Han Kexin decisively ordered the others upon seeing this. She had clearly seen through the monsters' intentions. Qin Xiaochuan did not hesitate for a moment, picked up Xiaoying, and ran forward desperately after them.
"Roar~"
Suddenly, a roar rang out from both sides of the grassland at the same time. Immediately afterward, an army of black-haired gorillas appeared on the left and a unicorn boar appeared on the right. Just as Han Kexin finished speaking, they charged in from both sides. These two monsters shared a common characteristic: they were thick-skinned and had extremely high defense. Qin Xiaochuan's Blazing Dance could only kill two of them at most at a time. If they were to charge in at the same time, they would be in a very passive position.
Just as these beasts charged down, the black orb of spiritual energy from the three-headed wolf's mouth and the lightning from the sky were finally launched at them, seemingly intending to deliver a fatal blow to the five.
Naturally, no one would sit idly by and wait to die. Zhou Bin quickly formed a hand seal while running, and his spiritual power was instantly drained. Then, a flash of red light appeared, and a red giant five or six meters tall appeared in front of everyone.
This red giant was exactly the same as the one he used in his last battle with Taro Kawamoto, holding a shield in his left hand and a heavy sword in his right, only several times larger.
The three-headed wolf's black energy ball arrived in the blink of an eye, but it was easily blocked by the red giant raising his giant shield.
Bang! Like a muffled thunderclap in summer, it was deafening, and the red giant's body trembled involuntarily, but he finally regained his balance.
Following the black sphere of spiritual energy, a bolt of lightning, like a silver snake, fell straight down from the dark clouds. Just as it was about to strike the five people, the red giant shielded them with his greatsword.
Lightning, like a lively creature, immediately climbed up the giant sword upon encountering it, rapidly surging along its length. The red giant then swung the sword, as if in the legendary creation myth of Pangu splitting the heavens and earth, smashing it into the black-haired gorilla charging towards them.
Boom! The earth seemed to tremble. After a huge roar, lightning struck every black-haired gorilla in an instant, and every monster couldn't help but let out a heart-wrenching roar of pain.
When the one-horned boars were less than three meters away from the five people on their right, a dark shadow suddenly descended from the sky. It was the shield of the red giant, which slammed the bristly beasts into the cracks in the ground with the force of a mountain crashing down. In just a moment, only a few of the boars remained in the large group, and they were quickly dealt with by the others.
Under the cover of the red giant, they raced forward, but the monsters' attacks did not stop there. Countless attacks continued to come at them, and the red giant became sluggish after suffering a series of blows, and it looked like its spiritual energy was about to be exhausted.
Fortunately, they finally saw a tall hillside ahead, covered with various buildings. Although they didn't know what might be there, it seemed better than their current location, so they immediately roused themselves and ran desperately toward the hillside.
At the foot of the hillside, there was a small river more than two meters wide, with several stone bridges spanning it. To their surprise, the monsters stopped immediately when they reached the riverbank, as if there were some taboo surrounding the hillside. Even though they roared angrily at the group, none of them dared to cross the line.
This made the five of them somewhat uneasy, wondering what exactly existed on this hillside that even these ferocious and bloodthirsty monsters hesitated to approach.
Qin Xiaochuan looked around and found that the hillside was very gentle, with almost no visible slope, but it was very long, so much so that they couldn't see what the top of the hill looked like from where they were.
Before them stretched a wide avenue paved with bluestone slabs, leading straight to the unseen summit of the hill. The avenue was about four or five meters wide, comparable to an asphalt road in the city. At each end, every ten feet, stood two jade statues carved from white jade. Without exception, the statues depicted a sorcerer with a human head and a snake's body. They wore clothes made of exquisite animal fur and were adorned with all sorts of fine gemstones and ornaments, all genuine gemstones, not carved ones. It was a mystery how the ancients had managed to inlay them into the stone statues.
Next to the stone statue are rows of simple houses, mostly made of wood and thatch. They are arranged in a stepped pattern, and after the relentless erosion of time, most of the so-called houses have actually become piles of rotten wood.
These simple houses naturally have very little furniture. Even if there is some, it's just some daily necessities. Compared to furniture, there's mostly knee-high weeds. This kind of place is perfect for small animals to live in, so you can often see a hedgehog or weasel peeking out from the weeds, only to disappear again a moment later.
There was still no wind here, otherwise those dilapidated houses could not have survived for so long. There were many rotten wagons and wooden barrels on the riverbank, which looked like they were used to transport water up the hillside. Several flocks of demon-eyed crows perched on the rotten wood, some watching them, while others flew around in the weeds, adding a layer of desolation to the ruins of the place.
And so a lingering question unexpectedly crept into his mind, one that he couldn't shake off for a long time, because he was genuinely curious—
I don't know what caused this place to become so desolate.