Xian Miaomiao darted through the killing formation at tremendous speed, like a streak of light.
To escape this place faster, she unleashed a Heaven-restricted martial skill — a movement technique.
However, sustaining a Heaven-restricted martial skill for such a long time placed an enormous burden on her. She was gasping for breath, her face deathly pale, yet she pressed on.
Rumble—
Suddenly, a thunderous boom echoed through the air, causing the entire world to shudder. A colossal wave of pressure erupted directly from deep underground — like a volcanic eruption, but several times more violent.
Under that savage pressure, even Chu Feng and Xian Miaomiao were affected, struggling to keep their footing.
"What the—!!! What happened?!" Looking downward, Xian Miaomiao's small face changed dramatically.
Below, thick smoke billowed as everything collapsed. Fissures over a thousand meters wide were spreading across the ground, plunging deep into the earth — all one could see was endless darkness.
Looking off into the distance, they found that everything as far as the eye could see was the same, as though the entire Blood Devouring Killing Formation was about to cave in and tear itself apart.
"This is really bad." Yet at that moment, Chu Feng's expression was even more uneasy than Xian Miaomiao's.
"Chu Feng, what on earth is going on?" Xian Miaomiao asked him.
Hum—
Suddenly, instead of answering, Chu Feng swept his sleeve outward, and a tremendous wave of barrier power enveloped both him and Xian Miaomiao.
At the same time, Chu Feng sat cross-legged at the very center of the barrier and took out several barrier treasures from his Universe Bag. His hands moved at blinding speed, forming barrier seals one after another — continuously shifting and merging them into the treasures.
Only after every last barrier treasure had been infused with the barrier's power and integrated into the formation did Chu Feng finally stop.
Once everything was done, Chu Feng and the others vanished, hidden within the void.
What Chu Feng had set up was a concealment formation. Not only could it hide their physical forms, but it concealed their auras completely as well.
"Chu Feng, don't tell me..." After witnessing what Chu Feng had done, Xian Miaomiao had already pieced things together.
"One piece of good news, one piece of bad news."
"The good news is that the sealing formation here has been broken. The pressure has vanished along with it, so I'm safe now."
"The bad news is that because the sealing formation has been broken, the ancient Fierce Beasts sealed here are about to break free." Chu Feng said.
"How infuriating — they actually succeeded in the end. Those damn Dark Hall scum." Xian Miaomiao gritted her teeth in fury. After all, the emergence of ancient Fierce Beasts was never a good thing.
Awoooooooo—
At that moment, several furious roars erupted from the fissures below, and wave after wave of savage auras surged toward the sky.
In that instant, the previously clear sky was swallowed by rolling dark clouds, plunging everything into blackness. On the ground, amid the devastation, bestial roars echoed without cease.
Looking downward, enormous creatures were crawling out of the underground fissures one after another.
Massive — each one stretched a hundred meters long, like a small mountain.
Powerful — every single one possessed the cultivation of a Martial Emperor. The weakest were first-grade Martial Emperors, and the strongest within sight had reached the Martial Emperor realm.
Terrifying — they came in various shapes, but most had three heads and six arms. Their blood-red eyes burned like twin crimson suns, brimming with killing intent, as though they wanted to slaughter every living thing in sight.
But... they did not kill their own kind. And that was the nature of the ancient Fierce Beasts — creatures that had existed since the primordial ages.
Awoo—
The ancient Fierce Beasts were truly savage. Once they crawled out of the earth, they began destroying everything in sight, as if venting their rage and fury upon the world.
A massive claw would slam down, and an entire stretch of land would collapse. The already devastated ground was battered into even worse ruin.
If these creatures were ever to reach a populated area, the consequences would be beyond imagination.
"This is really bad. There are even more of them than I expected."
Chu Feng scanned the area in all directions, his expression growing ever more uneasy. Not only were the massive fissures below releasing Fierce Beasts — nearly every crack was doing the same.
Earlier, Chu Feng had wondered exactly where the Fierce Beasts had been sealed. Now he knew. They had been sealed throughout the depths of the entire Blood Devouring Killing Formation.
The number was simply incalculable — too terrifying. If all of these creatures were let loose, even the Ancient Elves might not be able to stop them all. A catastrophe was inevitable.
"Chu Feng, can you tell which direction we came from? Head back that way — that's where most of the Ancient Elves' forces are." Xian Miaomiao said to him.
Earlier, they had only wanted to leave the depths of the ancient killing formation as quickly as possible, which was why they had Little Red lead the way. But now that the entire Blood Devouring Killing Formation had been broken and the pressure was gone, they no longer needed to fear it — and Chu Feng could take over as their guide.
"Alright." Chu Feng didn't hesitate, immediately soaring in the direction they had come from.
Despite the dire situation, Chu Feng knew he first had to protect himself and Xian Miaomiao, and the best way to do that was to quickly regroup with the Ancient Elves' powerhouses.
After all, besides the Fierce Beasts, the Dark Hall's experts were also lurking in this area. His concealment barrier could avoid the Fierce Beasts, but it might not be enough to evade the Dark Hall's fighters.
Chu Feng directed the way while Xian Miaomiao carried them forward. To move even faster, she once again unleashed a Heaven-restricted movement technique, and their speed became truly extraordinary.
Ding—
Ding—
Ding—
Ding—
However, after Xian Miaomiao had been flying for a long while, a series of piercing bell chimes suddenly rang out from up ahead. When the ancient Fierce Beasts charging outward heard those chimes, they let out miserable shrieks—
And looking in the direction of the bell chimes, blinding golden light began to appear. The closer they got, the more dazzling the radiance became. In the face of that golden light, the ancient Fierce Beasts recoiled in terror and started fleeing back the way they had come.