Yuan Ming ran for two or three hundred feet before daring to stop, hiding behind a rock. His chest heaved violently as he gasped for breath.

In that moment just now, he felt like he was about to be discovered. If he hadn’t lit the incense in advance to hinder the other party, he would not have been able to escape.

“The soul cultivator in the Foundation Building stage is really terrifying. Fortunately, I have the cloak given by Xiying. I wonder how Xiying is doing,” Yuan Ming pressed his chest with one hand, feeling like he had just brushed shoulders with the Grim Reaper.

But in the midst of panic, he still closed his eyes and began to check the perspectives of the two soul crows he had sent out.

One of them stayed at the entrance where Xiying was, and the other continued to monitor the square area.

At the entrance of the Biluo Cave, he had not seen the figure of the silver cat, and the Grand Elder once again waved his sleeves, using the strong wind to disperse the mist and find the location of the entrance.

The fragrance of the mist could not last long. With the Grand Elder’s cultivation, he and Xiying would be discovered sooner or later.

Yuan Ming frowned, thinking about countermeasures. After a moment, he lit another stick of dark incense on the incense burner burning the mist fragrance.

Create chaos and take the opportunity to escape!

After smelling the familiar scent of the “Beast Attraction Incense,” Yuan Ming once again controlled the incense burner with the Drive Object Technique. Following the direction provided by the soul crow, he moved toward the Grand Elder under the cover of the thick fog.

The chaos continued in the square in front of the mountain.

The previous Blood Radiance had driven nearly a hundred cultivators, including those from the Biluo Cave and the Dawn Scattered Alliance, into madness, attacking the other cultivators of the Dawn Scattered Alliance like crazy.

Some of the elders who had been sent to the east and west sides of the Biluo Cave had also begun to return with their people, gathering with the remaining disciples to resist.

After breaking free from the encirclement and fleeing to the back of the mountain, the three Foundation Building stage cultivators, including the hunchbacked old man, briefly discussed before chasing after the Grand Elder. Ougi stayed behind to command the cultivators of the Dawn Scattered Alliance, defending against the counterattacks from the remaining forces of the Biluo Cave and stabilizing their own cultivators who had fallen into madness.

After all, many of them were their own people, and they couldn’t just kill them in a moment of confusion.

The chaotic situation had slightly improved.

Since the two cave masters were captured, the remaining cultivators of the Biluo Cave, without a leader, had almost given up on controlling the spirit beasts and released almost all of them, engaging in a desperate struggle.

However, just as they were fighting fiercely, a strange situation occurred.

A green wolf that had been controlled and was engaged in battle suddenly stopped in the middle of its charge, turned its head, and looked in the direction of the back of the mountain.

Its eyes gradually turned red, and its mouth, with blood-stained white teeth, drooled thick saliva. Suddenly, it went mad and charged toward the back of the mountain.

The Biluo Cave disciple who was still riding on the back of the green wolf didn’t know what had happened and hurriedly tried to control the wolf with the Beast Taming Technique.

But at this moment, the green wolf had completely lost its reason, and the Beast Taming Technique had lost its effect. It arched its back and jumped wildly, throwing the disciple off and charging straight toward the back of the mountain.

Similar situations occurred with more and more spirit beasts breaking free from control, all going mad and dragging their owners, rushing toward the back of the mountain. The spirit beasts of the Dawn Scattered Alliance were no exception.

For a moment, all the spirit beasts and fierce beasts in the surrounding mountains gathered around the Biluo Cave.

A stampede of beasts…

As the thick white mist began to dissipate with the burning of the mist incense, the Grand Elder Chen Cangqiong had already found his way again and was about to continue forward when he suddenly heard the sound of hooves “rumbling” from all around, becoming alert.

He turned his gaze and saw that in the distant mountain forest, the mist was churning, and huge figures were charging out of it, heading straight for him.

Among those figures were the huge single-horned rhinoceros, the blue-haired giant wolf with wings on its back, the black-haired boar with scales, and the fire-red-scaled python as thick as a water bucket…

Some of them were spirit beasts raised by the Biluo Cave, and more were fierce beasts that grew in the Ten Thousand Mountains. At this moment, they were all going mad and charging toward him.

“How could there be a beast tide?” Chen Cangqiong’s face was anxious and full of doubt.

The fierce and spirit beasts all around had gone mad and charged at him, forcing him to take action and once again be delayed in his progress.

In the sky above, large birds and fierce beasts were also flying toward him, diving down from above and falling toward the Grand Elder.

Chen Cangqiong was surrounded by nearly a hundred fierce beasts, blocking his way.

“Annoying!”

With a deep and powerful roar, the blood-colored bat mark on his forehead lit up, and the terrifying blood soul shadow behind him swept out like a hook, sweeping around.

In an instant, blood surged, and the fierce beasts within a hundred feet of the Grand Elder were all torn apart by the blood claws, as if they had been drained of all their strength, and fell to the ground in a mess.

Chen Cangqiong easily cleared a path through the fierce beasts and, after determining the direction, rushed toward the direction of the mountain cave.

…

On the other side, after putting away the incense burner, Yuan Ming had already burned half of the Beast Attraction Incense and put away the incense burner.

At this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly saw Xiying’s sparrow flying through the gradually thinning mist and coming to his side.

“Xiying, did you come out of the Biluo Cave?” Without waiting for the sparrow to speak, Yuan Ming asked first.A sparrow landed on his arm, speaking in human tongue: “I came out early, hurry over here.”

“Lead the way!” Yuan Ming came to an abrupt halt, turned around, and commanded.

The sparrow flapped its wings and flew off in a certain direction.

Yuan Ming followed, sprinting with his cloak billowing and the hem of his garment fluttering.

It wasn’t long before the mist around him gradually dissipated, the surrounding scenery became clear, and from afar, he could see a horde of frenzied spiritual beasts and ferocious beasts that had already charged into the area.

Although the beast-attracting incense had been extinguished, the lingering scent still affected these crazed beasts. Having lost their direction, they began to attack any living creature nearby.

Yuan Ming, being a conspicuous living person, naturally became the primary target of their attacks.

Seeing seven or eight ferocious beasts charging at him first, with even more frenzied shadows looming behind, Yuan Ming remained calm. He immediately swallowed a detoxifying pill and lit the mesmerizing incense on the censer.

With the censer’s catalysis, the effect of the mesmerizing incense was greatly enhanced. Within a hundred zhang of Yuan Ming, the area became a forbidden zone for the ferocious beasts.

Every beast that approached within a hundred zhang of him, without exception, began to fall to the ground, succumbing to deep slumber.

Fortunately, the sparrow, having been warned by him, flew high above the hundred zhang radius and headed towards Xiying’s location first.

Yuan Ming rushed all the way and finally saw the silhouette of the silver cat from afar, but to his surprise, it was squatting next to the female formation master of the Dawnscatter Alliance.

Just as Yuan Ming was about to catch up, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from the direction of the cave behind him.

The soul crow left in the Bi Luo Cave immediately allowed him to see the scene there clearly.

A streak of blood light suddenly appeared at the mouth of the cave, with large chunks of rock collapsing and dust rising everywhere.

“Sha Hao, wake up! Who took my Soul-Settling Jar…” Chen Cangqiong’s figure burst out from the rolling dust, his eyes blood-red, his face filled with intense murderous intent as he bellowed.

Before his words could fall, three figures broke through the mist, following the sound of his voice.

“Chen Cangqiong, where do you think you’re going!”

“Think you can escape?”

“Chen Cangqiong, let’s have a proper talk.”

Three voices rose from three different directions, including the hunchbacked elder, as three Nascent Soul cultivators appeared one after another.

The Grand Elder felt as if his vision was covered in blood, his heart filled with raging fury that had nowhere to be vented, he roared: “You’re seeking death, I’ll grant it to you!”

A surge of blood shadow moved behind him, pouncing towards one of them.

…

Seeing that the four Nascent Soul cultivators continued their chaotic battle, Yuan Ming breathed a sigh of relief and turned his gaze back to Xiying and the female formation master.

He saw that outside their vicinity, a protective barrier enveloped in blue light isolated them from the frenzied beasts around.

At this moment, a single-horned rhinoceros with blue scales all over its body was furiously ramming against the blue light barrier.

Its thick and slightly curved horn shone with a metallic luster, striking the blue light barrier repeatedly, causing the entire barrier to tremble violently, its light flickering.

The guiding sparrow flew into the blue light barrier and landed on the female formation master.

After a moment, the spiritual light in its eyes dispersed, and it took flight again, this time flying away directly.

Yuan Ming, seeing that he was about to reach the vicinity of the silver cat, quickly extinguished the mesmerizing incense in the censer, fearing it might adversely affect Xiying.

Suddenly spotting two blue wolves approaching the blue light barrier, he, well-prepared, waved his hand, and the Nine Rings Golden Saber whistled out, piercing through both wolves in one strike. He himself, holding the Cold Star Sword, rushed to the side of the single-horned rhinoceros and slashed down with his sword.

The rhinoceros, seeing an attack coming, immediately turned its head to meet it, its horn aiming straight for Yuan Ming. The long sword in Yuan Ming’s hand flashed with cold light, and a chill surged from the blade. Before even touching the rhinoceros, a layer of white frost formed on its head.

Feeling the extreme cold, the rhinoceros did not retreat. In a burst of ferocity, it roared angrily and charged with all its might.

The long sword finally came down, colliding precisely with the horn.

A sharp “clang” resounded.

It was like the sound of metal striking metal, the incredibly hard horn ultimately unable to withstand the sharpness of the Cold Star Sword.

A flash of cold light passed, and the Cold Star Sword cleaved through the tip of the rhinoceros’s horn, the blade penetrating its head.

The rhinoceros’s head split in two, yet it still managed to push Yuan Ming back several steps with its powerful force before finally stopping.

At this time, the blue light barrier, already on the verge of collapse, finally shattered, dissolving into specks of light and disappearing…