Chapter 252 The Three People Who Were Dumped

After reading the jade slip, Mo Juren couldn't help but ask,
"Xiang Daoist, what is the latter part of this technique? What does it mean?"

Zhuang Renhe and Wuermo also echoed,
"Yeah, why can't we watch the rest?"

Xiang Zhili said with a prepared tone,
"These three skills are just extra gifts from me, the old man, to thank you. At present, the ground-walking sand beast may appear at any time, so we should focus on this matter and be prepared for it."

"As for the rest of the technique, when you have some free time, just inject some mana into it and you will be able to unlock all the contents."

"Hehe, this is just a little trick. You won't blame me for being nosy, right? Hahaha..."

Upon hearing this, Mo Juren and the other three felt that what Xiang Zhili said made sense, and it seemed that he attached great importance to this smuggling plan.

So the three of them stopped hesitating and put away the jade slips temporarily, preparing to welcome the arrival of the ground-walking sand beast.

In this way, everyone waited patiently for a while, and Xiang Zhili suddenly smiled and whispered,
"Here it comes! Here it comes! Get ready!"

Mo Juren quickly took his position and lay quietly on the edge of the sandy wasteland.

After a while, I felt a rustling sound under my feet, as if something was gnawing at the soil.

Then, in the center of the wasteland, the soil suddenly loosened, and the soil around the ground flowed down like quicksand, revealing a large black hole.

There seemed to be a big mouth at the bottom of the cave. After swallowing up all the mud and sand on the surface, a huge limb of a monster suddenly stretched out. It was exactly three feet thick, shaped like an earthworm, with a cavity, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a head or a tail.

This should be the terrestrial sand beast that Xiang Zhili mentioned. It is called a beast, but in fact it looks more like a worm.

I saw its reddish-brown soft flesh squirming constantly, and then with a gurgling sound, two lumps of wet sand and gravel mixture suddenly spurted out from its cavity...

Xiang Zhili was waiting for this moment, so he shouted,
"Now, do it!"

Then he took the lead in using the control spell, and a ray of light shot towards the fleshy ground-walking sand beast. Mo Juren, Wuermo and others quickly followed, and four rays of light were emitted from four directions, tightly pulling the stretched limb like a rope, making it unable to move.

Then everyone appeared, moving towards their own direction while keeping the spiritual light tense and slowly approaching the center.

According to the original plan, when the four people got close enough, they should grab the terrestrial sand beast, and then follow the passage formed by its retreat to successfully pass through the underground forbidden formation.

But unexpectedly, this ground-walking sand beast suddenly spun violently, dragging the four people to the middle.

Then it suddenly stopped and turned in the opposite direction again, and the spiritual light held by the four people's hands broke instantly between expansion and contraction.

The four people who were originally holding on to Lingguang and pulling him back could no longer stand and fell to the ground.

The limb of the ground-walking sand beast suddenly jumped out of the hole, reaching a height of three or four feet, and then suddenly opened the cavity at the end, revealing a circle of sharp teeth inside. Although the four people could not see its eyes, they could all feel that the ground-walking sand beast seemed to be angered by the four people.

The aura emanating from this beast was no worse than that of a foundation-building cultivator. Mo Juren and the others sensed the crisis and were about to flee.

However, unexpectedly, it suddenly emitted a force field that encompassed all the people and objects around it, as if they were frozen and unable to move.

Then the ground-walking sand beast opened its ferocious mouth and turned it in all directions, as if it wanted to choose someone among the four people to devour!
At this time, Xiang Zhili suddenly said,
"Oh my! I didn't expect this sand beast to become so powerful. This time, I, the old man, have implicated you."

Then, Xiang Zhili suddenly took out the corpses of four monsters from his storage bag. These were the prey they had hunted in the secret place in the outer area before.

He threw the four bodies at his feet and stood in the middle. Then he continued to say to Mo Juren,
"It seems that this ground-walking sand beast will not give up until it gets something to eat. This time, I, the old man, will sacrifice myself. You guys should run away quickly..."

The ground-walking sand beast seemed to smell the bloody scent of the monster and quickly determined its direction. It swooped down from the air with a fierce move, opened its huge mouth like the abyss, and bit the place where Xiang Zhili was, along with the monster, in its mouth.

In an instant, Mo Juren seemed to see a burst of magical light surging from Xiang Zhili's body, and he quickly protected him.

But before he could think about it, he saw the sand beast suddenly shrink and retreat back into the cave, and there was only a sand pit left where Xiang Zhili had just stood.

The remaining three people, Mo Juren, Wuermo and others, only then felt that the force field had disappeared and they could move again, so they quickly flew backwards and moved far away from the middle of the wasteland.

After swallowing Xiang Zhili, the ground-walking sand beast seemed to move away non-stop underground, making waves of sand and stone squeezing sounds, and slowly moved away...

The three survivors, Mo Juren, waited at the edge of the wasteland for a long time. When there was no movement at all, they went to the middle to look. They saw that the dark hole where the sand beast appeared had closed up, leaving only a large sand pit.

Wuermo sighed to Zhuang Renhe,

"Oh, I didn't expect this old man to be so loyal. He even fed the beast with his own body and helped us escape the crisis."

Zhuang Renhe said,
"It's a pity that he died. Who can take us across the border? Will we never be able to enter the central area again?"

Mo Juren was not as pessimistic as they thought. When the sand beast bit him just now, he saw Xiang Zhili, who was not panicked at all even after being swallowed into the belly of the sand beast.

On the contrary, he seemed to be able to cope with the situation, as if he had been prepared for a long time, so I still had some doubts about his life or death.

However, since Xiang Zhili disappeared along with the ground-walking sand beast, and he himself was unharmed, he was afraid that even if he had a conspiracy, it would not be an act of murder. So he did not think about it any more and planned to leave.

As for how to enter the central area, Xiang Zhili had said before that when the second layer of fog dissipates and everyone rushes into the crater to search for treasure, there will probably be no more ambushes in the four doors, so it won't be too late to enter then.

Wuermo saw that Mo Juren didn't say anything and didn't seem to care about them at all. Suddenly his eyes turned cold and he said gloomily,
"Humph, Brother Zhang is too cold-blooded. Brother Xiang sacrificed himself for us, but you seem to be indifferent!"

(End of this chapter)