At the moment the sea of fire rushed into the building, the surrounding humanoid creatures instantly let out screams of agony.
It was evident.
Faced with these flaming logs rolling down from the mountain, they were despairing.
The burning continued.
Even if they manage to fend off this wave, the entire forest behind the buildings is ignited, and countless things will collapse and roll down, utterly destroying this place.
Soon.
The buildings here were engulfed in a sea of fire.
Baiyu and the other three took advantage of the moonlight and began to sneak into the cluster of buildings, heading toward the forest's only exit.
By this time.
None of them had the heart to think of anything else; they just wanted to get out.
Having been trapped all this time, the outcome other than death was nonexistent; now, with the exit in sight, the only thought in everyone's mind was to escape alive.
However.
Things did not go as smoothly as presupposed.
Just as the four of them escaped to a spot not far from the exit, a cold spear shot out from a dark corner nearby.
The target was Baiyu.
Baiyu, with a sharp side glance, spotted the strike and instinctively rolled onto the ground, narrowly dodging the hit.
When the few of them arrived at the exit, they discovered.
There were more guards here.
Two muscular humanoid creatures, completely different from the others, stood at the exit, their eyes fixed on the four without a trace of emotion.
"Roar!"
At this time.
A fierce and mighty roar came from the innermost castle within the cluster of buildings.
The four sensed danger.
Baiyu did not hesitate, swiftly launching several fireballs toward the two guards.
The fireballs whizzed through the air.
Instead of retreating, those two guards started to charge forward; with their spears gone, all they had was iron axes as weapons.
Although these iron axes appeared extremely crude in craftsmanship.
Yet.
The destructive power from their weight was undoubtedly unquestionable.
The four of them were ordinary folks now; getting struck by the Stone Axe would not be easy to bear.
Bang bang!
Fireballs struck the two guards, sparking a layer of flames, but only scorching their skin red, without causing further substantial harm.
By this point.
The two guards had already reached near.
Grandmaster Long and Wulin stepped in first, taking out stone axes made in advance and moved to confront the guards.
They had no intention to fiercely battle with these two guards.
With their current physique, plus these crude weapons, defeating these robust guards, who have been hunting in the mountains for years, was simply impossible.
Their goal was merely to draw attention and delay.
The four of them clashed instantly.
Jiang Han, still nursing injuries, could only assist from the side, whereas Baiyu had two earth-colored runes glowing in his hand.
Five seconds later.
Just as the two were struggling to maintain their stance, two earth walls suddenly emerged from the ground, fiercely striking the two guards.
Then.
The two guards were immediately slammed onto the ground by the earth walls, which began to move toward the center, crushing the two into pieces.
The four breathed out in relief simultaneously.
"Move!"
Baiyu shouted low.
He worried not about the guards and creatures in the sea of fire, but feared what was in the castle.
Judging from the roar just now.
This thing.
Is a big guy.
Luckily, after dealing with the two guards, the four encountered no further obstruction and swiftly left through the exit.
Behind them, the sea of fire kept burning.
At once.
The entire tribe fell into a sea of fire; everyone was occupied with their own matters. In a place without modern firefighting equipment, extinguishing the fire was indeed challenging.
Crunch...
At this moment, a crack suddenly appeared on the stone castle's wall.
The roar from inside the castle rang out again.
Unfortunately.
After hearing this roar, the expressions on the faces of the creatures in the fire were not of joy or excitement, but of fear and dread.
As if inside the castle, an extremely terrifying creature was detained.
As the crack grew bigger, the roar inside the castle became louder.
All creatures in the tribe.
Suddenly began to panic.
Even abandoned the thought of firefighting, fleeing to other places.
Bang!
With a loud explosion.
The stone castle burst open instantly, countless rubble blasted out, and a huge tentacle extended from the ruins of the stone castle.
Swish.
This sticky and moist tentacle lashed out, knocking over a large area of buildings nearby, amidst flying sparks, over a dozen humanoid creatures were caught and drawn into the stone castle.
At once.
The screams of the humanoid creatures halted.
They looked toward the castle's direction.
Crunch, crunch...
The chilling sound of chewing echoed.
Blood seeped from the city wall, and with a boom, the entire stone castle was torn open, and a gigantic octopus-like creature crawled out.
Its eight tentacles.
With three tentacles in pure gold color, as if painted with golden-yellow paint, while the remaining five matched the color of its body.
Wherever this big octopus crawled, the flames instantly extinguished.
Murky water flowed from its cartilage-like body, suppressing the blaze.
However.
The nearby humanoid creatures all avoided the octopus; some knelt on the ground, bowing and praying, chanting something indistinctly.
The big octopus ignored the surrounding situation, once more curling a tentacle, drawing over a dozen humanoid creatures into its mouth, swallowing them, then squirmed its tentacles toward the exit.
...
Outside the exit.
Baiyu and the others ran for several kilometers in one breath until the forest behind was completely out of sight, then they stopped to catch their breath.
Having suffered losses before.
While escaping, the four memorized the route to advance and retreat anytime.
After leaving the forest, the outside environment was a monotonous steppe, and only occasionally, patches of green vegetation appeared.
Most of the plants were black, in a withered state.
Unlike the anticipated exit.
Outside, another vast world unfolded, yet there was not even a hint of a way to leave.
The four felt inevitably frustrated.
"Could our initial thoughts have been wrong? What if the whole world has no exit?"
By the campfire.
Baiyu raised this question.
The other three fell into contemplation, pondering over the meaning behind Baiyu's words.
"No way to leave? But if that's the case, the opposing force is utterly capable of killing us, why confine us like this?"
Jiang Han couldn't fathom.
Indeed, from Jiang Han and the others' vantage point, the logic was viewed as such.
However.
Baiyu knew that all of this stemmed from the trial mentioned by Sen Bao, also implying it was a test for him.
