Chapter 551: Desert Devourers
"I noticed from the very beginning."
Li Yun said indifferently, "Your performance had no obvious flaws, but your very existence is the biggest flaw. If I have not guessed wrongly, you must be the notorious Desert Devourers of the Lost Great Desert."
"That is right."
The benevolent old man let out a sinister laugh. "Since you guessed our identity long ago yet still dared to step into this oasis, I have to admit that you have incredible courage. However, based on my experience, young people with courage usually have firm flesh, and their taste is even better when eaten."
"Big Brother, I have been hungry for half a month."
Beside the benevolent old man, the seven or eight-year-old child also revealed a hideous expression. He stuck out his tongue, licked his lips, and smiled chillingly. "I am so hungry. So very hungry. To keep me from starving to death, Big Brother, be a good person and fill my stomach."
"Attack!"
The young woman’s complexion suddenly turned dark cyan. She let out a cackling laugh like a vengeful spirit and extended a pair of cyan palms. Her fingertips instantly elongated to half a meter, then clawed viciously toward Li Yun’s heart.
Cackle! Cackle! Cackle!
The old man and the child also let out extremely sinister laughs. Their teeth suddenly extended into sharp fangs, and their faces became cyan and monstrous. Their shrill laughter pierced the ears as a mass of cyan mist erupted and drifted downward, enveloping Li Yun.
"You all are hungry? Fear not; I will make it so that you people won’t feel any hunger from now on."
Li Yun snorted coldly and executed Lightning Wings. His figure instantly shifted dozens of meters sideways, avoiding all three attacks.
Then, he threw a punch. A powerful fist imprint blasted toward the young woman, who was closest to him.
For this punch, Li Yun directly unleashed Supreme Hegemony Fist with killing intent, because he clearly understood that the young woman, the old man, and the child were definitely not easy opponents.
These three were precisely the infamous Desert Devourers of the Lost Great Desert. Their vile reputation even surpassed that of the Inkblade Spiders.
Although the Desert Devourers belonged to the human race, they were not much different from the most ferocious demonic beasts. They were most skilled at disguise, using warmth and hospitality as a mask to make outsiders lower their guard before killing them and devouring them alive.
Even when they were full, they would preserve the excess flesh of outsiders as dried meat and store it as food reserves. It could be said that even demonic beasts were not as cruel and cunning as them.
Toward such Desert Devourers, Li Yun wished to kill them without the slightest delay, so he naturally showed no mercy.
Bang!
Li Yun’s fist imprint struck, immediately causing the young woman to scream in pain. Her body was sent flying more than ten meters away.
Although the Desert Devourers were cunning and cruel, their actual strength was not especially high. For example, this young woman was only at the 5th level Earthly Core Realm.
The child’s strength was also quite ordinary, but the old man had reached the 8th level Earthly Core Realm.
Unlike outsiders such as Li Yun, these native Desert Devourers were not suppressed in essence qi. In other words, whatever realm they were in, they could exert the corresponding strength of that realm.
"Brat, you are courting death!"
Seeing the young woman being knocked away, the old man instantly became furious.
His livid face was wreathed in a sinister and terrifying green aura, which seemed to be the residue of resentment left behind from devouring too many living people. He let out a long roar, and the green aura condensed into the shape of a whip before lashing toward Li Yun.
"Supreme Hegemony Fist!"
Li Yun roared, and his Golden Dragon Armor fully erupted. Golden dragon scales shone brilliantly across his body, dazzling and majestic. Bathed in those scales, he resembled a star lord clad in divine armor. With a single punch, he directly shattered the green aura whip into fragments.
"Die!"
Then, Li Yun unleashed his full speed. In the next moment, he appeared directly in front of the old man, grabbed his arm, and twisted it mercilessly.
Crack!
In an instant, one of the old man’s arms was completely torn off by Li Yun.
"Damn it!"
The old man cried out in pain, feeling both anger and fear. He finally realized that this seemingly ordinary young man truly had the strength to kill him.
"Retreat!"
He roared furiously, wanting to withdraw and escape.
Unfortunately, at this point, how could Li Yun possibly allow him to leave and harm others again?
Bang!
Li Yun fiercely threw another punch, and this punch directly blasted the old man apart.
"Father!"
The young woman screamed and lunged toward Li Yun. "I will fight you to the death!"
Li Yun snorted coldly, showing no pity because of her appearance. With another punch, he directly killed the young woman as well.
Then, he looked at the only remaining child.
The child no longer had the green-faced and sharp-fanged appearance from before. He had returned to his original innocent and harmless look. His whole body trembled, and he appeared extremely pitiful.
However, looking at this child, Li Yun felt no pity at all.
He clearly understood that the child’s frightened appearance was only another layer of disguise, used merely to preserve his own life. Although he looked like a child, the blood on his hands was probably no less than that of the young woman or the old man.
There should be no sympathy for such beings.
Rumble!
Li Yun took a step forward and was about to act, but at that moment, the ground beneath his feet suddenly began to tremble violently. A deep rumbling sound echoed through the oasis, and the shaking became more and more intense, as if an earthquake had suddenly struck.
"Hm?"
Li Yun frowned, and his gaze immediately turned toward the distance.
The moment he looked over, his expression changed drastically.
Far away, a yellow wave was rapidly surging toward him. At first, that wave was extremely faint, appearing only as a thin line across the horizon. However, as time passed, it became increasingly violent, until it transformed into a ferocious sea of sand that swallowed everything in its path as it roared forward.
At the same time, fierce winds howled across the desert. They sounded like a hundred thousand great demonic beasts charging out from the mountains at once. Even from a great distance, Li Yun could feel the violent gales roaring toward him, and their power seemed strong enough to easily tear apart ordinary Earthly Core Realm experts.
An earthquake, a sea of sand, and a storm had appeared at the same time.
All of this signaled that the most terrifying overlord of the Lost Great Desert, the Sandstorm, was about to descend.
"Go."
At this moment, Li Yun did not hesitate for even a single breath. He immediately turned around, unleashed his maximum speed, and fled forward with all his strength.
Within the Lost Great Desert, the Inkblade Spiders and Desert Devourers could be considered overlords, but those so-called overlords were on an entirely different level compared to the Sandstorm.
The Sandstorm could be called the sole true overlord of the Lost Great Desert. It was a death-god-like existence, and once someone encountered it, the result was almost always death.
At this moment, Li Yun had no other thought in his mind.
He had to escape.
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