Chapter 300
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Chapter 300: Tunnel Warfare (Part 1)
In the snow-covered mountain forest, a magical beast dashed forward through the thick snow.
Its body was long and stout, with strong limbs and wide, flat paws, covered entirely in dark brown scales. Its fist-sized eyes sparkled with a strange red light.
The red-eyed ground beast, known simply as the red ground beast, resides deep within the Yulong Mountain Range as a second-tier spirit beast.
It is one of the magical beasts that hunters dread encountering the most.
The red ground beast possesses the innate ability to burrow through mountains and the earth, hiding its lair inside the mountains, making it nearly impossible to catch.
Moreover, the red ground beast is incredibly strong, with impenetrable scales that cannot be pierced by blades or spells, giving it high Defense.
This type of magical beast is cunning and fierce. They prefer to lie in wait along the paths that cultivators must take when entering the mountains, suddenly launching their attacks when targets appear.
Countless cultivators have perished at the claws of the red ground beast!
The scariest part is that it has an incredibly keen sense of smell and awareness, able to detect prey hiding underground.
Once a red ground beast has locked onto its target, it will use its innate ability to dig and unearth its prey, swallowing it alive.
While a large number of magical beasts attacked Xian City, this red ground beast did not join the massacre; instead, it patiently searched in the nearby forest.
Past experiences told it that there was a good chance of finding delicious prey here.
The red ground beast’s instincts were always accurate. Suddenly, it stopped, twisting its body to swing its long tail.
The tail of the red ground beast was shaped like a hammer, thick scales encasing hard bones, devoid of any flesh.
This also served as one of its weapons.
With a whoosh!
The tail hammer swept through the snow, forcibly yanking out a mass of resilient vines buried beneath.
On the steep rock wall, a stone door suddenly appeared!
A savage glint flashed in the eyes of the magical beast as it crouched low and raised its tail.
Then it whipped it out forcefully.
Bang!
Accompanied by a dull crash, the stone door ahead was smashed open, creating a large hole.
The interior of the cave immediately came into the red ground beast’s view.
It sniffed the air but did not rush into the cave; instead, it let out a sharp screech.
Soon, a rustling sound echoed from the nearby forest.
At the same time, sitting in the hidden chamber underground, Wang Chen suddenly felt a warning sensation!
He looked up and his expression grew serious.
A magical beast?
Even though the hidden chamber where Wang Chen was located lay thirty fathoms underground, the noise from above was so significant that he sensed danger approaching.
Since he had previously sealed the tunnel leading to the hidden chamber, he had not installed the Dual Mirrors in the cave.
As a result, Wang Chen could not use this set of artifacts to monitor the situation above, leaving him unaware of the source of the danger!
This was something Wang Chen had not anticipated.
Earlier, he had thought that by sealing off the entrances and tunnels and hiding deep underground, he could safely ride out the winter.
He also believed he could avoid the potential beast tide.
However, he never expected that just a few days later, magical beasts would appear right at his doorstep!
The continuous sounds of digging made Wang Chen realize that he had to make a decision.
He had excavated a total of four hidden chambers underground, with six or seven tunnels connecting them, each leading to different exits.
Leaving now would undoubtedly be the safest option.
But Wang Chen felt it was beneath him to flee without even knowing the source of the danger!
Since the three great beast kings had signed an agreement with the four sects’ Nascent Soul true immortals, the beasts appearing above could not possibly be Golden Core level third-grade great beasts.
And the second-grade spirit beasts belonged to the Purple Palace level, so he was fully capable of fighting!
Wang Chen’s mindset raced, and he quickly took out a brass mirror and pressed it against the cave wall.
Then he opened the tunnel leading to the lower level.
He crawled inside.
But Wang Chen did not venture far; instead, he hid within the tunnel, using the brass mirror to observe the situation in the first layer hidden chamber.
Boom!
Only half a tea time after Wang Chen left, the top of the first layer hidden chamber suddenly shattered, and a foot with black claws reached in before retracting.
The beast’s claw forcefully enlarged the hole.
Next, the red ground beast’s head poked in, glaring with its crimson eyes and looking around.
It was searching for its prey.
It sniffed the air vigorously, then its massive body crashed down into the chamber along with broken rocks and dirt.
The first layer hidden chamber Wang Chen had dug was the largest, easily accommodating the magical beast.
The moment the red ground beast landed, a burning Fire Crow burst forth from the entrance to the lower tunnel, its body suddenly swelling to several times its size, then spreading its long, blazing wings.
It slammed into the red ground beast!
Boom!
A massive explosion of flames erupted in the hidden chamber, instantly engulfing the magical beast.
This Fire Crow was summoned by Wang Chen, channeling all his magical power into it.
Although the Fire Crow Technique was a Qi Training level spell, Wang Chen had already cultivated it to perfect mastery; now, driven by his initial stage of Purple Palace cultivation, its power was at least ten times stronger than before!
Due to the limited space of the hidden chamber and the ferocity of the Fire Crow’s explosion, combined with the original framework being destroyed by the red ground beast, a large portion of the ceiling collapsed.
Countless dirt and debris fell on the red ground beast, caught completely off guard.
The red ground beast was an earth-element magical beast, and normally, even if it was buried under more dirt and rocks, it could easily escape.
However, this second-tier spirit beast had just been stunned by the Fire Crow’s explosion and hadn’t fully realized what was happening when it discovered that the surrounding dirt had instantaneously hardened into solid rock!
What was worse was that too much stone and dirt weighed down on it.
In an instant, most of the red ground beast’s body was covered by thick rock, as if it had been encased in a stone shell.
This not only created a heavy burden but also greatly limited its movement.
It couldn’t even turn around!
Roar~
How could this second-grade spirit beast willingly accept such confinement? It let out an angry roar from its throat, desperately twisting its body in an attempt to break free from the heavy stone shell.
The red ground beast was immensely powerful, and even though it currently struggled to move, it still managed to crack some of the stone shell with a sudden burst of strength, regaining some freedom.
However, a flying sword glowing faintly with golden light shot in through the crack, piercing through the hard scales of the red ground beast’s skin and burrowing nearly two feet into its body!
Such damage was not enough to deliver a fatal blow to the red ground beast, but the Metal Finger energy contained within the sword suddenly erupted, cutting into the magical beast’s soft internal organs like invisible blades.
Roar~
The red ground beast roared again.
But this time, its voice was filled with pain and a hint of despair!
