637 Pulling a Log! (2/2)

”If we want to leave this place, we'll have to enter the main sacrificial altar… where we can then unlock the exit and find a way out!” Feng Qiuran shared her analysis honestly. The crowd fell silent.

Wang Baole sighed secretly. He pulled out some Dharmic treasures and pills from his storage bag, alongside a few puppets, and handed them over to Zhao Yameng and Kong Dao.

He knew that the journey ahead of them… would be extremely difficult.

Feng Qiuran didn't look at the other cultivators. Instead, she looked around them. Besides the thousands of feet around them that had been cleared of Demonic Green Poria Flowers, this land of corpses was still littered with countless demonic flowers.

Fortunately, most of the flowers in the distance were all flower buds, unlike the flowers that had been in full bloom and had surrounded them earlier.

”Let's all rest for a while. We shall move in thirty minutes!” After a long moment, Feng Qiuran retracted her gaze and spoke softly. Chi Lin and the others sat down. They all began to activate their cultivation in silence, ensuring that they remained in peak condition. They had also put away the Demonic Green Poria Flower's pistils.

Time passed steadily. The end of the thirty-minute break soon arrived. Most of them had recovered their strength and were prepared to continue the mission. It was then that… the ground started to tremble!

The trembling wasn't violent. Regardless, it still sent alarm flashing across everyone's faces. They got to their feet, the looks on their faces solemn. The trembling intensified as loud stomping sounded in the distance. It sounded like a giant was making its way towards them!

Next was a loud panting, like the howling of a furious wind. It was punctuated by loud clanking. Alarm colored the faces of Wang Baole, Feng Qiuran, as well as the Nascent Soul realm cultivators. There was no need for words. Many of them instantly took to the skies and stared in the direction the commotion was coming from.

They kept looking. Then, suddenly, their eyes widened, and a few of them even gasped out loud.

”That is…”

”What is that?”

The commotion in the distance grew louder. The winds grew wilder, and their howling fiercer. A towering figure that seemed to connect the sky and the land… gradually appeared in their sight!

At first, they could only hear it. Then, they saw its silhouette. Next, the silhouette grew distinct, and an image imprinted clearly in the eyes of Wang Baole and the other cultivators. It was a gigantic, monstrous beast that was beyond description!

It was similar to the Diamond Ape but clearly many times larger. Its body was covered in a messy layer of fur, with patches of black bone exposed to the air. A reeking stench of something rotting accompanied its approach.

Heavy chains weighed it down and pierced through its body. They bound it to a huge wooden log that hung suspended in mid-air behind the beast!

The log… was hundreds of thousands of feet thick. An ordinary cultivator would appear as an ant before the log. However, next to the beast, the log's size was made less obvious!

What was most shocking about the log wasn't its width but its length… It seemed to go on forever. The beast was bound to one end of the log while the other end of the log couldn't be seen at all. The suspended log of wood seemed to stretch all the way back into the distant sky. It was as if it were connected to the other end of the world!

This enormous beast was like a mule, dragging the log behind it, one step at a time, moving forward with great difficulty!

If it were to slow down even one bit, the chains on the beast would suddenly shine with the light of a rune, which would then transform into numerous fine strands, whipping at the beast and drawing cries of pain from it. The beast was forced to advance without slowing down or stopping under the threat of the whipping.

It didn't seem to notice or care about Wang Baole and the other cultivators. The sounds of clanking and stomping resonated in the air. The sounds of panting gradually drew near. Tens of thousands of feet away from them, the towering figure of a monster trudged forward, one step at a one, dragging behind it a wooden log. Then, it gradually retreated into the distance!

Every step it landed on the ground sent the earth shaking. Every step it lifted off the ground stirred up storms. The entire world thundered and the winds howled as it came and then departed!