Deng ChanYu realized that she had reached her limit, first putting Daji down, then leaning against the wall, adjusting her breath, and recovering her strength.
They didn't rest for less than half a pillar of incense before they heard the sound of unsteady footsteps coming from the rear.
Like the fish head monster that Daji had defeated before, this time there appeared a creature with a horse's head and a human body, with four legs.
Daji pointed at herself, "Me?"
"All right, go ahead." Deng ChanYu nodded her head, closing her eyes, trying to solidify the second level of Qixiu which she had just broken through.
Daji fought smoothly, the Kuafu staff in her hands was incredibly nimble. She pointed it east and struck to the west, smashing the head of the horse-headed monster with a single blow before ten moves had been exchanged.
Without giving her a chance to catch her breath, a new monster appeared, and Daji faced it again.
Her techniques became more and more skilled, but the frequency of monsters appearing around her was also increasing rapidly. By the end, she even had to deal with three monsters at once.
Daji feinted with a move, stepped on the nearby iron wall, and leaped into the air. With a swift kick of her right leg, she struck the head of a humanoid bird-like monster. After knocking it down, she spun the long staff half a circle in her hand, accompanied by a low howl like a whistle, and knocked down another enemy. Finally, with her body sideways and looking down from above, she raised her elbow and smashed it into the face of the last fish-headed monster. The creature's body collided with the iron wall and rebounded back. Daji kicked out with both legs in quick succession, and with a series of loud thuds, the monster was kicked into the dark mist behind her.
Exceeding her normal level, Daji fought with three monsters at once. Carrying the Kuafu staff, she had a joyful expression on her small face, as if she wanted Deng ChanYu to praise her.
Deng ChanYu was about to speak when she saw the monster kicked away fly back up like a zombie. Daji held the staff in both hands, ready for action. However, before the monster had taken two steps forward, a giant bird's head appeared behind it and suddenly swallowed the creature whole.
With the arrival of the bird's head, there was also a loud rumbling roar.
Deng ChanYu used the Long Dragon Spear to swing a pale cyan attack at the bird's head that was over ten meters away.
The crescent-shaped energy slash pierced into the black mist behind her. By feeling, she knew that her strike had hit an enemy, but the effect was not good.
She quickly pulled Daji behind her.
Daji's stamina was depleting rapidly after defeating several enemies in succession.
The strange bird had a snake-like neck, and its eyes seemed to have cataracts, appearing hazy. The beak had been torn open by some kind of sharp weapon, the wound nearly reaching the neck, and beneath the skin were clots of congealed dark brown blood.
Daji whispered, "What kind of monster is this?"
Deng ChanYu's mind was also uncertain. She could only pull Daji back again.
"Click click click" — it sounded as if someone was using their nails to dig at glass forcefully.
As the monster drew closer, it was suddenly covered with a layer of frost hanging on the black walls on both sides. Soon after, a second bird's head emerged from the darkness. After that, a third, fourth, and so on, up to the ninth bird's head. A monster with nine bird heads emerged from the narrow passage that could accommodate five horses abreast. The massive body of the creature was corrupted by Chaos energy and began to decompose as it slowly walked out.
The nine bird heads were in disarray, fighting and biting each other, but their target was clear: Deng ChanYu and Daji.
Daji is now relatively knowledgeable, especially when it comes to the Worship Tribe and the Demon Tribe. She knows a lot.
She finally identified the enemy's identity: "This is Guoche? This is one of the ten great demons in the Demonic Tribe, on par with BaiZe!"
Without a word, the two of them took to their heels and ran!
If she had her innate spiritual treasure in her possession, Deng ChanYu would naturally not be afraid of an old demonic saint like her. She could capture her and possibly even refine it into a treasure.
Now is not the time!
Just like Deng ChanYu and Daji, who were also suppressed by the Pangu World, they couldn't leave even a scratch on the walls. However, Guoche could rely on her innate spiritual power to freeze the walls just by sensing the aura. Her cultivation level was much higher than theirs.
Run!
The consciousness of the Guoche was disordered, but she knew her prey was running away, and immediately started chasing after them with her two short legs.
Guoche is a nine-headed bird, belonging to the branch of flying creatures. The nine heads have a faint sense, and if she eats Deng ChanYu, it will be beneficial to her. Although she cannot fly at the moment, she can still use all her strength to pursue them.
The massive body collided with the walls on both sides during the run, causing a lot of abscesses to burst. The yellow-brown bloodstains mixed with some feathers scattered all over the place. It didn't care and even used collisions to speed up, determined to eat the two small bugs in front of it.
"Hurry up, don't stop! Run fast!"
At first, Deng ChanYu was still holding hands with Daji, but later found that running like this was actually slower, so she ran on her own.
Deng ChanYu exerted her best effort in the 100-meter sprint, carrying the Long Dragon Spear, and sprinting as fast as she could.
"Hey—Heya—Yah!" She no longer cared about being a lady; Daji imitated the manner of the Underworld warriors of the Witch Tribe, using her shouts to boost her own morale.
The Six Paths of Rebirth Sutra of Píngxīn Niángniáng was originally a scripture based on the Worship Tribe's methods, and naturally, it included a lot of content for refining the body.
The key to refining the body lies in refining. If you don't refine, no matter how deeply you contemplate the subtle meanings and profound significance of the sutra, it will be useless to contemplate for ten thousand years.
Daji is extremely intelligent, and she has always understood this principle, but she just didn't have the opportunity to practice it.
At the moment, even though her legs feel as heavy as if they are filled with lead, she has no choice but to persevere.
The two of them broke through the path and sprinted. They ran for a long time, feeling their stamina reaching its limit, but the Guoche behind them was still relentless in their pursuit.
Suddenly, one of the bird heads of the Guoche raised itself by some mysterious force, spewing out a sheet of ice onto the ground.
The Pangu World was also suppressing it quite severely. The ice formed by this ice spell may not be very deadly, but it can make the ground slippery and hazardous to navigate.
"Fuck you!" As Deng ChanYu almost tripped, she withdrew her Nanying Lixia Sword from her right hand and drove it into the ground. She only managed to stabilize herself and also pulled Daji by the arm.
"A Yu, are we going to die here?" said Daji in a low voice, her arms wrapped around Deng ChanYu's waist as they could no longer run due to the slippery ground.
This is the Píngxīn Niángniáng's fate? Is it not letting us come here to die? Deng ChanYu was very confused. Or is fighting for survival in the nine-death-one-life situation what the Worship Tribe calls fate? This is too unfair!
Deng ChanYu said fiercely, "Without the ability to use magic, this creature is nothing special. Just wait and see, I'll blind its eyes first, and then chop off its head one by one!"
Just as she was squeezing the Tian Tian stone between her fingers, ready to give the Guoche a hard hit, a streak of fire suddenly passed by in the distance. Following that, seven or eight rockets were fired directly at the Guoche.
The flames on the rockets were extraordinary. Whenever they hit the Guoche, a towering figure of a bird-bodied, human-faced being, stepping on twin dragons, would appear from the flames.
The Guoche howled loudly in pain.
"It's Gongmeng Zushi, they are people from the Worship Tribe!" Daji spoke just as a dozen muscular witch tribe warriors emerged from the shadows.
Deng ChanYu couldn't understand what they were saying, but through Daji's translation, she knew they wanted the two of them to follow.
