"In the end, they're just a bunch of cowardly little rats who bully the weak and fear the strong," Lin Muze scoffed.
The white-haired burrowing rat retorted defiantly, "And what about you humans? You're just a bunch of people who kill each other."
"Those strange-looking humans didn't hesitate to kill another group of people in order to seize the treasures they possessed."
"A strange human?" Ruan Xiyan murmured. "Take us there to take a look."
"Does Ayan suspect something?" Junyu asked.
Ruan Xiyan nodded.
Just as the white-haired burrowing rat was about to take a hard line, its eyes caught sight of the hammers they were holding.
He immediately deflated and timidly led the way, saying, "Follow me this way."
Ruan Xiyan followed the white-haired burrowing rats to the vicinity of their burrow, where some corpses lay scattered on the ground.
Ruan Xiyan examined it carefully and frowned, saying, "This aura belongs to an evil cultivator."
As Yu Qiqi and the others approached, they saw the black aura emanating from the corpses. "They really are evil cultivators. How could evil cultivators appear here?"
“This is a necessary passage to the cultivation continent, and it’s not uncommon for evil cultivators to want to go there. It’s normal for evil cultivators to appear here,” Luo Wanyin pondered.
"However, no good thing can happen where evil cultivators roam. To kill and rob so blatantly is simply too arrogant!"
Ruan Xiyan looked at them and cautioned, "Now that we've confirmed that there are evil cultivators lurking nearby, we still need to be careful to prevent them from harboring malicious intentions."
"Understood, Sister Yan. If any evil cultivators dare to appear in front of us, we'll make sure they never leave alive." Lin Muze clenched his fist.
"But what about these little guys now?" Lin Muze's eyes were fixed on the burrowing rat, and he licked his lips.
He pretended to threaten, "I wonder what a groundhog tastes like? How is it to eat?"
The burrowing rats crouched on the ground, covering their heads and trembling uncontrollably.
"We're not tasty, our flesh is sour and tough, don't eat us! Don't!" The leader of the white-haired ground squirrels shook its head so hard it was practically a rattle drum.
Yu Qiqi instantly understood Lin Muze's meaning, and the smile on her face resembled that of a shrewd little fox.
"If you want us to stop eating you, you should at least show some sincerity. After all, we were frightened by the trap you dug, and we need compensation."
Upon hearing this, the white-haired mole in the lead rolled its eyes wildly.
Don't these humans feel guilty saying such things?
Who's really messing with whom? I saw them having a lot of fun playing whack-a-mole before.
If we're talking about being frightened, it's clearly them who were frightened.
But what could they do when faced with the menacing humans in front of them?
Ultimately, they offered themselves up.
The burrowing rats had no choice but to dig out one thing after another from their collapsed underground burrows.
I saw that all sorts of things on the open ground in front of me quickly piled up like a small mountain.
Lin Muze stared wide-eyed in surprise, “It’s definitely a Tuntun rat.”
He glanced through them casually and said disdainfully, "How come you have all sorts of things? What is this? Human stinky boots! And ripped clothes! Are you junk collectors?"
The white-haired burrowing rat said matter-of-factly, "This is our hobby, you humans wouldn't understand."
The burrowing rat family likes to carry everything they see into their burrows.
Ruan Xiyan was drawn to something in a pile of junk.
It was a small object shaped like a shuttle. She raised her hand and waved it, and she held the shuttle in her hand.
Ruan Xiyan used her spiritual power to probe inside the spirit shuttle, but found no power fluctuations whatsoever; it looked like an ordinary little gadget.
But she always felt that the texture of this thing was unusual.
"Where did you get this thing from?" Ruan Xiyan asked, looking at the white-furred ground squirrel.
The white-haired burrowing mouse thought for a moment, but had no clue. "Maybe, probably, I picked it up."
Ruan Xiyan looked at Jun Yu beside her, "Ayu, can you tell what this is?"
Junyu shook his head. "Let's keep Ayan for now. She might come in handy someday."
Ruan Xiyan put the spirit shuttle back into her space.
Lin Muze and his group rummaged through the mountain of junk, selected a few items that caught their eye, and then turned to leave.
The white-haired burrowing rats seemed surprised that they had escaped this ordeal so easily.
Looking at the large pile of things still on the ground, it hesitated and asked, "Don't you want any of these things?"
"Keep the rest for yourselves," Lin Muze said with a shake of his head and a smile.
They don't need these tattered clothes and broken weapons.
Only after seeing Ruan Xiyan and the others walk away did the white-haired groundhog breathe a sigh of relief.
What a terrifying bunch of humans.
But these humans are so short-sighted.
It glanced at the junk on the ground and thought that these things were all pretty good.
It beckoned its burrowing rat underlings to carry all the odds and ends back into the burrow.
Meanwhile, Ruan Xiyan and her group continued their journey towards the highest peak.
Although they already knew that there were evil cultivators in this perilous place called Qiongyan, they did not encounter them along the way, and did not even see a shadow of an evil cultivator.
At the foot of that mountain peak.
When Lin Muze and his group arrived here, they looked up at the mountain peak.
Many of those who arrived were climbing toward the summit.
The highest peak is called Mount Buchong, and its body is covered in flames that can absorb spiritual energy.
To reach the summit, all magical treasures and artifacts are useless; one can only climb up by hand.
However, the mountains are extremely steep, and one must not only overcome the steepness of the peaks but also be wary of being burned by the flames that the mountains themselves possess.
"Sister Yan, let's go up the mountain," Yu Qiqi said impatiently.
Once they reach the summit, they will be able to access the entrance and travel to the cultivation continent.
She is now filled with curiosity about the cultivation world.
"good."
As Ruan Xiyan made her way to the top of the mountain, she used her mental energy to keep an eye on her surroundings.
Being on this mountain peak, one's own spiritual energy is suppressed by the flames.
They had already arrived here, but the evil cultivator was nowhere to be seen.
She glanced at the crowd climbing up the mountain.
She couldn't figure out what those evil cultivators wanted to do, but if they launched a sneak attack here, they would definitely succeed every time.
When Ruan Xiyan and her group reached the mountainside, her worst fears came true.
Suddenly, rocks began to fall from the top of the mountain.
The falling rocks were so fast that they caught the climbers off guard.
Their attention was entirely focused on climbing, and they also had to fight off the scorching flames, leaving them with no time to spare.
Some highly skilled and agile individuals hurriedly dodged.
Those who couldn't dodge in time were knocked off the mountain peak.
The pitiful cries echoed around before plunging into the bottomless abyss below the mountain peaks.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com