Chapter 354: Chapter 324: Explosion

Li Yuhu’s Three-legged Kite swooped straight down, giving everyone a warning.

Dakoli, the unofficial leader, immediately gave the order, "Let’s go check it out!"

The group began to move in the direction Li Yuhu had indicated.

"Be careful," An Duowan, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up.

He glanced at everyone and offered his analysis. "Normally, we should have run into at least one Extraordinary Creature by now, being this deep into the Black Stone Forest."

Pilo immediately understood what he meant and added, "When things are this strange, there’s bound to be trouble."

"Pilo’s right."

Li Yuhu nodded in agreement. "Everyone, stay on your guard."

The group started moving toward the location the Three-legged Kite had warned them about.

Their pace wasn’t very fast.

But it wasn’t slow, either.

They maintained a relatively steady speed.

The group of eight advanced, unhurried.

As students of Shazhou Beast Taming University and Western Beast Taming University, they were all top-tier among their peers.

Therefore, they were all mentally tough and showed no signs of panic.

After passing through an area of unusually tall stone pillars, they finally reached their destination.

It was a relatively open space.

The stone forest was a bit sparse here.

In the middle of the clearing, a group of Rock Monsters was gathered, though it was unclear what they were doing.

"So it’s just a bunch of Rock Monsters."

Seeing this, Wang Guanjun couldn’t help but smile and let out a long sigh of relief.

From what they could see, there were quite a few Rock Monsters.

But the combat power of Rock Monsters was nothing special.

Their defense was decent, but their attack power was mediocre.

Most importantly, they were very slow.

To these new students, who all possessed at least Elite Level combat power, the monsters posed no threat.

Li Qian furrowed his brow and asked Ding Ganmao beside him, "What are they doing all clustered together like that?"

"Who cares? Let’s just take them out."

Ding Ganmao chuckled, speaking nonchalantly. "Besides, I don’t see any other Extraordinary Creatures around."

"..."

Seeing this, Li Qian said no more.

The main reason was that he hadn’t detected anything out of the ordinary either.

He had no good reason to say anything that would dampen their spirits.

Still, Li Qian felt there was something strange about the whole situation.

’I hope I’m just being paranoid...’

Muttering to himself inwardly, Li Qian silently scanned the area.

He still couldn’t find anything unusual.

"Let’s get started."

The group exchanged glances, none of them having noticed anything amiss.

So Dakoli spoke up and made the decision.

Li Qian wanted to voice his reservations, but since he couldn’t find any reason to, he decided to remain silent.

However, his intuition told him this situation might not be so simple.

His intuition had always been quite accurate.

Dakoli gave the order to act.

As for what "act" meant, it was self-evident.

Rock Monsters had little value for capture, but the Rock Crystal Stones that could be extracted from their bodies after they were defeated were a decent Extraordinary Resource.

In the Black Stone Forest, directly in the group’s line of sight, the Rock Monsters were still clustered together.

The rocky plates on their bodies grated against each other, making a KAKA sound.

It sounded a little strange.

The group paid it no mind. Ding Ganmao summoned his Pet Beast, a River-Flipping Crocodile, and was the first to attack.

His River-Flipping Crocodile’s Level was not low; it had reached Tier Five Elite.

Among the new students his age, if not outstanding, it was at least considered upper-middle tier.

Most importantly, the River-Flipping Crocodile had a very effective attribute advantage against Rock Monsters.

Receiving Ding Ganmao’s command, the River-Flipping Crocodile attacked without the slightest hesitation.

"ROAR ROAR..."

After a few furious roars, a huge wave suddenly rose from beneath its feet and surged toward the Rock Monsters.

This was its Skill, "Wave Chasing"!

It wasn’t a very powerful move, but its strength was in its wide area of effect.

The massive wave was four meters high and at least five or six hundred meters long. It was quite a terrifying sight as it surged forward.

"What’s going on?" Li Qian saw that, faced with the encroaching wave, the clustered Rock Monsters showed no signs of scattering and fleeing.

Instead, they remained huddled together.

They formed a wall with their bodies, fearlessly facing the rushing wave’s attack.

They looked as if they were protecting something extremely precious with their lives.

Seeing this, Li Qian was not only confused but also a little curious.

’What on earth are these Rock Monsters doing?’

’Or rather, what are they shielding?’

Li Qian didn’t summon Qizai or Xiaoliu, just watched quietly.

Dakoli didn’t summon a Pet Beast either.

The other six members had each only summoned one Pet Beast.

Even so, it was more than enough to deal with this group of Rock Monsters.

There was no need for Li Qian or Dakoli to get involved at all.

Of course, the two of them held back as a precaution.

If something unexpected happened, they could be the first to respond.

With the River-Flipping Crocodile’s "Wave Chasing" Skill leading the way, the others’ Pet Beasts also joined the fray.

The battle was completely one-sided.

Seeing this, Li Qian let out a long breath.

’Maybe I really was overthinking things.’

’There’s nothing unexpected happening at all.’

That’s what Li Qian thought.

But he quickly overturned that thought.

Because the unexpected finally happened.

Within his field of vision, after a large number of Rock Monsters had been defeated, the very ground where Li Qian and the others were standing suddenly began to shake.

"What’s going on?"

Li Qian, startled, immediately fixed his gaze on the spot.

Now, he could finally see.

In that place, the spot where the Rock Monsters had been gathered, there was a large hole in the ground.

At this very moment, a sizable mound of earth was rising from the ground around the hole.

The ground was shaking so violently because of this mound.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP..."

Just as Li Qian was stunned, his Energy Detection Watch suddenly let out a series of urgent warning beeps.

Li Qian glanced at it, his face paling in shock. He immediately shouted a warning, "Get out of here! There’s an Overlord-level Pet Beast!"

As he shouted the warning, he had already summoned Qizai and was preparing to leave on its back.

However, just as he leaped onto Qizai’s back, before he could even give a command, the earthen mound in the distance suddenly exploded.

"BOOM~!"

The sound of the explosion echoed out, accompanied by flying dirt and rocks and a cloud of rising dust.

"ROAR ROAR ROAR..."

Through the dust, Li Qian could clearly hear a series of terrifying roars.

Hearing these terrifying roars, the corner of Li Qian’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch.

’How many times has it been?’

He couldn’t remember how many times this had happened.

Li Qian was starting to wonder if he was born under a bad sign, attracting disaster wherever he went!

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