The hills were not high, perhaps only about three hundred feet.
They were barren with no trace of green, and strange rocks stood like dense forests.
It looked as if countless giant swords had been plunged into them.
From a distance, it resembled a sword graveyard.
At the summit, there was a cave.
Light emanated from within the cave.
"A volcano?" Chu Tian was taken aback.
Damn it, he had come all this way for nothing.
Since he was here, he couldn't just turn back.
Chu Tian decided to get closer and take a look.
As he approached, a terrifying wave of heat washed over him, making the air feel as if it would ignite.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, he could see the flames inside the cave.
Chu Tian smelled the scent of burnt hair.
He turned to look at Xiao Kongkong, who had been squatting on his shoulder.
He found it looking at him as well, covering its nose.
Chu Tian reached up and felt around his head.
"Damn..."
After all that, it wasn't the smell from the monkey's fur.
It was his own hair...
Chu Tian quickly took out water and a towel.
He wet it and covered his head.
This look, combined with his sun-tanned skin,
Made him look like a farmer from the 1950s or 60s.
"Jiji jiji..." Xiao Kongkong clapped its hands, pointing at Chu Tian and laughing.
Chu Tian shooed it off his shoulder.
He looked speechlessly at the monkey. Its fur was so long, how come it wasn't roasted?
Before he could step forward to investigate,
The light from the cave entrance suddenly vanished.
A colossal figure completely blocked the opening, which was tens of meters in diameter.
Two eyes, like lanterns, were staring intently at Chu Tian and Xiao Kongkong.
"What the hell is that..."
Chu Tian yelped, startled.
"Jiji jiji..."
Clearly, Xiao Kongkong was also frightened.
With a *whoosh*, Chu Tian leaped back over a hundred meters before stopping.
Xiao Kongkong followed closely, perching on his shoulder again.
Roar...
The massive figure emerged from the cave and onto the ground.
Boom...
Dust and sand were kicked up by its enormous body.
Chu Tian finally saw its full form.
"Holy cow... what a huge toad!"
Although, compared to the ant king guardians he had encountered among the gold-eating ants,
This toad was still sixty to seventy meters long.
Standing before it, Chu Tian felt as tiny as an ant.
Facing such a colossal creature for the first time,
Chu Tian's heart began to race.
"Xiao Kongkong, get aside..."
"Zizizi..."
The little monkey, without any pleasantries,
Leapt from his shoulder and darted away.
However, the giant toad followed Xiao Kongkong's movements,
Slightly turning its head.
Hiss...
It opened its mouth, and a blood-red tongue shot out, coiling towards Xiao Kongkong.
Chu Tian was stunned!
Bang bang bang...
Suddenly, several loud noises echoed from the distance.
Ch ch ch...
Three giant logs, half a meter thick, flew through the air.
Their target was the massive toad.
Chu Tian's heart stirred: Was it time to act?
When he arrived here, he had noticed a group of people about a thousand meters away, with several devices resembling ancient Earth crossbow launchers, hidden behind a hill.
At that time, he had wondered what this group of people, with such large-scale engineering equipment, was doing here.
When he saw the giant toad,
He knew they were preparing to capture it.
The reason he said capture rather than kill was that, in addition to the three crossbow launchers,
They also had five giant net launchers.
If they had intended to kill it, they should have brought more lethal weapons.
"Gua..."
The giant toad let out a sudden croak, retracting its tongue that had been aimed at Xiao Kongkong.
It suddenly turned and leaped towards the mountain.
Its target was the fire-spewing cave.
But it was too late.
Bang bang bang, five consecutive giant nets flew through the air.
Chu Tian saw that their plan was well-calculated.
The flight trajectories of the five giant nets were all aimed at intercepting the toad's leap.
Moreover, their speed was precisely calculated.
Based on its arc in the air,
At least three nets would ensnare it.
The large nets were covered with barbed spikes.
Once caught, it would be impossible to escape without losing a layer of skin.
Furthermore, each large net was connected to several ropes as thick as arms.
But the toad's next action clearly surprised everyone.
"Gua gua..."
It rapidly extended its tongue,
Directly sticking to a strange rock beside the cave.
Then, it violently accelerated its body towards the cave.
It actually used its tongue to pull its massive body.
Chu Tian's mouth hung wide open. This creature's intelligence was remarkably sharp!
The old toad escaped, and Xiao Kongkong returned, looking at Chu Tian with a wronged expression.
"I... I don't know what happened!" Chu Tian explained.
At this moment, there was a commotion in the distance. He turned to look.
A cavalry unit of about fifty people, riding strange mounts.
Their upper bodies resembled mules from Earth, but they had no fur.
Instead, they had scales like fish scales.
Their hooves were even stranger, resembling chicken claws.
Chu Tian was surprised. Could these be the chicken-claw mountain-climbing beasts that Nie Yun had mentioned?
As he watched the fifty or so strange cavalrymen approach, they stopped about twenty meters in front of him.
One of them, wearing chain mail, urged his mount forward another ten meters.
"You, the kid up front..."
"Our Priest Gou said that you should let that spirit monkey go and lure out the Fire-Eyed Gu Toad!"
This person was quite rude, gesturing and speaking to Chu Tian.
"Zizizi..." Before Chu Tian could speak, Xiao Kongkong on his shoulder became unhappy.
Chu Tian smiled and patted its head.
He said to it, "Xiao Kongkong, did you just hear someone fart? A silent one at that! And what is this 'Priest Gou' you speak of? Do you know?"
His voice was quite loud, but Xiao Kongkong's intelligence hadn't reached the point of understanding his words.
It only blinked its eyes.
It might not understand, but that person did.
His expression immediately changed, and he angrily shouted, "How dare you insult the priest of my Myriad Beast City, kill..."
"Myriad Beast City?" Chu Tian was surprised, repeating the name.
Then he realized that it wasn't far from Myriad Beast City, nor was it too close.
Since he could see the firelight earlier, Myriad Beast City should be able to see it as well.
"Scared? It's too late, prepare to charge... That spirit monkey must be alive!"
As he spoke, he dislodged a dark iron spear from the side of his chicken-claw mountain-climbing beast.
Those behind him took out various types of long weapons.
Chu Tian looked. Just these...
Most of them were wooden sticks with sharp stones tied to them.
Some didn't even have stones, just sharpened wooden sticks.
With such equipment, this Myriad Beast City wasn't much.
As quick as lightning, this group urged their chicken-claw mountain-climbing beasts and charged towards Chu Tian.
"A bunch of idiots..."
Chu Tian cursed.
At such close range, they still charged.
Can they even gain speed?
And this one, only about ten meters away from him,
Was charging at him alone.
"Let me show you what charging is!"
"Giant Bear Form... Activate!"
"Charge!"
Chu Tian stomped his foot on the sand, instantly reaching maximum speed.
The Giant Bear's charge skill was nothing compared to these cavalrymen who still needed to accelerate.
Swish...
A blurry phantom of a giant bear appeared around his body, invisible to others.
As Chu Tian activated the skill and moved rapidly,
The first to bear the brunt was that arrogant guy who had just farted.
Seeing Chu Tian charging at him like a wild bull,
The corner of his mouth curled into a cruel smile.
He hooked the ring at the end of his iron spear onto the saddle.
This way, when the spear pierced an enemy, it wouldn't be shaken back and injure himself.
The spear tip aimed directly at Chu Tian's chest, thrusting forward.
Crack...
His cruel smile was still on his lips.
The iron spear in his hand merely trembled slightly,
And then shattered into pieces of iron.
He looked on with disbelief.
This was a weapon bestowed upon him by the City Lord.
How did it break before even touching the opponent?
Without allowing him to think further, an immense crushing force,
Hit the chicken-claw mountain-climbing beast directly in the head.
Crack...
The defense of the chicken-claw mountain-climbing beast was utterly useless.
Its neck was severed.
The next second, its rider was grabbed by the ankle and pulled to the ground.
But this was not the end.
It was just the beginning.
Chu Tian, with an unstoppable momentum,
Crashed directly into the cavalry formation behind.
Instantly, horses and men fell, accompanied by endless roars and cries of agony.
The cavalry unit of over fifty men was impaled by Chu Tian.
As soon as he passed through the cavalry, Chu Tian stopped his charge skill.
He whipped around and swung the cavalry captain he had grabbed.
This guy, dragged by the ankle, had been scraped along the ground for quite a distance.
Although the distance wasn't too great, it was still beyond his endurance.
He had long since fainted.
Chu Tian didn't care if he was unconscious or not.
He grabbed him and used him as a weapon.
Until with a crack, he was thrown into two pieces by Chu Tian.
He then threw the lower half of his body away.
Chu Tian was not a saint himself.
He wouldn't do something like cutting flesh to feed eagles.
He wouldn't kill and set fires without reason.
However, if someone wanted his life, they had to be prepared for the consequence of being killed.
This group, who called themselves people of Myriad Beast City, had first demanded that Xiao Kongkong go to its death,
And then intended to kill him.
Therefore... not a single one would be left!
To prevent future trouble...
Because he still needed to meet up with Old Yang and the others in Myriad Beast City.
A few minutes later, fifty-seven cavalrymen, including that foolish captain, a total of fifty-eight people,
All had their heads severed, with no survivors.
A group of wandering chicken-claw mountain-climbing beasts remained.
Chu Tian ignored them.
Instead, he turned his gaze to the distance.
There... were they trying to escape?
"Traveler Form... Resonance of Strength!"
Chu Tian used a combo skill.
With the Resonance of Strength, the soft sand underfoot could no longer affect his speed.
Whoosh...
As the sound faded, he was already a hundred meters away.
In his divine sense, the remaining two hundred-plus people there,
Had abandoned their engineering equipment, each riding a chicken-claw mountain-climbing beast, and fled.
Their direction was due north.
Likely towards Myriad Beast City.
While pursuing, Chu Tian was astonished. The chicken-claw mountain-climbing beasts were indeed fast when accelerating.
Their speed was almost the same as when he used the Resonance of Strength technique.
But after mastering Old Yang's inherited skills, although not yet proficient,
He could easily catch up to these people.
Moreover, he had the guidance of his divine sense.
Twenty minutes later, as some of the opponents stopped to intercept him,
He finally caught up to the large and luxurious sedan chair.
Calling it a sedan chair was more like a moving pavilion.
Below it, twenty chicken-claw mountain-climbing beasts were pulling it along.
And inside the sedan chair were five people.
One male and four females.
The females were all wearing scant clothing.
So scant that it was more enticing than wearing nothing.
And the priest was a pale-faced youth.
In this scorching desert, such a pale person was truly rare.
Presumably, this pale-faced youth was that Priest Gou!
At this moment, the five people in the sedan chair were all in a panic.
"Quick... quickly stop him!"
Chu Tian could even hear his shouts.
Only about thirty-odd guards remained around the sedan chair.
They were indeed obedient, tightening their reins simultaneously.
They turned their direction and charged towards Chu Tian with an unstoppable momentum.
The next second, their fate was the same as the others.
Chu Tian wouldn't be a compassionate Buddha and leave potential trouble behind.
In just a few minutes, he dealt with these people.
The sedan chair, carried by the chicken-claw mountain-climbing beasts, had already fled a considerable distance.
"They really can run..."
Chu Tian let out a sigh of relief.
But soon, the corner of his mouth curved upwards.
"Heh, quite clever... but it's useless against me!"
Chu Tian continued to pursue the sedan chair.