Hearing Mike’s words, Lilian quickly restrained her aura.

  In a short while, a group of Fierce Beasts appeared in front of them.

  Mike could not recognize the name of these Fierce Beasts at all.

  All he knew was that he did not want to provoke the group of Fierce Beasts in front of him.

  “One, two, three… thirteen, there are thirteen beasts that we’ve never seen before. Let’s not provoke them! Wait, wait a minute, Lilian, look, what’s that?”


  Mike saw that the beast at the end of the line was holding a rope, and at the end of the rope were a group of captive humans.

  “Yes, those are humans, Mike. Why do you think these beasts didn’t kill these people but did this instead?”


  “I don’t know either!”


  Mike did not say anything else to Lilian, but continued to observe the group of beasts in front of him.

  Mike found that these captives were walking on their own. Although their hands had been tied with ropes, there was not a trace of sadness on their faces.

  What was going on? Why wasn’t there any trace of fear on these people’s faces?

  Could it be that these beasts had the power to brainwash them?

  Even with these doubts, Mike did not dare to say anything. He could only quietly observe the group of unknown beasts.

  “Oh, I’ve got it, Mike.”


  Lilian suddenly looked at Mike in excitement.

  Even so, she still lowered her voice and said, “I found an ancient document about Fierce Beasts in a certain canyon. In that document, there is a passage about Fierce Beasts. I remember that there was a group that had been formed like this called…”


  Mike looked at Lilian and said, “Called what?”


  “The Fourteen Claws of the Demon King. How many did you say they had?”


  Mike was shocked and said, “Thirteen… Oh no, Lilian, run!”


  Before Lilian could react, a huge, sharp blade made out of bone slashed towards the treetops where Mike and Lilian were.

  Lilian hurriedly dodged and came back to her senses. Only then did she come to a realization.

  The huge Fierce Beast had a huge and sharp bone blade in its hand.

  Unlike other Fierce Beasts, this one seemed to move faster. Moreover, even Mike was finding it difficult to detect the existence of this Fierce Beast.

  “This is bad, we’re in big trouble now!”


  Mike looked at the King Beast in front of him in horror.

  Before he could recover from his shock, the King Beast launched another round of attacks.

  A blinding light suddenly burst out of the sharp blade in its hand, and the surrounding temperature started to rise gradually.

  The sharp bone blade whizzed towards Mike and Lilian. Mike grabbed Lilian’s collar and quickly jumped onto another tree.

  “This is not good, Lilian. The other King Beasts have also been attracted here. Run!”


  After Lilian heard Mike’s words, she turned around and looked at the horde of beasts that was rushing towards them. She quickly grabbed Mike’s hand and prepared to escape.

  “We’re heading north. Run!”


  As soon as she finished speaking, the first King Beast quickly attacked the two of them.

  A sharp thorn grew out of the King Beast’s palm.

  In an instant, the spike flew towards Mike and Lilian.

  In a moment of desperation, the two of them were forced to separate.

  “There’s no chance for us to fight back. Mike, what should we do?”


  Even though Mike was in a desperate situation, his mind remained calm.

  His thoughts raced through in his brain.

  ‘If I stall these beasts, Lilian might still have a chance to survive, but the chances of me surviving will be almost negligible.’


  “Forget it. Lilian, you go first. I’ll think of a way to delay them!”


  Lilian looked at Mike.

  In Lilian’s mind, although Mike was mysterious, it did not look as if his strength was stronger than hers. In fact, he seemed to be much weaker.

  However, even at this critical moment, Mike was actually able to speak these kinds of life-and-death words to a person he had just met.

  Whatever doubts and suspicions about Mike that Lilian had held were completely dispelled.

  In fact, the reason Lilian had agreed to go with Mike was precisely because she had wanted to know the secret about this mysterious youth.

  When she had been in Leida City, she had vaguely felt an unusually powerful aura. She had suspected that the aura had come from Mike’s body.

  “I think I should hold them off. You should run!”


  She did have time to argue with Mike.

  The King Beast quickly chased after Mike.

  The sharp blade in its hand shone again, and it was aimed at Mike’s throat at an extremely fast speed.

  “Am I going to die here this time?”


  Suddenly, the tables turned. Just as the sharp blade had been about to cut through Mike’s throat, it was repelled by an unknown force.

  The friction once again erupted with a familiar flash of lightning.

  It turned out that Lilian had taken out her sharp blade to help Mike block this near-fatal attack.

  “Lilian, be careful. Come over here, quickly!”


  Just as Mike said that, roughly seven to eight sharp thorns flew towards Lilian.

  In a moment of desperation, Mike grabbed Lilian’s slender waist, stepped on the treetop, and with a kick, he flew into the air again.

  Under the moonlight, Mike looked at Lilian’s beautiful face and momentarily felt a little embarrassed.

  Lilian noticed Mike’s slightly awkward expression on his face and quickly understood Mike’s reaction at that moment.

  Coquettishly, she said, “Are you still able to think of that kind of thing at a time like this? Right now, the most important thing is to escape. Run!”


  Mike calmed down once again.

  He carefully observed the situation in the forest and the movements of the enemy.

  “There are already nine Fierce Beasts that have noticed us. We’ll have to run quickly.”


  “In this situation, even if I stall them, it will be difficult for you to escape. Why don’t we put our lives on the line and just fight? At worst, we can restart our cultivation again!”


  Seeing that Lilian had mustered up her courage to say these words, Mike decided not to hide his strength anymore.

  “Okay, let’s go with your plan then!”


  Just as the two of them had made up their plans, another round of attacks came.

  This time, it was no longer a one-on-one fight between humans and beasts.

  Fourteen beasts simultaneously shot their sharp thorns at the two of them.

  Mike managed to grab one of the sharp thorns with extremely high speed and extremely tyrannical strength.

  In a flash, he threw it at the group of beasts.

  Mike had thought that he could hit at least one of the Fierce Beasts.

  He had underestimated how fast these Fierce Beasts moved.

  In a trance, all Mike could see was their afterimages as they soared upwards.

  The spike missed and finally pierced straight into the ground.

  “It looks like ordinary attacks can’t hurt them at all.”


  “That means we can only use a real close combat attack!”


  “But if we use close combat attacks, how will we be able to dodge their counterattack? Their attack power is much higher than ours.”


  A voice sounded in Mike’s spiritual world.

  …


  Mike suddenly said to Lilian.

  “I have a way, Lilian. Can you think of a way to stall these fierce beasts and buy me a few seconds?”