Although surprised and in a hurry, Tianyang still easily dodged the rock. It hit the foot of the mountain, causing rocks to fly everywhere. It fell to the ground, and the huge rock shook. Cracks appeared on it, and then it stretched out and turned into a huge figure.
It turns out that this is not a stone, but some kind of creature. It just has a rock-like outer shell. When it curls up into a ball, it looks like a huge rock.
The creature stood up, more than three meters tall, and Tianyang only reached its belly. It was covered with a rock coat like armor, and there were keratinous hard plates on its chest and abdomen. It seemed that its defense was also amazing.
It has a crocodile-like head with two small eyes. It looks a bit funny, but the row of fine teeth in its mouth makes it hard to laugh.
This creature's limbs were no different from those of humans. When it stared at Tianyang, its fingers moved flexibly and then made empty grasping movements.
The ground beneath its feet began to vibrate slightly, and some rocks were pulled by an invisible force and stuck to its arms. In a blink of an eye, the creature's hands seemed to be wearing two gloves, two gloves made of rocks.
With a roar, the crocodile rushed towards Tianyang, raised his right fist, and smashed it head-on. Its hand wrapped in a rock glove was so huge that the fist breaking through the air not only caused a whistle, but also caused the air around the fist to slightly distort.
Apparently there was some kind of energy field attached to that fist.
Tianyang calmly lowered his head and let the crocodile man's heavy punch pass over his head, but the terrible impact force of the punch not only made Tianyang's hair fly up, but even made his body shake slightly.
That feeling was like a train passing by you at high speed. Tianyang made a simple assessment in his mind that the impact force of the crocodile man's punch might have exceeded 2,000 kilograms.
Unfortunately, no matter how great the impact force is, it will be useless if it cannot hit the target.
Tian Yang spun around the crocodile man with light movements, like a floating leaf. The huge creature was dizzy, and seeing that it could not play any new tricks, Tian Yang drew out the Blood Drinker and slashed with a lightning-like blade, letting a rusty red blade light cross the crocodile man's elbow and cut along the joint without rock armor protection, removing one of the creature's arms.
The crocodile man let out an earth-shaking roar, and his two small eyes suddenly widened into a round shape with obvious anger rising in his eyes.
In an instant, wisps of light red smoke gushed out from the gaps in its armor. The crocodile man opened his mouth and inhaled all the smoke into his big mouth. His chest suddenly lit up, as if a fireball was stuffed into his chest cavity, clearly outlining the skeleton inside his body.
It swung violently in the direction of Tianyang, and the stones stuck on its hands shot out towards Tianyang like bullets, and each stone was covered with a layer of faint red light.
Tianyang dodged easily and saw the stones hit the ground and exploded one by one, creating bowl-sized holes on the ground.
After missing the first attack, the crocodile man rushed over again. His speed increased significantly and he was close to Tianyang in an instant. He grabbed the target with his remaining hand. A faint red light suddenly emerged from his hand, outlining a huge claw.
Tianyang smiled slightly, and the Blood Drinker hummed and turned into a rusty red light, passing through the illusory claw and the crocodile man's arm.
At that moment, the claws condensed from light shattered into millions of light points, and the crocodile man's arm spread out smoothly from the center line to both sides, exposing the blood vessels, nerves, and arm bones inside, and then all these things were shattered. The remaining hand of the crocodile man exploded into blood powder. Before Tianyang was stained by its blood, he had already moved away.
Having lost this arm, the crocodile man's momentum suddenly plummeted. Before he could regroup, Tianyang appeared behind him again, half-crouching on his shoulder as if he had no weight at all.
Blood Drinker held the weapon upside down and stabbed it into its head, which then burst out from its chin. With a flash of the knife, the crocodile man's head split open, gushing out a column of blood like a fountain.
With a thud, the creature's tall body fell heavily to the ground, and its shape began to decompose, turning into mud in an instant. In the mud, there was an object that looked like a claw and a curved blade.
Tianyang picked it up with his sword, held it between two fingers, and obtained the information of the item.
'Rock Crocodile Claw: This is an item left by the Rock Crocodile Guard. It can manipulate rocks, or combine them into rock armor, or transform them into weapons. The Rock Crocodile Guard is a middle-class black people among the Wild Demons. They are the guards of the Wild Demon King and are responsible for protecting the periphery of the King's Hall. They have gotten rid of their beast form and evolved into a humanoid form, and have a certain degree of intelligence.
As guards, they can naturally see through most concealment methods, and few people can hide from their eyes.'
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"Rock Crocodile Guard, King's Hall." Tianyang raised his head and looked at the entrance to the acupuncture point in front of him: "It seems that I have found the right place."
Since the Rock Crocodile Guard can see through the 'Dark Breathing', Tianyang did not waste his energy and simply canceled this ability, but used the two star essence techniques of 'full' and 'hidden' to expand his perception.
He discovered that after reaching Rank 7, it seemed that due to the increase in the total amount of star energy, his perception, with the help of these two skills, had a much wider range than before.
All of a sudden, Tianyang realized that there were many similar acupuncture point entrances, and inside the mountain of this peak, various tunnels were interconnected, there were many areas with unknown functions, and there were many rock crocodiles guarding and walking in the tunnels.
From what he perceived, the belly of this peak had probably been hollowed out and remodeled, and the royal hall should be at the top of the mountain.
Tianyang activated the 'Fog Ghost Amulet', and thick fog rose under his feet, which turned into a set of ancient armor, wrapping Tianyang's whole body. Since he couldn't use 'Dark Breathing', he simply went underground and entered the mountain from underground.
After entering the entrance of the acupuncture point, Tianyang could feel that the temperature in the mountain had risen significantly, and the heat coming from below was clearly noticeable, as if there was a volcano under the mountain with a large amount of magma.
While walking underground, Tianyang discovered that there were many man-made ventilation ducts. The heat emitted from the ground was transported to other places through these ducts. He didn't know what their use was.
With the help of perception, Tianyang can accurately grasp the position of the rock crocodile guards above his head and their range of activities. Although these things have the ability to see through concealment, they are not very alert.
His awareness was low and he didn't notice the intruder under his feet.
Some guards even curl up into rocks, seemingly in hibernation, but in this way they can disguise themselves as rocks. If you don't know their true identity, you might be attacked when you pass by them carelessly.
A moment later, Tianyang came to a cave, where there were no guards, and he came out from underground. He found that the place was full of fungi, but they were not anti-world fungi. The fungi in the cave were large in size, dark red in color, with bright fiery red hyphae and lighter color of the stems.
The height of these fungi ranges from tens of centimeters at the smallest to over one meter at the largest. They seem to have been cultivated intentionally because there is a hot and bright light source above the cave, and these fungi seem to be able to grow only in a hot environment.
At this time, a sound came from outside the cave. Tianyang hid behind a fungus that was two meters high. The fungus stem of this thing was fat and could easily cover his body.
Tianyang looked outside and saw a group of hunchbacked creatures walking in. They were about the height of an adult and looked like hyenas, but their heads had obvious human facial features. These things were reddish-brown from skin to hair, and they were covered with tattered cloaks, carrying a basket on their backs and holding a short-handled sickle in their hands.
After these creatures entered the cave, they began to use the sickles in their hands to harvest the small fungi. After cutting them, they threw them into the basket behind them, which surprised Tianyang.
It seems that the fungi in this cave are food for these black people.
Tianyang did not stay in this place any longer. He dived underground again and left the fungus cultivation room.
Continuing his exploration, he found an animal pen where the lizard-wolves that had invaded the Drifting Town before were kept. These lowest-level black people among the wild demons were kept in captivity. Above the pen, the hyena-men he had seen in the breeding room before dumped cartloads of fungi down there, causing a scramble among the giant lizard-like monsters below.
It turns out that the fungi were cultivated to feed these things.
Along the way, Tianyang also discovered many man-made rock towers. On the walls they were attached to, there were many exhaust holes on the sides of the towers, which would spew out hot smoke from time to time.
Tianyang guessed that the hot air transported by the underground wind ducts finally rushed into the tunnels through these exhaust holes. If there were these rock towers in other passages and caves in the mountain, then it was certain that the wild demons must like high-temperature environments, so they dug wind ducts underground so that the underground heat energy could be transported to every corner of the mountain.
While Tianyang was exploring the mountain where the royal hall was located, the fusion progress of the two gaps had improved. More and more colorful light curtains appeared, and the earliest batch of light curtains had expanded to a level large enough for chariots to pass through.
This level of light curtain is already able to provide conditions for transporting a large number of troops. On the other side of the light curtain, underground in the drifting town, on the square outside the palace, flames were rising from the crown of fire on the head of the King of Yama. With a demonic light in Youhua's eyes, he raised his arm and swung it down heavily.
Suddenly, in the Drifting Town, a large number of aphids rushed into the light curtain like a black cloud. They appeared in the gap on the opposite side in an instant. They squeaked and pounced on any creature they could see, starting a bloody feast... .