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As they walked down the stairs that were made of unknown material, Dugu Yifeng and the others felt a strange feeling in their hearts. They encountered strange beasts on the first level. They didn't know what kind of strange beasts they would encounter on the second level.

As they walked slowly down the stairs, the candlelight illuminated the space. However, the light from the candles seemed to be dazzling to the point that it was somewhat excessive. The instant they lit up, they all felt a sharp pain in their eyes.

This light was a bit abnormal!

When they subconsciously put their hands in front of their eyes, a miserable scream pierced their eardrums, piercing towards their hearts.

"Be careful!" Although they didn't know why, there were still people shouting out loud. However, this was only their instinctive reaction after hearing the scream.

Dugu Yifeng had also placed the hilt of his sword in front of his eyes. However, when a moment later, a blood-curdling scream rang out, he realized that the situation wasn't good. He circulated his inner force to the acupuncture points near his eyes to protect them. Instantly, he put down the sword hilt, and his eyes emitted a beaded green color like a leopard cat's.

"Careful, it's a snake!" It was a Silver Striped Snake! "Everyone be careful of the Silver Striped Snake's venom, his venom …" Dugu Yifeng glanced at his surroundings and spoke as he did so. However, before he could finish his words, his gaze suddenly stopped, trembling, "Be careful! Golden Striped Snake! There is a peak Houtian realm Golden-Striped Snake hidden here! "

Golden-Striped Snake, the ultimate evolution of the Iron Striped Snake, its strength was at the peak of Houtian! Generally speaking, there would never be such a powerful beast in the mountains near the county city! Furthermore, it was a very rare variant of the Golden-Striped Snake!

In an instant, Dugu Yifeng thought that they had fallen into the Fierce Demon Stronghold's trap. However, Dugu Yifeng quickly realized that with the strength of a small Fierce Demon Stronghold, it was absolutely impossible to deal with a beast of this level.

"Everyone retreat!" Back to the top of the stairs, back to the first floor! Fast! Fast! "Faster!" Ling Wuchen's complexion also changed when he heard Dugu Yifeng's words. Very soon, he began to organize the weaker guards and ordered them to retreat three times in a row. These people were too weak to deal with strange beasts such as the Silver Striped Snake or the Golden Striped Snake. They could only be a burden.

"All the guards, retreat quickly! Brother Wu Chen, Brother Jian Jue, let us stop them for a while before we kill anyone! Don't let these beasts climb the stairs!" Dugu Yifeng immediately shouted to the two people beside him. Among this group of people, only the three of them had reached the Houtian realm, so they were able to deal with the ordinary Silver Striped Snakes.

In fact, if there were only Silver Striped Snakes in this group of beasts, they wouldn't care too much about it. However, within this group of Silver Striped Snakes, there was a terrifying Golden-Striped Snake, a stealth Golden-Striped Snake!

Even though Golden Thread Snakes were invisible, it was only because they were too good at hiding! When the Silver Striped Snake occasionally mutated into a Golden-Striped Snake, it would instinctively master an ability that allowed it to freely change its colour in gold and silver.

The Golden-Striped Snake was a strange beast at the peak of the Houtian realm. However, most Silver Striped Snakes only had the strength of a low-level Houtian realm.

If a Houtian master saw a Silver Striped Snake attack, he would probably go up and fight back. However, if this low Houtian level Silver Striped Snake's strength suddenly became at the peak of Houtian in an instant when it fought with the Silver Striped Snake, then this person … In addition to the extremely terrifying venom of the Golden-Striped Snake, an ordinary Houtian expert would not be able to escape death even if they were ambushed in broad daylight.

Dugu Yifeng and the other two were standing on the stairs, blocking all the attacks of the Silver Striped Snakes. Occasionally, there was even some black liquid mixed in, but due to an instinctive terror, they all carefully dodged the black liquid. When they were defending, they caught a glimpse of some bones on the ground where the scream came from, which were stained with black liquid. And from the shape of the skeleton, it was clearly a human form!

They stared at the skeleton, but it rapidly turned into a cloud of smoke and slowly disappeared. This black liquid was terrifying to the extreme!

Although their hearts were trembling in fear, the three of them still tried their best to activate their Zhen Qi barriers to block the attacks of the Silver Striped Snake and the Gold Striped Snake.

Moments later, the three returned to the first floor. Previously, when the three of them were defending, they discovered something: When these snakes reached a certain step, they would quickly retreat, as if there was some taboo.

In this way, all they had to do was return to the first floor and they would be safe.

As soon as the three of them returned to the first floor, a guard stepped forward to welcome them. Dugu Yifeng took a glance and saw that it was the captain of the guards, Lin Zheng. "Uncle Lin, who was the one that was killed?" Dugu Yifeng trembled as he asked softly. After explaining the organization's work to Lin Zheng, Dugu Yifeng secretly instructed Lin Zheng to count the number of people.

From the terrible screams, the human shaped skeleton, and the terrifying corrosive speed of the black liquid, Dugu Yifeng and the others had already determined that some of the guards had been killed.

"It's Little Black!" Uncle Lin replied softly, his voice filled with uncontrollable grief.

Dugu Yifeng's expression froze, "Little Black?" He tremblingly tried to verify what Lin Zheng said, as if he wanted to prove that he had heard wrongly. However, Lin Zheng was silent.

"Uncle Lin …" "How could that be? Little Black, he …" Dugu Yifeng trembled slightly as he did not continue. Xiao Hei had grown up without any parents, and Lin Zheng was also protected at the Divine Sword Villa his entire life. The two of them took the Villa as their home and were close relatives.

Dugu Yifeng was silent. The surrounding people were also silent. Even though Dugu Yifeng had been used to life and death situations in his previous life, even to the point where he himself had died once, he still had no way to transcend them.

One shouldn't be afraid of dying, but if those who died were their own family, or those who they met all day long, then that was something that would truly make one feel cold and despair!

"Go!" Let's go back and bring Blacky's corpse back! " Dugu Yifeng suddenly said. At this moment, the surrounding people were all stunned. He had just retreated a moment ago, and now he was going down again?

The crowd looked at Dugu Yifeng in confusion, but it was Ling Wuchen who finally spoke, "Yifeng, if we continue to be like this for a long time, won't we be able to deal with those strange beasts?"

"Don't worry!" Dugu Yifeng didn't say anything as he simply replied. He simply walked straight down the stairs. Ling Jianjue followed closely behind him, and Lin Zheng immediately followed. Ling Wuchen hesitated for a moment before sprinting towards the stairs.

Just as the rest of the guards were about to leave, Dugu Yifeng's calm voice came from the front, "Guards, don't come down here anymore. If you come down here, you'll only be throwing your lives away!"

Dugu Yifeng's voice was very calm, as if he had completely forgotten the sadness from before. However, a wave of ice-cold feeling lingered for a long time.