Chapter 558 - 260: Dragon Lizard and Dragon Race, Blue Star Pioneers

Chapter 558: Chapter 260: Dragon Lizard and Dragon Race, Blue Star Pioneers

They knew full well that even if they were reborn here, they wouldn’t last long without Ling Yi’s spiritual protection. They would soon be Assimilated by the Slaughter Realm and turned into deranged freaks who knew nothing but slaughter.

"Qin Hu being taken away from the previous Slaughter Realm by that group of Lizard People might actually be his only chance. If he’d been left behind, he would have probably lost his mind and been killed by the Tiger Spine Zergs by now."

A War Group Zerg Leader remarked.

Lin Feng shook his head.

"If those lizards discover Qin Hu is human, they’ll definitely torture him for information. The only good news is that they won’t kill him. After all, if he died and respawned, they wouldn’t be able to find him again."

"Also, there probably aren’t too many of these forerunners. Once they get a grasp of the situation in the Land of the End, they’ll likely want to finish their Realm Trial as quickly as possible."

"For powerhouses like them at the Tier Two Peak, clearing a minor trial dungeon should be a piece of ca—"

"Shh!" Ling Yi whipped around and clapped a hand over Lin Feng’s mouth, cutting him off mid-sentence. At the same time, she raised a finger to her lips, signaling for the others behind them to be quiet.

The group reacted instantly, ducking down and hiding behind an Obsidian Giant Stone on the path.

Peering around the edge of the giant stone, they looked into the distance.

Ling Yi spoke in a low voice, interrupting their surveillance.

"We haven’t run into them yet. The concentration of lizard pheromones in the air just spiked. I had you quiet down as a precaution, so we don’t give ourselves away."

"We still don’t know what we’re dealing with, so it’s best to be careful. I estimate they can probably detect us if we get within a kilometer."

"They operate in three-lizard teams, which means they must have specialized roles for scouting and sentry duty. They even managed to spot and capture someone as careful as Qin Hu, so we need to be extra vigilant."

"From now on, everyone step exactly in the footprints of the person in front of you. Whoever is in the rear, remember to gather some volcanic ash to cover our tracks."

"Maintain complete silence. Even if you spot something suspicious, don’t make a sound. Use hand signals to alert everyone else!"

When Ling Yi finished, the group nodded in unison.

Then, with her in the lead, they ventured deep into the Unyielding Realm, the lizard monsters’ territory, in search of Qin Hu.

Soon, after traveling for over ten kilometers, they reached the foot of the Unyielding Volcano. There, they stumbled upon a large number of Spine Zerg corpses.

They were all members of the Mental Realm Zerg Race that had spawned here, ranging in strength from Tier One to Tier Two.

They had been killed with clean, decisive strikes.

At the edge of a hot spring area lay the corpses of several Tier Two Middle-Late Stage Tiger Spine Zergs. Each had a hole a meter in diameter punched through it, the wound penetrating straight through their Armor and bodies.

A burnt smell emanated from the cross-sections of the wounds.

The Zerg flesh inside had been cooked right through.

Lin Feng inspected the wounds. The power behind them was slightly greater than an Armor-Piercing Cannon, but not quite at the level of an Ion Laser Cannon. It was comparable to an Electromagnetic Cannon.

Ling Yi stepped forward, and after her own inspection, she said:

"These have to be the weapons of those lizard-dinosaurs. The number of them who entered this Realm Trial must be at least a hundred, and probably much more."

"With that many Tier Two Peak Powerhouses, they’d have enough resources in a Realm’s Trial World to manifest weapons with this kind of destructive power!"

"This is not good news..."

"However, Energy Weapons have always had a poor Effective Range. We’re small, which gives us an advantage in a long-range standoff."

Lin Feng nodded.

"Let’s go. These corpses are still fresh, so they can’t have been dead for long. They’re probably just ahead..."

"They’ve set their sights on the Unyielding King Spine Zerg in this volcano."

The Unyielding Volcano in the Land of the End, while appearing larger in scale than the one in the Trial World, was only two thousand meters tall, with a base around ten kilometers wide.

A sweep of the area should be enough to find the Lizard Dragon Race that abducted Qin Hu.

The group set off once more, this time with even greater caution. They deliberately hunched over as they advanced, keeping their bodies low to minimize their silhouettes amidst the rugged, boulder-strewn foothills.

Finally, Ling Yi came to a stop behind a massive boulder stained yellow with sulfur. She waved for the others to take cover.

Following her gaze...

About a kilometer ahead, several tall, humanoid monsters appeared, clad in refined armor.

Standing atop a huge boulder, they were easily over five meters tall.

A thick, two-meter-long tail drooped from their lower backs, likely used to balance their upright stance.

As the creatures turned their heads...

Lin Feng and the others, their eyes glued to the figures, finally got a clear look at them...

They were a group of monsters with lizard-like heads covered in fangs and scales.

This confirmed Lin Feng and Ling Yi’s earlier speculation!