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But everyone looked grim.

We've only just entered, and the lowest-level void beast we've encountered is already so troublesome.

"This can't go on; we have to break through."

Just as Qin Wu was about to charge through the gunfire, a hand pressed down on his shoulder.

It is an old coffin.

What are you doing?

Qin Wu was taken aback.

Chen Guan didn't look at him; his gaze remained fixed on the crystal forest that shimmered with a dangerous light.

"Something's not right," he said softly.

"What's wrong?"

An Changqing asked while maintaining the sword barrier.

The warning growls emanating from the leopard at Chen Guan's feet grew increasingly urgent. Its golden vertical pupils were fixed not on the lit crystals, but on what lay behind the crystal forest.

There is something there.

Something more dangerous and much larger.

These crystal shooters are merely bait used to attract the attention of its prey, or rather, they are part of its body.

"Kid, you've got a quick reaction."

Barth praised, "That's right, the big one is hiding in the back. It'll come out and harvest the spoils when you're all exhausted from playing with these little cannons."

"These things are alive, but something's not right over there." Chen Guan's gaze passed over the crystal archers and landed on the unremarkable gray fungal carpet behind him, pointing with his finger.

Shhhhhh.

Another wave of spikes came, even denser than before.

An Changqing's sword curtain rippled outwards, blocking most of the attacks.

"We need to find a way to deal with them." Long Ao easily deflected the remaining attacks.

"Leopard," Chen Guan suddenly whispered.

The leopard, which had been lying at his feet and growling, immediately looked up, its golden vertical pupils staring at him.

"Launch an attack on that piece of land."

As Chen Guan finished speaking, its figure transformed into a purple afterimage and disappeared from the spot.

The next instant, a sharp whooshing sound rang out, and a bolt of purple lightning appeared on the fungal carpet that Chen Guan had designated.

The leopard's attack vanished without a trace the instant it touched the ground.

The grayish-white fungal carpet came to life, like a boulder thrown into water, creating visible waves.

Then, the entire floating island began to shake.

The fungal carpet beneath their feet surged wildly, and the flat ground where they had just stood arched upwards.

Those beautiful crystal archers were uprooted, revealing that they were not independent creatures.

Their roots were all connected to an unimaginably huge, constantly writhing mass of flesh.

A giant mouth.

This is not a metaphor.

The area where everyone had been standing, along with the crystal forest, had a massive crack that stretched for hundreds of meters.

The cracks turned upwards on both sides, revealing a dense array of pale, steel-needle-like teeth inside.

The spot where they were standing was a mouth that was closing.

The leopard just attacked the upper palate of this mouth.

"This is the full picture: the mimicry predator, the Earthjaw Beast."

Situ Ming then spoke up, adding, "Adult Earthjaw Beasts can reach the ninth rank in strength and are extremely dangerous. However, this one is not yet an adult; adult ones are captured by the Great Wall."

With his strength, he naturally saw through its true race from the very beginning.

Situ Ming didn't say it at the beginning because he wanted to see if any of the students could be the first to notice something was wrong.

Sure enough, his prized student had already seen through all of this.

Chen Guan looked at the slowly closing giant jaw, and deep within the jaw, at the core that emitted a faint purple light and beat like a heart.

This is the real good stuff.

"Quick, run!"

The voice of a naive first-year student was trembling with tears. He looked at the huge upper jaw closing above his head, which was rapidly swallowing up the light of the sky.

The fungal carpet beneath their feet became unusually slippery; it was the tongue of a giant beast, with countless translucent, slimy filaments emerging from beneath and wrapping around their ankles.

With a flash of sword light, An Changqing severed all the incoming flesh threads from his hand.

With a loud shout, Long Ao lowered his legs slightly, embedding them like nails into the writhing flesh. His fists clenched tightly, and his knuckles cracked.

He stared at the massive, pale teeth hanging down like mountain peaks, his fighting spirit soaring: "Break its teeth, and we'll get out."

boom.

Long Ao slammed his fist into the root of the inverted giant tooth, creating a muffled thud that made everyone's eardrums go numb.

The tooth, which was even taller than him, merely wobbled, its surface cracking like a spiderweb, and a few pieces of stone fell off—far from being shattered.

"It's a bit hard." Long Ao shook his numb fist, the muscles on his arm bulging like tangled tree roots.

On the other side, An Changqing's sword light wove into a galaxy, shredding the sticky fleshy strands that pierced from the tongue coating, protecting several first-year students whose legs had already gone weak.

Being only first-year students, they hadn't seen much of the world, so only Shan Heng remained relatively calm.

Shan Heng looked up and saw that only a sliver of light remained before darkness enveloped him. The stench in the air, mixed with despair, made his face tense.

If this continues, everyone will either be crushed or digested alive.

"Heh heh heh, kid, aren't you going to make a move?" Baal's voice echoed in Chen Guan's mind: "If you wait any longer, your classmates will really become dinner."

Chen Guan ignored Baal, his gaze passing over Long Ao, whose fists were generating wind pressure, and An Changqing, whose sword light was protecting him, and fixed on the depths of the giant jaw.

There, in the dark throat, a huge purple core throbbed like a heart, each beat intensifying the peristalsis of the entire oral cavity.

That's the vital point of this earth-jaw beast.

Getting your teeth fixed is a complete waste of energy.

"No need for that." Chen Guan took two steps toward the depths of the wriggling tongue coating, the slippery sensation under his feet making him feel nauseous.

He stopped, stretched out a hand, and a sickle appeared in his hand.

"Stand firm, everyone." Chen Guan said, and before his words were finished, a flash of purple light appeared, and his figure disappeared from the spot.

When he reappeared, he had already traversed nearly a hundred meters and was standing directly in front of the enormous purple core.

"roar."

The Jaw Beast clearly sensed the deadly threat, and all the mucus and fleshy strands in its mouth went berserk, swirling towards the location of the coffin.

Chen Guan raised his sickle, and a thin, black line flashed through the air.

laugh.

Time seemed to have been paused.

All the frantically surging meat strands stopped in mid-air.

The violently pulsating purple core now had a similar thin black line in the center.

next second.

puff.

All the meat strips marked by the black lines were neatly cut in two, lost their vitality, and turned into dripping mucus.

The enormous core, like a watermelon sliced ​​open with the fastest knife, was cleanly split in two, and purple sap gushed out.