Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

rustling, rustling —————

As the sand subsided, a huge sand pit quickly formed beneath Liu Nian's feet.

Liu Nian summoned a small fire dragon and flew into the air, looking at the ever-growing pit.

Something was wriggling at the bottom of the sandpit.

It was a giant mouth.

It was round, covered with rings of sharp teeth, like a giant shredder. The edges of its massive mouth were dark red flesh, covered with grit and bone fragments, emitting a strong, putrid stench.

The giant mouth was slowly rotating, swallowing the surrounding sand bit by bit.

"Brother Liu! Run! That thing is invincible. Once it gets inside your stomach, you're dead!" Tori screamed from afar.

Liu Nian did not move.

He stared at the enormous mouth and suddenly laughed.

The part of Little Blue that it ate was detected before it was completely crushed and digested; its coordinates were inside the monster's stomach!

Or perhaps, inside this monster's belly, there's a teleportation array leading to the Pharaoh's Foot.

"Interesting," Liu Nian muttered to himself.

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Ovitan, the headquarters of the Divine Dragon Guild.

Liu Nian pushed open the meeting room door; the people inside were still there.

"You're back?" Wu Zhan looked up. "So soon?"

"Found it." Liu Nian walked to the table. "Underneath the Sea of ​​Dry Bones, there is a separate alternate dimension. The entrance is inside the belly of a creature called the Dimensional Sand-Eating Beast."

The meeting room fell silent for a second.

"In your stomach?" Devourer of the Sun put down the lamb leg. "Were you just swallowed?"

"No, my demon servant detected it." Liu Nian paused and said, "Here's what I'm thinking: first, let everyone enter the giant's belly, and after I go through the teleportation array, I'll bring you all out of the giant's body. That way, I can send everyone in at once."

After thinking about it, everyone agreed that this was a good idea.

Liu Nian had used this tactic before, leading many Abebe bees to raid the troll's main city, so this time it was a familiar routine for him.

When he returned to the Sand Sea and used Little Blue to fish out the Dimensional Sand-Eating Beast, he plunged into it!

To avoid dying, Liu Nian activated his dragon form, confident that with his billions of life points, it could not possibly kill him instantly!

The Sand-Swallowing Beast's body was a chaotic darkness.

Liu Nian felt himself falling, the fleshy tubes around him squeezing and pushing him deeper. Corrosive liquid seeped from the tube walls, sizzling and corroding his skin.

-4000 million! -4000 million! -4000 million! -4000 million!

The system continuously alerted him to the damage he was taking every second.

Looking at the damage, Liu Nian realized it was indeed exaggerated; most people couldn't withstand it.

However, Little Blue, who turned into water, did not suffer such high damage. It seems that the damage received in the form of water is different from that in the normal physical form.

Liu Nian thought that it was possible that his current size was too large, which was why he was more likely to be injured.

The speed of the descent was increasing, and the surrounding fleshy tubes were widening. Liu Nian could feel that he had already penetrated thousands of meters into this thing! He really didn't know how long this thing was; was it perhaps located deep within the Earth's core?

Suddenly, the surroundings became empty.

Liu Nian felt as if he had been vomited out of the fleshy tube, like a ruminated seed that had passed through a sticky membrane and fallen into a huge cavity.

He paused for a moment when he landed.

This was not the stomach he had imagined, nor was it any stone chamber or palace.

This is a sea.

A black sea of ​​sand.

There was no sky above, only endless darkness, like an overturned iron pot, completely covering the entire space.

Countless tiny points of light floated in the darkness, drifting like fireflies, emitting a pale white glow that barely illuminated the scene below.

Beneath my feet was black sand, so fine it was like powder, and it made a soft rustling sound when I stepped on it.

The sand was pure black, reflecting no light whatsoever, as if it could swallow light itself. Liu Nian squatted down and grabbed a handful; the sand slipped through his fingers, cool and devoid of any warmth.

In the distance, the sea of ​​sand undulates like waves, and occasionally something can be seen on the ridge of the dunes—half-buried skeletons, broken stone pillars, and collapsed statues.

The faces of the statues are now blurred, but their outlines still reveal them to be some kind of humanoid creature.

Liu Nian stood up and summoned the behemoth.

Release them.

The colossal creature that emerged from the void opened its enormous maw.

Wu Zhan was the first to step forward. He landed on the black sand, his ghostly body clad in full gear, the sand crunching beneath his feet. He immediately went into alert mode, shield raised, longsword drawn.

"Have we arrived?" he asked.

"Mm." Liu Nian nodded.

Wang Mian, Shi Ri, Yun Xiangrong, Vayne, Mosh... two thousand and seventy-three people were quickly released from the giant's body and spread out on the black sand.

The two thousand people were divided into ten teams, with Wu Zhan, Wang Mian, Shi Ri, Yun Xiangrong, and others each leading one team.

Each team was further divided into smaller groups of about twenty people each...

Following the direction Liu Nian pointed, everyone then headed towards the area on the distant sand dune ridge where the ruins appeared to be.

"Let's go take a look," Liu Nian said, taking the lead.

More than two thousand people marched through the black sand sea, the sand beneath their feet making a continuous rustling sound that echoed in the silent space, like countless strange whispers mixed together.

As they got closer, they could see what it was.

An altar.

The enormous altar was constructed entirely of black rock, its surface covered with dark red runes. Shaped like a pyramid, the base was fifty meters long on each side and about twenty meters high. Each of the four sloping sides had a set of steps leading to a platform at the top.

In the center of the platform, there is an irregular circular groove with a diameter of more than ten meters.

The groove was empty, but it had irregular circular patterns that looked somewhat familiar.

"This is..." Wu Zhan frowned.

"A sacrificial altar." Wang Mian crouched down, gently touching the patterns with his fingers. "If I'm not mistaken, this altar is used to activate the Pharaoh's Foot. What do these patterns look like?"

"Fingerprints?" Yun Xiangrong's eyes lit up.

"Yes! This is just one!" Wang Mian stood up and looked into the distance, pointing in several other directions: "Over there, over there, and over there—there should be at least four more!"

Liu Nian let Shi Ri look into the distance; he had a clear mind and a good view.

Shi Ri squinted and looked in the direction Wang Mian had just pointed.

Sure enough, in the distance of the black sand sea, several other huge outlines could be vaguely seen. Including the one in front of us, there were exactly five.

So the first step of the strategy is now quite obvious.

Five altars. Five toes. Once you collect all the offerings, you can summon the BOSS.

"What needs to be sacrificed?" Wang Mu asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sand suddenly began to tremble.