Wild Dogs

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yang immediately clapped his hands repeatedly.

"You're right, you're absolutely right. Give me the beads now."

Xuan Yang eagerly took the bead and dripped his own blood essence onto it.

A glint flashed in Xue Ming's eyes, but he didn't say anything more.

After Yang Fan finished dripping his essence blood, Xue Ming picked up the bead.

He then walked to the side of the hill, bent down, and threw the bead away.

After the bead flew out, a strong smell of blood immediately spread to the surrounding area.

Soon, a series of "quack quack" sounds came from the side.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Fan saw an ice toad, several dozen feet tall, jump down from the small hill.

This ice toad was entirely white, and before it blended into the iceberg, it was completely invisible.

They didn't see what the ice toad looked like until it jumped down.

Immediately afterwards, the ice toad chased after the bead.

Seeing this, Xue Ming pointed forward.

"Let's go to the Ice Toad's lair."

After saying that, Xue Ming immediately led Xuan Yang and Yang Fan toward Xiaoshan.

The group quickly rushed to the edge of the hill, and Xue Ming groped around the area.

They quickly located the ice toad's lair.

However, as soon as they approached the Ice Toad's lair, everyone immediately held their breath.

"This place smells awful."

Xuan Yang couldn't help but wave his hand.

A strong, fishy stench emanated from the ice toad's nest.

Upon hearing this, Xue Ming smiled.

"What a joke! Countless people have died here, so it's normal for it to smell bad."

"Quick, let's go in and search around inside. We might find something good."

After saying that, Xue Ming immediately sped up and rushed towards the beast's nest.

After a while, the three rushed into the nest.

Upon seeing the scene inside the nest, Yang Fan couldn't help but gasp.

Inside the lair, there were piles of all sorts of bones.

Looking at these piles of white bones, Yang Fan couldn't help but shake his head.

The scene looked far too horrific.

Besides the skeletons, Yang Fan also saw a lot of storage bags piled up to the side.

The ice toad clearly had no interest in these things.

Yang Fan was overjoyed and went straight to a storage bag, about to reach for it.

Xuan Yang, who was standing to the side, suddenly reached out and blocked him.

"Hey kid, this isn't your place."

Seeing this, Yang Fan immediately took a step back obediently.

Immediately afterwards, Xuan Yang put all of these storage bags away.

Xue Ming glared at him from the side.

"You want to keep all of this for yourself."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yang smiled sheepishly and had no choice but to hand over a portion of his storage bag to Xue Ming.

Xue Ming took the storage bag, glanced at its contents, and put it away with satisfaction.

"Indeed, these are all items belonging to Core Formation cultivators."

"But why isn't there a single magical artifact?"

Xue Ming searched for a long time before hesitantly speaking.

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yang was taken aback and hurriedly began searching inside as well.

After searching around, he found not a single magical artifact, which greatly disappointed him.

"What's going on? There are no magic treasures. Could it be that everyone who came is a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"

Hearing this, Xue Ming shook his head repeatedly.

"Impossible. Most of the people who come here are Core Formation cultivators. How could there be a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"

"The only explanation is that cultivators with magical treasures are able to contend with the Ice Toad."

"It won't be that easy for the Ice Toad to kill them."

"Only Core Formation cultivators who lack magical treasures and are relatively weak can be easily killed by the Ice Toad."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yang's eyes lit up, and he nodded emphatically.

"That's the most likely scenario."

Then, the two searched the surrounding area carefully.

While the storage bags mostly contained spirit stones, they found quite a few useful materials among the bones scattered around the corpses.

"Look at this corpse. Its bones are made of black iron, so it was obviously a body cultivator."

"This person's bones are mixed with mithril, and some even have added Geng metal."

As Xuan Yang spoke, he pointed to the skeletons.

Seeing this, Xue Ming waved his hand.

"Don't just stand there, the Ice Toad will be back soon, so hurry up and put these things away."

He then immediately collected all the useful bones and discarded the useless ones.

A hint of envy flashed through Yang Fan's mind.

He naturally knew the value of these materials and spirit stones.

But he also understood that with his own abilities, he was not qualified to compete with the two of them.

After packing the items away, Xue Ming waved his hand and hurriedly flew away with the two of them.

After bursting out of the nest, Xuan Yang laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.

"This time we made a fortune."

Unexpectedly, just as the laughter subsided, heavy footsteps came from the side.

Immediately afterwards, the three saw that the ice toad had returned.

It was holding the bead that had led it away in its mouth, clearly having sensed that something was wrong.

Therefore, after the ice toad caught the pearl, it immediately hurried back.

But when it arrived, it discovered that its lair had already been destroyed by these humans.

Enraged, the ice toad swallowed the bead whole and pounced on the three of them.

"Run!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xue Ming swung his hand forcefully behind him, and instantly a battle flag flew out.

"My formation can only hold him off for a while, not for long. I need to leave here as soon as possible."

"So as not to get hurt by him."

Xue Ming hurriedly shouted.

Upon hearing this, the other two nodded and sped up, rushing off into the distance.

As he charged, Yang Fan turned around and looked back.

Yang Fan grinned as he watched the ice toads charging towards him.

"This thing looks way too fierce."

Just as Yang Fan turned around, Xue Ming grabbed his collar and dragged him away into the distance.

"What are you standing there for? You're the slowest one to begin with. Are you trying to feed the ice toad by staying at the back?"

With that, Xue Ming grabbed Yang Fan and ran wildly into the distance.

Xuan Yang, who was standing to the side, snorted coldly.

"Blood Demon, is this your foolproof plan?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Ming let out a cold laugh.

"Can you blame me? Who knew it would take so long to find those good things inside?"

"Besides, my beads have been able to hold out long enough."

"You can't expect me to do everything."

While shouting, Xue Ming led Yang Fan to speed up and rush forward.

Xuan Yang originally wanted to argue a bit more, but he saw that Bing Chan was chasing after him relentlessly.

He had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue charging forward.

And so, the three of them quickened their pace and left the area.

Although the ice toad was enormous, its speed was no slower than theirs.

After accumulating strength for a long time, the ice toad will leap forward with all its might.

Each jump sends them soaring dozens of feet.

Therefore, it slowly caught up.

"No, if this continues, the Ice Toad will catch up with us."

"Your formation didn't work at all."

Xuan Yang, who was standing to the side, spoke to Xue Ming.

Upon hearing this, Xue Ming snorted coldly.

"Then you should use some methods. I don't believe you don't have any ways to stop the enemy."

Then he looked at the ice toad behind him.

"Let me tell you, as long as you get a little further away from the iceberg, this ice toad will stop."

"Oh, really?"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yang was overjoyed.