Starting as a stray dog, I embarked on a journey of cultivation.

However, what Gou An feared did not happen.

Yukine successfully drilled a fist-sized hole in the ice, revealing the scales on the surface of the wild beast.

After seeing that the wild beast did not react, Gou An breathed a slight sigh of relief and went over to observe it curiously.

Xueyin took out a short, gleaming blade and inserted it between the two scales of the giant beast through the round hole.

The dagger gleamed with a spiritual light, clearly no ordinary object. With just a light slash, it actually cut a gash in the giant beast's body.

Fresh blood flowed out instantly, flowing through the round hole into the gourd that Xueyin had prepared in advance.

Gou An took a closer look and found that the giant beast's blood was like molten iron. Even after being frozen for so many years, it could still feel the high temperature.

Sure enough, this ancient beast is still alive!

Thinking of this, Gou An couldn't help but swallow.

Why is Yukine searching so desperately for this wild beast, only wanting its blood? What is its purpose?

Although it's not entirely clear, based on Gou An's experience in alchemy, it can most likely be used as medicine.

If this wild beast is truly unkillable and possesses extremely strong self-healing abilities, then its blood must also have extremely strong regenerative capabilities.

Thinking of this, Gou An even wanted to take a gourd.

Before Xueyin's gourd was full, the wound that had just healed had already closed up, stopped bleeding, and the hole she had drilled was slowly starting to solidify again.

Just as Xueyin was about to try again, a drop of wild beast blood that was stuck on the surface of the gourd slid down the gourd and finally fell to the ground.

In an instant, the blood was absorbed by the ground.

The next moment!

The ground began to tremble slightly, and the tremors gradually intensified.

Upon seeing this, Gou An turned to run away, but Xueyin grabbed his shoulder.

"Don't move!" Xueyin immediately shouted.

Gou An looked up and found that the giant beast had not awakened or moved; only the ground was shaking, as if there had been an earthquake.

The ground cracked open, and from these cracks crawled all sorts of strange ice worms, which all surrounded the spot where they were standing.

"Oh no! The forbidden formation here has been triggered!" Xueyin immediately warned upon seeing this.

Gou An looked at the insects; some were as big as trucks, some as small as reptiles, and there were even winged flying insects—their numbers were astonishing.

"Aren't you leaving yet?" Gou An looked at Xue Yin uneasily.

"We can't leave yet!" Xueyin said in a deep voice, "We need a full gourd of beast blood. We have to try again."

"Help me hold off these bugs and buy me some time!"

After giving orders to Gou An and the demon general, Xueyin turned around and continued to melt the ice layer again.

Gou An wanted to escape, but after being held down by Xueyin, he had already lost the best time to escape, so he had no choice but to help.

The demon general swallowed a pill, flipped his hands and took out two long swords, then charged forward.

Although these insects are numerous, they are very fragile; the demon general could kill a large number of them with a single strike.

Seeing this, Gou An pulled the long sword out of his mouth, covered it with the Nine-Flame Demon Flame, and swept it out horizontally, the fire blade instantly engulfing a vast area.

These ice insects are all formed from ice crystals and are especially afraid of fire.

Gou An guarded the left, while the demon general guarded the right, keeping the ice worms outside.

However, as he kept watch, Gou An noticed something was wrong.

Although these ice worms are not strong, their numbers are so great that they keep crawling out of the cracks in an endless stream.

As their numbers increased, Gou An found it increasingly difficult to maintain his position and could only continuously release flames to burn over a large area.

"what!"

suddenly!

A scream came from behind Gou An.

Looking back, they discovered that the demon guarding the other side had been stung hard by a flying insect that landed on his shoulder.

Although he crushed the insect to death immediately, Gou An noticed that the spot where he was stung was faintly black.

This insect is actually poisonous?

Sure enough, it wasn't long before the demon general began to be poisoned, and the fact that he kept wielding his sword to block the swarm of insects accelerated the process.

His face turned black, he foamed at the mouth, and his movements began to slow down. Finally, a large ice worm resembling a scorpion pierced his chest with its tail and he was swallowed up by the swarm of worms.

"Are you sure you can handle this? Hurry up, I can't hold them off any longer!"

Having lost an ally, Gou An could only tighten his defenses and hold off the dense swarm of insects all by himself.

The demonic fire continued to spread outwards, eventually condensing into a large fireball shield that protected Gou An and Xue Yin in the middle.

"Fellow Daoist, just hang in there a little longer, it'll be over soon!" Xueyin's voice came from behind.

The only option for those seeking temporary peace is to endure the hardship.

However, there were simply too many insects, and many of them reloaded their fireballs one after another, about to tear this protective layer apart.

"You have to give me extra money for this trip!"

Gou An shouted and used all his strength to repair the fireball, once again blocking the ice worms that were about to break through.

Looking through the fireball, Gou An's eyes widened in disbelief.

Suddenly, a frost giant emerged from the crack in the distance and began to approach Gou An step by step.

Although the ice giant is not as huge as the wild beast, it is still as tall as a three- or four-story building, and its fists are as big as buckets. If it were to come down, how many blows could I withstand?

"Your Majesty, Sister, Brother, hurry up!"

Gou An was so anxious he was about to swear.

"alright!"

Just then, the gourd was finally full. The next second after Xueyin put away the gourd, she simply struck out with her palm, and a burst of scorching heat instantly spread outwards from her.

The countless ice worms that had gathered were blown away, instantly clearing out the swarm.

"Oh My God!"

Gou An put away the protective shield, greatly shocked.

Is this the power of the Demon King?

That's truly terrifying!

"Let's go!" Yukine was about to leave when she saw this, but the insect swarm that had just been cleared out surged out again from the cracks everywhere, densely packed and growing ever larger.

It's like these insects get stronger the more you kill them, it's endless.

Xueyin flipped her hand and took out several round balls of different colors, throwing them into the air. Immediately afterward, these balls began to spin rapidly around her, automatically releasing various attacks.

Wind, fire, thunder, light, water... various attributes, with considerable power, easily opened up a passage to leave.

Gou An followed closely behind, afraid of being abandoned by this woman.

After all, so many of her men died on this trip, yet she showed no expression whatsoever, as if she had no feelings whatsoever.

"Why are these bugs chasing us?" Gou An followed behind Xue Yin, using flames to protect himself from being hit.

"The great formation here thinks we want to release the wild beasts, so it's trying to stop us," Xueyinfei explained from the front, adding, "Now that I've achieved my goal, all I need to do is find a way out."

After Gou An followed Xueyin into one of the tunnels, she immediately turned around and used the power of one of the spheres to release the power of wind and snow to freeze the entrance of the cave, finally blocking the swarm of insects chasing behind her.

Gou An finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the damned insects were gone.

"Let's go, there's no danger anymore." Yukine turned and left.

"Alright!" Gou An nodded and prepared to follow.

Xueyin had only taken two steps when she suddenly groaned and stopped.

"What's wrong?" Gou An asked, puzzled.

Xueyin frowned, reached into her robes, and pulled out an ice worm the size of an ant.

Gou Anding looked closely and found that the poisonous stinger on the tail of the ice worm was gone.