Qin Xiaoxiao didn't know any of the other trial participants.
None of the big shots in the group wanted to take her in. Even the kind and amiable Taoist Priest Bai didn't want to act alone with her.
However, Qin Xiaoxiao didn't dare to act alone either. After thinking it over, there was only one option left in the end.
Unexpectedly, it was Luo Xiaowei who finally took her in.
But Luo Xiaowei also had a look of disgust on his face, as if teaming up with Qin Xiaoxiao was a huge loss.
"Go and scout the way ahead!"
"I'm not going! You're at a higher cultivation level. You go first!"
"Why are you so scared? According to what was promoted in the promotional video, this mountain range stretches for ten kilometers on the outskirts. There are only a few species like Scaled Beasts, Bone-Eroding Birds, Earth Cave Spiders, and Tree Snakes. Almost all of them are first-order monster beasts. You have the Ice Phoenix Sacred Body. What are you afraid of?"
Qin Xiaoxiao was stunned when she heard Luo Xiaowei's words. She didn't expect that Luo Xiaowei, who seemed so unreliable, would know so much.
"How do you know where we are?"
Luo Xiaowei curled his lips and said, "Isn't it simple? Last night, I asked your Meteor Little Brother if he had any tips. He sent me a hand-drawn map of the [Monster Spirit World], and it was marked with the areas where various monster beasts appeared!"
"What?" Qin Xiaoxiao's voice became shrill. "Why didn't he give it to me?"
"Well, you definitely didn't ask!"
Qin Xiaoxiao was stunned. She was left speechless. It seemed that she really hadn't asked...
Looking at Luo Xiaowei's contemptuous gaze, Qin Xiaoxiao said unhappily, "What are you pretending for? You're still using Li Qingyun's hard work!"
"Hmph, asking about others' hard work is also a kind of work!"
Suddenly, Luo Xiaowei stopped.
Qin Xiaoxiao immediately became nervous. She picked up the sniper rifle in her hand, but soon she realized that she probably couldn't hit anything with it, so she quickly turned it around and used it as a stick.
She said in a low and nervous voice, "Did we encounter a monster beast?"
Suddenly, several trial participants in front were running towards Luo Xiaowei and Qin Xiaoxiao in a panic.
"Run! Run quickly!"
"It's the Earth Bear! Help! Who can save us!"
"People are dead! People are dead!"
Accompanied by the panicked shouts, Luo Xiaowei's face turned ugly. A five-meter-tall brown giant bear was chasing after them menacingly.
The trees blocking the way were knocked askew.
What was even more terrifying was that this brown bear was holding a trial participant's head in its hand.
This monster beast was the Earth Bear. It should have originally inhabited the cave in the middle of this mountain range. The reason it appeared here was entirely because it had been provoked by those several trial participants.
These five trial participants were actually a video shooting team. They were bloggers on a short-video platform and usually liked to shoot videos of doing reckless things.
In Chu Yang's promotional video, they saw this Earth Bear sleeping in its cave.
And Chu Yang also introduced that the Earth Bear had thick skin and terrifying strength, but it was usually very sleepy. If it wasn't hungry, it could even sleep for a whole year.
So after discussing among themselves, they came to a conclusion - this brown bear was sleeping and wouldn't wake up easily, so they could film it as material!
Unfortunately, they forgot what Chu Yang had said when introducing the Earth Bear. The Earth Bear would wake up when it was hungry.
The smell of human flesh directly aroused the Earth Bear's appetite for food, and it woke up immediately. Of this short-video team of five people, only three managed to escape from the cave.
The Earth Bear chased them for ten kilometers. It seemed that having tasted the flavor of human flesh, it wasn't willing to let them go easily.
The remaining three people's legs felt as heavy as if filled with lead. Even though they were cultivators, if it weren't for their will to survive, they would have fallen on the road long ago!
At this time, when they saw Luo Xiaowei and Qin Xiaoxiao, they were like drowning people grabbing at a life-saving straw and rushed towards them frantically.
"That woman, she has the celestial prodigy Ice Phoenix Sacred Body! She can save us!"
"Brother Wei! Brother Wei! Save us!"
"We don't want to die!!"
Luo Xiaowei's face became even gloomier. He had wanted to leave before, but now he couldn't because these bastards had attracted this Earth Bear, whose strength was comparable to that of a cultivator at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, towards them.
The timid Qin Xiaoxiao's face had already turned extremely pale. She grabbed Luo Xiaowei's clothes in horror and kept repeating, "What should we do? What should we do? What should we do?"
Luo Xiaowei was very irritated and shouted at Qin Xiaoxiao, "Shut up! Can you stop talking? What should we do? Just kill it, okay?"
Qin Xiaoxiao was so scared by Luo Xiaowei's shout that tears streamed down her face, but she really didn't dare to shout anymore.
After those bastards lured the Earth Bear in front of Luo Xiaowei and Qin Xiaoxiao, they didn't even look back and just ran away.
Facing the giant bear that was two heads taller than him, Luo Xiaowei didn't show the slightest sign of retreat. He took out the "Azure Water Flying Sword" that was stuck in his waist. He said coldly to Qin Xiaoxiao, "You run first. Run towards the outskirts. There won't be high-order monster beasts there."
"I'm not leaving..."
"Do whatever you like!"
After saying that, Luo Xiaowei ignored Qin Xiaoxiao. With a person and a sword, facing such a terrifying giant bear, he took the initiative to attack first!
If one looked carefully, they would find that Luo Xiaowei's eyes were full of ambition! "If we run, we do have a chance to escape! But I want to give it a try. Everyone says that only those with celestial prodigy talents have the chance to ascend to Immortal Emperor. I'm not convinced!" You geniuses can kill monsters of higher levels, right? But that's not your exclusive privilege!"
"Immortal Big Brother said that sword cultivators should be like swords, always sharp and always moving forward fearlessly!"
Boom!
Blue-purple lightning radiance emanated from Luo Xiaowei's body and gathered on the flying sword!
The Earth Bear was extremely angry when it saw this tiny human daring to attack it. It threw the human head in its hand violently and then slapped down hard at Luo Xiaowei.
The huge bear paw, carrying earth-yellow spiritual energy, made the air produce bursts of sonic booms!
However, at the moment when the bear paw was about to fall, Luo Xiaowei threw out the "Azure Water Flying Sword" in his hand.
And he himself directly threw himself to the ground. The bear paw passed dangerously close to the top of his head!
Immediately after that, thunder roared!
Luo Xiaowei, who was lying on the ground, rolled again. He gathered his right index finger and middle finger together and sent an instruction to the thrown "Azure Water Flying Sword" from a distance!
"Come back!"
"Whoosh!"
The flying sword that had flown out was summoned back again, and the lightning radiance on its body became even denser.
The flying sword reversed its direction at an extremely fast speed and directly stabbed into the back of the Earth Bear!
"Roar!!!"
The Earth Bear felt the pain and became even more furious!
Luo Xiaowei's face also turned pale, and the hand controlling the flying sword was trembling a little.
The defense of this Earth Bear was too high. He had originally wanted to pierce its heart, but when his flying sword entered the body of the Earth Bear, it got stuck...