"Everyone, run away—!" Tang Li Xue shouted as she grabbed the shrunken Lucia, Yaya, and Little Loki. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Then she immediately activated [Void Shrinking Step] to escape from the stone creatures’ encirclement and teleported hundreds of meters away in an instant.

Lu Xingchen was completely dumbfounded when Tang Li Xue brought all of her companion pets and left him alone in the midst of the stone creatures’ encirclement.

RUMBLE—! RUMBLE—! RUMBLE—! RUMBLE—!

No one knew whether it was Lu Xingchen’s good luck or Tang Li Xue’s bad luck, but most of the enraged stone creatures actually turned around and chased after Tang Li Xue’s group instead!

Lu Xingchen: "....."

Lu Xingchen speechlessly glanced at a dozen or so stone creatures that were rushing at him.

CLANG—! CLANG—!

Lu Xingchen only needed to swing his sword rapidly twice to cut down those dozen or so stone creatures in the blink of an eye.

Then a little black kitten suddenly appeared and swallowed something from the debris of those chopped stone creatures before it immediately disappeared again.

Yes, it was actually Little Loki, who was using its [Instant Teleportation], to pick the [Stone Heart Gem] from those stone creatures’ debris.

Lu Xingchen became even more speechless.

"Even her pets are like their master... Both are so greedy and like to steal anything." Lu Xingchen shook his head helplessly.

Lu Xingchen hastily chased after Tang Li Xue while Tang Li Xue was still desperately running away from the army of stone creatures’ pursuit.

"Those damn stone heads are so relentless! Lucia, try to use your skills to hinder their movement!" Tang Li Xue gritted her pearl-white teeth in annoyance and instructed Lucia.

Lucia nodded her head and unleashed her [Golden Light Spell] to form a wall of golden light!

BANG—!

At first, the wall of golden light created by Lucia’s [Golden Light Spell] managed to block the stone creatures from catching up to them, but a giant stone creature appeared and smashed the wall of golden light in one punch!

Tang Li Xue’s expression turned solemn when she saw the giant stone creature.

Most stone creatures were around three meters tall, with a form like a muscular man, but these giant stone creatures were different.

The giant stone creatures could actually change their form, and if they took human form, they should be more than ten meters tall, but with half of their bodies submerged in the ground.

Yes, these giant stone creatures could also sink and move freely under the ground like a group of bloodthirsty sharks in the sea!

Just now, Tang Li Xue actually sensed that the giant stone creatures had moved closer to her from underground, thanks to her [Extrasensory Perception] plus the Profound Law of Earth, which made her able to sense everything under the ground clearly.

"This is too troublesome! Watch out, they are coming at us!" Tang Li Xue yelled to warn everyone.

Lucia’s shrunken body suddenly swelled, and then she transformed back to her real body size.

After that, Lucia grabbed Tang Li Xue’s shoulder and threw Tang Li Xue onto her back!

BAAAANG—!

A giant stone creature in the form of a giant stone crocodile suddenly emerged from underground and pounced at Lucia and Tang Li Xue with its huge mouth filled with sharp teeth!

Lucia quickly flapped her wings and flew forward like a flash of lightning!

A giant stone creature in the form of a giant stone crocodile failed to bite anything and sank back into the ground.

Tang Li Xue wiped the cold sweat on her forehead with her sleeve.

Even though she would not die even if she got bitten or chewed by that giant stone crocodile, and she could quickly recover to full health with her rapid regeneration ability, but there was no doubt that it would be very painful!

"We cannot go on like this! Those giant stone creatures are moving very fast under the ground. At this rate, there is no way we can get away from them as long as we are still inside this cave secret realm." Tang Li Xue concluded while frowning deeply in worry.

When one of those giant stone creatures jumped out from under the ground just now, Tang Li Xue activated her intermediate [All Knowing Eyes] and peeked at that giant stone creature’s information.

Its overall information was almost the same as that of the ordinary, smaller stone creatures that she had seen before, but their strength was vastly different.

The strength of those giant stone creatures had reached the third Level Spirit Transformation Realm, which had mastered two Profound laws: the Profound Law of Earth and Water.

Their strength might be significantly weaker than [Hellblood Demon Bat] and [Long Neck Demonic Crocodile] that Tang Li Xue had defeated before, but there was not just one of them!

According to what Tang Li Xue had sensed so far, there should be more than ten of them!

With the combined power of their teamwork and home-ground advantage, even Tang Li Xue, with the help of Lu Xingchen, Lucia, and Yaya, would find it too hard to beat them!

As for Little Loki, Tang Li Xue would not let it expose its [Heaven’s Devour] ability in front of Lu Xingchen as usual, so its job was mostly about picking up their loot like before.

Of course, Tang Li Xue would allow Little Loki to use its [Black Lightning Form] and [Phantom Splitter] to join the fight if they were in a critical situation later.

While Tang Li Xue was thinking hard about how to escape from these troublesome opponents’ pursuit, she quickly sensed that the giant stone creatures could actually swim freely inside the stone wall or in the stone ceiling!

BAAANG—! BAAANG—!

Two giant stone creatures in the form of a giant crocodile and a giant snake suddenly jumped out from the wall and ceiling, then pounced at Lucia and Tang Li Xue from above and the left side with very fast speed!

Lucia swiftly tilted her body to the right side and dodged the two giant stone creatures at a very close distance!

Tang Li Xue also did not miss this chance and struck one of the two giant stone creatures with [Moon Shattering Blast] plus the Profound Law of Earth!

While Yaya unleashed the transparent [Vacuum Sword] to cut the other giant stone creature!

BOOM—! CLANG—!

The giant stone creatures were thrown away by Tang Li Xue and Yaya’s attacks and sank back into the stone wall and ceiling!

However, Tang Li Xue did not feel happy at all because she felt Yaya and her attacks did not actually deal any damage to the giant stone creatures.

Even though the bodies of the ordinary stone creatures were very hard, as if it was made from sturdy rock reinforced with the Profound Law of Earth, but Tang Li Xue and Lu Xingchen could still destroy their bodies easily before.

Unfortunately, these giant stone creatures were completely different from the ordinary stone creatures.

Their bodies were not only extremely hard, like a solid boulder on the outside, but their joints and inside were also soft and sticky, as if they were made from a combination of mud and rocks.

"Holy crap—! So, their bodies also have the characteristic of the Profound Law of Earth and Water?!" Tang Li Xue concluded in surprise.

Right at this time, Tang Li Xue found that the number of the giant stone creatures that approached her had increased to four!

"This cannot go on like this! We have to find a way to get away from them quickly!" Tang Li Xue muttered in a solemn tone.

Then Tang Li Xue remembered the previous spiral stone ceiling that she had reached before and instructed Lucia to go there!

Lucia nodded her head in understanding and activated her [Slow Motion] buff without any hesitation!

Yaya also hastily added [Wind Guardian Blessing] to Lucia, so Lucia’s speed would increase even further!

Just when the four giant stone creatures emerged from the stone wall, ceiling, and ground, then they pounced swiftly at Tang Li Xue and Lucia, Lucia’s flying speed suddenly soared many times thanks to the [Slow Motion] and Yaya’s [Wind Guardian Blessing] buffs!

Lucia flew in zigzag patterns and easily dodged those four giant stone creatures, then quickly left them far behind!

With Lucia’s current lightning-fast speed, it did not take long for her to bring Tang Li Xue to the spiral stone ceiling!

Lucia rapidly flapped her wings and flew upward to enter the path at the spiral stone ceiling!

The ordinary stone creatures could not fly, so they could no longer chase Tang Li Xue, Yaya, and Lucia, but the giant stone creatures could swim freely in the stone ceiling, so they could still chase after Tang Li Xue and her group!

While Tang Li Xue, Lucia, and Yaya were trying their best to get away from the stone creatures, Lu Xingchen was trying his best to catch up to Tang Li Xue’s group from behind the army of the stone creatures!

Meanwhile, Little Loki was leisurely picking up all the [Stone Heart Gems] from the ordinary stone creatures that were chopped to pieces by Lu Xingchen!

But after Lucia, Tang Li Xue, and Yaya flew into the spiral stone ceiling, the ordinary stone creatures immediately turned around and changed their target to Lu Xingchen instead!

ROOOAAR—!

More than a thousand ordinary stone creatures roared angrily at Lu Xingchen in unison!

"Uh, sorry... It seems I am going the wrong way. Goodbye, everyone~!" Lu Xingchen smiled and said to the angry stone creatures before he turned around and quickly ran away from them!

It was okay for him to chop dozens of them, but if more than a thousand stone creatures were attacking him with their stone control ability at once, there was no way he could get away unscathed from that!