Chapter 404: Black-Feathered Eagle Appears!

What Zhang Mu didn’t know was that tens of thousands of eyes were watching them, waiting for mutant beasts to appear around them.

“How about it, Brother Zhang Mu, have you sensed anything?”

Hachikuju handed him a water flask and said.

“I haven’t detected any signs of mutant beasts within the range of my psychic perception, but I do have a chilling feeling, so it must be true.”

Zhang Mu took the water flask, took a sip, and looked around suspiciously at the quiet surroundings.

Hachikuju picked up a huge axe, mounted his horse, and said casually.

“If we haven’t found them yet, let’s not search anymore. They will come out on their own eventually.

In the wilderness, without mutant beasts, can it even be called a wilderness?

“Let’s go, keep moving forward. Time is precious, we only have ten days. If we go deeper first, we can kill more.”

“Hmm, brother, what you said makes sense. They should be ready, so let’s go.”

“Let’s go, everyone get on your horses and continue on the journey!”

Seeing Hachikuju and the others continue on the journey without any strange occurrences, everyone was worried. When Huang Yan’s team of ten encountered the first batch of mutated Earth Dragons coming out from underground, the scene was filled with cries of agony.

Curses and cries of pain were heard one after another, mostly directed at Zhang Mu and his group.

But the strange townspeople seemed to forget one thing.

Zhang Mu and his group were risking their lives to secure the future of humanity.

Now, because of the loss of a few elemental crystals, they were being cursed at, completely forgetting that it was also their own greed.

How could they possibly retrieve the elemental crystals? There were strong bodyguards standing next to the house, where would they get the chance to act recklessly here?

Those people originally wanted to make a profit but ended up losing money, triggering the mentality of a gambler, causing them to eagerly join the next round of gambling instantly.

They all wanted to make back what they had lost and leave, but ended up getting deeper into trouble.

After walking another ten kilometers, Zhang Mu felt the growing sense of danger weighing heavily on him, lingering in his mind for a long time.

They are really being targeted.

Detected!

It’s in the sky!

Finally, Zhang Mu used his mental powers to sense the source of danger, as they were swiftly closing in on their location.

“Watch out above!”

At the moment of sensing the danger, Zhang Mu suddenly shouted, causing the riders to instinctively tighten the reins of their horses and look up at the sky.

Grey and hazy, nothing had changed yet.

Just as everyone was about to ask what was going on with Zhang Mu, more than a dozen dark shadows suddenly rushed out from the clouds, diving towards Zhang Mu and his friends.

The warhorses were startled and lifted their front hooves, except for Red Blood and Zhang Feng’s horse, which were calmer.

Because, they simply couldn’t lift their hooves.

Zhang Feng borrowed his horse from the Qizilbash’s Shield Wolf Rider, as only their earth-type warhorses could borrow the power of the earth to help support Zhang Feng’s weight.

Even so, Zhang Feng borrowed the strongest horse capable of carrying heavy loads to enable him to ride properly.

At Zhang Mu’s sudden reminder, he abruptly raised his head. He didn’t doubt Zhang Mu’s words, so he immediately stared at the seemingly calm clouds.

Indeed, just as Zhang Mu had said.

A group of second-rank flying mutant beasts broke through the clouds at supersonic speed, cutting through the layers of clouds and diving straight downward.

Suddenly, above Zhang Mu and the others, the speed slowed down and spiraled.

Zhang Feng shook the fat around his waist, and as he drew energy, his belly muscles contracted.

All his energy gathered at his throat, and a powerful jet of fire shot out from Zhang Feng’s mouth, hitting the black figures directly.

However, the black figures were too fast and agile, they dodged the fire and continued to dive from high above.

Zhang Feng tried to adjust the direction of the fire, but couldn’t keep up with the agile fighters.

Finally, at a height of one hundred meters, Zhang Mu could see what they really were.

They were Black-Feathered Eagles!

Despite there being over a dozen, not a single feather was burnt down.

Seeing Zhang Feng retract the fire, his face turning red, Zhang Mu was surprised. Zhang Feng’s speed of flame eruption was incredibly strong, yet he couldn’t catch up with the speed of those Black-Feathered Eagles.

“A group of flying beasts at the peak of the first rank, with black feathers, likely to be a type of bird of prey. Among them, there is no second-rank leader.”

Zhang Mu’s explanation helped to slightly relax the tense crowd, after all, it’s not yet at the second-rank.

“Don’t let your guard down, the first-rank peak is far from the second-rank, but ants can bite an elephant to death. We don’t know if there will be other Black-Feathered Eagles appearing later on.”

Moreover, if they keep flying in the air and refuse to come down, we can’t attack them and will be endlessly consumed without being able to fight back.

Hearing this, the crowd’s expressions turned serious. They had hardly encountered mutant flying beasts before, but now listening to Zhang Mu’s tone, their current situation seemed very serious.

Like calling down disaster upon themselves.

Just as Zhang Mu finished speaking, those Black-Feathered Eagles seemed to lose their patience, accelerating at a height of a hundred meters, they dove down to a position thirty meters above Zhang Mu and the others in just half a second.

More than ten Black-Feathered Eagles dashed forward like lightning, flapping their wings while black feathers fell down like knives.

Hundreds of black feathers fell down, covering the area where Zhang Mu and the others were as if in a black rainstorm.

The black feathers sparkled with a metallic sheen. Zhang Mu felt that even though their bodies were of second-rank strength, without any defense, they would be pierced through in an instant.

Whoosh!

A curtain of water rose up, shielding Zhang Mu and the others from above.

It was a water-element second-rank evolver from Team Hachikuju who acted.

The second-rank water element condensed in his palms in the blink of an eye, then with a swift motion of both hands, a barrier of water swiftly opened up.

But in that moment when the water expert made a move, Zhang Mu also acted.

He summoned the pre-prepared Blood Lotus, instantly constructing a cage of vines, enclosing all ten people and horses within.

“Don’t you trust me?”

The second-rank evolver from Team Hachikuju naturally had his pride, and Zhang Mu’s defensive measure was a challenge to his barrier abilities, clearly poking at his ego, which made him say angrily.

But in the next moment, his face instantly changed.

As a user of abilities, he immediately sensed his second-level water barrier, barely holding off for a second.

He hurriedly tried to manipulate the water element, but before he could replenish it, the water barrier was punctured by hundreds of holes and shattered.

Moreover, their power, hundreds of black feathers fluttered down, only weakening by less than ten percent.

The remaining power all surged into the top of the vine cage.

Even with the resilient body of the Blood Lotus, in areas hit hardest by the black feathers, Zhang Mu and others could see the tips of the feathers piercing through.

The penetrating power of these black feathers was terrifying!

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