"Cough, cough... I'm... fine! Quick... go!" Shen Haoran said weakly.
Hearing Shen Haoran's weak voice, Elder Yan quickly steadied himself and fled toward the central region of the Profound Spirit Mountain Range with all his might. There was an unwritten rule in the Profound Spirit Mountain Range: Overlord-Level Spirit Beasts were forbidden from leaving the inner sanctum. Violators would be punished by the mountain's guardian. The lightest penalty was a drop in power; the most severe was instant death.
The human-bodied, snake-tailed Spirit Beast was shocked that its all-out strike had failed to kill the human who had deceived it. Just as it was about to give chase, it discovered that it had completely lost track of the two humans within the Profound Spirit Mountain Range's inner region.
