Although following Su Lan and her sister Serafina, there is no need to worry about being in mortal danger.
But none of them wanted to be just pretty vases.
They were prepared to experience both challenges and scenic views on this trip.
Not long after they started walking, a powerful whistling sound rang out, causing the sand and gravel beneath their feet to tremble slightly.
"Roar!!!"
Something's coming!
Mu Nujiao glanced at Su Lan, then took the lead and walked to the front of the group, her eyes fixed on the figure that came rushing in from afar with the whistling yellow sand.
Ai Tutu and Ding Yumin stood on either side of Mu Nujiao.
The two support mages, Bai Tingting and Ye Xinxia, stood behind the three.
Lingling, however, was not frightened by the approaching demons.
Her sister Serafina was right next to her, so she wasn't worried about getting hurt at all.
As for Apas, he's even less afraid.
Her true form is a Grand Monarch-level Golden-Eyed Medusa; the demons that rushed at her couldn't even break through her defenses.
As the demon approached, Mu Nujiao immediately recognized it as a Sand Roaring Tiger.
Sha Xiaohu was clearly being misled by Serafina's barrier.
Its wide-open eyes emitted a fierce green light. It was over four meters long, with shoulder blades that seemed to bulge out of the panel. Its whole body exuded hunger and frenzy.
The moment Sha Xiaohu saw Su Lan and her group, he immediately changed from his previous running posture to a state of extreme stillness as he hunted.
It crouched low, its sharp claws slowly treading across the yellow sand, its sand-colored fur and head close to the ground as it moved forward.
At this moment, Sha Xiaohu had some doubts.
In the past, any humans it encountered from afar would flee in panic.
Why are these people in front of me showing no sign of running away?
But soon Sha Xiaohu stopped paying attention to these things.
The Sand Roaring Tiger had been hungry for seven days and seven nights, and whatever the reason, nothing could stop it from hunting.
Immediately, Sha Xiaohu activated his rage mode, his body oozing red sweat, and his blood-red figure charged towards Mu Nujiao at twice the speed of his previous attack.
"It's just a general-level warrior, leave it to me."
Mu Nujiao spoke first, a blue six-pointed star appearing beneath her feet, and mid-level wind magic began to condense—
[Wind Disc - Thousand Blades]!
A massive, top-shaped whirlwind, twenty meters in diameter, formed along the path of Sha Xiaohu's attack.
Countless wind blades were spinning in the giant whirlwind!
As it rotated, blades of wind accelerated amidst the howling wind, hurtling towards the Sand Howling Tiger.
When Sha Xiaohu saw dozens of wind blades attacking him, his initial impulse to eat, fueled by hunger and exhaustion, dissipated considerably.
This is hardly food that can fill your stomach.
This is clearly a cunning and ruthless killer pretending to be weak!
Sha Xiaohu roared urgently, stirring up a cloud of sand along the path of the wind blades' attack, trying to slow them down for a moment.
However, the wind blade, accelerated by the whirlwind, pierced through the barrier hastily erected by Sand Roar Tiger and struck the tiger, who was unable to dodge in time.
"roar!!!"
A deafening roar erupted from the yellow sand.
But as the number of wind blades increased, Sha Xiaohu was eventually killed by dozens of wind blades.
When the yellow sand settled, Mu Nujiao and the others only saw the corpse of Sha Xiaohu, cut into dozens of pieces.
The scene was somewhat bloody.
Mu Nujiao's complexion was alright. She often followed the alien girl to hunt demons and monsters to hone her combat awareness and had seen even more terrifying and bloody scenes than what she was seeing now.
Although Ding Yumin, Ye Xinxia, Bai Tingting, and Ai Tutu had also hunted demons, they had ultimately had relatively little contact with them, and their complexions appeared slightly pale.
However, they recovered quickly.
As for Lingling, who is already a master hunter, she said that the scene in front of her was nothing.
"Well done, let's continue."
As Su Lan finished speaking, everyone adjusted their mindset again and continued moving forward.
When passing by Sha Xiaohu, Lingling took some of Sha Xiaohu's internal organs.
Along the way, Su Lan and her group also encountered a group of hunter mages.
However, once the hunters saw Su Lan and her group from afar, they quickly moved away and dared not approach.
The hunters who roam the northern corner of the Scorching Plains all know one thing.
When encountering elderly people, children, or women in the wild, be extremely careful and cautious, and never provoke them.
Especially avoid groups with only one man and seven or eight pretty girls.
The fact that the other party could appear here, and that they were all such beautiful women, meant they must have their own reasons for being so confident.
If you make contact rashly or act with malice, you might die without even knowing how.
Ding Yumin and Ye Xinxia were initially puzzled when these hunter mages avoided them from afar.
After Su Lan's explanation, they suddenly understood.
On the journey afterward, we would occasionally encounter one or two Sand Roaring Tigers.
The five women took turns making their moves, each thoroughly enjoying the experience.
In the end, it was the Sha Xiaohus who suffered the consequences of walking into the trap.
The journey was uneventful, and we arrived at the border of the Shawang River area at sunset.
The Shawang River is a plateau river that has been dry for an unknown period of time. After long-term wind and sand erosion, the entire Shawang River has become incredibly wide.
Its narrowest point is over ten kilometers wide.
The history of the Sha Wang River is nothing compared to the truly terrifying White Sand Demon Soldiers who live in it!
Standing on the banks of the Shawang River, one can see this dried-up and sunken riverbed, with the surface of the soil covered with fine white silt, and the undulating terrain resembles a white sand ocean.
"Where are the White Sand Demon Soldiers? Wasn't this supposed to be their lair?"
Ai Tutu stood on the banks of the Sha Wang River, looking around with a puzzled expression.
Lingling first glanced at the trembling thunderbolt, a deep sense of powerlessness appearing in her eyes, then picked up the Sha Xiaohu's internal organs at her feet and walked to Aitutu's side.
"Sister Tutu, try throwing it into the river, but throw it far away."
Ai Tutu curiously took the Sand Tiger's entrails from Lingling's hand, glanced back at everyone, and seeing that no one was stopping him, threw the Sand Tiger's entrails away with all his might.
The tiger's internal organs fell in a parabolic arc onto the white sand in the distance.
Less than five seconds after the Sha Xiaohu's entrails hit the ground, forty or fifty white, long-sword-wielding giants suddenly surged out from beneath the previously calm white sand, creating waves of mud and sand.
One by one, the three-meter-tall white sand demon soldiers looked warily at the internal organs of the Sand Howling Tiger, then looked around and, finding no trace of the group hidden by Serafina, turned into white sand and disappeared into the Sand River.
Mu Nujiao and the others were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
Especially Ai Tutu, the instigator, stared wide-eyed and gasped.
"What a terrifying sandstorm river!"
These White Sand Demon Soldiers range in strength from servant level to general level.
Although their strength is weak, their numbers are very large.
This is the real reason why the Shawang River is dangerous.
However, Ai Tutu quickly stopped worrying too much.
With Su Lan and Serafina around, there's no need to worry about the dangers in the Sand River.
"It's about time, let's camp here."
Su Lan found a sheltered slope and quickly set up a temporary campsite.
The women helped out and had a great time.
It was as if the extremely dangerous Sha Wang River not far away did not exist.