Chapter Thirty-One: The Golden Devouring Beast King
In the dark and dense forest, a cave can be vaguely seen in front, like the open bloody mouth of a giant beast.
Ning Chong and the others were hiding on a slope covered with long grass opposite the cave, Ning Jing and the other members of the mercenary group were very excited.
The last thing Ning Jing had to find was the Swallowing Gold Beast's blood, and the cave in front of them was the beast's lair. The group had been searching for more than half a month in this dense forest, and finally found the Swallowing Gold Beast's tracks, immediately chasing after it until they arrived at the entrance of the cave.
Now all that's left is to hunt down the Golden Swallowing Beast in the cave, take its blood, and the task will be complete. Everyone can return to the city with joy.
In this forest, they have been eating plain food and drinking cold water for two whole months. Everyone has had enough, their stomachs are growling with hunger, waiting to complete the task and return home to eat and drink to their heart's content.
Nature, seeing the task is almost complete, how can people not be excited?
Squad leader Li Jin pointed at the cave and said: "Everyone be careful, judging from the beast's roar, there is more than one Golden Swallowing Beast in the cave."
The beast's den is dark and lightless, and there may be strange places. Fighting with the demon beast in the beast's den is absolutely unwise. Zhang Long, who had been silent all along, couldn't help but ask: "Captain, there's not just one Golden Swallowing Beast. Entering the cave to hunt will make it even more dangerous."
Li Jin smiled and said, "I've long been prepared. This Golden Devouring Beast loves to eat gold and rocks. I have the iron essence stones that the Golden Devouring Beast likes the most here. Although the quality isn't great, it's enough to lure out the beast."
Under the gaze of everyone, Li Jin took out a wooden box from his bosom and opened it. Inside was an irregular purple-black mineral with purple and black crystals, emitting a faint iron smell, which was indeed iron ore.
Holding the iron ore in his hand, Li Jin said: "The Golden Swallowing Beast has a keen sense of smell, especially for gold and stone. Everyone get ready, once the Golden Swallowing Beast appears, the person with the best movement skills will lure away the extra beasts, while the rest will surround and kill one as quickly as possible, then deal with the lured-away Golden Swallowing Beasts."
Li Jin was experienced and wise, with everything arranged in an orderly manner. Ning Chong listened, nodding his head in admiration.
Ning Chong had been nursing his wounds for these days and hadn't fought in a long time. At this moment, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Li, my injuries are basically healed, I'll participate in this operation too."
The poor-mouthed Liu Zi heard this and chuckled, "Heh heh", and patted Ning Cong on the left shoulder, interrupting to say: "You're delicate and precious, it's not good if you get hurt, just rest well, this is something for us rough men to handle! Heh heh!"
Among the team, Ning Chong's strength is the lowest, still at the second stage of martial arts cultivation. Participating in the action might even drag everyone down. Zhang Long and Ruan Hongfu both nodded in agreement with Liu Zi's words, and even Ning Jing said: "Brother, your injury hasn't fully recovered yet, hunting the Golden Swallowing Beast isn't a difficult task, just watch from behind as I perform! Hehe!"
Li Jin thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "Alright, I've seen Ning Chong's movements before, they're all above ours. If Ning Chong wants to join in, he can be responsible for luring away the extra Golden Swallowing Beasts! We'll quickly take care of the ones surrounding us, then turn back to hunt down the ones you lure away. What do you think, Brother Ning?"
Ning Chong nodded and said, "Alright, I'll just make this little effort then."
After everyone made arrangements, they carefully checked each other's work again, and then Li Jin took the iron ore down the hill.
The iron ore really worked, and Li Jincheng had just placed it at the foot of the slope for a short while when he suddenly heard a series of beastly roars coming from the dark cave in front of him. Then, heavy footsteps echoed densely, and the ground trembled slightly.
"Here I come!"
Everyone was in a state of excitement.
A moment later, two giant beasts, one large and one small, burst out of the cave, charging towards the direction of the iron ore mine. The larger beast was astonishingly huge, its body like a small mountain, with a head as big as a water vat, and a pair of copper bell-like eyes emitting a bloody red glow, ferocious and cruel.
Everyone was shocked at first sight, and almost in unison, they shouted: "It's actually the Golden Swallowing Beast King!"
The Golden Beast King is not only much larger in size, but also has much higher strength. One Golden Beast King is almost as powerful as five or six Golden Beasts put together. However, the Golden Beast King is extremely rare and when it does appear, it will be quickly surrounded and hunted down, with its body parts being taken away for materials that are worth tens of times more than those of ordinary Golden Beasts.
If it were in peacetime, Li Jin and the others would be extremely delighted to encounter this Golden Swallowing Beast King, as it would mean a windfall. However, now that they are unprepared, everyone is naturally uncertain and doesn't know if the four or five of them can take down this Golden Swallowing Beast King.
But there is also a good side.
Normally, there would be at least four or five Golden Guardians accompanying the Golden Guardian King, but this time, there was only one. This was an extremely rare situation, and it was extremely advantageous for everyone, as the pressure of battle would be greatly reduced.
The arrow was on the string, Li Jin only thought for a moment, feeling that if everyone worked together, they still had more than 60% chance of taking down the Golden Beast King. He said: "Let's leave the smaller Golden Beast to Brother Ning Chong, have him lure it away, and we'll follow me to surround and kill the Golden Beast King!"
Li Jin made a swift decision and took the lead, drawing his large knife and charging down the slope to meet the Golden Beast King, clashing in a flash of steel.
At the same time, Ning Chong also made a swift move, using a stone as a hidden projectile to hit the Golden Armor Beast, provoking it into a furious roar and causing it to chase after him, easily luring it away.
Ning Chong drew away the Golden Armor Beast's guards at the same time, and closely followed by Li Jin, everyone began to take action.
Only the bright snow-like blade light, dense attacks, surged out like a tide, beating that giant golden beast king to scream continuously, and many scars were added to its hard scales.
The Golden Beast King naturally did not want to be beaten passively, and with a furious roar, it suddenly spat out a golden light ball. As soon as the golden light ball was sprayed out, it instantly split into countless shares of bright and shining threads, spreading out in a fan shape, flying towards the crowd.
This is the ultimate move of the Gold-Eating Beast. The Gold-Eating Beast, named for its fondness for swallowing metal, is one of the more formidable low-ranking demon beasts. Its body is as hard as iron, and it excels at swallowing metal, forming metal needles inside its body that it fires out at enemies, with extremely high killing power and range.
Generally, a Golden Swallowing Beast will have preparatory movements before shooting out metal needles, but this Golden Swallowing King didn't have any preparatory movements at all, it just came out of nowhere. It's indeed worthy of being the king among Golden Swallowing Beasts.
Li Jin and others were greatly shocked, and they immediately mobilized their internal yuan qi, each using their ultimate moves to defend themselves with the weapons in their hands, making them impenetrable.
