Miaotan's death still made Jiang Yun feel embarrassed.

He is not familiar with Miao Tan, and even because Miao Tan has a lot to do with the net energy that framed him in the first place, Jiang Yun still dislikes this person in his heart. But when he suddenly heard the news of his death, there would still be many waves in his heart.

This time they came to Houshan, no matter what their personal relationship was, at least they could be regarded as comrades-in-arms who fought side by side.

died like this, how could Jiang Yun not be moved?

What's more, including Miaotan, a total of three people died.

This not only made their patrol team a rare casualty team, but also the casualty rate of the three was the most serious in the past two years.

But this whole thing is full of a sense of strangeness.

The patrol team of the White Dragon Temple, at a frequency of two or three times a year, sweeps the back mountain. This trend has lasted for decades, to say the least. In the past, many demons were swept away, and it was not uncommon for them to fight the patrol team in combination with the number of one or two powerful monsters.

Generally speaking, when encountering this, the patrol team can basically detect it in advance. After evaluation, if they can beat it, they will gather together to fight, scatter the gathered demons, and save the effort of going all over the mountains to find the scattered demon squads. When encountering too many enemies, or the strength of the demon powerhouse leading the team is indeed relatively high, they will choose to temporarily retreat, monitor the traces of a large group of demons, and contact the Demon Sealing Hall, if it really can't work, contact the White Dragon Temple at the bottom of the mountain, mobilize manpower, and annihilate a large number of demons in one fell swoop.

It stands to reason that this time will be the same.

A cluster of more than two hundred demons is not a desperate number. When the five squads are combined, with a higher average strength, and with the leadership of Xuan Miao, a Ming Realm monk, it will not be difficult to slaughter this group of demons, and they don't even need to ask for help from the Demon Sealing Hall.

But it was this encirclement and the silent lurking underground that made the monks suffer.

The demons obviously have a unified command, but this is actually not a demon.

Demons are not brainless creatures, but the vast majority of demons are creatures with brains but not fond of using them. If you can solve it with violence, you can solve it with violence, and give in to your desires. There are schemes or something, but they have always been very rough, and even if the superior demons have formulated corresponding plans, when it comes to the implementation of the lower levels, the low-level demons who don't like to use their brains will often execute the plans in a mess.

This kind of accurate prediction of the route of reinforcements to the monks and ambush them halfway was very rare in the past battles with demons.

That's all, that's all, but there is an ambush underground...... This has never appeared in the records of the White Dragon Temple.

The White Dragon Temple has been fighting against the demons in the back mountain for hundreds of years, but it has not been without interruptions. For example, more than 30 years ago, when the Kingdom of Wu fell, the White Dragon Temple suffered a catastrophe and almost perished. During that time, of course, the White Dragon Temple was unable to manage the back mountain, in fact, there was a blank time of almost ten years since then, and the evil demons in the back mountain accumulated more and more, and even broke through the border several times and came down the mountain to bring disaster to the world. It wasn't until the White Dragon Temple gradually recovered its vitality that it slowly brought the back mountain under control.

In this way, the White Dragon Temple said that it had been fighting against the demons in the back mountains for hundreds of years, but they were almost destroyed and reborn, and now they have accumulated experience in dealing with the demons in the back mountains, and they will only be twenty years at most. For the past beyond this time limit, they have no inheritance, and even the relevant written records were burned by the Liang army together with the old White Dragon Temple in the disaster of destroying the temple that year.

In the last twenty years or so, I haven't heard any reports of demons burrowing into the ground.

After burrowing into the ground, in addition to the hidden form, the more important thing is that they used some means to almost cut off the exposure of the evil spirit, and it was difficult to be detected.

That is, their team has Jiang Yun, and the Divine Soul Technique is not common, let alone a peerless level exercise like 'Falling Spirit Thaumaturgy'.

The other team, which was not detected in advance, stepped into the encirclement with one foot, and the end was so miserable.

But when something unusual happens, it's easy to make some reasonable associations.

A large number of demons, inexplicably suddenly mastered the ability to burrow into the ground? It doesn't make sense, demons can't evolve that fast.

A more plausible explanation is that among the demons that appeared this time, there is a monster that has the ability to hide a large number of demons underground. Even, it may be the commander of the beast taming team of the White Dragon Temple this time when the demons gathered, and it is the leader of this group of demons.

Jiang Yun is not the only one who thinks so, most of the people in the patrol team think so.

This was soon confirmed.

Xuan Yu got the news from his senior brother Master Xuan Miao, and confirmed that among these evil demons, there is a great demon in the realm of Ming, whose characteristics are that he can control stone mud and is good at hiding his breath and body.

According to the message, it was an inhuman demon. Its image, like a strange insect, the whole body is long, nearly ten meters long, more than one meter in diameter, with many limbs, each limb is like a human hand with five fingers, very flexible.

It is covered in scales, and the scales have a layer of mucus on the outside, which is slippery and very corrosive. It seems that this special mucus secreted is the key to this monster's freedom to swim in the stone mud like a fish in the water.

It has no head, or rather, it should be, a large mouth, no eyes, no nose, and no ears. The large mouth is full of fangs and four diagonal teeth, which can be used to hold the target in place, and the full mouth of fangs can be rotated and twisted to tear the target to pieces in an instant.

Although Jiang Yun didn't see this monster with his own eyes, after listening to Xuan Yu's relay, he imagined that scene for a while, and he only felt shuddering.

However, its combat power level is only about the first star of the Ming Realm. The Mystic Mage had already dealt with it, and although he did not leave it behind and kill it, he had also caused it a lot of injuries.

According to the information detected, the monster fled southwest after being wounded.

There is the ruins of an ancient town.

Master Xuan Miao had already chased after him first, and the order he left behind was to let the five squads converge first, and assign a part of the manpower to transport the wounded who were too injured to fight anymore to return to the Demon Sealing Hall, and at the same time asked for follow-up assistance and clean-up work. And the rest of the people then went to the ruins of the ancient town and joined Xuan Miao.