"What is this?"

As the shadow's owner approached, the demonic torso, which had been elongated, gradually returned to normal, and when it stopped at the edge of the area covered by the light, Xu Huan was even more surprised to find that the unknown creature was actually the size of an ordinary dog.

The spikes on the body are somewhat similar to the thorns on the mountains, and there are tiny barbs on them, and the huge horns on the head are extremely inconsistent with the thin body shape, giving people the illusion of being top-heavy, and the raised parts of the legs and the body exude a special luster, and the green things on it remind Xu Huan of a stone with moss. And without these strange factors, this creature is no different from a normal dog.

However, there is also a strange thing that the creature was injured for some reason, and there were several shallow wounds on its body, and it was stained with blood.

In every way, the creature feels extremely uncorresponding.

Such a strange-looking creature, even if it is small, makes the atmosphere tense. Xu Huan involuntarily took a step back, only to remember that there was a dead end behind him.

Xu Huan glanced at the lantern in Li Xuankong's hand, the bronze lantern was like a birdcage, and the dazzling light in the center filled the entire lampshade, and he couldn't tell which corner of the lamp the light source came from.

The powerful firelight made the surrounding scenery bright and clear, and Xu Huan couldn't help but look at it twice while being surprised by its brightness.

It seemed that the backward action aroused the beastliness of the creature opposite, and just as Xu Huan was thinking, it let out a strange roar and approached step by step.

Li Xuankong held the wooden sword behind him with his right hand.

The dog-like creature also began to run the moment Li Xuankong made a move, but his target was not Li Xuankong, but Xu Huan on the side.

The appearance of the strange creature quickly reminded Xu Huan of the demon clan that likes to eat human flesh and looks strange as described by Ye Shi, and also made him realize that his life, which was originally out of touch with the spiritual world, was being connected by this creature and that world at this time.

Xu Huan wanted to become a cultivator, so this should have been a happy thing, but unfortunately Xu Huan couldn't be happy at this time.

The canine-like creature jumped high after the end of the gallop, and before Xu Huan could react, he saw the bloody mouth of the hideous and staggered teeth that had been opened in front of him.

Xu Huan subconsciously put his hands in front of his face.

However, the imaginary feeling of severe pain from being bitten by the canine-like creature did not appear, but the other party let out a wail.

Xu Huan put his hand down and found that there was a wooden sword in front of him, but the canine-like creature had flown out upside down.

Xu Huan looked at Li Xuankong, who was holding a wooden sword, and blinked.

Li Xuankong withdrew the wooden sword, parried the wooden sword in front of him, and frowned, the "dog" in front of him had no aura fluctuations at all, as long as the strange shape was put aside, it looked like it was just an ordinary dog, but this was not the case, which was very puzzling.

The upside-down canoid creature rolled twice on the ground and steadied itself, making a provocative, muffled sound, but instead of moving forward, its forelimbs bent to expose its spiky back.

With a howl, countless thorn-like barbed spikes shot out like arrows that were full of strength and broke out of the string, and on the way out, the barbs on the spikes broke away and became new small arrowheads, which made a sound of breaking through the sky in the night, and continued to expand in Li Xuankong's pupils.

Most of the thorns struck straight in the direction of Li Xuankong and Xu Huan, and only a few missed the direction and were nailed to the stone wall, and the stones that were hit seemed to be half dissolved and disappeared, leaving only a hollow, and the thorns also fell to the ground.

Li Xuankong spun the sword around and knocked away a few thorns that came first, but soon found that the part of the wooden sword that had been hit began to turn black, as if it had been corroded, leaving gaps one after another.

Looking at the gap in the wooden sword, Li Xuankong could probably think of what would happen if he was hit by a thorn.

Li Xuankong put away the wooden sword distressedly, looked at the thorns in the sky that followed, stretched out the lantern with his left hand, and made strange syllables in his mouth, the bronze shell of the lantern appeared with complicated lines, and the fireworks in the lamp flashed and disappeared, but the disappearance only took a short time to be imperceptible at all, and the original pale yellow light turned into an extremely dazzling white light, and the light that originally shone around condensed into the lantern in Li Xuankong's hand in an instant.

However, in just a breath, the white light filled every corner of the alley as if it had suddenly exploded.

It was as daylight.

The rapid increase in light made Xu Huan's eyes sting, and there was only a white expanse left in front of him, except that it was still white.

However, the blindness was only short-lived, and the eyesight gradually recovered, and the light in the lantern returned to the pale yellow color of the normal flame.

The spikes that had just covered the earth were gone, as if they had evaporated from heaven and earth.

Li Xuankong, whose face had changed sharply to pale, glanced at the wall beside him, where there was an irregular hole, and wisps of green smoke were still emitting.

"Is it still too reluctant?" Li Xuankong sighed, although the formation pattern engraved on this lantern was huge, but it would take a lot of aura to activate it, not to mention that it would bring a lot of movement in order not to damage the surroundings, and deliberately controlling the power would undoubtedly be even more exhausting.

Look at the blackened, smoking, but still alive canine creature in front of me, which had been lying on the ground and curled up in a circle, was now trembling and rising from the ground. Li Xuankong's heart sank. Even though it took a lot of aura to use the power of this bronze lantern, the dog was still alive.

Even though it was covered in blood, trembling with pain, and wailing in pain, it was still alive.

This is not good news.

The power of the formation engraved on the lantern after activation was equivalent to the full force of the Yueyuan Realm, but although the opponent was seriously injured by this blow, he did not die, and Li Xuankong probably had a certain guess about the strength of the other party.

However, the other side didn't seem to give him time to think, and just as Li Xuankong was thinking, he had already put on an offensive posture.

"Brother Xu, please step back." Li Xuankong stood the wooden sword in front of him, took a step forward to the side, and blocked Xu Huan's body.

Xu Huan recovered from his sluggish state, answered, and retreated again and again.

Looking at the scene of Li Xuankong standing in front of him fighting the canine-like creature and the lantern in his hand, Xu Huan couldn't help but give birth to a word in his mind.

Devotional.

Regarding spirituality, Xu Huan only knew from the words of Ye Shi and the discussions of others, but even though he already knew that the so-called spirituality had many mysterious means beyond worldly common sense, but when these things really happened in front of his eyes now, when he really saw it, Xu Huan really felt the shock that made his scalp tingle.

Unexpectedly, the boy who casually walked into his grocery store was a spiritual cultivator, and when he casually walked into an alley, he encountered a dog-like creature of the demon clan suspected to be described in ancient books.

Why is it so casual? Did such a coincidence happen to you?

Xu Huan was still thinking a lot, but unexpectedly stepped on a soft and hard thing in the retreat.

Xu Huan was startled and slowly turned around, only to find that he had reached the end of the alley.

So what did you step on...... Xu Huan slowly lowered his head, only then did he realize that he had stepped on that person's hand, and after removing his foot in embarrassment, Xu Huan apologized in a low voice: "Big brother, I'm really embarrassed, I also accidentally stepped on it...... You'll forgive me, right? ”

Xu Huan squatted down, put his hand on the hand of the man who didn't know if he had become a corpse, and after making sure that there was still a pulse, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that he is still alive, otherwise he just stepped on that kick, even if he can go back alive tonight, he will have nightmares.

The man on the ground moved his fingers slightly.

However, Xu Huan didn't notice that his attention was all on Li Xuankong, who was still confronting, and the blood-soaked canine-like creature.

Although he didn't understand the situation very well, Xu Huan guessed that he should have fought an equal battle just now, right?

Brother Li, Brother Li, you must win.

Xu Huan remembered the legends of those demon clans eating people, shuddered, lived hard for more than ten years, and finally ended up being eaten by dogs, would he be laughed to death by his ancestors when he went to the underworld?