A ray of sunlight pierced through the gaps in the layers of branches and leaves, making Jian Xin's clothes gleam and casting a bright cloak over a large open flatland ahead. Yet Jian Xin felt little joy upon seeing the flatland; a sudden wave of suspicion welled up within her. What was even stranger was that along the entire way here, aside from that black snake, she had not seen a single other member of the Beast Clan. Shaking her head to dispel the doubts in her mind, she kept walking.
"How quiet!" Walking across the flatland, Jian Xin could not help murmuring. Originally she could still hear a few bird calls, but as she went further and further, the surrounding sounds seemed to suddenly vanish, sinking into an eerie silence. There was none of the crisis-ridden atmosphere Jian Xin had imagined, nor was there the serene peace described in books. However, half an incense stick's time later, the quietness of the ground vanished in an instant.
"What is going on?" The ground suddenly fell into a violent tremor, and a massive plume of dust stirred up on the distant horizon. Squinting to look closely, she happened to make out a black line moving rapidly toward her, and the tremor of the ground was precisely caused by the movement of that black line.
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