The veteran assigned to oversee Chen Xuan tossed him a silver dagger through the air and commanded, "Use this to excavate the Dao-prohibiting crystals. If you can dig out just one, you pass the newcomer’s test!"
With that, the man turned around, ready to fend off the charging Lesser Ape Demons. Although these creatures were not tall—roughly the size of a human—each possessed the combat prowess of a level-five to level-seven immortal beast, equivalent to a human cultivator between the entry and peak stages of the Celestial Immortal Realm. Even the most unremarkable beasts on Mount Tiandi had individual combat capabilities exceeding those of cultivators at the same level, and these Inverse-Water Ape Demons were prehistoric anomalies with exceptionally ferocious power.
Fortunately, Lu Sheng’s team included several veteran experts at the peak of the Celestial Immortal Realm, who quickly formed a defensive formation to hold the Ape Demons back.
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