Of course, the four could choose to destroy all the war puppets.

Unfortunately, the four had different ideas, and naturally made different choices.

Zhao Sheng glanced at the Yellow Cloud above his head, hesitated no more, and suddenly grew dense diamond-shaped scale armor on his body, his original height of around nine feet skyrocketing to nearly twenty-seven or twenty-eight feet.

This wasn't the end!

As the will's glow descended, Zhao Sheng gained an additional set of heavily purple-tinged armor covering his entire body.

The next second, Zhao Sheng suddenly flew into the Kui Niu Dharma Image, displaying a posture of extreme defense.

"Don't go out and lose yourself! The most important thing for us is to ensure the Four Symbols Barrier is not breached." Huo Dou, also hiding inside the Divine Beast Dharma Form, immediately transmitted to Wuzhiqi and Soaring Snake upon seeing the situation.

Before he finished speaking, the giant axe in Soaring Snake's hand shone with divine light, and as it swiftly slashed, the axe blade raised a silver-white dragon tornado, sweeping the attacking war puppets into itself and easily shredding them.

Zhao Sheng felt puzzled but watched Soaring Snake flash and move with axe techniques reaching divine transformation, looking extremely relaxed. He silently withheld his words and continued to single-handedly block the eastern puppet's assault.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom", a series of loud explosions!

The western side of the magic platform was in full swing, yet the puppets attacking swiftly seemed to fall into a quagmire, their speed slowing increasingly, their movements growing rigid and cumbersome.

Before long, Emperor Jiang, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes wide: "Hmm?! No, this… what is this."

Before he finished speaking, blood-colored veins suddenly appeared crisscrossed on the surface of the magic platform, incredibly complex.

The next second, the ground faintly radiated a red light, making the veins appear as if they were blood vessels flowing with blood.

Zhao Sheng and the other three almost simultaneously noticed the change, and immediately turned to look at Emperor Jiang, scrambling to transmit their voices to him.

"Boss, did something happen?"

"Brother Emperor Jiang, what is going on?"

"Senior Brother, if it can't be done, just withdraw! As long as we have the green hills, we don't have to worry about firewood."

"..."

Emperor Jiang showed a wry smile, pointing to the Yellow Cloud above, and sighed lightly: "Unfortunate! Originally hoped to atone for my sins, but it turns out I unearthed the grotto heaven mausoleum of an ancient great ability.

The mausoleum guardians are coming soon, we need to deal with them to safely retreat."

"Grotto Heaven Mausoleum? To dare use a grotto heaven as a tomb after death, what a grand gesture!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but feel somewhat shocked,

Huo Dou, Wuzhiqi, Soaring Snake first appeared disappointed, but then became extraordinarily excited.

After all, everyone knows that the mausoleum must contain a large amount of treasure, including the tomb owner's most precious and beloved items.

No matter who, being able to use an entire grotto heaven as a tomb, the person must have been a figure of great significance.

Emperor Jiang had just reminded everyone, when, within two breaths, a series of white beams rose from the ground, shadows writhing inside, with faces like dead fish protruding from the edges from time to time.

The next second, the white beams transformed into a large expanse of flowing light, dissipating, and gray-white humanoid creatures with blood-red eyes suddenly shot out, charging at Zhao Sheng and the others.

The skin of these humanoid creatures was covered with a layer of gray-white stone shell, most being of an alien race with beast heads and human bodies, with only a few having a human head on their necks.

The tomb guardians Emperor Jiang spoke of were precisely these fully gray-white humanoid creatures.

When Zhao Sheng first saw these tomb guardians, he was immediately taken aback.

So similar!

So very similar!

The tomb guardians looked too much like those stone statues!

Besides having a more complete body, a much thinner stone shell, and a slightly more vibrant aura, there was almost no difference between the two.

No, those stone statues seemed more like the prototype of the tomb guardians, or merely practice pieces.

The tomb guardians were the tomb owner's most satisfactory work.

Considering this possibility, Zhao Sheng suddenly felt a deep chill.

After all, he couldn't beat the Mad Woman, and she had also resurrected from the stone statue group!

Bang Bang Bang!

In a flash, two tomb guardians had already lunged at him, in an instant, countless fist shadows and claw lights hurtled towards him, the void echoing with sharp whistles.

Before long, Zhao Sheng did not know how many attacks he had absorbed, even though his body was strong and his will was powerful, at this moment he also felt strain, his face showing a hint of pallor, the will armor on his body already shattered, and many scales had fallen off.

He was forcefully withstanding the siege of two tomb guardians but could never gain the upper hand, because he was shocked to find that the original spirit power had no effect on the tomb guardians.

No, not that it didn't have any effect, but out of a full strength spiritual sense attack falling on that gray-white stone shell, more than ninety percent of the spiritual power was easily absorbed by it, instead increasing the stone shell's thickness.

The remaining ten percent of spiritual power seemed like scratching an itch through a boot, unable to harm the opponent's flesh.

Without the enhancement of the original spirit, the divine beast Dharma forms were also only strong in appearance but weak in effect, and any attack on the tomb guardians would have their lethality greatly reduced, or even completely ineffective.

When it came to brute physical strength, Zhao Sheng and the others were far inferior to the tomb guardians, these humanoid beings being unknown works of which ancient great figure, each not only moving as fast as lightning but also possessing strength beyond imagination, and the most horrifying was their flesh being incredibly tough.

In his view, the legendary "Drought Demon" was just like this!

Just a layer of gray-white stone shell, yet it immediately rendered Zhao Sheng and the others' battle power half useless, if outsiders knew, they would certainly exclaim it to be impossible.

But at this moment, the impossible had turned into a cruel reality.

"Break through that stone shell!"

"Escape!"

Two voices were transmitted one after another, separated by a very short time. They all came from Emperor Jiang, but the tones were completely different.

In the brief interval between the two transmissions, tomb guardians continued to emerge from underground, the total number exceeding thirty in the blink of an eye, with more still joining the assault.

With tomb guardians above and the group of war puppets below, Zhao Sheng and the others were caught between a rock and a hard place, the situation rapidly deteriorating.

In just a dozen breaths, everyone was already in peril, bitter in heart and soul.

Ah!

Soaring Snake suddenly let out a miserable cry, instantly being pounced on by a group of tomb guardians and dragged underground, his fate unknown from that moment on.

Relying on his ability to foresee things, his actions were always successful, yet today unexpectedly met a nemesis and suffered a great misfortune.

The Soaring Snake was the first to be out of the game among the five divine beasts.

After Soaring Snake was dragged underground, Emperor Jiang finally changed his expression, hastily sending out a retreat command.

"Escape!"

To Zhao Sheng, it sounded like immortal music, and without hesitation, his figure flashed, disappearing into thin air from where he stood.

The next moment, he appeared at his previous stopping point, somewhere inside a ruined palace on the outskirts of the ruins.

At the same time, the other four also each used their skills, trying to escape this dead land.

Emperor Jiang left with ease, taking Huo Dou with him.

Wuzhiqi barely managed to escape with life, at the cost of self-exploding four limbs.

No one beforehand would have thought that the dignified five divine beast group would make such a quick escape, even so wretchedly!

Despite various reasons, defeat was defeat, and even with a thousand excuses in retrospect, it couldn't cover up the fact of two consecutive failures for everyone.

Zhao Sheng leaned against the wall, sitting cross-legged, as wisps of spiritual sense suddenly penetrated through the wall, expanding outward.

Through the sensing of spiritual sense, you could see that the Law Yellow Cloud had still not dispersed, neither increased nor decreased, seemed "very" strange.

Below the Yellow Cloud, a "light point" was fixed hundreds of feet above the magic platform, with an overwhelming sense of presence, impossible to ignore.

The moment Zhao Sheng "saw" it, he instantly realized that was the entrance to the Grotto Heaven Mausoleum.

Looking at the extraordinarily conspicuous Law Yellow Cloud, he couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Emperor Jiang, you will come back, won't you?"

In the battle just now, Emperor Jiang clearly held back and had a hint of not giving his all. Otherwise, everyone wouldn't have lost so quickly.

So… what benefits would there be in doing so? Or did Emperor Jiang discover some big secret during the process of connecting with the Grotto Heaven, leading him to be so "short-sighted"?

In a flash, Zhao Sheng suddenly made a bold decision.

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