Chapter 22: Falling into a Crisis!

At the edge of the Star Dou Forest.

Zhou Ming stood on the Dark Radiant Azure Dragon’s back as he flew across the sky.

He looked down at everything below.

“Looks like that’s Azure Dragon City. I should go take a look if I have time.”

Looking down at the city that was a hundred meters high.

Zhou Ming knew that this was one of the largest cities in the human federation.

Azure Dragon City!

It was rich in resources.

It had a population of ten million!

There were also many Mirage Beast academies that specialized in cultivating Beastmasters.

Moreover, one of the Five Great Mirage Beast Academies in the Mirage Beast World, Heavenly Kirin Academy, was also located in Azure Dragon City!

It was almost every Beastmaster’s dream to enter one of the Five Great Mirage Beast Academies!

However, it wasn’t easy to enter.

One had to reach Gold-Rank at the required age!

Even one was only one day above the required age, one couldn’t get in!

After the training of the Five Great Mirage Beast Academies, many Beastmasters were able to break through to platinum-rank.

Some of them were even able to become Diamond-rank experts!

In the Mirage Beast world, powerful Mirage Beasts would often invade human cities.

There would even be large-scale Mirage Beast invasions.

At such a time!

These Beastmasters took on the responsibility of protecting humans.

Standing on the body of the Dark Radiant Azure Dragon.

Zhou Ming also saw a tall building towering into the clouds in Azure Dragon City.

“This must be Heavenly Kirin Academy.”

“Roar!”

The Dark Radiant Azure Dragon let out a long roar, as if responding to Zhou Ming.

“Pick up the pace.”

Zhou Ming looked into the depths of the Star Dou Forest.

…

In the Star Dou Forest near the Azure Dragon City was a place called Ghost Valley.

Now!

The sounds of human terror and the murmurs of Magical Beasts, one sound after another, were echoing through the valley of the dead.

“Ah, what the hell is this?”

“Why do I feel like I’m being watched!”

“Quick, look, it’s a pair of eyes!”

The Beastmasters looked around in panic.

The surrounding trees were no longer verdant.

Instead, they were shrouded in a layer of black fog.

Even though a strong wind blew past, the Black Fog wasn’t affected in the slightest.

They looked at the ground again.

There were already several corpses lying on the ground.

Their faces were ashen, and their hair stood on end.

It was as if they had seen an extremely terrifying existence before they died!

The man who had commanded the Steel Eagle to fight earlier had died an even more terrifying death.

His eyes had turned pitch-black, and so had his body!

“Don’t be afraid. It’s fun to play hide-and-seek with me.”

“Hehehe, who should be next?”

A ghostly voice sounded once more.

The Beastmasters’ hearts raced when they heard the voice, and their bodies couldn’t help but turn cold!

Their eyes were filled with fear!

Some of them even felt their legs go weak.

They sat on the ground, trembling, and covered their ears with their hands.

They wanted to escape!

In an instant, several screams rang out.

“Save me, ah!”

“Ah!”

“…”

In the pitch-black environment, one could tell from the tone that those who were screaming could only shout once.

They were already dead.

In the darkness.

The surrounding trees began to move.

One, two… a hundred!

Rustle rustle..

They advanced towards the Beastmasters.

Every time they advanced; a pale white light would flash around them.

It was incomparably terrifying!

“Eyes! These trees have eyes!”

A pale white light flashed, and a Beastmaster shouted after seeing the situation in front of him clearly.

Following that, he staggered and fell to the ground!

“Hehehe, you guessed it right!”

“Then, shall we play another way?”

The ghost’s voice came from every tree.

It echoed in everyone’s ears!

As soon as his voice fell, the surrounding darkness faded.

The surroundings turned gray.

Only then did everyone see clearly that each of those trees had a pair of scarlet eyes on them.

At this moment, they were staring at them!

Like greedy beasts!

Suddenly.

The trees turned into completely white puppets.

The puppets began to move mechanically!

“Gulp!”

“Gulp!”

This scene made everyone break out in cold sweat, and they couldn’t help but gulp.

There were even some cowards who directly fainted.

“It’s… It’s a demon!”

“It must be a demon! Everyone, run as fast as you can!”

A man was already so scared that he couldn’t stand up, shouting as he crawled.

“B*stard, don’t shout!”

“Everyone, don’t be afraid! This is a Ghost-type Mirage Beast!”

Just as everyone was panicking…

A burly Beastmaster with a saw-shaped broadsword on his shoulder cursed.

Beside him stood a white tiger with two fangs that were more than a meter long.

He slashed out with his broadsword!

Bang!

A crack dozens of meters long appeared on the ground!

The violent tremor jolted everyone awake.

“Baleful Golden Tiger!”

“It’s him and his Baleful Golden Tiger!”

“A Gold-Rank 6 Beastmaster, that’s his Mirage Beast Baleful Golden Tiger!”

Seeing the long-toothed tiger and the saw-shaped broadsword, everyone cried out in surprise.

A high-level Beastmaster stepped forward.

Everyone’s hearts relaxed slightly.

“These puppets are all transformed from Mirage Beasts. Don’t be afraid, everyone!”

“These Ghostly Mirage Beasts can turn our fear into their strength!”

“If everyone doesn’t unite and fight, the outcome will definitely be death!”

The Baleful Golden Tiger’s expression was solemn as he looked around him with a frown.

He had once understood this strange Mirage Beast.

This Mirage Beast didn’t need spirit cores or spirit herbs to raise its level.

Instead, it needed fear!

The fear of humans, the fear of Mirage Beasts!

It would devour fear and convert it into its own power.

Moreover, the man also knew that after these Mirage Beasts absorbed enough fear, they could reach Platinum-Rank!

It was extremely difficult to deal with!