Run!

The only word in Lin Mo's mind was this, he immediately infused all his strength into his legs, desperately running forward.

The swarm of mice behind him was like a ripple of waves, numbering at least several million. Although the combat power of one mouse was not to be feared, with so many mice, even if Lin Mo killed them, he would die of exhaustion.

"Flame Talisman!"

While sprinting, Lin Mo didn't even turn his head, pulling out various talismans from his pocket and tossing them behind him.

Several flames about a hundred meters long blocked behind Lin Mo, and those mice rushing over were immediately burned to ashes upon encountering the flames, but there were so many mice that they simply continued charging, and a large number of mice directly extinguished the flames.

"Ice Soul!"

After a few talismans, thousands of mice were frozen into ice sculptures, but to the millions of mice, it was like a drop in the ocean, having no effect.

Instead, these mice were infuriated by Lin Mo, chasing even more frenziedly.

"At this rate, I'll be exhausted to death sooner or later." Lin Mo frowned secretly.

After all, his speed might be fast enough for now, but these mice would eventually catch up as time went by and his stamina would gradually wear out.

What to do?

Keep running.

Lin Mo quickly calculated in his mind how to shake off the swarm of mice. If he could use mana, he would simply fly into the sky, making these mice helpless. Ahead, two Earth Dragons, about the size of trucks, saw a black dot constantly approaching them. It was a human. They had already eaten two humans earlier. Now seeing another, a bloodthirsty gleam appeared in the eyes of the two Earth Dragons.

Earth Dragons were basically lizards, about seven or eight meters long. Due to mutations, their skin was like steel armor, even bulletproof, making it their survival guarantee.

However, in the next second, the two Earth Dragons were dumbfounded.

Swarming like an endless sea, the horde of mice behind the human surged forward crazily. Seeing this scene, the two Earth Dragons had no interest in attacking the human and immediately burrowed into the ground.

Lin Mo's speed was fast, quickly overtaking the two Earth Dragons and glancing back.

He found many mice burrowing into the ground, and moments later, the bones of the two Earth Dragons appeared.

Lin Mo's scalp tingled; originally, he thought about burrowing into the sand to hide but immediately ruled out the idea.

"If I keep running like this, I'll be exhausted."

Frowning, after running for ten kilometers, Lin Mo felt his internal strength depleting rapidly, and his speed slowing down continuously. In just five minutes, the swarm of mice would catch up with him.

"Damn it, what do I do now?"

Just as Lin Mo was in panic, suddenly a fierce wind roared ahead, with wind and sand howling all around.

Sand vortex!

Five hundred meters ahead, a massive vortex formed on the ground, devouring the endless yellow sand around it, forming a yellow whirlpool with powerful suction pulling Lin Mo forward.

With the vortex ahead and the mice behind, Lin Mo sprinted toward the vortex almost without hesitation.

Falling into the sand vortex, there was still a slight chance of survival, but encountering the horde of mice meant certain death.

The mice pursuing Lin Mo saw the sand vortex ahead and slowed down, making squeaking noises and turning around to flee.

As Lin Mo breathed a sigh of relief, he was already sucked into the shifting sand by the strong suction.

Lin Mo's muscles bulged, veins popped, and the Blood Demon Vine marks on his bones gradually emitted a purple light. At this moment, Lin Mo's skin was as hard as steel.

Otherwise, any beast going down there would have been ground to bones by the intense friction generated by the swirling sand.

Even so, Lin Mo felt a burning pain all over his body. Every inch of his skin was abraded by the sand, raising waves of unbearable burning, stinging pain. With a weaker willpower, one might pass out immediately from the pain.

After an unknown duration, in the flat desert terrain, a hand reached out from beneath the sand, soon after, a person crawled out of the desert.

"So painful."

Lin Mo bit his head, shook off the sand on his body, his skin still burning painfully. If not for the bodily reinforcement, just the friction from the sand would have ground his body down to mere bones.

Lin Mo glanced at his arms and face, covered in dense red blood marks, continuously healing and recovering due to the benefits of cultivating the Yang Wood Divine Skill, along with the presence of the Blood Demon Vine, providing strong recovery abilities to his body.

"Where is this?"

Lin Mo looked around in confusion. The mouse swarm had long since disappeared, and the sand whirl had ended.

Suddenly, there was a glimmer of light in his jet-black eyes.

About a kilometer ahead, faintly visible in the whirling sand, was a dark structure.

Without hesitating, Lin Mo headed forward but stayed vigilant, not wanting to encounter that swarm of mice again.

The closer he got, the clearer it became. The structure looked like an ancient Western kingdom palace, magnificent, even larger than the palace Lin Mo had seen, with the stone pillars at the entrance requiring three people to embrace and standing over twenty meters tall.

Lin Mo ascended the steps one by one. The main door of the palace was extraordinarily wide.

"Hmm."

Lin Mo suddenly saw two people resting inside the palace, with several human corpses beside them.

Upon hearing the footsteps, the two also opened their eyes, revealing a sharp glint, staring at Lin Mo entering the palace.

"Lin Mo."

"Lin Mo."

They said in unison.

Lin Mo also showed a look of surprise. The two were no others than the Hongmen Ancestor and Yuri. However, their clothes were in tatters, stained with blood, appearing as disheveled as Lin Mo imagined.

"Mr. Yuri, Hongmen Ancestor."

Lin Mo grinned. At least seeing humans in such a place was something to be glad about, despite not having good relations with the two.

As for the few corpses lying beside them, they were presumably the Western underground elites who came along, now killed by the two.

"Looks like we've encountered similar fates, and your energies were suppressed too?" Lin Mo said casually.

Yet Yuri and Hongmen Ancestor still looked somewhat tense.

"This damned place is too dangerous. I want to leave here now." Yuri cursed.

"Lin Mo, although we have enmity, in this place, I think it's better for us to join forces." The Hongmen Ancestor suddenly said.

Lin Mo laughed, "Of course we have to join forces, otherwise how will we get out?"