Chapter 292 Collapse Tie Jinjue's men had just evacuated when Tie Wandao's men started talking about the two men who had gone to get the poison gas bags and had not returned yet. "Why haven't they come back yet?" The subordinate of Tie Wandao who had a mole on his face felt that something was really wrong. "Yeah! It's been so long, the gas bag won't take that long!" another person said, "Could they have encountered some danger on the way?" "Could they have run into someone who secretly threw stones?" the man with the mole on his face suddenly thought. "Let's go back and look for them. This time, bring more people so that they won't suffer a loss due to small numbers." said the burly man. So some people rode back along the original route, while the others stayed near the cave. As soon as the group of people who went to look for the two men left, the group of Tie Wandao's men guarding the cave heard a sudden movement in the cave. They retreated a little, and each of them drew their bows on horseback and entered a state of readiness, paying attention to the cave entrance. There was a loud "boom" and a strange roar, and the cave suddenly collapsed. Countless large rocks shot up into the sky and fell down to hit Tie Wandao's men. Tie Wandao's men were panicked and wanted to flee on horseback, but the horses were difficult to control. The horses kept circling around the cave, but they refused to carry their men back along the same route.
Some large rocks injured some of Tie Wandao's men, and another part of Tie Wandao's men quickly jumped off their horses, ready to go and rescue those who were injured. Before they could get close to the injured person, they saw a giant monster they had never seen before walking out of the collapsed hole. This monster was the Scaled Beast that Fei Cunyi and Fang Piaolan had seen before, and the strange roar was made by it. The Scaled Beast raised its two front legs, and immediately sand and rocks flew everywhere, and some of the injured people were swept behind the Scaled Beast. The uninjured people all shot arrows at the scaly beast, but the arrows that hit it were all blocked by its gray scales and fell to the ground. The arrows shot into its mouth were chewed up and spit out, and the arrows shot into its eyes counterattacked back. Tie Wandao's men were terrified as they dodged and wanted to leave, but the injured were still behind the Scaled Beast, so they had to be taken back together. Xu Zilei took out the Mengjia Flying Cone Platform, but there were no flying cones left. He tried to put arrows and other things into the Flying Cone Platform and shoot them, but to his surprise, not only could the Flying Cone Platform not fire other things, even if more flying cones were put into it, it would not fire because it was already broken. The scaly beast did not immediately attack those who were already injured, but continued to roar loudly and approached those who were shooting arrows. The roar was deafening. The archers had no choice but to turn around and flee on foot, but the horses prevented them from leaving. The scaly beast raised its two front legs again, and suddenly dust and stones flew everywhere, causing most of Tie Wandao's men to be blinded and fall to the ground. The scaly beast approached the person lying on the ground, swung its left front leg, and a gust of wind swept them together. When the people lying on the ground opened their eyes, they saw the four hard, metallic feet of the scaly beast. Some people thought that with such feet, even if they touched the poisonous flying cones on the ground in the cave, they would not be poisoned. (End of this chapter)