thefictionvixens Chapter 106: Encounters
Chapter 106: Encounters
A world within a world, an ancient forest stretching to the horizon.
Ten warriors dressed in the robes of the Nuolanshan family hovered here, each with a different expression. The squad leader, who was in the lead, held a tiny life detector, no bigger than the palm of his hand. In the center of the screen, five glaring red dots were flashing wildly at an extremely high frequency, emitting a rapid "beep beep beep" sound.
Five life signals; I wonder if they belong to the group that exchanged for the treasure.
His heart pounded. Commander Guli's order was to conduct a full-scale search of the entire interdimensional realm, and to report any anomalies immediately. But he knew that once the report was made, the credit for capturing these mysterious outsiders would go to the commander, and he would receive very little.
If he could keep all the treasures that had been exchanged in advance for himself, why would he need to put up with Guli's attitude anymore?
The flames of greed instantly consumed his last shred of reason.
He drew his sword from behind, the cold blade flashing through the air, and decisively gave a tactical hand signal to the nine puzzled team members behind him, indicating that they were ready for battle.
"Everyone, listen to my command! Target directly below. Prepare for a coordinated attack and blast them out of the ground!"
Ten ninth-level martial artists of the Eternal Star level dared not disobey the order. They immediately activated the genetic energy within their bodies, and several powerful energies of different colors rapidly converged in mid-air, forming a huge energy beam with a diameter of over 100 meters, locking onto the stratum where the red dot on the detector was located.
And deep underground, inside a cave formed by the intertwining vines of the Mo Yun Vine.
The dark red blood cocoon before Luo Feng was in the final, critical stage of violent expansion and contraction. The mysterious patterns on the surface of the cocoon seemed to possess life, constantly flowing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Hong compressed his light domain to its limit, desperately trying to seal off this violent fluctuation that was about to break through the critical point and could leak out at any moment.
Suddenly, the auxiliary light on Hong's wrist flashed, and Qiu Jian and Babata's sharp alarms rang out in his and Luo Feng's minds almost at the same time.
"Watch out! Directly above, ten powerful ninth-tier primal energies are rapidly compressing!"
"boom--"
Almost the instant the alarm sounded, the combined attack of ten warriors from Mount Nuolan slammed down.
The thick strata of earth before them were torn apart in an instant, like a fragile eggshell. A huge crater, nearly a hundred meters in diameter, appeared with a deafening roar in the violent explosion, and bits of soil and rock were hurled thousands of meters into the air by the violent energy shockwave.
Just as the dust and smoke had not yet settled, a black streak of light, carrying a powerful dark green spiritual force, shot up from the edge of the pit like lightning.
Hong immediately activated his domain, firmly protecting Fuxi within it. With a flick of his black spear, he used the lingering shockwave from the explosion to send the two unsuspecting Nuolan Mountain warriors at the forefront flying.
The squad leader of the Norlan Mountain team was stunned by this sudden change. He looked closely and found that only two people rushed out from underground, and one of them was a young man with black hair and yellow skin.
"That's him! Forget the other one! Chase after him, we absolutely can't let him get away!" The squad leader suppressed his elation and immediately led the remaining team members in hot pursuit.
Hong showed no intention of slowing down his fight with the ten men. His goal was clear: to draw all attention to himself.
As he flew at high speed through the air, Qiu Jian's calm voice rang in his mind, reminding him of a hundred-man squad from the Axe Mountain camp that was not far away.
"Fuxi, use your full power to create the biggest commotion!" Hong gave the order to Fuxi in the team channel while sending an urgent distress signal to the Three Axe Mountain team.
Without hesitation, Fu Xi activated her mental power, and the mental weapon composed of eighteen willow-leaf throwing knives instantly transformed into a roaring green dragon. The dragon not only shredded the several primal energy attacks that were relentlessly pursuing it, but also directly cut several towering trees, each a thousand meters tall, in half along its path.
The tremendous sounds of trees collapsing and energy bursts echoed far and wide above the tranquil ancient forest.
A hundred kilometers away, Guli, the commander of the Noranshan Army, was leading a large army and advancing rapidly through the dense forest when he suddenly heard a series of explosions coming from afar.
He subconsciously looked down at the main control screen on his wrist and discovered that the coordinates of the Eighth Squad had not only failed to execute the order for a grid search as planned, but had also deviated from the flight path and erupted with a high-intensity combat energy reaction.
"These incompetent fools are good for nothing but causing trouble!"
Guli immediately berated the squad leader over the comms. But when he learned that the other party had discovered a target suspected of carrying valuable treasure, he cursed his subordinates for being foolish and greedy for credit while quickly issuing a rallying order.
He ordered all the remaining ninth-tier elite troops of the Norlan Mountain Hengxing class, distributed in the surrounding area, to form a huge fan shape and surround the location of the explosion at full speed.
At the same time, Tie Wei, the captain of the 100-man squad from Sanfu Mountain who had received Hong's distress signal, immediately confirmed Hong's exact coordinates. He immediately led his 100 battle-hardened Sanfu Mountain warriors, transforming into a hundred streaks of light, to rush to Hong's aid at full speed.
The two main forces clashed in an open area of the ancient forest.
The encirclement that Guli had just completed was broken through from the flank by the 100-man squad from Sanfushan.
As Guli hovered in mid-air, when he saw the young man with black hair and yellow skin, holding a black spear, he immediately recognized him as Hong, the Earth Lord listed on the bounty order issued by the Nuolanshan Ancestor within the family.
Iron Guard revealed the insignia representing the Three Axe Mountain faction and sternly warned Guli to step back.
Guli glanced at the mere hundred-strong team from Sanfu Mountain, then at the more than two hundred elite members of the Nuolan Mountain family behind him, and let out a cold laugh.
What are the people of Three Axe Mountain compared to the enormous treasure and the generous reward from the ancestor?
"Kill them all, leave no one alive!" A murderous glint flashed in Guli's eyes as he decisively issued the order for a full-scale attack. Hundreds of warriors from Nuofang Mountain unleashed their primal energy, preparing to completely engulf this group of reckless fools, along with that Earth lord.
The hundred-strong force from Three Axe Mountain showed no panic. They immediately tightened their formation, forming a solid defensive battle array, ready to meet the onslaught.
Just as these hundreds of raging genetic energies of various colors were about to pour down, at the critical moment...
Suddenly, a deafening roar, as if tearing the sky apart, erupted from the ground behind the battlefield.
The dark red strata, spanning several kilometers in radius, seemed to have been completely overturned from the ground by an invisible giant hand. Accompanied by a dazzling dark red pillar of light that was too bright to look at directly, a terrifying pressure that transcended the level of celestial beings, like a materialized stellar storm, instantly swept across the entire battlefield!
Those warriors from Mount Nuolan who were charging forward fearlessly suddenly froze under the impact of this powerful pressure, and the circulation of their primal energy within their bodies came to a brief halt.
To everyone's astonishment, seventy-two dark red vines burst forth from the earth with overwhelming force. With a mere sweep of these vines, several Nuolan Mountain warriors who couldn't dodge in time were whipped into a cloud of blood mist.
This aura... is at the first level of the cosmic realm!
At the very center of the countless wildly dancing vines, Luo Feng, dressed in a dark red combat suit, stood on the thick vines, rising from the depths of the ground and slowly suspending himself in mid-air.
His gaze swept over the crowd of people from Nuolan Mountain surrounding him, a cold smile creeping onto his lips.
The Moyun vine has finally successfully transformed!