Chapter 569: Chapter 354: Sophia's Return (4K)_2
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The one he had been counting on was Dead Bone. The significance of Jun's investigation, more often than not, was to create opportunities for Dead Bone.
And Dead Bone, yesterday, had already discovered an important clue pointing to the Wolf Fang Lair in a designated suspicious area.
Once they found the enemy's lair, and after Isloa and Lu Liu and other captains stepped into the Legendary Realm, he would be able to lead an army against Wolf Fang.
Through the Spiritual Link, he made contact with Dead Bone, thousands of kilometers away, in a moment of thought.
The steady voice of Dead Bone soon came through.
"Gu has found some things these past two days that are very likely not creatures of Jackal Man's strength."
It had a bit of an ominous premonition.
"Gu needs to observe for a few more days. Heading south to the Frenzied Blockade Region at this time would pose a significant risk."
Without a clear understanding of the situation, General Dead Bone would not be at ease.
Within the Overlord Power of the Wolf Fang, not all were Jackal Man strongmen; there were also a few non-"direct Jackal Wolf descendants" who were Fourth-order Strongmen, even of the Legendary Realm.
But, since Dead Bone had said so, there was surely a reason for it.
Heading south was no longer suitable.
He could only let Sophia and the other two search slowly, and if it really didn't work out, they would return to Shiling City to cultivate.
Half a day later, Sophia sent another message.
Hope was on the horizon.
There was hope of breaking through the blockade.
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Out in the wilderness, an elite corps of over a hundred spread out, searching for clues, traces, or valuable materials.
In command of this corps was Shen Linglong, a newly minted legend of the Tai Xuan Alliance: a seventh-level Great Lord who had already killed two legendary realm monsters—a super strongman.
Shen Linglong widened her eyes as she stared at the pure black crow in front of her, capable of singing, dancing, and writing in Tai Xuan secret language, and let out a long sigh of amazement.
"Ah?"
After some communication and confirmation, Shen Linglong and Sophia's three-person team met up.
Soon, she understood why Sophia and her team appeared here: braving great danger, they had penetrated thousands of miles into the wilderness, searching for the way home and the path to rescue their Lord.
It was admirable.
And it was enviable.
The captains of the Tianyuan Family not only had the capability to venture into the wilderness, but more importantly, they were able to follow the scant clues they had, exploring and analyzing along the way, and finding the critical location.
What kind of loyal ministers were these!
Shen Linglong looked to her side at her capable major general. It was a massive rocky life form resembling a spherical shape but with short, thick limbs—"Longyan Giant Beast."
"If I went missing, would you all venture thousands of miles into the wilderness without a second thought to search for me?"
She looked at them intently.
The Longyan Giant Beast blinked its large eyes innocently, emitting a clueless, "Huh?"
Shen Linglong exhaled, resting her forehead in her hand.
Why were all her subordinates so brainless and brutish?
Tired at heart and with no reliable subordinates, Shen Linglong could only discuss strategies with Sophia.
Sophia would say one thing, and she would respond.
Sophia would say ten things, and she would give one reply.
Sophia said...
"...Based on my judgement, we only need to start from here, here, and here. By breaking through the energy tides and the direction of the spatial folds, there's an 80% chance of finding the legendary passage."
"Linglong, what do you think?"
Sophia's words, each individually familiar to her, somehow, when put together, became incomprehensible.
Shen Linglong thought for three seconds.
Shen Linglong gave up on thinking.
"Yes, yes, yes, let's proceed with your strategy."
She said it expressionlessly.
The Longyan Giant Beast beside her listened blankly, displaying no expression either. For a moment, the figures of one person and one giant overlapped.
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"Boom!"
Two hours later, Shen Linglong and Sophia's four-member team had already arrived deep in dangerous territory.
Riding on the backs of Crescent Moon, they swiftly moved, dodging waves of crashing energy tides. Sometimes, when they couldn't dodge, Shen Linglong would brandish a halberd, twice as tall as she was, accumulating the Power of Heaven and Earth to shatter the waves.
The hundred elite members and captains under Shen Linglong's command were not present.
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She stored the elites in her own Great Lord's Mark Space.
After all, the energy here was incredibly turbulent, and the tides unceasing; the elites would not only fail to be of help here, but they would become a significant burden. She, a legend, could not protect too many people; two or three were her limit.
However, Shen Linglong soon realized upon delving deeper that Sophia and her two companions did not really need her protection. Rather than saying she was protecting the three of them, it was more accurate to describe it as a collective effort.
The girl named Lian Yue, a White Wolf, was incredibly fast. Without this White Wolf girl, she would have had to rely on her giant halberd to shatter the tides and forge a path repeatedly, which would have taken several times more effort than now.
Conserving energy was equivalent to safety.
The girl named Sophia could summon Black Crows, which provided them with additional eyes, ensuring they didn't run around like headless flies.
Among the three, it was only the taciturn archer, Seventeen, who seemed rather ordinary, but he was also a Fourth-order Strongman.
Damn, the Tianyuan family sure had too many excellent generals! But with their three main forces scattered, wasn't the situation in Tianyuan Territory worse than imagined?
Thinking this, Shen Linglong's gaze became resolute: The heavy responsibility of breaking through the channel must fall to her!
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Boom——
The energy tides crashed down, one after another.
The sky was filled with seven colors. The distance between heaven and earth was very close, as if they might collapse at any moment.
In this region, where the roaring never ceased and not a single monster could be seen, three people and a wolf moved at breakneck speed.
They weaved, they searched, they advanced.
Sophia was the conductor, White Wolf Sickle Moon was the super mount, and Shen Linglong, wielding her giant halberd, became a core-powered road opener, shattering every tide that stood in their way.
The scale of this dangerous area was not large. Even though the interior space was different, and the actual area was much larger than what was seen from the outside, it was still not as vast as the Frenzied Area that blocked the whole 'Black Giant Peak Region.'
With Shen Linglong, a legend present, understanding the whole core zone was not difficult; it was just a matter of time.
What Sophia was truly worried about was whether the legendary passage actually existed.
She had asked Shen Linglong.
Shen Linglong, enigmatic, had said, "It might exist, or it might not."
The energy continued to roar. The chaotically flying elemental particles and the converging and dispersing streams greatly hindered the explorers' sight. Sophia, with her Epic abilities, could still observe the surroundings clearly. She maintained a high level of focus, having gone eighteen hours without rest and barely blinking.
In the distance, the sky seemed to press even lower, and the earth rose slightly; only a thin line separated heaven and earth, and this line seemed to stretch infinitely, like a deep valley winding road without end.
Could that be the passage?!
Sophia tugged on the fur on the right side of Sickle Moon's head, "Charge to that direction!"
Sickle Moon rushed straight ahead.
As they advanced, the line between heaven and earth vanished from view; the surging energy tides on either side appeared not much different than before, but…
"The energy tides are more turbulent!"
"Even more chaotic than the most violent region of the core area we passed through earlier!"
Initially, in the Furious Region, she had thought about looking for a 'thin tide area,' but since the core area of the dangerous territory was only so big, crossing straight through or circuNovelFireenting it didn't make much of a difference.
Perhaps, the more turbulent area was the correct target?
After dozens of seconds of rushing with Sickle Moon, Sophia confirmed her guess. They were walking on a stretched-out spatial road.
"We need to speed up!"
"Howl——"
The White Wolf howled, emitting a pure moon-white radiance. Her body size grew threefold, transforming into an even more majestic and holy Crescent Moon Giant Wolf.
White Wolf Sickle Moon's speed surged several folds, becoming wind, becoming light.
Shen Linglong also constantly swung her giant halberd.
The halberd condensed a hundred-meter-long golden light, slashing and shattering the oncoming tides relentlessly.
She was ablaze with fervor as well.
Dozens of seconds! Hundreds of seconds!
Sickle Moon sprinted with all her might, not dodging, hesitating, or caring for anything, just dashing straight ahead, becoming Moon Shadow Luminance. She needed to be fast, faster, even faster! She was not sure how far she had run, but after sprinting at full speed for hundreds of seconds, the surging energy tides around her were no longer so violent.
Ahead, the distance between the sky and earth was slowly widening.
By this point, the energy tides posed no threat.
Sickle Moon returned to a slightly smaller giant wolf form and continued to carry the three of them as they rushed forward. The energy tides behind them gradually thinned out.
The ground began to show specks of green, and the howls of monsters came from afar.
They had burst out of the energy turbulence area.
But had they succeeded?
"We did it!"
Looking at the undulating strange mountains in the distance, Sophia said with certainty.
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