Halfway there, Lin Feng and his companions spotted a large number of monsters fleeing from the eastern continent and occasionally encountered some fleeing humans. After a brief exchange with them, they corrected their course and sped south.

"etc!"

Tang Hong suddenly stopped everyone: "Let me get out of the car, I'll go and attract their attention."

"No need, no need." Si Zang immediately pressed Tang Hong down, making him sit obediently in the chair: "I'm not in a hurry, why are you? When it's time for you to take action, just do it."

Okay... Tang Hong sat down obediently.

As they traveled along the river, several large ships passed through the wide waterway. On the lead ship stood several mages dressed in white, escorting the ship to a safe area.

The group got off the car and saw more boats coming from above the river, sailing along the waterway toward the end of the river, toward a town built at the river mouth.

From here, you can see some mages dressed in black and red maintaining order at the river mouth, helping boats pass through in an orderly manner.

Those dressed in white are mages of the Sanctuary faction, who believe in salvation; those dressed in black and red are mages of the Afaron faction, who believe in sacrifice.

Tang Hong's expression changed, his eyes flashing like lightning: "There's something in the river."

Before the words were even finished, swirling pools of water appeared around the last few boats, and at a glance, a dark shadow larger than the boats appeared in the riverbed, swirling rapidly around all the boats.

"Let's go into the city first!" Lin Feng stopped Tang Hong, who was somewhat tempted. "They can handle it."

A pinkish phantom appeared beneath the water's surface, slowly rising above the ripples.

Immediately afterwards, shell-like tentacles emerged from the water, and a catfish monster with a brain-like appearance raised its body, which was tens of meters long, in the water before slamming it down hard.

"My ship!"

"Humanoid Monster - Brain Catfish (Rage)"

The mages on the three ships immediately jumped out, and the river surface, which had been filled with countless whirlpools, was instantly covered with a thick layer of solid ice. Then, a giant arm burning with flames appeared out of thin air and fell towards the brain catfish.

"Give me back my boat!"

Rage exploded around the brain catfish, and bolts of lightning shot out from its mouth, piercing through the giant fiery hand and leaping toward the ship surrounded by ice.

Click!

The ship's mast broke, and more mages appeared on the ice, quickly gathering the lightning into their hands.

At this moment, Lin Feng and the others mingled with the crowd that had run ashore from the frozen river and followed them all the way to the town.

"The primitive attack method relies entirely on magic to exchange blows." Tang Hong walked around, stopping and starting, watching the battle, and felt a little itchy to join in: "You see, although this kind of lightning looks scary, a lot of it is wasted, it's all just acting on impulse."

Lin Feng looked back and said with interest, "If there were something like an energy source to enhance it, this kind of attack would be quite good."

"Energy source..." Tang Hong became increasingly interested: "You exchanged for an energy source?"

“No, I saw similar recommendations in the workshop area,” Lin Feng replied.

"This is indeed a good choice. Many participants, when they cannot find a way to enter the Earth level, will choose a matching energy source to assist themselves, or exchange for some mechanical armor to enhance their combat power."

"However, external forces will eventually run out. Even if you spend tens of thousands of nightmare points to improve yourself, true enlightenment will still only happen once in a lifetime."

Tang Hong sighed slightly, but Si Zang beside him mocked him without any politeness: "How long have you been squatting here? How come you haven't been promoted to the Earth level yet?"

“Junior brother…” Tang Hong sighed meaningfully, “Everyone who can advance to the Earth level is a genius. Even if I make it, what can I do on my own?”

Tang Hong stared directly at Si Zang, his hidden meaning self-evident.

Si Zang was speechless for a moment, then twisted his neck and forced a question: "Why don't you find some suitable teammates?"

Tang Hong continued leisurely, "Our sect is now down to just you and me. Who else can I trust besides you? Besides... I have to keep an eye on you, senior brother."

Lin Feng and Yu, standing to one side, slowed their pace slightly, seemingly ignoring what they were saying, and moved away from the atmosphere of their conversation.

As they reached the outskirts of the town, the river behind them was completely frozen. The two closest boats had been torn apart by the monsters. Fortunately, the mage traveling with them saved most of the people, and there were not too many casualties.

"Sigh, here we go again. They definitely won't let such a huge monster go."

"Hopefully, a fight won't break out..."

"Yes, they're the ones who dug this river..."

Some ordinary people stood on the edge of the riverbank in front of the town, muttering to themselves.

"Damn the Set people! One day we'll wipe them all out, so that no more harmful monsters will appear in this world!" Several soldiers standing on the city wall shouted. Instantly, the crowd of onlookers shut their mouths, moved away from the riverbank, and stopped watching what was happening on the river.

“The Set people are born with the ability to use magic, while the Romulus are ordinary people. They defeated the Set people and became the only empire on the entire continent by relying on their superior weaponry.” Lin Feng said in a low voice, “Ordinary people are full of hatred for those who use magic recklessly and disrupt the balance, even the Holy Domain faction of magicians who advocate redemption.”

"General!"

At that moment, a burly man emerged from above the town, followed closely by a squad of armored soldiers who arrived at the riverbank and gazed at the river in the distance.

The ordinary people passing by all lowered their heads and walked into the town more obediently.

Suddenly, a lightly armed attendant following the general pointed in another direction, where several Afaron mages dressed in black were seen flying across the water, stepping on streaks of red light.

When will the sanctuary's mage arrive?

"tomorrow!"

"Transfer all the soldiers from the city garrison to the river!"

"yes!"

At the command, the messenger beside the general immediately ran out, followed by the soldiers on the city wall who quickly ran down, and together with the army that had gathered in a few breaths, they ran along the riverbank towards the place where the battle had just taken place.

"They..." Si Zang asked疑惑地, looking at all this, "What if the demons don't kill the people, but they kill them instead..."

Lin Feng sighed, "Perhaps."

At this point, neither saving nor not saving others may have a good outcome.

The wind on the river seemed much fiercer, and the ice covering the entire riverbed grew back, turning into a huge frozen cage, whipping up gusts of cold wind.

After the cold wind came waves of crimson flames; at this moment, their struggle had begun.

"Let's go into town."

Lin Feng had no intention of waiting and watching, and turned to walk into the town that was beginning to panic.

"Hurry, or they might attack!"

"Damn the Setians, it's them again!"

"I will kill all the Set people! I will make them all die! I will make them all die!"

Chaos was ever-present. Every civilian who saw the change in color in the sky showed an angry expression, and even the militiamen who were maintaining order looked up at the sky with resentment.

Lin Feng bypassed the crowd, and the four of them walked through the crowd, looking around as they headed towards a house with a wine glass pattern on the wall.

"Get the hell out of here, I'm not doing business anymore!"

Before they even reached the door, a woman's voice came out cursing from inside the tavern. Then, the tavern door was pushed open, and a group of disheveled drunkards were thrown out by the woman, one in each hand.

"We're closed today!"