Chapter 186: The Earth Genius Who Overshadowed the Others
"Principal Yuan lost!"
"The Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Cult is approaching us at a very fast speed!"
"His target is me, I'm going to lure him away!"
The moment he saw the hunchbacked masked man, Lin Zichen immediately spoke to the people around him.
After saying that, he didn't even wait a second before jumping into the bottomless sea below and disappeared.
On land, he, whose biological level was only ordinary ninth level, had no chance of escape when facing the hunchback masked man whose biological level was as high as rare level.
Only in water can one have the opportunity to create a miracle of escape by relying on the biological attribute [Luck of Melting Water].
The few people still on the tree were unable to react for a moment when they saw Lin Zichen suddenly jump into the water and disappear.
It wasn't until Lu Tianrong saw a hunched figure approaching this side at a high speed in the distance that he was the first to react and shouted:
"Everyone, hurry up and leave with me. Run in the opposite direction of Lin Zichen!"
He had just finished shouting and had not yet had time to move when he noticed that the hunched figure in the distance suddenly changed direction.
It no longer approached the towering tree where he was at a high speed, but instead made a big turn and chased at a high speed to the right.
Looking in the direction of the hunched figure, he saw a figure that surprised him.
It’s Lin Zichen!
Lin Zichen had just jumped into the sea for less than 10 seconds!
Lu Tianrong was stunned by the scene before him.
It's only been less than 10 seconds since he jumped into the sea, how come he swam hundreds of meters away?
And it's not diving, but freestyle swimming floating on the water.
This freestyle speed is something that even he, who is at the advanced sixth level, cannot achieve.
To be more precise, it shouldn't even reach half the speed.
In response to this, Lu Tianrong was full of doubts about his life and could not understand what he was seeing.
Lin Zichen is just an ordinary creature. How can he swim so fast in the water?
Could it be that it is a fusion of genes from exotic animals related to water?
But this is not right. Lin Zichen is a pure-blooded human and cannot fuse the genes of alien beasts.
What on earth is going on?!
Lu Tianrong was puzzled and even suspected that he was hallucinating.
"Instructor, why aren't you leaving yet?"
Seeing Lu Tianrong shouting that he wanted to leave, but ended up standing on the tree motionless, Li Moyu felt very confused.
Hearing Li Moyu's voice, Lu Tianrong came back to his senses and said:
"Let's go, let's get out of here."
As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped first, his body jumping straight into the sea water below, and swam away freely in the opposite direction of Lin Zichen.
Seeing this, Li Moyu and others jumped down one after another.
"Qinghan, what are you still doing up there? Jump down!"
Seeing Shen Qinghan still standing on the tree, Ma Xiwei shouted at her with a puzzled look on her face.
At this time, Shen Qinghan was looking in the direction where Lin Zichen was, with a look of worry on her face.
Her eyesight was not good and she could not see Lin Zichen.
However, she could accurately sense Lin Zichen's location through the ripples in the water.
"It's all my fault..."
"If I were strong enough, I wouldn't need Xiaochen to take risks to divert danger for me whenever I encounter danger..."
"It's all my fault. I'm useless..."
Shen Qinghan looked in the direction of Lin Zichen, blaming herself constantly and feeling increasingly depressed.
She felt that she was just a burden, never providing any help to Lin Zichen, and only holding him back at critical moments.
I feel that if I were not there, Lin Zichen would be more at ease when encountering danger.
Instead of always looking back and forth and being unable to move freely.
"Qinghan!"
"What the hell are you doing!?"
"Come down quickly!"
Seeing that Shen Qinghan didn't react at all, Ma Xiwei in the water shouted at her anxiously.
Shen Qinghan finally heard her cry, quickly came to his senses and apologized:
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll be right there."
After saying that, he immediately jumped down and entered the water with smooth movements.
Not a single splash was made.
Some are just circles of ripples spreading smoothly on the water surface.
Ma Xiwei rubbed his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong.
How come there is no splash at all when jumping from a height of dozens of meters above the water?
What is going on?
Before she could figure out what was going on, she heard Lu Tianrong shouting from the front:
"You two girls, stop standing there like idiots. Swim faster!"
“Here I come!”
Ma Xiwei responded and swam up quickly.
Shen Qinghan was silent, a rare occurrence. He swam silently behind, occasionally looking back in the direction of Lin Zichen, his face full of worry.
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The other side.
With the blessing of [Luck of Melting Water], Lin Zichen was swimming freely on the water at an extremely fast speed.
If he chooses to swim underwater, he can go even faster.
The reason why he chose the slow freestyle swimming was that he had to float on the water to expose himself and attract the hunchbacked masked man.
He wasn't sure if the hunchbacked masked man would be able to detect him if he dived into the water.
If it is not discovered, Shen Qinghan may be in danger.
After swimming freestyle for hundreds of meters.
Lin Zichen discovered that the hunchbacked masked man's direction of movement had finally changed.
No longer moving towards Shen Qinghan.
Instead, it changed course and rushed towards him at high speed.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then suddenly increased his speed and swam freestyle like crazy.
After swimming for a long distance and making sure that the hunchbacked masked man had caught up with him.
He decisively dived into the water and increased his swimming speed to the fastest.
The hunchbacked masked man has been successfully attracted.
The next step is to get rid of the hunchbacked masked man and escape.
The direction of escape is the direction where the waves came from.
If the previous wave was really created by Yuan Dongzhi using his ability.
If you move in the direction of the waves, you will most likely run into Yuan Dongzhi.
Lin Zichen guessed.
Although Yuan Dongzhi was defeated, he was most likely not dead.
Instead, like Lu Tianrong before, he was trapped by the enemy's vines.
This speculation is well-founded.
The reason is that the hunchbacked masked man did not look seriously injured, which means that his battle with Yuan Dongzhi was not intense.
When two strong men of the same level fight, if one wants to kill the other, it is impossible for the battle to be less intense.
After all, they are strong people of the same level, and the gap is unlikely to be so big that one side can kill the other side without any injury.
To sum up, the possibility of Yuan Dongzhi dying in battle is almost zero.
It is very likely that he was trapped by vines used by the hunchbacked masked man and could not escape for a while.
Based on this, the next plan is to find a way to help Yuan Dongzhi out of trouble.
Afterwards, let Yuan Dongzhi fight with the hunchbacked masked man again and help him escape.
"I hope Yuan Xiao is really trapped by the vines, and not killed in battle..."
"I hope that the newly acquired biological attribute of the [Lord of the Forest] can control the vines that the Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Sect used to trap Yuan Xiao..."
"I hope I'm not captured by the Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Sect before I find Yuan Xiao..."
Lin Zichen prayed in his heart while swimming forward with all his might. His nerves were tense and he was very afraid that he would fail.
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On the water surface.
The hunchbacked masked man was chasing Lin Zichen at high speed.
When Lin Zichen dived into the water and his swimming speed suddenly increased to an extremely exaggerated speed, the hunchbacked masked man was shocked.
How can an ordinary creature swim so fast?!
Moreover, this ordinary-level creature is still a pure-blooded human and has never integrated any water-related exotic animal genes.
What is going on?
The hunchbacked masked man was puzzled.
He has lived for nearly two hundred years and has seen countless geniuses from Earth and the Origin, but he has never seen anyone as special as Lin Zichen.
He was clearly walking the path of a pure-blooded human.
It has never fused with any exotic animal genes.
However, his physical and mental strength far exceeds that of gene fusion people of the same age.
Now, he has even demonstrated underwater abilities that are not inferior to those of water gene fusionists of the same age.
wrong!
It’s not about not losing, but about far surpassing!
The powerful underwater ability displayed by Lin Zichen at this moment far exceeds that of those of his peers with water gene fusion!
Such an incredible performance directly refreshed the hunchback masked man's understanding of the people on Earth!
It turns out that the Earth, which is short of evolutionary resources, can also give birth to peerless geniuses who are no less talented than those from other lands!
"This boy is truly a monster."
"We must act quickly and bring him back to the headquarters."
"Because it's too late, something unexpected will happen."
The hunchbacked masked man thought to himself as his speed suddenly increased, leaping forward on the towering trees at lightning speed.
In just a few seconds, he was able to close the distance between him and Lin Zichen, right in front of him.
Then, with a thought in mind, he controlled several vines to dive into the water and chase Lin Zichen who was swimming underwater.
The vines were extremely fast and caught up with Lin Zichen in just a moment, wrapping around him one after another like pythons.
Faced with the attacking vines, Lin Zichen dodged them easily with just a smooth snake-like movement.
With the blessing of [Luck of Melting Water], the water is his home ground.
In contrast, the vines encounter a lot of resistance in the water, and the pursuit speed is greatly reduced.
This increase and decrease greatly increased his chances of escape.
"It's clearly just an ordinary creature, how can its underwater abilities be so powerful?"
The hunchbacked masked man was very confused.
The underwater ability that Lin Zichen displayed at this moment was comparable to that of a high-level water gene fusionist.
Moreover, it is comparable to the "advanced intermediate" water gene fusion.
This kind of behavior is totally against common sense.
Even most of the strangers in the source land pale in comparison to Lin Zichen.
“Bang…Bang…Bang!”
The hunchbacked masked man summoned a large number of vines, which shot into the water as densely as raindrops and rushed towards Lin Zichen at a rapid speed.
If a few vines can't catch Lin Zichen, then use dozens or hundreds of them.
No matter how agile Lin Zichen was underwater, he could only surrender obediently when faced with the vines coming from all directions.
…
Underwater.
Lin Zichen's blood vessels expanded throughout his body, and his qi and blood continued to burst out.
With the blessing of [Luck of Melting Water].
He swam faster than the swordfish in the sea in his previous life.
The swimming speed is close to 100 meters per second.
But even so, the vines attacking from behind kept closing the distance.
One is ordinary level.
One is rare.
The gap in biological levels between the two is too big.
The resulting gap in strength cannot be made up by just [Luck of Melting Water].
“Swoosh…swoosh…swoosh!”
Accompanied by a sound of water penetrating.
The vines controlled by the hunchbacked masked man have caught up with Lin Zichen in front.
After catching up, he did not immediately entangle it.
Instead, he accelerated and rushed in front of Lin Zichen.
When there were vines in six directions, front, back, left, right, up and down, completely blocking Lin Zichen's escape space, they attacked at the same time and quickly wrapped around him like pythons.
Lin Zichen wanted to hide, but there was nowhere to hide.
There were too many vines and no room for maneuver.
He didn't even have a chance to struggle as he was instantly entangled by the vines and couldn't move.
Immediately afterwards, the whole person was suddenly pulled up and was about to fall into the hands of the hunchbacked masked man.
The moment he was pulled up, Lin Zichen had an idea and used his mental power to use [Lord of the Forest] to try to control the vines on his body.
Can sense the vines, but cannot control them.
His mental strength was far inferior to that of the hunchbacked masked man, and he could not seize control of the vines.
Fortunately, the biological attribute of [Higher Spirit] can provide amplification and strengthen one's own mental power.
With the blessing of [Higher Spirit].
Lin Zichen consumed a large amount of mental energy and finally gained a small amount of control over the vines.
Just as he was about to be pulled out of the water, he managed to loosen some of the vines wrapped around his body.
Then, he instantly broke free from the layers of vines, quickly dived back to the bottom of the water, and swam as fast as he could, trying to stay as far away from the hunchbacked masked man on the water surface.
…
On the water surface.
The hunchbacked masked man was stunned.
The person was about to be pulled up, so why did the vines suddenly loosen uncontrollably?
What is going on?
No time for doubt.
Soon, the hunchbacked masked man attacked again.
Controlling more vines than before, they rushed towards Lin Zichen at a rapid speed.
In just a brief moment, the vines that emerged tightly wrapped around Lin Zichen.
Just when he was about to be pulled out of the water.
Just like before, the vines wrapped around him inexplicably loosened.
I watched him break free from the deadly vines, swim hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, and escape again.
What's going on?
Why are the vines loose again?
The hunchbacked masked man frowned, confused by the scene before him.
He thought about it carefully and discovered a detail.
Just when the vines loosened, there seemed to be subtle spiritual fluctuations coming from the water.
Could it be that... Lin Zichen can use his mental power to control the vines?
This thought flashed through the mind of the hunchbacked masked man.
But soon, he denied himself.
Lin Zichen's mental strength is high, but that is compared with his peers.
Compared with him, who is a rare-level strong man, it is like the gap between an ant and an elephant. There is no comparison at all.
Not to mention Lin Zichen, even if Yuan Dongzhi, whose creature level is also rare, came, he would not be able to compete with him for control of the vines.
Unless Yuan Dongzhi also merged with the genes of the [Wood Elf] and gained the ability to control plants.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to win control of the vines by relying solely on mental telekinesis.
After thinking about this.
The hunchbacked masked man attacked Lin Zichen again.
Just like the previous two times, this time he easily controlled the vines to tightly wrap around Lin Zichen.
In order to avoid the situation of sudden and inexplicable loosening like the previous two times.
This time, the hunchbacked masked man deliberately controlled the vines to wrap Lin Zichen into an airtight cicada pupa.
The vines are spirally intertwined with each other, so tightly that there is no possibility of breaking free.
However, just when the cicada pupa was about to be pulled out of the water.
A strong mental fluctuation came from inside the cicada pupa.
The next second, the airtight cicada pupa instantly disintegrated on its own and turned into scattered vines.
Lin Zichen, who was trapped inside, escaped and immediately shot out like an arrow, swimming hundreds of meters away.
The hunchbacked masked man was completely stunned, his eyes wide open in disbelief, unable to imagine that the scene before him was real.
It's not an illusion!
It’s not an illusion!
Lin Zichen can really use his mental power to control the vines!
But how is this possible!
How on earth did he do that?!
The hunchbacked masked man was so shocked that he thought he was dreaming for a moment.
This time it is not as simple as being able to rival an extraordinary person.
But far surpassing the extraordinary people!
Even the most talented person he had ever seen would pale in comparison to Lin Zichen and would not be qualified to be compared with him!
"There's a secret!"
"This Lin Zichen definitely has a big secret!"
"Bringing him back to the headquarters will definitely be a great achievement that will shock the entire sect!"
"Perhaps, I can use this to gain key support from the church and hopefully reach the epic realm!"
Thinking of this, the hunchbacked masked man's breathing became rapid, and his eyes were full of fanaticism.
Then he immediately jumped into the water and wanted to capture Lin Zichen with his own hands.
The hunchbacked masked man no longer used vines, but jumped into the water to chase him.
Lin Zichen knew that he could no longer continue to seduce her and had to use his real skills to get out of this situation.
Otherwise, if he really falls into the hands of the hunchback masked man, he will completely lose the chance to turn the situation around.
"It's time to get away. I hope Hanhan and the others have escaped far enough..."
Thinking about it, Lin Zichen had an idea and used the biological attribute [Natural Camouflage] to hide his breath completely.
Then he swam quickly towards a towering tree in front, and with the help of the tree's cover, he instantly disappeared from the sight of the hunchbacked masked man.
Seeing this, the hunchbacked masked man quickly chased after him.
In less than two seconds, he swam behind the tree.
Then he discovered that Lin Zichen had completely disappeared and no one knew where he had gone.
Some are just thick tree trunks soaked in water.
Where are the people?
In just two seconds, where could he swim?
How come the person suddenly disappeared?
The hunchbacked masked man was full of doubts.
Soon, he had an idea and released his mental power to cover the area within a radius of one kilometer, using mental perception to search for the missing Lin Zichen.
He guessed that Lin Zichen must be hiding behind a towering tree.
As long as the mental power is released, Lin Zichen will be found soon and brought back to the sect.
However, when his mental power completely covered the area within a kilometer radius, he was unable to find Lin Zichen.
What’s going on?!
How come I can't sense his presence?!
The hunchbacked masked man was confused and couldn't understand why Lin Zichen disappeared completely.
After the confusion comes anxiety.
Lin Zichen is his cash cow, and he can't accept that the duck in his mouth flies away like that.
"It's impossible for a person to suddenly disappear!"
"It must still be around!"
"It must be hidden somewhere!"
The hunchbacked masked man thought to himself, and once again he released his mental power.
This time, it is no longer about radiating mental power to cover the surrounding area.
Instead, he used his mental power to control the towering trees around him, shaking them frantically in an attempt to find Lin Zichen among them.
Unfortunately, no matter how he shook, he still couldn't find Lin Zichen.
It seems that Lin Zichen has left this area.
Instead of hiding behind or on top of a towering tree as he thought.
"You can run away with this!"
"How could he get away?"
"If I hadn't had to capture him alive, he wouldn't have had a chance of escaping from me!"
The hunchbacked masked man became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He controlled a large number of vines to frantically whip the towering trees around him to vent his anger.
In just a moment, dozens of towering trees were uprooted and crashed into the water with a loud bang, splashing water all over the sky.
He couldn't accept the fact that Lin Zichen ran away.
As a rare-level strong man, I was actually toyed with by an ordinary-level creature. This is an unbearable shame!
After venting like this.
The hunchbacked masked man calmed down a little.
He rushed out of the water and landed on a towering tree that had not been knocked down by the vines.
While looking at everything around him, searching for Lin Zichen.
While thinking, he wondered why Lin Zichen didn't use these two skills from the beginning since he could swim faster and escape the perception of his five senses?
After a brief thought, he thought of a possibility.
The reason why Lin Zichen did not use these two skills to escape at the beginning was to lure him and give others time to escape.
Now that time is almost up, he no longer hides his true strength and immediately shows his true strength and escapes in an instant.
After figuring this out.
The hunchbacked masked man wasted no time. He quickly jumped up and ran towards the place where Shen Qinghan and others were before.
He thought that after Lin Zichen escaped, he would return to meet up with Shen Qinghan and others.
If he went back to chase Shen Qinghan and the others, there was a great chance that he would meet Lin Zichen.
"etc!"
"wrong!"
“I might be wrong!”
The hunchbacked masked man had just run a few hundred meters when he suddenly stopped on the top of a towering tree.
He thought of another possibility.
I suspect that Lin Zichen did not go back to meet up with Shen Qinghan and others.
Instead, he went to rescue Yuan Dongzhi and liberate this rare combat force.
This suspicion is well-founded.
One is that Lin Zichen can use his mental power to control the vines.
Second, Lin Zichen's escape direction was along the direction of the waves, and the direction of the waves was exactly the direction where Yuan Dongzhi was trapped.
Will Lin Zichen go back to reunite with his teammates?
Or will you rescue Yuan Dongzhi?
The hunchbacked masked man thought for a moment and finally felt that Lin Zichen was more likely to rescue Yuan Dongzhi.
Without thinking any more, he immediately turned around and ran in the direction where Yuan Dongzhi was.
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The other side.
Lin Zichen swam quickly towards the direction where the waves were coming from.
At this moment, he didn't know whether he had escaped the pursuit of the hunchbacked masked man.
All I know is that I can no longer sense the presence of the hunchbacked masked man.
He guessed that he should be safe now.
However, it is only temporary safety.
After all, the hunchbacked masked man is a powerful rare-level warrior. He might have some special means of finding people, and he might catch up with us later.
I must take advantage of this opportunity to find the trapped Yuan Dongzhi and rescue her.
Only if Yuan Dongzhi is saved can he and others be saved.
Otherwise, before the rescue from the military district arrived, they would probably all be found one by one by the hunchbacked masked man, and then either killed or taken away.
About half a minute later.
Lin Zichen, who was swimming at high speed, vaguely sensed Yuan Dongzhi's breath.
He surfaced and looked in the direction where the breath came from.
Then, what came into view was a giant tree cage hundreds of meters high.
“Found it!”
Lin Zichen's heart moved slightly.
Then he immediately dived back into the water and swam towards the tree cage as fast as he could.
About ten seconds later.
Lin Zichen swam for over a thousand meters and finally entered the tree cage.
He quickly surfaced and saw Yuan Dongzhi, who was usually so high and mighty, now covered in strange blood-colored vines, hanging in mid-air, unable to move, looking extremely miserable.
When he saw this scene, the first thing that came to his mind was to issue an order to the blood-colored vines wrapped around Yuan Dongzhi: Let go!
Under the influence of the [Lord of the Forest].
The blood-colored vines on Yuan Dongzhi's body immediately loosened up obediently when they heard Lin Zichen's "relax" command.
Because Lin Zichen's mental strength was not high, the loosening of these blood-colored vines was quite limited, and they just became less tight.
However, this was enough for Yuan Dongzhi.
The moment the blood-colored vines loosened slightly, Yuan Dongzhi's blood and energy instantly burst out, and he suddenly broke free from all the blood-colored vines on his body.
She did not connect the sudden loosening of the blood-colored vines with Lin Zichen, thinking that she had struggled for a long time and finally broke free from the blood-colored vines.
"Principal Yuan!"
Seeing Yuan Dongzhi successfully escape, Lin Zichen shouted at her.
Yuan Dongzhi looked towards him following the voice, a look of surprise on his face: "Why are you here? When did you come here?"
Like the hunchbacked masked man, she could not sense Lin Zichen who was using [Natural Disguise].
Lin Zichen explained, "I was just being hunted by the Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Cult. I relied on my excellent swimming skills to escape all the way here, and just happened to find you here."
He didn't tell Yuan Dongzhi that it was he who saved her and helped her free herself from the blood-red vines.
The biological level can be exposed, the mental strength can be exposed, but the fact that one can control the vines must never be exposed.
Yuan Dongzhi looked incredulous: "How could you escape the pursuit of the Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Sect?"
Just as he finished speaking, there were bursts of loud sounds of breaking through the air suddenly coming from outside the tree cage.
"Buzz!"
"Buzz!"
"Buzz!"
Upon hearing the noise, Yuan Dongzhi immediately used his mental power to perceive it.
When she sensed that the hunchbacked masked man was rushing towards the tree cage at a high speed, her face suddenly changed slightly.
"The Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Sect is here, let's go!"
After saying this, Yuan Dongzhi jumped into the water, reached out and hugged Lin Zichen in his arms, and with his superb swimming ability, he took him to escape in the water.
She knew that she was no match for the hunchbacked masked man, and she was clear that escaping with Lin Zichen was the right choice.
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