Chapter 79. In the S-rank secret realm, the initiative...
On the high slope, the entire Dragon Tooth Squad crouched behind several boulders, furtively peeking down.
More than 500 meters below, there was a full squad standing in front of a large rock, working in perfect coordination to draw a magic circle on the ground with paint.
The stone was shaped like a giant with its hands raised as if to support the sky, its body covered with black thorny vines, like strange tattoos on the giant's body.
The young man leading the group wore a light gray robe, his shoulder-length hair was neatly tied back with a ribbon of the same color as the robe, a few short strands of hair hung down his forehead, and a gentle smile was on his handsome face as he stood aside watching them operate.
Standing next to the man was an old man who wasn't dressed as a professional, but rather as an old man in a loose black and brown robe.
Lin Xiaoxiao sat on a small stool, peeking out from behind the boulder. She saw the gentle and refined man leading the group and gave a cold smile.
As expected, Mu Yunzhi is a scoundrel. On the surface, he appears to be a refined gentleman, but behind the scenes, he does nothing but despicable and rotten things.
The young master Mu that Lin Xiaoxiao met at the underground auction was Mu Yunzhi's younger brother, Mu Yunxiao, a lawless playboy.
These two brothers are a mixed bag: one is outwardly sleek but inwardly corrupt, the other is outwardly dark but inwardly rotten. Neither of them is a good person.
Jiang Tao's eyes were filled with intense hatred. The moment he saw Mu Yunzhi, he wished he could transform into a ferocious beast, pounce on him, and bite off his throat, killing him in this secret realm.
Chen Feng squatted down next door and reached out to pat Jiang Tao's head, signaling him not to make any rash moves.
More than an hour later, Mu Yunzhi's team completed drawing the magic circle, and a burly man in blue-gold armor in their team turned and left.
Before long, the burly man was carrying one unconscious professional on his shoulder and two unconscious people in his hands.
He walked up to the magic circle, took out a knife and slit the throats of the three professionals, then threw them into the center of the magic circle like trash.
As the thick drops of blood fell onto the magic circle, the magic circle beneath it gradually emitted a faint reddish-purple light.
The leader, Mu Yunzhi, glanced at the magic circle, his smile still gentle, like a refined and gentle young master. He turned to the side and spoke a few words to his companion.
Five people from that group voluntarily left the group and departed from their original location.
The Dragon Fang members, crouching on the high slope, all realized what they were trying to do: use the lives of those professionals to forcibly activate the magic circle.
Jiang Tao immediately lost his balance and wanted to get up and fight them, but Li Junxuan covered his mouth and Liu Huihui held him tightly.
Xiao Weizhi stared intently at the old man beside Mu Yunzhi, his eyes filled with wariness towards him.
He hissed in a low voice, as Jiang Tao struggled to go down and kill Mu Yunzhi: "Jiang Tao, if you go down now, you're just throwing your life away. Do you still want revenge?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Tao instantly stopped struggling. All his strength was drained away, and he trembled slightly, his eyes reddening as he stared intently at the ground, biting his lower lip to keep himself from making a sound.
Seeing that Jiang Tao was no longer impulsive, Li Junxuan and Liu Huihui slowly released their grip on his hands.
But he still kept a wary eye on Jiang Tao, and if he sensed anything was wrong, he would immediately restrain him.
Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes flashed with confusion. How could Jiang Tao and Mu Yunzhi have a grudge?
Xiao Weizhi noticed her confusion, silently approached her, his gaze fixed on the old man below, and whispered a few words to explain the feud between Jiang Tao and Mu Yunzhi.
This brings us to the question of why Jiang Tao was picked up by Xiao Weizhi.
Jiang Tao's original name was Jiang Chengye. There were originally three siblings in his family. The eldest brother, Jiang, worked in a professional team under the Mu family, while the youngest sister, Jiang, was a student.
At a celebration banquet for obtaining the core of a secret realm, Brother Jiang brought his two little ones along. Unexpectedly, Little Sister Jiang disappeared that very night.
When they found her again, Jiang Xiaomei had hardly any good skin left on her body. Her flesh and bones had been forcibly shaved off, leaving her as a half-skeleton lying alive on the experimental table.
Brother Jiang died at the hands of the Mu family's team of professionals while trying to uncover the truth.
Jiang Tao himself had been secretly investigating the truth. After discovering the truth, he was hunted down by the Mu family's team of professionals before he could take revenge.
He was picked up by Xiao Weizhi, who happened to be passing by the secret realm at that time, and took in the alias Jiang Tao, becoming a promising new star of the Dragon Fang Squad.
Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at Jiang Tao, who was trembling all over and still trying his best to endure, and felt a little emotional.
I never expected that Jiang Tao and the Mu family had such a feud, nor did I expect that the Mu family would start human experiments so early. They really are a bunch of black-hearted traitors.
In my memory, the Mu family group would not have started their experiments until a year later, and they would have been exposed seven years later. Before being tried, they would have betrayed the country and fled.
Ultimately, they joined the Kingdom of Tara and became a family of lackeys under the name of an agent, and were also one of the instigators of the extinction of the Dragon Kingdom in their previous life.
As expected, you can only believe part of what's said on the go; you can't believe everything you hear.
More than an hour later, hundreds of lifeless bodies of professionals had piled up on the magic circle below, their blood soaking the entire circle.
The reddish-purple light emanating from the magic circle grew increasingly dazzling, as if many indistinct runes were floating ethereally within the reddish-purple light.
The Dragon Fang team members, high up on the slope, watched with gritted teeth and clenched their fists, wishing they could rush down and kill those bastards who didn't value human life.
But under Xiao Weizhi's reminder, no one dared to move and could only remain still.
Because the old man beside Mu Yunzhi was an eighth-level professional expert, an ancestor of the Mu family, who came specifically to protect Mu Yunzhi.
Mu Yunzhi stood in front of the magic circle and began chanting the incantation. The energy stone in her hands began to glow, and a beam of light rose from the magic circle, indicating that the magic circle was about to be completed.
Chen Feng frowned and asked in a low voice, "Weizhi, given the current situation, should we fight or retreat?"
Xiao Weizhi stared intently at the line below, his brow furrowed in a deep frown as he quickly considered whether to stay and see if there was a chance to intercept (or cause trouble), or to ensure his own safety and leave as soon as possible.
After all, an eighth-level expert is no pushover; crushing them is as easy as crushing ants.
Lin Xiaoxiao ran her fingers along her chin, feeling a sense of familiarity with the magic circle. Where had she seen it before?
With the mindset of asking questions whenever she didn't understand, she silently asked herself, "Quan Zhi, what is that magic circle used for?"
The next second, a faint, almost invisible golden light flashed in Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes.
With her full intelligence skill connected, she saw the entire magic circle through her eyes, and her voice remained calm: "Special Unsealing Magic Circle: This method can be used to unseal seals that cannot be opened. The drawback is that one of the resources of the magic circle is a large amount of human blood."
"Because it was too brutal, it was regarded as a dark and forbidden art in its early years, and it was forbidden for any professional to use it."
What in an S-rank secret realm could possibly warrant such a painstaking effort to create a magic array for unsealing?
'Rumble rumble rumble...' With a sudden tremor, the stone cracked open and fell to the ground in several large pieces.
Immediately afterwards, huge cracks appeared in the ground, and eerie howls echoed from underground: 'Waaah, waaah...'
Along with the howling came gusts of poisonous wind that blew from the depths of the earth, spreading in all directions.
Quan Zhi's voice continued to echo in her mind: "Judging from this commotion, the thing sealed below is no less than epic level."
Not long after Quan Zhi's voice fell, a figure made of thorns slowly crawled out from the ground, roaring as it spat out a cloud of poisonous mist toward Mu Yunzhi's team.
The old man beside Mu Yunzhi seemed to have been prepared. He waved his hand, and a gust of wind blew the poisonous fog back.
Then it transformed into chains of wind elements, binding the monster that was about to crawl out into a tight knot, immobilizing it completely.
The team below immediately formed a battle formation and quickly unleashed skills on the immobile BOSS, who could only rage helplessly.
Lin Xiaoxiao continued her internal dialogue with Quan Zhi: "Is this an epic-level monster BOSS?"
Quan Zhi responded calmly: "Yes, to be precise, it is a Thorn Black Vine Monster BOSS that has been sealed for many years, is about to break through to the legendary level, is at the peak of the epic level, has offspring that are about to mature in its body, and has reached the limit of its body."
The offspring of a thorny, black-vine monster?
A cold killing intent flashed quickly in Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes. She had to take action to stop Mu Yunzhi from obtaining the offspring of this black vine demon beast.
In my memory, the reason the Mu family was exposed was because this demon beast needed to devour a large amount of flesh and blood to advance, and they went on a rampage, slaughtering the city, which led to the exposure of many things that had been hidden in the dark.
Moreover, the offspring of this thorny black vine demon beast will later be refined into a war creature that only knows how to kill and has no mind.
Just before Xiao Weizhi was about to order a retreat, Lin Xiaoxiao whispered to him, "Weizhi, could you draw all the wind elements from this area?"
Once a large amount of wind element is drawn away, the old man's wind element chain skill will be disabled.
Xiao Weizhi guessed her thoughts, immediately put away the staff in his hand, put his hands together, quickly changed his movements, made hand seals, and gathered the wind elements nearby.
Nine minutes passed, and Xiao Weizhi's forehead was covered in cold sweat. As if summoned, the surrounding wind elements quickly flew to his front, rushed into the twisting wind element sphere, and became one of them.
Just as Xiao Weizhi was about to lose control of the elemental sphere that was about to explode, Lin Xiaoxiao seized the opportunity to use a sealing technique, sealing the elemental sphere into a crystal ball with a violent aura.
Congratulations on obtaining: Raging Elemental Orb - Wind (Diamond Tier)
【Raging Elemental Sphere. Wind (Diamond Tier): An elemental sphere formed from 10,000% wind element, like a bomb that could explode at any moment. If attacked by any external force, it will instantly transform into a massive explosive source…】
Lin Xiaoxiao held a wind element ball slightly larger than an apple in her hand and glanced at the broken elemental chains on the BOSS's body.
She turned around, took out a handkerchief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said softly, "Continue, Weizhi."
Xiao Weizhi exhaled a breath of stale air and repeated the previous operation.
After four consecutive attempts, the wind elemental chains on the BOSS broke, shattering into a patch of blue light.
The BOSS began to fight back, but because it had already been weakened, and the old man started to make his move.
Before long, the BOSS was at a disadvantage and was about to be annihilated.
Lin Xiaoxiao took out a crystal ball containing 300 points of faith power from her spatial storage, handed it to Wang Hao, and whispered, "Haozi, could you put this into the BOSS's mouth?"
The power of faith, condensed into liquid, has certain healing, energy-replenishing, and temporary strength-enhancing effects on demonic beasts.
Although Wang Hao didn't know why Lin Xiaoxiao had made this arrangement, after taking the crystal ball, which was only slightly larger than an egg, he quickly switched to a longbow: "No problem at all."
The arrow, imbued with the power of faith, whistled through the air and fell straight into the BOSS's mouth, shattering into fragments that transformed into streaks of light, which the BOSS then swallowed.
The old man below sensed something was wrong the moment the arrow appeared, and cast a murderous glance at the high slope where Longya was located.
Originally intending to quickly move over and deal with the thief on the hillside, he was instead chased and attacked by the BOSS, who had recovered some of his strength.
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled faintly and carefully handed the elemental ball wrapped in cloth to Wang Hao: "Continue, be careful with this one, throw it into the middle of the line below."
Seeing how carefully Lin Xiaoxiao was moving, Wang Hao immediately and gently tied the elemental ball to the arrow and quickly shot it downwards.
One of the professionals in the squad below noticed the sneak attack and instinctively used his weapon to slash at the arrow.
The moment the blade struck the elemental orb, an explosion carrying the power of a raging wind element swept them and the BOSS into it.
A huge tornado suddenly appeared out of nowhere, sweeping up everything in the surrounding area, including trees and rocks.
Lin Xiaoxiao was worried that one elemental orb wouldn't be enough, so she gave Wang Hao three more elemental orbs, instructing him to use arrows to replenish them and send them all into the enemy's formation.
The boulder that had been shielding Longya was also swept away, and the team members were only able to stand safely thanks to Xiao Weizhi's protective skills.
They can only stand still; if they move, they will be caught in the tornado.
Half an hour later, the tornado dissipated.
All the members of the team below were dead, their severed limbs scattered all over the ground.
Only the disheveled old man, supporting the constantly vomiting blood Mu Yunzhi, stood in a very light blue-green semi-transparent protective barrier, his eyes filled with hatred as he stared intently at Xiao Weizhi and Lin Xiaoxiao standing at the front of the group.
Lin Xiaoxiao looked down at the two people below with a calm expression, but inwardly she sighed, "It's a pity that such an explosion didn't kill them all."
She gently tossed the last elemental orb in her hand, pondering whether throwing it now would hit them.
Xiao Weizhi sensed something was wrong. Just as he raised his staff, the old man and Mu Yunzhi turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared from the spot.
With no target left, the BOSS set its sights on the entire Dragon Fang team standing on the hillside.
It roared as it dragged its heavy body toward the direction of Dragon Fang: 'Damn intruder, die, die...'
With a sudden, earth-shaking tremor, everyone tensed their muscles, raised their weapons, and gritted their teeth in preparation for a counterattack.
Lin Xiaoxiao's hands hung naturally at her sides, and a holy light suddenly appeared in her left pupil.
The Scales of Fortune quickly materialized, emitting a faint glow, and floated in mid-air.
Everything around her seemed to be frozen in time, as if a stop button had been pressed. The lucky Libra created an alternate dimension, trapping her and the furious, irrational BOSS together.
She blinked, the light in her left eye dimming slightly, and asked softly, "Want to make a deal with me?"
The boss stared blankly at the light in Lin Xiaoxiao's left eye.
After a moment, it seemed to regain its senses and said in a very hoarse voice, "God, agent, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Lin Xiaoxiao looked up at the BOSS, whose body was already showing cracks, and said in a soft voice, "Let's talk about the seed inside you?"
Unexpectedly, these words ignited the BOSS's anger.
It swiftly reached out with both hands to grab Lin Xiaoxiao, roaring angrily, "Get out, you damned greedy one, get out!"
Lin Xiaoxiao raised her right hand, her index and middle fingers touching, and shook her wrist to move the scales with her fingers.
The Libra followed her movements, blocking wherever it pointed, and deflected the BOSS's attacks one by one.
Before long, the BOSS developed more and more cracks, and it became panting heavily, as if all its strength had been exhausted.
Lin Xiaoxiao guessed that the faith power she had previously sent to the BOSS had been exhausted.
She shook her head helplessly: "Your body won't last long. Even if you don't trade with me, as long as my teammates can withstand your attacks for a while, you'll still perish."
Seeing that the BOSS didn't speak, she continued, "Make a deal with me, and I will find an opportunity to send the seed in your body to a place suitable for its survival, so that it can grow freely and safely, and hopefully reach the demigod realm in the future."
These words transformed into a sharp dagger, piercing deep into the heart of the Thorn Black Vine Beast BOSS.
The demigod realm is a level that all demonic beasts dream of.
Only when a monster reaches this level can it be considered to have escaped its enslaved status and officially gained freedom.
They can travel freely in the capital city favored by the gods, without being treated as prey and hunted at will.
[All demonic beasts are obsessed with reaching the demigod level because only by reaching this level will the City of Divine Favor acknowledge their identity and grant them an identity token... From then on, they will no longer be trapped in the secret realm, enslaved by the administrators, and can even apply for a special secret realm with their clan, living a peaceful life.]
The BOSS stared intently at Lin Xiaoxiao with his empty 'eyes', and asked in a hoarse voice, "What do you want?"
Lin Xiaoxiao's lips curled slightly: "Your body, and your faith."
A moment later, a hoarse voice rang out: "Okay."
The BOSS stretched out his large hand with sharp nails and plunged it hard into his own stomach, twisting the hand inside his body several times.
Carefully taking out a seed the size of a tennis ball, as translucent as a pink gemstone, she used her internal energy to send the seed onto the scales of fortune.
Lin Xiaoxiao pricked her finger, and a drop of blood with specks of gold floated to the other side of the scale.
This drop of blood represents her promise; if she fails to fulfill the deal, she will suffer severe consequences.
The scales swayed gently for several tens of seconds, then slowly leveled off.
Before exiting the alternate dimension, the Thorn Black Vine Beast BOSS glanced longingly at the seed in Lin Xiaoxiao's hand: "Please, find it a safe place."
Lin Xiaoxiao bowed 35 degrees to it, nodded, and replied softly, "Okay!"
As time resumed its flow, the entire Dragon Fang team noticed that the BOSS seemed to have been stopped, remaining motionless in one position.
They exchanged a glance and unleashed their strongest skills on the BOSS with their weapons.
Before the BOSS fell, it gave Lin Xiaoxiao a meaningful look, and then transformed into a BOSS treasure chest and a sky full of gold coins...
[Congratulations to the Dragon Fang Squad for defeating the (Epic) Level 249 Thorn Black Vine Monster BOSS, gaining 9432 experience points...]
While the team members cheered for the lucky finds, only Xiao Weizhi raised an eyebrow and smiled at Lin Xiaoxiao, as if to say: My Xiaoxiao, you're really amazing.
Lin Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes slightly and returned a kind smile.
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