126: Chapter 126 Hundredfold Gravity Field

Lin Mo's brow furrowed slightly; other than using Potential Out of the Abyss, there was no better way to break the deadlock.

Or, should he consume slaughter value here to raise his cultivation?

After killing over a dozen Blood-eyed Demon Wolves, his slaughter value had already broken past seventy thousand!

Seventy thousand points of slaughter value was enough to raise his cultivation to the mid-to-late stages of Rank 4!

At that moment, Chu Tianye suddenly walked over and pressed Lin Mo's hand down.

"Listen to me—Old Liu, Zhang Feng, He Tie, you guys retreat first. Lin Mo and I will cover the rear."

"Commander!" Old Liu said anxiously.

"Don't talk nonsense," Chu Tianye interrupted him, pulling the locator out of his waist pouch and stuffing it into Old Liu's hand.

"You guys go first and wait for us at the designated location. Remember, there are five points; we can't afford to miss even one."

Old Liu gripped the locator and opened his mouth as if to say something, but Chu Tianye had already turned around.

"Go!"

Old Liu bit his lip and hauled Zhang Feng up. With He Tie supporting Old Liu, the three of them stumbled toward the depths of the canyon.

Behind them, the roars of the wolf pack were drawing closer and closer.

Chu Tianye stood in the middle of the path, tightening his grip on his blade.

His left arm hung limp, blood dripping from his fingers; the blade in his right hand was full of notches, but his back remained ramrod straight.

Lin Mo stood beside him, holding Longyuan in his hand as blue-gold lightning flickered across the blade in the darkness.

The wolf pack lunged forward.

Chu Tianye met them head-on, cleaving the lead wolf down with a single strike.

Lin Mo's blade light wove around him, each flash claiming another life.

Instant Shadow flickered through the pack, fast to the extreme.

Five minutes later.

The wolf pack finally began to retreat.

Dozens of Blood-eyed Demon Wolf corpses lay on the ground, their blood staining the gravel red.

The remaining wolves stood at a distance with their tails between their legs, not daring to approach again.

Chu Tianye leaned against a rock, gasping for breath.

His body was covered in over a dozen wounds torn by canine teeth, his blade was chipped and dulled, and his face was covered in blood—it was impossible to tell if it was his own or the wolves'.

Lin Mo stood beside him, also sporting a few minor injuries, but not nearly as many as Chu Tianye.

Chu Tianye looked at him and suddenly smiled.

"You brat... were you planning to use that move just now?"

Chu Tianye patted his shoulder. "Don't be in a hurry; there are still tough battles ahead."

Five kilometers away, Old Liu and the other two had already escaped the pursuit of the beast pack.

Old Liu's arm was crudely bandaged. Zhang Feng leaned against the rock wall, his face terrifyingly pale. He Tie sat on a stone, the wound on his leg still seeping blood.

Seeing Chu Tianye and Lin Mo approach, Old Liu stood up. "Commander..."

"Say no more." Chu Tianye sat down beside him, pulled the locator from his chest pocket, and checked it.

"Rest for ten minutes, then we set out again!"

No one spoke. The few of them leaned against the rock wall with their eyes closed, gasping for air.

Zhang Feng suddenly spoke up: "Commander, do you think... we can make it back alive?"

Chu Tianye didn't speak.

Old Liu gave a laugh: "Of course we can. I haven't had enough to drink yet."

He Tie laughed as well: "Right, I'll buy the drinks when we get back."

...

Half an hour later, the group finally reached the mission site.

Chu Tianye stood on the mountain ridge, looking down at the basin in the distance. The weight that had been hanging in his chest finally lifted.

The basin was devoid of vegetation, the ground covered in cracks emitting hot steam. The air was thick with the smell of sulfur. The moonlight shone down, making the basin look like a massive wound, with the dark red rocks resembling exposed flesh.

"We're here."

Old Liu propped himself up, glanced down, and swallowed hard: "Right there?"

Chu Tianye nodded.

The men stood up, supporting each other as they made their way down the mountain.

The basin was much hotter than the ridge; the air felt like a steamer, stifling and suffocating. Hot steam rose from the cracks in the ground, making the soles of their feet burn as they stepped.

Chu Tianye pulled a detector from his backpack—a device the size of a suitcase with a green waveform jumping on the screen. He placed the detector on the ground and adjusted it for a long time, but the screen showed only a flat line.

"That's not right." His brow furrowed.

"The Earth Roar should be in this area. Why isn't there any energy fluctuation at all?"

Old Liu leaned over to look, and his expression changed too: "Could we have found the wrong place?"

"Impossible. The reconnaissance team confirmed it repeatedly; it's this area."

He Tie squatted down and reached out to touch a crack in the ground. The steam rising from it made him jerk his fingers back.

"Don't you guys think it's strange?" his voice was kept very low. "On the way here, there were ferocious beasts everywhere. Yet in this specific area, there isn't a single one."

The group exchanged looks, each seeing unease in the others' eyes.

Had they really found the wrong place?

They had paid such a high price to break through the beast tide's defensive line. If the Earth Roar really wasn't here, they were in big trouble!

"There are no other beasts here. Either the Earth Roar ate them all, or there's something here that makes those beasts afraid to approach."

Lin Mo analyzed calmly.

Chu Tianye's expression shifted as he hoisted the detector onto his shoulder: "Let's go. We'll try another spot."

The five of them walked nearly half a mile along the edge of the basin. The waveform on the detector remained flat, and their expressions grew increasingly grim.

Just as they were on the verge of despair, the detector suddenly emitted a 'beep.'

Everyone stopped in their tracks at once.

Chu Tianye looked down at the screen. The waveform began to jump—at first just faint ripples, then becoming more violent and dense, until the entire screen was flashing.

"Found it," Chu Tianye's voice trembled slightly.

Old Liu leaned in, looking at the dense waveforms on the screen, and swallowed: "What rank is this?"

Chu Tianye held up the detector so everyone could see the numbers on the screen clearly.

Above Rank 7—exceeding the instrument's detection limit.

No one spoke. Zhang Feng's face was as white as paper, Old Liu's hands were shaking, and He Tie's Adam's apple bobbed.

Rank 7 energy—it was undoubtedly the Beast King Dihou!

"The location?" Lin Mo asked.

Chu Tianye pointed toward the deepest crack in the center of the basin: "There."

The group looked in that direction simultaneously. Thick steam rose from the crack, and a dark red glow pulsed in the depths like a closed eye.

Chu Tianye stowed the detector and walked quickly toward the crack.

However, before he had even walked a hundred meters, Lin Mo's foot suddenly sank, his foot leaving a deep imprint in the rock beneath him.

A system prompt exploded in his mind: [Warning! abnormal gravity field detected. Current gravity is over 200 times the normal value!]

Lin Mo's body swayed, his knees nearly slamming into the ground.

Two hundred times gravity was no joke.

In an instant, Lin Mo felt as if his blood had turned to lead. His bones emitted fine cracking sounds, and his internal organs felt as if they were being squeezed by an invisible giant hand. Every breath felt like swallowing razor blades.

"F—k!"

Old Liu was the first to buckle, slamming to his knees with a thud. The rock beneath his knees shattered into a spiderweb pattern.

Zhang Feng let out a muffled groan, his face turning deathly pale instantly. Two streams of blood trickled from his nostrils, and his body pitched forward as if he had been struck by a truck.

"No, this isn't the Earth Roar's natural pressure—it's a physical gravity field."

"Dammit, how can such a terrifying gravity field exist here!"

Chu Tianye braced himself with one hand on the ground, unable to stop himself from cursing loudly.

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