122: Chapter 122 Stone Gate Open Space

During a lull in the battle, Wang Sheng turned his head and glanced at Liu Ruyan, who stood silently in the shadows.

She wove between the tree shadows like light mist. In her rapid movement, her night-traveling attire clung to her waist, which was as slender as a willow branch.

Every dodge made her body resemble a soft willow branch, bending and springing back in the wind.

It was like the most exquisite spring, storing elegant rebounding power with every compression.

Her waist bent into the most alluring curves in the night breeze, and the full curves of her chest beneath her night-traveling attire were like slightly rising snow-capped peaks, full and erect, swaying gently in the wind.

Her long, slender legs were like two unsheathed thin swords; every step landed precisely in unpredictable locations, like accurate dance steps falling on a quiet beat.

Her phantom dagger flipped between her fingers, like a dangerous butterfly dancing in the silver light.

When the dagger slashed across the throat of a Savage Beast, there was no fear or hesitation in her smoky, mist-like eyes.

There was only cold determination and the instinctual calmness of a Phantom Assassin, allowing her to always turn danger into safety at the most perilous moments.

Not a single drop of Savage Beast blood was on her night-traveling attire, and the silver light of the phantom dagger flashed and disappeared between her fingers.

Her smoky, mist-like eyes were like deep pools of water in the shadows, quietly watching the front in the shadows of the Savage Beast Forest.

She did not need light, because the shadows were her best armor.

After penetrating twenty li into the Savage Beast Forest, when Zhao Linger approached the coordinate location, her Spirit Sound Affinity captured abnormal low-frequency communications from the Shadow Clan.

That frequency, which resembled a snake wriggling under a rock, made the most sensitive sound strings of the Spirit Sound Master tremble slightly, as if stained by muddy water.

"The Shadow Clan's stronghold is three hundred meters ahead." Her voice was rarely solemn, like clear sound strings stained by the muddy water of shadows.

Her big, round eyes were closed, but her long eyelashes trembled slightly amidst the anomalies detected by her Spirit Sound Affinity.

It was like sensitive sound strings feeling the most dangerous resonance within the frequency of the shadows.

"There is a Shadow Crystal Core fragment storage depot in the stronghold, the same as the one on the outskirts of the Savage Beast Forest, but the scale is larger."

Liu Ruyan disappeared silently into the shadows to scout, like a ghost in the shadows, coming and going without a trace like smoke in the Savage Beast Forest.

Her stealth technique was as natural as water merging into the sea on the outskirts of the Shadow Clan's stronghold.

Even the shadows of the Savage Beast Forest were like her soft armor, wrapping her completely in the quietest shadows.

Ten minutes later, she reappeared beside Wang Sheng like a ghost in the shadows.

Her smoky, mist-like eyes carried a hint of unprecedented solemnity, as if dangerous undercurrents were surging beneath the quiet surface of a pool of water.

"There are five Shadow Clan warriors in the Shadow Clan stronghold, ranging from Barbarian Warrior Rank 3 to Warrior Rank 4.

In the very center of the stronghold, there is a dark purple stone tablet; the runes on the stone tablet are exactly the same as the runes of the Shadow Eye."

"This is not a simple storage depot; this is a Shadow Clan surveillance outpost."

She paused, her phoenix eyes narrowing slightly into a dangerous arc, and a light as sharp as a dagger flashed in her beautiful, alluring eyes.

"What they are monitoring is not the Savage Beast, but a ruin."

Wang Sheng looked towards the back of the stronghold, following Liu Ruyan's guidance.

Behind the stronghold, the Savage Beast Forest had a huge rift valley, as if split open by a giant axe.

It was like the oldest scar of the Savage Continent silently opening in the depths of the Savage Beast Forest.

The cliff walls on both sides of the rift were like stone tablets erected by ancient giants, about thirty meters high, standing like two of the most towering walls in the Savage Beast Forest.

The cliff walls were covered with dark purple Spirit Runes, looking like blood vessels eroded by shadows spreading across the rock surface.

It was as if the greedy hands of the Shadow Clan had left a cold brand on the ancient stones of the wilderness.

At the end of the rift, a huge stone gate was embedded in the cliff wall like the palm of an ancient god.

The stone gate was about ten meters high and six meters wide, like the oldest seal of the Savage Continent, standing silently at the end of the rift for who knows how many epochs.

The surface of the stone gate was like mysterious iron that had been repeatedly scorched by the flames of war, with every inch carved with ancient runes and sword marks.

It was as if the battlefield of ancient gods and demons had been condensed onto this stone gate.

Under the erosion of the dark purple Spirit Runes, the golden runes were as dim as a sunset swallowed by darkness.

But they still stubbornly flickered with a faint golden light, like light that had never been extinguished in the deepest darkness.

In the center of the stone gate, a sun was carved, but the edges of the sun were eroded by the Shadow Clan's magic runes like a spider web.

Gold and dark purple intertwined on the stone gate, as if light and shadow were fighting on an ancient battlefield, finally solidified on this stone gate that was older than the wilderness itself.

In front of the stone gate, three Warrior Rank 4 Shadow Iron-Back Wolves lay prone in the shadows of the stone gate, like the most loyal guards.

Their fur, under the erosion of the shadow Spirit Runes, was like black armor, completely covering the original appearance of the Savage Beast.

They were like the most loyal hunting dogs of the shadows, forged into weapons of the shadows.

The dark purple light in their vertical pupils was like two miniature Shadow Eyes, flashing with cold, fierce light in the darkness.

In the depths of the Savage Beast Forest, they were monitoring the entrance of the ancient ruins for the Shadow Clan.

"The Shadow Clan uses Shadow Crystal Core fragments to control the Savage Beasts to guard the entrance of the ruins." Zhao Linger's Spirit Sound Affinity captured the frequency of the Shadow Crystal Core fragments within the Savage Beasts.

Like the most precise sound waves echoing in the bones of the Savage Beasts, her voice was as solemn as clear sound strings stained by muddy water.

"Three Warrior Rank 4, plus five Shadow Clan warriors in the stronghold; if we start the battle at the same time, the five of us will be caught in a pincer attack."

"We won't start the battle at the same time." Golden light in Wang Sheng's brown eyes lit up like two miniature suns in the shadows of the Savage Beast Forest. The spiritual power of a Barbarian General Rank 1 surged in his body like a golden river, reflecting his fists as if they were two golden pieces of iron.

"Liu Ruyan, can you sneak into the stronghold and destroy the Shadow Crystal Core storage depot? Without the shadow supply from the storage depot, the spiritual power of the Shadow Clan warriors and those beasts will plummet."

A hint of determination flashed in Liu Ruyan's smoky, mist-like eyes, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly into a confident arc.

"Three breaths. I need three breaths of time."

Wang Sheng looked at her, the spiritual power of a Barbarian General Rank 1 surging in his body, like a golden river filled with the most scorching power.

He nodded, the golden light in his brown eyes like two of the most determined suns.

"I will create three breaths of time for you."

The surprise attack began.

Wang Sheng launched an attack on the three Shadow Iron-Back Wolves with an astonishing Power of Holy Light.

The golden Power of Holy Light exploded in the depths of the Savage Beast Forest like the rising sun, like the golden dawn of the Savage Continent, splitting a bright beam of light in the shadows of the Savage Beast Forest.

The instincts of the Savage Beasts in front of the Power of Holy Light were like ice beginning to melt under the sun.

Under the illumination of the golden Power of Holy Light, the vertical pupils of the Shadow Iron-Back Wolves contracted violently, like snowflakes being scorched by the sun.

But the three Warrior Rank 4 Shadow Iron-Back Wolves, driven by the Shadow Crystal Core fragments, did not retreat like ordinary Savage Beasts.

The dark purple shadow spiritual power inside them was like crazy fuel, completely suppressing the instincts of the Savage Beasts under the will of the shadows.

The three Savage Beasts, like controlled puppets, pounced on Wang Sheng at the same time.

Their brute force was thirty percent stronger than ordinary Warrior Rank 4; the shadows injected the craziest fuel into them, turning the instincts of the Savage Beasts into the most loyal killing intent of the shadows.