323: Chapter 324 Enemy Attack

The House of Dawn is an independent treehouse located on a higher branch of the Ancient Moon God Tree, with a wide field of vision, overlooking most of the Moonlight Woodland. The interior is simple and elegant, featuring logs, rattan, and natural fabrics, accented by fresh flowers and magic light orbs, full of natural charm, with a fresh and pleasant atmosphere.

After the guiding elf maid bowed and retreated, only Lin Muyang and his two companions remained in the room.

"There is no time to lose, let's start now." Lin Muyang did not show any intention of delaying due to travel fatigue, speaking directly to Gui Wanwan and Feng Ling.

The two ladies understood and immediately took action.

Gui Wanwan closed her eyes, and the deep aura of the underworld slowly permeated her surroundings. It was not intense, but carried a strange rhythm that could achieve Penetration of reality and reach the essence. She extended her fair fingers, gray-black underworld energy winding around her fingertips, and began to slowly and steadily outline and perceive in the void. She was analyzing and anchoring the underlying spatial rules and coordinate parameters of this world, the Velos Continent; this was the foundation for initiating stable, ultra-long-distance spatial teleportation.

Feng Ling stood by her side, a cluster of warm and sacred golden-red Nirvana Fire rising from her palm. This flame was not used for attack, but as an ultimate "Yang" energy source, echoing and harmonizing with Gui Wanwan's "Yin" energy. Only with the mutual aid of Yin and Yang could they more clearly sense the special fluctuations and cycles of the plane core domain hidden deep within the planet, between the void and reality.

The two energies of different natures intertwined and resonated in the treehouse, forming a subtle and stable balance. Their minds sank into it, as if they had transformed into two precision detectors, using the resonance of Yin and Yang power to capture and calculate the window to the world's origin that was destined to open.

Lin Muyang stood guard on the side, while also quickly sorting out the known information in his mind. The area of the Velos Continent far exceeded the sum of all landmasses on Blue Star, and the planet it was located on was several times the size of Blue Star. Beyond the vast continent was the boundless, storm-ridden Endless Sea. Even with the level of magic civilization in this world, exploration of the ocean was extremely limited. What existed overseas was a mystery that neither the most learned human scholars nor the oldest elf records had explicitly documented.

And their goal was to go to the true core of this planet, the Earth Core World, to find the "plane core" located there.

Time passed second by second in the quiet calculation. Outside the treehouse, night in the Moonlight Woodland had quietly descended. A huge moon climbed onto the treetops, spilling its clear radiance onto the forest. The surface of the lake, just as Lilia had said, rippled with a dreamlike luster like crushed silver and sapphires.

I don't know how much time passed, but Feng Ling's tightly closed eyes were the first to open, a flash of clear understanding and joy passing through her molten gold eyes. Immediately after, Gui Wanwan also completed the final calculation, withdrew her underworld energy, and a look of relief appeared on her cold, small face.

"Master!" Feng Ling turned to Lin Muyang, her tone filled with excitement. "The calculation is done! The 'time of Yin-Yang convergence' for this world is much closer than expected!"

"Oh? How long exactly?" Lin Muyang's spirit lifted.

"Only three days!" Feng Ling said affirmatively. "To be precise, after 71 standard hours, the planet where the Velos Continent is located will move to a special relative position with its star, causing the planet's own Yin-Yang energy tide to reach a perfect balance point. That moment is the best, and only, window of opportunity to open the channel to the Earth Core World and approach the plane core domain!"

"Three days..." A sharp glint flashed in Lin Muyang's eyes. This was much faster than he had anticipated, which was undoubtedly good news! "We need to make all preparations to go to the Earth Core World within these three days."

Lin Muyang quickly planned in his heart. Three days was enough time for them to make full preparations. Originally, according to the plan, they would only deal with matters of the Canglan Empire after obtaining the plane core and helping Lilia's talent ascend to God-Tier. But now, it seemed the schedule was quite tight.

"Since that's the case, we will start preparing immediately. Xiao Wan, you focus all your efforts on the final analysis and anchoring of the spatial coordinates. Feng Ling, you assist her and adjust your own state; your Nirvana Fire will be needed as the Yang-key to open the channel when the time comes." Lin Muyang quickly assigned tasks. "I will ensure that this place remains undisturbed."

The two women agreed in unison and immediately threw themselves back into their focused work. Lin Muyang walked to the treehouse window, looking at the silent forest dyed silver-blue by the moonlight outside, his thoughts turning. Three days, neither long nor short. He hoped there wouldn't be any unexpected changes during this time...

However, as if specifically to verify the saying that plans cannot keep up with changes, almost at the same time this thought arose in Lin Muyang's mind—

His perception, which far exceeded that of ordinary people, along with several God-Tier Auras for warning and detection on his body, almost simultaneously transmitted a trace of an extremely subtle, but absolutely not-to-be-ignored fluctuation!

Strange, powerful energy sources, carrying clear malice and hidden auras, were quietly infiltrating from a direction on the outskirts of the Moonlight Woodland at an extremely fast speed! The number was not small, and their strength, by the standards of this world, could be called elite!

Just as Lin Muyang was in the House of Dawn, having just detected those dozen or so strange auras carrying clear malice and quietly infiltrating the outskirts of the Sunlight Woodland, the core area of the entire Sunlight Elf Clan was still immersed in relative tranquility. In the night forest, there were only the sounds of wind, insects, and the rustling of leaves. The moonlight poured down like mercury, draping a dreamlike silver veil over the giant trees, rattan houses, and the dark blue flower sea.

Lin Muyang's perception far exceeded the creatures of this world, and the spiritual sense of the young ladies under his command was also extraordinary. Almost the moment his thoughts stirred, Feng Ling and Gui Wanwan, who were in the same room, also stopped their work, their cold and molten-gold eyes turning simultaneously toward the direction from which the auras came.

"It seems... to be more than a dozen humans?" Feng Ling tilted her head slightly, as if listening to the faint energy fluctuations carried on the wind, a flash of understanding passing through her molten gold eyes. "Their strength, by the standards of this world, is not bad."

The "not bad" in her mouth was naturally relative to the Sunlight Elf Clan. In the more precise perception of Lin Muyang's Eye of Creation, the energy levels of these uninvited guests were clearly distinguishable. The leader, whose aura was the most powerful and intense, with a life force burning fiercely, had an energy intensity and purity that actually exceeded the Elf Prince Laigong he had fought during the day, and was even faintly stronger than that Elf Grand Elder he had sensed hiding at the very top of the Ancient Moon God Tree!

In the Velos Continent, this was definitely a powerhouse who had stepped over the threshold of a legend. The other followers were also full of vitality and energy, their battle aura or magic power solid; they were clearly all battle-hardened elites, with an average strength comparable to the high-level guard captains of the Elf Race.

"It seems to be a special force from the Canglan Empire." Lin Muyang realized in his heart. With such a lineup, sneaking into the Elf Sanctuary in the middle of the night was definitely not out of good intentions.

Almost the next moment after Lin Muyang and his group detected it, the internal part of the Sunlight Elf Clan finally reacted!

"Buzz—!"

A low and magnificent hum suddenly came from the deepest part of the Ancient Moon God Tree, as if this giant tree, which had existed since ancient times, had been startled from its slumber and let out a dissatisfied roar. Immediately following, centered on the Ancient Moon God Tree, a visible, translucent magic barrier emitting a soft moon-white halo rose from the forest floor like an overturned giant bowl, spreading and closing toward the high sky!

The Sunlight Barrier had been activated!

This was one of the greatest reliance of the Sunlight Elf Clan for survival. It used the natural magic power and moonlight essence accumulated by the Ancient Moon God Tree over ten thousand years as energy. Once fully deployed, it was enough to withstand the bombardment of a legendary powerhouse for a short time, and could even interfere with and weaken the magic power and perception of intruders. It was precisely because of this powerful barrier that the Sunlight Elf Clan could hold this last piece of pure land in the eastern forest, where the human empire was watching covetously.

The activation of the barrier was like throwing a giant stone into a quiet night lake. In an instant, the originally peaceful and tranquil Sunlight Woodland boiled over!

"Enemy attack?!"

"It's the barrier! The Sunlight Barrier has been activated!"

"Quick! Everyone, be on alert!"

The windows of the treehouses were pushed open one after another. The elves were awakened from their dreams and hurriedly grabbed the weapons beside them—longbows, rapiers, magic staves. Well-trained elf warriors and rangers rushed out of their respective residences and ran to the designated defensive positions according to their daily drills.

Female elves and young children were guided to hide in deeper, more heavily fortified treehouses or underground root caves. Exclamations, footsteps, the sound of clashing weapons, and the whispers of spell incantations... all intertwined, breaking the tranquility of the night, and tension and anxiety permeated the air.

Even the heavy ancient wooden gate of the Sunlight Royal Court, located in the core area, opened once again. Elf King Elandir, Queen Ithira, and several elf elders who had heard the news all appeared on the platform at the entrance, looking at the dark sky above the forest outside the barrier with heavy expressions. Laigong was also fully armed, standing guard beside his parents with his sword, his light green eyes as sharp as a hawk's.

It was also at this moment that the uninvited guests seemed to be too lazy to hide any longer.

"Roar—!"

A loud, majestic, yet clearly immature and deliberately ostentatious dragon roar suddenly exploded from the night sky outside the barrier! The dragon roar was filled with the contempt and provocation of a higher-order creature toward the territory of a lower-order race.

Immediately following, against the backdrop of the night sky intertwined with moonlight and the barrier's halo, a huge black shadow tore through the clouds and dived down! It was a wyvern with a wingspan of over ten meters, covered in dark red scales, with a ferocious head! Its dragon eyes flickered with a cruel crimson light in the night, and its nostrils spewed hot white steam carrying the smell of sulfur. On its thick back stood a human youth steadily.

This youth was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, wearing a set of extremely well-crafted dark red knight armor inlaid with golden patterns and gemstones, and a scarlet cloak fluttering behind him.

His face could be considered handsome, but his eyebrows were filled with an undisguised arrogance, wildness, and violent aura, with a sneer of looking down on all living beings hanging from the corner of his mouth. He did not hold the common dragon spear in his hand, but instead a gorgeously decorated two-handed heavy sword wreathed in wind and thunder, slanting toward the Elf Sanctuary covered by the barrier below.

Behind this wyvern, in the night sky, there were shadows following more than ten equally fierce flying mounts—those were griffins, one rank lower than a wyvern but equally ferocious! On the back of each griffin sat a human knight covered in armor with a fierce aura. They held long spears or heavy crossbows, forming a simple aerial formation, guarding the wyvern and knight in front.