141: Section 141

"Understood."

"Whether you use a bow and arrow or a firearm, you need to consider environmental influences. Use the environmental variables we perceive to correct for deviations caused by wind speed, humidity, and heat flow in real-time. This way, you can hit your target every time in any extreme environment."

Star Shatterer opened her eyes, looked at Tasia and Penny beside her, and said, "Once they're ready on their end, we'll begin!"

"Okay!"

Tasia took the locators and placed them one by one across the battlefield.

Tasia looked at Penny and said with a smile, "Usually in this situation, I'll first set up several locators on the battlefield. When the battle starts later, I can teleport at any time to catch the opponent off guard. For now, try teleporting according to the positions I've set. Once you're familiar with it, you can set them up according to your own combat habits."

"Alright."

Once their preparations were complete, Ran Bing initiated the attack, hitting a Snake Dog with a single shot.

The moment she attacked, she broke her state of Returning to Origin.

All the Snake Dogs discovered Ran Bing's position and charged toward her frantically.

At that moment, another shot rang out from behind.

After a Snake Dog was hit by the bullet, it turned and rushed toward Penny.

Following the method Tasia had taught her, Penny touched a locator with one foot and instantly blinked to another position.

After teleporting, Penny immediately fired another shot, taking out the Snake Dog's head.

Then, Penny continued to teleport, arriving at Ran Bing's side.

Penny quickly brought Ran Bing to another position.

A pack of Snake Dogs lunged at empty air.

However, the two weren't idle either; each aimed at a Snake Dog and delivered another headshot.

By the time the Snake Dogs found their positions, the two had changed locations again.

Shuttling back and forth like this, they quickly killed those five Snake Dogs.

Seeing this, Bai Yuekui couldn't help but praise, "As expected of the Wasteland Hunters, their psychological quality is superb."

"Of course." Jing Yuan gave a proud smile, then stepped out of the car with his war blade.

"Where are you going?" Bai Yuekui asked in confusion.

"Those Phage Beasts aren't completely dead yet. I'm going to cut out their spirit seeds."

While he said he was cutting spirit seeds, Jing Yuan actually just wanted to absorb their life source essence.

Jing Yuan reached the side of a Phage Beast and swung his blade down, striking directly at the spirit seed.

A breath of life source essence was absorbed by him.

Jing Yuan kept an eye on Bai Yuekui out of the corner of his eye.

Although his absorption of life source essence couldn't be seen by others, Bai Yuekui was no ordinary person, and Jing Yuan wasn't sure if she could detect it.

After Jing Yuan finished cutting all five Phage Beasts, he looked back at Bai Yuekui; she still had that expressionless face.

Jing Yuan surmised that even Bai Yuekui probably wouldn't imagine that a person could conversely absorb a Phage Beast's life source essence.

What exactly was the principle behind this?

Jing Yuan himself was very puzzled.

Once his Source Essence Potential was successfully stimulated, he would have to have a good talk with Bai Yuekui about the mana ecology.

Bai Yuekui should know a lot!

After dealing with the Snake Dogs, Jing Yuan walked back to the team.

Bai Yuekui looked at him and asked, "How do you locate the spirit seeds?"

Jing Yuan said with a smile, "Can't you find them just by sweeping with telekinesis?"

"Fair enough." Bai Yuekui didn't press further.

The group continued their journey.

However, the previous battle had caused fluctuations. Before they had gone far, dozens of Phage Beasts appeared before them once again.

Fortunately, they activated Returning to Origin in time, and the Phage Beasts did not discover them.

"Everyone, maintain Returning to Origin. Although Snake Dogs are weak, there are too many of them. They can still be life-threatening."

Bai Yuekui spoke, and everyone fell silent.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake.

A massive Twin-Jawed Beast crawled out from behind a ruined skyscraper.

It seemed to have come because it smelled the scent of life source essence.

The Twin-Jawed Beast had a skeletal face, looking quite terrifying.

It brought its skeletal face close to Jing Yuan's group and sniffed carefully; a pungent odor instantly filled the air.

The girls couldn't stand the smell, and even Bai Yuekui pinched her nose.

Fortunately, after sniffing for a while, the Twin-Jawed Beast turned and left.

Just when they thought the beasts were leaving, unexpectedly, a Snake Dog suddenly jumped onto their car, mimicking the Twin-Jawed Beast by sniffing around inside.

The Snake Dog's face was directly in front of Jing Yuan. Its bad breath was already hard for him to bear, and now its saliva was about to drip down.

Jing Yuan felt a wave of disgust, and his Returning to Origin broke.

Sensing the scent of life source essence, the Snake Dog immediately let out a loud roar at Jing Yuan.

With a thought, Jing Yuan controlled his war blade with telekinesis and directly decapitated the Snake Dog.

With this strike, all the Phage Beasts sensed them.

The Twin-Jawed Beast led the way with an angry roar, having already pinned down Jing Yuan's position.

At this point, even if Jing Yuan returned to the state of Returning to Origin, it wouldn't be of much use.

Since this battle was unavoidable, Jing Yuan got out of the car and said to them, "You guys go first, I'll cover the rear!"

At this time, Mark also followed him down. "I won't leave a teammate behind."

Bai Yuekui remained calm as ever. "Our Dragon Bone Village won't abandon partners either! Everyone, prepare for battle!"

Chapter 145: Stimulating Willpower through Danger

Jing Yuan looked back at the crowd behind him and said, "Everyone, protect yourselves. Leave the task of hacking the Phage Beasts to me!"

Having said that, Jing Yuan charged directly into the pack of Snake Dogs.

The heavy war blade in his hand activated its Plasma Light Blade; it was almost one strike per Snake Dog.

Mark usually fought primarily with a gravity body and firearms, but he hadn't been equipped with firearms for this training session.

Bai Yuekui gave Mark a long blade and told him to use it for combat.

Mark's physical fitness already surpassed that of ordinary humans. Even without using a gravity body, it wasn't difficult for someone of his skill to kill Phage Beasts like Snake Dogs.

A Snake Dog rushed toward Ran Bing nearby and was decapitated by Mark in one strike.

Star Shatterer looked around at the surrounding Snake Dogs and finally looked at Bai Yuekui. "Boss, should we let them come out?"

Bai Yuekui reached out to stop her. "Let's see first!"

Bai Yuekui's gaze shifted to Jing Yuan, who was charging at the very front, and she said calmly, "It's a good opportunity to see exactly what level his strength is at."

Star Shatterer and Tasia both looked toward Jing Yuan.

Bai Yuekui instructed, "You four, help them draw the attention of the extra Phage Beasts!"

A group of Snake Dogs rushed over. Bai Yuekui leapt to a high point on the abandoned building, leaving them to fight on the ground.

Tasia immediately threw out locators, scattering them around. She and Penny split up; one took Ran Bing and the other took Star Shatterer, quickly leaving the area surrounded by Snake Dogs.

After teleporting to a distance, Star Shatterer immediately launched an attack with her bow and arrows.

"Penny, go to Point 4."

Tasia sent a message to Penny. After she herself took Ran Bing to Point 3, she teleported again to Point 1.

The four points were located in four different directions, forming an encirclement around the pack of Phage Beasts.

At this moment, Jing Yuan was facing the most intense attacks, with most of the Snake Dogs rushing toward him.

Meanwhile, Mark was on the periphery, facing the attacks of five or six Snake Dogs.

However, Jing Yuan's strength and speed far exceeded Mark's.

Once he swung his heavy war blade, he could mow down a large area.

In contrast, Mark appeared somewhat overwhelmed facing the siege of multiple Snake Dogs.

Behind Mark, two Snake Dogs charged at the same time.

Ran Bing fired a bullet, instantly headshotting the Snake Dog behind Mark.

She hurriedly changed magazines, but it was already a bit too late.