Rendezvous and Withdrawal

Lu Chen tunneled underground like a keen earth dragon, sensing the growing chaos above.

The screeches of the insect swarm, the startled cries of Sky Wolf Sect disciples, the crackling of flames, and Wolf Owl's increasingly frenzied roars wove together into a symphony of chaos.

Avoiding several surface areas made especially dangerous by the rampaging venomous insects, he quietly drew closer to the southeastern extraction point he had arranged with Gu Mingxuan.

Godslayer Thunder Eyes' "Void-Piercing" vision penetrated the earth, faintly "seeing" a squad of seven or eight people fighting as they retreated aboveground. They were being pursued and hemmed in by dozens of times their number in Sky Wolf Sect cultivators, while thunderous hoofbeats rumbled in the distance. Clearly, the Ironback Wolf Cavalry mobilized by Wolf Owl was moving in to encircle them.

That squad was precisely the elite main assault force led by Gu Mingxuan!

Every one of them was wounded, their auras unsteady, yet their gazes remained sharp and their coordination seamless. They constantly used the terrain, the powerful crossbows in their hands, and talismans to hold off their pursuers, retreating in an orderly fashion.

But there were simply too many enemies. The encirclement was steadily tightening, and the situation was hanging by a thread.

Lu Chen's eyes sharpened as he swiftly assessed the situation. Gu Mingxuan and the others had drawn away a large number of enemies, creating ideal conditions for his earlier actions. He absolutely could not let them fall here now.

He immediately changed direction. Rather than heading directly for the extraction point, he burrowed toward the area beneath the densest concentration of pursuers behind Gu Mingxuan's squad.

Aboveground, a Sky Wolf Sect commander was wildly waving his saber and roaring, "They're almost done for! Keep them tied down! The wolf cavalry will be