Dragonbone Wasteland

After this battle, the Black Soul Stone's growth rate reached 107/300, with a total of 47 points of Soul Essence.

Bai Xiaowen dissected the corpse of the Spinefin, but didn't sense Treasure Meat. Since the flesh of this Spinefin Mutated Blackfish Boss Tier was too tough and dry to be eaten, Bai Xiaowen simply threw it away.

Continuing on, after crossing the Five Finger Peak, a vast wilderness stretched out before us.

Scattered across the wasteland are enormous bone fossils of various shapes. The smallest fossil is several meters tall, while the largest is tens of meters long, with the skull of a giant beast vaguely visible, and two deep, enormous holes in the eye sockets.

This is the Dragonbone Wasteland. Stepping into the wasteland, one can vaguely feel a sense of oppression originating from the soul, just like being on a train during the Spring Festival travel rush in another time and space, which makes one feel depressed.

Based on the analysis and inference of the data, this dull and oppressive feeling is the lingering Overawing Presence of the ancient dragon buried here, which will affect non-dragon life forms.

Therefore, only some pseudodragons and subdragons live in Dragonbone Wasteland, and other wild animals have basically disappeared here.

The Rageclaw emitted a low growl, and the mane on its back stood on end, indicating some unease.

Bai Xiaowen stroked Rageclaw's back. The Spirit Channeling's unique Mind Link ability slowly soothed Rageclaw's unease.

They walked for miles across the Dragonbone Wasteland without seeing any monsters.

Suddenly, Bai Xiaowen sensed something with his Divine Might. He quickly activated his Mental Scan, gathering his Divine Might like a large net, slowly sweeping across an area of about a hundred meters in radius.

"Come out," Bai Xiaowen commanded in a deep voice.

The Rageclaw rushed forward and quickly pulled a person out from behind a huge bone fossil.

"Wait, Captain, it's me!"

The person did not attack first, but instead slipped out from behind the bone fossil with both hands raised.

"Ding Cheng?" Bai Xiaowen asked, slightly puzzled. "What are you doing here?"

"I've only been here a few hours, and my initial location was Dragonbone Wasteland," Ding Cheng said quickly upon seeing Bai Xiaowen, a look of relief on his face. "Captain, I'm so glad to see you. Junior Li Shuyi and the others are in danger..."

"Hmm?" Bai Xiaowen narrowed her eyes. "What's going on? You lead the way, we'll talk as we walk."

Ding Cheng spoke very quickly, explaining the situation in just a few words.

Rewind to half an hour earlier, in the Dragonbone Wasteland, behind a hill formed from the fossilized skull of a giant dragon, Li Shuyi, Han Xu, Ding Cheng, and others happened to meet and encountered members of another university's University Team.

They also encountered a small swarm of Earthwalker Dragon!

Earthwalker Dragon are sub-dragons. Adults are generally Elite Template, and the leaders of small groups are even more Leader Tier.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement and joined forces to annihilate the horde of Earthwalker Dragon. This kind of temporary alliance is common among awakened individuals venturing into the Wilderness Zone, especially when facing powerful and difficult-to-deal-with monsters.

If you kill a monster and it drops a treasure chest, there's a fairly established and fair distribution system that generally doesn't cause any disputes.

This small group of Earthwalker Dragon was quickly wiped out by the combined efforts of three students from Jinghai University and four Jiangnan University, leaving only one, the strongest one, the Bloodmarked Earthwalker Dragon Leader!

However, after the Bloodmarked Earthwalker Dragon Leader fell to the ground, the four students from Jiangnan University launched Ambush on the three students from Jinghai University, which was premeditated.

Ding Cheng was the weakest of the three. He was reduced to low health after a round of attacks and was so frightened that he immediately ran away. Even if he had stayed to fight, he would have only ended up being kicked out of the Great Rift Valley Treasure Space.

Ding Cheng had no idea what happened next. He said somewhat guiltily, "Captain, I didn't mean to run away."

"It's alright, you did nothing wrong," Bai Xiaowen nodded. "How much time has passed since you left the battlefield?"

"We fought the horde of Earthwalker Dragon for about twenty minutes. I've been gone for about five or six minutes now."

"Ten minutes round trip..." Bai Xiaowen frowned slightly, a hint of worry in her eyes.

Li Shuyi is a typical DPS character with high attack but low defense and low Life Value. If given the space to deal damage, she can unleash amazing attacks, but if the enemy focuses fire on her intentionally, she won't last long.

Of the seven who killed the Bloodmarked Earthwalker Dragon Leader, Li Shuyi undoubtedly made the greatest Kill Contribution. The four-person team from Jiangnan University would definitely target her without a doubt.

Li Shuyi probably can't last that long, ten minutes.

Although there is still Han Xu, will he run away like Ding Cheng? After all, the opportunity to use the Great Rift Valley Treasure Space is rare. If he stays to forcibly protect Li Shuyi, the price may be that Han Xu himself will be crippled or even expelled from the Treasure Ground Space.

Don't forget, Han Xu is a member of the Jingwu Guild, and seems to have a good relationship with Liu Fei and Xiao Mingsheng...

Now is not the time to think about this. Bai Xiaowen only hopes that Li Shuyi will not push herself too hard and will leave the Great Rift if she really can't hold on any longer.

"Faster, run faster!"

Following the direction Ding Cheng pointed, Bai Xiaowen patted Rageclaw's back, urging it on. Rageclaw's four claws generated wind, fully utilizing its 27 points of agility, its four long legs moving almost indistinguishably from Afterimage.

The wind howled in Bai Xiaowen's ears, and the scenery on both sides flashed by. Rageclaw was running at high speed, faster than an off-road vehicle at full speed, but the price was the rapid depletion of its stamina. After all, endurance was not Rageclaw's forte.

Soon, a stone mound formed from the fossilized skull of a giant dragon came into Bai Xiaowen's view. Behind the mound, the faint sounds of metal clashing could be heard.

"We're here! But it's not over yet!"

There were six people on the battlefield.

Four of them were undoubtedly members of Jiangnan University: two ranged archers, one ranged spellcaster, and one agile swordsman wielding a longsword.

The agile swordsman, with his flowing sleeves and extraordinary demeanor, thrust his swords from tricky angles, each aimed at Li Shuyi.

Li Shuyi's Life Value was down to almost half. She gritted her teeth and fought back against the swordsman, but every time she thrust out, she either hit air or was Block by her opponent, without causing any damage.

Two archers and a mage in the distance were all targeting Li Shuyi. Beside her, Han Xu raised his tower shield, Yi-Yi the arrows flying from afar.

If it weren't for Han Xu, Li Shuyi probably wouldn't have been able to hold on much longer.

"Let's withdraw," Han Xu said in a deep voice.

Li Shuyi bit her lip, somewhat unwillingly.

Suddenly, a long, drawn-out wolf howl rang out.

Both sides were startled, temporarily halting their fighting and turning to look in the direction of the sound.

On the hill covered with fossilized dragon bones, the boy riding the giant wolf had a calm, icy expression on his face.

Happy Singles' Day everyone!