The instant the Shadow Arrow left the bowstring, a silver-black Boundary Gate opened in front of Xiao Wu.
The black arrow passed through the Boundary Gate and vanished from sight. An explosion sounded a hundred yards away. An Ancient Tree so wide it would take several people to encircle it snapped in half, and the broken trunk fell into an empty clearing without hurting anyone.
Xiao Wu did not stop. She rushed past the Boundary Gate to Er Ming's side and pushed the second Antidote Pill Tang San had given her into his mouth.
Yuan Yu stepped out of the Gate. His right hand had barely touched the Myriad Phenomena Calamity Blade when the second Gate closed behind him. The burning pain from using the Boundary Gate repeatedly climbed his wrist. He flexed his fingers and looked up at Gu Changye.
Azure Luan had carried them at full speed for hours, but after they entered the Mixed Zone, a fallen giant tree had blocked their view. Yuan Yu could not leave a Gate at a place he had never seen, so he had Hu Liena follow the treetops to locate the Lake District, then opened the Boundary Gate within a hundred yards of it. That last stretch was short. They arrived just as Gu Changye's third arrow left the bowstring.
By the time Yuan Yu took in the lakeside, Tang San had several wounds, the Soul-Locking Net lay scattered on the ground, and Da Ming and Er Ming were still being dragged by chains. Shrek had already broken through the front line, and the old Soul Hunting Team had not captured a single Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
He had arrived in time, and Tang San and the others had held out until help came.
"Level ninety-four, and you ambush a Soul