Another World: When a Necromancer Possesses the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls

However, Li Xingyao's perception network extended unimpeded in all directions along the jungle terrain.

Just as he locked onto the activity of the nearest enemy squad, his forward flight abruptly stopped in mid-air.

Suddenly, a terrifying fluctuation of law, so immense that it instantly put even the battle-hardened Li Xingyao on alert, appeared.

Without warning, it surged in from all directions at the same time, the fluctuations like an invisible giant net that had been laid out all around.

It was rapidly enveloping the entire area where Li Xingyao and his group were located at an astonishing speed.

The fluctuating aura was condensed and heavy, carrying a strong sense of spatial oppression that had been deliberately compressed.

The energy characteristics when activated were almost identical to those of the enemy artifact that Li Xingyao had sensed on the western front.

This time, however, the enemy's artifact covered a wider area and spread and contracted faster than before, as if someone had been watching Li Xingyao and his group's movements in advance.

Once they had ventured some distance into the jungle, they would simultaneously activate the already established law-blocking network, intending to wipe them all out.

The expressions of the people in the team changed almost instantly the moment the fluctuations of the laws appeared.

Before Li Xingyao could even give the order, the two experienced dragon riders had already activated their respective magical artifacts.

The cold, dark gold light and the warm, jade-like glow appeared slowly in front of the two people at almost the same moment.

Like two dazzling stars that light up one after the other against a backdrop of lush green forest, the light of the two stars quickly intertwines and extends.

They quickly formed a thick energy barrier covering the entire team. The artifact, engraved with ancient dragon patterns, immediately began to stabilize the chaotic spatial energy around it, steadily resisting the giant net of laws that was constantly tightening towards the center.

The other dragon rider quickly adjusted the operation mode of the artifact in his hand, accurately pointing its suppressive power at the area where the chaotic law fluctuations were most concentrated.

They tried to force open a gap before the giant net of laws completely closed and tightened, allowing the entire team to leave safely.

But just as Li Xingyao and his team were preparing to retreat with all their might, another surge of energy suddenly rushed into the area from the completely opposite direction.

Although this fluctuation was slightly weaker than the first wave, it still possessed the special energy characteristics of a divine artifact.

It's as if someone has added an extra, more robust layer of security to that already fully deployed blockade, intending to completely cut off all escape routes for Li Xingyao and his group, preventing anyone from escaping.

The enemy actually had a second divine artifact! This sudden discovery caused Li Xingyao's brows to furrow almost imperceptibly.

He had only faced one enemy weapon in the border war zone, but in the southern war zone, the enemy had already deployed two weapons.

Furthermore, the enemy had clearly never relaxed their surveillance of the Tianlong Empire's fortress and had long anticipated that they would choose this area as a breakthrough point.

The coverage areas of the two artifacts are arranged here in an alternating pattern. On the one hand, this ensures that no matter which direction Li Xingyao and his group enter this war zone from, they will be enveloped by the law network of at least one artifact.

Once it is confirmed that Li Xingyao and his group have entered the ambush area, the blocking network of the two artifacts will be activated simultaneously in a very short time, trapping them all completely within the blocking area, leaving them with no chance of escape.

The two dragon riders who had been wielding the artifacts in the fight also immediately noticed the existence of the second artifact.

They immediately focused their attention and each manipulated their own divine artifacts, expanding the energy range of the artifacts outwards.

Following the direction of the two enemy artifacts' approach, a precise two-way confrontation and balance of power was formed.

The four divine artifacts of both sides stood silently facing each other in this narrow jungle area, with the immense and profound power of the laws colliding, canceling each other out, and constantly eroding each other in this area.

Even the light in the space was distorted into irregular arcs at the intersection of their energy fields. Looking out from inside the group, it was as if looking through a shimmering water curtain, and all the scenery became distorted and blurry.

Li Xingyao remained steadily suspended within the protective light shield formed by the intertwining of his two divine artifacts, without making any unnecessary movements from beginning to end.

He neither ordered his troops to retreat immediately, nor did he allow the two dragon riders who controlled the artifacts to use them at maximum power.

He forcibly sealed off this space that the enemy had set up in advance, and simply floated quietly in place, his whole body like a frozen sculpture, as if he was patiently waiting for some unexpected change to happen.

The enemy dared to set up a double blockade network here in advance, constructed from two divine artifacts, and even lay in wait for Li Xingyao and his group to walk into the trap.

That is enough to show that the other party must still have a backup plan—relying solely on these two magical artifacts for sealing off enemies.

It was simply not enough to completely kill Li Xingyao and his group. The intelligence from all sides transmitted back from the border war zone had already clearly confirmed the formidable combat power of Li Xingyao and his group.

Without sending a sufficient number of Saint-level experts, there is no way to ensure that Li Xingyao can be completely eliminated here.

The enemy must have another carefully arranged ambush, and these troops have most likely already assembled in the designated area.

The moment the blockade network constructed by these two artifacts is fully formed, these ambushers will enter the battlefield at top speed and encircle them.

Sure enough, everything that happened next was exactly as Li Xingyao had predicted.

"Buzz—"

A deep, resonant, and penetrating hum slowly emanated from a distance, seemingly from the two enemy artifacts. It sounded like the sound of a heavy device that had been dormant for thousands of years being fully activated and awakened.

Immediately afterwards, another buzzing sound with an almost identical frequency rang out synchronously from another direction. The two buzzing sounds that vibrated the air kept converging, overlapping, and resonating in the air, causing fine ripples to spread in the surrounding space.

Immediately afterwards, at the edge of the area where the four divine artifacts of both sides were mutually restraining and balancing each other, a dense array of teleportation lights, so intense it was dizzying, suddenly lit up without warning.

The teleportation light initially consisted of only scattered, tiny points of light, like scattered signal bonfires lit on a wasteland.

But in the blink of an eye, those scattered points of light expanded rapidly like wildfire ignited by a gale, instantly connecting into a dazzling, all-encompassing teleportation beam.