Alone and Infinite

Black Charcoal's voice came through the team channel. Cat said that the guards around the Holy Land had all assembled, and the vanguard cavalry had already mounted the Beastmen and used stimulants to charge in their direction.

The quantity is approximately three thousand!

"Ah."

Li Xia swiftly traversed the forest and cliffs, while Ao Wu remained a hundred meters in the air, observing the surrounding situation from above.

During this period, sprinting with all our might is the most important thing. The alarm has just been sounded, the encirclement has not yet been formed, and forces from afar are rushing here.

If all goes well, the first spirit offering will be held soon, and the scope will be defined by the markings of each spirit's arrival.

As he was pondering this, the Griggs relic he was carrying suddenly began to tremble violently.

The strange chanting and prayers of the Griggan people can be faintly heard emanating from this ancient wooden carving.

Pale green ripples spread from the wood carving, and the nearby trees seemed to be stimulated, growing rapidly at a visible speed.

[The Grigan Relic has undergone its first spirit offering; current activation rate: 20%]

Li Xia's gaze sharpened. It was only the first activation and it was already 20%, and it was very likely that the spirit sacrifice was not linear, but would increase with each subsequent activation.

"Meow! (The Griggan cavalry has turned!)"

Black Charcoal's cries in the team channel were slightly urgent. These cavalrymen were only a few thousand meters away from Li Xia. Given the speed of the beasts stimulated by the drugs, it wouldn't even take ten minutes. Moreover, the Griggan barracks along the way would also be closing in on him at the same time.

Li Xia continued to sprint forward at an extremely high speed until the sacred object finally stopped trembling.

He immediately changed direction, making a near 90-degree turn and running wildly.

In just twenty minutes, the sound of rushing water gradually reached my ears, and the moist air filled my nostrils.

In those twenty minutes, the most recent one even let out a direct warning, but ultimately they still missed each other.

The vegetation gradually thinned out, and finally the view opened up, revealing a large river flowing quietly. The surface of the water shimmered with starlight, and when the wind blew, it created gentle ripples, breaking up the surface of the water and turning it into fine golden scales.

Without pausing for a moment, Li Xia plunged into the river without hesitation.

"Ouch!"

The dragon egg fell straight down like a cannonball, splashing water everywhere.

Li Xia reached out and grabbed the little dragon's tail, and the pure white dragon vigorously shook its body.

Those jade-like golden dragon eyes shone brightly underwater, and the water seemed to come alive, gently swirling around them.

Li Xia felt as if the resistance in the water had suddenly disappeared.

Then, he surged forward at an incredible speed.

"You leggy idiot, get back to swimming!"

Even in such a tense atmosphere, Aowu continued to mutter incessantly in the team channel.

The river wasn't deep, with the deepest point being only seven or eight meters. Aowu didn't even dare to use his full strength, otherwise just swimming at full power underwater would have stirred up layers of waves on the surface. "Dragon Swimming in the Water" was definitely not a joke.

If Aowu were a bit bigger, a single full-force water run could even cause the river to surge wildly with him, flooding both banks.

As long as you're not blind, you'll definitely get noticed.

Therefore, Xiaolong could only swim forward, using half the water's power and half his own strength, pulling Li Xia along.

As time passed, they had traveled nearly a hundred kilometers along the river, directly bypassing the initial encirclement.

Even the Griggans didn't expect anyone to break out from the bottom of the river.

They could only conduct a loose encirclement based on the first punctuation mark, and did not even surround it directly, but instead sent out scouts to spread out throughout the area.

The Griggans knew what they were waiting for, and so did Li Xia.

Both sides knew that the real battle would not take place now, but rather at the moment the relic was fully activated.

Only when fully activated will the assembled Griggs Southern Army advance with full force.

[Note: The Griggan Relic has undergone its second spirit offering; current activation rate: 50%]

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Chapter 309: Charge into battle!

Green ripples spread from the Griggan relic, reflecting off the surrounding murky river water as if it were jade.

As the algae swayed in the river, they grew wildly and soon reached the water's surface.

The aquatic animals, such as fish and shrimp, affected by the ripples stopped swimming. Their bodies had completely turned into wood, resembling lifelike wooden carvings.

This time, the Griggan Relic trembled exceptionally violently, as if something was trying desperately to break free from the wooden carving.

However, the second ritual only activated 50% of the wood carving, which was clearly insufficient for complete activation. After trembling for a while, the wood carving could only reluctantly lie dormant once again.

"Whoa, surface!"

Xiao Long was taken aback. Even though their location had been exposed, it would still take at least a few minutes for the pursuers to arrive.

Moreover, he has a huge advantage in the water; if he were to swim at full speed now, he would definitely be no slower than a supercavitating torpedo.

But Aowu was only taken aback for a moment. No matter how many questions it had, they weren't the ones to ask now. All it had to do was obey its boss's every command.

"hold head high!"

The little dragon's clear roar echoed in the water, its youthful sound carrying a hint of domineering power.

The river's surface exploded, and a white dragon, encircling Li Xia's body, soared into the sky, stepping on the splashing water.

Then, without saying a word, it continued to fly rapidly at low altitude above the river.

The violent air currents generated by the flight tore through the river surface, causing the water to spread out to both sides in its path.

The starlight on Stan is extremely bright; even without moonlight, the bright starlight still illuminates the entire earth.

Awoo soon realized why the boss insisted on breaking out of the water.

Across the river ahead, lights shone brightly, and several Griggs priests, leaning on wooden staffs, were chanting incantations.

They were surrounded by Griggs riders clad in wooden armor.

The algae in the water were writhing wildly in the riverbed, tightly binding everything they touched.

"Grass!"

Awoo cursed under his breath, never expecting that these Griggans could even manipulate things like water plants.

Li Xia took a deep breath, and a bolt of lightning suddenly shot out from his right hand. The pitch-black Night Silence carried a chilling killing intent in the darkness.

His gaze was as cold as a knife, fixed intently on what lay ahead.

His charge was so loud that it naturally attracted the attention of the Griggans.

A smile appeared on the centurion's green face, which was covered by a visor. There is no greater merit than protecting the holy land.

Unexpectedly, he stumbled upon this great achievement. If he could capture the thief, it would be a great accomplishment, and his family might even have a place in the Holy Land.

Thinking this, a burning desire welled up uncontrollably in the centurion's heart.

"defense!"

He shouted and raised one hand, and immediately vines stretched out from the bodies of the Griggan cavalry behind him, connecting with each other.

Row upon row, they actually give the feeling of being linked together by iron chains.

Since the Gregans' main opponents were stonemen, and in order to counter the stonemen's tough skin, the Gregans primarily used blunt weapons.

Only those who are extremely confident in their own abilities will use sharp weapons.

The centurion picked up a long-handled hammer from beside the beast's saddle and gently tapped his ironwood helmet with the hammerhead.

After a crisp clang, he grinned and brandished his hammer, leading his personal guards forward and giving his cavalrymen ample time to regroup.

Once this army of thousands is linked together, even a commander of ten thousand men would find it difficult to withstand them.

"Thief! Prepare to die!"

The centurion leaped forward, his massive hammer, weighing over a thousand pounds, slamming down with terrifying force.

Li Xia's eyes flashed, and she nimbly flipped her body to the side like a swift flying close to the ground.

With his spear held straight forward, without any fancy movements, he used the momentum of his forward charge to pierce the centurion's head in one go.

The extremely sharp Night Silence seemed to pierce a soft lump of dough, and the gleaming gun blade burst out directly from the back of the head.

Li Xia released his grip immediately and continued forward without stopping. As he brushed past the stiff centurion, he reached out and grabbed a small section of the spear behind the centurion's head. Using the momentum of his forward charge, he drew the spear directly.

He had already arrived in front of the army formation. The centurion had died too quickly, so the army formation was not yet fully formed.

But the Griggan cavalry still managed to complete part of the mission. They showed no fear; instead, with bloodshot eyes, they charged straight toward Li Xia with shouts.

Li Xia's body shifted from being parallel to the ground to a standing position. The moment his feet touched the ground, a powerful force carved two deep furrows into the earth.

His steel-like muscles suddenly tensed to the extreme. While still sliding on the ground, Li Xia began to turn around, and his right hand, which was gripping the tip of the Night Silence Spear, loosened slightly.

The spear was flung outwards by centrifugal force, and when it reached the butt, the right hand gripped it tightly, and the shaft of the spear shuddered.

The centurion's blood on the gun exploded into a cloud of pale green smoke in the air.

"Buzz!"

A faint white light flashed across the spear, and Ye Ji drew an exaggerated arc in front of him.

It was as if a divine being had wielded a brush; all the Griggs cavalrymen felt as if their eyes were about to be blinded by the white light that burst forth before them.

A large, exaggerated crescent-shaped slash broke off from the spear blade, growing larger with each step forward.

It was just an illusory white light, yet it carried a sharp, chilling quality that sent shivers down one's spine.

The centurion, facing the slash head-on, felt every cell in his body screaming. He opened his mouth, about to warn the attacker.

Then he saw the white light flash past his body and continue to spread without stopping.

It only gradually weakened after penetrating the entire frontal encirclement, turning into specks of light and dissipating into the night sky.

"boom!"

The soil beneath Li Xia's feet exploded, and he once again soared low into the air.

He just left like that, what right did he have to?

Anger rose in the centurion's heart, and he reached out to shout for his soldiers to fire.

Just then, the air currents created by Li Xiafei's flight swept over.

A thin line of blood appeared on the centurion's neck, and his entire perspective seemed to spin.

Li Xia flew over their heads, leaving a trail of harvested wheat fields in his wake.

Heads rolled off one after another, and streams of pale green blood gushed out from the chest cavity.

The Griggan cavalrymen on the flanks felt as if their bodies were immersed in icy spring water, and felt a tingling, needle-like sensation on their scalps.

All the strength seemed to have been drained from his body, and he could only look in terror at the rows of headless corpses still sitting stiffly on the back of the beast.

Monster!

They turned to look at Li Xia, who had already gone far away, and surprisingly, what rose in their hearts was not worry, but relief—relief that the monster had left.

"Boss, is your true qi still sufficient?"

Awoo whistled towards the hundreds of headless cavalrymen and asked with some concern.

"It's alright, but we definitely need to be more frugal."

That strike was quite satisfying, but it also took a lot of energy. More importantly, it's only been a little over an hour, and we're still a long way from where the Stone Man Rebels agreed to meet.

The toughest battles are yet to come.

Not only should Li Xia be careful with his slashing attacks, but he should also be careful with his aerial maneuvers, as the aerial maneuvers consumed a lot of energy when used at full power.

Essentially, it is still a skill that transforms true qi into propulsion.

"Same as always, Awoo, take off and monitor the surrounding area."

The dragon egg was small and inconspicuous at a height of 100 meters, especially with Li Xia attracting attention on the ground.

"Roger that!"

We are still more than 600 kilometers away from the agreed location.