The trio delved deeper into the Blade Stone Forest.
Upon confirming there were no pursuers behind them, Lu Heng stopped and began to gather branches and other combustibles from the surroundings, ready to start a fire.
He carried back a pile of firewood, feeling it wasn't enough, and prepared to go find more.
At that mont, Lin Zeyu returned, carrying a bundle of dead branches, which he added to Lu Heng's pile.
Lu Heng glanced at him and reminded, "I'm not lighting a fire to keep warm."
Lin Zeyu nodded, "I know."
Hearing him say this, Lu Heng asked curiously, "Is this also the signal for assembling your team?"
Lin Zeyu didn't conceal anything, spreading his hands as he replied, "Otherwise, there's no other good thod, and it's not like I can afford to spend Divine Energy on bringing signal flares, especially since one might not even suffice."
The goals of the two matched perfectly, both aiming to light a fire and send up a smoke signal to assemble their teams.
On Blue Star, thods of contact were convenient; a phone call would do the trick.
But in the Abyss World, absent an information network, they had to revert to the most primitive ways of ssage transmission, like signal fires and smoke signals.
Of course, igniting a smoke signal carried certain risks.
It might attract the Demon Servants.
Lu Heng didn't need to worry about this, so as long as Su Muyu saw the smoke signal, she would naturally send a reconnaissance hawk over.
The bonfire was lit, forming a column of smoke drifting towards the sky.
After raising the smoke signal, the three continued to move forward, with Lin Zeyu stacking stones as markers at intervals.
After walking for a little over an hour, Liu Qichen suddenly spoke up to caution, "Soone is catching up from behind."
At that mont, a whistle sounded from behind.
Lin Zeyu's face imdiately revealed surprise, saying, "Don't worry, it's my people."
No sooner had he finished speaking when two people sprinted over, arriving in front of Lin Zeyu, gasping for air, "We finally found you."
Both of them were around thirty years old, with appearances that suggested professional training or possibly even a military background.
After brief introductions, the five ford an ad hoc team.
Among Lin Zeyu's two team mbers, one was an Invisible Reconnaissance Soldier nad Wang Xiangfeng.
The other was a Strength warrior nad Li Dayong.
The capabilities of the five people complented each other well, making the temporary team's configuration quite reasonable.
While Lin Zeyu had found the person he was looking for, Lu Heng hadn't.
After such a long wait, he had neither seen Su Muyu nor spotted a reconnaissance hawk in the sky.
The situation was worse than anticipated.
Lu Heng had also inquired with Lin Zeyu's two subordinates, but they hadn't seen Su Muyu either.
He could only hope that Su Muyu was too far away to have seen the smoke signal, rather than sothing having gone wrong.
...
Lu Heng now needed a map to analyze Su Muyu's potential location and incidentally find the high-level resource spots he rembered.
"We need a map now, otherwise we won't even know where we are."
Lin Zeyu nodded in agreent, "Indeed, a map is necessary."
The Invisible Reconnaissance Soldier Wang Xiangfeng took out a beastskin map and handed it to Lu Heng, saying, "When we ca over, we discovered a Demon Servant camp. There was a bit of turmoil in the camp, and I managed to sneak in and find this map."
Coming from a military background, he was well aware of how important a map was, which is why he looked for one while searching for Lin Zeyu.
Lu Heng took the map, found a place to sit, and started to examine it.
The map centered around the Evil God's Temple and depicted the topography of the surrounding areas.
First, Lu Heng determined their current location—it was fifty kiloters south of Barton Temple, at the Blade Stone Forest.
Then, he morized the locations of several important places on the map.
After studying it, Lu Heng discovered that on the mountain to the west of the Blade Stone Forest, there was a crucial Demon Camp.
According to his mories from the previous life, this Demon Camp contained a very important item, a key item for the Evil God Resurrection Ceremony.
This item would be transported to Barton Temple before the Resurrection Ceremony, but he wasn't sure if it was still in the camp at the mont.
Lu Heng wanted to see if the item was still there, so after discussing with Lin Zeyu, he led the team through the Blade Stone Forest, reaching the mid-mountain of the southern peak.
Indeed, a Demon Camp was built on the mountainside, with robust construction that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
"There are sixteen Demon Servants in the camp," Liu Qichen counted the number of Demons in the camp.
"Only sixteen? That seems too few." Lu Heng felt that a camp of this scale should not have so few Demon Guards.
"We passed by here earlier and found there was a commotion. We wanted to see what happened, but when we saw the smoke signal, we went to regroup first. It's possible this camp was ambushed by a team of Superpower Users." Wang Xiangfeng briefly explained.
"If it's this many, just kill them all," Lu Heng suggested.
"This... isn't that a bit dangerous? Sixteen demon servants; even if we can beat them, it'd be very troubleso if we got hurt. Getting injured in the Abyss World is a dangerous thing," Wang Xiangfeng was very cautious.
Lin Zeyu had previously seen Lu Heng's skill in killing only the winged demon sorcerer, and he patted Wang Xiangfeng on the shoulder, agreeing, "Okay, let's all listen to him."
"Alright then. I'll go in first to prepare. You guys move in after the fire starts," said Wang Xiangfeng as he entered an invisible state and slipped into the demon camp.
A few minutes later, fires broke out all around the demon camp.
More than a dozen demon servants roared and charged out, trying to extinguish the flas.
Li Dayong rushed forward, took off the camp gate's plank to use as a shield, and knocked the leading demon servant into the air, then swung his great axe and chopped fiercely.
He actually didn't want to engage at first, considering there were only five people, and among those five, there was a perceiver.
Facing sixteen demon servants put them under pressure.
Just as he felt the pressure increase, Lu Heng dashed forward, leapt with one foot on the surrounding wall, flipped over into the camp, drew the Aurora Blade from the void, and executed a Sword Draw Slash, chopping off a demon servant's head.
Imdiately after, he slid forward, executed the Step Sword Seven Styles' "Zhenyue Style" with a chop, splitting the second demon servant in two.
At that mont, a demon servant stealthily climbed onto the roof of a stone house and leapt down from behind, attempting a sneak attack with a vicious swing of its nail hamr aiming for the back of Lu Heng's head.
Lu Heng turned around, using his sword to block the nail hamr, then extended his left hand to grab the demon servant's neck, activating the skill "Thunder Weapon."
Raging currents burst out from his palm, coursing through the entire body of the demon servant.
Lu Heng thrust it into the ground with force, and the explosion of thunder and lightning obliterated it.
In the blink of an eye, a triple kill.
Three prompts appeared consecutively:
"Killed demon servant, absorbed 80 points of demon energy."
Just at that mont.
A winged demon sorcerer launched a remote sneak attack from inside a stone house, sending a black witchcraft energy wave at Lu Heng.
"Be careful!"
Lin Zeyu shot a demon's head off, then saw the energy wave of black witchcraft coming from the winged demon sorcerer and quickly shouted a warning.
Lu Heng had already noticed it, and at the instant the energy wave was launched, he perford a micro-level body technique, leaping onto the roof of the stone house and dodging the black witchcraft energy wave.
While dodging, he swung his sword horizontally, slaying a demon that was lying on the roof, ready to launch a sneak attack.
The winged demon sorcerer hunkered down in the stone house, continuing to wave its bone wand, attacking the few people who had entered the camp with black witchcraft.
Li Dayong used the gate plank to block a burst of black witchcraft, blasting a large hole in the plank.
With a loud roar, he spun his axe, ready to charge into the stone house to kill the winged demon sorcerer.
Lu Heng furrowed his brow and quickly warned, "Don't go, it's a trap!"
Li Dayong's expression turned serious, and he quickly changed direction, pouncing on another demon servant.
Lu Heng wasn't actually aware of a trap in the stone house; he made the judgnt based on experience.
Winged demon sorcerers could fly and would generally attack targets from the air, but this particular one hid inside the stone house, clearly indicating a problem inside.
Lin Zeyu blew off a second demon's head, then turned and fired a shot at the stone house.
Bang!
The winged demon sorcerer in the stone house dodged to the side, avoiding the line of fire, and sent out continuous waves of black witchcraft, suppressing Lin Zeyu and the others as they looked for cover.
After killing the fourth demon servant, Lu Heng conveniently released a Shadow Clone.
The Shadow Clone flipped through the air, leaping down from the roof, and plunged into the stone house with its sword.
As soon as it entered the stone house, a witchcraft trap rose from the floor, extending dozens of dark thorns that ensnared the Shadow Clone.
The winged demon sorcerer let out a cackling and vicious howl, blasting a wave of black witchcraft energy that exploded the Shadow Clone.
The mont the Shadow Clone burst, Lu Heng used the Essential Skill "Shadow Traversal," passing through the rear wall and entering the stone house, thrusting his sword with the "Cloud Piercing Style" straight at the winged demon sorcerer's back.
The winged demon sorcerer sensed soone behind it, shuddered in shock, and instantly turned around, raising its bone wand to block.
Lu Heng lifted the edge of his sword half an inch, sliding past the bone wand, and plunged the sword into the chest of the winged demon sorcerer.
The power of thunder and lightning burst forth, reducing the winged demon sorcerer to ashes.
"Killed winged demon sorcerer, absorbed 120 points of demon energy."
"Demon energy enhanced the energy level; source energy level raised to 11, all attributes 2, agility attribute receives an additional 0.6."
From source energy level 1 to 10, each level up adds 1 to all attributes.
Level 10 is a watershed; from then on, each level gained adds 2 to all attributes. "Agile as a Dragon" brought increased agility, rising from 0.3 per level to 0.6 per level.
The effect of "Agile as a Dragon" would improve with higher levels, which was why this talent beca stronger in the later stages.
As a result, Lu Heng's five-dinsional attributes reached: Strength 21, Agility 27, Constitution 21, Spirit 22, Perception 21.
With all attributes breaking through 20 points, his combat power surged, and Lu Heng activated the Unrivaled Mode, pursuing and slaying demon servants throughout the camp.
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