Appearances can be deceiving.

While others were astounded by Shen Qinghan's strength, Luo Qianxue gazed up at the two figures gradually distancing themselves in the sky, her heart filled with confusion.

Were these two really Earthlings?

How could their strength be so immense?

It didn't make sense...

...

High above,

Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan flew towards the area littered with corpses and wreckage, intending to clean up the battlefield, scavenge for spoils, and, by the way, rescue the townspeople trapped in the fierce battle there.

But before they could get far, an extremely strange noise echoed around them.

"Pop!"

"Pop!"

"Pop!"

Upon hearing the sound, Lin Zichen instantly became on alert.

He turned his five senses up to their maximum.

At all times, he stayed vigilant of his surroundings.

After observing for a moment,

Lin Zichen discovered that the strange noises were caused by seeds bursting open.

The entire sky was unexpectedly filled with eerie blue seeds.

Like dandelion fluff, they dispersed into the air, emitting a bit of light, dazzling like stars against the night sky.

"Lin Zi, we need to get away from here fast, these seeds might be dangerous!" Shen Qinghan called out a warning.

She quite liked the scene before her, finding it extraordinarily beautiful, breathtakingly so.

But she knew, a scene like this popping up on the battlefield suddenly couldn't be good.

It most likely had something to do with the Sun-Moon Sacred Land.

Because the Sun-Moon Sacred Land was a stronghold of exotic plants, and their methods usually involved vegetation.

Right now, these eerie blue seeds were likely the doing of the Sun-Moon Sacred Land.

Alerted by Shen Qinghan's warning, Lin Zichen, who had been observing the seeds, immediately snapped back to reality.

For some unknown reason, he had just been engrossed in observing them, as if enchanted by the surrounding eerie blue seeds, losing his senses.

These seeds were too peculiar; they needed to get away from them as quickly as possible...

With that thought in mind, Lin Zichen quickly moved towards Shen Qinghan, to take her away from the surrounding seeds, lest delay leads to disaster.

However, just as they were about to leave, the surrounding seeds suddenly burst all at once, creating a dense cacophony of noise.

"Pop... pop... pop!"

The moment this sound arose, the exploded seeds instantly spread out a vast amount of roots veined with blood, taking root in the air on the spot.

Witnessing such a sinister scene, Lin Zichen had no intention of contending with it and immediately escaped at the highest speed possible with Shen Qinghan.

He didn't know if he could resist it; all he knew was that he couldn't choose to confront it head-on without understanding his enemy.

If they failed, it would result in death and the annihilation of their paths, too great a price to pay.

The cost-effectiveness was questionable.

"Hum—!"

Lin Zichen, carrying Shen Qinghan, flew extremely fast, leaving a roaring sound in the air.

Just as the two swiftly streaked over the heads of the crowd below—

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Multiple sharp sounds of cutting through the air sounded.

Countless fine, blood-colored roots, dense like hairs, shot from behind, quickly catching up to the two who were fleeing at high speed.

Before they could react, the entire sky darkened, engulfed completely by the blood-colored roots, rendering them unable to see even their own hands in front of them.

They couldn't see anymore!

Lin Zichen's face turned grave.

His vision was extremely strong and his perception even stronger; even in the pitch-black darkness of a night like ink, he could see every corner around him.

But now, enshrouded by the blood-colored roots, he couldn't see a thing.

He couldn't even see Shen Qinghan by his side.

"Lin Zi..."

Shen Qinghan was a bit panicked, clutching tightly onto Lin Zichen's hand, not daring to let go.

While Lin Zichen was frowning deeply, attempting to sense the environment around them, he reassured softly, "It's okay, not a big problem."

The reality was, the problem was huge.

Under the effect of "Advanced Spirit" and the "Eye of the Sky" among other Biometric Attributes,

In just a moment, Lin Zichen could vaguely perceive the environment around them.

Then he discovered that he and Shen Qinghan were trapped in a massive cage.

This enormous cage, twisted together by countless blood-colored roots, was so tightly woven that it completely isolated the interior from the outside world.

"Bang!"

A tremendous noise erupted.

With a thought, Lin Zichen conjured up a terrifying sphere of Blood Qi Power and struck it against the cage.

He thought his attack might damage the cage.

But the reality was that the force of the Blood Qi Power only left a faint trace on the cage, failing to inflict any damage.

This blood-colored root cage was sturdier than any Tree Cage they had encountered before.

Seeing that brute force was ineffective, Lin Zichen immediately decided to try another tactic, activating his [Forest Lord] skill, intending to control the blood-colored roots that made up the cage.

However, after many attempts, he had not managed to control them even once.

It seemed that the level of these blood-colored roots was far beyond Rare Level, and creatures at the Rare Level simply couldn't manipulate them.

If all paths were sealed, and there was no way to fly out, the next option would be to try the escape tactic of digging a hole; to carve out a new route for their escape...

Lin Zichen thought this to himself and quickly descended to the ground with Shen Qinghan, intending to use the [Burrowing Instinct] to dig an escape route beneath their feet.

They hadn't realized the extent of the issue until they started to dig and were instantly struck by despair.

Even the flat ground was tangled with a multitude of blood-colored roots, rendering the [Burrowing Instinct], a Biometric Attribute, completely ineffective and valueless.

This was problematic...

Lin Zichen's expression became even more solemn as he struggled to find a way out.

Meanwhile, Shen Qinghan, by his side, was also pondering over possible escape methods.

But after much thought, she came up with nothing.

"Everyone, don't move around, stay put and wait for me to touch and mark each one of you so we don't get separated!"

In the darkness, the voice of Lan Tianbai rang out.

He and the members of his team had been enveloped into a world of blood-red apocalypse, all because of Lin Zichen's inadvertent actions.

Upon hearing this shout, Shen Qinghan immediately said to Lin Zichen, "Lin Zi, Instructor Lan and the others are over there, let's join them, the more people we have, the greater our strength."

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Her vision obstructed, she felt extremely uneasy and instinctively wanted to move toward where there were more people.

This time, Lin Zichen chose not to go it alone.

To give Shen Qinghan some peace of mind, he decided to follow her suggestion and head towards Lan Tianbai's location.

Halfway there,

the pitch-black cage, where it was so dark you could not see your hand in front of you, suddenly lit up with beams of bright blue light, illuminating the inside of the entire cage.

In that instant when the blue light appeared,

Lan Tianbai and the others saw Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan approaching, and their faces were filled with confusion.

"Didn't you two fly away? How come you are here?"

Lan Tianbai asked, looking puzzled at the two of them.

Lin Zichen replied, "We hadn't flown far when this cage suddenly appeared and trapped us."

Lan Tianbai nodded, not asking further.

Instead, he furrowed his brow and carefully surveyed the surroundings, attempting to assess the current situation.

Lin Zichen did the same, maximising his senses to their limits, continuously scanning every corner of the cage.

Just then—

"Swish!"

A crisp sound of branches and leaves rubbing against each other echoed.

Lin Zichen, hearing the noise, immediately looked in the direction it came from.

He then saw a dark figure plummeting rapidly from the top of the cage, landing on the ground with a "thud."

...

A puppet.

...

Buds bloomed in swarms.

It was the Thorn Fairy!

The whole team was shocked.

After that,

they continued fighting the enemy.

Noticing the presence of an Epic Level Expert.

...

...

...

An operation had failed.

The team suspected Luo Qianxue, the only Alien in the team, was the traitor.

They verbally attacked her, considering it wise for their safety to drive her out of the team.

But in reality, the traitor was someone else.

Luo Qianxue felt aggrieved—despite having been with the team for so long, always trying her best, she had never been trusted and just broke down crying.

Knowing that Luo Qianxue was not the traitor, Lin Zichen stood up for her.

Luo Qianxue was being ostracized,

and Lin Zichen casually uttered a remark.

Something seemed to dawn on Luo Qianxue,

recalling her own past ostracism, knowing that she was Bai Xue.

The Earthlings could only give up their stronghold in the Origin Land and retreat back to Earth.

Qianxue, come here.

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