Chapter 642: Guardians of the Pure Land

Lin Feng stood on Feng Xue's dragon back, the silver dragon hovering three hundred meters above the ground, its wings flapping slowly.

His clone was affected by the no-fly zone and temporarily lost its ability to fly.

He looked down and saw that no one with a combat power of level 40 or above had made a move during the entire battle.

He intentionally wanted the army to adapt to this level of combat intensity as soon as possible.

Below, soldiers are cleaning up the battlefield and treating the wounded.

The blood mist was thinner than before the battle, and sunlight shone through, casting dappled shadows on the ground.

Lin Feng looked down at the pile of bloodthorn golem limbs stacked into a small mountain, and the trunks of bloodthorn trees lying haphazardly on the ground.

"These should be the Pure Land Guardians mentioned in the intelligence."

A small pure land, fully equipped with a total of about three million guardians, should have around three million guardians.

The battle just now only eliminated a maximum of 300,000, and the key to breaking through the Pure Land actually lies in the core.

There are two core areas of the small Pure Land. As long as one of them is conquered, some restrictions can be lifted, such as the blood mist erosion.

If both places are captured, this pure land can be completely destroyed.

As for where the core lies...

Once you reach level 30 or higher, you can naturally feel it while in the Pure Land.

Lin Feng closed his eyes and extended his senses to the east, 1,500 kilometers away.

There, there was a vast and warm energy fluctuation, like a beating heart.

He snapped out of his reverie, opened his eyes, and ordered: "Clean up the battlefield for one hour. After one hour, march east."

Meng Yi and Bai Yi, who were also standing on the dragon's back, simultaneously answered the order: "Yes!"

With wings flapping and a deep, resonant roar, it hovered three hundred meters in the air.

Below, the million-strong army began to systematically clear the battlefield, treat the wounded, and replenish their energy.

The blood mist continued to flow along the ground, but everyone knew that the real battle had only just begun.

...

Four days later, the Beacon Fire army had penetrated more than 800 kilometers into the Bloodthorn Forest.

There were no roads deep in the forest.

Looking out, towering ancient trees with intertwined roots and thick vines entwined around their trunks, and the ground covered with thorns, the whole forest looked like a blood-red prison.

Twenty mammoth war elephants were leading the way.

Each war elephant was 20 meters tall and covered with thick, high-quality purple armor. They moved forward with heavy steps, and the ground trembled slightly with each step.

"boom!"

A war elephant let out a low roar, and its thick trunk swept across, snapping three ancient trees, each as thick as a person's embrace, in half at waist height.

The crisp sound of a tree trunk breaking echoed through the forest, and the massive canopy collapsed with a crash, kicking up a cloud of dust as it hit the ground.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The war elephants' heavy hooves trampled the fallen tree trunks, crushing those giant trees, some over ten meters long, into °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° pieces.

Wood chips flew everywhere, sap flowed, and the entire forest was plowed out with a passage tens of meters wide by their advance.

But Bloodthorn Forest's counterattack never stopped.

Every now and then, level 15 Bloodthorn Trees around them would suddenly burst forth from their camouflage state.

When camouflaged, they are indistinguishable from ordinary trees; their health bars are invisible, and even their aura is perfectly concealed.

The trunk only splits open when they launch a sudden attack, revealing the dark red flesh and dense thorns inside.

"hiss!"

Suddenly, the ancient tree on the left side of one of the war elephants split open, and several blood-red thorn vines shot out like venomous snakes, wrapping around the war elephant's legs.

The war elephant didn't even turn its head. With a flick of its trunk, the blood thorn vines snapped and shattered in an instant, not even lasting a second.

The other war elephant's hoof also stomped down, crushing the trunk of the bloodthorn tree to pieces. Dark red sap gushed out like a fountain, splashing onto the ground with a sizzling sound.

This harassment happens every few minutes.

But the advance formation of twenty war elephants gave them no chance at all; any disguised bloodthorn trees that suddenly sprang into action were instantly crushed.

One hundred meters in the air, Lin Feng stood on Feng Xue's back, looking down at the slowly advancing army below, his brows slightly furrowed.

The events of the past few days replayed rapidly in his mind.

There are no roads in the Bloodthorn Forest; you have to rely on war elephants to clear the way.

Therefore, even with the aura skill "Swift March", the advancing speed is only about four meters per second.

That translates to only about 200 kilometers of progress per day.

The logistics are even more problematic. Under the negative effects of the Blood Mist Corrosion, the army is currently without logistical support.

A level nine county soldier has less than 300 total health points; entering this forest is suicide.

Lin Feng had tried organizing soldiers of level 10 or above to escort supplies, but they were often intercepted halfway by the Grandmasters of the Azure Blood Demon Sect, and no matter how much they transported, they would lose it.

In addition, the constant harassment from the Pure Land Guardians meant that the army only had fourteen hours of actual marching time each day.

The remaining ten hours must be used to stop, rest, and treat the wounded.

Based on conventional combat simulations, winning would be virtually impossible.

It seems the Azure Blood Demon Sect also feels confident of victory.

These past few days have been filled with small-scale harassment, the purpose of which is to constantly lure me deeper, so that I can be dragged into the battlefield they have set up and ambushed from all sides.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng murmured, "Your method is indeed unbeatable against opponents without large-scale spatial equipment. Unfortunately, you've run into me, so you can only consider yourselves unlucky."

He snapped out of his reverie and issued the command from the air: "Rest in place."

After the order was given, twenty mammoth war elephants began clearing the open space.

At the same time, many Awakened Ones and Qingyang Grandmasters above level 30 also took action, opening up a camp in the jungle that could accommodate a million troops.

A fire-elemental awakener, dressed in a crimson robe, formed hand seals, and flames rose around him.

"Radiant Sunburst!"

A fireball five meters in diameter flew from his palm and struck a dense thicket of thorns in front of him.