"Did you see the others when you left? Why didn't they follow us?"
While waiting, Chen Lin glanced at the sparse figures, and finally his eyes fell on Tan Lingyu and asked.
Tan Lingyu showed a look of doubt and recalled: "After you gave the order, although I didn't know what happened, I didn't dare to neglect it and immediately used the escape technique to leave. But I also paid attention to the team members. Some of them left with us, but some of them seemed to be possessed by some evil spirit. It was as if they didn't hear your order at all. Not only did they not leave with us, but they rushed into the Crystal Fairy City instead!"
Chen Lin's face suddenly changed when he heard this.
Those team members did not leave with him. It was probably because his axe was not powerful enough and failed to cut off the red lines of everyone. These people in front of him had the advantage because they were closer to him at the time.
That's nothing.
But those team members actually entered Crystal City, and it would be difficult to rescue them.
What puzzled Chen Lin even more was what was the purpose of that huge monster occupying here. There must be tens of thousands of red lines released by the other party, or even more. However, there was no one in the city, so what did these red lines connect to
After thinking for a while without any result, he stopped thinking about it and led everyone away from the top of the mountain to another secluded place to continue waiting for orders from the command center.
This wait lasted for nearly half an hour.
Chen Lin felt that something was not right. For a message like this involving the battle situation, it was impossible for the command center to take so long without replying. Either there was a problem with the person in charge of the communication talisman, or there was a problem in the city.
He immediately sent a message to Qin Lingyu.
The same response fell on deaf ears.
Now he could no longer sit still, and immediately sent messages to Sun Caiyi, Chen Qiaoyun, and Tian Haifu.
But what made him look gloomy was that he didn't receive a reply from anyone.
"It looks like there's a problem at base camp. You all should contact your relatives and friends in the city and see if you can get a response."
Chen Lin explained the situation. Everyone became nervous after hearing what he said and took out their communication talismans to activate them.
But again, no response.
"Captain, what should we do? Should we go back to the city immediately?"
Tan Lingyu seemed very anxious. All members of the Tan family were in Shuguang City. If something went wrong in the city, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Chen Lin pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, "Captain Tan, take your men back to the city to check the situation. I'll stay here and report to me immediately if anything happens when you get to the city."
Hearing Chen Lin's instructions, Tan Lingyu looked at Chen Lin in surprise, but said nothing more. She nodded and left impatiently with her team members.
After everyone left, Chen Lin glanced in the direction of Crystal City and also used the Thunder Escape Technique to disappear on the spot.
A secluded place surrounded by mountains.
With a flash of lightning, Chen Lin's figure appeared in the valley. Without stopping, he looked around and then used the earth escape technique to escape underground.
He went deep into the ground until he appeared in a spacious underground space.
This was a shelter he had built before, and now he was going to use it to house the teleportation array. It was impossible to predict what exactly happened in Dawn City, so he had to set up the teleportation array before going back.
Otherwise, if a major incident occurs, Qin Lingyu and the others will not be able to escape quickly.
The design of this array is very ingenious. Not only is it simple to arrange, but in addition to using spirit stones as an energy source, it can also connect to underground spirit veins. His shelter was built on a small spirit vein.
As long as the spiritual vein is not exhausted, the teleportation array can be used continuously.
After placing the array plate, Chen Lin checked the underground cave. Seeing that there were no flaws, he left a stack of earth escape talismans and took out a token and pressed it on a groove on the array plate.
The token is the key to activate the teleportation array. Without the token, you cannot use it even if you find the teleportation array.
As the array plate trembled slightly, a ball of white light suddenly lit up.
Chen Lin's face lit up with joy, and he was about to step into the white light, but he saw the white light suddenly dim and soon completely dissipated.
This is because it is impossible to sense the status of the opponent's formation.
After trying again and still failing, Chen Lin finally gave up his fantasy and returned to the ground.
Without stopping, it flew directly towards Dawn City.
Suddenly, Chen Lin, who was flying at full speed, stopped, took out a communication talisman, and after activating it, Tan Lingyu's panicked voice was audible.
"Captain, it's bad. The base camp is surrounded by monsters. The whole place is covered with monsters. What should we do?"
Chen Lin's head exploded and his face changed drastically.
He thought that Dawn City would be attacked sooner or later, but he didn't expect that day to come so soon and with such a huge momentum.
There is no doubt that all the city defense formations must have been activated, which is why the communication from the communication talisman and the transmission from the teleportation formation are blocked.
This shows that the situation is very tense, otherwise the formation that blocks the power of space would not be activated. Once this formation is activated, not only will people outside be unable to enter through the teleportation array, but people inside will also be unable to leave through the teleportation array.
Or there is another possibility.
Among the monsters surrounding the city, there was a powerful one who was good at using the power of space, and he blocked the entire city!
Either way, the situation is not optimistic.
Chen Lin's expression changed for a while, and finally he decided to go back and take a look, otherwise he would not give up.
He was worried about the life and death of Qin Lingyu and others, but he did not dare to continue flying high in the sky. Instead, he flew close to the ground to avoid being discovered.
At the same time, he took out the Silver Fairy's communication talisman and tried to contact her.
The other party is not in the city at the moment, but as long as he is not in a special place, we should be able to contact him.
But the other party did not respond.
This made Chen Lin feel isolated and helpless.
After thinking about it, he took out the communication talisman with Luo Qinglan, wanting to ask her about the situation over there, and if possible, whether the southern cultivation world could send reinforcements.
Something that surprised and puzzled him happened, and the other party did not even respond!
Now his face looked even uglier, and an idea came to his mind, but he immediately suppressed it and accelerated his flight.
On the top of a mountain about dozens of miles outside Shuguang City, Chen Lin looked towards the city with a grim face, no longer having any illusions.
In the distance, I saw black shadows one after another, surrounding the Dawn City like a dark cloud.
Several monstrous demonic shadows were continuously bombarding the city's protective formation. Even from such a long distance, one could still feel the terrifying aura from those demonic shadows, which were only stronger than those of a late Nascent Soul cultivator!
Chen Lin's face looked grim. Looking at the current situation, it was hard to say whether Dawn City could be defended.
Once Dawn City is breached, it will be a huge disaster. Not only will there be very few cultivators left alive, but there will also be no place for cultivators to gain a foothold in the northern cultivation world.
If the southern cultivation world falls again, what will happen to these remaining cultivators
The world is so big, where is the space for survival
Suppressing his irritation, he quietly retreated.
Although this location is far away, there is no guarantee that it will not be discovered by those powerful monsters. It makes no sense for him to stay here or not.
A mere mid-stage Jindan cultivator couldn't even cause a wave in such a large-scale war.
He now only hopes that the city defense formation is strong enough and the counterattack force in the city is strong enough.
At the very least, it would be good if the space shield could be removed, giving Qin Lingyu and others a chance to escape using the teleportation array.
Sneaking all the way, Chen Lin returned to the underground cave where the formation plate was placed.
Since there was nowhere to go anyway, they would wait here for Qin Lingyu and the others, in case they were unlucky and were discovered by other people or monsters, causing them to lose their only escape route.
However, to be on the safe side, he did not stay next to the array, but instead opened up a small cave not far away to prevent any powerful monsters from coming through the teleportation array, leaving him no chance of escape.
After finishing the work, Chen Lin swallowed the Soul Refining Pill while waiting anxiously.
He discovered that the silver light particles in his soul were extremely powerful. Not only was it very effective in defending against strange attacks from the spirit, but the bonus from his own soul secrets was also extremely terrifying, especially the Soul-Destroying Finger. He now used this method to kill Jindan monks. Although he was not always successful, there were still few people who could resist it.
If it is a ghost-like creature, the ability to restrain it will be even stronger.
Therefore, he had to consume the remaining Soul Refining Pills as quickly as possible. By then, the Soul-Destroying Finger might be able to pose a threat to Nascent Soul-level beings and become his strongest means of attack!
Apart from this, it is impossible to master other powerful means in a short period of time, and it is even more distant to improve the cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage.
Tan Lingyu and the team members she brought back had been watching the battle from a distance in Shuguang City and did not leave. Chen Lin and each of them had a communication talisman, so they could use it to grasp the battle situation.
Every other day, he would activate a communication talisman to inquire about the situation.
What surprised him was that the Dawn City's formation was surprisingly strong. The monsters had been besieging it for more than ten days, but it had not been broken.
This gave him some hope.
However, Qin Lingyu and others never came through the teleportation array, which made him extremely worried. He didn't know what the current situation in the city was. What if because he was not there, the two women were driven out of the courtyard where they lived and could not use the teleportation array!
More than ten days passed in this anxious state.
On this day, Chen Lin was thinking about whether to leave the underground and go to Shuguang City to check, because he and Tan Lingyu and others had used up their communication talismans and had not learned about the battle situation for three days.
Just as he was hesitating, a communication talisman that had been placed in his sleeve suddenly vibrated.
He was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly took out the communication talisman and activated it.
Luo Qinglan's voice rang in his ears.
But the information he spoke made Chen Lin's joy disappear little by little, and finally he stood there in a daze.
The base camp of the southern immortal cultivation world, Star City, was breached by monsters!