Chapter 160 Entrance 1321

In just a few dozen seconds, a neatly outlined prototype of the Five Elements Array formed on the ground.

By this time, Guo Wei was completely unable to use his Stone Skin superpower.

Had it not been for Zhai Wenshan supporting him from the side, Guo Wei probably would have already been sucked dry of his blood by the swarming blood-seeking vines, turning into a desiccated corpse.

"Guo Wei, Brother Zhai, step back."

"Uncle Tao, Brother Yi, Sister Sun, please lend me a hand!"

In the team behind, three figures stepped out from the crowd.

As if they had collaborated with Lin Zhe ten million times before, they skillfully channeled their spiritual energy into two of the array nodes. Two of them poured in fire-attribute spiritual energy, while the last one, referred to as "Sister Sun," injected a massive amount of wind-attribute spiritual energy.

Lin Zhe himself did not remain idle.

As a peak tier-three fire-attribute superpower user, he channeled all the spiritual energy in his body into the array.

The Blazing Fire Array—which he had meticulously studied for a long time and which had saved him and his team countless times in battle—finally burst forth with brilliant radiance once again!

Derived from a remnant scroll of the Innate Eight Trigrams Array, the Blazing Fire Array was the second formation he had successfully researched and put into regular use, following the Three Talents Array he had devised first.

In his ideal vision, its complete form should have been the Five Elements Array!

Unfortunately, all the superpower users in this team combined could not cover the five basic attributes.

To maximize the team's combat effectiveness, he had been forced to sacrifice the other four attributes, utilizing the principle that wind feeds fire. Combining this with the fact that the team had the highest number of fire-attribute users, he developed this Blazing Fire Array!

Because of the Blazing Fire Array, their team's favorite encounters were wood-attribute dungeon monsters.

Fire restrains wood; this was common knowledge.

This time was no exception.

Normally, judging by the fire spiritual energy channeled by Lin Zhe and the other two—even with Sister Sun's wind spiritual energy boosting the power by a third, coupled with the array's tenfold magnification—the Blazing Fire Array should only have been capable of annihilating three tier-four preliminary dungeon monsters.

However, due to the principle of elemental restraint, every single blood-seeking vine attacking them met the same fate.

The moment they touched the raging flames, they turned to ashes one after another!

The only difference was that anything below tier-four could not last even a single instant, while tier-four vines could hold out for a minute or two. Those at tier-five and above lasted longer, roughly five to six minutes. As for tier-six spiritual vines, none had appeared yet among the blood-seeking vines besieging Lin Zhe's group.

The burning spiritual vines provided an abundance of nourishment to the Blazing Fire Array, causing the flames to gradually shift from orange-yellow to orange-white.

This meant that the energy within the Blazing Fire Array not only failed to diminish from eradicating the blood-seeking vines, but instead grew increasingly abundant.

The flame attacks unleashed by the Blazing Fire Array grew ever more ferocious!

A flash of joy crossed everyone's faces.

They simply sat down right where they were and began to recover the spiritual energy within their bodies.

As more and more spiritual vines were annihilated, scattered points of light began to appear on the ground where the Blazing Fire Array was located. Lin Zhe, who was racing against time to recover his spiritual power, lit up with excitement. As the array controller, he could not only manipulate the destructive power of the flames unleashed by the Blazing Fire Array, but could also move in and out of the array completely unscathed.

Lin Zhe swiftly picked up five emerald crystal objects from the ground, felt the rich spiritual energy pulsating within them, and a look of regret flashed through his eyes.

He was a fire-attribute superpower user.

Yet these items were dropped by wood-attribute dungeon monsters.

If he consumed them, his fire superpower—which had finally reached the peak of tier-three—would likely be ruined. Therefore, even though he knew these items were of extremely high grade, dropping only from dungeon monsters of tier-four and above with an abysmal drop rate, making them undoubtedly treasures!

Lin Zhe still stuffed them into his inner jacket pocket without hesitation.

Besides these five, there were already six or seven similar crystal objects of various kinds tucked inside his inner pocket.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of them were shades of green.

The sole non-green one emitted an eerie pinkish-purple glow, looking nothing like a fire-attribute treasure by any stretch of the imagination. To sum it up in a sentence: having run dungeons for so long, he lived by the Blazing Fire Array and died by the Blazing Fire Array.

Not a single high-grade treasure he managed to acquire was usable by himself or the brothers in his team.

It didn't matter, though. When he eventually met someone else carrying treasures, he could always trade for something suitable.

And if all else failed, keeping them for Yanyan and Yunduo'er wasn't a bad idea either!

Lin Zhe had a premonition that he was not far from finding the woman he loved.

"Your team has met the conditions to leave the dungeon. Would you like to depart?"

The familiar mechanical voice, which he had heard ten million times before, rang in his ears. Lin Zhe said without hesitation, "Do not depart. Please provide all dungeon entrance options and directional departure conditions."

"As you wish."

Following a completely emotionless mechanical voice, a dense wall of information materialized before Lin Zhe.

It was a collection of condensed thumbnail scenes of hundreds to thousands of dungeon entrances, marked with entry codes of varying sizes.

The entrance codes ranged anywhere from one to over a thousand.

With boundless patience, Lin Zhe clicked on them one by one, carefully examining the magnified surrounding environments of the dungeon entrances. He compared them with the residential complex where Yanyan and her daughter lived in his memory—not this one, not this one either... well, definitely not this one!

As the number of remaining entrances dwindled, impatience stirred within Lin Zhe.

He took a deep breath, barely calming his emotions before continuing the comparison.

The people behind him were long accustomed to Lin Zhe's behavior, and no one raised any questions. The woman previously addressed as Sister Sun by Lin Zhe nudged the arm of the man beside her, "Old Hu, it's a good thing the dungeon world descended when the two of us and Huanhuan were all together."

"If it had been like little Lin, separated from his wife by hundreds of kilometers..."

Just imagining Old Hu fighting tooth and nail day and night inside the dungeons just to find her made Sun Ruohua feel somewhat overwhelmed.

Back then, in the Grade-A Giant Crocodile Island dungeon, Old Hu had almost died while being hunted down by a swarm of bomb ants just to save her. If they hadn't run into Sister Yan, she and Old Hu probably wouldn't have survived. And little Lin? Word had to be that he had even braved a Grade-S dungeon.

The untold hardships he must have endured along the way were unimaginable.

Old Hu—namely Hu Jianming—touched the left side of his face where half an ear was missing, a wave of fortune washing over him.

He tightened his embrace around Sun Ruohua, lowered his head to give his wife a kiss, and said, "We really got lucky."

They were neither separated by the dungeon world blocking their paths nor torn apart as husband and wife. When facing a life-or-death crisis, they had encountered a benefactor and been saved from the jaws of death. Not only that, but his wife had caught the benefactor's eye and gained the wind-attribute superpower for free!

If it hadn't been for the fact that his wife's subsequent advancement in her wind-attribute superpower was so agonizingly difficult, Hu Jianming would have almost thought his wife was some kind of chosen child with the legendary destiny of a protagonist.

"Found it!"

A startled cry interrupted the tender moment between husband and wife, Sun Ruohua and Hu Jianming.

The two looked up and saw Lin Zhe looking radiant and spirited, as if he had just won a multi-million-dollar lottery. "Entrance No. 1321! Directional departure condition: Kill twelve dungeon monsters of tier-five or above, or acquire twelve spiritual objects of tier-five or above."

Rong Yi—the man Lin Zhe had previously called Brother Yi—raised an eyebrow in surprise.

Weren't they just clearing a Grade-B dungeon?

With twelve people in the team, according to past experience, they only needed to kill twelve dungeon monsters of tier-three or above to leave the dungeon. It seemed little Lin's wife was really quite far away from him, seeing as the departure difficulty had been abruptly raised by two whole grades!

However, Lin Zhe was staring fixedly at the magnified environment of the dungeon entrance before him, reluctant to tear his eyes away.

That familiar elevator interior, complete with the photo of the property management personnel from the Golden Osmanthus Garden residential complex, was something he had scanned ten million times.

Every time he and Yanyan's mother took the residential complex's elevator, his gaze would instinctively sweep across all the advertising posters inside the elevator, which naturally included this photo of the property management personnel!

The 1321st dungeon entrance of the Grade-B dungeon "Blood-Seeking Vine Forest" had actually opened right at Yanyan's doorstep...