When Thorne arrived at the gathering point, he was relieved to find that all seven members of his side were present. Besides them, there were also people from several other major forces. Everyone was familiar with each other. After nodding and greeting each other, Thorne gathered the members of his mercenary group.

  The other forces only sent a few people, but they were all fifth-level professionals. In comparison, the Snow Goose side was rather embarrassed. Before Thorne arrived, there wasn't even a decent figure among them.

  Considering Chen Yue's instructions and the possible appearance of high-level magical beasts, Thorne was full of unease. Without stopping, he arranged for seven people including Uri to leave first and gather the people who had withdrawn at the beginning.

  Seeing that the people from the other major forces were all fifth-level, Uri and the others also understood that this was no longer something they could participate in, so they didn't resist and left the gathering point quickly. At this time, the sea of fire on the periphery was no longer a big problem, and with their strength, they could naturally pass through without hindrance.

  After watching several people leave, Thorne withdrew his gaze and scanned around the gathering point. Soon, his eyes stopped on a middle-aged magician who was sitting on the ground and regulating his breath. From the beginning to the end, except for that sixth-level magic, no other large-scale magic had appeared. Therefore, that unknown magician was undoubtedly a sixth-level great magician.

  Thorne carefully looked at this biggest threat a few times. Perhaps his movements were too big. The great magician suddenly opened his eyes, and his sharp gaze shot over instantly.

  Thorne showed an innocent smile.

  The great magician coldly glanced at him twice and then turned his head back to continue meditating and recovering his magic power.

  Thorne didn't say anything more. He didn't even mention Chen Yue's previous warning. Since his team members had left, was there still a need to remind his competitors?

  The gathering point suddenly became quiet. Only from time to time on the periphery came the wails and roars of the injured magical beasts.

  "Clap, clap." A person standing beside the great magician suddenly clapped his hands a few times, attracting everyone's attention. Thorne recognized him. He was the leader of the Poison Dragon Mercenary Group. No one knew his real name anymore, and outsiders all called him Poison Dragon.

  Judging from his appearance, he seemed to be in cahoots with the great magician. With such a stabilizing force, the originally medium-strength Poison Dragon Mercenary Group overpowered the others and faintly had the aura of a leader. At this time, as soon as he showed up, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.

  "Heavenly Azure, Style Annihilation, Snow Goose, and our Poison Dragon. Since the major forces are all here, then let's talk about how to search for treasures. First of all, to show our sincerity, everyone, take out the treasure maps." Poison Dragon said loudly.

  Judging from his tone, he didn't take the group of magical beasts outside seriously at all. Instead, he couldn't wait to set his sights on the ancient ruins.

  The four forces here represented all the forces in the north of the Tianye Empire. When analyzing the treasure maps, since no one could be left out, the real treasure map that was analyzed was divided into four parts, one for each force. Therefore, if one wanted to know the location of the ancient ruins, they could only wait for these four forces to gather together. This also ensured that there wouldn't be a situation where one of them secretly dug out the ancient ruins.

  Hearing what Poison Dragon said, the others had no objections.

  "Wait."

  Poison Dragon frowned and turned his head to look. When he saw that it was Thorne who spoke, he couldn't help but wonder, "Thorne, what's your problem? Don't tell me there are still people from the Snow Goose who haven't arrived. Ha, I must remind you that those fourth-level trash don't need to be brought in."

  The others all laughed when they heard this. Everyone knew each other well and also knew that although the Snow Goose Mercenary Group was powerful, Thorne was the only fifth-level professional among them.

  Ignoring everyone's ridicule, Thorne said leisurely, "You guessed right. There is indeed one person from the Snow Goose who hasn't arrived yet."

  "Don't joke..." Poison Dragon interrupted impatiently, but before he could finish speaking, suddenly a earth-shattering roar sounded not far away, followed by a second one...

  There were a total of four roars. Every time one appeared, the faces of these people changed. They were all experienced people. Just by hearing the powerful roars, they could tell how powerful the opponent was. What made them even more uneasy was that since these four roars sounded, in the area that had been cleared by the sixth-level magic, pairs of green eyes appeared one after another, looking at them maliciously.

  Even the great magician was visibly moved and stopped meditating, with a bit more uneasiness on his face.

  No one mentioned the topic of looking at the treasure maps anymore. They also had a realization in their hearts that perhaps the real battle had just begun. At this time, it was really not the time to discuss other things.

  ...

  After passing through a chaotic area, Chen Yue arrived at the place where the Frozen Rabbit was located according to his induction.

  This was another battlefield.

  All the low-level magical beasts fled as far away as they could, leaving a large empty space. Inside, two figures, one big and one small, were fighting fiercely.

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  Unlike Chen Yue and the Ramor Giant Ape playing a game of chase and escape, the Frozen Rabbit was engaged in a real fight.

  Its opponent was a majestic Purple-striped Ice Lion, which had a larger body than the Ramor Giant Ape. Its majestic body was covered with beautiful purple patterns. As a fifth-level melee magical beast, it also had a talent magic, which was the ordinary Ice Arrow. Its power was only equivalent to that of a general third-level magic, but the speed at which it condensed and launched the Ice Arrows was fast enough to make any magician ashamed to the point of wanting to commit suicide. Perhaps only a summoned beast could surpass it.

  At this moment, it was desperately chasing the Frozen Rabbit. Countless Ice Arrows were shot out by it like a machine gun. As long as it stayed in place for a second, the Ice Arrows it fired could form a circle around the Frozen Rabbit. One could imagine how terrifying its power was.

  After a fierce chase, the Frozen Rabbit had already been injured in several places. The green life force was gushing out desperately. If its Frozen Breath hadn't had a miraculous effect even on ice-type creatures like the Purple-striped Ice Lion, it probably wouldn't have been able to hold on until Chen Yue arrived.

  Seeing the pitiful appearance of the little guy, Chen Yue's usually calm state of mind was violently shaken, and the uncontrollable killing intent surged out of his body. His gaze towards the Purple-striped Ice Lion was icy and ruthless.

  It was the first time that he had such a strong desire to kill a magical beast.

  Sensing Chen Yue's intense killing intent, the Blade Beast in the subspace became excited and trembled. It just wanted to come out but was forcibly pushed back by Chen Yue.

  "Gu, gu." Finally, when Chen Yue came to the rescue, the Frozen Rabbit suddenly jumped up from the ground and rushed towards him without hesitation. Its ruby-like eyes were full of pitiful and happy expressions.

  Chen Yue quickly accelerated. After getting close to the Frozen Rabbit to a certain distance, he immediately took it back into the subspace.

  After realizing that the Frozen Rabbit was already extremely tired and sleeping in the subspace, his heart that had been tensed all along finally relaxed.

  He didn't leave immediately. The Frozen Rabbit's encounter had already made Chen Yue burn with an extremely strong killing intent. With the Ramor Giant Ape following closely behind, he accelerated and rushed towards the Purple-striped Ice Lion.

  The wisdom of a fifth-level magical beast was no less than that of a human. Although the sudden disappearance of the Frozen Rabbit puzzled it, soon, the Purple-striped Ice Lion's interest shifted to the tiny human in front. There was a thick mockery in its eyes.

  How dare he rush towards the powerful fifth-level magical beast.

  This guy, was he looking for death?

  With a blink of an eye, dozens of Ice Arrows immediately condensed in the air and shot towards Chen Yue.

  Although it wasn't a powerful magic, but with the terrifying number, it could definitely make a fifth-level professional despair easily. Not to mention that Chen Yue's physical condition hadn't recovered to its best.

  Seeing that Chen Yue's way forward was blocked, the giant ape chasing closely behind immediately roared excitedly.

  Taking a deep breath, Chen Yue's mind instantly concentrated to an unprecedented height and fearlessly met the Ice Arrow formation.

  Just when both magical beasts thought that Chen Yue would be riddled with holes by the arrows, in a blink of an eye, Chen Yue had already passed through the dense Ice Arrows. Except for looking a bit messy, he didn't have a single scratch on him.

  How was this possible?

  Completely unable to believe the scene in front of them, the Purple-striped Ice Lion didn't believe it and increased the output of magic power. A batch of Ice Arrows with a greater number than before condensed and disappeared, followed by the next batch. They were dense, like a storm, almost connecting into dozens of long lines, completely covering the area in front.

  In the Iceberg Mountains, it didn't have to worry about magic power consumption. While desperately releasing batches of Ice Arrows, it stared wide-eyed to see how Chen Yue managed to be unscathed.

  Somehow, Chen Yue's body flickered strangely and managed to avoid most of the Ice Arrows. For the ones that he really couldn't avoid, he simply reached out and pushed them aside. In his eyes, this batch of terrifying Ice Arrows seemed to have become insignificant toys.

  The result was still that he was unscathed.

  The Purple-striped Ice Lion racked its brains but couldn't understand how Chen Yue did it. However, looking at the increasingly stronger killing intent in the other's eyes, even as powerful as it was, a trace of coldness rose in its heart.

  In the purgatory difficulty, even when facing the destructive forbidden spell attacks, Chen Yue wouldn't give up his efforts. The strong will to survive had made him cultivate incomparable survival skills. This was already his last resort. After returning to reality, he hadn't encountered a chance to use it. Who would have thought that it would come in handy now.

  Compared with those terrifying and world-destroying magics, the Ice Arrow formation of the Purple-striped Ice Lion was just child's play. All the forces in the world had their own patterns, and magic was no exception. It's just that ordinary people couldn't see or make use of them. However, in the special holographic scene of the Measuring Yuan Instrument, due to the forcibly combined but not so advanced holographic technology, Chen Yue had instead seen some clues.

  Relying on these skills cultivated through practice, as long as the magic wasn't too powerful or the control was too astonishing, it would be very difficult for this kind of power like magic to hurt him.

  Although he regarded the Ice Arrow formation as nothing, due to the actions of avoiding it, his speed inevitably dropped, and the Ramor Giant Ape got a lot closer to him. From this point of view, the Ice Arrow formation of the Purple-striped Ice Lion wasn't completely ineffective. It could be said that as long as it continuously fired Ice Arrows, it could create the best conditions for the Ramor Giant Ape.

  However, although they were both magical beasts and both were the overlords in the outer area of the Iceberg Mountains, it didn't mean that the relationship between them would be good. They didn't even know what cooperation was.

  Therefore, seeing that the Ice Arrow formation was ineffective and believing more in its own melee strength, the Purple-striped Ice Lion immediately gave up the futile attack and roared as it pounced forward.

  Seeing this scene, Chen Yue, who had been tensing his nerves all along, finally relaxed. Avoiding magic required extremely high physical requirements. In his current state, he couldn't hold on for long. Not to mention that the Ice Arrow formation of the Purple-striped Ice Lion couldn't be underestimated. The reason why he rushed forward without hesitation was that he bet that two equally proud fifth-level magical beasts couldn't cooperate wholeheartedly.

  Fortunately, he bet right.