Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

The academy used a probing technique to probe, slowly walking out a dozen meters.

Sweat was already streaming down his face.

Just when he thought he had found the right route, a dark red pattern suddenly appeared on the ground beneath his feet.

The tall, thin student's expression changed drastically, and he immediately stepped back.

boom!

A pillar of fire shot into the sky in front of him.

The impact sent him flying, and his shield shattered instantly.

He fell heavily to the ground, his chest heaving, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

The butcher's smile vanished.

"continue."

The tall, thin student looked up at him, his eyes filled with fear.

"I have already..."

"I'll let you continue."

The tall, thin student's lips moved, but he eventually got up from the ground.

I took another step, cautiously probing forward.

The remaining people even held their breath.

This is not a treasure hunt at all.

This is risking one's life to test the waters for the butcher.

Just as the tall, thin student took another step, Ning Wei suddenly reached out and grabbed Lin Bai's sleeve.

She kept staring at the crack in the ground, her face growing increasingly grim.

Lin Bai turned his head to look at her.

"What's wrong?"

"This place wasn't formed naturally."

Ning Wei spoke in a voice that was barely audible to the two of them.

"This is an alchemical array."

"It is a giant magic array laid out based on the entire volcanic remnant."

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Lin Bai followed Ning Wei's gaze.

Dark red cracks covered the scorched earth, and the firelight in the depths flickered.

He looked at them for a long time but couldn't figure out what the connection was between the patterns.

Mastering the techniques is one thing, but recognizing the magic array is another.

At least with the thing in front of him, aside from feeling hot, he really didn't understand it.

"Is the magic array used to protect the Fire Element Fruit?" Lin Bai asked.

Ning Wei didn't rush to answer.

She stared at a patch of scorched earth, tracing the cracks in the air with her fingers.

"No. Look at those flames, they're all converging towards the base of the trees."

Lin Bai looked in the direction she pointed.

Just as one crack dimmed, another one near the Fire Element Fruit lit up.

The branches and leaves of the sapling stretched out, and a deep rumble came from inside the fruit.

"This should be an energy extraction array."

Ning Wei lowered her voice.

"It is drawing upon the underground fire veins to nourish that fruit."

"Those pillars of fire that are spewing out... must be due to a problem with the magic array, which is unable to contain the leaking energy."

Lin Bai glanced at the ground that had been melted through.

No wonder the butcher refused to go in himself.

This isn't just a matter of stepping on fire a few times; what's under your feet is an entire underground fire vein.

"Can we find our way in?"

Ning Wei took out paper and pen from her spatial ring and squatted down.

"Breaking through the formation is definitely not going to work. Finding a few outlets and avoiding them might be an option."

She looked up at the tall, thin student in front of her, and tightened her grip on the pen.

"But give me some time."

"You do the math, I'm looking ahead."

Lin Bai turned around.

The student had already walked between the two cracks, his trouser legs were burned by the previous flames, and the skin on his calves was bright red.

He tried to lift his foot, but the fabric pulled at his injury, causing him to pull his foot back in pain.

Behind him, the butcher did not urge him on.

But the man standing there was more effective than any prompting.

The trainee swallowed hard and looked ahead at a small patch of intact scorched earth.

He first swept the area with his magic, and then waited for the nearby firelight to dim before moving his feet over.

This time, after landing, no pillar of fire was emitted.

His tense shoulders relaxed a little.

The next moment, the scorched earth at their feet bulged upwards.

The ground, which was originally without cracks, was being pushed open by the flames surging from underground.

The trainee instinctively took a step back.

But the injured leg couldn't hold on.

He swayed slightly, and a crack emanating white light appeared beneath his feet.

boom!

A pillar of fire shot into the air.

The student was no longer visible through the churning flames.

Moments later, even the scorched earth where he had landed melted into a dark red liquid.

Ning Wei's pen tip tore through the paper.

She stared at that spot, her lips moving slightly.

The butcher swept his gaze across the molten ground, his impatience barely concealed.

Looking at the remaining few people, he sighed inwardly.

That's still too little...

It wasn't that he didn't want to capture too many people at once; the main problem was that there were too many powerful figures eyeing this secret realm.

Although he was at the ninth rank, he noticed today at the Eight Directions Restaurant that there were several people above the ninth rank.

He's arrogant, but not stupid.

If you only send a few people to scout ahead, usually no one will say anything.

If you gather a large group, and you happen to run into one of those nosy busybodies, you might not even know how you died.

......

As time passed, another person died under the pillar of fire.

The butcher's gaze shifted to Ning Wei.

"You, go."

The pen stopped.

Ning Wei's face turned pale.

"Lin Bai, just a little bit more, just a little bit more..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Bai took a step forward and stood in front of her.

"Hmm, it's okay, you can continue calculating."

Ning Wei was taken aback.

The butcher was also stunned, seemingly never expecting that anyone would dare to defy him.

He grinned, and immediately burst into laughter.

"Boy, I misjudged you."

He lowered his arm and flexed his fingers.

"You actually dare to stand up for someone?"

The pebbles underfoot were crushed into powder.

Dark red energy surged from the butcher's body, stirring up the nearby loose soil and pushing it away layer by layer.

Hongnan felt a tightness in her chest, and couldn't even breathe.

Without another word, the butcher charged out.

With his five fingers spread wide, he directly tapped Lin Bai's face.

A burly figure stood between the two.

boom!

The claw shadow struck the chest of the powerful body, and the explosive energy swept out along both sides of the shoulders and back.

A huge rock behind them was cut off at waist height. The upper half rolled down the slope and was shattered by the blast wave that followed before it could settle.

With his powerful body pressed his feet into the rock strata, he slid backward into the deep ravine.

Several pale finger marks were left on his chest.

The butcher, however, was unable to continue forward.

The recoil slammed into his shoulder along his arm, causing him to twist in mid-air. After landing, he crushed several rocks before regaining his footing.

The fingertips of his raised right hand were still trembling slightly.

The butcher's smile vanished as he looked at the giant before him.

"Ninth rank?"

Lin Bai did not respond.

Through the senses transmitted back by his secret body, he finally confirmed his previous guess.

The Nine Nether Flame Dragon's Heart Meat from the Eight Directions Restaurant did indeed help the Power Body cross the threshold and reach the ninth level.

But that claw attack just now, the secret body didn't handle it as easily as it looked.

The skin and flesh were not broken, but the penetrating force was still vibrating in his chest.

The person opposite is a body cultivator who truly reached the ninth level through fighting.

We must not be careless.

Lin Bai led Hong Nan to retreat behind the rock ridge, where the barrier formed by the Dark Body blocked the flying rocks.

Ning Wei stared in disbelief at the ten-meter-tall, imposing figure.

She had seen the secret power of the body kill giant beasts, and she had also seen it obliterate the Senluo Envoy.

But that time, after it made its move, it also collapsed.

But things are different now.

Despite catching the butcher's claw, the mysterious body remained firmly in place, even raising its hand to block the butcher's path.

This thing... is it at level nine?

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