"What are your names?" Linlong asked.
"My surname is Shi Xu," the man in the dark red mask said.
"My surname is Yang Sheng," the man in the white mask said.
"You guys don't seem to know much about the academy's recent situation?" Linlong asked.
"We rarely go back, especially because we've been taming the Coldsword Tiger recently. That's why we don't know much about the academy's current situation," Yang Sheng said.
Linlong felt relieved after hearing that.
"Have you guys entered the central palace?" Linlong asked.
"No."
To his surprise, the two of them shook their heads.
"Oh, is it difficult to enter?" Linlong couldn't help but ask.
"It's very difficult to enter. Most importantly, there's nothing worth obtaining inside. That's why we didn't think about entering after trying once," Shi Xu said.
"Oh." Linlong nodded and asked again, "It's said that there's a secret passage that leads to the palace in the north. Do you guys know about it?"
"We've heard about it, but we don't know if there's actually one," the two of them said.
After hearing this, Linlong continued to lead them inside.
The deeper they went, the more dangerous it was. Even though there were six of them and the Coldsword Tiger, it was still dangerous. However, thanks to Linlong's powerful Spiritual Force, they finally arrived at the central palace without any danger.
Through this process, Yang Sheng and Shi Xu realized how terrifying Linlong's Spiritual Force was. They finally understood why Linlong had circled around them to deal with them.
After confirming that there was no danger around, Linlong got Yao Lei to open the palace's door.
With a creaking sound, the palace door was pushed open by Yao Lei. Everyone immediately looked inside and found that it was empty.
No, it wasn't completely empty. In the center of the palace, there were five Ferocious Beasts. These five Ferocious Beasts surrounded the city.
What puzzled them was that the beasts didn't run or charge at them when they saw them.
"Eh, what's going on? Why are they only looking at us? "Yao Lei was puzzled.
"Let's go in first. No matter what, these beasts don't outnumber us," Yan Sheng said.
As he spoke, he looked at Linlong, obviously seeking his opinion.
"Alright, let's go in first." Linlong nodded.
The few of them immediately walked through the gate. After entering, the five fierce beasts remained motionless, as if they did not notice them.
After glancing at the beasts, Linlong shifted his gaze to the interior of the palace. He noticed that there were many words engraved on the walls.
It should be related to level-4 frost talismans, Linlong thought to himself.
As they walked, they came to a place not far from the five fierce beasts.
"Young Master, let me test the strength of these beasts." Yao Lei volunteered at this moment.
Among these people, he was obviously the weakest, so he naturally wanted to seize the opportunity to show off.
"Alright." Linlong nodded.
Yao Lei immediately walked in front of a Direbeast and provoked it, "Come on, beast, attack me!"
Who would have thought that the beast would remain motionless?
This fierce beast looked like a cheetah, but it had the head of a fierce dog.
Seeing that this fierce beast was still ignoring him, Yao Lei took out a level-4 frost talisman.
As he silently chanted a rune, the talisman ignited. In the next instant, waves of frost energy rushed toward the fierce beast.
It was also at this moment that the originally motionless fierce beasts finally moved. Two of them moved at the same time, and they rushed toward Yao Lei at the same time.
At the same time, an even more powerful frost energy enveloped Yao Lei.
In just a short instant, Yao Lei felt as if his body was frozen.
Seeing this, Hall Master Xing hurriedly joined the battle. He activated his frost talisman and immediately helped Yao Lei out of his predicament.
Yao Lei had just caught his breath when another fierce beast rushed over. The combined forces of three fierce beasts immediately suppressed the frost energy of the two of them, and the two of them immediately felt uncomfortable.
Elder Wang hurriedly stepped in, and the situation returned to its original state of balance.
At this moment, the fourth fierce beast joined the battle. Once it joined the battle, the three of them were in a passive state.
Seeing this situation, Yan Sheng hurriedly activated his frost talisman and joined the battle. On the other side, the fifth fierce beast immediately joined the battle.
On the other side, Shi Xu also hurriedly joined the battle.
Logically speaking, with Shi Xu joining the battle, the two sides would naturally return to their original state of balance. However, what caused their expressions to change was that the frost energy they released was clearly much weaker than the five fierce beasts.
What was going on? All of them were shocked.
One must know that three of them had completely mastered the level-4 frost talisman, but under such circumstances, they were actually unable to defeat these five fierce beasts.
They could only shift their gaze to Lin Long.
Lin Long did not make a move because he could see that even if he attacked, he would not be able to defeat these five fierce beasts.
The reason was simple. These five fierce beasts seemed to have used a kind of joint attack technique. This joint attack technique was used on the frost talisman, causing the frost energy released by these five fierce beasts to be much stronger than that of Elder Wang and the other four.
With such strength, even if Lin Long joined the battle, it would be useless.
Previously, when Lin Long saw the four people activating the frost talisman at the same time, it was also considered a joint attack technique. However, compared to these five fierce beasts, it was obviously much weaker.
In the next moment, Lin Long said in a low voice, "All of you, hurry up and retreat!"
Although they felt that it was impossible to retreat when the five fierce beasts were attacking, Elder Wang and the other three still desperately retreated after hearing Lin Long's words.
What made them happy was that they were only slightly hindered. Subsequently, they were able to safely retreat out of the attack range of these five fierce beasts.
What they could not understand the most was that these five fierce beasts then returned to their original positions and did not attack them again.
"What's going on? Could it be that these five fierce beasts are guarding where they are standing and will only attack that place when they are attacked?" Yao Lei was puzzled.
At this moment, Lin Long said, "They are not living creatures, but wood-made fierce beasts!"
"What, wood-made fierce beasts?" The few of them were all shocked when they heard this.
However, no matter how they widened their eyes, no matter how they looked at it, they still felt that these fierce beasts in front of them were living creatures.
"Are they made of wood? No matter how I look at them, they seem alive. "Yao Lei scratched his head.
Elder Wang suddenly said, "Could it be that they are rune fierce beasts?"
"That seems to be a real possibility." Yang Sheng also nodded.
"Wood-made rune fierce beasts? Did you guys see anything? "Yao Lei was puzzled.
He naturally knew what the rune fierce beasts the two of them were talking about were. They were puppets made of special wood and had special runes drawn on them. This allowed these originally soulless things to possess powerful combat strength.
"No, we didn't see anything either." Unexpectedly, Elder Wang and Yang Sheng shook their heads.
"If we want to know whether they are or not, we'll know once we defeat them." Lin Long said.
"Young Master, I don't think we can defeat them." Yao Lei shook his head.
Puzzled expressions appeared on the faces of the other four. They also did not think they could defeat these strange fierce beasts. The situation just now proved that point.
Lin Long did not answer. Instead, he looked at the feet of the five fierce beasts. He discovered that there were many deep cold runes on the ground under the five fierce beasts' feet.
He had an understanding of the joint attack technique, so it was easy for him to see that these runes seemed to be related to the joint attack technique.
Could it be that the joint attack technique below was related to the five fierce beasts' movements? Such a thought immediately flashed across Lin Long's mind.
With that thought in mind, he carefully looked at the runes below.
Seeing that Lin Long was staring at the runes below, Elder Wang and the other three also looked at the runes.
However, after looking for a while, all four of them shook their heads.
The Mask Academy did not have any joint attack technique, so how could they tell what it was?
Since Lin Long was obviously thinking, they did not say anything and stood quietly at the side.
Time passed slowly in such silence. Unknowingly, an hour had passed.
It had been so long, but Young Master Lin still could not see anything. They were afraid that he really could not do anything to these five fierce beasts. The same thought flashed across their minds.
At that moment, Lin Long suddenly moved. He charged towards one of the fierce beasts.
Moreover, he did not activate the cold talisman. Instead, he waved the rune sword in his hand and slashed at the fierce beast.
The moment he charged over, the two fierce beasts in that direction moved. They collided with Lin Long at the same time, and at the same time, waves of cold air immediately attacked Lin Long.
Lin Long did not choose to take it head-on. Instead, he immediately retreated. The moment he retreated, the two fierce beasts retreated as well. Everything returned to normal.
Next, Lin Long tried in the other three directions. Each time, he quickly retreated when the two fierce beasts moved. Therefore, he was not hurt by these fierce beasts.
After he was done, he said to Elder Wang and the other four, "The five of you attack these fierce beasts. Retreat after one attack like I did. Don't give them a chance to hurt you."
Elder Wang and the other four immediately attacked the fierce beasts in front of them according to Lin Long's instructions. When they charged forward, they immediately retreated, not giving the five fierce beasts a chance to hurt them.
After trying in a few directions, Lin Long finally stopped them.
Then, Lin Long fell into deep thought, as if he was stumped by something.
After half an hour, Linlong left his original position and walked towards the wall on one side. Then, he walked along the surrounding walls as if he wanted to comprehend something from the knowledge on the wall.
They walked for three laps, and another two hours passed.
Finally, Lin Long walked in front of the five fierce beasts.
At this moment, he suddenly said, "I got it."
"Young Master, have you found a way to attack these five fierce beasts?" Elder Wang couldn't help but be delighted.
"We'll know after we try," Lin Long said.
Then, he looked at Elder Wang and the other four, "The five of you attack these five fierce beasts together. Also, keep changing your direction."
"Are we not retreating this time?" Yao Lei couldn't help but ask.
"No, unless you can't hold on!" Lin Long said solemnly.
Then, Elder Wang and the other four activated the cold talisman in their hands to deal with the five fierce beasts. They continuously changed their direction according to Lin Long's instructions.
However, it didn't take long for them to reach their limits. Yao Lei, who was the weakest among them, was the first to collapse. His body was trembling uncontrollably.
However, he didn't dare to retreat.
When he could no longer hold on, Lin Long said, "That's enough!"
Hearing Lin Long's words, the five of them hurriedly retreated.
Hall Master Xing hurriedly asked, "Young Master, is that enough?"
Hall Master Xing was only slightly stronger than Yao Lei. If Yao Lei couldn't hold on any longer, he would be next.
He was looking forward to hearing Lin Long's words, but who knew that Lin Long would shake his head. "Not yet. You have to try a few more times."
Hearing Lin Long's words, the faces of Elder Wang and the others couldn't help but twitch.
Fortunately, under such circumstances, they could still retreat if they couldn't hold on. At least, they wouldn't lose their lives to the attacks of these fierce beasts.
After Yao Lei had rested enough, Lin Long said, "Alright, let's continue."
Elder Wang and the other four continued to deal with the five fierce beasts.
After trying a few more times and spending another two hours, Lin Long finally stopped them.
This time, a smile appeared on his face. He felt that he had found a way to defeat these fierce beasts.
In the next instant, he said, "The five of you, attack the fierce beast at the very front at the same time. Keep attacking it and don't change directions!"
Elder Wang and the other four immediately activated their grade 4 Glacial Talismans and attacked the fierce beast at the very front.
As soon as they moved, the five fierce beasts in front of them also moved.
A moment later, Lin Long, who was originally standing behind them, suddenly made his move. He abruptly slashed his sword at the fierce beast that Elder Wang and the other four were attacking.
The moment he slashed his sword, he immediately felt five streams of glacial energy assaulting him simultaneously.
In that instant, he even felt as if he would be frozen into a popsicle.
However, he didn't retreat. Not only that, the runic sword in his hand even left a strange mark in the air.
Kacha kacha!
In the next instant, such a sound suddenly rang out in the air.
What caused Elder Wang and the other four's expressions to change was that Lin Long, who was in mid-air, was directly frozen into a thick block of ice.
However, even so, Lin Long's figure didn't change, and the runic sword in his hand continued to attack the fierce beast.
At this moment, the fierce beast suddenly collided with Lin Long.
This situation caused Elder Wang and the other four's expressions to change even more.
This was because if Lin Long was hit, he would most likely be smashed into powder. At that time, he wouldn't be able to survive.
Kacha!
The first to shatter was Lin Long's runic sword. Amidst such a sound, his runic sword that was already covered in a thick layer of ice was directly broken into two.
This situation caused Elder Wang and the others to be even more shocked. This was because even the sturdy runic sword couldn't withstand such a collision. How could Lin Long, who only had his physical body, withstand it?
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