Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained! Entering the Central Area

As Liu Yan descended from the tree, he quickly retrieved the cloud-treading boots from his interspatial ring and put them on.

As soon as he landed, all the mutant beasts had already heard his movements and turned their gazes toward him.

A few mutated wild wolves pounced on him to bite him!

Even Li Cheng and the others exclaimed in shock.

The next moment, a muffled sound was heard.

Liu Yan leaped a dozen meters into the air, his body as light as a swallow!

The mutant beasts pounced on nothing and struck their heads against the tree, then roared in anger.

Liu Yan wasn't in a hurry to run. He whistled at the mutant beasts, leading them toward him.

"F*ck! This kid is too brave!"

"What a hero! Sacrificing himself for others!"

"Is he crazy?"

"A bunch of idiots. Even if you want to die, can you jump as high as him? That brat's strength is awesome!"

Now, they could only converse in low voices, afraid that the mutant beasts would discover them.

At this moment, the attention of the mutant beasts was completely focused on Liu Yan as they charged toward him like they were crazy!

Liu Yan realized that the mutant beasts on the first floor were quite stupid. They only chased after one target at the same time. Even after they bit the target to death, they would first gnaw at the dead target and not chase after others.

It must be that their strength had been awakened, but their spiritual intelligence had not.

Other than the awakeners who were in Li Cheng and Wang Qing's team, there were also some other scattered awakeners. The wristbands were still constantly notifying them of deaths, and they couldn't tell if it was Liu Yan who had died.

The rest of the awakeners panicked and ran in all directions. The scattered awakeners were more likely to become the mutant beasts' prey, resulting in heavy casualties!

Liu Yan was running with all his might in front, while the mutant beasts were chasing him with all their might. The longer the pursuit lasted, the longer the line became. It actually formed a strange long line.

Under the effect of the beast tide, not only were the Tower guardian mutant beasts here, but even the ordinary mutant beasts rushed over one after another. As a result, all the mutant beasts were charging toward the outskirts of the forest.

In contrast, the forest itself was empty.

Liu Yan jumped to the highest point in the entire forest. Looking at the forest, he could see that most of the mutant beasts had been attracted out, and their numbers were extremely large.

At this time, he used his skill, Fog!

With that, all the mutant beasts lost their sense of direction in an instant. Unless they had an extremely sensitive sense of smell, the others could no longer find Liu Yan's figure. At the same time, they also had to endure the loss of HP and the movement delay effect in the fog. This made many of the mutant beasts feel that Liu Yan wasn't as delicious as they thought.

At this time, they were already very far away from Li Cheng's team. Liu Yan heaved a sigh of relief as he had achieved his goal.

With the exception of Li Cheng's team, the other awakeners who had come in were almost all dead.

Soon, Liu Yan made a discovery. After killing the awakeners, some of the Tower guardian mutant beasts would bring the corpses back to the depths of the forest, seemingly bringing them back to their nests.

Liu Yan's eyes lit up. If that were the case, wouldn't there be a lot of awakeners' corpses in the central area of the forest? If he could use Divine Extraction on those corpses, his strength would increase rapidly.

Of course, Liu Yan also understood that the central area of the forest was quite probably extremely dangerous. After all, it was the nest of the Tower guardian mutant beasts.

That being said, he couldn't care less and immediately ran towards the central area.

Through his Spirit vision, Liu Yan found an injured steel claw iron wolf outside the nest. It was much stronger than an ordinary level 1 mutant beast. It seemed to have fought with an awakener before and was now seriously injured. In its mouth was the corpse of an awakener.

Liu Yan immediately took out his dagger and jumped down from the tree. He was ready to kill the steel claw iron wolf and snatch the awakener's body.

However, as soon as he did so, he noticed that the steel claw iron wolf seemed to have long noticed him. It did not panic but simply stared at Liu Yan, ready to fight at any time.

At the same time, a large number of wild wolves jumped out of the dense shrubbery in the surroundings.

It was obvious that the steel claw iron wolf and the other wild wolves had long noticed Liu Yan's presence.

Liu Yan understood. They were, after all, wolf-type mutant beasts. Their noses were more sensitive, and their insight was sharper.

He had been too careless. He had been too focused on looking at the wild wolf and the corpse to use Spirit Vision to keep an eye on his surroundings.

Liu Yan quickly activated Ghost Steps.

Liu Yan's agility attribute was off the charts, to begin with. Coupled with the threefold agility boost from Ghost Steps, his speed was immediately raised to the maximum, and he instantly broke away from the wild wolves' encirclement.

However, he didn't run away. Instead, he jumped back onto the tree. After some observation, he counted that there were more than ten wolves in this den!

If Liu Yan were to go all out, he would probably be able to win. However, it would undoubtedly consume a lot of physical strength. It would be more dangerous if other Tower guardian mutant beasts or ordinary mutant beasts rushed over.

After all, this was the central area of the dense forest, where the nests of many Tower guardian mutant beasts and ordinary mutant beasts were located.

The wolves didn't know how to climb trees, but they madly clawed at the tree bark. If it were anyone else, they would have been scared to death.

Liu Yan immediately took out the bow and arrow from his storage ring, and used his grade-B skill, Poison Control, to apply poison to the arrows. After doing so, Liu Yan shot out arrow after arrow.

His strength attribute was already extremely terrifying, so he saved his MP and did not use Strength Enhancement.

With the buffs from Great Precision, Liu Yan's every arrow accurately hit the wolves. In fact, due to his great strength and the accuracy of Great Precision, he was sometimes able to kill two or even three with one arrow.

The arrows were coated with the effects of paralysis, delay, and poison. As such, not long after they were hit, the wolves died one by one.

Just as Liu Yan was about to continue shooting, he suddenly realized that he had run out of arrows.

The remaining wild wolves were still eyeing him covetously, their sharp claws almost cutting the big tree in half!

Helplessly, Liu Yan activated Ghost Steps again and dodged the attacks of the wolves. He took the risk to rush to the dead wolves and retrieve the arrows.

But at this moment, a huge wolf suddenly rushed out from the side and pounced on Liu Yan. The situation was urgent and the distance was too close, so Liu Yan didn't have time to shoot.

Liu Yan simply blocked the wolf king with one arm, while his other hand gripped a few arrows that he had just picked up and stabbed directly into the wolf king's heart.

Tyrant King Kong Body!

Fortunately, with this skill and his strong physical fitness, Liu Yan was able to block the wolf king's attack with one hand and stab the arrow into the wolf king's heart at the same time.

The wolf king fell to the ground and struggled but did not die.

Seeing this, Liu Yan immediately used Strength Enhancement, which made him enter a berserk state and have his strength increased by three times!

Following that, Liu Yan did the same thing. He pulled out the arrows and once again stabbed the wolf king's heart.

This time, with three times the force, the arrows completely pierced the wolf king's heart. The wolf king struggled for a while, then stopped moving. It was dead.

The surrounding wild wolves saw that half of their comrades had died at the hands of Liu Yan alone, and even their powerful wolf king was killed. At that moment, the remaining wolves howled and glared at him, but none of them dared to attack.

Liu Yan did not waste any time and immediately used Divine Extraction on the wild wolf king.

A green light instantly enveloped the area, covering the body of the wolf king, which was four to five people in size.