Chapter 37: Shadow Sentinels

The noise came from above Bai Pu’s head, from the spiritual camera that had been hovering there.

Bai Pu had always acted like that camera didn’t exist, but he never thought someone would actually send him a message. He reached out and plucked the spiritual camera down, pressing the message button.

Chirp chirp, the spiritual camera projected a virtual light screen, and rows of text messages appeared.

Bai Pu’s eyes slightly narrowed, and then he extended his fingers to type a reply on the virtual light screen.

Beep beep.

Li Ling’s message arrived even faster.

Bai Pu raised his head, his eyes deep.

By integrating Evolutionary Source Blood and rising to an awakened state, Bai Pu gained his second life.

Only those who have "lost" can truly understand the value of "gaining." Bai Pu cherishes his energetic life now immensely.

However, this doesn’t mean he must always be cautious, locking himself in places absolutely safe and waiting to die of old age.

On the contrary, Bai Pu will devote himself to experiencing the vibrant world, seizing every opportunity to strengthen his combat power, fighting enemies, and seeking a chance of survival.

To survive through battle!

This time, Bai Pu received an early warning and could leave the boundary land.

But what about next time? And the time after that?

The Superpower Group can endlessly send awakened assassins, but Bai Pu can’t endlessly hide and retreat. He must also train and strengthen.

This time, the practice in the boundary land will not scare Bai Pu away.

Bai Pu is very certain that the opponent’s level will not exceed Level 3! Since there are no intermediate or advanced awakened ones involved, Bai Pu feels his disadvantage is not significant, and he has confidence in battling the opponent.

Beep beep.

Bai Pu opened the document and was astonished to see that the information Li Ling sent included not only bloody artifacts but also intelligence on two awakened individuals.

After reading the materials, Bai Pu stood up.

"Not sure when the Poison Thorn Squad will come knocking, but I can’t stop progressing. The upcoming monster hunts can’t be too reckless; I must conserve most of my spiritual power and blood fighting qi, preparing for combat at any moment!"

Jiangnan Special Military Base, Central Control Room.

"This guy!" Li Ling sighed heavily.

Instructor Xiang Yinghua, standing behind at the base, revealed a slight smile of admiration: "This kid’s not bad! He’s got guts."

"I just worry he’s blindly confident." Li Ling mumbled, embarrassedly pleading, "Instructor Xiang, could you tell our guys to head to Black Mist Valley, secretly protect Bai Pu?"

Every time the boundary land of the Bone Mountain Range opens, the military’s awakened ones get the most entry slots.

"No way."

Xiang Yinghua shook his head, swiftly refusing, "Not to mention if it complies with regulations, just his attitude alone, I guess he wouldn’t be willing to have military personnel babysit him."

Li Ling went out for a while, made a phone call.

After some time, Li Ling came back in:

"Can I have two more entry slots for the Bone Mountain Range? I issued a task inside the Divine Strategy Army to send two Level 3 Elites in." Li Ling insisted.

She couldn’t explain why she valued Bai Pu so much.

"Too late!" Xiang Yinghua suddenly stared at the screen, "Damn, they came so fast! How did they pinpoint Bai Pu’s location so precisely?"

Li Ling quickly looked at the large monitoring screen.

In the screen, a silent pantomime was being acted out.

Amidst the black mist, two figures appeared one after the other, blocking Bai Pu. A short man’s hand flashed with blood light, and a somewhat illusory chain already connected him and Bai Pu.

"It’s the combat shackles!" Li Ling clenched her fists, "Sure enough, it’s a bloody artifact! Instructor Xiang, this is a serious crime!"

"Understood." Xiang Yinghua raised a hand and pressed a red button in the central control room, a clear command sounding, "Dongfeng Squad One, Squad Two, converge to Black Mist Valley, two awakened ones using forbidden tools, capture immediately! If they dare resist, shoot on sight! Coordinates are..."

Having arranged for deployment inside the boundary land, Xiang Yinghua organized a group of awakened soldiers to wait outside the boundary land portal. If the two forbidden awakened ones left the boundary land, they would immediately capture them.

Li Ling watched the fight on the screen, somewhat uneasy. She had checked the intelligence on the two from the Poison Thorn Squad and naturally knew their names and codenames.

In the footage, Fish Intestines, profession Shadow Sentinel, bound combat shackles, then swiftly disappeared, only to emerge from Bai Pu’s shadow and perform a fierce throat slash!

Clang!

Upon receiving notification from the Spirit Realm Will’s , Bai Pu was prepared.

He attempted an evasive maneuver, but the speed was slightly slow, his shoulder suffered the blow, an ear-piercing clang rang as the iron spike shoulder guard and dagger met, the dagger wrapped in qi force did not wane, piercing through the shoulder armor into flesh!

A corrosive dark energy infiltrated at the same time.

"Very strong, actually mixed damage, and also quenched with poison... It seems the poison can stack!" Bai Pu calculated rapidly in his mind.

Little did he know, opposite him, Fish Intestines had already started cursing furiously in the team channel.

"What kind of monster rookie, actually has 380 life points?! My professional skills barely dealt less than a tenth, my horizontal slash couldn’t deal anything more than single-digit damage! I am a whole level higher with 10% damage bonus!"

With reducing sharp damage, Bai Pu’s high 19-point basic armor damage reduction, plus ’s extra 10-point shoulder armor damage reduction...

Fish Intestines’s horizontal slash damage not reaching double digits was quite normal.

The Hanguang Magic Wand swung, releasing a gray energy bomb, causing attributeless magic damage to Bai Pu. This was her basic magic skill as a Molder, the magic damage had no extra bonuses but was able to output continuously.

Fish Intestines followed his horizontal slash with , both daggers tracing a blood red cross through the air, more blood scratches appeared on Bai Pu’s surface.

The Death Cross skill caused Bai Pu a total of 15 points of sharp damage with 7+8.

"Damn it! I’ll first stack the poison to the maximum 3 layers, losing 9 life value per second, with 60 seconds of combat shackles duration, factoring in his life recovery speed, more than enough to bleed him dry! Not to mention our sustained offensive suppression!" Fish Intestines calculated frantically.

Fish Intestines calculated accurately, but he overlooked one thing.

Though Bai Pu is a rookie, he is not a lamb waiting to be slaughtered!