158: What? You want to go first?

“Are you sure it’s this direction?” he asked, looking ahead with doubt.

“The direction is correct. As long as we keep going this way, we can reach the mountain peak,” Lin Gezhu said, gazing into the distance.

“How many tokens do we have now?” Lin Yi asked Lin Qing.

“Tokens…” Lin Qing’s spatial ring on her fingertip flashed.

These were exchanged within the Lin Family mall.

After Lin Mo unlocked the gold purchasable items, spatial rings were no longer scarce for the Lin Family.

Almost every main force member of the Lin Family had one.

“We’ve found four so far, but… one is a duplicate. We have two white, one red, and one green.”

During this time, Lin Yan and the others had been quite lucky.

They had already found four tokens in a short amount of time.

Three of them were dropped by killing Demonic Beasts.

And one…

was picked up by Lin Nv.

Yes, purely picked up. The reason was that Lin Nv was walking and suddenly tripped over something.

She looked down.

A token was just lying there.

And… it was even a very rare red token.

At that moment, the few of them were stunned.

They even felt their scalps tingle.

During this time, they had also encountered many other teams and experienced many battles, but the chance of tokens appearing was pitifully low.

From this, one could see how difficult it was to obtain a token.

But… to pick one up just by walking, this kind of thing was a bit exaggerated.

“So, strictly speaking, we still need four tokens of other colors,” Lin Gezhu said with a helpless expression.

“It’s a long and arduous journey.”

“If only Lin Nv could pick up another one,” Lin Qing said, crossing her arms, fantasizing about this almost impossible scenario.

Lin Nv couldn’t help but give a wry smile and shake her head: “How could it be that easy? This kind of thing…”

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Nv paused.

Her mouth opened in disbelief.

She looked at the branch above her head.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Yan asked curiously, leaning in and looking up.

Hiss…

Lin Yan gasped.

“What the??” Lin Gezhu’s mouth dropped open.

Lin Yi couldn’t help but laugh: “No way, is the luck really that good??”

“And it’s gold??” Lin Qing kept shaking her head.

She expressed her inability to understand.

Why was this person’s luck so abnormal?

She saw a gold token shimmering with dazzling light under the sun on the branch above Lin Nv’s head.

One could only say… it was utterly ridiculous.

However, just as the few of them were about to go up and retrieve the token.

Buzz…

The turmoil of spiritual energy instantly alerted Lin Yan and Lin Yi.

The two turned around in sync, and an icy cold current swept in from afar, as if carrying an unstoppable force.

Freezing everything in its path!

Moreover, the most peculiar thing was the color of this ice.

It wasn’t the usual transparent color, but… black ice!

Ice like obsidian!

Carrying an extreme cold that ordinary people couldn’t comprehend, it surged towards them.

Blazing flames wrapped around Lin Yan’s body.

As he threw a punch.

Boom!!!

Flames and black profound ice collided.

The terrifying energy that erupted in an instant shot into the sky.

It even froze all the surrounding trees, then shattered them, and finally turned them into dust in the flames.

Lin Yan, Lin Yi, and the attacking opponent were all pushed back several steps by the powerful impact.

It was only at this moment that Lin Yan clearly saw the opponent’s appearance.

It was… a figure completely hidden beneath a black cloak.

He wasn’t the only one; around them, four other people revealed themselves.

Forming a circle, surrounding the four of them.

Lin Yi stepped forward, his Dual Pupils scanning the surroundings: “From the Boundless Sacred Ground?”

Before the battle, everyone had learned about some of the opponents they might encounter in this competition.

Among them, even Lin Mo had warned them to be careful of the people from the Boundless Sacred Ground.

These people were very strange. Although their surface strength might not seem strong, in fact, they might be even more difficult to deal with than the Reincarnation Holy Land.

Lin Qing put the gold token into her spatial ring.

This action made the people from the Boundless Sacred Ground slightly moved.

“Are you here to snatch it?” Lin Yi’s spiritual energy began to surge throughout his body.

Lin Yan and Lin Nv were not to be outdone either.

The strength of three Grandmasters erupted at this moment.

Just the activation of their spiritual energy caused the ground beneath their feet to rumble!

The battle… seemed imminent!

…

…

On the other side, Lin Hao and the others were walking through the dense jungle.

Compared to Lin Yan and their good luck.

Their side was utterly unlucky.

Except for a token that was dropped when they cleared a group of demonic bats in the cave after being teleported in, they had found nothing.

“This won’t do. If we’re unlucky enough… everyone else might have already found the tokens and reached the mountain peak, and we might not even have gathered all the tokens yet,” Lin Xiaobai said with a hint of helplessness.

And just as he finished speaking.

Lin Hao suddenly stopped him: “Wait a moment!”

Lin Hao’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a scene he had never seen before appeared in his mind.

“Accidental Prediction?”

Lin Hao seemed to understand something. As the person who had gone the furthest on the Time Dao, Lin Hao’s ability in Time was also much stronger than others.

In fact, at certain critical moments, this power would activate on its own.

Predicting some events that were about to happen for Lin Hao.

For example, he had just seen the future.

If Lin Xiaobai took another step forward, he would inevitably be hit by a hidden arrow shot from a certain direction.

“There’s an ambush…” Lin Hao narrowed his eyes.

He glanced at the few of them, and with just a look, they understood Lin Hao’s meaning.

The next moment, Lin Hao turned and left.

Leaving only Lin Dong and the other three behind.

Not far away, in the bushes, a man who seemed to have become one with the environment, even his scent had changed, was staring intently at Lin Xiaobai.

“What’s going on… why isn’t he taking another step?”

He was annoyed, seeing that Lin Xiaobai was about to enter his effective attack range.

As a result, Lin Xiaobai stopped just one step away.

He was just standing on his boundary line, neither entering nor retreating, which made him anxious.

“Damn it, just one more step!!”

The man couldn’t help but mutter.

“Huh? Do you want to take a step first?” Suddenly, Lin Hao’s voice sounded in his ear.

The man’s pupils constricted!

He turned his head sharply, one of his targets… had strangely appeared behind him at some point.

He was smiling at him and greeting him: “Since you want to take a step first, I’ll help you!”

Boom!!!

The entire forest could feel the violent tremor.

The explosion that shot into the sky carried countless broken branches and roots of trees, flying hundreds of meters high.

Smoke and dust like a mushroom cloud rose, so vast that the entire Pilgrimage Mountain Range could see the shocking commotion from here!

Countless people were startled by the commotion.

They stared dumbfounded at the towering mushroom cloud that rose from a corner of the forest.

What happened over there?

Did someone self-destruct? Such terrifying power??

One thought after another rose in the hearts of the participants.