I have an eye of truth

After issuing the alert order, Wang Yang quietly released his shadow, then stepped out from the corner and continued forward. He had a feeling that someone was watching him, and it wasn't just a hunch.

The constant appearance of the scarecrows confirmed this for Wang Yang.

As for his own senses, they really didn't have that ability.

With the shadow, things were different. Wang Yang didn't need the shadow to attack; he just needed to know what was happening around him. Once released, within a hundred meters, he wouldn't say he knew everything like the back of his hand, but he would have a good idea.

Suddenly, a shadow monster alerted Wang Yang to a shadow beast ahead.

Wang Yang raised his hand and fired a shot, killing the shadow beast before its own shadow could even launch an attack.

Before Wang Yang could collect the crystal core, another shadow monster sent a warning, this time about a different monster. From underground, a fat worm popped its head out, and Wang Yang shot it dead.

These things were extremely cautious, diving underground at the slightest disturbance.

Wang Yang had seen them from afar twice before, but they had run away before he could act. This time, with the shadow monster's warning, he finally managed to kill one. "Too bad, it doesn't have any good skills."

Burrowing was an instinct, not a skill; it was because of its body structure that it could drill through the earth.

It wasn't using any kind of energy to burrow underground, so Wang Yang couldn't acquire that skill.

After collecting the crystal core, he continued forward. Suddenly, the shadow alerted him to someone approaching. It seemed it wasn't a person, but a scarecrow. Wang Yang didn't hold back; these things had been annoying him enough.

Before the scarecrow could quietly approach, Wang Yang fired a shot directly at it. The bullet shattered a small tree, and the scarecrow hiding behind it had its head blown off.

After such a long time, Wang Yang also knew that the scarecrow's central point was in its head. A headshot meant death; other areas would only be injured, and might not even show a reaction.

"Strange, why is my perception so sharp all of a sudden?"

After Wang Yang left, a figure appeared at the spot. After observing the traces left by the attack, the person realized that this was completely different from before.

His scarecrows had excellent hiding abilities. Before, Wang Yang would only discover them after they got close and launched an attack, but now, it was being taken out from so far away.

"Leave the rest to me. Your harassment is useless."

A bird in the tree spoke up. That's right, it was a bird talking, but its eyes were a bit dull.

"Hmph, without my harassment, would you be progressing so smoothly?"

Withered Grass snorted and turned to walk into the bushes, disappearing from sight.

On the other side, Wang Yang had no idea that someone was watching him. At this time, he had already gone deep into this mass grave. The further he went, the more monsters there were.

"It's about time, and my energy should be about ready too. Take out this wave, then head back."

Wang Yang looked at the sky, then looked down at the black hill ahead. It wasn't naturally black; it had become that way after being stained by corpses.

There were no corpses on the hill, which was somewhat out of place with the surrounding mass of dead bodies, but the aura of death seemed even heavier here.

Wang Yang didn't personally investigate, but instead had his shadow quietly approach. Using some small shadows on the ground, his shadow monster easily reached the front.

"Huh, how could this be?" Wang Yang suddenly felt his shadow monster die.

The information it sent back before it died told Wang Yang that there were many shadow beasts in this place.

His shadow monster had been attacked by a large number of shadow monsters. Even if it was stronger in skill and attack, it couldn't fight against so many, and was eventually beaten to death. Wang Yang was very surprised.

The next moment, a shadow monster suddenly appeared beside him and attacked.

The claws grazed his body, and his clothes tore again.

But this time was clearly different. The fact that the shadow monster was able to break through his shadow monster defense line and appear beside him was already a very unusual thing. Most importantly, his air armor activated.

At first, his air armor had completely ignored the attacks of those shadow monsters because those attacks couldn't hurt him.

But the current attack directly triggered his air armor to block it. Although he didn't even feel a breeze, it was clear that this attack was much stronger than before, at least enough to hurt him.

If an attack couldn't hurt him, the air armor wouldn't activate on its own.

"It seems there's an elite here, no, it should be a king. There are so many shadow beasts here, perhaps it's a nest."

Wang Yang didn't hold back and charged straight over, shooting anything he saw. Shadow beasts were troublesome, but that was for other people. Their actual strength wasn't that great.

Now that Wang Yang had attacked their doorstep, they had nowhere to run under his door-to-door assault.

The battle only lasted a few minutes, ending with the complete annihilation of the shadow beasts, but Wang Yang didn't look too good either. The clothes on his body had become like a mop, torn into strips.

This was because his shadow monsters had done their best to resist. In their battles, the shadow monsters didn't need to transform; they could fight directly in the shadows, invisible to the naked eye.

The shadow monsters had blocked with all their might, but they were quickly wiped out, giving Wang Yang time. Otherwise, his clothes wouldn't be in such good shape. He might not have any clothes to wear now.

At least, even though they were torn, they could still cover him, right?

Wang Yang shook his head and stepped forward to collect the crystal cores one by one. "Oh, this can be considered an unexpected surprise."

Wang Yang saw a lot of bones in the nest. The most important thing wasn't the bones themselves, but that many of them were left behind by monsters. The shadow beasts wouldn't eat or use the crystal cores of these monsters.

As a result, they were left behind here. Although many crystal cores had been gnawed and destroyed, losing all their energy.

There were still quite a few intact ones left, and Wang Yang quietly absorbed this energy. Now, he had enough energy to break through. Next, as long as he found a safe place to go back to, he could easily enter the formal professional level.

"Hmph, I'll see if those guys dare to provoke me then."

A flash of annoyance flashed in Wang Yang's heart as he thought of the guy who had been chasing him relentlessly.