Lin Mo gripped the dagger, his entire body tense, veins bulging as Yuri and the Hongmen Ancestor deliberately displayed their strength, not only to deal with the giant wolf but also to warn him.

If Lin Mo could not demonstrate transcendent strength, these two might very well make a move against him.

"It's my turn now." Lin Mo grinned.

"Awoo!"

Lin Mo tightly clutched the dagger, suddenly sprinting towards the giant wolf, clearly intent on engaging in melee combat.

The giant wolf, having just taken attacks from the Hongmen Ancestor and Yuri, was now in a state of extreme anger, roaring deafeningly as it saw someone daring to charge at it, its powerful limbs gripping the ground as it leaped seven to eight meters high, becoming a blur as it pounced on Lin Mo.

"Now's the time!"

A spark of brilliance flashed in Lin Mo's eyes.

In the instant when the two were about to clash, the wolf's steel-like sharp claws sliced through the air, aiming to smash Lin Mo's head, moving as fast as lightning, with only a vague shadow visible in its vision.

At that moment.

The Hongmen Ancestor and Yuri both widened their eyes.

Lin Mo suddenly bent both knees sharply, sliding with his knees almost touching the ground, while his right hand holding the dagger slashed a black line across the wolf's abdomen.

Lin Mo dragged two long dust trails along the ground.

The giant wolf's eyes shifted from a bloodthirsty glow to a look of pain; due to its massive forward momentum, it continued to lunge forward, its abdomen opening into a huge wound, with intestines and blood flowing out, collapsing lifelessly onto the ground.

"Boom!"

The giant wolf crashed to the ground, raising a circle of dust.

Yuri and the Hongmen Ancestor both frowned upon seeing this.

Both of them had attacked this giant wolf, its fur incredibly tough. Although Lin Mo targeted the softest abdomen, the speed, technique, and explosive power he showed were somewhat astonishing to Yuri and the Hongmen Ancestor.

"Alright, let's continue inside."

Lin Mo patted off the dust from his body, walked to the fallen giant wolf's side, and cut open its head with the dagger, extracting a black crystal, and smiled.

Yuri and the Hongmen Ancestor nodded.

Lin Mo's displayed strength clearly had gained their approval, considering how the Ancient Battlefield Ruins were teeming with dangers, internal conflict among the three would benefit no one.

"Awoo!"

Suddenly, the three of their expressions changed drastically. The pounding noise approaching suggested dozens of giant wolves were charging towards the palace.

"Run fast!"

Wolves are pack animals; killing one attracts a dozen more. If they continued to get entangled, it would likely draw even larger packs, and even the most formidable outsiders would never imagine being hunted by giant wolves, forced to flee in disgrace.

The palace was vast and largely unobstructed, allowing the wolf pack to rush in like gray shadows.

Lin Mo hurled two willow-shaped darts without looking back, two willow leaf blades becoming streaks of black light, instantly piercing the eyes of two giant wolves twenty meters behind.

The two wolves, disoriented from the pain, crashed into the ground, sending a cascade of dust.

The enraged wolves continued their pursuit, growling and snarling angrily.

The Hongmen Ancestor's black whip suddenly extended several dozen meters, sweeping up two giant wolves and flinging them into the wolf pack behind, causing a brief moment of chaos.

Yuri's Thunder Stone shot out three snake-like lightning bolts, striking two wolves, sending them tumbling to the ground with black smoke rising from them. But they didn't die immediately, instead getting up and staring at Yuri with fury, continuing to chase.

"If this keeps up, we'll all die; we need to find a passage quickly."

The Hongmen Ancestor growled lowly.

Lin Mo frowned, realizing the giant wolves were enormous; if they could find a narrow passageway, only one wolf could fit through, allowing them to block it with the wolf's body.

"Over there, there's a passage over there."

Yuri shouted, turning to run frantically to the right.

Sure enough, on the right was a pitch-black passage only about a meter wide, where the size of the wolves could not squeeze through.

The Hongmen Ancestor and Lin Mo hurried to escape the wolves closely behind them, quickly running towards Yuri.

"That was close!"

The trio dashed into the passage, sprinting without hesitation, only stopping several hundred meters in, with faint howls echoing behind them.

"Those beasts really can't get in here."

Yuri gasped, breathing heavily.

Lin Mo and the Hongmen Ancestor also sighed in relief.

"Hmph, if we were outside, I could crush those beasts with a flick of a finger." The Hongmen Ancestor snorted coldly.

"We'll see if you ever get out." Yuri sneered.

Lin Mo's eyes, however, fell on the depths of the passage, "Now we have no way out, we can only go deeper to see what lies within."

The Hongmen Ancestor and Yuri exchanged a glance, nodding.

However, they remained vigilant, for in such places, one never knew what might be encountered.

After about ten more minutes, the passage gradually widened, the stone walls on either side becoming smooth, with a faint light shining through a crevice.

A tall stone gate about three meters high appeared before them, seeming to be coated with black metal, emitting a dark radiance, inscribed with overwhelmingly complex magic patterns that even Lin Mo eyed with surprise.

A brilliant beam of light faintly shone between the two stone gates.

The breaths of the Hongmen Ancestor and Yuri suddenly became somewhat labored.

"Could there be a treasure in there?" Yuri's eyes gleamed with excitement.

The Hongmen Ancestor said nothing, eyes fixed intensely on the dazzling light emerging from the gate's crack.

The two were top-tier experts in the outside world, finding further progress incredibly challenging. Without treasures or opportunities, they'd stagnate, with only their remaining time left until death.

"Let's open it and see."

Lin Mo placed his hand on the stone gate, feeling a chill and heaviness in his palm.

"Hmm." The Hongmen Ancestor nodded, "The Ancient Battlefield Ruins suppress any mana cultivation, making the runes on this stone gate non-functional; otherwise, opening the gate would be nearly impossible for us."

With collective effort, the heavy stone gate emitted a booming sound, gradually opening to reveal an empty ground before the group.

"Hissing!"

The sound of taking sharp breaths filled the mouths of the Hongmen Ancestor and Yuri.

"Such, such a lot..."

Indeed, piled high before them like small mountains, the stones inside almost illuminated the entire space with brilliant light.

These stones piled like little mountains were top-grade Energy Crystals, countless in number, at least in the hundreds of thousands.

Even Lin Mo's eyes flashed with brilliance.