Chapter 880: Meeting an Old Friend

When Lingyun appeared on the outskirts of the Morning Light Forest, the Elf Array, which had long since been activated, reacted to him instantly.

"Lingyun is back!" Aiweier suddenly raised her head, a trace of pleasant surprise appearing in her eyes.

"Lingyun is back? Where?" Hearing Aiweier's words, Oufeina jumped up almost immediately.

"The Elf Array has reacted; he should be on the outskirts of the Morning Light Forest right now." As Aiweier spoke, she discovered that Oufeina beside her had already vanished.

"Sigh, so many years have passed, and she is still such a hothead!" Aiweier sighed slightly, then her figure also transformed into specks of light and disappeared from where she stood.

"Roar—"

A shrill roar suddenly erupted from the outskirts of the Morning Light Forest as a giant skeleton burst out from the ground, swinging the axe in its hand down toward Lingyun's direction.

Lingyun raised a hand and caught the sharp axe blade with one palm. Death Qi, carrying a powerful corrosive ability, spread out from the blade, attempting to entwine itself around Lingyun.

Lingyun raised an eyebrow slightly and gave his hand, which was gripping the blade, a slight jolt. A powerful force diffused from his right hand, and the axe blade he was pinching instantly developed cracks like a spiderweb. With a crisp shattering sound, the giant axe in the giant skeleton's hand had already turned into a pile of fragments on the ground.

With its weapon shattered, the giant skeleton showed no intention of retreating; it swung its fist and smashed it toward Lingyun.

"You're courting death!" Before Lingyun could counterattack, he heard an angry, sharp cry from above him.

The somewhat dim forest became bright in an instant, and countless Light Spears appeared in the Void, shooting down toward the giant skeleton like a torrential rain.

Amidst a teeth-gritting crunching sound, the giant skeleton in front of Lingyun was pierced into a sieve by the dense barrage of Light Spears.

"Lingyun!"

As the giant skeleton was pierced through by the Light Spears, a figure suddenly lunged down from mid-air. Lingyun subconsciously opened his arms and caught the beautiful figure lunging down from the air firmly.

"Lingyun, I missed you so much!" Oufeina, who had lunged into Lingyun's embrace, wrapped her arms tightly around his body, her face full of pleasant surprise.

"Oufeina, long time no see." Looking at this old friend who had fought side-by-side with him during the Millennium Holy War, a smile also appeared on Lingyun's face.

"Oufeina, you ran way too fast!"

Just at this moment, a burst of silver light rose beside the two of them, and Aiweier's figure also appeared before them. When she saw Oufeina held in Lingyun's embrace, her cheeks could not help but puff up slightly.

Just as Oufeina was hugging Lingyun, wanting to pour out her longing from all these years, the ground suddenly burst open. One giant skeleton after another crawled out from the cracked earth, surrounding Lingyun and the others as if intending to surround and kill the three of them in this place. A murderous aura instantly filled the entire forest, diluting much of the joy of their reunion.

"These bastards!"

The atmosphere of their reunion was broken; Oufeina broke free from Lingyun's embrace, and her gaze toward the skeletons present held a few more traces of killing intent.

The giant skeletons emerging from the soil were completely oblivious to this situation; after all, they had only one mission here, which was to kill every living being that appeared in this place.

"Light Punishment!"

Oufeina spread her hands, and a huge Array appeared in the Void. Subsequently, countless Light Spears poured down from the sky like a torrential rain. The giant skeletons, which had just raised their weapons, were completely submerged in the sky-filling Light Spears before they could even react.

The bombardment of Light Spears lasted for several minutes before it vanished. Once the Light Spears and the Array in the sky disappeared, the ground in front of the three of them was riddled with holes, and within those pits, not even a scrap of bone remained.

"Alright, alright, this place is not the place for talking; let's head back to the Elf Temple first." Watching Oufeina's pouting appearance, Aiweier said to her with some amusement.

Oufeina glanced at the marks left on the ground by the Light Spear bombardment, then looked at Lingyun beside her, before opening her hand to reveal a golden longbow.

"Wait a moment, I'll finish off the culprit behind this first. To actually dare to send people to attack Lingyun, they truly don't know what death is!"

This longbow was suffused with a majestic aura; one could tell at a glance that it was no ordinary item. Although it could not compare to the Elf Holy Bow, it was still a quite powerful Sacred Gear.

Oufeina placed her hand on the bowstring and slowly drew the longbow. Powerful Light Element continuously gathered on the longbow, eventually condensing into a pure golden arrow.

Oufeina twisted her body slightly, the arrow tip pointing outside the Morning Light Forest. As her fingers released, the arrow on the longbow instantly transformed into a streak of light, carrying powerful light energy as it disappeared from everyone's sight.

Outside the Morning Light Forest, a giant Skeleton Tower had stood at some unknown time. This Skeleton Tower was composed of countless remains and was suffused with terrifying undead energy, looking exceptionally hideous.

Inside the Skeleton Tower, a Lich that looked extremely gaunt was grinding materials in its hands, occasionally emitting a hair-raising, strange laugh.

Suddenly, a streak of light approached the Skeleton Tower in an instant. Before the Defense Array around the Skeleton Tower could react, the streak of light had already pierced through their defensive line.

"Hmm, what is it?" The Lich, who was grinding spellcasting materials, seemed to have sensed something outside the window and subconsciously raised its head to look in the direction the disturbance came from.

In its field of vision, an extremely dazzling light appeared. Before the Lich had time to think about what this light was, the light had already rapidly magnified before it and swallowed it whole. The final sight the Lich saw of this world was that endless, dazzling light that obscured everything.

A huge pillar of light suddenly shot up into the sky from inside the Skeleton Tower, instantly overturning the top of the tower. The remains that made up the Skeleton Tower were rapidly purified within the light shooting into the sky, eventually slowly disappearing into the Void.

"Aiweier, look, how many grades behind yours is my archery?" Gazing at the pillar of light shooting into the sky in the distance, Oufeina slowly lowered the longbow in her hand and nudged Aiweier beside her with her shoulder, looking somewhat proud.

"I wouldn't know about that." Aiweier shrugged, having no intention of critiquing Oufeina's arrow just now.

"Hmph—" Oufeina loosened her hand, and the longbow falling toward the ground was instantly swallowed by an Array that appeared out of thin air, disappearing without a trace.

Naturally, she did not want to compete with Aiweier in archery; after all, in this regard, all the gods combined were not enough for Aiweier to fight with one hand. She did this merely to show off her cultivation results from over the years to Lingyun, as he had once told her that she could miss a shot within three hundred meters.

"It looks like your archery really has improved a lot over these years!" Lingyun said with a light chuckle.

"Unh-huh, that goes without saying. You don't even think about who I am; as long as I am willing to put in the effort, there is nothing I cannot accomplish!" Hearing Lingyun's words, the corners of Oufeina's mouth curled up uncontrollably, and she then hummed with a hint of feigned arrogance.