Accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate some more!

Lin Yi could only keep accelerating the sand boat now.

Letting it rush forward along the track at an even faster speed.

"Captain! It seems like we're almost at the shortcut area the guide mentioned ahead!"

The cold wind howled as Ke Mengyuan sat behind Lin Yi, looking at the surrounding scenery and recalling the strategy guide he had read, loudly reminding Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's eyes narrowed.

Shortcut!

Their original plan was just to restrict others, making it impossible for them to set sail, so even if they didn't take the shortcut, they could still be the first to finish.

But now he was racing against black ice.

He definitely had to take advantage of the shortcut.

Lin Yi's gaze continuously moved around various positions on the track ahead.

Soon, he saw not far ahead, many hairpin turns appeared on the right side of the track, and next to the eighth turn, there was an invisible uplift stream!

If it weren't for the Eye of Omniscience, Lin Yi probably wouldn't have discovered this invisible stream.

The other teams competing normally would probably avoid this area with so many turns.

Even if someone saw through the organizers' trick and entered this winding area voluntarily, it wouldn't be so easy to spot this hidden "shortcut."

"Turn, turn!"

"Go that way!"

Lin Yi pointed at the convoluted track, directing Ke Mengyuan and the others to steer the sand boat in that direction.

Clearly, Lin Yi and Ke Mengyuan's driving skills were disastrous!

On the first turn, they failed to make the turn successfully.

The sand boat crashed into a wall.

But to be fair, the initial sand boat provided by the organizers was of decent quality.

They were dazed from the crash, but the sand boat wasn't badly damaged.

Lin Yi could only slightly reduce the speed, making it easier to take the turns.

After navigating through six or seven turns.

The ascending invisible stream was right in front of them.

"That's it, rush through!"

Rushing into the stream, the next moment, the whole sand boat soared skyward!

It flew high into the sky!

The advancing Meili transformed into the flying Meili in the blink of an eye!

After reaching the high altitude, Lin Yi discovered that there was an aerial track also composed of yellow sand from below!

But these sands were all modified by the organizers.

They were all rendered invisible to the naked eye.

Only by driving on this invisible track could they barely discern the unique texture of these grains of sand.

Lin Yi leaned out to look below.

The winding track below had completely turned black.

At the same time, looking ahead from a high vantage point, Lin Yi could already faintly see the end of the track and the ruins towering outside the desert beyond.

After more than ten minutes, the sand boat sped furiously across the finish line.

Lin Yi and his team successfully claimed the championship of the first round.

But at the finish line, the spectators and the event staff had all turned into black ice statues.

Their astonished expressions forever frozen in time.

As the sand boat crossed the finish line, the next moment, Lin Yi felt like they passed through some sort of barrier.

This feeling was just like when he found the real Yogda Hill in the Heart of the Swarm instance and crossed the barrier.

Sure enough, after passing through the barrier, the previously vague silhouette of the ruins became completely clear.

The entire ruins space was much larger than it appeared from the outside.

Across the vast Desert Sea, countless walls, palaces, and temples made of yellow sand and unknown black rocks were scattered in between.

Perhaps this planet named Kasanis wasn't always a desert-covered planet; it once had its native civilization.

But for some unknown reason, the civilization was buried under the yellow sand.

Now, only these ruins remain to tell of their past glory.

"We've entered the second phase!"

"Without any obstruction from other sand boat teams, we can go straight to the black stone tower in the center of the ruins!"

Ke Mengyuan was a bit excited.

Their goal this time was to break the instance's clearance record and receive the selected reward.

Actually, in the first round, due to the lack of a real sand boat, their elapsed time wasn't the fastest.

Under normal competition circumstances, they definitely wouldn't rank in the top hundred.

Luckily, they skipped the fighting phase between the hundred teams in the second round.

This undoubtedly saved a lot of time.

Lin Yi looked back.

He saw that the invisible barrier on the perimeter of the ruins was effectively stopping the black ice from spreading further.

Though the yellow sand beneath their feet was also slowly turning black.

This meant that while the black ice seeped slowly, it wasn't impossible for it to completely permeate the ruins.

"Let's hurry then!"

"Before everything here is completely frozen!"

Lin Yi led the way, stepping down from the sand boat.

Heading towards the black stone tower at the center of the ruins.

The entire ruins were filled with rubble and broken walls, making it impassable for the sand boat.

Walking would actually be faster.

However, Lin Yi possessed Wind Attribute Magic, allowing him to fly on his own.

And though Ke Mengyuan and the others were socially awkward,

they were all advanced students from Shenxiao Academy, rated at level B.

They also had flying skills.

The five used their respective Divine Powers, flying quickly towards the tower.

Just as they were about to reach it, Ke Mengyuan suddenly shouted, "Slow down!"

"The final boss of the third round is right up ahead!"

Lin Yi also noticed the anomaly in front of the tower in the center of the ruins.

In front of the tower was a massive sandy plaza.

In the center of the plaza, a giant sand column was spewing yellow sand continuously into the sky.

It seemed as if some massive creature underground was expelling sand.

Ke Mengyuan wielded a staff in his hand, chanting incantations.

After a brief chant, three birds emitting pure Holy Light were summoned by him.

After the birds flew above the sand column, everyone noticed the ground beneath the ruins began to tremble violently!

Boom——!

With a deafening roar.

A colossal sand worm emerged from the ground, its body so wide that it measured in kilometers by naked eye estimate!

A gaping maw filled with sharp serrated teeth opened wide, swallowing the three Holy Light birds whole.

If it weren't for the strategy, the first team to enter this instance might not realize what price they'd have to pay here.

"Retreat!"

"The boss has appeared, I'll add some buffs for you!"

"The damage from this boss is too high, getting swallowed means certain death, tanks can't withstand it, we must kite it!"

Ke Mengyuan was extremely tense.

After all, they entered this instance as a five-man elite team.

Normally, for safety, a ten-member team would be assembled.

Five-man boss fights definitely lack in output.

Yet the next moment, seeing blue flames burst from Lin Yi, Ke Mengyuan suddenly felt like he had been overthinking...

Lin Yi was the kind of monster who could single-handedly match a dozen Tier 4 damage dealers!

The Divine Fire Celestial Expedition descended.

The nuclear explosion sent towering waves of sand soaring, followed by the heart-wrenching roars and agonizing wails of the sand worm from below.

However, Lin Yi noticed that after one eighth-level fire attack.

The sand worm wasn't dead.

Couldn't take it down in one shot?

No worries, just hit it a few more times!

Today he's going to test his new Reincarnation Touch talent on this boss!

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