The closer you get to the inside of the Jungle Gate, the more lush the trees become.

Even Sauron saw some oak and maple trees with golden leaves, these ancient trees did not know how long they had existed, each of them was hundreds of meters high, and the branches and leaves were quite luxuriant to cover the sky and the sun, judging by the perception of the gods, these ancient gods had a very strong breath of life. This means that they are all living Treants, and many of them are Ancient Tree Sages who are close to Legendary Strength, and they are the real guards inside the Jungle Gate, and even a team of Legendary Adventurers is unlikely to break through their defensive lines.

There's a special layer of vigilance.

Normally, even Sauron would have had a hard time getting through, but he had a piece of equipment on him that was almost an artifact for a wanderer.

That's the anti-detection cloak!

There are defensive enchantments set up by the Guardians of Nature, whether they are running in the sky or trying to sneak closer, they will all be discovered.

The biggest effect of the Anti-Detection Cloak is to avoid any spells that detect invisibility.

This is also the reason why Sauron dared to come here, otherwise it is unlikely that even if he is a saint incarnated by a god, he will not be able to escape unharmed by a large group of legendary treants.

- "Shadow Realm! ”

- "Shadow Jump!" ”

After getting closer and closer to the ring of the ancient tree, Sauron chose the safest way to enter.

His figure escaped into the shadow plane for a moment, and then jumped over the range of spell alert with the help of the power of space, and directly appeared in the shadow of the rock more than a hundred meters away.

Legendary wanderers come and go without a trace, relying on this power!

A huge rhizome appeared in front of him, Sauron reached out and pressed it on it, he could feel the life essence that was slowly passing, the speed of this passage was not very fast, but the life essence it possessed was too huge, even if thousands of years had passed, these passing life essences not only gave birth to the half-dimensional space of the Jungle Gate. At the same time, the whole space continues to be conceived.

It was as if it were the corpse of the oldest Orbis demon in the Bottomless Abyss.

Some of the huge corpses still exist in some places of the bottomless abyss, and only the exposed part is like a mountain, they are at the same level as the huge corpses of the ancient gods floating in the astral plane.

A golden oak tree appeared in front of him.

Sauron sensed that this was a powerful Guardian of Nature, and he only had a second or two at most to steal the Water of Life, beyond which the Guardian of Nature might seal off the space, and even Sauron would not be able to escape at that time.

Get it and run.

And he can't go back the way he came, there is only one way for Sauron to leave this half-dimensional space unharmed, and that is to directly use the power of the 'shadow' realm to shuttle from here to the shadow plane. Then from the shadow plane back to the material plane. In this way, even if the other party is a high-level legendary guardian of nature, Sauron is not afraid that the other party will find out his traces.

You only get one chance.

Sauron couldn't help but take a deep breath and lock his gaze on the front of the ancient tree's rhizome, where there was a special pool.

It's a bit like the reincarnation pool of Bato's hell, but it's filled with purer positive energy.

- "Shadow Jump!" ”

Sauron's figure rushed forward and crossed the space in an instant, he appeared next to the pool in an instant, and then in the blink of an eye, he took away a lot of water of life, and the entire pool was lost by about a third at once.

"Thieves!"

An angry roar rang out!

The golden oak sage awoke in an instant, its massive body standing up. With a powerful force raging, the surrounding space suddenly showed signs of being blocked.

- "Dimensional blockade! ”

A spell that is close to legendary, requires almost no spell casting action, and is directly completed by the right person.

But.

By this time, Sauron had sensed that something was wrong. He didn't greedily take even one more drop of water of life, but instantly activated the power of the shadow realm, directly passing through the spatial barrier and entering the shadow plane.

A moment before leaving.

He felt many powerful auras erupt from all over the Jungle Gate, and the Heavenly Trees stood up. At least a dozen Legendary-level Ancient Tree Guardians have locked this place.

"Damn thieves!"

An angry roar echoed over the Jungle Gate, but there was no trace of Sauron by this time.

He had only been visible for less than a second from beginning to end, and even these powerful legendary ancient trees had found no trace of him. I didn't even see what he looked like.

Kill one person in ten steps, and don't stay for a thousand miles.

It was Sauron's favorite phrase back then, but for a wanderer to get to that point, he had to reach the realm of legends.

………………

Everything in front of me was gray.

Sauron's figure appeared somewhere in the shadow plane, and he didn't know exactly where, because the situation was so dangerous that he was completely teleported at random.

But that's okay!

He can also return to the material plane through the shadow plane, and it will be easy to judge the direction when the time comes.

Of course.

It is not possible to go back to the material plane directly, because the shadow plane is a plane that communicates with the material plane, and if you return to the material plane from here, it is estimated that you will appear directly in the Misty Forest.

He has now stolen the Ancient Treant's Water of Life, and it will be terrible if he returns to the Misty Forest!

From here, Sauron was going to travel tens or hundreds of kilometers in one direction before teleporting back to the material plane, and in doing so, he was essentially out of the confines of the Misty Forest.

As long as he wasn't in the Misty Forest, those ancient trees couldn't do anything about him.

Streams of mist surround it.

It was impossible to determine the exact relationship between the material plane and the shadow plane, but what Sauron saw in front of him was a dense forest.

The trees that grew in this forest were like reflections, with twisted roots, not even a trace of green could be seen, only a gray hue could be seen.

The trees in the shadow plane are also gray.

There was a strange cry nearby, there were many creatures in the shadow plane that mortals didn't know about, and Sauron saw a cloud of twisted shadows, and with little sanity, he quickly targeted Sauron.

- "Arcane Missile! ”

An arcane missile took away the twisted shadows in front of them, and they were souls who had accidentally reincarnated in the shadow plane, as if they were the warped invokers of the bottomless abyss.

The distorted shadows began to recede.

Sauron looked around, then sped south.

He had to get out of the woods first, the material plane was as big as the shadow plane, and although it was very desolate, he could still see some creatures.

Occasionally, there will be some huge ruins in sight, which are remnants of ancient times.

Fallen gods, relics of an arcane empire, wizards of the shadow plane.

There are many gods who have left temples in the shadow plane, and this plane was also developed during the Arcane Empire, so many dilapidated buildings have been preserved here.

That's hundreds of kilometers.

There are very few towns in the shadow plane, and the aborigines are too scattered, and the population of the entire shadow plane is less than one thousandth of the physical plane.

This is the territory of the Lord of Shadows.

As a medium-powered deity, he has a wide range of influence in the shadow plane, and his kingdom is also somewhere in the shadow plane.

It's a natural convenience.

Although He was forced to leave His kingdom because of the Holy One's Catastrophe, He was closer to his kingdom than any other god.

- "Shadow Realm! ”

With the distortion of space, Sauron returned to the material plane.

There was still a vast primeval forest in front of him, and he blessed a flying technique to look around, and was surprised to find that he was actually very close to his destination.

This is the territory of the elves.

That is, in the vicinity where he was chased by the Cultists of the Hunting God, it was about a hundred kilometers away from here to Fallen Leaf City. A tall mountain blocked the route, making it difficult for orcs to reach it, and it also acted as a natural barrier to separate the elves from more contact with other races, and the only way to get to the elven realm was to cross the forest on the other side, which required an additional hundred kilometers.

"It's safe!"

After making sure that there was no danger, Sauron took a break and began to examine the properties of the water of life.

……………… (To be continued......)