My Master Knows It All

765: 227_4 765: 227_4 In the dense fog, the aftershocks of exploding divine powers relentlessly assaulted the surroundings.

He did not launch any attack, but merely used his Protective Divine Power to guard himself.

With his cultivation base, unless several individuals who had achieved Perfect Completion Golden Core attacked him at once, he was unlikely to be in any danger.

As for Ling Xi, Yan Yourong, and Li Ke, they were all at the level of Perfect Completion Golden Core, so they naturally wouldn’t be in any danger either.

As for the others, he had no idea.

The fog was thick, seemingly continuously emanating from inside the mountain peaks, persisting without end.

It was not until the time for a stick of incense to burn had passed that the fog began to slowly disperse.

Throughout the duration of the persistent fog, Cao Zhen had not moved a single step, and neither had Ling Xi and the others.

Turning his head back, he quickly saw Ling Xi and the two others who had removed their Protective Divine Powers.

Not far from him, Yan Hanlin and others were also standing in the same spot.

However, out of the dozen or so people there before, one person was clearly gravely injured during the attack, and another two also bore some wounds.

Even worse, two of them were lying on the ground, dead.

In the chaos just now, they had been killed by someone’s divine power without anyone knowing who had struck.

“Dao Companion Hong De, Dao Companion Chengzhi!”

Yan Hanlin cried out in anguish and swiftly waved his hand, directly taking the Qiankun Bags from the bodies before handing them to the two lightly injured men, whispering, “Grieve not, my friends, these are their Qiankun Bags.”

As Yan Hanlin collected the Qiankun Bags, others around were doing the same.

Suddenly, their focus was not on the newly opened ancient ruins, but on collecting the Qiankun Bags and seizing the possessions of the dead.

Cao Zhen heaved a light sigh; such was the world of cultivation.

Those mortals all wanted to become Immortals, to embark on immortal cultivation, but they did not realize that, often, the cultivation world was far more brutal than the realm of mortals!

He didn’t go for the Qiankun Bags of the deceased but looked instead toward Gao Shan in the distance.

From where he was, the two high mountains that had closed before were now completely separated, revealing a large gap.

But within this gap, sharp Wind Blades blew and danced wildly, much like chaotic currents of space and time.

Although these Wind Blades seemed extremely sharp, with everyone’s cultivation base, if they were careful enough, they should be able to break through; yet, no one was stepping directly into the ruins.

While all ruins had dangers, some were more welcoming to those who entered, while others were perilously deadly.

The ruins before them, which had unleashed such dense fog upon opening, were likely a trap left by their owner, deliberately sowing death among those who ventured inside.

This was evidently among the ruins that spelled dangerous anomalies for intruders.

No one knew what kind of attacks they might face immediately upon entering the ruins, if at all.

After everyone had finished collecting the Qiankun Bags from the dead, from Thousand Snake Island, the one in red representing the Five Snakes, Chishe, suddenly raised her hand and commanded in a firm tone to a somewhat plump man not far from her, “You, go inside.”

If the dangers within were unknown, it was only natural to send someone in to explore first.

“Me?” The pointed man’s face clearly showed shock, and for a moment, his expression was filled with helplessness as he plaintively said, “Why are you asking me to go?

With so many people here, why choose me?

Look around, there are so many others, why not pick someone else?”

From a distance, Cao Zhen watched the baffled fatty pointing off into the distance, thinking why, in such a situation, was he resorting to indiscriminate questioning?

Although Chishe was a female cultivator, she exuded a chilling and terrifying aura.

Seeing that the chosen plump man was not entering the ruins, her eyes immediately flashed with anger as she coldly stated, “Enter or die.”

The plump man heard this but did not immediately enter the ruins; instead, he looked at Chishe seriously and asked, “Do I have a third option?”

“Seeking death!”

Chishe clearly was not a patient person.

Seeing the plump man still hesitated to enter the ruins, her eyes, venomous like those of a snake, momentarily flashed with a strange red light, and behind her, ten Golden Cores appeared.

Her ten Golden Cores signified the completion of Pill Fusion, and among these, five were Golden Cores with anomalies, each containing the anomaly of a snake.

Some were as small as a foot, and some had their jaws wide open, as if they sought to swallow the entire world.

A stream of silver aura rapidly surged from her body, spreading around.

Clearly, she did not hold the odd-looking plump man before her in high regard, and with a wave of her hand, she struck a palm forward.

In an instant, a palm-shaped shadow appeared, aiming at the plump man.

It was plainly just a palm, but at that moment, everyone felt as though a giant snake starved for ten thousand years was opening its maw wide, ready to bite into the plump man.

Faced with the descending palm, the plump man’s face showed no sign of panic.

Instead, he opened his mouth and took a deep breath.

Instantly, a massive whale shadow emerged in front of him; the whale was so monstrous it seemed like a mountain, and with a single inhale, the palm shadow Chishe had struck out appeared to be devoured whole.