Chapter 154: Disappearance of Ancient Sites

Qin Mian speculated that the Time Crystal may be the most valuable resource in this estimate.
The Time Crystal can only be found in the Long River of Time, and it is a cultivation resource that is many times more difficult to obtain than the Dao Crystal. By absorbing the Time Crystal in the Transcendent Mortal Realm or Yuan Ying Realm, there is a great chance of comprehending the laws of time, and if gifted, one can cultivate the Great Dao of Time in the future.
In the Secret Valley of Medicine, he consciously absorbed spatial energy and later went to the treacherous territory of the Magic Flag Mountain to absorb it, in order to facilitate his comprehension of the spatial law and further cultivate the Great Path of Space, becoming the strongest cultivator in the world.
As for the Great Time Dao, he had never thought about it because the rules in that area are difficult to comprehend. He never expected to obtain it so easily today, it was truly a stroke of luck.
After carefully placing the chrono crystal, he decisively responded to continue to challenge after six hours.
When the time was up, he was transferred again.
This time he knew it wasn't him being transferred, but the scene was changing.
The first and second times I thought I was moving, but actually it was because my concentration was not enough, coupled with the influence of preconceived thoughts, so I didn't figure it out.
The background of this time is a snowy and icy area, with two red-eyed puppets 5,000 meters to his left and 2,000 meters to his right.
Although he tried his best to persuade himself that "it's fake, it's just a background, not real," he still felt chills all over his body and a sense of shrinking.
It must be said that this illusion is very realistic.
He grumbled, "Could it be that the previous reminder led to improvements in certain aspects? If that's the case, it would be like picking up a stone and smashing one's own foot."
He quickly thought to himself: "Not bad, I got a book of notes and a copy of 'Heavenly and Earthly Array Formation'. They're only two level 4 nascent soul puppets, nothing too serious."
The two level 4 nascent soul puppets immediately noticed him and launched a simultaneous attack, flying towards him.
Two attacks, one is a punch and the other is a sword.
The sword energy is as bright as light, and the punch is as solid as a pillar, both are extremely fast.
He had a feeling that the long-range attack capabilities of these two puppets were stronger than any he had encountered before, even stronger than those at the sixth level of the Yuanying stage.
Before, those Yuan Ying realm cultivators, whether it was fists or swords, were not as solid and fast as these.
However, he did not think about dodging.
Coming here was to improve his combat ability.
凝实的“拳头”来到他身前时并没多少变化，他挥拳迎击，感觉巨力传来，被反弹得快速后退。
后退还没几步，剑芒刺来，他挥枪砸去，将剑芒击中，剑芒破碎，朝周围四散射去，把冰面砸出一个个小洞，而他承受这一击后，后退速度又加快，最终后退近五十米。
Introspection revealed a large number of cracks in the bones.
He was puzzled. Puppets were just lifeless objects and could not comprehend the laws like cultivators. Why could they still use the laws to attack and be so powerful that their close-range attacks were even stronger than those of a 6th level Nascent Soul realm cultivator?
He has a new assessment result, indicating that these two level 4 Nascent Soul puppets have roughly the same strength as a level 9 Nascent Soul like Babu, except for Babu's superior speed due to his understanding of spatial laws. However, these puppets are much stronger than Babu when it comes to utilizing laws.
After the two Red-Eyed Puppets made their attacks, they once again simultaneously launched ranged attacks in the air, with one sword strike and one punch. The punch arrived before the sword aura, with an even shorter interval this time, almost only a moment's time.
Qin Mian was pushed back again, this time even further, reaching more than seventy meters, and the cracks in his fingers increased again.
After this attack, the distance between the two sides was shortened to five hundred meters and two hundred meters. As long as they leaped up to attack again, it would be close combat.
Two red-eyed puppets jumped up again, launching attacks once more, one sword strike each.
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Fist.
However, this time Qin Mian didn't try to block them head-on. Instead, he quickly dodged to the side when they attacked, successfully avoiding their attacks twice.
Not only did he dodge the attack, but also approached the puppet from the side.
What surprised him was that the sword of the puppet was only of superior quality magic tool level.
He swung his spear and smashed it towards the puppet's head, and it used its sword to block.
"Crack~"
The sword broke.
The long spear smashed onto the head of the puppet, causing it to stagger.
Just then, Qin Mian felt a huge threat coming. Without thinking, he moved sideways, and felt himself being hit by a tremendous force, flying towards the left with excruciating pain all over his body.
It is the red-eyed puppet that made the fist.
It had a short distance and fast speed. Qin Mian had no experience and was hit by its fist on the right ribs, breaking four ribs and causing significant cracks on three others.
While flying sideways, he forcefully twisted his body and saw the sword-wielding puppet chasing after him, less than fifteen meters away.
Without a sword, it extended its hand, preparing to slap with a single palm.
Qin Mian sighed inwardly, originally intending to test the limits of his physical body, but he was injured in just a few moves. It seems that his physical body is indeed lacking, so he can only use soul attacks.
He shouted lowly, and a spear condensed from his soul sea, instantly leaving his body and shooting towards the puppet.
The puppet reacted quickly, as if aware of an unknown attack, and slapped the palm that was aimed at Qin Mian beforehand. Just as the slap was halfway through, its palm weakly dropped down, and its body continued to fly forward due to inertia.
Qin Mian swung his spear and swept it towards the fist-wielding puppet that was attacking again. In a flash of inspiration, Qin Mian summoned the alchemical fire and enveloped both puppets.
It really worked. Whether it was due to mutual restraint or some other reason, the fist-wielding puppet that was struck by the sword-wielding puppet also stopped and hung in mid-air like two pieces of wood.
He swung his spear forward and smashed it down, hitting the head of the puppet with his fist. The two puppets fell to the ground together, breaking apart into bones, truly achieving a mutual destruction.
Qin Mian landed on the ground and a jade box flew over, with a voice that was somewhat indifferent with temperature saying: "Level clearing reward!"
Qin Mian grabbed the jade box and opened it to find that it was actually a cluster of alchemical fire, with a faint blue color dotted with white spots.
He exclaimed in his heart, "What the heck, a middle-grade magical treasure level flame! Is it really possible to get whatever you want? Don't be so impatient, can't you?"
Last time, he fused a lump of high-grade spiritual weapon level flame on the Refining Mountain, and slowly realized that it was not enough to balance his five elements energy. He wanted to fuse all the flames in his storage ring, but he was worried that it wouldn't be enough, so he didn't.
For this outing, we must first melt the Danfire and match the fire elemental energy.
Excited by the response to continue the challenge, he swallowed the top-grade healing pill and energy pill, grabbed the top-grade elemental stone, and activated "Opening the Primordial Chaos and Transforming the World" technique...
On the thirteenth day of the opening of the ancient ruins, there were less than half of the waiting cultivators outside, and many had already left.
From the ninth day until today, only a few dozen people come out each day, and they are all heavily injured.
They were asked what they had encountered, but no one could remember any details of what happened inside the cave, even the slightest detail. They only remembered what happened before entering the cave.
Each faction counted and there are still 93 people who have not come out yet.
Qin Zhi was born on the twelfth day. Her body was broken by 40%, and when she learned that Qin Mian had not yet been born, she declined the suggestion of the sect to send her back, sitting on the territory of Zhenyuan Sect and worrying while healing her injuries, looking towards the direction of the original entrance to the ancient site.
She learned about the situation and found out that aside from Qin Mian, there were still several powerful disciples in the Zhenyuan Sect who have not emerged yet. The Jiaoshan Sect also had some powerful disciples who have transcended the mortal realm, as well as other three major sects like the Qinglong Sect that had some powerful disciples.
She also knows that those in the Yuan Ying Realm and some of the younger disciples don't understand.
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These ninety-three people not only come from the five major sects, but also from some medium-sized forces. According to the previous pattern, this is unreasonable, because those with weaker combat power should come out earlier.
Some people speculate whether accidents could happen, but they were immediately refuted. Weak players can come out and strong players can also come out. It just depends on the severity of the injuries.
She also wanted to know what she had encountered inside, but no matter how she tried to remember, she couldn't recall any traces of having been there.
It was precisely because of this eerie situation that more and more Yuanying stage cultivators came here, all eager to learn about the situation. Almost all large and medium-sized forces have come, including the second elder of the Fan family, Fan Shu, who came with Fan Hao.
The members of the Fan family were forced back by Qin Mian, their faces losing their luster. Seeing the disciples who came out injured one by one, the two of them had no expressions on their faces.
Only Fan Hao knew that the anger in his heart was nowhere to be vented. If he could go in, he might be able to get more resources. Since Qin Mian had not come out, he must still be inside, but unfortunately, all of this was disrupted by those idiots; not only did they ruin this matter, they also made the family a laughingstock. It was clear that many people in the Jiao Mountain Sect were secretly gossiping.
While Fan Hao was full of resentment, he suddenly heard someone shout, "There are more people coming out!"
This time, there were quite a few people coming out, eleven in total.
All eleven of these people were in bad condition, all of them seriously injured, including Qin Mian.
秦冕的样子很惨，上品灵器级套装前面被轰碎，左胳膊耷拉，右胸被轰开一个巨大的洞，破碎的内腑清晰可见。
镇远宗的人和其它势力的一样，都快速飞过去。
Qin Zhi squeezed in front of Qin Mian and put a healing pill into his mouth. Looking at Qin Mian, who was still very confused, she asked, "Little brother, how do you feel? Can you remember what happened inside?"
Qin Mian blinked hard, scanning the crowd of people from both within and outside the Zhenyuan Sect, before shaking his head.
Seeing the disappointment on their faces, he asked slowly, "Sister, when did you come out?"
Qin Zhi pulled his worn-out suit to prevent the broken pieces from entering his chest and tried to force a smile: "It's been three days. Today is the fifteenth day since the ancient ruins opened."
Qin Mian made a "oh" sound: "It's been so long."
There was no alternation of day and night inside, and he really didn't know how long had passed.
At this time, Fan Hao squeezed into the crowd and said loudly, "Qin Mian, you're not dead."
Qin Zhi turned her head and glared at him angrily.
Qin Mian said lightly, "I won't die even if you die."
Fan Hao waved his hand, "I didn't come here to argue with you. Considering the mistake of the Fan family not long ago, I'm here to talk about how to solve this problem with you today. If you can still move, let's find a place to talk."
Qin Mian stood up and changed into a new suit: "Where do you want to talk?"
Fan Hao laughed: "This way you won't be half dead ... To avoid making you nervous or creating misunderstandings, you can find an elder from the Zhenyuan Sect to preside over the meeting. Our family will talk to you with our second elder."
Qin Mian looked at his 19th elder Cai Li and 26th elder Qi Fa beside him: "Two elders, please help the disciple as witnesses."
Just as he was about to take a step away, the sky and the earth suddenly brightened, so bright that everyone couldn't see their own shadows.
Everyone squinted their eyes and looked towards the source of the bright light, which turned out to be an ancient relic.
Just as everyone was adjusting to their surroundings, they realized that the relic had disappeared, leaving only a huge new pit with a pile of gigantic white bones, both new and aged, on top.
This sudden event left everyone in shock.
There are still 82 people who have not come out yet.
(end of this chapter)