Cosmos Ruler's Tombs?!

"No, what are you afraid of?"

Song Zhong was rendered speechless by Rain Peak Quasi-Saint's words. "Putting aside whether other cultivators can even make it in here, even if they do, we might not run into any particularly powerful cultivators.

If those cultivators come in and encounter so many Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses, do you think they'll survive? Even Quasi-Saints would be instantly killed if they came in. After all, not everyone is like you.

Actually, I'd rather hope some cultivators come in now and help share the pressure."

Rain Peak Quasi-Saint still looked deeply worried. "No, it isn't scary if they come in now. What I'm afraid of is cultivators barging in once we've killed off most of these Blood Corpses."

"What are the odds of that?" As Song Zhong spoke, he cleaved the Quasi-Saint Blood Corpse before him into two with a single slash.

"It really can be that much of a coincidence!"

Recalling his past experiences, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint's eyes filled with tears. He could not remember how many times it had happened. He would discover The Ruins, enter and endure countless dangers, hack his way through thorns and brambles, survive battle after battle, narrowly escape death time and again, and finally reach the last step, just as he was about to obtain the treasure—only to run into other cultivators.

After so many battles, it was already good enough that he had survived. In the state he had been in then, how could he possibly have been a match for other cultivators? Then the treasure would be snatched away by someone else, and the peach that was practically in his hand would be plucked away.

He had no idea how many times others had picked his peaches.

His heart was truly bitter.

"That was when you were alone. With me around, it definitely won't be such a coincidence."

As Song Zhong spoke, he directly blasted apart the Quasi-Saint Blood Corpse before him. Raising a hand, he pointed upward. "All right, stop talking nonsense. Keep opening gaps, and we'll keep killing.

The longer we drag this out, the greater the chance that other cultivators will enter."

"That's true."

At his words, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint swiftly opened another gap.

They slowly let one or two Blood Corpses in at a time.

There were fewer and fewer Blood Corpses outside, and the pressure on Rain Peak Quasi-Saint grew steadily lighter.

Bang!

Song Zhong once again destroyed a Blood Corpse before him, then looked outside and said, "There are four Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses left outside now. How about you stop using this Mountain Defense? Let's kill them directly. You take two, and I'll take two. How about it?"

"I can't kill them." Rain Peak Quasi-Saint looked utterly exhausted. "I'm really almost at my limit. Do you think that just because I've held on like this and don't look injured, I'm actually uninjured? Although the mountains haven't been shattered, I still suffer from the impacts. I've sustained some internal injuries too.

More importantly, I truly don't have much Immortal Qi left. It would already be good enough if I could maintain the mountains for a little longer.

Let's use the original method. Draw in and kill two more, then you rush out and kill the remaining two Blood Corpses."

As he spoke, he looked at Song Zhong with a strange expression. Song Zhong was truly monstrous. After fighting for so long, he, a Quasi-Saint, was nearly drained dry, yet Song Zhong could still fight, and did not even seem greatly affected.

And it was not just Song Zhong. Song Zhong's clone was the same.

He even suspected that Song Zhong's Immortal Qi could never be depleted.

Moreover, he really had suffered some internal injuries. His artifact was not particularly powerful. The reason he had been able to maintain it for so long was that he had used a special method to fuse the artifact with himself. When the artifact was attacked, part of the force was genuinely transmitted to his body.

It was like a weak cultivator wearing armor and being struck on that armor by another cultivator. The armor did not shatter, but the cultivator inside was still jolted until his organs ached.

"You really are weak." Song Zhong snorted disdainfully and pointed upward. "Fine. Let them in, and I'll kill them." In truth, it was already quite impressive that Rain Peak Quasi-Saint had held out this long.

Very soon, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint opened two mountains again and let in two more Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses.

Song Zhong still used the same method as before and swiftly killed the two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses.

This time, without even waiting for Song Zhong to speak, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint directly withdrew the two mountains. He truly could not hold on any longer.

Let Song Zhong take over first.

The instant the mountains were withdrawn, the scene outside came into their view.

Compared to before, even more Tombs had shattered. Among the ring of Tombs directly surrounding the largest Tomb, two Tombs had also broken apart, exposing the corpses and burial objects within.

At the same time, an aura far stronger than the ones from the previous Tombs surged out from those two Tombs.

Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, already exhausted beyond measure and feeling as though he could not even cast a single spell, sensed the aura within those Tombs. His eyes abruptly widened, and a sharp gleam even shot from them.

"This aura—this is the aura of Saints. These are Saints' Tombs! And these aren't even the innermost Tombs!"

Saints had already appeared among the Tombs in this ring. Then what kind of existence lay buried in the larger Tombs at the center?

Could they be the Tombs of beings stronger than Saints—the Cosmos Ruler's Tombs?

Though he was a Quasi-Saint, he had never even seen a Cosmos Ruler!

If it truly was a Cosmos Ruler, what burial objects would be inside the Tomb? Would there be a Cosmos Ruler's inheritance?

Could there be artifacts?

Those two Saints' Tombs...

Rain Peak Quasi-Saint swept his gaze over them, and excitement immediately appeared on his face. There had been some burial objects in the previous Tombs, but no particularly powerful treasures.

Yet within one of these two Saints' Tombs was actually a Great Seal Artifact. That aura... an artifact of Mystic Rank, Top Grade!

An artifact had appeared!

If Saints' Tombs had artifacts, then the Cosmos Ruler's Tombs should have them too!

As he stared at the artifact, Song Zhong had already engaged the final two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses. While swinging his blade, he also unleashed bolts of lightning and streams of Spatial Turbulence.

Spell after spell crashed down and exploded across the ground. Some struck the Tombs that had not yet been opened, sending dust billowing into the air. Dust rose from many Tombs, and cracks even appeared on their surfaces.

As Song Zhong bombarded them madly, he shouted at Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, "Seriously, you're not going to help at all?"

"I really don't have any strength left. Let me rest a little longer." Looking weak, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint sat directly on the ground. Couldn't he see that he had not even drawn that artifact over?

If he had any strength left, he would have drawn the artifact over long ago.

That Great Seal Artifact was absolutely suited to him. Song Zhong should give it to him, right? There were so many Tombs here—there would definitely be other artifacts inside.

"You really are weak. I've never seen a Quasi-Saint get tired enough to sit on the ground."

Song Zhong had no choice but to attack alone. After seeing the Saints' Tombs, his attacks became even fiercer.

He too was curious whose Tomb the central one was.

Finally, beneath his frenzied assault, the two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses fell one after another.

Rain Peak Quasi-Saint finally rose to his feet as well. Brimming with excitement, he pointed around them and said, "All right, now we can first open these unbroken Tombs around us and see what's inside."

"Open the surrounding ones? Why not directly open the Tomb in the middle?" Song Zhong's gaze settled on the largest Tomb at the very center.

The instant his words fell, a ripple suddenly appeared at the edge of this space. The next moment, two figures appeared within it.