Ancestor Zhan Yuan and the three members of the Jin siblings revealed startled expressions, but their gazes were icy cold.
They could be certain that during the two or three months since the He Yang Palace ruins had opened, apart from the five of them, absolutely no sixth person could have found their way here.
Since the voice had not come from someone who had entered after the ruins opened this time, there was only one possibility: the owner of the voice had been stranded within the He Yang Palace ruins.
Yet all three of them knew that the He Yang Palace ruins possessed a function whereby, when they closed, they would send every cultivator carrying an aura from the outside world out of the ruins' space.
Since someone had been able to remain here, it undoubtedly meant that the owner of the voice was a cultivator from He Yang Palace.
There were still He Yang Palace cultivators within the ruins. When this matter appeared before them, all three great experts could not help but feel terrified, their expressions changing drastically.
To think that someone could remain here for countless tens of thousands of years was enough to make one's blood run cold.
Moreover, they had come here to seize another person's treasures. If a late Profound Tier or Mahayana He Yang Palace cultivator truly guarded these ruins, then once they disturbed that person's cultivation, the only fate awaiting them would be death. There could be no other possibility.
It could be said that the restriction binding Ancestor Zhan Yuan and the other two at this moment was far less frightening than the terror they felt toward the owner of that voice.
Deep in the mountain range, several cultivators were currently confronting one another. A great battle was about to