Inside the Dark Cave.
Two figures sped through the darkness.
Mu suddenly came to a halt and said, "Something's not right..."
"What is it?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"I sense a familiar aura, as if something up ahead is connected to me by fate," Mu said.
Gu Qingshan looked toward the depths of the cave.
At the far end, he could sense several fierce auras.
Suddenly,
all the auras vanished.
A dark figure appeared before them.
It was a Daoist floating in midair.
He looked at them with a gentle smile and said, "I have been waiting here for a long time. I thought this was merely a move I'd made on a whim, but I never expected you'd really come, Gu Qingshan."
"Who is that?" Mu sent him a quiet voice transmission.
"Never seen him," Gu Qingshan replied.
The two exchanged a glance, then smiled in unison and cupped their fists toward the Daoist. "We've heard so much about you! We've heard so much!"
The next instant, countless frost crystals surged out of the darkness.
They swiftly took shape into an enormous block of ice, its surface covered in natural runes, sealing the Daoist inside--
BOOM!!!
Only then did boundless baleful energy rise behind him, taking the form of countless heads that appeared in the void behind the Daoist.
The heads writhed ceaselessly, trying to emerge from the void, but—
the Daoist had been sealed.
In the end, the strange phenomenon gradually faded away.
"That was close. Good thing you acted fast," Gu Qingshan said.
"A corrupted cultivator showed up here of all places—and that technique of his looked like a real pain to deal with," Mu said, lowering his hand.
Gu Qingshan nodded in deep agreement.
Mu stepped forward to inspect the Daoist more closely.
Gu Qingshan stared at