A mountain peak somewhere.
Light flickered.
A rift suddenly tore open in the void, and a figure stepped out, landing atop the mountain peak.
He landed upon the rocks at the mountain peak.
The figure staggered several steps, his footsteps unsteady, and braced himself against a nearby pine tree.
It was none other than Zhang Qingyuan, who had fought Qianyun Mountain Great Elder not long ago!
At this moment, his face was slightly pale.
A trace of blood also trickled from the corner of his mouth, and his aura was somewhat disordered.
"Phew! I finally escaped!"
He let out a long breath.
Only then did he suppress the turbulent True Essence inside his body.
"I never expected that place truly had a Cave True Level old ghost guarding it. Good thing I wasn't rash from the very beginning!"
At this moment, Zhang Qingyuan could not help but feel a measure of relief in his heart.
If he had relied on his own strength from the outset and barged straight to the entrance of that Cave Heaven Secret Realm, the trouble clearly would not have been as easily resolved as it was now.
Fortunately, he had been sufficiently cautious.
And he had made preparations in advance, leaving behind some means.
It was precisely because of this caution that, while escaping, he had instead severely injured that Cave True Realm old ghost and ultimately stopped the enemy.
The other party had given up the pursuit.
The ambush had clearly played no small part in this.
Nor was that strange. That sword strike had nearly killed him. If Zhang Qingyuan could unleash such a sword and lay such an ambush, perhaps he had set an even more powerful trap ahead!
Any normal person would weigh the gains and losses.
And it was precisely