A worthless talent

After leaving the tavern, Chen Lin returned to his lodgings and began sorting through the information he had obtained from the Boss Lady.

She had not explained why she had gone to the Ancient Kingdom Ruins or how she had escaped. She had only said that the place looked no different from an ordinary kingdom, but every person inside was exceedingly dangerous.

Everyone was still alive, but they had become products of the rules. Even a small child was tremendously powerful within the bounds of their own rules.

Most importantly, because the rules inside the ruins differed from those outside, cultivators' strength was severely suppressed. Over time, anyone who entered would unwittingly merge into the place and become part of it.

It was a Nightmare Realm scenario outside the Nightmare Realm!

The more Chen Lin learned, the more wary he became of the ruins. He decided to hire elderly cultivators to explore them first. At the very least, he needed to establish whether Luo Qinglan was inside before deciding whether to enter.

He glanced at the Dragon Fish Goblet in his hand, shook his head, and put it away.

If things really were as the Boss Lady had described, there might be little hope no matter how many elderly cultivators he hired to explore.

Three days later.

Chen Lin received a message from the Female Proprietress of Ruyi Pavilion: everyone had assembled.

He immediately set off.

"Senior, twenty qi condensation late stage cultivators and eight foundation establishment cultivators have accepted this assignment. If that isn't enough, we can recruit more."

The Female Proprietress was a steward of the Blood Saber Sect, and everyone she had found belonged to the sect as well.

The Blood Saber Sect practiced blood-related cultivation techniques. Despite their advanced age, every one of them carried an