"I never imagined these gods would be so sinister, hiding inside their divine sparks and playing dead."
Rabbit Linglong gritted her teeth, a chill running down her spine.
If Xia Ping had not come here and they had let their guard down for even a moment, they would likely have fallen victim to those gods' schemes.
Though they had inherited the gods' legacies, they had never imagined they were sugar-coated bullets—candies laced with deadly poison, the kind that would kill anyone who swallowed them.
"The universe truly is too dangerous. There are no bargains in this world waiting to be picked up for free."
Liu Rulan sighed.
She felt the terror of the universe more and more deeply. Benefits lying everywhere were not necessarily benefits at all; instead, they might be traps meant to kill them. They had to be exceedingly careful.
"Xia Ping, what about the inheritances we received? Could there be something fishy about them too?" Qingluan looked at Xia Ping, worried that there might be a problem with the inheritances she had obtained.
If anything went wrong, it would be terrible.
"That's nothing to worry about. Knowledge is knowledge; there's no trick to it. Besides, those gods were cleansed by my Yellow Springs Holy Water long ago. Even if there had been some hidden scheme, it can no longer be activated."
Xia Ping said there was no need to worry about such things.
When those gods passed their knowledge on to successors, they had merely hoped to obtain a powerful, healthy, high-potential body that they could successfully possess. They would not tamper with the inherited knowledge itself.
"That's good."
Qingluan let out a sigh of relief. If there had been something wrong with her inheritance, she would probably have had to discard it and start cultivating from