"That's it. What do you think? Should I go grab it?"
"No. Look beside the Stone Stele again."
Hearing Toutian's words, Ye Lin looked beside the Stone Stele.
Beside the enormous Stone Stele sat a middle-aged cultivator, cross-legged. Ye Lin couldn't make out his cultivation level, but as he kept staring at him, it was as if a terrifying, demonic force surrounded the man, gradually drawing Ye Lin into a trance.
"Wake up."
Suddenly, Toutian barked a cold warning. Ye Lin jolted awake, and a cold sweat broke out across his back.
What had just happened to me?
"Don't look. That's a True Lord of the Dao Integration stage. Dao resonance surrounds True Lords; it's not something you or I can look at. If you become immersed in a True Lord's Dao resonance, you'll gradually lose yourself. No matter how powerful your soul is, it won't help."
"You almost got lost in it just now."
Toutian explained with his eyes closed.
Ye Lin was deeply shaken. His understanding of the terror of a Dao Integration True Lord had risen to a whole new level.
So this was how terrifying Dao Integration was—you couldn't even look at one.
"The Stone Stele you want is right beside the True Lord, but I can't guarantee he won't notice us."
Toutian said with a pained grimace. Since the two of them had made it all the way here, his method had clearly worked.
But stealing something right under a True Lord's nose put tremendous pressure on him.
"What do we do now? We don't have much time."
Ye Lin spoke up. The two of them had spent a full ten or twenty minutes sneaking in, and they'd also need time to get back out. They had hardly any time left.
After all, once they