"Trouble's here."
Just as Ye Lin kept leaping forward, one monster after another, their entire bodies wreathed in blazing flames, suddenly emerged from the surrounding ruins.
Though they could not exactly be called monsters.
They should be called... Qilin.
That was right—Qilin.
Qilin of every color continuously appeared all around them.
"They're here. Move."
As though he had experienced this before, Xuan Su deftly pulled out a chessboard from behind his back. The chessboard slowly floated before him.
With every chess piece that fell, the surrounding Qilin shattered into dust out of thin air.
And every one of those Qilin possessed the strength of an early-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
"The Emperor Road truly is terrifying beyond measure."
Ye Lin cleaved a Qilin to death with one stroke of his sword and could not help sighing.
These Qilin looked entirely like creations spawned by the Emperor Road, not living creatures at all.
Yet their cultivation was actually at the early stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
That alone showed it clearly.
To the Heavenly Dao, Primordial Unity Golden Immortals truly amounted to nothing.
"Sever."
After cutting down the final Qilin, Ye Lin arrived before the vortex as well.
"I wonder whether we'll get to encounter this again next time."
Xuan Su gave Ye Lin a faint smile, then stepped into the vortex.
With a single step, Ye Lin found himself once more upon the ordinary ancient road.
At a glance, the ancient road was the same as before, without the slightest change.
However, the Chaos aura was several times denser than before. Even the laws of heaven and earth seemed to lie right before his eyes, as though waiting for him to favor them.
Sensing such changes, Ye Lin could not help licking his lips, a gleam flashing