By comparison, Gu Qingcheng behind him kept things very simple, summoning only a single talisman to stand before herself and Xu Taiping.
Yet from the aura that talisman gave off, Xu Taiping could sense an immensely powerful force of thick earth. He felt that even his full-strength strike might not break through its earthen-yellow halo.
Seeing that everyone had their defenses ready, Xu Taiping glanced at the Five-Life Pearl bracelet on his wrist, then took a deep breath and said:
"I'm opening the door."
With that, he exerted force through his hands and pushed the bronze doors fully open.
Just as before, the instant the doors opened, gust after gust of fierce wind swarmed in and swept them all inside.
"Bang!"
Just as they felt their feet were about to touch the ground, a deafening crash suddenly rang out beside their ears, and the Body-Protecting Golden Light around them shattered one layer after another.
"Th-there really was an ambush!"
The others, who had still harbored a tiny shred of wishful hope, no longer doubted what Xu Taiping had just told them.
They felt that without protecting themselves beforehand with treasures and Gang Qi, they would surely have died again without even knowing how.
"Young master, a blizzard! It's a blizzard driven by ghost power!"
Gu Qingcheng, the first to regain her sight, suddenly shouted.
At her words, everyone looked up and discovered that, just as Gu Qingcheng had said, they were in the midst of a blizzard.
Yet this blizzard was clearly different from an ordinary one.
Every snowflake that formed it was blood-red, and the force with which each struck their Body-Protecting Golden Light and Gang Qi was almost equivalent to a full-strength blow from a Mystic Understanding Realm cultivator.
Hundreds of such snowflakes hammered into them with the