Xu Taiping took a deep breath and nodded.
"Yes."
He immediately added,
"Provided Lei E's immortal remains haven't already been corroded by Blightbone Power."
There was a reason he said this.
It wasn't merely because Lei E would be stronger after being corroded by Blightbone Power, but because a Lei E reduced to blightbone could never accept his fist challenge as a martial cultivator, as he had that time.
But Qu Chao Ci clearly misunderstood Xu Taiping's meaning. She nodded very earnestly and said,
"If they've been corroded by Blightbone Power, their combat strength would indeed be much greater than under normal circumstances."
Rumble...!
Just then, the Chi Dragon skeleton coiled beside Xu Taiping and the others actually began trembling violently once again.
And this time, it clearly lasted longer than before.
Xu Taiping raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop.
"Everyone, stop for now!"
Qu Chao Ci and the others immediately halted, their eyes full of tension as they looked at Xu Taiping.
All three knew very well.
Such a sudden commotion from the Chi Dragon skeleton most likely meant it was about to awaken.
After the three stopped, Xu Taiping kept his feet still and turned to look behind him.
There, on the Ziwei Jade Pillar,
aside from Supreme Venerable Xuanwei of Three Corpses Cave and his two companions, who were closest to them, at least thirty other cultivators had caught up.
Moreover, judging by the auras these cultivators gave off,
even if their cultivation and combat strength fell short of Supreme Venerable Xuanwei's, they weren't far behind Luo Hong and Xu San.
Xu Taiping thought to himself,
I never expected so many powerful cultivators to still be hidden beyond the second layer of the Yaochi Sacred Land.
Qu Chao Ci spoke up then as well.
"It seems