"A girl's voice?!"
Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang both felt their hearts jolt.
"Bang!"
Just then, the middle-aged cultivator slammed his head heavily against the ruins before him once more.
Ping'an immediately said excitedly again:
"That's right! It was a girl's voice!"
As he spoke, he sprang to his feet and looked up at Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang:
"Eldest Brother, Elder Huang, there's really a girl still alive beneath those ruins!"
At that moment, all the watching cultivators had their eyes on the madman-like middle-aged cultivator, paying no attention whatsoever to what was happening around Xu Taiping.
Hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately turned to Old Daoist Huang:
"Elder Huang, stay here and watch for anything suspicious nearby. Ping'an and I will go in and save her!"
Old Daoist Huang nodded firmly:
"All right!"
They all had considerable faith in Ping'an's Mind-Heart Communication.
Ping'an nodded firmly as well:
"All right, Eldest Brother!!"
Xu Taiping pushed aside the crowd before him, then rushed toward the ruins.
Ping'an followed close behind.
"Hey! You two, don't go near the ruins!"
Just then, a dozen or so Ruin Market guards had already arrived in front of the ruins.
But Xu Taiping paid them no heed at all, instead calling to Ping'an without looking back:
"Ping'an! Hurry!"
Ping'an immediately understood:
"Got it!"
With a boom, both their figures flashed, vanishing from where they stood.
When they reappeared, they were standing behind the middle-aged cultivator.
Seeing this, one of the Ruin Market guards immediately shouted anxiously:
"You two, come back! It's a trap! The more people go in, the stronger that invisible gravity becomes!"
"Boom-!!"
But his words had barely fallen when a doubled force of invisible gravity came crashing heavily down on Xu Taiping and Ping'an.
In an instant, dust billowed up in