The Daoist Grounds in the Cloudbreak Mountains had long since been abandoned by the Ruthless Great Emperor, but she had left no lethal traps behind. She was nowhere near as vicious and heartless as the outside rumors claimed. It had all been a scheme laid by the lineage of the ruthless inheritance!
The fact that the Black Emperor and Duan De had entered it one after the other proved that the small world was not impenetrable.
Lu Chen had risked entering another's death trap, but he had ultimately gained something: the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art created by the Ruthless Great Emperor. It was a healing divine art comparable to the "Zhe" Secret, possessing the wondrous power of nine lives without death!
After Fairy Zixia recovered from her injuries, he tore through space with an imperial weapon, and the two safely left the Daoist Grounds where the Ruthless Great Emperor had once lived.
The Cloudbreak Mountains were now all but deserted. The place had always carried rumors of ill omens, and when the kings opened the Great Emperor's Daoist Grounds last time, countless powerful cultivators had been lured to their deaths. Even the Various Holy Lands had suffered devastating losses, leaving cultivators desperate to avoid these mountains.
Light flashed as Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Saintess became two streaks of rainbow light, cleaving through the sky and quietly departing. The two prodigies everyone believed dead had returned to the Eastern Wasteland.
Their reappearance caused quite a stir. No one had expected them to escape alive after becoming trapped deep within the Daoist Grounds of Olden and Modern Times' First Ruthless One.
Some who had secretly rejoiced at having two fewer formidable future enemies looked disappointed when they heard the news.
After all, whether it was the Purple Mansion Saintess with