“Chi!” This time, Lin Xiao directly slashed Zhan Meng’s heart with the Black Tortoise Poison Scale. A thin line of blood sprayed out.
Lin Xiao immediately put away the Black Tortoise Poison Scale, stood to one side, and watched quietly.
The two men were both furious and shocked. After about a quarter of an hour, their entire bodies turned black.
Zhan Meng’s body began to convulse. He foamed at the mouth and showed clear signs of impending death.
By this time, more than half of the people from both factions who had entered the rock layer area were already dead. Many others were on the verge of dying of old age or regressing into infants.
“Lin Xiao, you, you will come to a bad end!” Zhan Meng painfully spat out these words, then collapsed and died.
“What?”
At that moment, everyone inside and outside the rock layer was stunned.
Lin Xiao had actually poisoned a Martial Saint to death?
“The one closer to the heart dies first, it seems!” Lin Xiao could not help sighing.
“Pfft!”
Ji Lian was so enraged that he spat out a mouthful of blood. He was now in extreme discomfort. Seeing Zhan Meng already fallen, he knew his own life would not last much longer.
“Lin Xiao, you will surely be hunted down and killed by our two great factions!” In the end, Ji Lian also collapsed and died, his eyes remaining open in death.
Thus, two Martial Saints perished at Lin Xiao’s hands.
“Lin Xiao, if you have the guts, come out and fight us fairly!” Outside the rock layer, the Ji family ninth-level Martial Emperor roared furiously.
A Martial Saint was an existence that guarded an entire region. The fall of even one would greatly weaken a family faction.
Now, their Ji family had actually lost a Martial Saint to Lin Xiao.
“No need to rush. Your turn will come soon enough!” Lin Xiao walked unhurriedly to the corpses of the two Martial Saints, carefully removed their storage rings, and put them away.
Then he took out the Yaoguang Broken Sword and flew toward the Ji family half-step Martial Saint who had already turned into a middle-aged man.
“Lin Xiao, you, what are you trying to do!” The half-step Martial Saint cried out in a middle-aged voice, filled with terror.
“To kill you, of course!” Lin Xiao swung the broken sword and slashed at the half-step Martial Saint’s throat.
“Pfft!” Blood sprayed. The head of the Ji family half-step Martial Saint flew off.
Lin Xiao immediately took his storage ring, then flew toward the Sacred Heaven Sect half-step Martial Saints.
Two half-step Martial Saints had entered from Sacred Heaven Sect. Lin Xiao killed them one by one.
Amid waves of angry, unwilling roars, Lin Xiao systematically killed everyone from both factions inside the rock layer and collected all their storage rings.
Only then did Lin Xiao turn his gaze to those outside the rock layer.
Outside, there remained only one Ji family ninth-level Martial Emperor. All the others were loose cultivators, more than a hundred in total.
Under Lin Xiao’s gaze, they quickly moved aside, leaving only the Ji family ninth-level Martial Emperor elder standing there.
“Lin Xiao, the conflict among your three great factions has nothing to do with us. We never intended to get involved,” an old man said to Lin Xiao.
Poisoning a Martial Saint to death, then killing more than a hundred half-step Martial Saints and other experts, this was enough to shake the entire Yang Province. They now felt deep fear toward Lin Xiao.
Moreover, without any half-step Martial Saints among them, no one could stand against him. Even if all hundred-plus of them joined forces, Lin Xiao would slowly wear them all down.
Lin Xiao was currently the strongest person in Death White Rock. Naturally, they would not band together against him just for one Ji family ninth-level Martial Emperor.
Besides, Death White Rock had already sealed itself. Probably only Lin Xiao, who could walk on the rocks, had any chance of finding a way out and giving them a sliver of hope.
“You lot are sensible!”
Lin Xiao rushed out of the rock layer area. He swung the Yaoguang Broken Sword while unleashing spiritual energy at the same time. Terrifying power combined with tricolour energy struck the Ji family ninth-level Martial Emperor, gravely injuring him in a single blow.
A few more strikes, and Lin Xiao directly killed that Ji family ninth-level Martial Emperor, leaving the surrounding crowd trembling in shock.
The current Lin Xiao was not far from the invincible-below-Martial-Saint level that Long Tu Tian had reached years ago.
Seeing that Lin Xiao only killed the Ji family expert, the crowd relaxed.
“Lin Xiao, we are all in the same boat now. How are we going to get out?” At this point, one bold elder asked Lin Xiao.
“I don’t know either.” Lin Xiao shrugged. He was telling the truth. He genuinely had no idea how to leave Death White Rock.
Among the fragmented memories of the Heaven-Swallowing Spirit Emperor, there was almost nothing about the continent’s forbidden zones. How could he know?
“I will go deeper into the rock layer and take a look. Everyone, spread out and search. See if you can find any opportunity or way out,” Lin Xiao said to the crowd.
Everyone nodded. This was the only option left.
There might still be some chance of survival within this forbidden zone.
However, just as they were about to split up and search different areas, an extremely ancient voice suddenly came from deep within the rock layer: “Rescue this old man, and this old man can take all of you away from here.”
Hearing this, Lin Xiao and everyone else felt their hearts jolt.
There was actually someone else in this place?
“Who are you?” Lin Xiao immediately called out.
The continent’s forbidden zones appeared only once every thousand years. Moreover, legend said that each time a different forbidden zone appeared. The voice coming from within did not sound like a spirit beast, nor like any survivor from the Ten Directions Giant Fiend’s beast tide.
Could it be someone who entered during the last opening and was still alive inside?
But that possibility was far too small.
If all nine great forbidden zones took a full cycle to reappear, that would be nine thousand years. Even if there were only seven forbidden zones instead of nine, it would still be seven thousand years. Who could live seven to nine thousand years?
Even a Martial Emperor could not do that, could they?
Or was it like the Ten Directions Giant Fiend, where the person had already died but developed some special spiritual intelligence or strange phenomenon that allowed continued activity?
“This old man no longer remembers who he is. As long as you rescue this old man, this old man can lead you all out,” the ancient voice replied.
The voice was so old that the words were almost slurred, carrying the heavy taste of countless years. Everyone who heard it felt a chill.
“I will go and see!” Lin Xiao said to the crowd, pinched the Black Tortoise Poison Scale between his fingers, and flew toward the depths of the rock layer area.
No matter the other’s background, they were clearly restrained by the power inside the rock layer. Otherwise, they would have broken out long ago and would not need his help.
Lin Xiao cautiously flew above the rock layer. He travelled two or three thousand li without discovering anything.
The warm current flowing from the heavenly eye within his body grew stronger, and the power of time within clearly became more intense.
“This old man is here,” the ancient voice rang out again from even deeper within.
Lin Xiao frowned and continued flying. As he flew, the old voice occasionally guided him forward.
After flying a total of five thousand li through the rock layer area, Lin Xiao finally looked into the distance and saw the place from which the voice was coming.
