Immense sounds of destruction echoed throughout the entire ruin as a massive flame orb was formed by the burning of concentrated spirit qi. The flames rose all around the slab, heating up the arena and the air surrounding it.

Since the arena was fortified with a strong array, it was easily able to survive the onslaught of the flames.

The destruction of the core was indeed very powerful. It was the perfect method to take down strong opponents with you if you weren't confident of surviving. But nonetheless, one needed to have a strong will to even commit to something like that.

Just like now, if the other two had decided to blow up their cores along with Zeng Rong, then Lin Feng would have needed to exert real effort to protect himself. But now that they had missed the chance, they wouldn't be able to do anything.

The woman and the man weren't idle, as the beast was attacking them, targeting the woman specifically.

The man put some distance between them and knelt before Lin Feng. "Pl-please forgive me, senior."

Lin Feng shook his head. "I will give you a quick death, at least." He disappeared and reappeared before the man, then, without pausing, struck the man's forehead with two fingers.

THUDDD!

The soul sea of the cultivator collapsed instantly, granting him a swift death.

Lin Feng looked toward the woman and decided not to interfere. Since no one was helping her, defending against the leopard was impossible.

As expected, after three moves, she was killed by the beast.

"NOOOO—"

SNAP!

Now, only Lin Feng and Bai Lian were left on the arena slab, along with the leopard.

Bai Lian sighed. She didn't like bloodshed, but she also wasn't naive enough to show blind righteousness.

In her eyes, this masked cultivator hadn't done anything wrong—at least not here. Since they had all harboured ill intent against him, they should have been prepared to face the consequences.

As for why he considered the Crimson Flame Palace his enemy and was hunting them inside the outer region, she had no right to judge without knowing the full story.

If he was truly a bloodthirsty devil, then she would have died long ago.

"Grrrowwwwwl..."

As she was lost in her thoughts, the beast bared its fangs at her.

She focused her attention on it and imbued her sword with lightning. It wasn't a technique from her weapon but her own technique.

Lightning was very penetrative in nature, and her lightning-imbued sword could easily cut through the beast's flesh while immobilizing it.

Just as she prepared to protect herself, Lin Feng appeared in front of her. "I want you to take a heavenly oath that you will not tell anyone about me, whether inside this inheritance site or in the real world, unless I say so."

She was surprised why he wanted that, as his identity was hidden anyway, but she still nodded. "I, Bai Lian, take a heavenly oath to not mention you to anyone unless you tell me to do so."

Lin Feng nodded and looked at the incoming leopard. He wasn't planning to drag this out any longer. The beast, as usual, jumped at him, intending to clamp its jaws around his body.

Lin Feng clenched his fist tightly and moved back to avoid the leopard, and once its head became visible, he punched.

THUMMMPP! CRACKKK!

One punch was enough to crack the bones of the leopard, shattering everything inside.

The beast didn't even growl before it fell to the ground, taking its last breath slowly.

Bai Lian was stunned. Wasn't he too strong? The blood qi she felt in that last attack was still similar to that of a late-stage Bone Reinforcement cultivator, yet the strength of that punch was enough to kill a Grade 4 beast.

Till now, everything had indicated that this masked cultivator was only a late-stage Grade 3 cultivator in every aspect, but his strength easily surpassed the early stage of Grade 4.

There could only be one explanation for this—he must have a special constitution. But he hadn't used a single qi technique that could allow her to guess what it was.

Maybe it was something related to blood qi, as till now, he had only used that.

Lin Feng turned around and looked at Bai Lian. "There are six caves. You can take three if you want, but the main treasure is mine."

Personally, he doubted any of these treasures would ever be useful to him. His strength would soon outshine Grade 4 or 5 treasures anyway, so he wasn't really interested in them.

The reason he still wanted them was for the Frozen Heart Sect. There could never be enough treasures when viewed from a sect's perspective.

Bai Lian shook her head. "I am happy with only one cave."

Lin Feng shrugged his shoulders. "Alright then, help me collect them." She was related to the Skycloud Auction Pavilion, so he thought she might need some treasures to auction.

It seemed like she hadn't come here for the treasures inside this inheritance site... or maybe she didn't want them because she hadn't done anything to kill the beast. Either way, he wouldn't mind more treasures, so he would take them all.

"Alright," Bai Lian accepted. "Then I will go to this one first." She picked the nearest cave and went toward the bridge.

Lin Feng took the farthest one from her location.

These bridges were very narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time. They were connected to the arena, and whenever he tilted the arena, they wobbled along with it.

Just thinking about someone doing that while walking on such narrow bridges without any support was quite chilling.

This senior surely knew how to entice betrayal while still providing enough rules for the safe zones.

After crossing the bridge, he entered the cave, which lit up the moment he stepped inside. The cave was completely straight, and when he reached the end, he saw a saber placed on a simple jade slab.

There was an array just behind the jade slab. It was a protective array—he could tell with a single glance.

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