People from the Gao Family pressed Liu Sihai and quickly arrived at the desolate Chaotic Stone Ridge.

"The abandoned mansion you mentioned is here, don't tell me you're deceiving us!" The cold-faced middle-aged leader grabbed Liu Sihai's collar fiercely and shouted.

"Ga... Elder Gao, what I said is true, how dare I deceive you!" Liu Sihai regretted immensely in his heart.

Why did I buy that forbidden-breaking treasure from the Gao Family's shop?

The restriction on that abandoned mansion was mostly damaged. If I took my time, I could still wear it down a bit.

Even if I only get some treasures from the outskirts, that would be great.

Unlike now, where I not only made someone else's wedding dress but am also unsure if I can keep my life.

"Humph, if you dare deceive me, I'll let you taste the power of soul extraction!" The cold-faced middle-aged man sneered sinisterly.

Upon hearing the words "soul extraction," Liu Sihai couldn't help but tremble and almost collapsed.

Arriving here, under Liu Sihai's lead, the group quickly reached the front of the portal.

Looking at the portal whose restriction was mostly destroyed, the cold-faced middle-aged man laughed heartily.

"It truly is a cultivator's abandoned mansion. Looking at this restriction, it seems to be at Tier Two level, meaning inside is likely a cave mansion of a main Foundation Establishment cultivator!"

Thinking this, the cold-faced middle-aged man felt a surge of excitement.

Although the treasures inside might not belong to him, if he found something precious, the family would surely reward him heavily.

He was extremely proud in his heart.

Then, he looked at Liu Sihai beside him and smiled gently:

"Daoist Liu is truly honest and hasn't deceived us!"

Hearing this, Liu Sihai's eyes lit up, and he quickly said:

"Then can I be let go?"

"Let you go, hahaha!" The middle-aged man seemed to hear something funny, and his expression immediately turned sinister.

"Daoist, you heard wrong, it should be sending you off!"

He immediately took out a dagger-like magical artifact and stabbed it fiercely into Liu Sihai's chest.

Liu Sihai, upon receiving this blow, widened his eyes:

"You... You are treacherous... You'll... You'll surely face heaven's..."

Before he could finish speaking, his head was cut off by the cold-faced middle-aged man.

"So irritating!"

After speaking, he began to scrutinize the restriction before him.

The Gao Family is famous in Xui Country for their array inheritance, and it's said that the founding ancestor of the Gao Family was a Tier Three array master, renowned in several nearby cultivation countries.

With such a family background, the cold-faced middle-aged man's achievements in array are naturally not shallow, reaching Tier One high-grade.

And his breaking forbidden techniques are outstanding within the Gao Family, unmatched except by the Second Elder who has reached the level of a Tier Two middle-grade array master.

This is also why the Gao Family commissioned him to lead the team.

After studying carefully for about half a day, the cold-faced middle-aged man quickly found a solution.

He calculated the hour and gave orders:

"It's late, we'll proceed with breaking it tomorrow!"

The Gao Family members immediately began to rest in the stone hall.

...

On the other side, Zhou Xun also arrived at this continuous mountain ridge, barren and overgrown with rocks.

"This place is quite peculiar; the area spans dozens of miles, all desolate, with only a few sparse short grasses and shrubs!" Zhou Xun observed the area called Guya Ridge below.

Comparing it carefully with the map, it indeed matched the description.

His heart was set.

According to the treasure map's description, he arrived before a huge crevice.

He donned the Profound Yellow Armor and then wore a black robe.

With a sweep of his divine sense, there was no danger.

Thus, he advanced inside, walking over three hundred yards, suddenly startled.

"Someone!"

Could there be an ambush here!

Zhou Xun was shocked! He carefully controlled his divine sense to probe inside.

Inside were a total of nine people, led by a cold-faced middle-aged man. Among the other eight, there were three Middle-Stage Qi Refining cultivators and five Third-Layer Qi Refining cultivators.

If there were only these people, they wouldn't pose a threat to him.

Further sweeping inside, he saw the portal, whose restriction was mostly destroyed but not breached.

Only then did Zhou Xun feel relieved.

The secret vault had not been pre-emptively plundered.

This group seems to have just received the news and come to break the ban, quite a coincidence!

However, seeing their uniform attire, they seemed to belong to a certain cultivation influence.

Nearby, only Gaoyang Square's Gao Family was close by, so they must be cultivators of the Gao Family.

The Gao Family is a Foundation Establishment clan here, with three Foundation Establishment cultivators, the highest in cultivation being the Grand Elder who has reached the peak of middle-stage Foundation Establishment.

However, Zhou Xun was not willing to give up just like that.

"This place is over six thousand miles from Gaoyang Square. If I kill these people, then take the treasures and escape, by the time the Gao Family reacts, I will be long gone!"

Zhou Xun pondered in his heart.

Just as Zhou Xun was devising a plan to act.

He was unaware that the cold-faced middle-aged man's pupils shrank, seemingly discovering something.

It turned out that this middle-aged man raised a strange insect skilled in sensing techniques — the Thousand-Answering Insect.

This insect can sense extremely subtle fluctuations of spiritual power.

The middle-aged man's breaking forbidden technique relied 70% on this strange insect.

By relying on this insect, he could sense the spiritual power flow of array restrictions, thereby discovering their spiritual power nodes and then targeting them for cracking, doing so effortlessly.

Just as Zhou Xun approached, this insect discovered Zhou Xun's trace.

"Who is sneaking around over there!" The cold-faced middle-aged man shouted.

The remaining Gao Family cultivators received the middle-aged man's transmission, and all took out their magical artifacts, pointing toward Zhou Xun's direction.

"I've been discovered!"

Zhou Xun said to himself.

Without hesitation, he took out the high-grade Golden Shield Talisman from his storage bag and activated it on his body.

In an instant, three golden light shields enveloped Zhou Xun!

Next, Zhou Xun took out the Armor-Piercing Cone and the Round Wheel Spiritual Artifact, activating them and attacking toward the inside.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man simultaneously took out a Flying Fork, firing it toward Zhou Xun's location.

Blocking right in front of the round wheel.

Knowing the power of the Round Wheel Spiritual Artifact well, Zhou Xun knew it was nearly equivalent to some top-grade spiritual artifacts.

Under his Foundation Establishment stage divine sense, its power was even stronger.

"Ding—"

A crisp sound.

The round wheel and the flying fork collided.

The flying fork retreated, severely damaged in spirit light.

While the round wheel continued forward,

Cutting a Middle-Stage Qi Refining cultivator and his shield in half, then quickly flying back.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man was shocked, hurriedly took out an array flag, injected mana, and lightly waved it.

Instantly, a golden, translucent light shield enveloped the entire hall.

It was the defense array he had set up in advance.

He could not have imagined Zhou Xun's strength to be this formidable, knowing that he himself was a Ninth-Layer Qi Refining cultivator, and that the flying fork spiritual artifact was also high-grade.

The previous strike almost gave him the feeling of directly facing a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

At this moment, Zhou Xun emerged, arriving at the face of the array.

In front of him, the round wheel and Armor-Piercing Cone floated in mid-air, pointed directly at the Gao Family cultivators inside the array.

"Who are you, and why are you following us, killing my Gao Family disciples!"

"Daoist, if you retreat now, I can act like nothing happened!"

The cold-faced middle-aged man said solemnly.

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