199: Chapter 199 Core Area

"Lin Qing, stop quickly, we surrender."

"Lin Qing, do you really want to kill us all? We are from a super power!"

Realizing that they might truly perish here today, the four of them began to panic. Some begged for mercy, while others made threats, but Lin Qing ignored them.

Cursing could be heard continuously from the battlefield, which soon turned into screams. In the end, Lin Qing spared them, only having Shan crush them with the stone hammer in his hand.

Before dying, that Senior Brother from Wanyan Spirit Pavilion cast a pleading gaze toward Senior Sister Tao Tao, hoping she would ask Lin Qing to spare him.

Senior Sister Tao Tao did not believe she had that much Face before Lin Qing, and coupled with the disgusting look the Senior Brother had just given her, she turned her head away, not responding to his plea.

Now that they had reached the depths of the Forbidden Ground, and the supreme treasure might be in this area, Lin Qing did not want to waste too much time on them.

After picking up the four Storage Rings, Lin Qing turned to look at Senior Sister Tao Tao. After pondering for a moment, he said:

"You may leave!"

Senior Sister Tao Tao had done a good job scouting the path, so Lin Qing intended to let her go—this time, he really meant it.

Senior Sister Tao Tao did not want to leave. This Forbidden Ground was too dangerous for her; staying by Lin Qing's side would give her a better chance of walking out alive.

"Lin Qing, can I follow you?"

"Hmm?"

Lin Qing cast his gaze toward Senior Sister Tao Tao, and she hurriedly waved her hands.

"I won't follow, I won't follow, I'll leave right now."

Cold sweat dripped down Senior Sister Tao Tao in fear. She had actually dared to question Lin Qing's decision just now, and she immediately prepared to turn and leave.

"Wait."

Lin Qing called out to her. Senior Sister Tao Tao looked back at Lin Qing in surprise, thinking he had changed his mind.

Lin Qing did not respond to her slightly inquisitive gaze but instead turned his gaze toward another giant rock nearby.

"Come out!"

Someone else? Under Senior Sister Tao Tao's stunned gaze, a figure walked out from behind the giant rock Lin Qing was watching.

It was Ren Wudi. He had also walked out of the passage area. This was not too surprising, as he was, after all, a Late Stage Level 9 Cultivator, and his strength rating had reached seven stars.

It could be said that Ren Wudi was the top expert in the Secret Realm, excluding Lin Qing and the five Great Peak Level 9 Cultivators.

Ren Wudi's expression was complex. Although he had previously warned Lin Qing that the super powers were going to take action against him, it did not mean he was entirely on Lin Qing's side.

The Peak Level 9 Senior Brother from the Lingxiao Sword Sect had usually been quite good to Ren Wudi, and he also did not want anything to happen to that Senior Brother.

Unfortunately, that Senior Brother had first been turned into an idiot by Lin Qing, and later had completely perished in the passage.

Regarding this, Ren Wudi had originally held some resentment toward Lin Qing, but later Lin Qing had saved him, so for a time, he did not know how to Face Lin Qing.

In the illusion area, he was the second person to wake up after Lin Qing. At that time, the passage had already closed to only a few inches wide. If Lin Qing had not moved him to the middle of the path, he would have already perished there.

As for whether someone else had saved him, Ren Wudi had not thought so. Even if someone he didn't know had woken up before him, he didn't believe the other party would have the courage to leave on their own.

Therefore, the person who saved him could only be Lin Qing; he was very certain about this.

Lin Qing naturally noticed Ren Wudi's awkward expression, but he did not pay too much attention to it and continued to say to Senior Sister Tao Tao:

"See if he is willing to take you out."

Afterward, Lin Qing did not wait for the two to speak. He took Feng Lin Huo Shan, turned around, and left directly. He had already delayed long enough; he didn't know how much time it would take to find that supreme treasure.

Lin Qing wandered around the core area of the Forbidden Ground alone. This area was even larger than he had imagined.

During this time, he also encountered a few Level 9 Cultivators from the super powers, but these Level 9 Cultivators did not recognize the situation; upon meeting Lin Qing, they all declared they would capture him.

In the end, Lin Qing could only helplessly accept their Storage Rings.

One day later, Lin Qing finally made a new discovery. From the outside, that place also looked like a giant rock, or rather, it would be more appropriate to call it a mountain.

If the dao child token had not reacted, Lin Qing might have truly missed it.

After walking around the mountain, with the sensing of the dao child token, Lin Qing successfully found the entrance.

After passing the passage area, Lin Qing, with the dao child token in hand, conversely did not encounter any trouble from the Forbidden Ground itself.

Inside the mountain was not the enclosed space Lin Qing had imagined; it was a circular valley, like a volcanic crater, and it had no roof.

However, the entire valley was still located within this huge underground space, so although there was no cover, only sporadic fluorite provided light inside the valley.

The diameter of the valley was about ten miles, with various cave entrances scattered on the surrounding rock walls, and in the very center of the valley stood a giant tree with a diameter of several hundred zhang!

The giant tree was not very tall; it was of that short and stout type, somewhat similar to the form of a banyan tree.

Lin Qing could almost conclude that the giant tree before him was the supreme treasure he was looking for.

According to the previous diary records, the supreme treasure was initially a piece of wood that seemed to have no vitality, which later sprouted. Now that fifty thousand years had passed, it was very reasonable for the tender sprout to have grown back into a large tree.

Upon truly finding the supreme treasure, Lin Qing was a bit troubled. For a moment, he did not know where to start, as this thing had once triggered a Heavenly Tribulation.

Lin Qing had never seen a Heavenly Tribulation, but he would not doubt its power; after all, the destruction of the Kunxu Immortal Sect was caused by this Heavenly Tribulation.

As the number one power that had dominated the continent for hundreds of thousands of years, the Kunxu Immortal Sect had countless Level 11 experts. Even they had perished under the Heavenly Tribulation, so Lin Qing did not think he would have any chance of surviving if he encountered it.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Qing decided to first go and look into the surrounding caves.

Lin Qing could guess what those caves were. This valley was similar to the stone hall of the Chuyun Immortal Sect, which was the place where Jue Chenzi had gone into seclusion for several hundred years.

This kind of place was the true core area of a Sect, where the strongest people in the Sect lived.

And those caves were naturally the Immortal Caves where the top experts of the Kunxu Immortal Sect lived.

Lin Qing approached one of the caves, with Feng Lin Huo Shan following behind him.

Crack—!

A crisp sound suddenly came from behind. Lin Qing looked back, and Feng Lin Huo Shan also hurriedly stopped and stood in place.

Lin Qing walked to the front of Lin and ordered:

"Step back!"

The crisp sound just now had come from under Lin's feet. Lin hurriedly stepped back a few paces.

Lin Qing squatted down to check. The thing that had caused the sound had been crushed into a pile of powder by Lin. However, the powder had not scattered, and Lin Qing could still make out the previous form of the object from the outline of the powder.

It was a human thigh bone.