Chapter 4288 — Someone Blocks the Way
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"Quite right, Brother Chang has thought this through more carefully than any of us." Hearing this, the others nodded one after another in convinced agreement. If there was no teleportation array here, then they would have to budget their time for getting out, and could not afford to linger in this place.
At once, with Chang Daoping leading the way, the group strode into the small palace before them. The interior was exceedingly vast and empty—in this respect, at least, it matched their expectations closely enough.
Any teleportation array is a complex and exquisite formation, which means it is bound to stand out conspicuously. Sure enough, the moment the group entered the small palace, they spotted the teleportation array at once, situated squarely in the center.
"There really is a teleportation array—now we can relax." Cao Shishi and the others felt their hearts ease immediately at the sight, and each of them rubbed their palms and flexed their fingers, eager to get out and hunt for treasure.
Yet when their gazes fell upon Chang Daoping, they could not help but freeze—for at this moment his expression had turned unprecedentedly grave!
Nor was it only Chang Daoping. Wei Zhao, taking in the scene before him, also felt his eyelids twitch violently. He had sensed all along that something was off about these ruins of a dead city, and now it had indeed proven true.
The others, still uncomprehending, followed Chang Daoping's line of sight, and their gazes came to rest at last on either side of the teleportation array—where, facing each other in correspondence, sat two figures in azure robes, upright and proper.
Earlier in these ruins, they had seen no end of all manner of statues—including that inexplicable spirit beast over by the altar—so at first glance they had not paid these two figures any particular mind, assuming them to be merely two more statues.
But looking again now, the group nearly wet themselves in fright. These two were no statues at all—faint traces of living breath emanated from their bodies. They were living people!
"Ah!" Cao Shishi shrieked in terror and fled, pale-faced, to hide behind Chang Daoping. Huang Xiaotao was nervous as well, unconsciously tightening her grip on Wei Zhao's hand.
At first, the two azure-robed figures sitting upright seemed still to be resting with eyes closed, giving off only the faintest hints of living breath. But after Cao Shishi's shriek, the aura around these two abruptly surged with mad violence, and the formidable presence of late Nascent Soul masters was laid bare before everyone in an instant!
Such a blood-chilling, ferocious aura—even compared with Chang Daoping at their side, it was no weaker, only stronger. The faces of the group turned ashen one and all. One such foe might be manageable, but the problem now was that these were two full late Nascent Soul masters!
"You... you are..." This time even Chang Daoping, ever the picture of an expert, was badly startled, and his words came out stammering.
Wei Zhao watched this with some astonishment. He had assumed Chang Daoping at least would have known about this in advance—after all, the man had inside intelligence from a steward of the spirit beast clan, and every step before this had been prepared so thoroughly. He had not expected that this time Chang Daoping would be as helpless as the rest of them.
"Heh heh, so the lot of you have come sightseeing in our spirit beast clan's scenic spot. Now that you're leaving, don't you think you ought to leave something behind? Not only do you skip the admission fee, you've gone and looted the souvenirs. Just walking off like this—that doesn't seem quite right, does it?" The two azure-robed figures rose to their feet with cold laughter.