Chapter 931: Can

“You’re really something!”

“No wonder you’re the Nine-Nines’ destiny!”

“In the past hundred years, I did nothing—and my curse power has already dropped by a full tenth!”

“Ah… if this pace continues, I only need to stay here with you for a thousand years, and then my curse power will be completely gone.”

Jin Ku’s voice was filled with joy.

But He Pingsheng could not rejoice.

A thousand years?

Still that long?

“Time’s up,” He Pingsheng said coolly. “The exit of Jin Ku Immortal Ruins will open in a few days—I’m leaving.”

“Are you sure you don’t need to take anything with you?”

“No… no…” Jin Ku said. “Besides my corpse, there’s nothing here!”

“Oh…” He Pingsheng said. “Your corpse is here too?”

“Don’t waste it… let me peel your skin and make talismans!”

Jin Ku Daoist immediately sneered, “Make talismans from me? Are you mad?”

“My corpse is at the Earth Immortal realm!”

“Do you know what rank the talismans would be?”

“Rank?” He Pingsheng thought, then said, “Should be… ninth… no, tenth rank?”

“Exactly!” Jin Ku Daoist said. “Not only can you not make them, but even if you did, you wouldn’t dare use them!”

“The power of one talisman would blow this entire realm to dust—what use is it to you?”

He Pingsheng thought: “That’s true.”

“Besides!” Jin Ku said. “My body is cursed by Heaven’s Dao—don’t go looking for it unless you want trouble.”

“Let’s go, let’s go! I’ve been trapped in this small world for a million years—I’ve long wanted to leave!”

Under Jin Ku’s urging, He Pingsheng left the place, waved his hand to tear open the void, and the next moment appeared at the exit of the Immortal Ruins.

When He Pingsheng landed, the place was already packed with people.

So many!

Everyone was unsurprised to see him arrive.

He Pingsheng’s gaze swept across the crowd—he saw the Witch Clan.

He had killed two of the twelve Witch Clan members; the other ten remained, none fallen.

The Qilin Clan’s numbers were unchanged, but the three Great Mahayana Emperor-level Dragon Clan members were gone.

“Hmph…” Seeing He Pingsheng, the Witch Clan’s Gu Yedi sneered. “He Pingsheng—don’t tell me you got the Ten True Poisons here?”

He Pingsheng asked: “So what if I did?”

“What can you do to me?”

Gu Yedi’s face turned black with rage.

But as He Pingsheng had said, he truly couldn’t do anything to him.

Besides, He Pingsheng’s cultivation base had advanced further.

"He Dao friend," the Tianweidicheng Empress came to He Pingsheng's side.

He Pingsheng asked: “Where are the Dragons? I haven’t seen any of the three Emperor-level demons—dead?”

“Pfft…” Gu Yedi sneered. “Do Dragons die?”

“Three Dragons came; two were Mahayana Emperor Level Twelve—they ascended directly to the Immortal Realm from within this world!”

“As for the third, I don’t know where he went—but it doesn’t matter. That third Dragon was merely a projection!”

“Even if he’s dead, it’s no loss!”

He Pingsheng felt nothing amiss and sat down.

Wait.

Wait for the exit to open.

While waiting, his gaze still scanned the surroundings.

The Human Clan had suffered heavy losses.

Six Mahayana Emperor-level cultivators entered; now only three remained.

The Tianweidicheng Empress, Duan Feihong, and one old man.

The rest are surely dead!

Including the woman named [Zhishu].

He also didn’t see the Xuanwu Emperor.

He Pingsheng frowned slightly: Could that old turtle have perished here too?

That shouldn’t be possible—Xuanwu’s defense was invincible.

…

One day later!

Hundreds of Mahayana Emperor-level cultivators on the scene grew restless.

“What’s going on?”

“The time’s up!”

“Did I misremember?”

“Why hasn’t the exit opened?”

Everyone stared at the void.

Some faces darkened.

He Pingsheng frowned and asked Jin Ku: “Is the time flow in this small world identical to the outside world?”

Jin Ku said: “Exactly identical—in the outside world a hundred years pass, here a hundred years pass—not a single breath off!”

“Then why hasn’t it opened?”

“Has this ever happened before?”

“Never!” Jin Ku said. “This is the first time—it’s already been delayed a full day!”

Correct—it had been one full day, and the Immortal Ruins’ exit still hadn’t opened.

“Damn!” Gu Yedi’s face turned pitch black. “Damn Jin Ku Clan—could they have tricked us here on purpose, then sealed off this small world?”

“No one can get out?”

He Pingsheng hadn’t thought of this before, but after hearing Gu Yedi’s words, his brows shot up sharply.

Sealed?

Sealed?

Sealed?

Not good…

He looked up, took a deep breath, and said: “It’s not the Jin Ku Clan—it’s the Phoenix Clan…”

“And the Dragon Clan…”

Gu Yedi turned his head. “What did you say?”

He Pingsheng said: “Their goal isn’t to trap you here—it’s to trap me here!”

“Damn…”

In that moment, He Pingsheng understood everything.

In the Spirit Realm, the Phoenix Clan could no longer deal with him.

They couldn’t kill him!

They could only watch helplessly as he grew stronger by the day.

Wait until he reached Mahayana Emperor level, then watch their own clan get slaughtered?

How could the Phoenix Clan accept that?

But trapping him in this small world—a dead end—turns everything around.

“Say that again?” Gu Yedi stared at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng took a deep breath: “Why did the two Dragon Clan Mahayana Emperors ascend in this small world instead of in the Spirit Realm?”

“Why is the third one a projection—and now vanished?”

“And why hasn’t a single Phoenix Clan member shown up?”

“Don’t you find that suspicious?”

He Pingsheng looked at Gu Yedi.

Before Gu Yedi could speak, Qing Qi nearby shouted: “I get it!”

“Earlier, the Phoenix Clan came to our Qilin Clan and persuaded all our Emperor-level cultivators to come here to hunt He Pingsheng and Wang Dun!”

“Damn… thank heaven we didn’t listen to them!”

“So this was their plan all along!”

“I understand!” Gu Yedi said. “So the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan conspired to control the Jin Ku Clan, thereby sealing the entrance and exit of this small world to trap us forever?”

He Pingsheng said: “You’re wrong. They want to trap only me!”

“You can still ascend to the Immortal Realm!”

"As for me, it’s hard!"

"You know nothing!" Gu Yedi roared, "Without the Blood Pool, our Wu Clan cannot ascend!"

"This is two birds with one stone—aiming to seal you off, and also to seal off our Wu Clan!"

"Damn it... our Wu Clan is in danger!"

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