Lu Sheng stared at the huge crater in the ground from afar, and said nothing.
Not because of anything else, but simply because this crater was too big.
It was more than twenty meters in diameter, and the inside of the crater was as smooth as a mirror. The soil and stones had been melted by the high temperature, condensing into strange black and yellow crystals.
Wisps of black smoke slowly drifted out of the crater.
The people of the Hundred Temperings Sect were talking to a few upper three grades investigation team, standing by the crater as if trying to explain something.
Many people had gathered around to examine the remains of the deep crater. Lu Sheng scanned the area and seemed to have found a familiar face.
It was Yan Kai, whom he had met in Nine Links City. This guy was holding a pretty little girl's hand, saying something helplessly. But the little girl was in high spirits, constantly squeezing into the depths of the crowd, not caring about his feelings at all.
As if noticing his gaze, Yan Kai looked left and right uneasily, and then unknowingly met Lu Sheng's gaze in the distance.
There was a pause of two seconds.
Yan Kai shuddered violently, then turned and ran. Pulling the little girl along, he ran madly, disappearing into the crowd in a few moments.
"…"
Lu Sheng's smile froze on his face. He had intended to greet the other party, but now it seemed …
He touched his face in bewilderment. Was he really that scary? He had even helped Yan Kai and his senior brother before, and now he was running away as if he had seen a ghost. What was the meaning of this?
Ignoring Yan Kai, Lu Sheng glanced in the direction of his teacher, Liu Shanzi, and the others. They were also discussing and introducing something to the crater.
Seeing that they did not seem to be paying attention to him, Lu Sheng slowly leaned into the crater, squatted down, and reached out to lightly touch the edge.
Hard, hot, and smooth. Three different sensations quickly traveled up from his fingertips.
Retracting his finger, Lu Sheng looked at his index finger. There was a faint greyish-white color on it, as if it had been stained with some kind of white ash.
Strangely, this white ash was still being absorbed by his skin. The skin that absorbed the white ash rapidly wrinkled and lost its luster, just like the fingers of an old man in his seventies or eighties.
"This is the power of the Time-Freezing Axe?" Lu Sheng frowned. He wanted to know the difference between the power of a Holy Weapon and his own strength.
In terms of strength alone, he definitely couldn't compare. Just by looking at the large crater on the ground that was more than 20 meters in diameter, he knew that this was caused by a single strike, and not by continuous bombardment.
Even now, there were still traces of this grayish-white powder. This mark …
"It's the same as the fragment in the Divine Weapon Pool … My body has no way of resisting it." Lu Sheng stretched out his ring finger again. Devil Qi and Inner Qi ran on his finger at the same time. Then, he controlled his finger to transform into the Yin and Yang Integration state within a very small range.
The originally slender human fingers quickly turned into terrifying black claws that were as sharp as bayonets.
While no one was paying attention, Lu Sheng quickly touched the inner wall of the pit.
This time, the amount of white ash was about the same as the last time.
He wanted to see what would happen if he were to encounter the remnants of the Holy Weapon's power in his strongest state.
Unfortunately, he was still disappointed.
The combination of Yin and Yang and the finger that activated Devil Qi and Internal Qi at the same time only lasted a little longer than before.
Previously, when the white ash was stuck on his finger, it only took five breaths for his finger to age. But now, it only took six breaths.
A large amount of Aquarius Qi rushed into his finger to repair the aging index and ring fingers. Because it wasn't an injury but a complete aging, it was equivalent to regrowing a severed limb. It required a large amount of Aquarius Qi to recover.
Lu Sheng used a full ten percent of his power to repair his finger.
"The difference was only a breath's time." The result made his face a little ugly. "This means that my current strength at my peak is not much stronger than the average aristocratic family's disciple when facing a Holy Weapon. Simply put, when facing a Holy Weapon, I'm no different from the other aristocratic family's disciples. We're all trash. "
This made him a little disappointed.
Originally, he was happy because he had cultivated the Devil Heart Dao and was about to master the Prime Devil Secret Art, but his mood quickly became tense again.
"If the enemy who attacked that night could bring out a Holy Weapon so easily, then there will be no less trouble in the future. I have to get ready as soon as possible. " Lu Sheng felt threatened. He stood up and saw the three first seats of the upper three grades talking to each other not far away. All three of them were frowning, clearly having a headache over this matter.
As the leaders of this team, they would never have guessed that the Hundred Temperings Sect, which could force the enemy to use a Holy Weapon, was definitely hiding many secrets.
But how to face the Hundred Temperings Sect and dig out the information he wanted to know was a problem.
This sect that could not suffer much damage from a Holy Weapon seemed to be hidden in thick fog.
Lu Sheng moved closer to his teacher and the others. He happened to hear them talking about the Hundred Temperings Sect.
"… In the second carriage, the curtains were also tightly shut. No one has ever come out. If it wasn't for the Holy Weapon's sudden attack, the pale-faced young man sitting in the carriage might not have shown himself." He Xiangzi reported the situation seriously.
"To be able to resist a Holy Weapon, it must be a Holy Weapon at least. There must be a big secret in these two tightly shut carriages of the Hundred Temperings Sect. Previously, the investigation team said that they would investigate, but then they changed their mind and said that they would not investigate. After that, it has been dragged on until now. "Zhan Kongning added. "After the Hundred Temperings Sect showed such strength, presumably the upper three grades sects would not want to offend them too much."
"I heard that the Hundred Temperings Sect went to the Northern Lands a while ago. I wonder if they obtained some kind of opportunity in the Northern Lands?" The sect master of the Jade Sound Clan had also arrived. She was a delicate and slender woman in red. She held a scarlet fan in her hand with a green leaf embroidered on it. From time to time, she covered her mouth with the fan and coughed a few times. She seemed to be feeling very well.
"Qing Ye, you haven't recovered yet, right? There's no need to come along. The radiation here is very high, it's not good for your recovery, "Liu Shanzi said with concern.
"It's fine." The sect master of the Jade Sound Clan, Qing Ye, smiled. Behind her were Yue Shengya, Li Xiuying, and the other girls.
Yue Shengya also saw Lu Sheng and mischievously winked at him.
Lu Sheng nodded slightly in return.
Several people from the sects gathered together and began to study the traces of radiation left behind by the giant pit. They tried to touch the pit wall with their fingers one by one, but the result was the same as Lu Sheng's. There was no difference. They were all old fingers that could not be recovered.
They could only completely cut off their fingers and let them grow out again.
"Speaking of which, Brother Lu, aren't you from the Northern Lands? Have you heard about the Hundred Temperings Sect? "Zhan Kongning asked Lu Sheng in a low voice.
Lu Sheng shook his head. "At that time, I was mostly involved with mortal forces. I didn't have much interaction with this level."
"I heard that this pit was caused by the people of the Hundred Temperings Sect using a Holy Weapon to fight head-on." Zhan Kongning seemed to not want others to know. He only told Lu Sheng in a very low voice.
"Also a Holy Weapon …?" Lu Sheng's heart tightened. The Northern Lands, the pale-faced young man. He vaguely thought of a possibility.
"What level was the Hundred Temperings Sect at before?" he asked.
"One of the top three levels, I guess," Zhan Kongning answered honestly.
"In other words, he went to the Northern Lands and came back with a sudden surge in strength?" Lu Sheng confirmed.
"Should be …" Zhan Kongning pondered and nodded slightly.
Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes. He suddenly thought of the rumored Zhen Family that had fled far away.
Back then, Zhen Family had hurriedly abandoned Crimson Whale Sect and all their businesses in the Northern Lands, fleeing with the Scarlet Dragon Tribulation. It was said that they had gone abroad.
But he was very skeptical about this. After all, there were only two ways to go abroad from the Northern Lands. One was to go to Ju Rong Nation, and the other was to take a ship to the depths of the Frozen Ocean.
He had not received any clues from either of these two choices. Previously, he could have thought that Noble Families might have many mysterious tricks up their sleeves. But now that he had more contact with them, he roughly knew that Noble Families' secret arts all originated from Divine Weapons and Devil Blades. They would not have all kinds of strange arts, and there were traces to be found.
With that, Lu Sheng began to suspect that the Zhen Family might not have gone overseas at all, but had hidden themselves somewhere else.
'But what does this have to do with me?' Lu Sheng abruptly stopped thinking. 'It doesn't matter if Zhen Family is hiding in the Hundred Temperings Sect or somewhere else. It has nothing to do with me anymore. It's more practical for me to think about how to resist the power of Holy Weapons. '
Lu Sheng thought for a moment, then took out a jade box that he had prepared beforehand. He scraped some powder from the edge of the pit, put it into the jade box, and carefully closed it.
Perhaps he could start to understand how strong the power of a Divine Weapon or Devil Blade was from this weakened version of Holy Weapons.
What Lu Sheng wanted to know the most was how big the difference was between Essence Power and Holy Weapons.
After investigating the traces left behind by Holy Weapons, the Prime Devil Sect, the Fine Garden Sect, and the Jade Sound Clan gathered together and quickly separated from the group, dispersing in all directions.
Even their sects did not gather together. Instead, they scattered and left at full speed in different directions.
The result was just as they had expected. The journey was peaceful, and no trouble appeared.
But what Lu Sheng and the others did not know was that the real reason no trouble came knocking was not because they were not the other party's target, but because there was another reason.
…
"Splash."
Water splashed everywhere.
A wet human figure slowly crawled out of the river, holding a strange gleaming axe in his hand. The axe was shining with a triangular emblem.
It was a man, his body covered in festering black wounds. The most frightening thing was that there was a poisonous green stinger left by some kind of insect on his scalp, almost piercing through his entire brain.
The man crawled to the shore, flipped over with difficulty, and lay on his back, letting out a long sigh.
He was Lin Huandao, who had gone to the Mirage Water Palace.
"Chong Yuezi and the others are all gone … I didn't expect … Young Master would go this far just to win …" He looked up at the blue clouds, and suddenly sighed with some melancholy.
"You were too conceited and didn't know how to appreciate favors. Who can you blame?"
Behind him, two strange women, one in black and one in white, slowly appeared. It was as if they had been standing there since the beginning, just that they had revealed themselves from invisibility.
"Yes … I was too conceited. I thought that with Young Master's pride, he wouldn't go this far." Lin Huandao smiled bitterly. "Looks like I overestimated him."
"Do you have any last words?" the woman in black said lightly.
"Last words?" Lin Huandao shook his head. "I have nothing to say. Take care, Young Master Bei Kai. He thinks that everything will be fine once he kills me. He doesn't understand how powerful the family elders are. If he doesn't see it with his own eyes, he'll never understand … "
"You mean, you're not the only one by Young Master's side?" the woman in white asked with a frown.
Lin Huandao smiled. "Just give me a quick death. Lin Huandao died in the battle of the sneak attack on the Mirage Water Palace. It's not bad to remember this, and we can also throw the blame on the Mirage Water Palace. "
The woman in black was silent.
"As you wish." She slowly walked towards Lin Huandao on the ground.
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