Chapter 543 - 293: Ji Minghui: Young Master Ling, I am willing to go with you

By the Baiyu Lotus Pool.

Celestial Monarch Luo Qi surveyed her surroundings with a grim expression, her stunningly beautiful, jade-like face tinged with a livid hue.

She had gazed at this place from a distance countless times before. She knew there were good things inside, but she could never get to them. After all, the Array Restriction here was simply too powerful.

To this end, Celestial Monarch Luo Qi had spent over a century in this area comprehending and painstakingly chipping away at the Array Restriction, and she had been on the verge of success.

However, just a moment ago, that beautiful youth in purple and the three Female Cultivators with him had smoothly opened the Array Restriction and swept away all the opportunities within the Baiyu Lotus Pool, leaving nothing behind for her.

What was even more infuriating was that they had deliberately left the place unsealed. It was a clear invitation for Celestial Monarch Luo Qi to come and see the empty prize.

"How insulting! Utterly, utterly insulting..."

Celestial Monarch Luo Qi ground her silver teeth, her voice filled with hatred.

’Even if you’re reincarnations of some ancient Great Powers, you can’t just bully people like this, can you? You’re not going to leave even a sliver of the benefits for me?’

Just then, a sudden, endless tremor of unknown origin appeared without any warning.

’Huh? No, wait!’

A jolt went through Celestial Monarch Luo Qi as she suddenly realized something.

’That guy got the opportunity. Could he have already reached the core of the Divine Land Ruins? Could he have seized control of the entire place?’

’Doesn’t that mean I... won’t get any benefits at all? I might even end up being controlled by him instead!’

It wasn’t just her. The sudden tremor had instantly spread throughout the entire Hongmeng Divine Hall, and every Cultivator within felt it.

"...Wh-what’s happening?"

Before the gilded gateway, a busy Su Mingcan looked up in confusion, not understanding what was going on.

"Someone must have broken into the core area of the ruins and started taking control, right?"

Yin Xuechen of the Chiying Demon Sect had a sinister expression. He had already considered the worst-case scenario, yet he had no way to deal with it.

"That’s a definite possibility!"

Ancestor Qin Tiangen of the Li Huo Divine Palace had a face as cold as iron. He ground his teeth with an audible ’GRIND,’ his body radiating a fearsome killing intent.

Yu Zhonglin, the Female Cultivators of Xuannü Palace, and Xia Qingying all wore grim expressions as well.

They had all worked so hard and paid such a heavy price to finally make it this far, only to have someone else pluck the peach first.

Faced with such a frustrating outcome, even a clay doll would have a bit of a temper.

The many Cultivators from different factions looked at each other, speechless for a long moment.

"What... should we do now?"

Yin Xuechen asked coldly.

Su Mingcan shook his head with a bitter smile. "There’s nothing we can do. If they’ve truly succeeded, we won’t even be able to leave if we wanted to."

As a top-tier grandmaster of the Array Dao Domain, no one understood the terror of these Divine Land Ruins better than Su Mingcan. He could only hope that the other party possessed a shred of goodwill and wouldn’t annihilate them all.

"Let’s retreat!"

After a moment of thought, Xia Qingying made the wisest decision.

No matter how unwilling they were, they had to retreat as quickly as possible now. Otherwise, there was no telling what would happen next.

If the other party was determined to keep them all here, there would be nothing these Cultivators could do.

"Look, what’s that?"

a Cultivator cried out in alarm.

Xia Qingying subconsciously raised her head and saw a graceful, stunningly beautiful figure over a hundred zhang tall quietly materialize in mid-air. It then transformed into a beautiful woman dressed in bright red, exuding a fragrant and charming aura, though her facial features were hazy and indistinct.

Clearly, this was the Dharma Body projection of some great Female Cultivator, but no one present recognized her.

"...Fellow Daoists,"

The red-robed beauty’s vermilion lips parted, her elegant and pleasant voice echoing throughout the Hongmeng Divine Hall:

"The opportunities here now belong to me and have nothing to do with any of you! I ask that you all exit this place as soon as possible. I will temporarily release all the Array Restrictions in the outer regions to allow you to leave smoothly!"

"...Bastard!"

"How dare you!"

"Our Li Huo Divine Palace sacrificed the lives of so many Disciples! And you’re just telling us to give up? By what right?"

"You’re simply greedy and shameless! Utterly mad..."

The crowd of Cultivators erupted in curses.

They had risked life and limb, only for it all to be for nothing in the end. No one would accept such an outcome, especially since they were hardly a group of saints.

"May I ask for your name, Fellow Daoist? By trying to monopolize all the opportunities in this Divine Land, aren’t you afraid of offending every power present here?"

the Sect Leader of Xuannü Palace asked with a calm expression.

The Yu Family Patriarch, Yu Zhonglin, spoke slowly, "Fellow Daoist, the opportunities here are no small matter. I’m afraid you can’t swallow it all by yourself. Why not... share them? The Yu Family will certainly remember this favor!"

The beautiful phantom in the sky let out a cold laugh. "If you are unwilling to leave, then I won’t force you. I don’t mind having an extra batch of slaves to do my work!"

"You..."

The Cultivators present were instantly enraged. Tens of thousands of them had gathered here, yet they were being humiliated and threatened by a single Female Cultivator of unknown origin?

If this could be tolerated, what couldn’t?

However, Meng Feiyu had no desire to waste time with them. The Magical Power projection quickly vanished.

All that remained in the sky was the phantom of a burning stick of incense, which was shortening at a visible rate.

Once the incense burned out, the Array Restrictions of the entire Divine Land would reactivate, and certain traps with lethal power would appear along with them to take care of all these outsider Cultivators.