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Chapter 1827 - 960: Ruins

Duke of Thunder took Li Yuanba, Phoenix Palace Master, and Master Ren Mu, and used Space Movement to leave the sealed volcanic crater.

After exiting the crater, they returned to the area separated by countless restrictions; this place was enough to trap any Peak Great Cultivator within it.

But Duke of Thunder was not a Peak Great Cultivator; its abilities had reached the Half-step Great Power Level, which made the restrictions it suffered here extremely weak.

Duke of Thunder performed Space Movement several times in succession, forcibly taking the three of them out of the dark seawater region.

Phoenix Palace Master and Master Ren Mu only felt that the Spiritual Power Pattern in their bodies was no longer suppressed, their full strength had returned; this feeling allowed the two of them to relax.

Having lost the strength they took pride in had made them extremely uneasy inside.

"Feng Xianzi, did you get it?" Li Yuanba asked Phoenix Palace Master.

Just now he had been focused only on saving people and had not paid attention to that Heavenly Mechanism Treasure, and only now did he remember it.

"A fire-element Heavenly Mechanism Treasure; if Mr. Li has use for it, I am willing to offer it up!" Phoenix Palace Master took out the Heavenly Mechanism Treasure she had obtained and held it up with both hands in front of Li Yuanba as she spoke.

She truly meant it; if Li Yuanba had not taken action, she would already have fallen in that volcanic crater.

You had to know that at the time she had even used up her Great Power life-saving item and was only a hair’s breadth away from falling.

"You keep it. I hope we can all become Great Powers!" Li Yuanba waved his hand and said with a smile.

Phoenix Palace Master smiled faintly and put away the Heavenly Mechanism Treasure.

With this Heavenly Mechanism Treasure, she had a bit more confidence in her advancement to Great Power.

"What exactly is this ancient ruin used for?" Master Ren Mu looked at the dark seawater region and asked.

This was indeed an ancient ruin beyond doubt, but this ancient ruin was too strange; even though the three of them were Peak Great Cultivators from three super sects, with access to very high-level records, they still had not figured out the function of this ancient ruin.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Ren, do you plan to stay and explore, or leave?" Phoenix Palace Master had obtained the Heavenly Mechanism Treasure she wanted, and in her heart she no longer wished to take risks. She spoke up and asked.

You couldn’t blame her; the danger just now left her with lingering fear. This had been her closest brush with death.

As a female cultivator, and moreover a female cultivator of Luanyang Palace, she had encountered very few dangers in the Cultivation World.

"I’m afraid that aside from Mr. Li, the fairy and I have no ability to explore this ancient ruin!" Master Ren Mu shook his head with a wry smile as he spoke.

He still had a clear sense of his own limits. Before the ancient ruin was activated it was one thing; after activation, the level of danger in the ancient ruin was not something he was capable of exploring.

His mind was very clear on what could be done and what could not. It was precisely by relying on this little bit of clear self-awareness that he had managed to live until now.

"I’ll have Duke of Thunder go in and take a look at the situation!" Li Yuanba thought for a moment and said.

With the ancient ruin right before his eyes, if he didn’t explore it a bit, he would really be letting himself down.

In the current Cultivation World, an ancient ruin that could be discovered yet had not been explored was exceedingly rare.

Moreover, even if an ancient ruin appeared, the cultivators who discovered it would treat it as a cherished secret. How could they possibly make public the ancient ruins they had found?

"Duke of Thunder—did you take the name from the mythological Duke of Thunder, or is this the very Duke of Thunder himself?" Phoenix Palace Master looked at Duke of Thunder and then asked Li Yuanba.

Duke of Thunder stood there, the lightning aura over its whole body not concealed in the slightest.

Hearing Li Yuanba call it Duke of Thunder, Phoenix Palace Master naturally thought of the Duke of Thunder from myth.

You couldn’t blame her for suspecting that this Duke of Thunder was the very one from myth; a Half-step Great Power Level Duke of Thunder, placed in myth, was enough to be called a deity.

"Duke of Thunder is a name I gave it!" Li Yuanba explained vaguely.

Phoenix Palace Master could hear that Li Yuanba did not wish to go into detail about Duke of Thunder, so she shut her mouth and asked no more.

"I must ask the two of you to keep this secret for me. I really don’t want to attract trouble because of Duke of Thunder!" Li Yuanba then slightly bowed to Phoenix Palace Master and Master Ren Mu as he requested.

"This is what we ought to do. If Duke of Thunder hadn’t acted, we would all have fallen here!" Phoenix Palace Master and Master Ren Mu agreed without the slightest hesitation.

"Then I thank you both!" Li Yuanba said with a smile.

Duke of Thunder did not need him to control it with his mind; far away, Li Shiming’s main body had split off a brain and was personally controlling Duke of Thunder.

Duke of Thunder’s figure flashed and it once again entered the dark seawater region; from outside, there was simply nothing to be seen of the dark seawater region.

But once you entered the dark seawater region, you could discover the activated ancient ruin; countless Ancient Rune Restrictions in the seawater formed a vast Ancient Rune Restriction.

Even after who knew how many tens of thousands of years, this ancient ruin could still completely suppress a Peak Great Cultivator.

One could only wonder how powerful the restrictions here had been when this ancient ruin was at its peak.

It was only because Duke of Thunder’s realm was too high and it was not greatly suppressed by the ancient ruin that there was any possibility of exploring this place.

Without a Half-step Great Power Level existence taking action, even if a hundred Peak Great Cultivators came, they would still be unable to have any effect here.

Once inside the ancient ruin, the only difference between a Peak Great Cultivator and an ordinary mortal was in their physique; but a Peak Great Cultivator without Spiritual Power Pattern, in the eyes of the guardian spirit beasts of the ancient ruin, was merely something that required a few extra bites.

Duke of Thunder examined the area for a while and in the end still chose the volcanic crater.

All the restrictions were arranged around the volcanic crater; that crater was likely an important node.