It had been fifteen minutes since Lin Xuan's avatar led the two of them out of the Hongshan County.
Azure Mountain.
Two figures from the Demon Resistance Hall (Demon Control Temple) silently appeared outside the mountain gate. They stood in mid-air, overlooking the Lin family members below.
"Senior Sister, this Second Rank force is truly bizarre. Counting those on the market, there are more than forty Foundation Establishment cultivators. That's just what we've seen. There could be more outside. Their numbers can almost rival some more experienced Third Rank Golden Core force," Fang Yan said with a hint of surprise.
Nangong Ruoxian wore a similar expression. According to the intelligence they had received, the Lin family should have reached the Second Rank status in less than half a year. Their growth rate was terrifying.
"Perhaps they've discovered a small hidden realm, a secret land, or an inheritance left by a senior." Nangong Ruoxian said coldly.
Fang Yan didn't refute her. The Lin family's current situation was evidently due to their rapid acquisition of significant resources. The only way to obtain such resources was as Nangong Ruoxian had suggested.
In the human realm, there were many examples like the Lin family. However, their growth was much slower. After all, even with abundant resources and techniques, it still took time to digest and grow.
Nangong Ruoxian and Fang Yan were well aware of this, but they were too lazy to investigate further. As members of the Human Ancestral Temple's Demon Resistance Hall, they had no need to worry about anything. They certainly wouldn't go out to explore and steal the treasures of the human race.
Moreover, they had already reached the Nascent Soul Realm. Especially Nangong Ruoxian, who was at the peak of Nascent Soul Realm. She might not be interested in other treasures presented to her.
As for treasures above the Nascent Soul realm, Nangong Ruoxian and Fang Yan didn't believe that a small group like the Lin family would have one in such a small place.
"Speaking of which, Senior Sister, have you found the Lin family's ancestor?" Fang Yan suddenly asked.
Nangong Ruoxian shook her head. Before they came, the Hall Master had told them that the Lin family's ancestor was very terrifying and could elude his detection. He might have an extraordinary background.
Both of them didn't believe it. After all, even though the hall master was weaker, he was still a Soul Formation Realm cultivator. Moreover, he had already reached the half-god pinnacle. According to rumors, this Ancestor of the Lin family had just condensed his Golden Core. The gap between them was too large. He was like an ant compared to a divine dragon.
"Interesting, I suddenly became interested in this ancestor of the Lin family. Even in the Immortal Sect, I don't think anyone at the Golden Core realm can do this," Fang Yan said with great interest.
Nangong Ruoxian shook her head and said, "If we're carrying the treasures given by our elders, we can still do it."
Fang Yan was taken aback, then shook his head with a smile. "What level of treasure is that? Supreme Gods in Unity Realm, or a great power of the human race? In a place like this, they can still come into contact with treasures of such a level?" Fang Yan wondered.
"But Senior Sister, your words make me a little tempted. Do you think we should kill them and seize their treasures? With the two of us in Renhuai County, who can be our match when we join forces?" Fang Yan looked at Nangong Ruoxian with a faint smile.
Nangong Ruoxian gave him a cold look. "I think you're a clown. Stop pretending here. Let's talk business."
She didn't believe that a Unity Realm treasure capable of hiding its aura would make Fang Yan give up his identity and dignity in the Immortal Sect to kill for treasure. After all, his background was not inferior to hers. If he really wanted a Unity Realm treasure, the forces behind him could deliver it to him within half a month. No, maybe this guy already had at least three on him.
Being criticized by Nangong Ruoxian, Fang Yan shook his head and found it quite boring.
The two of them had just stepped into the green mountains when they suddenly came to a halt. They raised their heads, gazing at the sky with solemn expressions.
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
With the rolling thunder, a vast and all-encompassing tribulation cloud covered a hundred thousand miles in the blink of an eye. The entire sky over the Tianyuan Predecture was shrouded in the tribulation. The terrifying pressure of the heavenly Dao at this moment suppressed all living beings.
Countless beings within the Tianyuan Prefecture looked up in fear at the seemingly ineffective sky. They didn't understand what was happening!
"Unity Realm Dao Lord Tribulation! How is this possible?"
The voices of Nangong Ruoxian and Fang Yan rang out almost simultaneously. Both of them focused their gazes on the lake behind the green mountains, the place where the thunder tribulation's Dao intent was most concentrated.
There, a three-thousand-meter-long white snake had appeared unnoticed. The Dao intent of thunder covered its entire body, and purple thunder patterns covered its body, giving it a strange and beautiful appearance.
At this moment, the white snake lifted its head, and deep within its golden eyes, a hint of purple flashed. It stared at the heavenly thunder in the sky with a calm expression, as if it were looking down on that terrifying tribulation.
"Fourth Revolution of the Golden Core!"
Perhaps due to the condensation of bloodlines, Lin Xuan didn't hide his cultivation. Nangong Ruoxian recognized it at a glance.
"Senior Sister, are you sure you didn't make a mistake? With this level of cultivation, how can it trigger the Unity Realm Dao Lord Tribulation?" Fang Yan's tone was filled with confusion.
"Use your Heavenly Vision, and you'll know," Nangong Ruoxian's tone was somewhat strange.
Fang Yan nodded, and a glint of divine light appeared in his eyes. However, in the next moment, the divine light vanished. Fang Yan instantly retreated a hundred miles, looking at the white snake in the Azure Mountain Lake with a fearful expression.
Seeing this, Nangong Ruoxian raised the corner of her mouth and a smile appeared on her face. Fang Yan regained his senses and looked at Nangong Ruoxian with a resentful expression.
"Senior Sister, you already knew, didn't you? I was just doubting you. Was it necessary to trick your junior brother like this?"
Fang Yan couldn't describe what he had just experienced. He was about to use his Heavenly Vision to investigate the background of the white snake, but in the next moment, a sense of danger as if it were a matter of life and death came from his Heavenly Vision.
This was the protective consciousness of his Piercing Heaven Eye. Its warning ability was automatically triggered. This also reminded him of the level of danger he was about to detect.
Previously, every time he used it, except for beings at the level of a Divine Lord or higher, he could basically ignore other targets, even feeling nothing at all. Even Divine Lords didn't give him such a terrifying sense of danger. He hadn't even felt one-thousandth or ten-thousandth of the danger.
Fang Yan suspected whether his Piercing Heaven Eye was malfunctioning. How could the white snake in front of him be a thousand or ten thousand times more terrifying than the Human Race's Divine Lords?!