When the white flash of light disappeared, Lin Fan found himself standing where he had been previously in the open field.
The gate with the short staircase that had been in front of him had completely disappeared.
If it wasn't for the golden pen inside of the golden sun in his dantian, he wouldn't have thought that the gate that he had just gone through even existed. But that golden pen was there inside of his dantian, which proved that everything that he had experienced was real.
Well there were also the cultivation techniques that were in his mind as well.
When he had been inside of that Illusion Realm, he had found quite a few different cultivation techniques from the different races, but the most important thing was Xia Yu's cultivation technique. The cultivation technique that would allow him to share his cultivation with his pets was something that he looked forward to trying out.
Still, that was for later when he was out of this Ancient Era Ruins.
Taking one last look at the spot where the staircase had been, Lin Fan turned around to leave. However, as soon as he took two steps, he immediately stopped.
He slowly looked around himself before knitting his brows and saying, "Are you going to come out or not?"
There was only silence that met his call at first, but then there was laughter that filled the air before five figures suddenly surrounded him.
All five of these figures were in cloaks, but Lin Fan knew who they were. They were the assassins from the Assassins Association.
The only thing to note was that the one with the different coloured cloak wasn't here.
But Lin Fan was also confused why these assassins would suddenly show up like this.
He had already taken care of one of them and they should know that he wasn't someone to mess with, but the fact that they were surrounding him now clearly meant that they didn't care about that.
What gave them this courage?
After the laughter, the five cloaked figures completely surrounded Lin Fan, standing at the exact same distance away from each other with Lin Fan in the center. It was clear that they were planning on using some kind of array on him, which of course Lin Fan wasn't going to give them the chance to do.
He immediately charged out at the assassin that was right in front of him, but before he could reach him, he suddenly hit a wall that bounced him back.
Lin Fan couldn't help being surprised by this wall because it was much harder than he thought it would be. It even caused minor injuries to him that made blood come up into his mouth.
This clearly wasn't the level of power that these five assassins should have, so it must be something else that the one with the different coloured cloak had given them. Just like the net that the first assassin had used.
It would be a lie if it was said that the assassins weren't afraid at all.
They could feel the aura that was coming from Lin Fan and the pressure that it gave them far surpassed anything they had felt before.
But after they saw that the item that the lord had given them worked, they were filled with confidence. As long as they had this array, they would be able to take down Lin Fan and fulfil the lord's orders.
As for the rewards they would receive, there was no need to mention it.
So being filled with excitement, the assassin that Lin Fan had just charged shouted out, "Start the attack, let's take him down quickly before anything else can happen!"
The other assassins all gave nods before raising their life energy.
As soon as their life energy had been injected into the array, there were balls of lights that suddenly appeared in the air inside of this array.
These balls of lights didn't take long to gather energy before suddenly shooting out small swords of light at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan didn't hesitate at all as he pulled out the Iron Eater Bone Artifact, turning it into a sword which he used to block these swords of light.
When he slashed through the swords of light, he couldn't help being surprised.
It wasn't that he was surprised by how strong they were, but rather how weak they were. With how much power was behind each of these swords, they weren't even enough to hurt someone in the Fragmented Soul Realm.
No matter how many of them there were, they didn't pose a single threat to Lin Fan.
However, even if that was the case, the assassins looked very confident that they would be able to take Lin Fan down. That was what surprised Lin Fan even more.
So his natural conclusion was that there had to be something about this array that gave them this confidence. However, no matter how he used his spiritual sense to check, there didn't seem like there was anything special about the array other than the barrier that was keeping him in.
That was the only thing that was able to resist his spiritual sense, so he knew that it was much stronger than him.
Lin Fan continued to guard against the swords of light that fell down on him as he tried to find a way out, but after a minute, he realized that something had changed. The power behind the swords of light was slowly getting stronger and stronger.
It had been slow at first, but then the power behind the swords of light kept growing.
It didn't take them long before they had already reached the point where they could hurt normal Embryo Soul Realm Experts. Though, it still wasn't a problem for Lin Fan to easily deal with them.
However, the problem was that this increase in power didn't show any signs of stopping.
Lin Fan used his spiritual sense again and he could feel that the array was drawing in life energy from the surrounding area to make its attacks stronger.
As for what the limits of the power of the array was, he wasn't sure, but he knew that it wouldn't be low. After all, the defenses of the array were so strong that he couldn't break through them.
Seeing that Lin Fan was getting more and more pushed down by their attacks, the assassins became even more excited and injected more life energy into the array.
They had been saving some of their life energy just in case something happened, but seeing that Lin Fan was about to go down, they didn't mind using their life energy to make it happen faster. After all, they were assassins and they knew that killing the target as quickly as possible was beneficial to them.
The lead assassin even said, "Just a bit more and we'll have him!"
The other assassins all shouted out, "Yes!"
The only problem with doing this was that when they focused their attention on increasing the power of the array, they let their guards down a bit.
The moment before getting the kill, when they thought that they won, that was when most people let down their guards. It was also that moment that Lin Fan had chosen to strike.
Even though he was slowly getting suppressed by the swords of light that fell down on him, Lin Fan wasn't worried at all. He just calmly struck down all the swords of light that fell on him, even though it seemed like he was in a desperate situation.
That was because he already had a plan to get out of here.
Even if he couldn't break through the array from the inside, that didn't mean that he couldn't break the array from the outside.
After focusing themselves on killing Lin Fan, the assassins didn't notice that there were a few figures that were encroaching in on them.
When they thought that they were about to kill Lin Fan and let down their guards the most, these figures took that opportunity to strike.
There was a larger array that suddenly appeared around the assassins that caught them off guard, but before any of them could react, there was a beam of light that attacked the lead assassin. The lead assassin tried to block against it, but it shattered his guard and sent him flying before he skidded to a stop in the ground a few meters away.
The moment that the lead assassin had been blown away, there was a pause in the swords of light that fell down on Lin Fan.
Lin Fan took this chance to shatter all the swords of light that were falling on him and then gathered all his life energy to send a slash at one of the assassins.
This array that the assassins used was one where each person had to take their set position for it to demonstrate its power, but now that one of them had been knocked away, there was no doubt that the array had weakened. But even then, the barrier of the array still existed and was able to block Lin Fan's slash.
However, the moment that the two sides clashed, there were ripples that appeared in the barrier which showed that it was actually taking damage from Lin Fan's attack.
That wasn't the main goal of Lin Fan's attack though. He had only sent the slash out to distract the assassins that were still maintaining the array.
There was another beam of light that appeared above the assassins that knocked another one of them down.
With two of them getting knocked out of formation like this, the barrier was much weaker compared to before. It had reached the point where Lin Fan was able to shatter it with one more good slash.
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