Chapter 2052: Chapter 2056: Even Immortals Couldn’t Do It?
"This senior brother, I am Su Meng. Thank you for helping us out just now."
Su Meng walked to Qin Tian’s side, revealing what she believed to be a rather charming smile as she spoke to him.
Qin Tian hardly even looked at her and said, "I wasn’t helping you out; I was just dealing with some insensible wild dogs. Goodbye!"
Having said that, Qin Tian turned and left.
Su Meng took a sideways step to directly block Qin Tian and said, "Senior brother, we’re planning to broaden our horizons here. Do you think you could team up with us? More people mean more support."
"Not interested." Qin Tian rejected her outright.
Su Meng didn’t give up and said, "My senior brother and I are both at the Great Immortal Realm Early Stage cultivation. Rest assured, we mean no harm. I can assure you that when we acquire the treasure together, if there’s only one piece, it’s yours, and if there are multiple pieces, you choose first, and we choose after. How does that sound?"
"Junior sister..."
Su Meng’s senior brother, Chen Ping, was taken aback upon hearing her words and felt it was unfair, wanting to respond, but he held back.
With Qin Tian’s formidable strength, they truly had no bargaining power before him. Being able to adventure together and share the treasure was already a privilege, providing them increased safety with Qin Tian around. So, after some hesitation, Chen Ping kept silent.
Qin Tian paused for a moment without speaking.
"Where are you coming from?"
Qin Tian asked.
"We came from the direction of the volcano ahead. When the volcano erupted, we encountered a gathering of experts. We were bullied and driven away by them, injuring a junior disciple. Later, we met this group who killed our injured junior brother, and we killed one of them. They have more people, and their cultivation isn’t weaker than ours. They tracked us down, and had it not been for your intervention, we might have been doomed."
Su Meng once again displayed a charming smile at Qin Tian, even starting to act coy by holding onto his wrist, "Senior brother, please help us. Take us along for the adventure, I beg you..."
To be honest, Su Meng had looks, but not to the extent that Qin Tian was interested. His own women are stunning enough to eclipse Su Meng entirely.
"What’s happening with the volcano over there?" Qin Tian asked again, now concerned about the situation over by the volcano.
"We arrived here as soon as the volcano erupted. But once inside, all sorts of experts came out, and since we were few in number, we didn’t dare engage them face-to-face. We found a little path and emerged from within the crater."
"Fine, I’ll take you with me. Lead me to the volcano; I want to go inside it."
Upon hearing there was a path into the volcano, Qin Tian immediately agreed to Su Meng’s request.
Both Su Meng and Chen Ping were initially delighted when Qin Tian agreed, but upon hearing the latter part of his statement, they froze.
Back to the volcano?
The senior and junior brother and sister looked at each other without speaking.
"What’s wrong? Are you going to back out?" Qin Tian asked.
"Can we back out?" Chen Ping stepped forward, his smile somewhat bitter, "Senior brother, I understand your cultivation is impressive, but over by the volcano, the forces are top-notch experts from the Imperial City, Demon Clan, and other major powers. And they’re large in number. For us small sects, it’s only at the moment the meteor falls that we can try our luck. Once they arrive, we have to retreat, or it’s death."
Chen Ping looked at Qin Tian, sizing him up, "Over there, they’re all major figures. Even if the three of us team up... I suggest we avoid going. It’s too dangerous, with any random force being capable of taking us out without our even knowing how we died."
Chen Ping feared them; as sect disciples, they couldn’t possibly contend with the empire’s top experts.
"Alright, I won’t force you to go. But can you tell me where that little path into the volcano is? I’ll go alone."
Qin Tian didn’t insist, understanding that everyone has the right to fear death.
"I’ll go with you. I’ll lead the way."
Su Meng stood out then, showing admirable enthusiasm.
"Senior brother, if you won’t go, then you head back..."
Before Su Meng finished speaking, Chen Ping was already shaking his head, pursing his lips, "We’ve cultivated together for over ten years, sharing life and death. How could I possibly leave you behind? Let’s go. Since you’re going, I’m going too, even if it’s a den of dragons and tigers."
At this point, Su Meng and Chen Ping led the way, guiding Qin Tian swiftly toward the volcano.
When they were only about a kilometer from the volcano, ahead, a number of soldiers had already blocked the path.
The three of them circled the volcano for half a circle. Practically every few hundred meters, there were scouts watching, making it impossible for them to move closer.
Besides them, there were other groups of people who, upon seeing the top experts from the Imperial City and Demon Clan casually blocking the mountain road, dared not cause trouble. They quietly retreated to find treasures in other parts of the abyss.
"Senior brother Lin, what should we do? There are people everywhere here. The little path we discovered is over there, but five or six experts from the Imperial City are nearby. We can’t avoid them."
Qin Tian was using his alias Lin Feng, so Chen Ping addressed him as "Senior brother Lin."
"How about we give it up? Maybe there’s nothing inside the volcano after all, and the treasure might be in other areas nearby?" Chen Ping looked at Qin Tian, praying he’d agree to leave.
But Qin Tian’s resolve was unwavering, "No, we must find a way in, whatever it costs. I have a feeling that once we’re inside, we will definitely find something."
On the way here, Qin Tian saw the Heavenly Destiny Master, an expert in divination, specializing in fate and heavenly insight, far surpassing Chen Jingsi by tenfold.
The direction they were heading was clearly toward this volcano, so Qin Tian was almost certain that treasures lay within it.
"But there are five experts over there who are clearly top strongmen from the Imperial City. For us three to get past them safely is impossible."
Su Meng looked over at the five Imperial Guards and said, "I estimate these soldiers’ cultivation is at least around the Small Immortal Realm Peak, probably some kind of experts secretly trained by the Imperial Palace. Their senses are sharp, and we can’t avoid them."
Qin Tian’s gaze locked onto those five as he said, "If we can’t avoid them, then let’s kill them directly."
"Hiss!"
Both Chen Ping and Su Meng gasped at his words.
Chen Ping said, "Senior brother Lin, are you joking? Killing five Small Immortal Realm Peak experts? Maybe with a pitched battle, we can be absolutely sure of killing them. But to kill all five instantly without attracting attention from those nearby is impossible; not even deities could achieve that!"
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