"Who is he? Where did he come from?"
"Look at his robe, he's an inner disciple."
"So he's one of the inner disciples. How dare him barge into us?"
"Wait. Think. How can a disciple of the inner section just appeared from nowhere? From the thin air."
"Maybe it's a disguise. An enemy?"
"Enemies can't enter these premises without the elders and acolytes knowing."
"Must be a disciple then. But how?"
"Let's check on him first, i don't think he's in a good condition. We'll find out soon."
They slowly approached the place where Ju Feng was still lying on the ground with blood streaking down a corner of his mouth. When they had neared him enough to see clearly, one of them, a female disciple from the house of water, quickly moved to Ju Feng side to assist him.
"Be careful Su Ming, we still don't know if it's a trap or not."
"I know him. He's one of the inner disciples."
"Are you certain, Su Ming?"
"Yes I am. He was the disciple watching the combat training between Li Qiang and Wang Lei. He was the one acting weirdly outside the training area."
Su Ming answered as she put a yellow medicinal pill into Ju Feng's mouth and guided it down his throat.
"Okay then. I think we can all relax now."
"So, how did he turn out from thin air?"
"Not now Quan Zhi, he's seriously injured. We should inform the elders"
Then, all of them started to feel the presence of a vigorous force-field. Slowly, they began to brandish their weapons. They had the urge to run but they knew they couldn't outrun whatever it was that was approaching them.
"Who is there?"
"Are you a friend or an enemy?"
"Show yourself."
"Really? Show myself? How commanding. Hmm, I like that. Alright, I will show myself."
The force-field contracted and a transparent image of a mutated human appeared. The figure was grinning widely while indicating his body with his hands.
"Okay, this is the best I can do. I had to drop the acolyte body I was using. You see, I can't show the real me even if I want to. Though I doubt you'll like the look anyway. Hehehe."
The audible sound of laughter emanated from the mouth of the mutated figure.
"A friend or enemy? Let me see, since I'm looking forward to killing you, I believe that makes me an enemy? Hahaha. Yes you should also inform your elders but of course, you can't because you are already inside my force-field. They can't even see you or hear you no matter what you do. Do you want to know why? The Golden Phantom Seal. Yes, the heavenly level seal. Do you even know how many years it took to make it? You will sympathize with me if you do. But at least, there was joy in its making. Do you want to know why? It was made using the heavenly ghost seeds, golden cores of murdered Jindan cultivators, cores and jellies of the invisible deep sea worms, the core and blood of the mirage hare and some other stuffs you can't find in your world. What? Why are you all looking as if you've seen a Revenant? Oh, ok. I am a Revenant. So what? Are you not humans too? You see, you are humans and I'm a revenant. No big deal. Hehehe."
More sound of laughter came from the revenant, making the disciples shivered in fear. They had all heard about the tales of the revenants before, and how powerful they were. Looking at one, on their sect's premises, was more than they could bear.
"I was in a good mood all day, not trying to kill any cultivator today, I guess. I was only trying to locate the exact position of the Sinnughar core. The core of a primordial beast you can't even imagine inside your little heads. The core belonged to the mighty Foremost, Kamirhia, the ultimate ruler of the Phantom realm but was stolen by a filthy thief. I was finding it when that foolish boy walked into my force-field, stepped on the seal and disrupted my force-field. What a pity, I should have killed him with my own hands. He's dead anyway. Back to the business on hand, where was I?"
Quan Zhi was a core disciple of the house of fire, hence he had the opportunity to choose a powerful fire technique from the sect ancestral fire mystical techniques. He had chosen and was learning the Meteor World fire technique. Fire was already violent and angry in nature. This fire technique took violence and anger of fire to the another level especially if completely mastered. Quan Zhi stared intently at the area of the force-field and initiated his most powerful move.
"From heavens above comes the blaze and from the crust below comes the fire. Meteor World."
Immediately, circles of fire enclosed the area of the force-field, from up and down. Hundreds of flaming meteorites battered the force-field endlessly from the inside of the circles for few seconds before being torn apart.
"Are you disappointed? Aww, don't be, you are just a Presider, an evanesce core cultivator after all. How can you, in this obviously insane universe, compare to me? Oh, are you wondering how I know? The light of your aura is green gold, which means you are not yet a Jindan. Which means that I don't need your filthy core. Next person? Nobody? Okay then, my turn."
But before he could finish his words, everything seemed to freeze in place. The space around the force-field was contorted.
Shao Cheng was using all his might to hold the space-time in place. Being the number one genius of the Last-Sword sect and a disciple of the house of space-time, he was given the chance to choose the very best technique and he had gone with the Woven Dimensional technique. It was a difficult and time consuming technique to learn. But, it was a very powerful technique.