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CHAPTER XVII DEATH

Ancient ruins were originally a place where opportunities and dangers coexisted. In such an unknown ruin, entering it alone was practically courting death. They had to cooperate, and even the idle cultivators had formed a temporary alliance!

Moreover, the most dangerous place to enter wasn't the environment of the ancient ruins, but the other treasure hunters. Under the temptation of a great treasure, in such a closed environment, it could be said that killing people for their treasures was inevitable!

In this way, the more factions that enter, the more profit they will make. The biggest benefit is the Thousand Mountain Sect that monopolizes the hundred people spot, and the Ling Family that only has ten people spot can only pick up the rest of their lives!

Ling Xiaotian, as the Ling family's strongest person on the surface, was definitely one of these ten spots! He led the nine Ling Family experts who had reached the body of a god (demon), and entered the ancient ruins …

He didn't know if the heavens pitied the Ling family! Not long after Ling Xiaotian led the group into the ancient ruins, they actually obtained quite a few treasures from it. There were all kinds of magical equipment, such as divine armor, grinding armor, elixirs, and even the most important cultivation method manuals …

In most ancient ruins, the main treasures obtained were weapons, armors, pills, and even cultivation method manuals!

Among them, weapons, armors and pills are items which can swiftly raise one's strength. Even though they are valuable, they aren't the most precious ones. On the contrary, cultivation techniques which are useless to experts are the most precious …

This was because no matter how good the armor was, it could only increase a person's strength. No matter how strong the medicinal pill was, once it was used, it would disappear without a trace. This was the power of a cultivation technique!

The cultivation method that the Jingnan King obtained from Ling Xiaotian was an Earth Stage High Rank cultivation method. Moreover, it was a complete cultivation method. This was even more useful to the Ling Family than the Heaven Stage cultivation method that Ling Xiaotian had obtained!

It was true that the Heaven Ranked Technique was powerful, but if it was leaked, the Ling Family would definitely be in trouble. Moreover, the cultivation of a Heaven Tier incomplete manual would definitely be affected. It would absolutely not be possible for a single high-grade Earth Rank cultivation method to be so realistic!

In order to obtain this high-grade Earth Realm cultivation technique, the Ling Family had lost three experts, and another four were severely injured. They had basically lost all ability to fight! The Ling family's team basically fell into a state of paralysis. Thus, Ling Xiaotian decided to immediately withdraw from this treasure hunt and preserve the treasures he had obtained …

However, at this time, the Ling Family's team, which had suffered heavy losses, encountered the other two teams from Dongsheng Kingdom with different surnames, the Sun family and the Liu family!

On the surface, the four great clans of the Eastern Sheng Kingdom were allied with each other to deal with outsiders, but in reality, the four great clans were fighting amongst themselves, and they were even fighting for some benefits!

This time, the Liu Clan and Sun Clan only had five spots. It could be said that they had no chance of acquiring treasures, which was why the two clans chose to cooperate! However, even so, they were still suspicious of each other, so they never had any gains!

Now, they suddenly saw the Ling Family, who had suffered terrible losses and was preparing to leave! The alliance of the two families immediately had evil intentions. They were prepared to make a move on the Ling Family! From their point of view, doing this would be able to suppress the Ling family's forces and also allow them to obtain treasures. It would be killing two birds with one stone!

The Ling Family's team originally had ten experts at the Divine (Demon) Body level, the strongest of the three families, but now that three had died and four were heavily injured, only three people were truly able to fight. Facing the encirclement of ten experts, the Ling Family was definitely not their match!

If not for the Sun and Liu families fearing each other, the Ling family's members would have been taken down long ago!

Ling Xiao Tian looked at his fellow sect members falling one by one. He was extremely furious, and finally took out the pill that he obtained that could temporarily raise his strength. Within a day, his strength would increase by a level!

Of course, the side effect was also very big, which was that it would consume more life force. Furthermore, the longer it lasted, the more life force it would consume!

After consuming the pill, Ling Xiaotian immediately broke through to the battle spirit realm, reaching the strength of a demonic body!

Fiendgod Body Refiners were divided into seven levels. Each level increased their strength by more than ten times!

Ling Xiaotian was strong to begin with, and now that he increased his strength by a factor of ten, he was able to kill five of his opponents in a row and force them to retreat! On the other hand, only three people from the Ling family team survived: Ling Xiaotian and two of his underlings …

However, things did not end like this. The Sun and Liu families had suffered heavy losses and had even offended the Ling family! However, the Ling Family had obtained a great treasure. As long as they could escape from the ancient ruins, it wouldn't be long before the Ling Family regained their strength. At that time, they would definitely come looking for trouble with the two families!

Thus, the Sun and Liu Families made a vicious decision. They wanted to tell the other Treasure Seeking teams about Ling Xiaotian's whereabouts and spread the news of him obtaining a great treasure!

From their point of view, since they had already fallen out, they must kill the other party!

The moment the news of the Ling Family's team obtaining a great treasure spread out, it immediately attracted the encirclement and pursuit of hundreds of people …

Ling Xiaotian could rely on the fact that his strength had greatly increased and he could also repel those who were surrounding him, but the other two men of the Ling family had lost their lives in the encirclement!

At this moment, Ling Xiaotian hated the Liu and Sun families! He swore to demand an explanation from the two families after he left!

However, just when Ling Xiaotian thought he could escape, the strongest member of the Thousand Mountain Sect finally made its move!

The only power that had a Fiendgod body was the Thousand Mountains Sect! He had severely injured Ling Xiaotian, a False Demon God, in one move!

Looking at the several forces around him, as well as the Thousand Mountain Sect and the Fiendgod Body Refiner, Ling Xiao knew that he had a slim chance of survival this time! While everyone was forcefully handing over the treasure, Ling Xiao knew that even if he could escape this time, he wouldn't be able to live much longer! The Ling family was destined to become the victims of ancient ruins, and this couldn't be blamed on anyone else. If one had to blame someone, they could only blame themselves for being too weak!

However, at this time, Ling Xiaotian suddenly thought of his youngest son, Ling Feng!

Ling Feng, he was the hope of the Ling Family. At the age of six, he had already revealed his true strength, and was countless times stronger than himself. And most importantly, no one knew about Ling Feng's potential!

Ling Xiaotian firmly believed that as long as Ling Feng could grow, the Ling family would definitely rise to prominence once more, and reach an even higher peak!

With this belief in his heart, Ling Xiaotian gave up on the idea of perishing together and decided to fight his way out of this encirclement.

"Alright, since all of you want treasures so badly, I'll give them to you …" Ling Xiaotian reached into his pocket and took out the complete Earth Stage High Rank cultivation technique!

"This is a high rank Earth Realm cultivation technique. Whoever wants it can take it …" After Ling Xiaotian finished speaking, he threw the cultivation technique into the air, while he started killing his way towards the weakest part of the encirclement …