I became the Open Source Saint Ancestor in the Cultivation World

"Run!"

Seeing that even Xue Wenzhou, a Qi Refining Perfection cultivator, shamelessly betrayed his fellow disciples and fled, the other outer disciples were shocked and scattered like birds and beasts.

Seeing this, Zhou Rumei naturally wanted to escape as well, but she was currently manipulating the chains to try to restrain the giant sword that was so close to her and trembling wildly. If she relaxed even slightly, she would surely die.

Shi Ce snorted coldly, raised his hand and pointed, a beam of spiritual light hitting the giant sword.

"Buzz..." The giant sword roared, Zhou Rumei's face turned red, she opened her mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, her body retreating rapidly.

The chains binding the greatsword could no longer hold it back and loosened.

Immediately, her pupils contracted sharply as she watched helplessly as the giant sword flew swiftly through the loosened chains, heading straight for her.

"Don't kill me..." Zhou Rumei cried out in terror in a panic.

"Buzz..." The giant sword seemed to hear her plea and stopped abruptly an inch from her face, but its killing intent remained undiminished.

"Huff..." Zhou Rumei gasped for breath, cold sweat pouring down her face.

"Tell me the purpose of your Ziyang Sect's trip, and I may spare your life," Shi Ce said coldly.

Zhou Rumei replied without hesitation, "We are going to Silver Moon Valley. The disciples from the Upper Realm brought back news that there might be Sun Essence Stones there."

"Anything else?"

"We were only assigned this task; we don't know anything else. I swear on my Dao heart that I am not lying."

Shi Ce sneered, "How could your sect leader have come all this way just for the Sun Essence Stone?"

"I am not a core disciple trusted by the sect leader, so why would the sect leader tell me his intentions?"

"In that case, you are of no use to me."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Rumei knew that things were going to get out of hand. She decisively raised her left hand, and as she held up a crimson disc in front of her, she quickly flew backward.

At the same time, she also threw out two bright red beads the size of bull's eyes from her right hand.

Shi Ce waved his hand, and a giant shield appeared in front of him.

With two loud explosions, he was thrown back several feet, his eyes growing even colder.

With swift hand gestures, he formed several hand seals, and a beam of spiritual light struck the giant sword. The giant sword trembled and cleaved the disc-shaped magical artifact in two, then streaked across the sky and hurtled straight toward Zhou Rumei.

Zhou Rumei felt a chill run down her spine and quickly turned around to prepare to deal with the situation, but it was obviously too late.

"Ah..." The terrified screams before death came to an abrupt end.

Her body was as soft as tofu, and was directly cleaved in two from top to bottom by the giant sword. The two half-human figures fell helplessly from the sky amidst a rain of blood.

Shi Ce quickly collected the few magical artifacts left behind by Zhou Rumei, then reached out and rolled up the storage bag at the waist of half of the corpse, disappearing from the spot.

A hundred miles away, Ma Ke, who had just killed a two-headed monster rat, suddenly felt a pang of emotion. Another person had died, because he sensed pure true energy being poured into the "Open Source Limitless Skill" in his mind. This was the third person to die.

In just two days, three elite inner disciples of the Ziyang Sect have died, which shows how dangerous this secret realm is.

Ma Ke quickly looked over and his expression immediately hardened: "Zhou Rumei."

Because he knew Zhou Rumei and had made some annotations on her page, the luster of her page had dimmed, and the true energy he had cultivated through the "Open Source Limitless Skill" had been injected into it.

Unfortunately, Zhou Rumei had already reached the Qi Refining Perfection stage, and had only been practicing the "Open Source Limitless Skill" for a short time, so she didn't give Ma Ke much true Qi, not even as much as the previous two Qi Refining Level 9 cultivators.

No matter how much, the more you refine, the more your strength will increase.

Therefore, Ma Ke immediately found a secluded place and quickly refined the true energy.

As expected, this amount of true energy was not enough for him to achieve a breakthrough.

With Zhou Rumei dead, Xue Wenzhou would be all alone, and Ma Ke would not miss this opportunity.

So he immediately turned to the page of "Open Source Wuji Gong" where Xue Wenzhou was, and quickly located his position and distance.

To prevent Xue Wenzhou from joining forces with other Ziyang Sect members, Ma Ke did not hesitate and immediately went to intercept him.

However, he was very careful, concealing his presence the whole way, lest someone take advantage of him.

Xue Wenzhou flew more than ten miles in one breath. Just as he was about to run even further, a strange four-clawed bird with a body as black as ink swooped down.

In his shock and anger, he had no will to fight.

After struggling to shake off the strange bird, he landed in the forest below, flipped his hand, took out a straw hat and put it on his head, and quickly became one with a large tree.

The strange bird darted around in the forest for a while, and when it found no target, it screeched and flapped its wings and flew away.

Xue Wenzhou was preparing to continue his escape when his heart sank. He quickly held his breath, afraid that his aura would leak out.

Shi Ce withdrew his gaze from the strange bird that had flown away, and then scanned the forest below.

After a short while, he sneered, "Come out. I've seen you. If you answer a few questions honestly, I might spare your life."

Xue Wenzhou isn't a three-year-old child; how could he believe such nonsense?

Shi Ce waited for a while, but didn't sense any unusual movement below. Then, he raised his hand and summoned a silver mirror.

He made a hand seal, and then a beam of light shone on the mirror, causing it to gleam with silver light.

Shi Ce pointed his finger downwards, and with a whooshing sound, beams of silver light shot downwards.

Click...

Countless branches were severed in an instant, and the trunk, which was as thick as several people could hug, was pierced through.

Xue Wenzhou's heart was in his throat. He dared not make any rash moves and could only carefully squat down to reduce the area of ​​his body exposed.

Shi Ce continuously made hand seals, and beams of spiritual light struck the mirror surface, then he rotated the mirror to face different directions.

Before long, the woods below were in complete disarray, with insects, birds, and beasts fleeing in terror, but they still couldn't find their target.

Xue Wenzhou looked at the wisps of smoke still rising a few inches below him and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Hmph, you're lucky you ran fast." Shi Ce snorted coldly, and without further hesitation, he dashed away.

Even so, Xue Wenzhou dared not move, fearing that the other party was deliberately luring him out.

So, a whole day passed, and he didn't move an inch.

A few miles away, a ghostly figure stopped, his silhouette almost blending into the surrounding scenery.

"What kind of formidable enemy has this guy encountered that he's been lying there all day without moving an inch?"

Because Ma Ke sensed that Xue Wenzhou's true energy was hardly circulating, it was clear that he was neither cultivating nor healing, but simply hiding there.

Since that's the case, the cautious Ma Ke naturally wouldn't risk going there rashly. He had plenty of time, so he simply decided to patiently wait for the rabbit to come to him.