Chapter 688 (1/2)

Chapter 688: Chapter 297 The Five Elements Metal Realm, Under Attack Chapter 688: Chapter 297 The Five Elements Metal Realm, Under Attack A pure white sky, a black ground, and on the ground, the occasional glint of gold or silver light.

This was the scene that Lin Jing witnessed upon entering the Five Elements Ruins.

After Lin Jing was teleported in, he didn’t encounter a single soul.

Just himself alone.

Upon entering, Lin Jing felt something was off.

He immediately extended his Divine Sense, allowing it to stretch out.

However…

Lin Jing’s Divine Sense only reached a distance of a hundred meters before it could extend no further.

For a moment, Lin Jing was extremely shocked; the Five Elements Ruins actually had a suppressing effect on Divine Sense.

Outside, Lin Jing’s Divine Sense could easily cover an area of several hundreds of miles, but here, even with all his might, it only extended just over a hundred meters before reaching the limit of his Divine Sense’s range.

The suppression of Divine Sense in the Five Elements Ruins was just too severe.

Unable to use Divine Sense was extremely inconvenient.

If there was any danger, it would be difficult to detect it in time.

However, since the entire first layer of the Five Elements Ruins was like this, it was likely the same for everyone else.

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He just needed to be more careful and cautious.

It was unknown, however,

If the other layers were the same?

……

Following that,

Lin Jing looked up and ahead.

At a glance, besides the pure white sky and black ground, there were also metallic fragments randomly scattered on the ground, emitting dazzling light.

There was nothing else.

No flowers, no trees, no rivers or lakes, and even the black ground was just some unknown type of black metal, not real soil.

This place was the Metal Realm, the first layer of the Five Elements Ruins.

Lin Jing had initially thought that upon being teleported in, it would be like before, with a fixed teleportation spot.

But only after being teleported did Lin Jing come to a realization.

The teleportation was random.

Now recalling Li Mingwu’s actions before the teleportation, Lin Jing even began to suspect whether he knew about the situation inside the Five Elements Ruins.

During the earlier discussions, Li Mingwu might have concealed something and not told them the full truth.

However,

Even if he really did hide something, that was all it could be.

From now on, one could only take things one step at a time.

However,

Before that, there was another matter to take care of.

Lin Jing then looked down at the hem of his robe, where a trace of Dragon Daoist’s aura lingered.

The aura was so faint that it was difficult to detect, even in the Five Elements Ruins.

Clearly, Dragon Daoist had left this extremely faint aura on purpose, with the sole intent of using it to sense his location.

With Divine Sense being suppressed in this place, Dragon Daoist’s method of using this subtle method to probe his position was undoubtedly proof that he must know something about the conditions within these Ruins.

Exactly how they came to know of this, Lin Jing did not know.

But with this, entering the Ruins without these key pieces of information placed Lin Jing and the Yan Family Ancestor at a disadvantage.

There was no helping it, since Lin Jing had not known about the Five Elements Ruins for very long, and the Yan Family Ancestor was only brought in by Lin Jing at the last moment.

Clearly, he knew very little as well.

Li Mingwu and Dragon Daoist were different, though.

Two thousand years ago, Li Mingwu had entered the Five Elements Ruins alongside True Master Ling Yin, and it was then that True Master Ling Yin was harmed.

It was evident that Li Mingwu had long studied these Ruins, so it was not surprising that he knew some details about them.

Li Mingwu certainly had shared some of what he knew with Dragon Daoist.

So, the latter likely knew quite a bit as well.

……

Following that,

Lin Jing directly tore off the corner of his robe that had Dragon Daoist’s aura.

After tearing it off, Lin Jing did not discard it, but instead placed it inside his Space Ring.

Since Dragon Daoist wanted to track him using this method, Lin Jing could also think of a way to use this to his advantage and turn the tables on him.

This location was utterly empty, with nothing else around, definitely not suitable for action now, so he could only put it away first and prevent being tracked for the time being.

Having finished that, Lin Jing took out the complete map from the Space Ring, spread it out, and began to examine it.

This map was simply a topographical map, recording the terrain of every layer within the Ruins.

Besides the topography…

There were two marked locations on each layer.

One of these marks, located in the central area of each realm, was indicated with a mark.

That was the most dangerous place of the entire layer, and also the most likely location for the Metal Spirit to appear.

Additionally, the map indicated that,

In the center of each layer, not only would there be a Metal Spirit likely to appear, but also there was a high chance of extremely rare treasures emerging.

The other mark on the map was the place to leave this first layer, the Metal Realm.

If Lin Jing wanted to leave the Metal Realm and go to the next level, he would have to make his way there.

After looking at the map for a while, Lin Jing memorized the terrain of the Metal Realm, and then put the map away again.

After that,