809 A Disguise! (1/2)

The green-robed man was wearing a bull-faced mask that gave him a fearsome look. His eyes glistened murderously and with a coldness that seemed to send the temperature around him dipping. It was a look that made one instinctively step back and avoid any conflict with the man.

Wang Baole blinked, and his gaze landed on the man. Before he could look away, the man noticed his stare. He appeared to have something against the pig-faced mask that Wang Baole had on. He glared back and then sneered.

”The last time I joined this mission, I found the man who wore that exact mask annoying, so I killed him. You interested in meeting the guy?”

Wang Baole raised his eyebrow. He had just arrived at this place and hadn't yet familiarized himself with the terrain. He didn't want to get into a fight now. Besides, they were on the clock. If not for that, with his temper, he would have sent a kick flying towards the man's face.

Of course, there was also the fact that he couldn't tell what level the man's cultivation was at. Wang Baole snorted secretly and left without saying a word. With a single bound, he was off and away.

The muscular-looking man snorted when he noticed Wang Baole leaving. Scorn flickered in his eyes as he spoke.

”Gutless cow…” What he had intended to say was ”gutless coward”, but he didn't get the chance to utter the final syllable before Wang Baole unleashed a sudden burst of speed. Even though the mask concealed one's energy signature and thus prevented others from discerning one's level of cultivation, one's level of cultivation could still be determined from the speed that he or she was capable of.

Besides, Wang Baole was capable of reaching extreme speeds. He might only be at the late-stage Soul Conduit realm, but the sudden burst of speed he had unleashed was almost equal to that of a perfected Soul Conduit realm cultivator. It made the man with the bull-faced mask swallow his final syllable as he stared in shock.

The cultivators around them realized what Wang Baole's speed revealed about his level of cultivation. A contemplative look appeared on their faces before many of them started speeding away into the distance at varying speeds. Even the slowest of them was at the early-stage Soul Conduit realm. There were four who were extremely fast… unleashing the speed of Spirit Immortal realm cultivators.

These four Spirit Immortal realm cultivators had been discrete and had blended in with the crowd. Their sudden display of power had the man with the bull-faced mask sweating profusely.

There are Spirit Immortal realm cultivators this round. I didn't expect that! He suddenly regretted his earlier boasting. After a moment of fearful embarrassment, he quickly moved away and raced off into the distance.

The more than two hundred participants who had arrived swiftly spread out and disappeared into the white desert.

As Wang Baole ventured deeper into the desert, he could sense more clearly how Spirit Qi was slowly draining away from the planet. Despite his recent arrival on the planet, he could feel the level of Spirit Qi plummeting during the short period of time he was there.

With the rate that it's going, it'll only take three to five days… before this planet dies completely. Shocked, Wang Baole picked up his pace and headed further into the distance. He was ready to inspect the area when suddenly… a faint voice echoed in his ear.

”Outsider… help me…”

It was a voice that was extremely old and ravaged by time. It sounded extremely weak and seemed to belong to an old man on his deathbed who was using his last breath to call out for help.

Shock flickered across Wang Baole's face, but he didn't stop moving. Instead, his speed picked up as he headed in a different direction. He unleashed his Divine Sense and allowed them to sweep across the land, inspecting both the skies above him and the lands below him. But he found nothing.

The faint, weakened voice vanished after its fleeting call for help, not calling out again. That caught Wang Baole's suspicion instantly.

A hallucination? That's impossible! Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. After a moment of consideration, he stared down at the dried land and began to wonder if what he had heard had been the planet's voice. He hadn't heard of such incidents, but this seemed like the best possible explanation for what had just happened. Another explanation was… that a powerful cultivator, who was unimaginably stronger than Wang Baole, was hidden somewhere around here and had done that.