Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Seeing this, Chen Tian was immediately horrified. Clearly, the wooden puppet elder had completed his fusion with the Nebula Insect Demon King. What terrified Chen Tian even more was that he realized he couldn't sense any aura from the wooden puppet elder.

This was an extremely strange thing. Although the wooden puppet elder was standing right in front of Chen Tian, he gave the feeling of being like air, integrated with the surrounding world, with no aura detectable at all.

Chen Tian wasn't afraid of opponents stronger than him; what he truly feared was being unable to perceive the opponent's condition. The fear of the unknown was the most terrifying thing!

The situation now was like this: Chen Tian found that he couldn't see through the wooden puppet elder's strength at all. Although his aura was completely gone, the wooden puppet elder gave him a feeling of being even more dangerous than before!

At this moment, Chen Tian suddenly remembered something. The most ferocious beasts are often good at hiding their aura, quietly hiding in the grass, their red eyes staring intently at their prey. When the prey's despair reaches its peak, they leap out, bite the prey's neck, and kill it alive in one bite!

And according to the current situation, the wooden puppet elder was the beast that had hidden its aura, and Chen Tian was the prey in his eyes.

"Help! Fellow Daoist Chen, save us!"

Just as Chen Tian was deeply fearful of the wooden puppet elder, a terrified cry for help came from a distance.

Hearing this, Chen Tian, while guarding against the wooden puppet elder, slowly turned his head to look. But after just one glance, his face darkened again.

Chen Tian discovered that Cao Fangcun and the others had suddenly turned back, no longer fleeing towards the exit, but instead flying towards him in a disheveled state. Behind them were dozens of strange tree giants moving like the wind.

What was rather strange was that these strange tree giants didn't directly attack Cao Fangcun and the others, but instead drove them like ducks towards Chen Tian.

Before long, Cao Fangcun and the others, following the route set by the strange tree giants, arrived next to Chen Tian. Only then did the strange tree giants that were chasing them stop and merge into the iron-barrel-like encirclement, standing motionless.

"Tell me, what exactly is going on?"

After slowly scanning the surroundings, Chen Tian asked Cao Fangcun and the others, who still hadn't calmed down, in a gloomy tone.

After gasping for breath for a long time, Cao Fangcun finally recovered, but his face still wore a look of lingering fear, and he said in horror: "Brother Chen, we really encountered a ghost!"

Then, he told Chen Tian everything about their encounter.

It turned out that when Chen Tian restrained the wooden puppet elder, the few of them fled for their lives. Before long, they reached the exit they had entered from.

Seeing that the huge teleportation array was still intact in the air, Cao Fangcun and the others were overjoyed, and then they no longer hesitated, rushing up one after another, wanting to escape from here.

"Yes, it's really strange! Why were we teleported back again?" Cao Fangcun seemed extremely frustrated, and the depression in his heart was about to drive him crazy.

However, after Chen Tian meditated for a moment, he seemed to have thought of something, and his expression gradually calmed down. He raised his head and looked towards the direction of the wooden puppet elder, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Cao, you don't need to be frustrated anymore. I'm afraid the person playing tricks behind the scenes is him."

"What? It's him?"

Hearing Chen Tian's words, not only Cao Fangcun, but even Pu Suanzi and the others were shocked. Then, they all looked towards the wooden puppet elder.

"Haha, no wonder Brother Xingyun is so eager to eat you, Chen Tian, you are indeed much smarter than others." The wooden puppet elder had been suspended behind everyone, and when he heard Chen Tian's words, he suddenly sneered, then flapped his wings and slowly flew forward. Wherever he passed, the strange tree giants surrounding him in an iron-barrel formation all made way.

"Brother Chen, has he completed the fusion?"

Cao Fangcun and the others were only focused on escaping earlier, so when they saw the appearance of the wooden puppet elder at this time, their expressions were greatly shocked, and they said in horror.

"That's right, this is his original form, and also his true appearance!" Facing everyone's horror, Chen Tian was surprisingly calm, and nodded lightly.

Then, Chen Tian suddenly looked directly at the wooden puppet elder and said slowly: "I have some guesses, I wonder if I can say them and ask senior to help me see if they are correct?"

"Oh?" Looking at the calm Chen Tian, the wooden puppet elder seemed to find it a bit strange, but after a little thought, he nodded and said: "What did you think of? Just say it, this old man wants to see, what exactly have you discovered."

After receiving the wooden puppet elder's consent, Chen Tian didn't waste any words and directly opened his mouth and said: "First point, if I'm not mistaken, this ancient ruin actually only has three levels. The space we came from just now is already the end! As for where we are now, it should be outside the ancient ruin! I'm not wrong about this, am I?"

"What? A place outside the ancient ruin?" Just after Chen Tian's voice fell, Cao Fangcun was immediately startled.

However, after calming down and thinking for a while, he gradually understood a little. Indeed, the first, second, and third levels of this ancient ruin are extremely similar in scale and shape, all being a forest covered with dense trees. Only the sea of blood where everyone is now is an anomaly. Therefore, it is really possible that, as Chen Tian said, this place may already be outside the ancient ruin.

"Haha, boy, the more I look at you, the more I like you, so much that I can't wait to eat you now, and taste what your brain tastes like!" The wooden puppet elder laughed like a madman after hearing Chen Tian's hypothesis.

However, after the laughter stopped, his expression suddenly turned gloomy, and he nodded and said: "You guessed right, this place is indeed far away from the ancient ruin you just came from, it is a closed space, so you don't even think about getting out of here, because here, there is only an entrance, no exit, you will never be able to get out!"

"What? No exit?"

The wooden puppet elder's words were tantamount to throwing a huge stone into the river, causing ripples of 'horror' to ripple in everyone's hearts, making them even more horrified.

After all, if it is true that, as the wooden puppet elder said, this place is already far away from the ancient ruins, and it is still a closed space with no exit, then wouldn't it mean that they will be trapped here forever and unable to go back? How could this not make them anxious.

But just when everyone was extremely nervous, Chen Tian seemed to have already guessed all of this, and his face was without any waves, extremely calm!

It was said earlier that the wooden puppet elder's greatest hobby was to like to see people show a look of despair, because this could make him very happy. So when he saw the desperate expressions on the faces of Cao Fangcun and the others, he felt as comfortable as if he had eaten a peach, but when he turned his gaze and saw the calm Chen Tian, his good mood instantly vanished.

I saw his face gloomy, and he took the initiative to say to Chen Tian: "Seeing how confident you are, have you guessed what this place is?"

"Indeed, I have a guess, and this is exactly the second point I am going to say!" Chen Tian did not deny it after hearing this, and nodded.

"Hmm?" Hearing this, the wooden puppet elder's brows furrowed even tighter.

If he had been perfunctorily dealing with Chen Tian with a disdainful and playful attitude until just now, then at this time, he had already changed his view of Chen Tian.

He suddenly felt that Chen Tian might be even more powerful than he had imagined!

Thinking like this, he rarely showed a trace of seriousness, and said coldly to Chen Tian: "Okay, then tell me, where exactly is this place?"