Chapter 747 - 741: Wa Huang—Returning Ruins, and Again the Returning Ruins

As soon as the Buddha finished speaking, Nato slowly appeared before them.

It truly was a case of "speak of the devil, and he appears" with Cao Cao.

The Buddha had just said that if the missing disciples returned, the truth would be revealed.

The next moment, Nato returned.

Nato was the first to defeat his opponent, so naturally, he was the first to return.

Upon seeing Nato, the Buddha and Wa Huang immediately asked questions.

"Nato, where did you all just go?"

"Nato, where are the others?"

Wa Huang and the Buddha asked almost in unison.

Faced with Wa Huang and the Buddha’s questions, Nato looked utterly puzzled, then quickly replied, "I don’t know?"

Nato didn’t know where he had just gone.

Nato also didn’t know where the others went.

In short, he simply claimed ignorance.

Wa Huang looked at Nato dumbfounded, filled with helplessness, realizing he had the mind of a child, making it genuinely challenging to extract a definitive answer from him.

If Peacock Great Ming King had returned instead, it would have been much better.

As Wa Huang was thinking, the Buddha began to gently guide him, "Not knowing is okay, just tell us what you do know."

"For instance, what happened during the time you were away."

Nato had the mind of a child and wasn’t particularly bright, making it difficult for him to make the correct judgments and arrive at the right answers.

However, none of that was important.

If Nato couldn’t make the right judgments, Wa Huang and the Buddha could help him do so.

If Nato couldn’t arrive at the right conclusion, Wa Huang and the Buddha could help him get there.

All Nato needed to do now was very simple.

Just tell Wa Huang and the Buddha, in detail, what he saw and heard during his disappearance.

Nato had eyes and a mouth, and he was certainly capable of clearly recounting what he saw.

"After I disappeared, I found myself in a place called the Returning Ruins Arena."

"In front of me was a member of the Void Race. He challenged me, so I immediately summoned a ball and smashed him to death."

"After I smashed him, a voice said I won and gave me this..." As Nato spoke, he pulled out a fiery red spiritual pearl from his pocket.

This spiritual pearl was condensed from Samadhi True Fire.

Swallowing it would allow one to use Samadhi True Fire in combat at will.

Returning Ruins Arena?

After hearing the name, Wa Huang and the Buddha glanced at each other.

They didn’t know what the Returning Ruins Arena was.

However, they had been to the Returning Ruins.

When the Four Great Primordial Spirits explored the Returning Ruins back then, they hadn’t discovered the Returning Ruins Arena.

Realizing they couldn’t get any more useful information from Nato’s mouth, Wa Huang waved his hand and said, "Go back and rest."

Nato was taken aback, then tentatively asked Wa Huang, "Palace Master, will Senior Brother Kong return safely?"

Though Nato returned safely himself, he was now worried about the safety of Peacock Great Ming King.

Peacock Great Ming King had utterly convinced Nato.

Now, in all of Wa Huang’s Palace, Nato was closest to Peacock Great Ming King.

In Nato’s heart, the status of Peacock Great Ming King even surpassed Wa Huang and Xi Huang.

As Nato worried for the safety of Peacock Great Ming King, Wa Huang also hoped he would return safely.

For one, Peacock Great Ming King was an important trump card for Wa Huang.

Secondly, Peacock Great Ming King was a perceptive person, and the information from his mouth would undoubtedly be more than Nato’s.

Wa Huang looked at Nato and softly said, "Since you returned safely, Kong Xuan, being far stronger than you, should also be able to return safely."

"No need to worry. You should go back, rest, and wait."

Hearing Wa Huang say this, Nato felt that she had a point.

The strongest Grand Elder of the Void Race was already dead, and the remaining riffraff could hardly be opponents for Senior Brother Kong.

If he could easily solve his opponent, then Senior Brother Kong certainly could as well.

"It should only be a matter of moments; Senior Brother Kong, should be back soon!" With this thought, Nato left the hall.

As soon as Nato was gone, the Buddha said to Wa Huang, "It seems they’ve been thrown into the Returning Ruins."

"Who put them inside the Returning Ruins?"

"And what exactly is this Returning Ruins Arena?" Wa Huang asked questioningly.

The Buddha shook his head and replied, "I don’t know. I’ve never heard of such a place within the Returning Ruins."

Just after saying this, the Buddha continued, "The Returning Ruins were once a significant world. The area we explored last time was limited, so it’s normal not to have found the Returning Ruins Arena."

"I suspect this Returning Ruins Arena might be a forced combat array."

Array?

Indeed, the Buddha was wise, deducing an approximate scenario from the bits of information provided by Nato.

The arrays within the Returning Ruins were seen by Wa Huang and the Buddha in the past, and they had caused them much trouble.

Now that the issue involved the Returning Ruins, the Buddha realized the situation was more complicated than it seemed.

"We don’t have enough information yet to draw any key conclusions."

"Hopefully, more disciples will return."

"The more disciples that come back, the more information we can gather," the Buddha shared his thought.

As time passed, more and more disciples indeed returned.

Each of these disciples was covered in blood, their condition pitiful.

Only Peacock Great Ming King, Monk Fusheng, and Mo Ke, those with great strength, remained unstained by blood.

The Second Elder of the Void Race played a trick akin to Tian Ji’s horse racing strategy.

Peacock Great Ming King, Monk Fusheng, and Mo Ke, the strong ones, faced the weakest group of the Void Race.

They either solved their opponents quickly with a fast strike as Nato did.

Or, during a confrontation, their Void Race opponent suddenly forfeited.

Peacock Great Ming King, Monk Fusheng, and these other masters hadn’t fought hard battles.

The less powerful disciples, however, faced the elite of the Void Race and naturally fought a bloody battle to slay their foes and return.

They were well aware of the blood feud between the two sides.

In a confined space, when evenly matched enemies faced each other.

Need anything more be said about what follows?

It was naturally a matter of either you die or I survive.

Neither side had any intention of conceding.

After several hours of waiting, no more disciples returned.

After counting the crowd, Wa Huang, Demon Lord, and Buddha realized that only half of their disciples remained.

Such casualties were not negligible.

Wa Huang immediately ordered all these disciples to come to him and recount, in detail, everything they saw and heard.

After interrogating all the disciples and organizing all the information they provided.

Wa Huang and the Buddha began to grasp the outlines of the situation.