I was reborn as a young master in an invincible family of immortals

Trapped in the black mist, Lin Yun and the others found themselves in an increasingly difficult situation. The snake-like spiritual tentacles were becoming more numerous and their attacks were becoming increasingly fierce. Even though everyone was using their full strength to protect their spiritual shields, the shields' light was becoming increasingly dim and shaky under the constant impact of the tentacles.

Everyone's spiritual energy was depleting at an extremely rapid rate. Everyone felt their spiritual energy dwindling rapidly, their bodies growing heavier, and their movements becoming increasingly sluggish. Lin Yun's forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat. He knew that if this continued, once their spiritual energy was exhausted, they would all become the prey of this strange mist. But at this moment, he had no idea how to break through it, and he was extremely anxious.

"Everyone, hold on a little longer. Don't let your guard down. We will definitely find a way out!" Lin Yun gritted his teeth and shouted, trying to encourage everyone, but his voice also revealed a hint of weakness, and seemed a little hollow in the oppressive black fog.

The other people also had solemn expressions on their faces. While they were struggling to hold up their shields, they were quickly thinking of countermeasures in their minds. However, the surroundings were still in chaos. The gloomy black fog seemed to be swallowing them up completely, leaving them with no hope at all.

Just when everyone was almost in despair, Su Yao accidentally discovered a clue while playing the Lingxi Jade Flute, trying to detect the environment with the fluctuations of musical spiritual power. She noticed that whenever the music touched certain areas, it would cause a special spiritual resonance, and these areas seemed to have subtle differences with the spiritual fluctuations in the surrounding mist.

"Don't panic, everyone. I found some special places in this fog. My music will react differently in certain positions. Maybe there are some clues or exits hidden there." Su Yao said hurriedly. When everyone heard this, they were cheered up, as if they had grabbed a life-saving straw.

So, under Su Yao's guidance, everyone carefully approached the areas that could cause special musical reactions. As the distance got closer, they found that some ancient runes that they had seen on the Spirit Island before were faintly emerging from the mist in these areas. The runes emitted a faint light. Although it seemed a little dim in the black mist, it brought a glimmer of hope to everyone.

Lin Yun had some knowledge of runes. He carefully observed the emerging runes and found that they bore some resemblance to a rune he had seen in the ancient texts of his sect, used to dispel forbidden spells. He closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and recalled the records of that rune and its deciphering method in the ancient texts.

After a moment, Lin Yun opened his eyes, with a hint of determination in them. He stretched out his fingers according to the method he remembered, mobilized the remaining spiritual power in his body, lightly tapped the rune, muttered something, and tried to guide the rune to release the power to dispel the fog.

At first, it seemed to have no effect, but as Lin Yun continued to inject spiritual energy, the rune's light gradually brightened, and the surrounding black mist began to slowly flow, as if being pulled by something, converging towards the rune. Then, those serpentine spiritual tentacles ceased their attack and retreated in the direction of the mist. As if finding an outlet, the black mist began to gradually dissipate.

Seeing this, everyone was overjoyed and cooperated with Lin Yun, channeling their remaining spiritual energy towards the runes to speed up the dispersal of the fog. With everyone's concerted efforts, the black fog surrounding them finally became increasingly lighter, and their visibility gradually expanded. They had finally escaped the dangerous fog trap. However, everyone was exhausted, their spiritual energy nearly depleted. They quickly took out their pills, swallowed them, and sat in meditation to regulate their breathing and restore their spiritual energy.

After their spiritual energy had recovered somewhat, they continued walking towards the interior of the ruins. Before them lay a vast courtyard, dotted with several ancient-style pavilions. The building materials used for the pavilions looked quite unique, as if imbued with some special spiritual properties. Even after years of wear and tear, they still radiated a faint luster.

There are some broken stone tablets scattered in the courtyard. The words on the stone tablets are already blurred, but some words related to the cultivation techniques and spiritual objects can still be vaguely made out, which makes people have endless reverie about the former glory of this relic.

In the center of the courtyard stood a circular stone platform. Atop it sat a crystal ball emitting a soft blue light. Spiritual energy seemed to flow slowly within the ball, as if it held some mysterious message. Curious, everyone approached the platform, eager to see what secrets the crystal ball held. But just then, a strange surge of spiritual energy erupted from the surrounding pavilions, as if something had been awakened by their actions. The atmosphere within the ruins instantly grew tense.

Following the strange fluctuations of spiritual energy, several tall figures emerged from the pavilion. They exuded an ancient metallic sheen, and their movements were mechanically stiff. They were, in fact, ancient puppets. Their eyes flashed with red spiritual light, locking onto Lin Yun and the others. Then, with heavy steps, they slowly approached them. With every step, the ground trembled slightly, clearly demonstrating their power.

"This is a guardian puppet. It seems to be the guardian of this ruin. Everyone, be careful!" Lin Yun warned. Everyone quickly grasped their magic weapons and prepared for battle again. They knew that if they wanted to continue exploring the ruins and obtain any secrets or information useful to the world of immortal cultivation, they had to first deal with these suddenly appearing guardian puppets.

After the guardian puppets walked not far from the crowd, they stopped. One of the puppets took the lead in attacking. It stretched out its thick metal arm, which instantly deformed into a huge spiritual battle axe, and chopped down at the crowd fiercely. The spiritual power surged on the axe blade, bringing up a whistling sound of the wind, with astonishing power.

Everyone was not afraid to be careless and cast spiritual spells to resist. Lin Yun waved his spiritual staff, casting a spiritual light curtain, trying to block the puppet's attack, but the spiritual battle axe slashed on the light curtain, directly splitting it. The powerful impact made Lin Yun step back several steps, his face turning pale.

Su Yao played the Lingxi Jade Flute, and the music turned into a spiritual blade and shot towards the puppet. However, when the spiritual blade hit the puppet, it only splashed a weak spiritual spark and could not cause any substantial damage to it. The puppet still walked towards the crowd steadily and continued to attack.

Chen Yu hid his body and wanted to go around the back of the puppet to look for a flaw, but the puppet seemed to have a special spiritual sensing ability. As soon as he approached, the puppet sensed his whereabouts and punched in his direction. Chen Yu couldn't dodge in time and was hit by the punch. He flew out like a kite with a broken string and fell heavily to the ground, bleeding from his mouth. He was seriously injured.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Gang rushed forward and raised his shield to block everyone. He used his powerful defense to resist the puppets' attacks, but the puppets were too powerful. Every attack made his arms numb and his spiritual power was consumed extremely quickly. Everyone was caught in an extremely difficult battle. They had to find a way to deal with these troublesome guardian puppets as soon as possible. Otherwise, let alone continue exploring the ruins, even their own safety would be difficult to guarantee.

During the fierce battle, Lin Yun fended off the puppets' attacks while carefully observing their movements and body structures, trying to identify their weaknesses. After some observation, he discovered that while these puppets were extremely hard and invulnerable to ordinary attacks, their spiritual energy core seemed to be concentrated in their chests. There was a spot where spiritual energy shone brightest, and every time they attacked, spiritual energy would flow from there to their limbs. Perhaps that was their vital point.

"Everyone, pay attention. The weakness of these puppets may be in the chest. Let's concentrate our strength and attack there!" Lin Yun shouted loudly. After hearing this, everyone immediately adjusted their attack strategy, gathered their spiritual power, and launched an attack on the chest area of ​​the puppets.

Suddenly, a cascade of spiritual energy intertwined, transforming into powerful beams that blasted towards the puppet's chest. This time, the attack finally paid off. After the puppet was struck in the chest by the spiritual energy beam, its spiritual core was impacted, causing its body to temporarily stiffen, its movements becoming sluggish, and even cracks appearing on its metal shell. Seeing this, the crowd rejoiced and pressed forward, continuing their attack, targeting the puppet's weaknesses with fierce attacks, attempting to destroy them in one fell swoop, break through this barrier, and continue to delve deeper into the ruins to uncover its secrets.

Under the concerted attack of everyone, the chests of several guardian puppets were riddled with holes, and their spiritual power cores were severely damaged, and could no longer maintain normal operation. Their bodies began to tremble violently, and the red spiritual power light in their eyes gradually dimmed. Finally, they fell to the ground with a bang, turning into a pile of scrap metal, and could no longer pose a threat to everyone.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and were about to walk deeper into the courtyard to continue exploring the ruins, but at this moment, a dull roar came from deeper in the ruins, as if some huge mechanism had been triggered. Then, the ground began to shake violently, and the surrounding buildings also showed signs of collapsing. Many stones fell from the buildings and smashed towards everyone. The entire ruins seemed to be in a huge crisis, and before everyone had time to figure out what was going on, they had to face new dangers, and the situation became more and more critical and complicated.

The ground shook more and more violently, and huge cracks spread out under the feet of the crowd. Black spiritual smoke gushed out of the cracks, and the smoke seemed to be mixed with sharp stones, which sprayed towards the crowd, making it impossible to defend against it.

"Everyone, be careful! Find some shelter!" Lin Yun shouted, and everyone rushed to find shelter. Some ran towards the stone pillars at the edge of the courtyard, trying to hide behind them; others used their spiritual power to lift some of the larger stones around them, building a makeshift shelter to protect themselves.

However, the danger did not stop there. As the ground shook, the round stone platform in the center of the courtyard began to tilt. The blue crystal ball on the platform rolled down and rolled towards a crack. Once the crystal ball fell into the crack, it might disappear forever, and everyone might miss an important clue to unlock the secret of the ruins.

"We can't let the crystal ball fall in, stop it quickly!" Su Yao shouted anxiously. Regardless of their own safety, everyone rushed towards the crystal ball, wanting to stop it before it fell into the crack. However, the surroundings were full of dangers. They had to avoid the falling rocks and the spraying spiritual smoke, and catch the crystal ball. The scene was full of dangers. Everyone's heart was in their throat, not knowing whether they could successfully survive this sudden earthquake crisis.

With everyone's relentless pursuit, Lin Yun finally reached out and caught the crystal ball just as it was about to fall into the crack. As soon as he grasped the crystal ball, a refreshing spiritual energy flowed through his arm and throughout his body, instantly calming his spiritual energy, which had been somewhat disordered by tension and fatigue. He also sensed that the crystal ball seemed to contain a powerful message, but he was too late to explore it.

Although the crystal ball had been saved, the surrounding crisis remained. The shaking continued, intensifying in intensity. The entire ruins seemed poised to collapse at any moment. The group could only dodge falling rocks and other dangers while trudging towards what they believed to be the relatively safe exit of the ruins, hoping to escape this perilous area as quickly as possible. However, whether they could escape successfully, and what secrets the crystal ball held, remained uncertain. The situation remained tense and heart-wrenching.