Lu Yin did not try to hide what he had done. "I once practiced a form of puppet manipulation, which allowed me to control this corpse."

He then turned to Wu Taibai. "Are you saying that, as long as that corpse is destroyed, the Forgotten Ruins will disappear?"

Wu Taibai sighed. "That’s what’s happened in the past, but you have to remember that this is a trap and that all of us followed a map to get here. That map came from Long Xian, so Long Xian must be a Redback, which means that those monsters must also be here. If a trap is that easily destroyed, then can it still be considered a trap?

"Besides, destroying the corpse is a part of the trap, and it appears that the trap activated after the four Junior Progenitors all used their visualization method. Or maybe it was triggered after the power level in the battle crossed a certain limit."

Everyone quietly listened on.

"I suspect that, even if I smash that corpse apart now, not only will it not save them, but it might even kill them," Wu Taibai said in a serious manner. "This is what those monsters like to do the most: force us into killing our own youths. Still, all of this is just my speculation."

Everyone had to admit that Wu Taibai's guesses seemed highly probable.

It was absolutely not easy for humanity’s enemies, those monsters, to set a trap in the...