Chapter 91 Dragon Tomb

Jiang Xi found the scene amusing.

She turned her head away, covered her mouth, her shoulders trembled, and she chuckled secretly.

Her dark hair cascaded in the warm breeze, half falling and half floating, highlighting her slender neck and beautiful neckline.

She was wrapped in a reddish-brown animal skin coat, which revealed two-thirds of her skin, which was so white and smooth that it seemed to glow.

Suddenly, the room fell silent.

All that remained was the crackling sound of the charcoal fire.

Hollen swallowed back the question he wanted to ask.

Subconsciously, he didn't want to disturb the female master's good mood.

Jiang Xi only chuckled secretly for a moment before quickly suppressing her laughter and sitting up straight.

She assumed they hadn't noticed her earlier laugh, so she continued speaking in a serious tone.

"I've risen very high, and I can see very far."

“I can see the distant part of the Giant Tree Forest, where green has already begun to appear. The green is spreading towards the Cursed Lands, and perhaps spring will arrive when it reaches the Lion's Roar Tribe.”

Having discussed the Giantwood Forest, it's time to talk about the Cursed Lands.

She didn't hide anything she had seen, and directly told everyone about how the seven tribes had surrounded the cursed land.

“I rose too high, so what I initially saw as the seven tribes distributed from south to north gradually formed a circle, surrounding the cursed land in the middle.”

As she spoke, she made an assumption.

"I'm not sure if what I saw was real or a hallucination, but I definitely saw it."

At this point, she pursed her lips, becoming somewhat hesitant.

She wasn't sure whether she should tell them about the eyes she had seen.

Lu Liufeng keenly sensed the female master's hesitation and asked.

"Did the female master see anything else?"

Hollen and Yi Yuexi had been listening intently, afraid of disturbing the female master's recollection. Upon hearing Lu Liufeng's question, they also perked up.

Hollen, in particular, had a pair of turquoise lion eyes that were almost glowing.

Jiang Xi didn't look at him, but instead looked at Lu Liufeng.

Meeting those gentle, amber eyes, her heart gradually calmed down.

"Lu Liufeng, do you remember when I told you that when you carried me and first approached the Guardian Wall, I thought I heard a heartbeat?"

She wondered at the time if the cursed land might be inhabited by living beings.

But later, that heartbeat stopped.

The idea was too terrifying, so she stopped thinking about it.

But the scene she saw this time sent chills down her spine.

"Before my consciousness returned to my body, in the blood-red cursed land, I saw a pair of scarlet vertical pupils."

It goes without saying how high she climbed at that time.

Even if there are seven tribes, they are just a black dot.

But those vertical pupils appeared so clearly in the cursed land, staring at her coldly, terrifyingly large.

"Eye?"

Hollen paused for a moment.

"Eyes that can move?"

Jiang Xi shook her head.

"I'm not sure if it will move, but I can feel that there is a life force in those eyes, unlike a dead thing."

Upon hearing this, Lu Liufeng's expression also turned serious.

He connected the recent events one by one.

"The female master heard a heartbeat. She helped me break through the seal of the curse and enter the fourth stage. The light curtain of the protective wall suddenly rose. Now, I see eyes again in the cursed land..."

"Could it be that life has emerged in this cursed land?"

"So, the light screen noticed it and that's why it reappeared?"

Jiang Xi shook her head.

"I don't know. I don't know much about the Cursed Land. Do you have any information?"

Yi Yuexi shrugged.

"The Cursed Land is too far from my fox tribe. Before coming to the Holy City, I didn't even know that the Cursed Land existed."

After speaking, Yi Yuexi looked directly at Hollen, her meaning self-evident.

Jiang Xi and Lu Liufeng also looked at him.

Before Hollen could speak, Lu Liufeng spoke first.

"Horen, we have nothing to hide from you. We also hope that you will not hide anything from us. Of course, you don't need to tell us the secrets of the Golden Lion Clan, but we hope you can tell us everything you know about the Cursed Land."

Hollen pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.

According to the records of the Golden Lion Clan, the cursed land is an ancient dragon tomb.

"The dragon race has been extinct for thousands of years. In this world, only a small number of beast races still have a trace of dragon blood in their veins. For example, the dragonfish race of the Boundless Sea, because they have a trace of dragon blood, became the masters of the Boundless Sea, obtained the treasures of the dragon race, and became the dominant race of the sea."

"But it is said that more than a thousand years ago, a beastman found a dragon egg in the Dragon Tomb, which is also the cursed land, and hatched a black dragon."

"I don't know the specifics of what happened in between, and the Golden Lion Clan has no records of it either. I only know that later, the major beast clans joined forces to kill the Black Dragon, who had only recently taken human form, at the Dragon Tomb."

"The Alatreon is an ancient dragon. It is said that he controls the power of all the elements in the world and possesses the Corruption Domain, which can corrupt all creatures within the domain and make them work for him."

"After death, the domain manifested, and the curse descended upon the earth, turning all living things around the Dragon Tomb into immortal beasts that only knew how to kill."

"To prevent the beast tide from spreading, the major beast races joined forces to build a protective wall, and seven Heavenly Rank beastmen sacrificed themselves, merging all their power into the wall to control this cursed domain within it."

Upon hearing this, Lu Liufeng's previously uncertain guesses were now completely confirmed.

Eagle Strait is far from the Holy City, and even further from the Cursed Land.

Compared to the Holy City and the Cursed Lands, Eagle Strait has had more dealings with the sea creatures.

Therefore, they do not know as much about these things on land as the Golden Lion Clan.

Jiang Xi had no memory of these things, and this was the first time she had ever heard of them.

She looked at Hollen with bright eyes, listening to him speak with curiosity and seriousness.

Hollen, feeling somewhat uncomfortable under her gaze, looked away and focused his attention on the red-hot coals, continuing his speech.

"Actually, the records of the Golden Lion Clan are not detailed, but what is certain is that the Cursed Land is indeed the manifestation of the domain left behind by powerful orcs after their deaths, just like the Boundless Sea."

"However, what the Boundless Sea left behind was a treasure."

Hollen paused, then pursed his lips.

"The cursed lands have left the orcs with nothing but disaster."

He had never witnessed the grandeur of this so-called Dragon Tomb a thousand years ago.

But since the domain manifested and the curse spread, this sacred land that once nurtured countless beastmen has become a land of death, a land of curses...

Yi Yuexi stroked her chin and made a bold assumption.

"Could it be that this black dragon beastman has been resurrected?"

Jiang Xi nodded in agreement.

"Possibly."

Compared to the two's bold assumptions, Huo Lun and Lu Liufeng were much more restrained.

Hollen shook his head.

"That's unlikely. The characteristics left behind by the Alatreon have long since dissipated over a thousand years."

"Even if it didn't dissipate, it's impossible for it to remain in the cursed land."