Chapter 961: Breaking the Stubborn and Destroying the Decayed
After leaving the palace road, Chen Chuan soon walked to the place where Young Master Xu and the other man had just run out.
He glanced around and saw more than a dozen headless corpses on the ground.
The blood of these people had not yet dried and was now flowing along the cracks in the floor tiles. One or two of them left drag marks on the ground, extending all the way to the side hall, where he heard some kind of chewing sound.
He turned around and walked towards this side, entering through the broken bricks all over the ground. He then saw a six or seven meter long creature that looked like a snake or a dragon, with a single horn on its head, lying there and gnawing at the corpse on the ground.
As he walked in, the thing suddenly stopped moving, then turned around suddenly, and saw that most of its face was left with only tattered dry meat, and its body was torn everywhere, and the fresh flesh and blood that had just been bitten from its mouth was flowing out of the holes.
Chen Chuan stared intently and saw some flashes of light on the creature's skull and back, representing spiritual power. This showed that this creature was not the alienated demon he had seen before, but that this body was occupied by some highly condensed spiritual body.
There is no doubt that the practitioners with divine appearance and the opposite existence can do this kind of thing, but there will be some disharmony. The spiritual body condensation in front of him matches the shell very well. It is more like the original spirit has been reunited after being blessed by the ritual and then occupied the original decayed body.
He stood there without moving, but this thing couldn't help it first. It turned its body and rushed towards him. Before it reached him, a strong wind pressure and a smell of corruption came over.
Chen Chuan stood where he was, raised his hand, and slapped it casually. With a loud bang, the thing was knocked to the ground by an irresistible force, creating a large amount of dust.
Chen Chuan seemed to be aware of something at this moment. He looked to the side and saw another dragon snake appear not far away, coiled on the top of a large pillar, staring at him closely. There was another movement from behind. On the palace wall over there, another dragon snake crawled out from nowhere.
The one on the ground turned over and quickly distanced itself from him. It shook its head, lay on the ground, stared at him, and slowly moved forward.
In an instant, three long dragons surrounded him like they were hunting.
After taking a few glances, Chen Chuan suddenly remembered that it was the five long dragons that dismembered Yuwen Yuanqi's body. Later, it was said that one day Emperor Ying suddenly remembered the feelings of his compatriots, so he drowned all the five dragons that had followed him for a long time to sacrifice to his brothers.
So are these the things?
But these in front of me... look a little weak.
At this moment, on the top of the mountain, a palace servant with a pale face was walking in front with a lantern in his hand, muttering to himself, and every time he mentioned he was either "Your Majesty" or "Your Excellency".
Xu Mutang followed behind with an expressionless face, ascending a winding mountain path. The palace attendant in front of him raised a lantern, shone it forward, and turned back to say, "His Majesty is in the palace admiring the moon. You should hurry up and remember the etiquette you were taught. Remember to serve His Majesty well. It will be a blessing for you."
Xu Mutang looked at the palace above and asked, "Is Emperor Ying up there?"
"How dare you!" The palace attendant's shrill voice suddenly rose. "How can a commoner like you address His Majesty in such a way?"
Xu Mutang sneered and whipped the long whip in his hand, and the palace servant in front of him was instantly beaten to pieces. However, this action seemed to alarm the palace guards above, and a large number of spear-wielding warriors rushed down from above.
At this moment, his eyebrows twitched slightly, and in an instant, all the warriors in front of him, including the remains of the palace servant, disappeared like dissipating smoke.
The originally exquisite pavilions in the distance have all become ruins of palaces and pavilions, and the path underfoot is no longer flat, but covered with dead grass and cracked gravel, covered with messy dead bones, and there are traces of knife and axe chopping on the broken bones.
He said coldly, "What a despicable trick."
If it were a thousand years ago, these things might still confuse him, but now, at most, they can only make him dazed for a moment.
If it weren't for the fact that following these things would make it easier to find Emperor Ying's true location, he would have torn through this layer of fog long ago.
He withdrew his whip and strode towards the palace.
The Longyou Dao Government Affairs Office has long been paying close attention to this secret treasure. After all, it is not only a well-known secret treasure, but also right next to the central city. Therefore, the central city has long regarded it as its own and has collected a large amount of relevant information for this purpose.
In fact, the business of those adventure groups is planned and participated in by the Central City behind the scenes, in order to find a way to enter the secret treasure.
This time, a passage leading into the ceremony suddenly appeared. The expert group guessed that someone who knew the information must have entered here, and his identity was not simple. It was inconvenient for the Central City to directly conflict with him, but it could get valuable things first. So this time, as soon as he came in, he broke through all the way inward without any delay.
Now he thought he had arrived at the core of the secret treasure. Looking around, he saw that a corner of the palace had collapsed, but several thick pillars were still standing there.
There was a large pool in front, more than ten feet deep, filled with broken bones, all of which looked like they had been chewed.
He took a few glances and guessed that this should be the Dragon Pond.
Legend has it that there were five dragons under Emperor Ying's command, who ate a hundred people alive every day. Historical books said that most of them were criminals and slaves, but who were the criminals and slaves was just a matter of a word from Emperor Ying.
The expert group in the central city has analyzed that although this place looks like a secret treasure established in the name of Yuwen Yuanqi, it is actually a spiritual palace prepared by Emperor Ying for himself. The ghost den just now and the dragon pool in front of them all prove this point.
Gazing at the palace before him, he looked expectantly. The Yuwen clan had perished in three generations, rising from prosperity to decline in a mere forty years. They were a rare imperial clan that failed to retreat to a fusion zone or make other backup plans. However, later records don't reveal much was looted, leading to the suspicion that their amassed wealth lay hidden within the secret stash set aside by Emperor Ying.
There should be quite a few here!
And something that Paine has been looking for might be right here!
He raised his whip and walked quickly across the Dragon Pond. Just as he was about to enter the hall, he stopped. Suddenly, a one-horned snake crawled out from the rubble and broken bricks in front of him.
He frowned, his eyebrows twitching slightly, and found that it was just a thing similar to a mummy, with charred and dry skin and flesh tightly attached to the bones, but it was not small in size, at least seven or eight meters long.
He did not underestimate it. He took a deep breath and his body suddenly became huge, turning into a giant general in black armor. Without waiting for the thing to attack, he rushed up first and punched it on the head, knocking it directly into the ground. Then he stepped on it and reached out to pull up a large pillar next to it from the ground. In an instant, white and green flames spread on it, and he smashed it repeatedly below, and finally hit it hard!
With a loud bang, a large cloud of dust and dirt exploded, and a large section of the rotten hall collapsed.
When the dust settled, Xu Mutang's body had returned to its original shape, but the dragon snake had been smashed into several pieces, and the broken parts were smashed into flattened bones and flesh. He snorted and threw the broken pillar in his hand away.
Some things in the old times were very powerful, but some things were exaggerated. However, this snake dragon might have had some fighting power when it was alive, but now only its bones and skin are left, and there is not much alienated tissue left. How can it fight against itself with only a little spiritual support?
He picked up the whip that had fallen on the ground and walked quickly into the inner hall.
At the entrance of the palace complex, in a flash of light, the three dragon snakes that rushed up were instantly blown into countless shattered powders, which scattered down.
Chen Chuan shook his head. This thing only looks good but is useless. He didn't know how powerful Yuwen Yuanqi was in the past, but he must have reached the realm of Changsheng Temple, otherwise he would not have been able to become the general of the auxiliary country.
And judging by the various performances of his body, he has most likely reached the latter level, and these five dragons are able to tear his body apart, which is somewhat powerful.
But if we look at the few in front of us, it can only be said that the strength is far inferior to that in life. After all, it has been a thousand years. Even if the spirit is attached, the body has decayed.
At this moment, he suddenly heard bursts of muffled noises like thunder coming from the hall above. He looked over there and saw the two people he had met before saying that a fighter had come in. It seemed that this person had made the noise.
So he turned around and disappeared from his original place in an instant, heading straight for the source of the sound. In just a few breaths, he arrived at the foot of the high ground. Just as he was about to go up, he suddenly stopped and a bright light flashed in front of him.
Then several large pillars of the palace on one side broke and slid down with a sharp creaking sound. The already shaky palace in this corner collapsed to the ground with a loud bang, and the broken surface was extremely flat and smooth.
Chen Chuan looked over and saw a warrior wearing red armor and a ghostly mask, looking like a royal guard. A cold light shone from his body, and he held a saber in his hand.
Is this... a mutated demon?
To be honest, I have seen so many corpses and strange ghosts here along the way that I feel a sense of familiarity when I see the monsters and ghosts at first glance.
However, the other party was obviously no match for Protector You.
He watched the demon ghost walking towards him, and he also pulled out the Snow King Sword from its scabbard and walked towards it. The opponent's footsteps quickened, and the figure suddenly flashed, dragging a long, cold flame in the long corridor, and the sword light almost covered all vision.
However, the next moment, with a flash of knife light as bright as moonlight in the snow, all the cold flames seemed to be extinguished in an instant.
The demon kept swinging its sword, and the spiritual fire on its body suddenly went out. Then it instantly dispersed into dozens of pieces, scattering on the ground. At the same time, a thumb-sized golden seal also fell.
Chen Chuan turned the Xuejun Knife, picked up the thing, and took a look. It was engraved with "Xiaoguo Youwei".
He raised his eyebrows. The Xiaoguo Guard was the personal army of Emperor Ying, and coupled with the Shengchao Guichu just now, it seemed that the so-called secret treasure of Yuwen Yuanqi was not as simple as it seemed.
He looked up again at the vague outline of the palace in the sky. He would know what it was if he went over to take a look.
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(End of this chapter)
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