Chapter 1084 It is indeed
Luo Li retracted the Xuan Yue Sword and gently exhaled.
Although this battle was not difficult, it consumed a lot of her spiritual power.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the strength of this three-star Grand Lord-level monster seemed far inferior to that of the Grand Lord-level monsters outside the secret realm.
strangeness……
She walked to the giant python's corpse, opened its head with the tip of her sword, and took out an inner elixir that was emitting black energy.
"It's indeed demonic energy..." Luo Li stared at the black threads swimming in the inner elixir with a frown.
This level of demonic pollution is definitely not formed naturally, but rather seems to be caused intentionally by someone.
She sealed the demonized inner elixir in a special jade box, then looked around.
The wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see, with the outline of a dilapidated building faintly visible in the distance.
After thinking for a moment, Luo Li decided to go there to investigate, perhaps he could find clues about the Tianxu Secret Realm.
After walking for about half an hour, Luo Li arrived in front of the building.
This is a half-collapsed stone temple. The remaining walls are covered with dark red vines, and the vines are blooming with strange black flowers, emitting a faint fishy and sweet smell.
Luo Li did not touch the vines rashly, but took out a pair of silver silk gloves from the space ring. They were great lord-level spiritual weapons and could be used with absolute confidence.
After putting it on, Luo Li carefully pushed aside the vines, revealing the entrance to the stone hall.
The stone door at the entrance had collapsed, and the interior was dark, with only a few rays of light filtering through the cracks at the top.
A ray of chaotic soul fire ignited at her fingertips, and she slowly walked into the stone hall.
The interior space is much larger than it appears from the outside. There are many broken stone carvings and artifacts scattered on the ground, most of which are no longer recognizable.
Luo Li frowned and looked around. At first glance, there was nothing she could recognize.
Luo Li continued to walk deeper into the stone hall, the light of the soul fire casting swaying shadows on the walls.
Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks—a deep gully appeared on the ground in front of her, with neat and smooth edges, obviously caused by the long sword.
"Is this... sword energy?" She squatted down, touched the edge of the ravine with her fingertips, and felt a lingering sharpness.
This sword energy has existed for at least a thousand years, but it can still make her skin feel tingling, which shows how powerful the person who left this sword mark is.
Just as she was thinking, a slight "click" sound suddenly came from the depths of the stone hall.
Luo Li was instantly alert, and the light of her soul fire suddenly became brighter, illuminating the front - she saw a skeleton dressed in clothes that looked like a disciple of Jiuding Academy sitting in the corner, and the sound just now was made by his broken hand bones.
A bright silver dagger was stuck in the chest of the skeleton, and the surrounding stone slabs were covered with dark brown marks.
The most striking thing is that the skeleton's left hand is tightly holding a glowing photo stone.
Luo Li approached cautiously and found many messy marks on the stone slabs around the skeleton, as if they were carved by fingernails before the death.
She brushed off the dust and made out a few fragments of writing:
[The Emperor's family...a scam...don't...]
The writing stops here, and the final scratch appears extremely hasty.
"The Di family is a scam?" Luo Li's eyes flickered. Could it be that they weren't the first group? Someone else had been tricked into joining the Di family using the same excuse before?
She carefully took out the image stone from the skeleton's hand and injected a trace of soul power into it.
The image stone suddenly projected a blurry picture:
In the picture, a man wearing the same clothes as the skeleton is running wildly in the stone hall, with several dark shadows chasing behind him.
The man suddenly turned around and stabbed his chest with a dagger, blood splattering on the jade slip.
The final frame freezes with an image of a hand in a black robe reaching out to the photo stone...
"Suicide?" Luo Li pondered. "Was it to prevent the Di family from getting anything? But...how could the photo stone be left behind?"
She was about to examine the skeleton further when she suddenly sensed that there was a hidden restriction inside the photo stone.
When trying to crack it, the entire stone hall suddenly shook, and the dark red vines began to wriggle like living things, and black flowers bloomed, spewing out thick purple mist.
"Damn, it's a trap!" Luo Li instantly understood that the skeleton and the photo stone were both baits left behind.
She quickly took a poison-proof pill and at the same time activated the Chaos Soul Fire to form a protective shield around her body.
Vines attacked from all directions like snakes. Luo Li swung her sword to cut off several of them, but found that the juice spurting out from the broken ends was extremely corrosive, and the hem of her clothes was torn.
"We can't fight to the bitter end."
She made a prompt decision and quickly retreated in the direction she came from.
However, the vines at the entrance had formed a thick web, completely blocking the escape route.
Luo Li gritted her teeth and immediately summoned Xiao Liu and Shi Qi, "Break this place open!"
As Xiaoliu and Shiqi appeared, they immediately understood Luo Li's intention.
Xiao Liu formed seals with his hands, and a blazing flame appeared around his body. A tornado of flames roared out, instantly burning the vines blocking the way ahead.
Seventeen's figure flashed, and his sharp claws swept across, chopping the remaining vines into pieces.
"Let's go!" Luo Li shouted, and the three of them quickly rushed out of the stone hall.
Behind him, the entire building collapsed under the crazy wriggling of the vines, and smoke and dust rose up.
Those dark red vines seemed to have life, twisting and struggling in the ruins, making creepy "hissing" sounds.
Luo Li stood at a safe distance, staring at the photo stone in her hand with a serious expression.
"Master, this is..." Xiaoliu frowned and looked at the strange vines.
"It seems like a trap set by the Di family," Luo Li said coldly, "It seems they had anticipated that someone would explore these ruins and deliberately left clues to lure them in."
A cold light flashed in Seventeen's eyes, "That skeleton is the one that was tricked into coming here by the Di family before?"
Luo Li nodded, "And he's not the only one. The things recorded in the image stone are probably secrets that the Di family doesn't want outsiders to know."
She tried again to break the restriction in the photo stone, this time more cautiously.
As the soul power seeped in, the restriction gradually loosened, and finally with a light "click" sound, the information hidden in the image stone finally emerged -
A torn map and a few lines of blurred text:
[The Heart of the Heavenly Ruins, suppresses the source of the devil. The Emperor family sacrifices blood to it, attempting...]
The content that followed was no longer recognizable, but based on this information alone, Luo Li had already guessed the general idea.
"The Di family... wants to awaken the demonic power in the Tianxu secret realm?" she murmured, anger flashing in her eyes.
Xiaoliu and Shiqi looked at each other and saw seriousness in each other's eyes.
"Master, if this is true, the opening of the Tianxu Secret Realm is probably a huge conspiracy." Seventeen said in a deep voice.
Luo Li put away the image stone, her eyes determined. "We must find Wen Xingyan and the others as soon as possible. This news must be made known to everyone in the secret realm."
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