Chapter 576 - 241: Moon Wheel, Burial Abyss Fiend, Witchcraft Artifact (Part 3)
Chapter 576: Chapter 241: Moon Wheel, Burial Abyss Fiend, Witchcraft Artifact (Part 3)
Generally, the Cultivators who made it this far were anything but ordinary.
Upon discovering the anomaly, any knowledgeable person would be immediately deterred by the Burial Abyss Fiend.
The few who were either reluctant to leave or failed to recognize it would charge headfirst, only to throw their lives away for nothing.
For millions of years, this barrier had never once failed.
Today, however, it encountered a rather special guest.
Xiao Chen retracted his Protective Profound Light and stepped directly into the plaza.
He then sat down cross-legged and activated the Mystic Sky Eating Secret Technique, beginning to absorb the surrounding Evil Qi.
In an instant, a vortex seemed to form at the edge of the plaza, frantically devouring the surrounding Evil Qi.
A continuous stream of Evil Qi rushed into his body, where it was immediately drawn down into his Dantian to become the raw material for condensing the Yin Earth Seal.
ROAR~!
Faintly, Xiao Chen seemed to hear the sound of crashing waves.
It was the sound of the surrounding Evil Qi rushing in to fill the void he was creating, the currents colliding as they converged.
「One day later.」
After sixteen hours of non-stop Refinement, the Burial Abyss Fiend in the plaza finally dissipated completely.
PHEW!
Xiao Chen let out a long breath of foul air. "Finally done."
Since the Evil Qi would automatically corrode any nearby living beings, the Refinement process could not be stopped once it had begun.
Even someone like him felt exhausted after operating the Secret Technique at such high intensity for so long, but thankfully, it had concluded without a hitch.
Observing the new Yin Earth Seal within his Dantian with his Divine Sense, the corners of his lips couldn’t help but curl upward.
This was the fifth type of Evil Qi Xiao Chen had collected.
Although he had only managed to collect a matching pair of Fire Evil Qi, the Five Elements Evil Qi were divided into yin and yang for a total of just ten types.
In other words, he had already collected half of the Five Elements Evil Qi.
Now, as long as he kept his eyes open and gathered more information, he figured he wasn’t far from collecting the complete set.
’Damn that Yin Corpse Sect! A bunch of sons of bitches!’
The thought of it reminded Xiao Chen of the clue to another Evil Qi he’d once found in the Sea of Darkness.
He had originally planned to try his luck there after leaving the Relic, but that was pretty much off the table now.
’Whatever. No use dwelling on such frustrating matters.’
Xiao Chen shook his head forcefully, as if to fling the useless, negative emotions away. ’I should just go get the Witchcraft Artifact first.’
He stood up and walked toward the burial chamber in the middle of the plaza.
At this point, the tomb chamber itself had no further obstacles; there was no longer any need for them.
Thus, when Xiao Chen walked over and pushed, he opened the stone door to the tomb chamber with almost no effort.
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Stepping into the tomb chamber, the first thing that caught his eye were murals of a distinctly different style.
Perhaps because the area was so well-preserved, Xiao Chen could still clearly see the brilliant colors in the paintings.
The largest one in the center meticulously depicted the scene of the Moon Sacrifice Ceremony.
In the mural, the Moon Witch Saintess was dressed in a magnificent red gown, wearing the Bright Moon Crown. She held a glowing orb aloft in her right hand, her expression solemn and dignified.
Before her was a huge sacrificial altar, on which were placed all kinds of offerings.
Most of the surrounding tribe members were kneeling on the ground, kowtowing toward the altar.
Only one tall and exceptionally burly warrior was half-kneeling in front of the Saintess, his hands clasped and held level above his head, waiting for her to bestow the Blood Crystal.
Apparently, the Saintess’s status within the tribe was quite high.
’So this is what the Moon Sacrifice Ceremony was like?’
It was completely different from Xiao Chen’s own two experiences with it.
He carefully observed the Saintess’s expression in the mural but couldn’t see any sign of pain.
’I wonder if she really felt no pain, or if the artist simply took some creative liberties.’
In the tomb chamber, a large number of funerary objects were placed in an orderly fashion.
Hundreds of simple, ancient-looking candelabras were scattered in a well-arranged pattern throughout the entire tomb chamber.
The candelabras were cast entirely from bronze, their surfaces engraved with exquisite patterns.
Thanks to the miniature Spirit Gathering Arrays interspersed within the patterns, a small cluster of orange-red Spiritual Fire still burned within them, brightly illuminating the surroundings.
In addition, scattered about were Bone Flutes covered in runes, necklaces strung with the fangs of unknown beasts, and scepters inlaid with gemstones—among other unique artifacts.
The closer these items were to the center of the tomb chamber, the more exquisite their workmanship became.
"Hmm?"
Xiao Chen reached out to pick up a Beast Tooth Necklace, but with just a slight exertion of force, he crushed the Beast Fangs to ash.
He then tried to grab a nearby gemstone.
As a result, though the Gemstone was fine, the scepter instantly broke into a dozen pieces.
THUD!
Xiao Chen tossed the fist-sized gemstone onto the ground.
Although it had been meticulously carved, the Spiritual Qi within the Gemstone had completely drained away.
To most Cultivators, including him, gems and jade without Spiritual Qi were no different from scrap metal.
In the very center of the tomb chamber rested an exquisite coffin.
It was carved from a single piece of lustrous black stone, over thirty feet long and seven feet wide.
The surface of the coffin was covered with complex and mysterious Witch Talismans and patterns of various birds and beasts.
Looking closely, one could still see a faint Profound Light flowing within the stone.
’Sigh... Where’s the Witchcraft Artifact?’
Xiao Chen scanned his surroundings and finally, on one side of the tomb chamber, he saw a small niche in the wall.
He hurried forward and took a closer look, only to see a piece of Beast Hide of unknown origin lying quietly in the niche.
The surface of the Beast Hide was covered in mottled marks, but one could still clearly identify the dark red Witch Talismans drawn on it with Witch Blood.