The Master of Beasts

Chapter 810 261_2

Chen Jiuge looked solemnly at the Yellow Spring Eye in the sky, noticing that the flow of Yellow Spring Water seemed to have increased in volume and darkened in color.

"Alright, let's go and take a look together when the time comes!"

"No, someone must stay at the base, or else accidents could easily happen!" Song Bei shook his head and said.

The scene paused briefly before Song Bei took the initiative to speak: "I'll stay. I've had some conflicts with people from the Seven Lights Tribe, and they might come looking for trouble."

"I'll also stay. I'm not interested in the Yellow Springs Tomb." Feng Cang volunteered.

"Alright, then the two of you will stay. I'll leave Aksu and Akam here to assist you!" Chen Jiuge nodded.

.........

Three days quickly passed.

Although there were restrictions in place, the fierce beasts outside could still enter. It was unclear how the restrictions were identifying them.

Because of these fierce beasts, food wasn't a problem anymore, which was somewhat good news. After all, not every tribe had enough food, especially those from smaller settlements, for whom food was precious.

"Are you ready?"

"Ready!" Ji Xing's face showed a hint of excitement, finally about to explore the ruins.

"Let's go!"

Jialouluo, Bai Li, and Meng Ze did not travel with Chen Jiuge and the others but lingered around the edges of the group.

"Sir, could it be dangerous for us to bring so few people?" Ji Xing asked worriedly, seeing the team of less than thirty people.

"It's enough. If we can't safely exit the ruins, having more people won't make a difference!" Chen Jiuge replied indifferently.

"You're right, sir!"

Except for the three Daluo, the twenty others were all tribal warriors, and there wasn't a single loose cultivator.

"Is this the place?"

Chen Jiuge looked at the seven stone pillars in front of him, feeling something strange.

It wasn't that the place was too ordinary, but rather too peculiar. The shapes of these seven stone pillars were very unique.

Overall, they seemed like ordinary stone pillars, but their surfaces were engraved with numerous reliefs, with very bizarre designs.

Cats with seven heads, monkeys with eight arms, birds with nine claws, and some other strange and unusual images of creatures.

Moreover, if these seven stone pillars were aligned in a straight line, they seemed to form the Big Dipper!

"The Big Dipper! Are you kidding me, how can there be a Big Dipper in the Heavenly Gift Realm?" Chen Jiuge said gloomily.

In the nighttime of the Heavenly Gift Realm, there were no stars in the sky!

"Not only the Big Dipper, but even though I have been in the Demon Domain for a long time, I once roamed the True Realm."

"This is an array!"

"However, because the Heavenly Gift Realm lacks the Big Dipper, this array cannot connect to star power, which makes it look so ordinary."

"But these reliefs are not plain either."

"Hmm, many must have been here, but none found the entrance. So where is the entrance?" Chen Jiuge didn't know much about arrays, and the relic map given by Ji Xing only marked the location without any information about the array.

"Sir, I might know a bit!" Ji Xing said cautiously.

"You know?" Chen Jiuge was surprised.

"Didn't you accidentally acquire the relic map? How come you know about this array?" Chen Jiuge said, with a hint of a smile.

Ji Xing scratched his head a bit embarrassedly and said, "When I got the relic map, I also researched many ancient texts and gathered some information."

"Alright then, you may proceed!"

"Sir, please pardon my humble skill!"

Ji Xing's face showed a shock, and his eyes flickered with a tinge of blue light—no, this should be starlight!

The faint blue light landed on the stone pillars, which also emitted corresponding halos in response. The rough reliefs on them began to peel off, moving like living things on the ground.

However, the way these reliefs moved was strange. After a few steps, they suddenly stopped again, then directly broke apart, revealing the blue gemstones at their core.

"Buzz buzz buzz"

The stone pillar sank, throwing the soil on the ground into the air, and a massive stone gate appeared on the surface.

"Is this the entrance?"

"Sir, this is the place. But a token is still needed!"

Ji Xing took out a gemstone shaped like a crescent moon and pressed it into the stone gate's groove.

"Creak"

The stone gate slowly opened, revealing a pitch-black passage.

"You actually......."

"Boom"

Ji Xing laughed loudly, "Hahaha, Chen Jiuge, you are really arrogant. Thank you for bringing me here, goodbye!"

The stone gate slowly trembled, seeming to want to close on its own.

"How ignorant!" Chen Jiuge shook his head slightly and said to Ku Tou, "Do it!"

"Yes, sir!"

The Yellow Springs Tomb had been in the Heavenly Gift Realm for so long, the natives surely knew how to open it. Though they did not enter as openly as Ji Xing, there were ways.

"Sizzle"

Warm blood continued to drip from the palm, and Ku Tou muttered some strange spells with his mouth. Then the stone gate stopped closing and even began to open on its own.

"Let's go, and see what's inside that could make a Golden Immortal Loose Cultivator wait so long, even at the risk of life, to come here."

........

Walking on the ground that emitted a faint glow, Ji Xing shook off the slightly sticky liquid from his soles, his face showing a hint of confusion: "It's a bit different from what the ancestors said."

"Shouldn't this be a vast parade ground? And wasn't there supposed to be only one secret storage beside it, with the area littered with the corpses of Yellow Springs fierce beasts?"

"Why is the ground covered with this sticky liquid?"

"Drip drip drip"

"What sound is that!"

Ji Xing suddenly turned his head, and his body inflated a bit, with some small patterns appearing on the surface, obviously a native ability of Ku Tou and the others.

"Phew, you scared me. Turns out it's just dripping water!"

"Wait, dripping water? How is there dripping water here!"

"Hiss hiss hiss"

Looking up, a huge bloody maw descended from the sky.

"Slash"

Ripping open the body of the creature that had suddenly swallowed him, Ji Xing wiped the liquid off his face and shook his hand: "Strange, how are there still living beings here!"

"I should have waited a bit longer."

"Ah phooey, wait for what!" Ji Xing spat harshly.

"Forget it, I'll keep going and see!"

"Thud thud thud"

Just stepping out of the sticky passage, Ji Xing heard heavy footsteps.

"What sound is that?"

"Wait, is this the parade ground?"

The flat ground was paved with huge bluestone slabs, but all of these slabs showed numerous cracks on their surfaces.

A lot of humanoid statues were scattered around the parade ground, with deep pits visible now and then.

"Creak"

Accidentally crushing a broken hand under his foot, Ji Xing frowned: "Strange, is this really the site of the last battle between the Yellow Springs fierce beasts and ancient humans? Doesn't really seem like it!"

These shattered bluestones were just ordinary rocks; at most, they contained some spiritual energy and were slightly more durable.

The pits on the ground looked deep, but he could easily cause more destruction with just one punch.

"Old fool, didn't you set me up!"

"Boom"

In an upside-down grab, dodging the sneak attack from behind, Ji Xing looked in shock at the humanoid creature behind him.

"What is this? A combination of fierce beasts and humans?"

Four sturdy arms naturally hung down, two bull horns grew on its head, but its face took on a fox-like appearance, with a white tail swaying gently at its back and sharp claws on its feet deeply embedded in the ground.

"This power feels off!"

When the humanoid creature tried to sneak attack, Ji Xing felt a moment of dread, believing that a hit would inflict serious injury at least, but after avoiding it, the punch landed making only a shallow dent on the ground.

"Boom"

A punch smashed into the ground, leaving a shallow fist mark in Ji Xing's eye.

"What's going on?"

"Clearly, I haven't felt any restrictions, so why does the power seem restrained?"

"Roar!"

A sharp roar echoed as the humanoid creature once again launched an attack on Ji Xing.

Meanwhile, Chen Jiuge and the others also formally entered the Yellow Springs Tomb.

"The smell of decay!" Meng Ze took a deep breath and said.

"Whisper"

Bai Li blew a wisp of white breath, which circulated in the passage before returning to Bai Li's mouth.

"There are living things, but they're very weak, only comparable to a One Flower Heavenly Immortal at most!"

"Additionally, there seems to be a restriction here; however, I can't identify it as it's too strong and completely undetectable!"

"Everyone, be careful!"

"I have a feeling it won't be this simple!" Chen Jiuge warned.

"What's there to be afraid of, let me lead the way!" Jialouluo said, taking the lead.