Free Web NovelChapter 1229: Chapter 368: What an Old Emperor, What a Xuanyuan Chong!
What’s worse is that the surrounding death energy began to erode their protective spiritual power, Zhou Qing could even feel the blood qi within his body faintly agitating.
As if drawn by some invisible force, nearly breaking out of his body.
"Is it still no good?" Sikong Yan’s voice was low, with blood light surging around him, forcibly suppressing the erosion of the death energy.
Zhou Qing did not respond, his entire heart and spirit immersed in analyzing the array.
Suddenly, his pupils contracted—a rune appeared with an extremely subtle delay at a node in the southeastern corner of the array.
This delay wasn’t due to a flaw in the array itself, but because the spiritual power flowing here was too vast, causing a momentary gap in the rune’s connection!
"This is it!"
He flashed and quickly moved to the southeastern corner.
At the same time, his heart spun rapidly, tens of thousands of spirit seals suddenly deviating from their original trajectory, converging towards his fingertips like a torrent.
These spirit seals self-arranged in mid-air, eventually forming a sharp conical array.
At the tip of the array, the spirit seals rotated at high speed, each one precisely fitting into the gap of the previous one’s trajectory.
Making the entire cone structure seamless and flawless. freёwebnovel.com
With a thought, Zhou Qing began to gradually push the array forward, its tip directly pointed at the delayed node.
"Buzz—"
The moment the spirit seal cone contacted the array, the void trembled.
The grand array seemed to sense the threat, runes flashing madly, attempting to repair the gap.
However, Zhou Qing’s spirit seal array was like the most precise key, rotating and infiltrating at just the right frequency, forcibly stalling the array’s rhythm!
"It’s working!" Sikong Yan’s eyes gleamed, immediately increasing his spiritual power output.
Forming a special blood curtain around Zhou Qing, trying to buy as much time as possible.
Zhou Qing was fully focused, not daring to relax even a bit.
Every inch the spirit seal array advanced needed to adjust thousands of times in angle and force, any deviation and the effort would be wasted.
Sweat dripped down Zhou Qing’s temples, soaking his collar, but his gaze grew sharper, more calm.
Thus, another half incense stick’s time passed.
"Crack—"
A subtle cracking sound abruptly echoed in the deathly silent space, though as light as a mosquito, it made Zhou Qing and Sikong Yan’s pupils simultaneously contract.
The two exchanged a glance, both seeing suppressed elation in each other’s eyes.
Zhou Qing’s fingertips trembled slightly, feeling the feedback from the spirit seal array.
Under the gaze of his Pupil of Truth, he could clearly see the array’s tip had completely pierced through the delayed node.
The grand array’s originally seamless flow of spiritual power was now like gears jammed, with an obvious disruption in rhythm.
"It’s done!" Sikong Yan uttered in a low call, his voice laced with irrepressible excitement.
The subtle crack in the array barrier spread like a cobweb, emitting teeth-gritting "crack" sounds.
The edges of the crack flickered with unstable spiritual light, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting, as if struggling to repair itself.
But as Zhou Qing continued to drive the spirit seals, the crack finally stabilized and expanded to about three feet wide.
"Go!"
Zhou Qing made a swift decision, his body moving like a fish, first to pass through the crack.
Sikong Yan followed closely behind, not forgetting to send out a scarlet spiritual light to temporarily slow the crack’s closing speed.
The moment he passed through the crack, Zhou Qing felt the pressure around him suddenly decrease.
He immediately turned back, his fingers fluttering like butterflies, dozens of special positioning spirit seals shooting from his sleeve, accurately embedding into the surrounding array structure near the crack.
These spirit seals flickered with a faint blue light, constructing a temporary spiritual power channel at the crack’s edge.
Only then did they cautiously survey the scene inside the array.
What appeared before them was a massive underground tomb.
The dome soared into the darkness, ancient runes engraved on all walls, emitting a dim green light, illuminating the space like a ghost realm.
But the most horrifying sight was that the ground wasn’t paved with stone slabs, but was made from countless corpses!
These corpses wore various luxurious clothes, some had turned to eerie white bones, while others maintained their form before death, their skin pale as paper, eyes wide open.
More had turned into shriveled mummies, their hollow eye sockets seemingly still staring at the intruders.
"This is..." Zhou Qing’s pupils contracted, his throat tightening uncontrollably.
Sikong Yan squatted down, carefully inspecting the closest corpse.
This corpse was relatively well-preserved, its face faintly recognizable as a resolute-looking middle-aged man.
Sikong Yan’s brow furrowed deeper, his face suddenly changed: "This person... seems to be Pei Xunji, the first group of prodigies to take the mysterious pills 3,000 years ago, the master of Xuanyin Cave!"
Zhou Qing was taken aback: "Figures from 3,000 years ago? You know him?"
"I wasn’t even born then." Sikong Yan shook his head solemnly, his fingers lightly brushing a broken jade plaque on the corpse’s waist.
"But I have seen records related to this in a book from the Royal Family’s secret library. Look at the patterns on this jade plaque, it’s the mark of Xuanyin Cave."
With that, he turned to another well-preserved female corpse.
This corpse wore a simple white gown, although shrunken, still exhibited signs of a stunning beauty before death.
After careful inspection, Sikong Yan’s voice became heavier: "Indeed, this was Lin Qingshuang, ’Immortal of Cold Moon’, who also failed to breakthrough after taking the mysterious pill 2,500 years ago, a direct disciple of the Sect Leader of Cold Moon Valley back then."
Zhou Qing keenly noticed something: "Is this different from what you saw last time you came?"
