Chapter 111: Untitled (3)
Chen Yuan said anxiously, "You, what did you do to him?"
Song Yuansi seemed to be deep in thought. He spread his hands and revealed an innocent smile. "Looks like you don't know him that well."
After saying that, his expression was serious. "You think too highly of me. We're both in the Noble Realm. What can I do to him? I can't even force him to stay."
"You're both… in the Noble Realm?!"
After sending Song Yuansi off.
Elder Xu and Chen Yuan were speechless for a moment.
Chen Yuan knew that Lin Yan was powerful, but it was only two months ago. It was already very unbelievable for him to be comparable to the Tough Realm.
…..
But now, in just two months, Lin Yan had been reborn and could fight against a Noble Realm expert?
It was simply magical!
There was a long silence.
Suddenly, Elder Xu said, "Little Yuan'er, do you know Little Lin's birthday and how many relatives he has?"
Chen Yuan:"…"
Song Yuansi walked out of the tent with a thoughtful expression.
A handsome young man in his late twenties was waiting outside the door. He walked over and bowed respectfully. "Father."
"Yes." Song Yuansi nodded. "Have you sent the two good-for-nothings back?"
"I've already warned All Cheng and All Ming. I hope Father can let them off this time."
Song Yuansi sighed and said, "All Yu passed away early. I've neglected to discipline them… As their elder brother, you have to take responsibility in the next few days and discipline the two of them severely!"
A hint of helplessness flashed in the young man's eyes. "Yes."
He followed behind Song Yuansi and asked, "Father, is that person really so powerful?"
"My feeling is not wrong. When that person received my casual attack, we were evenly matched. This has already exceeded the upper limit of most people in the Tough Realm. If he goes all out, he should have the strength of the Noble Realm."
A trace of shock flashed in the young man's eyes. That guy was not even 20 years old, but he had the strength of the Noble Realm?
The young man asked again, "Have you investigated that person's background?"
Song Yuansi didn't answer the question. "Lady Xu said that this is a son of the Chen family, Chen Yuan's cousin. His name is Chen Qingsong."
"Father thinks she's lying to you?"
"It must be a lie. If the Chen family really had such a genius, they would have established their own faction long ago. Why would they rely on our family?
"Besides, I saw that Chen Yuan was emotional when she mentioned that young man. It didn't seem like she was talking about her cousin."
A trace of jealousy and sadness flashed across the young man's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it. "Then what do you think we should do, Father?"
"What can we do?" Song Yuansi said helplessly. "He's such a young genius and his identity is mysterious. Naturally, we can't easily make enemies.
"That person deliberately bypassed the two of them and left a finger mark on their backs. It was a warning and also a show of goodwill, hoping to coexist peacefully with us.
"As for us, we naturally have to provide for Lady Xu and that little girl and serve them well. We don't have any grudges with him. We naturally have to be on good terms."
The young man nodded and said, "I understand. Then the Void Fist Sect…"
Although this person did not hurt the Song family, he had killed several disciples in the Void Fist Sect. The master of the Void Fist Sect did not care about his disciples, but he cared about his face. He had already asked them to find the murderer.
Song Yuansi said, "Let's tell the truth about the rest, but don't mention Lady Xu and her little granddaughter. The Void Fist Sect is domineering and has many enemies. If we add a little fuel to the fire, it's very easy for them to associate it with their enemies."
"Understood."
Song Yuansi's eyes flickered as he muttered to himself, "Who could nurture such a young monstrous genius…"
Chapter 112: Palace on the Cliff
The poisonous fog entered his lungs through his nose and turned into heat that surged into his arm. Only then did Lin Yan feel the tearing pain inside and outside his arm gradually fade. It was covered by layers of heat and recovered.
Clenching his fists, he found that the force of the Noble Realm was even more terrifying than he had imagined.
If the force of the Tough Realm was like putting on a thick layer of armor, his defense would increase greatly.
The Noble Realm turned the force into an armor-piercing arrow with a sharp drill. Its quality and invasiveness far exceeded the force of the Tough Realm, and it could easily penetrate the defense of the Tough Realm force.
If not for the fact that Lin Yan's strength far exceeded that of an ordinary Tough Realm expert by several times, which was equivalent to stacking multiple layers of armor, he would have lost an arm on the spot.
''Therefore, with my current strength, I can barely withstand an attack from a Noble Realm cultivator, but I'm not a match for a Noble Realm cultivator. Unless I unleash the Thousand Pound Break at the level of mutual destruction, I can't pose a fatal threat to a Noble Realm cultivator. Of course, this is only if I hit him…"
Lin Yan waved his arm and completely recovered.
…..
He stood up and looked around.
A dark green fog enveloped the forest. Everything was gray and dead. The sky was covered, and light could only enter weakly, causing the dead trees and rocks to become blurry.
There was a deep silence around him. On the withered tree trunk, only sporadic moss could survive. It was slippery and moist.
The dead wood in the distance gradually disappeared in the green fog, as if it was slowly devoured by an invisible giant.
The entire poisonous fog world was immersed in darkness. It was sinister, and terrifying.
A chill ran down Lin Yan's spine. Compared to the previous mountain, the area covered by the poisonous fog was like a lake to a pond. It was simply like… a deathly hell in a normal world.
"Blindly exploring is too much of a waste of time. Just like before, the denser the poisonous fog, the more clues I can find."
Relying on the special effect of Poison Transformation, he could distinguish the subtle difference in the concentration of the poisonous fog just by sniffing.
Along the way, every hundred steps, Lin Yan chose a dead tree or rock and scratched out a white dent as a mark.
As he went deeper into the poisonous fog, all the sounds faded. Only his footsteps and the occasional sound of breaking branches could be heard.
Along the way, he found a few places with extremely dense poisonous fog, but they were all narrow cracks in the ground or mountains. He could not squeeze in at all.
He could only continue searching deeper.
After an unknown distance, the poisonous fog became thicker and thicker. Lin Yan suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned to look between a few withered branches.
"This is…"
He carefully stepped forward. In the empty space between the withered branches, a huge limestone that was about half the height of a person stood in the middle of the wet mud.
The limestone was stained with blood and knife marks everywhere. There were also rotting and smelly internal organs scattered on it.
Lin Yan picked up a dead branch and flipped through the internal organs. There were intestines and livers, as if they belonged to a cow or some creature.
There were some teeth marks, but it only bit them and didn't eat them.
His gaze darkened. Other than the bloodstains, there were also many sharp scratches on the limestone. Many scattered gravel fell around.
It was similar to the scratches he had seen on the wall of the other poisonous fog mountain.
He turned around.
"These are…"
There was a pool of half-dried transparent mucus in the withered grass behind the limestone. Lin Yan used the dead branch to stir it and pull it out. A few threads of half-transparent green mucus were pulled out. It was very disgusting.
In the mucus, there were also a few green hard things that looked like egg shells, which were pulled up with the mucus.
Lin Yan subconsciously recalled the knife arm he had glimpsed back then.
"Could this be the mucus secreted by that creature?"
After throwing down the withered branch, Lin Yan became even more careful.
Walking through the silent withered forest, he felt like he was walking through the ruins of the dead.
After an unknown period of time, the concentration of the surrounding poisonous fog suddenly became stronger.
Lin Yan was energized. There should be a large gap near such a dense poisonous fog. Perhaps it was the same as the poisonous fog mountain last time and could allow people to enter.
He sped up a little.
Suddenly, a trace of shock flashed across Lin Yan's eyes. He hurriedly stepped on the ground and made a loud sound, immediately slowing down and stopping.
A bottomless cliff suddenly appeared in front of him. If not for his quick reaction, he would have jumped in just now.
"No, that's not right. This isn't a cliff…"
He was clearly descending. The altitude was getting lower and lower, and he was surrounded by towering mountains.
"This is… a crack in the ground!"
Lin Yan's breathing suddenly tightened. The crack in front of him was clearly an extremely wide and bottomless crack left behind after the ground was forcefully torn apart!
The green fog filled the air. He could not see how far the opposite shore was at all. He looked left and right. The crack in the ground extended into the green fog in the distance. It was blurry, as if it had cut open the boundary of the earth.
Looking down, the crack in the ground was unfathomably dark.
On both sides were steep cliffs that stretched for an unknown length. The rugged cliffs were filled with traces of rock formations being torn apart.
Waves of turbulent airflow floated up, blowing the green fog endlessly from the bottomless abyss. It emitted a whistling sound, as if the ground had opened its mouth and was roaring crazily.
It was bottomless, and it was unknown how deep it spread down.
Lin Yan couldn't help but recall the scene he had seen in the spiritual illusion. The old monk staggered forward with a stone coffin on his back and walked towards an endless abyss.
"Where exactly does this place lead to?"
Due to the existence of the airflow, the poisonous fog in the abyss was thin and his vision was clear.
Lin Yan looked down carefully. Suddenly, his gaze was attracted by a dark red color hundreds of feet deep on the cliff below.
''That's…"
Lin Yan took a closer look. The dark red block was in a triangular shape, leaning against the rock wall.
There seemed to be a rise on it. Because it was very far away, it looked only the size of a thumb. However, it was obvious that it was not a mineral vein or a rock stratum, but an artificial creation.
Looking left and right, the surroundings were still dead silent.
Lin Yan flexed his fingers and jumped lightly into the crack. He dropped about twenty to thirty feet and landed on a protruding rock.
He grabbed with one hand like a claw and hung his body on the rock wall as if he was grabbing tofu.
Then, he let go and let his body fall. Then, he grabbed another rock and hung again.
With his current physical fitness and strength, it was as if he was walking on flat ground below this rock wall.
Just like that, he loosened his grip and jumped onto the protruding rocks from time to time. He fell straight down the rock wall and quickly approached the dark red color.
"This is…"
As he got closer, Lin Yan recognized what it was even more clearly.
"It's actually… a roof!"
A huge roof covered in dust was embedded in the ancient rock wall!
It was completely paved with blood-red glazed tiles. It was crooked and huge, like a huge umbrella lid. Half of it was embedded in the rock wall, and the interface was covered in grayish-green moss. The other half was tilted outside the rock wall, so from afar, it looked like a triangle.
Lin Yan could not hide the shock in his heart. He loosened his grip and his body gently landed. He reached out to grab the rock wall and pulled his body, causing his feet to land firmly on the roof.
Lin Yan relaxed his wrist and gently stepped on it. With a crisp cracking sound, the palm-sized tile immediately shattered into finger-sized fragments. After countless years, the roof tiles had long become extremely fragile. If he stepped on it, a hole would probably be created.
He tightened his wrist, causing his body to lean against his arm.
It looked small from above, but standing on the roof and looking around, it felt like standing on a wide square paved with red bricks. The area was very huge.
It was a slightly concave surface. It was completely made of glazed tiles, and the corners of the four sides were hanging in the air. The golden paint had already faded.
On the eaves, there were two-person-tall and incomplete stone statues of Buddhas standing. They were solemn and relaxed.
The roof beam was carved with flying ancient patterns. Above the beam, there were two rows of vertically intertwined strange stone Buddha statues that were half the height of a person. More than half of them were broken and shattered. The craftsmanship was exquisite.
The style of these Buddha statues was different from today's. The most obvious thing was that the eyes of these Buddha statues were extremely huge. They occupied a quarter of the entire Buddha statue face. Moreover, the eyeballs in the middle were bulging as if they were staring ahead. They looked strange and had a special solemn feeling.
"With such a huge roof, could there be a palace below?"
Lin Yan grabbed with his arm and moved himself sideways. He went dozens of meters away and crossed the edge of the roof.
He looked down.
"As expected, half of the roof is crooked out of the rock wall, and most of the palace below is embedded in the rock wall!"
Chapter 113: Goddess Sculpture in the Buddhist Temple
This was already in the depths of the crack, and the humidity had increased greatly. Green water droplets hung on the surrounding rock walls. When he raised his head and looked through the clouds, the sky was high and mighty, shrinking into a narrow crack that was tightly blocked by layers of green fog.
...
The surrounding cliffs were tens of thousands of feet high, and the sky was high and wide. The wand whistled. Lin Yan hung on the high rock wall like an ant, making him look incomparably small.
Lin Yan let go of his hand and removed the wet moss on his fingers.
He aimed at a protruding gray rock thirty to forty feet below diagonally. His body swayed gently and he leaped dozens of feet into the air, landing on the rock.
Looking up, half of the dome was like a lid, casting a huge shadow. It was actually hanging in the air like a huge umbrella that covered most of the sky.
Looking down, he saw the tip of the iceberg of a hall. Outside the rock wall was a three-edged corner. It was probably caused by the uneven force between the hall and the dome when it was embedded in the rock wall.
Lin Yan bent his legs slightly and jumped high into the air, landing at the corner of the wall.
…..
He reached into the moss-covered rock wall and hung himself firmly. In front of him, the corner of the hall leaned out of the rock wall. It was about twenty feet tall and connected to the wall. They had almost grown into one.
Lin Yan climbed up the rock wall like a gecko and circled the protruding wall. He realized that the wall below was mottled and bricks had fallen. There were several fist-sized black holes.
His feet were like knives as he also kicked into the rock wall to stabilize himself. He exerted strength in his back and abdomen to prop his body up horizontally. His face was pressed against one of the fist-sized holes. He widened his eyes and looked inside.
However, the cave was too small. Coupled with the dome, the light was very dim.
Lin Yan changed two holes in a row, but he couldn't see the inside clearly. He could only tell that the space inside seemed to be wide and wasn't completely buried by mud.
He simply reached out and inserted his hand into one of the fist holes, bending it forcefully.
The wall shook and cracked. A fist-sized hole was forcefully broken off by him, turning into a long horizontal crack in the wall.
The gravel fell into the abyss. Lin Yan was about to take out a candle from his bag when he suddenly heard a faint vibration in the wall.
In the next moment, a huge pale eye suddenly came up from the crack in the long wall!
Lin Yan's breathing suddenly stopped, and his body suddenly drooped back. His feet almost let go of the rock wall and he almost fell.
The eye was extremely huge, as long as an arm. It was hidden in the dark shadows, and the whites of the eye emitted a pale cold light. The pitch-black iris in the middle was the size of an ordinary person, and the ratio was very strange. It stared straight at Lin Yan without blinking!
Lin Yan turned around and locked himself against the wall. He suddenly tightened his grip. If there was any abnormal movement in the eye, he would immediately pull the wall and climb up quickly!
However, after waiting for a long time, the eye did not move, and the iris in the middle was completely still, as if it was dead.
"No, it doesn't look like an eyeball…"
Lin Yan suppressed his shock and took a closer look. He realized that he had misunderstood.
This was not an eye at all. It was just that the crack in the wall that he had pried open happened to show the curvature of the upper and lower eyelids of an eye, so at first glance, it looked like an eye.
"Did a white stone fall inside the wall? Or something. It's just that there happens to be a black spot in the middle, so it looks like an eye."
Lin Yan took a few deep breaths. Could it be that the stone was shocked by his action of breaking the wall just now and fell down?
He transformed into a gecko again and climbed up until he reached the top of the palace wall.
This place was originally the intersection of two walls. It presented a vertical intersection and was embedded in the wall. Then, two walls extended down.
Lin Yan clasped his hands deeply on the rock wall and circulated his strength. He suddenly exerted strength in his feet and kicked the wall!
BANG!
With a crisp sound, the wall cracked. Huge wall pieces weighing more than 50 kilograms flew out. Lin Yan specially controlled the angle of the force. The wall spun in the air and flew out, throwing a smooth parabola and landing in the abyss of the crack.
After an unknown period of time, a faint echo came from the crack in the ground.
"How deep is this crack in the ground…"
Lin Yan's heart turned cold. He didn't know if throwing such a huge thing would cause other problems.
He looked down and saw a huge hole two to three meters wide in the wall. Gray smoke and dust blew out from it.
Then, a weak beam of light shone in. It was obvious that a small portion of the space inside was buried by soil, but it was generally empty.
Lin Yan lit a candle and threw it into the hole in the wall where he had seen the huge eye.
The firelight dispelled the darkness and illuminated an ancient, open palace covered in dust. All kinds of wooden and stone items were lying down, messy and dilapidated.
Lin Yan looked at the bottom and his eyes narrowed slightly. In the corner of the bottom, a humanoid statue that looked like white jade fell to the ground. Beside it was a rusty bronze lotus platform.
According to the location, its back was facing the crack in the wall that he had seen just now.
"So, it's actually the back of this sculpture that's blocking the crack in the wall and looks like an eye?"
Lin Yan didn't dare to step on the floating wall. After waiting for a while and confirming that there were no changes, he carefully climbed into the large hole.
The palace wall was tilted upside down. He had to lean back and grab the top wall to prevent himself from falling.
"Hmm? This is made of green bricks. It's not a wall. It should be the ground…"
The fire was dim. The last time he entered the underground ruins, he had to tear off his sleeves as burning materials. This time, he specially brought enough cloth soaked in kerosene.
He first climbed up the wall and broke two broken rafters. He wrapped them in oilcloth and lit them up. Then, he smashed them hard and embedded them into the cracks of the green bricks on the wall, creating two simple ceiling lights.
He turned around and looked down.
The fire finally illuminated the entire palace that had been sealed for a long time. This was indeed an incomparably majestic palace. The space was extremely wide. However, at this moment, its entire body was overturned and rotated at more than 40 to 50 degrees. It was upside down and embedded deep in the rock wall. Half of the space was filled with soil, forming a small slope.
In the place that was still empty, the tiles, oil lamps, bell drums, incense platforms, and beams were overturned and broken. They were everywhere, piled up in a messy layer and covered in thick dust. It was a ruin.
The strange thing was that there was not even a huge Buddha statue in such a huge and magnificent palace.
Lin Yan aimed at the slope formed by the soil. He jumped deep and finally stepped on solid ground.
The surrounding palace was in a mess, giving people the illusion that the entire world had turned upside down.
Lin Yan carefully walked out. He stepped through the gaps in the ruins and walked to the white jade statue first. He reached out and grabbed the white jade statue's ankle, pulling it into the rock wall.
The sculpture weighed hundreds of kilograms. After standing it up, Lin Yan could tell that it was a lifelike female sculpture!
She was completely naked and emitted a jade-like luster. Her hands were placed on her chest, and her appearance was beautiful and poignant. Her entire body was carved from a special material that was neither jade nor stone. The details were extremely realistic. When touched, it felt like human skin, but it was cold.
He turned to her back and moved up along the curve of her waist.
In the middle of her back, there was a round black spot the size of a fingernail. It was the pupil Lin Yan had seen just now. He touched it and there seemed to be a small needle mark in the middle of the black spot.
Lin Yan looked around. The surrounding oil lamps, bell drums, and the remains of the incense platform, as well as some Buddha statue carvings on the pillars, all indicated that this was a temple. Why would a naked woman's sculpture appear?
Or could it be that the atmosphere of the ancient Buddhist temples was different from now?
Unable to tell why, Lin Yan placed the white jade sculpture aside and specially turned her position so that her back was facing the wall, preparing to bring her out later.
Then, he turned around and walked to the ruins. He reached out to search them.
Oil lamps, incense platforms, bell drums, pillars…
He moved them all away. If anyone who knew ancient history saw this, they would probably be able to deduce some information. However, in Lin Yan's eyes, these could only be considered junk and could only be thrown aside.
Suddenly, a white light flashed under the layers of fallen wood debris.
Lin Yan's eyes lit up. He quickly lifted the debris and reached out to touch it.
"Another sculpture?!"
He quickly moved away all the miscellaneous items, pulled it up, and swept away the dust. It was actually another naked female sculpture!
Its material was exactly the same as the previous one, except that it was missing an arm. The other arm was folded in front of its chest, and its body was half-kneeling and bending. Its surface was covered in cracks. Its appearance was different from the statue just now, but it was still beautiful.
Lin Yan lifted the debris on the ground and quickly found an arm covered in dust. He put it back to this sculpture and was completely compatible. It was obvious that it had broken.
Lin Yan looked around and fell into deep thought. This temple palace was so magnificent that it was comparable to the Forbidden City's main hall in his previous life. Logically speaking, there should be a few huge Buddha statues as offerings.
However, after searching for so long, he did not see any remains of the Buddha statue. There were only two female sculptures of the same size as ordinary people.
Could it be that this Buddhist temple worshiped these two women's sculptures?
Unable to figure it out, he placed this woman's sculpture beside the previous sculpture and turned her back to the outside.
Then, he continued to rummage through the junk.
"Hmm? This is…
ii
Lin Yan forcefully lifted a beam that weighed hundreds of kilograms. Underneath it was a copper plaque that was mottled with rust. It was deep in the ruins.
He threw the pillar aside and reached out to brush the dust on the bronze plaque. There were three ancient words on it, like dancing dragons and snakes.
Lin Yan took a few careful glances, took out the pen and paper he carried with him, and drew the three words accurately.
From the corner of his eye, he saw the bottom of the copper plaque. His gaze immediately froze.
…..
He grabbed the copper plaque and lifted it forcefully. When he looked down, Lin Yan's eyes lit up.
Underneath the copper plaque was an incomparably huge engraving!
Lin Yan supported the bronze plaque with one hand and waved his palm with the other. A violent airflow blew away all the dust on the painting.
The carving was clear and did not collapse after a long time. Its engraving was simple, but it was very skillful. Many monks and buildings were engraved. They were all filled with Buddhist charm.
This place should have been a wall. This engraving was originally a mural carved on the wall.
Lin Yan was in high spirits. He first raised the bronze plaque and threw it out. Then, he carefully cleaned up the miscellaneous items on the carving and threw them to the small slope at the side.
"More?!"
This carving extended inwards and was buried by debris. There was actually more than one.
After cleaning up all the miscellaneous items, Lin Yan looked at the ground in excitement and shock. A total of six and a half carvings were displayed in front of him.
The half was because the remaining half was buried by the soil that poured down. Perhaps there were more carvings under the soil, but Lin Yan didn't have time to excavate them.
He pulled out another half-rotted wooden beam, wrapped it in an oilcloth, and lit it up. Then, he carefully shone it at the carving on the ground..
Chapter 114: Epic Paintings
Flames flickered as Lin Yan focused his gaze and watched carefully.
...
The first painting was a tall building with three lotus platforms on it. Three women with long hair sat upright.
They were all wearing the same kind of dress. The sculptor had even specially carved elegant hems, as if he was showing the three women's youthful looks.
As their faces were too small, Lin Yan couldn't tell what they looked like. He only instinctively felt that the two female sculptures might be among the three.
The three women had holy expressions and their eyes were filled with vivid fanaticism as they looked up at the sky.
Below the platform were densely packed bald monks in circles. There were extremely many of them, and at a rough glance, there were hundreds of them.
Those had been carved. There seemed to be countless strokes hidden outside the scene.
…..
The monks were all sitting upright. Some were kneeling, some were chanting sutras, and their expressions were filled with pity.
"Is this some kind of worship ritual?"
Lin Yan frowned and turned to the second painting.
This scene was still the same, but the three women closed their eyes and lay on the lotus platforms. Their heads were facing the middle, forming a symmetrical triangle.
The number of monks beside them decreased drastically. A few people were ringing bells, burning incense, and chanting.
However, the strange thing was that there were many suns and moons carved alternately in the sky, connecting left to right in an arc.
"The moon's shape is changing… Is this using multiple suns and moons to show the rapid passage of time?"
Lin Yan looked at the other parts outside the platform. They had all blurred into marks, as if they were representing the passage of time and the changes in the world.
Unable to understand, he continued to the third painting. Lin Yan's gaze immediately froze.
This picture had almost nothing to do with the previous two. It depicted a group of soldiers wearing armor and holding knives, spears, and crossbows, hunting a group of strange enemies.
The group of soldiers was vividly drawn, but their opponents were painted with blurry and messy strokes. It only outlined some vaguely human figures, as if they were a group of evil ghosts from the darkness and chaos.
In the middle of the scene was a soldier. He raised his hands high and excitedly picked up a treasure that looked like a bone and seemed to be glowing.
At his feet, the only enemy who had revealed his true appearance was lying on the ground with his chest cut open.
That enemy was a normal human.
However, the strange thing was that his chest was clearly cut open, but there was an extremely exaggerated smile on his face. His curved mouth was split open to the corners of his eyes.
It made Lin Yan shiver unconsciously.
Lin Yan took a deep breath and turned to the fourth painting.
Suddenly, his hand that was holding the torch paused slightly and swept towards the place where the woman's statue had been placed. What he saw made his pupils constrict violently, and a chill ran from his spine to his brain.
He clearly remembered that he had deliberately adjusted the position of the woman's sculpture so that her back was facing him and the rock wall.
But now, the complete female sculpture with its arms crossed in front of its chest had inexplicably turned around and was facing him!
He did not hear any sound at all just now!
Lin Yan held his breath and pointed the torch straight at the woman's sculpture.
She was still holding her arms. Round and full seductive curves were faintly discernible from the gaps between her arms. As the fire flickered, they seemed to be rising and falling together, emitting a fatal temptation.
No!
Lin Yan's heart almost stopped for a moment!
Her chest was really heaving!
An ominous shadow suddenly spread out from the white jade statue. In an instant, it dyed her entire chest black, as if something strange was wriggling in it.
An abnormal fluctuation immediately appeared on the statue's chest, causing the entire statue's body to twist and expand, becoming extremely terrifying.
Just as the surface of the sculpture was about to shatter, a foot that was like an ax pierced through the air with a bang. With endless strength, it directly kicked the sculpture's chest!
Bang!
A huge force erupted, like a prehistoric beast charging forward. The surface of the sculpture immediately cracked layer by layer.
Lin Yan seemed to see a sticky and slippery black shadow inside wailing in pain.
However, in an instant, it was hit by a huge force and flew into the air along with the entire statue. It directly smashed through the fragile wall of the palace and flew far out of the palace, falling into the endless abyss.
After Lin Yan kicked it, his figure flashed and he stood by the wall that he had broken through and looked out.
Clouds and smoke swirled around, making it impossible to see the bottom. There were steep stone walls all around, and the woman's sculpture exploded into countless fragments in the air.
However, among them, there were actually four black shadows the size of babies. They were clearly living creatures. They jumped out of the statue's body and were covered in disgusting half-transparent mucus. They let out sharp cries like babies and echoed back and forth in the forest.
They bared their fangs and brandished their claws, desperately trying to grab something. In the blink of an eye, they fell into the abyss.
"It looks like a kind of… worm…"
A trace of coldness flashed across Lin Yan's eyes. He raised his foot, and his shoes were actually stained with a layer of wet mucus. As he raised his foot, he pulled out half-transparent threads.
"What the hell is this…"
Lin Yan flashed back and observed the other woman's sculpture from head to toe. He directly erupted with strength and slashed his palm like a knife at the sculpture's abdomen.
BANG!
The woman's sculpture was instantly cut into two by him. The incision was completely white jade. There were no black spots or anything else.
Lin Yan was still worried. He slashed repeatedly and cut the woman's sculpture into seven to eight pieces. After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he placed it aside.
He looked at the surrounding ruins again. In the mural just now, there were three women lying on the high platform, but here, there were only two sculptures.
His eyes flickered for a moment, but he gave up on searching in the ruins. The most important thing now was to quickly finish looking at these murals.
He had a feeling that the howls of those monsters might attract something bad.
He immediately walked quickly to the side of the carving.
He had unleashed his strength just now and directly crushed the ground. Fortunately, he had only destroyed the third carving that he had already finished reading. He hurriedly leaned the torch against the fourth painting.
The painting returned to the high platform. The three women were still lying on the lotus platform with their eyes closed.
Beside them, a huge camp was set up. Dozens of monks were busy inside. In the middle of the camp, a huge pot was boiling. Two muscular monks were carrying a basket and adding things to the pot.
Lin Yan took a closer look and froze. The basket was filled with the bone-like treasure he had seen in the previous painting.
Beside the three women, there was a monk holding a bowl of soup and feeding them.
"So, in the third painting, they hunted that kind of evil spirit and obtained this bone to boil it into soup and feed it to these three women?"
Lin Yan's heart trembled. These pictures looked very familiar, making him subconsciously think of the unconscious Xiaozhi and the spirit marrow dug out of Li Qu's chest…
In the sky, the sun and the moon were still alternating. It was as if time was passing quickly.
The fifth painting was also a high platform, but when Lin Yan saw it this time, he subconsciously held his breath.
It was the same high lotus platform, but there was a strange change in the three women.
The sculptor used a cold and straight line to carve the lower half of the three women's bodies extremely stiffly, making it obvious that there were strange changes to their bodies.
If Lin Yan hadn't seen the two female sculptures just now, he might not have guessed what this change meant.
However, at this moment, he was almost instantly certain that the lower half of the three women's bodies… had turned into jade!
He subconsciously glanced at the woman's sculpture that he had divided into eight pieces.
Therefore, it was very likely that this woman's sculpture was not a sculpture at all, but a real person. It had undergone a strange change and turned into a jade sculpture?!
No wonder they were naked. It was not that their clothes were not sculpted, but that their bodies had been petrified!
On the picture, one of the three women's calves were only partially stiff, but one started from their waists and abdomens, indicating that the speed at which the three of them were petrified was different.
Lin Yan quickly walked to the side and looked at the sixth painting.
In this painting, there were two women who had been completely petrified. One of them had her hands clasped together, and the other had her arms crossed. They were exactly the same as the two sculptures he had discovered!
It matched!
Looking at the third woman, Lin Yan's gaze froze again.
The third woman's appearance could not be seen at all. She was drawn in a blurry humanoid style and was enveloped in a layer of blurry shadows. She was exactly the same as… the group of evil ghosts that the soldiers had hunted in the third picture!
"Among the three of them, one mutated into that kind of evil spirit? No wonder I couldn't find the third sculpture…"
Beside the third woman, there were seven or eight soldiers who looked the same as those in the third painting. They held sabers and approached her.
…..
The surrounding monks sat upright again, their faces filled with pity and pain, as if they were chanting scriptures.
Lin Yan took a deep breath and looked at the last half.
The half of the painting was still dominated by the high platform, but the three women on the high platform had disappeared, leaving only three empty lotus platforms.
Below the high platform, there were densely packed men and women with holy expressions. They filled the spiraling mountain path and walked towards the high platform step by step.
The rest of it was hidden in the mud and dust, unable to be seen clearly.
"Are these three women… just the beginning?!"
Lin Yan couldn't help but look shocked..
Chapter 115: Cunning Giant Tentacle Worm
Lin Yan reached into the bag at his waist and took out a bundle of hemp rope. He had specially brought it with him so that he could move some of the things he had discovered out of the ruins.
...
He walked to the woman's statue that had been dismantled into seven or eight pieces and pulled the rope. He tied them one by one into a string and carried them with one hand. The weight was quite suitable.
He did not bring any tools like shovels, so it was inconvenient for him to dig up the piled soil. Coupled with the roar of the monster in the statue just now, he planned to leave first.
Just as he was pulling the string of statue pieces, he suddenly saw the carvings on the ground from the corner of his eye. His hand suddenly stopped.
In the third painting that depicted the battlefield, the strange person who was lying at the soldier's feet with his chest cut open and his mouth grinning to the corners of his eyes was gone!
It was literally gone.
On the entire engraving, the location of the strange smiling man had turned smooth. It was empty, as if the strange man Lin Yan had seen previously was an illusion!
…..
Lin Yan's scalp went numb. The carving was dead. How could it suddenly disappear?
Could he have seen it wrongly? Was he hallucinating?
Lin Yan's gaze was like lightning as he scanned the other carvings. Suddenly, his gaze focused and his heart raced.
On the half of the seventh painting, a figure suddenly appeared above one of the three originally empty lotus platforms. It was the strange person with a strange smile!
Its posture changed from lying down to floating in midair. It had a terrifying strange smile and a strange mouth. It was ferocious and strange as it faced Lin Yan, as if it was about to break out of the wall in the next second.
Lin Yan subconsciously clenched his fists and stared at the strange person. "Could it be that it's not dead at all? Did it run over by itself?"
This strange smiling man's expression was too terrifying. Unknowingly, many scenes from horror fictions appeared in Lin Yan's mind.
"No, that's not right…"
Lin Yan forcefully suppressed the instinctive fear in his heart and isolated all kinds of terrifying associations. He only used pure rational logic to think.
"I can't think about ghosts. Then it can only be… something is messing with me!"
Lin Yan's mind raced. He threw away the rope in his hand and formed claws with his hands. He suddenly grabbed a thick red wooden beam and shouted softly.
The beam that weighed hundreds of kilograms was instantly lifted by him. Smoke and dust scattered in all directions, and various miscellaneous items fell chaotically. The entire ruins-like palace shook slightly.
"How pretentious!"
Lin Yan's eyes were filled with killing intent. He treated the huge beam pillar as a huge rod and swung it fiercely at the seventh half-exposed carving!
Excluding ghosts and gods, there was only one possibility. Something had moved the strange smiley man from the third to the seventh painting!
The pillar carried a huge force and lifted countless clouds of dust, landing on the painting.
Lin Yan's wrist vibrated, and a glint flashed across his eyes as he felt the backlash.
This feeling did not feel like solid ground at all. The beam directly sank into the painting, which meant that the back of the painting was hollow!
There was indeed something up to no good!
The pillar smashed deeply into the painting, and he could vaguely see a deep flat cave behind it, but he did not hit anything.
Then, he recalled that the strange smiling man had come up from the third painting…
It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck Lin Yan's mind. "Not good, it's a diversion!"
The moment his thoughts fell, there was a loud bang and the third painting suddenly exploded.
Lin Yan only had time to raise the beam in his hand to his chest before a huge black shadow suddenly rushed out of the third painting and slammed into the beam in his chest like a galloping horse.
BANG!
Like the sound of metal clashing, a huge force attacked. Lin Yan subconsciously took a step back, and the ground under his feet instantly cracked.
"I failed to block the attack…"
Lin Yan felt a cold pain in his chest. Several extremely thin and sharp objects pierced through the beam into his chest!
BANG!
A huge force surged into his right leg and stepped on the beam in front of him with a thousand pounds of force. The beam broke with a sound and was suddenly sent flying. The strange black shadow opposite him was also sent flying by his foot.
Lin Yan took two steps back and brushed past his chest. The layer of scale armor did not have any blocking effect and was directly pierced through.
Blood gushed out of four holes the size of cups, dyeing the clothes on his chest scarlet.
He felt a lingering fear. If not for the pillar protecting him, he would have been pierced through the chest or even torn apart.
Taking a deep breath of the poisonous fog, Lin Yan's breathing froze slightly.
In front of him was an extremely strange creature. It was the size of a millstone and was covered in a green-black chitin carapace. It had a symmetrical spindle-shaped structure, like a chrysalis that had been magnified countless times.
Its shell was smooth and suffused with a cold luster. Its surface was filled with countless hard and protruding barbs. It did not look like a living creature at all.
However, in front of it were four extremely thick tentacles. The green muscles on them squirmed like octopus legs.
At the tip of each tentacle was a slightly bent bone spike as thick as a baby's arm. It was nearly a meter long and extremely sharp. They had pierced through the beam and stabbed into Lin Yan's chest.
At this moment, the tip of the bone spike was dyed red. As the tentacles squirmed, they formed a square formation and kept moving, aiming at Lin Yan.
Lin Yan's heart raced. This creature was too strange. He couldn't find its head anywhere. Even at the roots of the four tentacles, there was only a shell without any mouth or other body parts.
It was as if four tentacles had grown out of thin air on an iron shell.
Suddenly, one of the strange creature's tentacles flicked. The bone spike shot out like bows and arrows, stabbing straight at Lin Yan's face.
However, this speed was not fast compared to Lin Yan. He dodged to the side and not only did he dodge the bone spike, but he also retreated at the same speed of the bone spike. He reached out and grabbed the bone spike.
It felt cold and dangerous to the touch. It was powerful, but it was weaker than him!
The monster immediately sensed danger and suddenly retracted its tentacles.
However, Lin Yan's hand was like an iron hoop as he grabbed the bone spike firmly. The monster could not retract it at all.
Hence, its other three tentacles shot out crazily, piercing through the air and shooting at Lin Yan from three directions.
Lin Yan was unmoved. He firmly grabbed the bone spike in his hand and waved it as a weapon, easily knocking away the other three bone spikes.
Then, a cold glint flashed in his eyes. He grabbed the root of the bone spike with both hands and his blood energy surged. The veins on his arms bulged as he shouted with brute force.
Pa!
The bone spike was forcefully severed by him!
"Hehehe…"
The monster was clearly in pain. Its entire body actually trembled, and an extremely sharp strange cry came from inside, as if two blades were rubbing against each other.
Lin Yan even saw several irregular cracks on the surface of the monster's body before they were sealed again.
"In other words, there's still a structure inside…"
He would take advantage of its weakness to take its life!
Lin Yan's figure was like lightning. Relying on his extremely fast speed, he instantly arrived behind the monster without tentacles. He raised the bone spike in his hand and stabbed down.
Suddenly, the monster's miserable cries and trembling stopped.
Two terrifying saber beams suddenly lit up, like a hunter who had been waiting for a long time. They shot out straight at Lin Yan's head!
Lin Yan's hair stood on end. His heart almost stopped for a moment. He had fallen into another trap!
However, his reaction was abnormally fast. The blood energy in his entire body was instantly stretched to the limit, and his feet almost shattered the entire ground. He forcefully stopped his movements and took a step back.
"Hiss!"
His chest felt bone-chilling.
Lin Yan was drenched in sweat. This retreat prevented him from being struck in the head, but there were two crossed knife marks on his chest that were so deep that his bones could be seen. His flesh was rolled up, and one could vaguely see his internal organs..