Chapter 1282 – Land of Bones
Of course, this entire possibility was dependent on whether Stone PaG.o.da’s story was correct. If not, everything would be just a daydream. So even though the entire prospect was extremely alluring, Qin Yu quickly wiped away his drool and forced himself to calm down. He sucked in a deep breath and said, “I am sorry for all this Miss Cang Zhu.”
Cang Zhu was very patient as she waited for Qin Yu to react. Maybe it was because she told her secret and understood clearly what it may mean. She was actually quite surprised that he was able to return to his calm state so quickly, “No it"s okay, your reaction is a lot better than I expected.”
Qin Yu was in no mood to say any more even if he had just been complimented by a beautiful lady. He replied, “Miss Cang Zhu, can you vouch for what you just said?”
Cang Zhu shook her head, “No. Like I said before, these are all things I found out from sneaking a look at my ancestor’s notes. But from what I have been seeing, the notes seem reliable.”
Qin Yu nodded in understanding and he started to become excited. Cang Zhu’s current att.i.tude was correct. If she had blatantly vouched for it, Qin Yu would then have been doubtful.
Now, the most important thing was to verify whether what Stone PaG.o.da said was true.
“What should we do next?”
Cang Zhu looked at the statues of the thirteen ancient creatures and said slowly, “According to the notes from my ancestor, if we wish to find it we have to go into the deepest place where it is completely white and the place where the life force was buried…” She paused before continuing, “But it is obvious that we are not at the deepest area.”
Qin Yu frowned as he looked at the feet of the thirteen statues. They were still not at the deepest point of the gigantic crack and had to keep going down.
He thought of his journey since he stepped into the crack from the Fantasy Spiders’ cave. It took them so much effort to get to this point, how much deeper did they have to go? After all, when they looked at this mountain from the outside, it was very very very big. It was so big that it made those looking at it feel despair. But they had already reached this point and after hearing Stone PaG.o.da’s story, there was no reason for him to give up.
“Let’s go.”
Reaching out to hold Cang Zhu, the two of them walked through the statues and headed to the nearest crack. When they looked down, both of them froze. Disbelief showed on their faces.
In front of them was as Cang Zhu described: an area that was completely white. They also finally understood why it was written in Cang Zhu’s ancestor’s notes that this was the burial ground of the life force.
White bones, an endless amount of bones. As they looked through the crack, they could not see the end of it. The bones were piled together and seemed to fill the entire area. It was hard to imagine how many living creatures had to be killed and their bodies decomposed to create such a horrifying scene!
All of a sudden, a shriek filled the air. It was as if their searching gazes had awoken a vengeful soul which had been asleep for many years.
The shriek seemed to pierce their eardrums and caused them to rattle, and their chests felt a huge pressure that made them want to spit out blood. Initially, it seemed like a single shriek. But as soon as it entered their ears, they realized that it was numerous shrieks combined together. It was hard to imagine, but it sounded like a combination of resentment and fury, as if it wanted to destroy the entire world.
Pow —
Pow —
Two white bony claws shot out from the crack and grabbed onto Qin Yu and Cang Zhu’s feet, pulling them into the crack.
When the claw grabbed onto her, Cang Zhu’s entire body froze. Her exposed skin was immediately covered in a layer of white. Looking closely, she found that there was energy flowing underneath her skin, seeming to corrode her body.
“We were careless!” Qin Yu paled. When they faced the thirteen ancient creatures they had to go through the heart calamity. How did they not expect any danger when they looked into the Land of Bones?
This time, they were facing the terrifying energy of curses. In a short time their souls would be sealed and their bodies would start to corrode. If they could not resist, the entirety of their bodies was going to decompose and their bones would join the numerous others in the crack.
The only comforting thing was that as they faced the horrifying curse, Qin Yu was able to resist. When the claw had grabbed onto him, a purple mark lit up in the s.p.a.ce between Qin Yu’s brows.
In the next moment, the Endless Sea of Blood Shadow descended with Qin Yu as the center. Numerous shadows of sea monsters appeared and roared at the skies!
Back in the Endless Sea, Qin Yu had killed the sea beasts and broke the curse of the sea spirit. He successfully collected the curse imprint. Now, the imprint of the curse was coming into effect and competed against the curse of the endless bones.
As if they had been cut, the millions of bones buried in the crack suddenly let out numerous shouts. Following that, cracking noises filled the air as if ice were falling from the sky. The piles of bones started trembling as if they were awakening from their deep sleep!A buzz sounded in Qin Yu’s ears and his awareness was heightened. A strong feeling of weightlessness overcame him as he cut through the dense fog. All of a sudden, his surroundings brightened. Above him was the warm and splendid sun. He instinctively closed his eyes. Thereafter, he became stunned by the numerous cries of pain and despair from the ground.
On the ground, all the living creatures became frantic and started to run away. However, the strong ancient creatures had sealed all the escape routes. It was like a weak wave cras.h.i.+ng into a st.u.r.dy wall. They could only turn to dust helplessly.
Blood, a lot of fresh blood splattered into the air. It was a crazy ma.s.sacre of the ancient creatures, without any restraint. The entire ground had been dyed red. Under the blazing heat and light from the sun, even the sky turned red.
All of a sudden, a roar broke through the sky. Qin Yu stared as he understood what this cry meant. Although it was a single roar, it was like a horrifying curse had been placed.
In a flash, death fell onto all the struggling, escaping and shouting living creatures. They let out miserable cries but could not change their ending.
Death arrived!
Like wild gra.s.s that had been flattened by a strong gale, they all fell to the ground. Very quickly, their bodies rotted and returned to the ground, leaving only white bones behind. The bones piled up together in a horrifying scene.
Qin Yu’s eyes widened. His intuition told him that what he was currently witnessing was what happened many years ago. It was real — because of some unknown reason, the ancient creatures had carried out a ma.s.sacre and that resulted in the horrifying scene of bones that he and Cang Zhu saw between the cracks.
Who made that roar? It was so powerful that it directly cursed millions of living creatures to die. Qin Yu turned towards the sound and saw a scary, towering body being surrounded by the ancient creatures. It looked like it was holding up the heavens.
It had over ten thousand eyes spread over its enormous and scary body. Currently, it looked as if it had used up too much energy as its eyes were half closed and seemed dull.
In the moment when Qin Yu’s eyes fell onto the Ten Thousand-eyed Beast, it was as if it could sense him and following a low growl, all its eyes opened. A strong sense of danger filled him and he experienced a strong urgency to quickly lower himself. Qin Yu snorted and his consciousness returned to his body. He felt a sharp pain and and looked down at his hands. One of his fingers had completely disintegrated and exposed the white bone within it.
Was this…the power of the curse of the Ten Thousand-eyed Beast? But it was clearly just a dream. At most, it was something that happened in the past. How could it have hurt him!
Moreover, at the moment when he had been noticed, his consciousness quickly returned to his current body. He would at most have been exposed to only a small amount of the power of the curse. Just that small amount was enough to make his finger rot, and this was on top of the foundation from the Curse Imprint that he had.
If it were another cultivator, or someone who was exposed to more of the curse, their whole body would disintegrate into a pile of bones in the blink of an eye!
It was too scary!
Qin Yu’s heart pounded in his chest. It was not just because he had narrowly brushed shoulders with death. It was also because he had a strong sense that something scary was about to happen.
Bom —
Bom —
The ground shook violently and a loud sound could be heard from the cracks. It was as if numerous large hands wanted to come out from within.
Crash —
Crash —
In the cave, the numerous statues started to shake and break into pieces. Some had turned into stones while others turned into many white bones.
When these bones fell, they immediately got sucked into the crack as if they were being summoned.
Qin Yu realized that the claw that had been grabbing his foot had vanished. Without spending time to think, he turned to pick up Cang Zhu and quickly retreated.
A second after he left, a humongous rock fell on the s.p.a.ce where they had been standing. As he retreated, Qin Yu lifted his head and his pupils could not help but shrink significantly.
The thirteen statues now had numerous cracks on them. The stone that had just fallen was a rock that had been part of one of the statues.
As Qin Yu’s eyes landed on the statue, a pair of red eyes shot open and a roar that seemed to cut through time could be heard. It seemed to carry the tyranny from the ancient era!
The thirteen ancient creatures that had turned to stone many years ago, resurrected!
Bom —
Bom —
The deafening crashes were due to the rocks that had been covering their bodies falling to the ground. They let out howls as they gazed towards the endless white bones within the crack.
It seemed as if they existed to suppress the Land of Bones and prevent them from ever escaping.
The cries and movements arising from the Land of Bones slowly quietened down. It seemed as if they were extremely scared of the thirteen ancient creatures.
At this moment, no one realized that in the place where Qin Yu had once stood, beneath the fallen rock, a small bloodstain was rapidly being absorbed into the ground.
That was the result of one of his fingers rotting from the curse of the Ten Thousand-eyed Beast.
It looked as if the resistance from the Land of Bones was about to be suppressed. However, a miserable cry erupted once again like a volcano erupting…there was no way of suppressing it!