Chapter 749: Five-Colored Stone, Sacrificial Cave

As everyone stepped past the last two bronze gods, the bone bridge finally came to an end. Here, a mountain cliff rose up like a heavenly screen, with no end visible above and no bottom visible below.

Two bronze statues, with bird heads and human bodies, eight heads and human faces, tiger bodies and ten tails, stood in the rolling black mist.

They stood on both sides of the cliff, gazing at the Nine Nether Yin River in the distance.

Hearing Qian Chen's words, Dan Chenzi couldn't help but become cautious. He pointed his fingers to form a sword and wiped them across his eyes.

Accompanied by a flash of golden light, and not knowing what strange elixir he had used, his eyeballs suddenly rolled up, and two pills as bright as pearls replaced his eyes.

Within his eyes, three complex array patterns connected head to tail like pupils. His Dharma eyes rotated, looking at the dense caves on the cliff.

The divine light in his eyes pierced through the gloom in the caves. He saw that at the entrance of a relatively large stone cave, a flower tree with brilliant spiritual light stood tall!

The leaves of the flower tree were quite peculiar; they opened in two petals, pure gold all over, as large as a palm, with the tails hanging down like tassels. It actually made people unable to distinguish whether it was a flower or a leaf. The branches under the flowers and leaves were like mutton-fat jade. It was truly piled with gold and jade, rich and magnificent!

At this time, Xie Xuan also caught up from behind. Seeing the mountain wall ahead cutting off the path, covered in dense caves, he also used his Dharma eyes to peek.

Similarly, he was attracted by that flower tree at the first moment. He couldn't help but marvel: "This flower is extraordinary! The flowers and leaves are like piled gold, and the branches are like carved jade. This tree has rich spiritual light. In my opinion, it is at least 100,000 years old! It must be a spiritual root, no doubt. What's strange is that I actually don't know its origin!"

"Daoist Qian, the cave where this tree is rooted seems to be shrouded by a strange power. What is its origin?"

Some of these caves in front of them were shrouded in darkness; even with the divine light of Dharma eyes, they could only pierce through three feet.

Some caves were winding and tortuous, with Yin-evil winds shuttling through them, breathing rhythmically; others had blood clouds rolling inside, and occasionally black wings would streak across the blood clouds.

As for the cave that everyone noticed, their divine sense was blocked by the golden flower tree, making it difficult to penetrate even an inch further!

"Judging by its characteristics, it seems somewhat like the legendary spiritual root, the Huang Jinshu! But although the Huang Jinshu has leaves like gold, it is associated with a golden race in the West."

"In the extreme West, the Divine Path is paramount. This tree was planted on the edge of the Aegean Sea, and the place where it is rooted is also a cave-heaven, known as the Garden of the Gods. That Western alien race is called Elves, and they can become demigods by borrowing the Huang Jinshu, comparable to the status of a Yang Spirit in the Central Lands."

"Therefore, the Huang Jinshu is extremely precious even in the Western Lands! It was only transplanted to the Lantu Temple by an ancient Buddha of the Buddhist Sect..."

Qian Chen analyzed it seriously for a long time, which was equivalent to saying nothing at all.

The Huang Jinshu did indeed exist; he had always suspected it was created by Tai Shang, just like the 'Elf Race' whose style was severely mismatched!

Dan Chenzi, however, shook his head and said: "This thing gives me a very strange feeling. It doesn't look like a spiritual object, but rather has a trace of fierce aura. Moreover, I have seen the Huang Jinshu before. Years ago, when a Nascent Soul True Immortal of our sect visited friends in the West, he picked many leaves of the Huang Jinshu from the Lantu Temple and gave them to us for alchemy after returning... It didn't look like this!"

"Daoist Qian, what about these caves?" Xie Xuan couldn't help but ask.

Qian Chen shook his head: "In the records of the seniors of our Supreme Louguan Sect, this place is called the Ten Thousand Gods Cave. Legend has it that it is a forbidden area of the Wa Huang orthodoxy, but there should be one cave among them that is the path to the secret land of Gui Xu."

Qian Chen came to the few largest caves and pointed at several entrances: "The way out should be among these caves! But the notes left by that senior are not detailed enough, and it has been too long. To lock onto the way out, it will take some time!"

After speaking, he stood on a giant rock protruding from the cliff facing the caves and began to calculate with his hands.

Dan Chenzi and the others all knew that the Supreme Louguan Sect was proficient in the art of Qi-gazing. The notes left by the 'Supreme Louguan senior' likely recorded some Qi-rhymes that could only be seen by those whose art of Qi-gazing was extremely profound!

At this time, Yu Changsheng, Su Hui, Zhu Tanmo, the Nascent Soul Long Wang of the Dragon Race, and the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo of the demonic path had all arrived in front of the cliff.

Seeing the few of them hesitating again, they asked for the reason, only to see Yu Changsheng sneer: "Those Heavenly Shang ghosts and gods are still performing blood sacrifices for the Shang ancestor Qi. Although there are other bronze gods that can block them, the Shang ancestor is undergoing a transformation. Once the transformation is complete, earth-shattering changes may occur at any time. How can we have time to dawdle and calculate whether that cave is the way out!"

Xie Xuan shook his head: "These caves are called Ten Thousand Gods, and they are forbidden areas left by the Wa Huang orthodoxy. If we mistakenly enter other caves, I fear there will be unexpected dangers!"

"Simple!"

The Supreme Supreme Tian Mo opened his eyes and said indifferently: "Just use people to test it! One person enters the cave. No matter how dangerous it is, with our eyesight, we can always see something..."

"Elder Gu?"

The Nascent Soul Long Wang turned to ask the blind old dragon beside him, only to see it leaning on a cane, its hollow eyes staring at those caves, but its expression had a depth as if it were in a trance.

After a while, it reacted and said:

"My King, these caves were excavated in different eras. Some were in the Heavenly Xia and Heavenly Shang, but the oldest ones seem to trace back to the Primordial Era. Plus this mountain..." Elder Gu's hand holding the cane trembled slightly.

Everyone looked at the towering cliff wall that looked like a curtain. The Nascent Soul Long Wang suddenly sacrificed a dragon pearl and smashed it toward the mountain wall.

However, the pitch-black stone wall, mottled with green mud and yellow moss, suddenly erupted with a divine light, forcefully rebounding the dragon pearl that had smashed down. The Nascent Soul Long Wang's face turned pale, and he withdrew the dragon pearl, but he couldn't help but retreat several steps under his feet. And the stone wall was only smashed into a shallow little pit under the full-force strike of the Nascent Soul True Immortal. The peeled-off mountain wall made everyone's expression sink!

They saw that the exploded gap was five-colored, with white, red, green, and black flowing within...

"Five-Colored Stone!" Su Hui of the Guanghan Palace exclaimed.

Xie Xuan also took a deep breath: "Daoist Qian said it was a remnant of the Wa Huang orthodoxy. Wa Huang is also a Primordial Saint, and her traces are faint! Saintly traces are especially rare. The Tai Shang Dao Ancestor has several Saintly traces left in the Earth Immortal Realm, but Wa Huang doesn't have even one. Originally, I didn't quite believe it... Now I believe it!"

"Five-Colored Stone can be refined to mend the sky..."

Elder Gu said solemnly: "Under the protection of these Five-Colored Stones, some things from the old heaven, and even laws, may remain! Those oldest caves may preserve certain existences from the Primordial Era!"

"If there are really artifacts and living beings from that era remaining, even for a Nascent Soul True Immortal, it is extremely dangerous!"

Its godless eyes lifted slightly, staring at those deep caves, and it whispered: "Moreover, this old one seems to have seen some ruins similar to them, scattered in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains of the wilderness!"

"Among the oldest caves, even Immortals and Buddhas would not dare to enter rashly..."

Elder Gu's voice was low, and its tone seemed somewhat uncertain.

"The Ten Thousand Gods Cave was excavated continuously over a long period!"

Qian Chen suddenly spoke: "Among them, there are sacrificial caves that are extremely dangerous, sacrificing to certain unknown existences, and there are also treasure caves where some ancestors who worshipped Wa Huang hid sacrificial vessels and offerings."

"Whether there is treasure in them, or whether one becomes an offering! It depends on eyesight and opportunity..."

After reminding Xiao Yu and the others.

Qian Chen closed his eyes and continued to 'gaze at Qi' and study!

Yu Changsheng also sacrificed a type of eye technique to probe those caves. The divine light in his eyes seemed to see further than Dan Chenzi's. And just in this trance of a glance, as a Nascent Soul True Immortal, Yu Changsheng was actually shocked, not knowing what he had seen.

But he was very deep in the city, and his expression adjusted instantly!

That change in color between the Sumeru, I don't know how many people saw it in their eyes.

"In this case, let each side send one person to enter the cave to scout. Until we find the way out!"

Yu Changsheng's expression was unfathomable, but his attitude became proactive. No one knew what he had seen in that glance.

After speaking, the several Nascent Souls didn't care about the few caves Qian Chen had selected. They agreed that on this cliff wall, there were dense caves of all sizes, and each person would choose one cave in turn, sending their disciples in to explore. No matter what was in the cave, before giving up, others could not act rashly.

Clearly, finding the way out was just incidental; the few were still plotting for the artifacts that might contain the laws of the Primordial Old Heaven in the caves!

Elder Gu sighed and shook its head. If the traces it perceived were really as it thought, then there were some terrifying things in these caves, many of which hid existences capable of destroying the world.

But the orthodoxies of the few parties were all long-standing; perhaps they also saw something!

Or perhaps, it was precisely because they saw these clues that the few Nascent Soul True Immortals didn't want to give up...

"Then let each of us choose a cave... But, what if fellow Daoists choose the same one?"

Yu Changsheng glanced at Qian Chen and suddenly spoke.

Dan Chenzi shook his head: "We are just looking for a way out, not looking for treasure... In this way, everyone first selects a few caves, and then each uses their own means to observe the caves. If you see clues, you can send your disciples in to explore! The items obtained by that disciple will all belong to him. And once they leave the cave, or die in the cave, it will be the turn of the next fellow Daoist to send a disciple in."

After speaking, he deliberately skipped the cave with the Huang Jinshu at the entrance.

Dan Chenzi plucked out one of his own eyeballs, which turned into a fire pill burning with scorching flames. He held it in his palm and probed toward an ancient cave that was three feet high and two feet wide, with a cave entrance like tiger teeth and mottled green stone.

The fire pill jumped like a fireball in his palm, piercing through the darkness in the cave and illuminating a radius of one foot around it.

He saw the fire pill jumping and flying toward the depths of the cave, illuminating the cave all the way!

He saw several carved stone human statues at the entrance of the cave. Each one was ancient, simple, and vivid, but they were all human-shaped with characteristics of divine beasts, or beast-bodied and human-faced Witch Gods. The fire pill illuminated the deepest part of the cave, which was a pitch-black water pool.

By the side of the water pool was a sacrificial altar, on which some sacrificial vessels were placed in a mess.

"It's a sacrificial cave!" An old dragon of the Dragon Race with deep knowledge whispered: "The style of those sacrificial offerings should be the vessels of the ancient Witch Sect. There may be gods among them, which are excellent sacrificial embryos for refining magic treasures. The value of this cave is not small..."

"The only thing to worry about is that water pool... I can't see through it!"

"I don't know what this altar is sacrificing to. If it's a Witch God or a ghost, that's fine! If it's sacrificing to the existence in the water pool, then it's dangerous!"

It seemed that Dan Chenzi also had this concern.

He didn't let the fire pill get close to those sacrificial ritual vessels, but floated and jumped around the pitch-black water pool, but could never illuminate what was under the water surface.

The water in that cold pool was like ink that could swallow all light and shadow. No matter what kind of spiritual light, it couldn't illuminate it.

Dan Chenzi pondered for a long time, but still shook his head and said: "I can't make up my mind about this cave, and I don't dare to let my disciples take risks! Moreover, this cave is clearly not the exit, so I am willing to abandon it."

At this time, an old dragon who had been observing for a long time on the side spoke up: "Then let our Dragon Race explore this cave..." ===== CHAPTER 750 =====