Chapter 408

Yan Dao friend, just now.....

"Asking so many useless things." Yan Buji heard Hu Xue'er's voice transmission and replied: "In fact, we don't really know the situation of this secret realm; Xueqing's explanation is fine. But if what you say is true, that primordial mang dragon outside the secret realm has probably been watching us. Since it hasn't shown itself, that means this is a setup."

Hu Xue'er's face changed; she had no confidence to match wits with a primordial mang dragon, or rather, if any information leaked, they would probably face imminent disaster.

But what does it want to do?

Perhaps Xueqing has also seen that primordial mang dragon. If it were me, I wouldn't want to be its dog in life and its tomb-guarding beast after death. Yan Buji laughed.

Hu Xue'er suddenly realized: "Is it trying to get us to enter here to help it break free from bondage?"

"Perhaps." Yan Buji gazed at Xueqing's back, pondering: "But no matter what, we ultimately need to be careful."

The problem is whether Xueqing truly knows the Existence of the tomb-guarding primordial mang dragon beneath the deep sea, or whether she has already reached an agreement with it.

So the trouble lies here: if Xueqing deliberately sends them to their deaths to help the primordial mang dragon break free from bondage, then the problem becomes serious.

This also indirectly proves that the tomb-guarding beast can only stay outside the tomb, with no talk of entering it.

In that case, if her plan is exposed publicly, Xueqing might threaten to leave the secret realm, forcing everyone to go with her to undo the bondage; thus, either way, the bondage must be undone.

Yan Buji pinched his chin, activating his magical power to probe.

"Hmm, we can run."

Then there's no problem.

Yan Buji laughed, completely unconcerned about any mishap.

Soon, several people arrived together before a ruin, looking at the surrounding collapsed buildings, everyone feeling doubtful.

"Has anyone lived here?"

"It looks like the scale isn't small."

Yan Buji walked into the ruin, found a stone tablet, brushed off the dust, and glanced at it:

"Long River?"

Xueqing walked over and asked: "Yan Dao friend, any discoveries?"

"We've found this stone tablet, but we don't know its origin."

"Long River.... I recall the demon clan has a treasure land called the Long Dragon River; could it be related to this place?" Wang Tiansheng wondered.

"Long Dragon River?" Yan Buji looked puzzled.

Wang Tiansheng laughed: "It's a place to cleanse one's bloodline; for the demon clan, bloodline is quite important."

"Speaking of which, what demonic creature did you just encounter?"

"That seems to be a demonic soldier that has taken shape, possessing Golden Core stage strength and able to restrain the Five Phases techniques, making it hard to deal with."

Yan Buji nodded: "But this place is so desolate; how could there be a.... village's Existence?"

"Perhaps it wasn't like this before." Xueqing said: "Looking at the surroundings, it differs from the Tree Sea secret realm, but.... for now let's call this place the Long River secret realm; judging by the area, there should have been inhabitants."

Outside, there are traces of reclaimed field ridges; although no crops remain, the scale of the fields can still be made out.

As for Hu Xue'er and the others returning from outside, they still held an ancient jade slip in their hands.

"Please look, everyone; this is what we found at the bottom of that well."

Everyone swept it with their spiritual sense and learned its contents.

"So that's how it is; this place is actually a tomb-guarding site of the Wood Extreme Imperial clan?"

"How did it suddenly become like this?"

What is recorded on the jade slip seems to be an order: after the Wood Extreme Imperial returned to the void, its tribal successors arranged a group of people specifically to come guard the tomb, which is also quite common among humanity.

But the Long River secret realm is clearly different from the Tree Sea secret realm; this place's desolation must have resulted from some turmoil.

The specific cause is still unknown; Xueqing pondered and said: "We should first go look at the situation by the towering giant tree. If unnecessary, we'd better not rush in. Since this is the Wood Extreme Imperial's place of returning to the void, even without entering the tomb chamber we could likely find some treasures."

Everyone nodded; coming to the secret realm isn't just for finding treasures, right?

"Let's go."

Everyone proceeded forward; the surrounding roads had also been repaired, although still dilapidated, one could see that the tomb guardians also had a habit of always going to the towering giant tree.

Suddenly, Yan Buji furrowed his brow and shouted: "Everyone!"

"Again?" She Kui Shu looked around, her pupils narrowing and emitting a faint light: "Over there!"

"Attack!"

Again a demonic soldier took shape; this time, unlike before, it turned out to be a long sword that had taken shape.

A scarlet red aura rolled off the snow-white long sword, gradually condensing into a human figure gripping the sword, charging at everyone!

Whoosh!

A sword light shocked heaven and earth; everyone immediately startled, each retreating!

"Leave it to me!!" Shi Pan roared, his whole body flashing with bright yellow light, instantly swelling many times over!

All that could be seen was the sword light continually slicing Shi Pan's body, large amounts of stone fragments scattering like gravel, only after retreating several dozen steps could he barely block it.

"Such strong sword light, everyone be careful!" Xueqing frowned, her fingers forming a seal; a polar light suddenly descended from the heavens, freezing cold spreading, actually freezing that sword demon in place.

Seeing this, everyone immediately acted!

Yan Buji couldn't just stand by; seeing various arts unleashed, he condensed True Essence and threw a punch!

Bang!

A violent explosion occurred at the sword demon's location; She Kui Shu raised her eyebrows: "Did we succeed?"

Yan Buji was about to retreat when he suddenly startled: "Flight!"

Whoosh!

Suddenly, from the explosion's center, a circular sword arc spread outward; terrifying killing intent erupted instantly, everyone feeling shocked and fearful, all flying up into midair.

Yan Buji reacted quickly and was unharmed; the others, reacting slower, were swept by the sword light, leaving wounds of various sizes on their bodies.

"What a terrifying killing move!" Yan Buji's face changed; such a strong sword demon is the first he's ever seen—could the previous wielder of that sword also have been a swordmaster?

Everyone, hurry up and act!

She Junshu also sensed something was wrong, ignoring the wound on her arm, she activated the secret technique!

In an instant, more than ten long snakes burst from the ground, fiercely biting the Sword Demon!

The Sword Demon let out an angry roar, brandishing its sword to slash the long snakes!

Just then, Wang Tiansheng thrust both hands forward, a massive water column combined with She Junshu's binding technique, striking the Sword Demon again!

That water column also seemed not ordinary; the demonic aura on the Sword Demon's body was continually worn down by the water's impact, leaving only a snow-white longsword.

After this battle, although everyone was injured, it was no big deal.

However, before the crowd could react, several weapon-shaped demonic beasts appeared around them, fiercely attacking a few people.

Everyone's faces darkened.

Is this never-ending!