"Originally, there was only one monster chasing us, but when we got close to the top of the mountain, many monsters suddenly appeared and we had to retreat to the main hall. Those monsters seemed to be guarding something." The cold and beautiful woman looked at the direction of the top of the mountain and said slowly.
What are you guarding
Yang Qi's eyes lit up. He was very curious about the appearance of puppet beasts and even corpse puppets in this ancient relic. Unfortunately, this relic had existed for who knows how many years, and there was no useful information at all.
Now the cold and beautiful woman told him that there might be something hidden on the top of the mountain, and these things were most likely guarded by those puppet beasts, and there might be records about this relic among them.
The corpse puppets have been destroyed and there is no danger in the ruins. Yang Qi nodded and wanted to go to the top of the mountain to see what these puppet beasts are guarding.
Moving forward along the barren land, the group soon arrived at the top of a mountain. It was called the top of a mountain, but in fact it was just a high ground in the valley.
"This is... an abandoned palace..." Looking at the ruined palace in front of her, the cold and beautiful woman was stunned.
She thought that the monsters were guarding something important, but it turned out to be just a ruined palace. Although this palace was much larger than the buildings they had seen along the way, it was already in ruins and its research value was greatly reduced.
"This palace is not simple." Yang Qi said lightly, looking at the palace in front of him.
He had already confirmed that in the valley, there should be the mountain gate of a martial arts sect. If nothing unexpected happened, the huge palace on the top of the mountain should be the main hall of this sect.
As the sect's main hall, it is usually used to discuss sect affairs and is where the sect leader usually lives. Perhaps some relics of ancient origin can be found here.
Yang Qi walked around the hall. Most of the hall had been destroyed. As for the plaque of the sect, no one knew where it was.
There was nothing found outside the hall, so everyone had to go deeper into the hall.
"These are traces of battle..."
Looking at the ruined hall, the stone walls, the ground, and the broken and collapsed buildings, which were covered with traces of battle and bones, Mu Yan couldn't help but exclaimed.
Although there were traces of warriors fighting along the way, compared with the battle in the hall, they were completely insignificant. Even after countless years, when she saw the traces of battle in the hall, she could imagine how fierce the battle in the hall was.
"It was actually man-made destruction." The cold and beautiful woman was also shocked. These traces of fighting undoubtedly showed that the almost destroyed palace was caused by the fight between two groups.
If she hadn't seen the fight between Yang Qi and the zombie, she wouldn't have believed that a small-scale battle in ancient times could have such terrifying power.
You know, even in modern society, it is not an easy task to destroy a palace made of huge stones like the one in front of us.
"It's really tragic." Yang Qi sighed in his heart.
The wars between sects are no less intense than those between countries. Especially in the Tianwu Dynasty, it is possible that the fight between two powerful sects would affect several dynasties.
The fierce battle before them was obviously that the sect on the side of the ruins was forced into the hall, and had a final fight with the enemy, and was eventually destroyed.
After passing through the collapsed palace, everyone came to a spacious hall.
"Look where..."
A cry of surprise was heard.
Looking in the direction where the sound came from, I saw several skeletons half-kneeling in the center of the hall. Some were missing a piece of their skull, some had their sternum completely missing, and some even had their heads gone.
There were a total of six skeletons in the hall, and none of them were intact.
"Looking at the appearance of the six of them, they should have surrounded an enemy and then been killed by the enemy?" Looking at the position occupied by the six skeletons, they should have been surrounding someone, but unfortunately the enemy seemed to be stronger than them and killed the six of them directly.
"There should be a person among these six skeletons." The cold and beautiful woman said in a deep voice.
Archaeologists do not just study antiques. Many ancient tombs contain stories of people being buried alive with their loved ones, and even large numbers of slaves were killed for sacrifice.
After studying a lot of relics, the cold and beautiful woman could naturally see that there should be another skeleton among the six skeletons.
"Here." At this moment, Mu Yan on the side suddenly said.
When they arrived in front of Mu Yan, they saw a rotten skeleton half-sitting behind an important stone chair on the high platform in the hall, with two rolls of animal skins in its hands.
“Hey~ These are all civil and military experts, why are you…” Seeing Yang Qi pulling the animal skin over without saying a word, the cold and beautiful woman quickly spoke.
"If you are not afraid of death, you can bang the things here." Yang Qi curled his lips.
"You..." The cold and beautiful woman was furious. Having seen those monsters before, they dared not touch the things here easily. God knows if they were poisonous or not.
As for the others, they quickly turned their heads away. They couldn't afford to offend the cold and beautiful woman, but at the same time, Yang Qi, who was able to beat an invulnerable zombie to death, was someone who should not be provoked.
"Hey~ This is..." Yang Qi opened a roll of animal skin, and his eyes lit up. The animal skin recorded the origin of this relic.
This relic is the mountain gate of an ancient sect from more than a thousand years ago, the Blood Demon Sect. The Blood Demon Sect is a demon sect. Although it is a demon sect, the Blood Demon Sect is just spontaneous and not bound by secular etiquette. It is somewhat different from the demon sects that kill innocent people indiscriminately. Back then, the Blood Demon Sect was extremely powerful, and no one in the righteous and evil worlds could hide its edge.
“The Blood Demon Cult is so powerful, but the traces of battle outside seem to be a one-sided situation.” Yang Qi frowned slightly and continued reading. He was extremely curious as to why the Blood Demon Cult was destroyed.
"It's actually them..." After a moment, a gleam of light flashed in Yang Qi's eyes.
Holy land!
This was the first time Yang Qi had seen a record about the Holy Land. Although the charming man had mentioned the Holy Land before, he had not mentioned much about the Holy Land. But now, the ancient animal skin recorded that the Blood Demon Cult was destroyed by the Holy Land.
"How strong is this holy land?" Yang Qi frowned slightly. According to the records on the animal skin, the Blood Demon Sect had three strong men in the fetal breathing realm, but they still had no resistance to the holy land. The other party only sent six holy envoys to the martial arts world to slaughter the Blood Demon Sect. At the last moment, the sect leader used the dragon vein under the Blood Demon Sect's mountain gate to activate the corpse puppets left by the ancestors and killed the invading enemy.
The underground dragon vein is the foundation of the Blood Demon Cult, and the corpse puppet is a tactic of mutual destruction. Once activated, all life forces within a radius of 500 meters will be drained, injecting energy into the corpse puppet.
"No wonder it's so desolate outside." Yang Qi sighed. It turned out that this sect leader had activated a strategy of mutual destruction. (To be continued)