The three of them walked down the stone steps.
Zixue is in front, Zhao Yueer is in the middle, and Yang Zhen is last.
The open hole behind him did not close after they left.
"As long as this hole is opened, it does not need to be closed again." Zixue said, but did not explain why.
The three Yanyang magic beads illuminated the area ten feet in front of them like daylight.
However, the deeper front is still dark, and I don't know its depth.
Finally, when they went down more than 500 steps, about 40 to 50 feet deep into the ground, they made their first discovery.
A skeleton.
The skeleton was lying on the ground, wearing an emerald green gauze skirt with several delicate and elegant orchids embroidered on it.
There is no doubt that this skeleton should have been a woman, or a very young woman.
The body has long since decayed, but the clothes are as bright as ever. It is obviously a high-quality robe.
"Second level top grade," Zixue muttered, "This senior's cultivation should not exceed the late stage of foundation building."
"How did she die?" Zhao Yuer asked. Although she already had some guesses in her mind.
Zixue pointed at a hole in the gauze skirt with her mahogany sword and replied: "The bones in the back of the person who was killed by a palm from behind were all broken."
"Did she run here to escape?" Zhao Yue'er looked at the bowl-sized hole behind her.
"Well," Zixue responded, sighing leisurely: "She can't escape."
She turned her eyes to the skeleton's wrist: "There is a storage ring there, Yang Shitou, you put it away first."
Yang Zhen had already noticed the ring. After hearing the words, she knelt down and held the phalanges of the skeleton with one hand. Unintentionally, she used a little more strength, and the phalanges suddenly shattered into a handful of dust.
The bodies of low-level monks have been washed and infiltrated by spiritual energy. Once they die and the spiritual energy dissipates, their remains will often turn into ashes. Very few become fossils like mortals.
"Sorry." Yang Zhen apologized secretly, grabbed the ring in her hand, and examined it with her spiritual consciousness.
Over the years, the restrictions on the ring had long since dissipated, and he could immediately see clearly what was inside.
The first thing that surprised him was the space of the ring, which was twenty cubic meters in size. If this were in Fangshi, it would start with at least 100,000 spirit stones.
In the current Zhenyu world, only monks from Zifu can afford it.
There are some women's clothes inside the ring, some of which should be mortal objects. After a slight collision of consciousness, several holes appeared. In addition, I don’t know if some elixirs and foods such as spirit fruit spirit wine can still be taken, but I don’t have time to identify them now.
Most of the other talismans and magical instruments were intact. At a glance, they were basically second-level.
What surprised him even more was that there were actually ten high-grade spiritual stones in the space. There are also one or two hundred middle-grade spiritual stones, but most of the spiritual energy is insufficient, which should be the result of natural escape. There is not a single low-grade spiritual stone.
This level of wealth, if placed today, would be almost the entire property of a mid-level foundation-building family.
Yang Zhen took out the ten high-grade spiritual stones and handed them to Zixue.
Zixue took the spirit stone and looked at it carefully. The spirit energy inside was very full.
"Keep walking, the greater harvest is yet to come." Her tone was dull, and it was hard to tell whether she was happy or worried.
…
As she expected, not far away, she saw two more skeletons ahead, one on the left and one on the right lying on the stone steps.
The body on the left died in a miserable state, with its entire skull shattered to pieces. It was unknown whether it was hit by something heavy. The one on the right has a sword across his neck. Judging from the way he holds it, he must have committed suicide.
For monks above the Foundation Establishment stage, even if the artery in the neck is severed, as long as they are rescued in time or even know how to heal themselves, their lives will not be in danger. But if he committed suicide and gave up treatment, he would bleed to death just like a mortal.
These two skeletons are also wearing women's clothing, and judging from the style of their clothing, they should also be very young.
Each of them had a ring on their finger bones. When they took it over and looked at it, they found that the contents of the one who committed suicide were very similar to the first person they saw. There were also ten high-grade spiritual stones.
The one with a broken skull had twenty high-grade spiritual stones, several third-level magic weapons, and the space of the ring reached fifty cubic meters.
This is a monk from Zifu.
Zixue looked heavy, took the woman's sword in her hand, looked at it, and said:
"This object bites the owner, although it is a bit unknown, but it is a good third-level low-grade water magic sword. In this small world, I don't have a suitable magic weapon in my hand, so I will use it for a few days."
Yang Zhen knew that her actual combat power could not be measured by her cultivation. Since she thinks the third-level low-grade is suitable, that should be her true strength.
There were two third-level water talismans in the ring. After Zixue checked it, she looked regretful:
"The spiritual energy is insufficient and needs to be repaired. It cannot be used for the time being."
The three of them looked at the two remains and already had some guesses in their minds.
"Are they the concubines of old man Huang Ji?" Zhao Yuer asked anxiously.
Zixue nodded heavily.
Mr. Huang Ji had a lustful nature and would often snatch up any woman with extraordinary appearance to be his concubine, regardless of her cultivation level or whether she was married and had children. However, judging from the items in these people's rings, old man Huang Ji was not harsh on them, at least he gave them enough training resources.
What is sad is that no matter how much he conquered the country and turned all living beings upside down, he died miserably in this underground palace, and there was not even anyone to collect the body.
Who killed them? Now that you have obtained it, why do you abandon these valuable rings and spiritual stones?
Could this murderer still be hiding in this underground palace?
Thinking of this, Yang Zhen felt terrified. Looking at Zixue quietly, he saw that the senior sister looked as usual and didn't care.
He suddenly realized that even if there was a murderer here, he would have been dead long ago after thousands of years.
Unless he is the ancestor of the gods.
If there really is a God-Transforming True Master hiding here, are you afraid or not? What's the use?
…
As the three of them continued to move forward, they encountered more and more corpses on the stone steps, and their death conditions were also different. Most of those who committed suicide or were fatally wounded still had a whole corpse. Some were chopped into two or even several pieces by sharp blades, and some bodies and cassocks were shattered, leaving only a pile of rags and broken bones on the ground. The death was horrible.
In the past three thousand years, no one has probably been to this place, so the battle scenes and the current appearance of each person have been well preserved.
Yang Zhen walked along, collecting the rings they left behind, and soon filled a small cloth bag. Most of these rings he just glanced at in a hurry, and the things inside were indeed similar.
After walking about ten thousand steps in this way, and having collected more than two hundred rings, they finally came to a flat ground.
Looking around, the three of them were shocked by what they saw, even though they had expected it.
There were bones everywhere, all of them young women, and the density was much higher than the steps.
At this moment, they already have preliminary guesses about the identity of the murderer.
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