20demayo Chapter 604 - 242: Immortal Dynasty Cultivator’s Abode (Part 5)
Chapter 604 - 242: Immortal Dynasty Cultivator’s Abode (Part 5)
In midair, its massive head raised, the Black Rock Snake spat out a blood-colored beam towards Liu Gui, who was flying forward using Wind Manipulation!
"A magical artifact!?"
"This beast actually has a magical artifact!?"
"Liu Gui, be careful!"
They saw that what the Black Rock Snake spat out was a three-foot-long sword glowing with a red light, heading straight for Liu Gui’s heart. Many of the Shen Family cultivators shouted in shock.
They had just been battling this Black Rock Snake for half an hour, and the beast had not used any magical artifact.
Now, suddenly using this move caught Liu Gui completely off guard.
Seeing this, Shen Chonghong squinted his eyes slightly, his form flickered several times, and he rushed out in an instant!
He originally did not want to take action so quickly.
If the Black Rock Snake noticed his Fetal Breathing Realm aura and turned to escape back into the cave, it would be troublesome to deal with.
But if he didn’t act, Liu Gui in the air would be killed by that blood-colored sword.
Clang!
Passing over Liu Gui, Shen Chonghong, holding a long spear, swept across and directly knocked the rapidly flying blood-colored sword away!
Everything happened just as he had anticipated.
The Black Rock Snake, sensing the aura of the Fetal Breathing Cultivator on him, narrowed its vertical pupils slightly and immediately opened its mouth to swallow the blood-colored sword back into its belly, turning to drill back into the cave!
Shen Chonghong saw this and angrily threw the long spear in his hand!
Boom!
The White Bone Long Spear, carrying his abundant spiritual power, directly pinned down the path where the Black Rock Snake would inevitably return to the cave!
Spiritual power burst forth, and the surrounding hard rocks instantly exploded!
The Black Rock Snake, unable to dodge, was also sent flying by a ripple of energy, crashing towards Shen Chonghong’s direction!
In midair, a strong surge of fire attribute spiritual power suddenly arose behind Shen Chonghong!
In an instant, two blade-like wings of flame appeared behind him, slashing toward the incoming Black Rock Snake!
The Black Rock Snake, while in the air, saw the two flame blades speeding toward it, struggling to control its body to defend.
However, the flame blades were extremely sharp.
Its proud, hard scale armor was instantly sliced into four pieces before the flame blades, as if it were made of tofu!
Bang!
Bang!
The ten-zhang body was slashed into four pieces, and under inertia, it smashed heavily into the forest below, blood flowing everywhere!
Seeing this, the Shen Family cultivators behind Shen Chonghong skillfully gathered around and quickly handled the Black Rock Snake’s corpse.
The premium meat could be taken back for the clan body cultivators, and the muscles, bones, and scale armor were all refining materials.
"Young Master."
Liu Gui, his hands stained with the Black Rock Snake’s blood, came to Shen Chonghong with a simple and unsophisticated blood-colored long sword.
"This is the magical artifact that beast just used."
Shen Chonghong took the blood-colored sword and examined it carefully, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.
"This is... a standard magical artifact of the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty!?"
The Great Chu Immortal Dynasty was once a massive force occupying all of Danzhou.
The reason he could instantly recognize the blood-colored sword as a standard magical artifact of the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty is that his wife Xiao Hongxiao’s Hundred Refinements Valley was initially founded by a few artifact refiner apprentices from the Immortal Dynasty’s Artifact Refining Workshop.
The blood-colored sword in his hand was identical to the artifact embryos refined by Hundred Refinements Valley back in the day, except that this blood-colored sword was a magical artifact, while those refined by Hundred Refinements Valley were merely mortal soldiers.
The fact that the Black Rock Snake could possess a standard magical artifact of the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty meant that the cave ahead might very well be the resting place of a Great Chu Immortal Dynasty cultivator.
"I reward you with this magical artifact."
After once again scrutinizing the long sword and finding it to be nothing special, just a lower grade magical artifact, Shen Chonghong handed it to Liu Gui.
This was a lower grade magical artifact refined using an ancient refining technique, which, overall, was somewhat stronger than those refined with modern techniques.
"Thank you, Young Master!"
Liu Gui was overjoyed, quickly taking the blood-colored sword and carefully wiping it clean.
"Let’s go see what’s inside."
Seeing that everyone had finished taking care of the Black Rock Snake’s body, Shen Chonghong spoke, and the group headed towards the cave.
The cave in front of them was spacious, likely a naturally formed cavern that had been artificially modified later on.
"Young Master, what do these writings say?"
At the entrance of the cave stood a stone stele, weathered and mottled, but the intricately carved hundreds of characters were still faintly visible.
However, these writings were in the immortal text of the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty, which none of them could understand.
After studying it for a while, Shen Chonghong could only roughly discern that it was carved by a cultivator named Situ Jing.
At the bottom of the stele, there was also a date.
"The year 14355 of the Great Chu Calendar..."
Gently touching the last dated character, Shen Chonghong couldn’t help but murmur, "This Great Chu Immortal Dynasty actually lasted for over ten thousand years!?"
"How could such a terrifying immortal dynasty force suddenly crumble?"
Beside him, many Shen Family cultivators were also stunned.
A force that lasted over ten thousand years must have had incredibly powerful cultivators within it.
"Leave someone here, find a way to extract this stone stele, and be careful not to damage the writings on it."
"The rest of you, come in with me."
After some pondering, Shen Chonghong spoke.
The content on the stele involved the "Great Chu Immortal Dynasty," an ancient secret his grandfather Shen Yuan was very interested in, so it naturally had to be brought to him.
The group entered the cave.
Initially, beneath their feet were some decayed remains, both human and animal.
Presumably, they were all prey captured by the Black Rock Snake.
After advancing over a hundred zhang, the skeletal remains gradually disappeared, and a collapsed stone door appeared before them.
Coming to the stone door, Shen Chonghong carefully examined it and found it engraved with strange symbols, resembling array patterns.