As Sang Luo approached, she saw the stone tablet covered with densely packed names.
"These are the names of the beastmen who died in the great battle. I don't know who carved their names, but in this world, it can be considered a trace of their existence," Lou Xian Yue said, protecting her in his arms as he strolled forward.
Passing through the forest of stone tablets, they arrived at a mass grave.
It was filled with countless corpses.
These corpses still retained their appearance before death. Some beastmen held swords, attacking; some held shields, defending; some were engaged in savage, primal combat in their beast forms; some were fighting one-on-one, while others were ganging up on a single person... Their postures varied, all frozen in the final moments of their lives.
The beastmen showed no fear, seemingly unaware that death was imminent.
There was only one explanation.
They had died suddenly, in an instant.
To be able to instantly take the lives of so many powerful beastman warriors, one could imagine how terrifying the force was.
This mass grave had never been set foot in before. There were no signs of destruction nearby, and the deceased still had things like Qiankun bags and space rings hanging on their bodies and clothes, not having been taken by grave robbers.
Lou Xian Yue said, "The souls of these corpses have long since dissipated, and the things on their bodies are all unowned. There are a few noteworthy items that can be taken away."
"Taking the things of the dead is unlucky!" Sang Luo was too afraid to touch them.
Lou Xian Yue didn't mind at all and collected everything.
Raising children costs money.
He was also learning to be frugal, not taking things for nothing.
He threw out a string of prayer beads and chanted the Rebirth Mantra, and the corpses all dissipated.
Not far ahead, only one beastman wearing armor still stood in place, facing away from them, kneeling on one knee, a heavy sword stuck in the ground. One could vaguely see that the deceased had been a burly and powerful beastman in life.
Sang Luo walked over and saw that inside the armor was a skeleton with large bones.
In the other hand of the skeleton, he held an unlit candle.
This candle... didn't seem like something that would appear in a mass grave.
"This person's attire is different from that of the other beastman warriors. He must have been someone important in life. The armor he's wearing looks like the armor worn by generals, and there's a totem printed on the breastplate, a shark with three tails... a family totem?"
Lou Xian Yue understood, "I know who he is."
Sang Luo looked over.
He said, "Thousands of years ago, a powerful Three-Tailed Halberd Shark General emerged from the Northern Sea. He was a Beast Emperor, cruel and bloodthirsty, and loved collecting the skulls of various beastmen to showcase his glorious achievements."
"He once captured merfolk from various places, and countless merfolk died at his hands. He even killed an immature King鲛 offspring and cruelly refined it into a Longevity Candle. However, legend has it that he suddenly disappeared one day, and there was no news of him afterward, his fate unknown... I didn't expect him to have died in this land of bones as well."
"That force instantly took the life of a Beast Emperor?" Sang Luo looked at the candle in the skeleton's hand again, "This candle wouldn't be..."
"Yes, it's the Longevity Candle he made by boiling the body oil of 鲛 people."
"...Too perverted!"
"According to legend, the Longevity Candle made from 鲛 people has the power to communicate with the gods. He must have encountered something extremely terrifying in the tomb, or been trapped inside and unable to leave, which is why he took out the Longevity Candle to pray for spiritual descent." As soon as Lou Xian Yue took the candle, the corpse and armor disappeared together.
At the same time, a black, foul-smelling gas quickly spread, it was corpse poison.
"Sang'er, use the power of the Undefeated Fire to light the Longevity Candle."
Sang Luo quickly took the candle that Lou Xian Yue handed her, and a light red flame ignited in the deep sea, burning brightly, lighting the Longevity Candle that had been sealed for ten thousand years.
The black gas quickly dissipated.
On the stone wall, a simple and heavy door appeared at some point.
Lou Xian Yue stepped forward and pushed open the stone door.
On the other side was not an exit, but a cave, the inner space extremely cramped and narrow.
On a stone platform was enshrined a shrine, which had long since faded and gathered dust, and the wood was almost rotten, making it impossible to see what it looked like before.
The statue inside was also headless, and it was not known who was enshrined.
In front of the shrine was only a faded incense burner, with three incense sticks beside it.
"I don't know which expert you are, I apologize for the unintentional disturbance," Sang Luo lit the three incense sticks and inserted them into the incense burner, feeling that something was missing. She glanced at the Longevity Candle in her hand and then looked at Lou Xian Yue.
He nodded to her.
Sang Luo placed the Longevity Candle in front of the shrine, folded her palms together, and bowed at her forehead.
The smoke from the incense slowly rose, seemingly slowly transforming into a human form...
An ancient and aged voice came from her mind.
"I have waited for so many years, and finally waited for the first junior to find this place. As long as you fulfill my wish, I will give you my inheritance."
Sang Luo widened her eyes and looked at Lou Xian Yue, "Aze, did you, did you hear an old man's voice!?"
Lou Xian Yue shook his head, "You heard it?"
"This old man said he wants me to agree to fulfill a wish for him and give me an inheritance. This development, doesn't it seem a bit like a plot where an evil cultivator seizes a body?"
"Heh, someone who can be enshrined by later generations in a shrine should be a deceased ancient divine beast. The voice you heard may be a trace of his remnant soul."
"Should I agree?" The inheritance of a divine beast is quite attractive.
"Ask him what his wish is, what he wants to exchange with you?"
Sang Luo continued to talk to the voice in her mind.
"I don't know what wish the senior wants me to fulfill?"
"Help me kill someone, Wan Qi You!"
Sang Luo repeated everything to Lou Xian Yue, "Wan Qi You, he said let me help him kill this person, should be his enemy in life."
"I have never heard of this name." Lou Xian Yue frowned, "This senior does not know how many years he has passed away, and does not know if the enemy is still alive, and the matter of killing for revenge can be big or small, if the other party's strength is far superior to you and me, this matter is a dangerous burden for you, unnecessary karma, be careful."
Sang Luo originally wanted to ask the old man what reward he could offer, but after hearing what Lou Xian Yue said, it made a lot of sense.
She shook her head, "Forget it, it's not safe, let's go, I don't lack this inheritance."
"Wait! Little junior, wait, don't go yet, this god's remnant soul does not have much time left, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for the next person to come over."
Seeing that the two did not turn back, the remnant soul was very anxious, "At least look at the things before leaving, as long as you help me complete my last wish, this thing will be yours!"
In front of the two, a nine-legged furnace suddenly appeared out of thin air, emitting a dazzling golden light, extremely extraordinary, completely out of tune with this dilapidated cave.
Lou Xian Yue's eyes lit up, "Nine-legged... Creation Furnace!"
It was the first time Sang Luo had seen him exclaim like this. Aze himself was a refiner, and he had refined countless treasures, and rarely saw a tool so excited.
"Is it a big treasure?"
"Yes, a divine-level treasure, the Creation Furnace, contains the rules of life, and can bring people back to life."
First make up for the update, the next chapter is a big plot, or put it tomorrow during the day when the brain is awake and then write it!
