Chapter 149: The Powerful Being Suppressed to Death

  The Yu Chan Ling Stone is a rare treasure that appears only once in a thousand years, and even some super strong practitioners will fight to get it, so Yi Chen can't let it slip away easily.

  Quickly recalling the Heaven-Falling Heavy Sword, Yi Chen's toes tapped the ground as he burst out in pursuit. However, the Yu Chan Ling Stone was escaping at an incredible speed and vanished from sight in the blink of an eye.

  "What a fast escape speed." Yi Chen gritted his teeth again, and once more frantically manipulated his soul power. After a moment, he arrived at the end of this dry and dark river.

  "In front of us is a dead end, and the Jade Cicada Spirit Stone has also disappeared." He quickly stopped in his tracks, staring blankly ahead at the smooth massive stone that blocked their path, resembling a dead end.

  "How could this be." Yi Chen's face changed slightly, this was the only road, if it was a thorough dead end, then how would he get out?

  His heart skipped a beat, and Yi Chen hastily looked around, but didn't find any hidden passages, which made his face look unpleasant.

  If he can't find the road, then he will be trapped in this place.

  "There must be a way out, this place will absolutely not be a dead end."

  Yu Chan Ling Shi arrived at this place and disappeared, and the whirlpool that sucked him in also sucked in a large amount of river water. Now all those river waters have also disappeared without a trace.

  If there were no channels, this would be an absolute water world, but now there are only a few patches of water.

  Yi Chen released his soul power to sense the fluctuations left by Yu Chan's Ling Stone, and found that they were interrupted here, it was clear that it had disappeared in this place.

  "It should be this boulder that's blocking the path ahead." Yi Chen stared intently at the boulder, and then flipped out the Heaven-Defying Heavy Sword to try and see if he could shatter it.

  It's a great pity that Yi Chen used the Heaven-Falling Heavy Sword, but it only managed to scrape out some sparks on its surface and couldn't cause any damage to it.

  "What is this stone?" Retrieving the Heaven-Falling Heavy Sword, Yi Chen's face showed a hint of helplessness.

  "This thing is so hard and stubbornly unyielding, it can't be opened by brute force. Is there some kind of mechanism at play here?"

  With this judgment, Yi Chen began to search around and see where there was anything unusual.

  Soon, a protruding object caught Yi Chen's attention. It was a stone pedestal that looked very unusual with various intricate patterns on it, looking very strange.

  He drew out the Heaven-Defying Heavy Sword and tried striking it a few times, discovering that this stone pedestal was also extremely sturdy. The Heaven-Defying Heavy Sword could only scrape out flashes of dazzling sparks.

  Although it had no effect, Yi Chen discovered a problem. Every time the Thunderous Stone Platform was activated, the giant stone would also emit a strange sound, as if there was some kind of mysterious connection between them.

  Seeing this situation, Yi Chen tried to see if he could move it, and found that no matter how hard he used his strength, the stone pedestal didn't budge.

  After several attempts with no effect, Yi Chen furrowed his brow and tried to manipulate his soul power to condense in his palms, placing them on the stone pedestal.

  "Hum"

  At this moment, the stone platform trembled slightly, and those patterns seemed to be living veins, continuously absorbing the soul power released by Yi Chen.

  "Is it fun?"

  A bright light flashed before his eyes, and Yi Chen mobilized his soul power without reservation, continuously pouring it into the stone pedestal.

  "Whoosh"

  That stone pedestal continuously absorbed soul power and released a strong light, with strips of things that seemed like meridians emerging from the ground and extending to the stone block that blocked the way.

  Innumerable meridians converge at the very center of the stone slab, weaving together to form an Eight Trigrams diagram.

  "Whoosh"

  The absorbed soul force moves along those meridians and finally comes to the huge stone, moving along that Bagua diagram.

  When the soul force filled that pattern, the giant stone shook violently, countless sand and gravel fell from above, a dazzling golden light was transmitted from the Bagua diagram, making Yi Chen unable to help but narrow his eyes.

  His face filled with vigilance and intensity, Yi Chen did not stop the output of his soul power, but instead even more frantically mobilized his soul power for the stone pedestal to absorb.

  Rumble

  That ray of light became increasingly dazzling. Half a moment later, a muffled sound was heard, and the massive boulder slowly rose, revealing a spacious passageway.

  "Success!" Yi Chen's face showed a look of surprise, he quickly withdrew his soul power and rushed into the passage.

  When Peng entered that passage, that huge stone fell again, sealing off the original road.

  "Could it be that all of this is man-made?" A look of surprise flashed across his face, but Yi Chen didn't think much of it and turned to charge forward.

  Half a minute later, Yi Chen suddenly stopped in his tracks. The path ahead of him was suddenly cut off, and a deep pit over 100 meters deep appeared before his eyes.

  "This." Yi Chen's eyes widened as he stared at the deep pit, shocked into speechlessness. For in that deep pit, there were countless human skeletons.

  The number of skeletons was too great, and a desolate breath rushed towards me.

  No one knows how long these skeletons have been piled here, but along with their former weapons and armor, they have long since succumbed to the ravages of time and weathered away.

  A faint black fog lingered in the air, looking very eerie.

  "How can there be so many human skeletons here?" Yi Chen's face was full of shock, this place looked really eerie.

  Originally, he was just being swept into the whirlpool, but Yi Chen didn't think that he would end up in such a strange place.

  Moreover, through careful observation, Yi Chen discovered that among the skeletons were also the remains of magical beasts, with enormous frames resembling giant dragons, transparent and without any impurities.

  "What are these magical beasts?" In order to observe them better, Yi Chen jumped down onto the ground after making sure it was safe, and discovered that there were many different types of skeletal remains, but he had never seen any like this before.

  "Is this a tattoo, is it a tattooed plate?"

  After some observation, Yi Chen discovered that those rusty weapons were not ordinary weapons, but the patterned instruments and disks used by the magic mirror masters.

  "This is a Seven Star Patterned Sword." He picked up the sword that had been corroded halfway, and Yi Chen was astonished to discover that there were indeed seven patterns on it, without a doubt, this was a Seven Star Patterned Sword.

  It's extremely regrettable that such a vessel has been corroded to this extent and is completely unusable.

  Throw away that piece of equipment, Yi Chen searched again and found some eight-star equipment, as well as some eight-star discs.

  "How long have these people been dead and who exactly are they? Why did they die here?" Yi Chen's face showed a look of shock.

  Patterns and pattern disks contain the energy of heaven and earth, even if they are four-star patterns and pattern disks, a strong earth soul realm master using full force can hardly destroy them.

  But here, the fabric and the loom, can't withstand the erosion of time.

  But what shocked Yi Chen even more was that the coffin and the burial objects had all corroded, yet the skeleton that came from here was still intact, just like the remains of someone who had just died recently.

  "These skeletons are really too hard, were they all super strong men when they were alive?" Yi Chen picked up a broken hand bone and frantically mobilized his soul power, but he couldn't snap it in two.

  Although it is unknown how long they have been dead, judging from the corrosion of both the jade discs and the jade utensils, it can be inferred that these people have been dead for a very long time.

  Soul cultivators' bodies and skeletons would all be transformed by their soul force during the cultivation process, but these people's skeletons were truly terrifying, several dozen times stronger than Yi Chen's physical body.

  "How could these strong men die here?" Yi Chen was very puzzled, and then he looked around and found that on the stone wall of this deep pit, there were secret patterns, they intertwined with each other, forming a chain.

  "This is just like a sealing technique, could it be that these strong individuals weren't killed but were instead suppressed alive here?"

  Yi Chen's face showed an unbelievable expression. He had studied a sealing technique and had some understanding of this aspect. From the structure of these patterns, it was a large-scale sealing technique.

  However. This large-scale sealing technique is even more terrifying, like the sealing technique that Yi Chen learned, it can only seal the cultivator's cultivation, but this one can suppress the cultivator.

  After a thorough examination, Yi Chen discovered that due to the long passage of time, the sealed energy had been depleted and rendered ineffective.

  "It's really too crazy, who did this, actually suppressing so many strong people here." Yi Chen felt extremely shocked.

  "What kind of strong people are these, and why were they suppressed here." His gaze fell back on the skeletons, and Yi Chen muttered to himself.

  Upon closer inspection, Yi Chen discovered that these were not the skeletons of ordinary humans. Their skeletons were much larger than those of normal people, and they were relatively short in stature. In the center of their exposed bones, there was a strange mark.

  "These skeletons, how are they so similar to those few in the Heavenly Forest?" Yi Chen exclaimed in surprise.

  If he hadn't misremembered, the skeletons in the Tian Du Forest were also of this appearance, with an astonishing similarity to these skeletons.

  From this point of view, they should be the same kind of people.

  "There's also a huge handprint here." Yi Chen looked around and found a claw print on one of the walls, which gave him a very familiar feeling.

  "This mark looks like the claw print left by the Heavenly Demon King in the Tianyou Forest." Yi Chen thought for a moment, nodding.

  At first in the Heavenly Forest's graveyard, he also saw a similar paw print, and the breath left behind by both prints were consistent, obviously left by the same person.

  "Who is this Tian Yao Wang after all? How did he end up here? And it's clear that the seal here was broken by him."

  On the wall of the cemetery that day, there was a message left by the Heavenly Demon King. Although it's not here now, judging from the claw marks and aura, this claw mark must have been left by the Heavenly Demon King.

  "I don't know how strong that Tian Yao Wang is, why does he want to come to this place again." Yi Chen's face was full of confusion.

  "Quack quack." Suddenly, a series of strange sounds echoed through this space, and Yi Chen was very familiar with these calls.

  "It's the cry of a Jade Toad Spirit Stone." Yi Chen quickly made this judgment, his eyes scanning all around, wanting to catch its trail.