The black streak of light instantly descended, landing beside the crack on the ground. The silver-eyed armored guard looked down at the crack with a cold, emotionless gaze.
After observing for a while, it stood there, leaning on its giant sword.
The master of the cave palace had long given orders, and their patrols had specific boundaries. If the intruder was not within these boundaries, they would not pursue.
...
Hush.
Accompanied by the wind in his ears, Dongbo Xueying rapidly descended. Flames enveloped his entire body, illuminating the underground crack.
Thud, he landed.
Dongbo Xueying looked ahead, and the underground crack extended continuously in the direction of the cave palace.
"Could that battle have taken place inside the cave palace?" Dongbo Xueying immediately dashed in that direction, moving very quickly. After a short sprint, he glanced back and sighed in relief, "Fortunately, the guard didn't come after me."
Following the trajectory of the underground crack, he sprinted forward.
Finally, he stopped.
Dongbo Xueying looked ahead, where a silver-white wall stood out prominently among the rocks, resembling silver-white crystal. However, there was a huge wound on the wall, about seven to eight meters wide, with residual sharp and malevolent aura. The aura made Dongbo Xueying feel a bit uneasy.
This malevolent aura, even after countless tens of thousands of years, still made Dongbo Xueying feel pressure.
"It seems that the incomprehensible battle of that year took place in this underground structure. A very powerful existence angrily slashed, splitting the wall and tearing through the underground rock, spanning over a hundred miles, and finally appeared on the valley floor, leaving a huge crack stretching for twenty to thirty miles on the ground." Dongbo Xueying nodded in agreement.
This made him even more astonished. The underground was almost entirely composed of rock and soil, and a single strike spanning over a hundred miles? Good heavens! Describing it as 'world-shattering' was not an exaggeration!
He hesitated slightly outside the silver-white wall.
"I have no choice! Going to the Blackwind Abyss valley is a dead end." Dongbo Xueying knew that inside the building with the silver-white wall, there might be terrifying dangers, but there could also be pleasant surprises. "I have to take a chance!"
Holding the Flying Snow Divine Spear.
Flames enveloped his body, and the power of heaven and earth spread out.
Dongbo Xueying stepped forward along the crack in the wall.
"Whoosh!"
As soon as he entered, Dongbo Xueying's eyes lit up.
Before him was a massive hall, towering and grand, about two kilometers long and wide! Such a large hall was indeed awe-inspiring! However, many of the huge pillars were either broken or collapsed, and the hall was in a state of disrepair, with numerous fierce wounds on the sturdy silver-white ground.
On the distant silver-white wall, there were more than ten intersecting cracks, and he had just entered through one of them.
"A terrible battle must have taken place here!" Dongbo Xueying marveled, carefully observing the entire hall.
The hall was very spacious, and everything was visible at a glance.
However, Dongbo Xueying could not find a single door! There were no doors for entry or exit to other places. The entire hall was completely sealed, and although it was in a state of disrepair, there were no special items left on the ground.
"It seems that at least one side survived the battle and cleaned up the hall." Dongbo Xueying muttered to himself, "How did they enter and exit this hall? They couldn't have entered and exited through the cracks like I did, right?"
"There must be something I haven't discovered!"
Dongbo Xueying was not willing to give up.
He did not want to starve to death in the Blackwind Abyss; he wanted to survive and get out.
Walking through the hall, Dongbo Xueying carefully observed, using the power of heaven and earth to cautiously examine every area. His investigation was very slow and meticulous.
"Hum~" After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the power of heaven and earth swept over a corner of the hall, and the ground there suddenly rippled.
"There's something unusual!"
Dongbo Xueying's face lit up with joy. Cautiously, he flipped his hand, and a silver coin appeared.
Whoosh.
The silver coin was thrown, transforming into a streak of light and hitting the rippling area. The ripple trembled and instantly shattered, revealing the scene inside.
The scene within a hundred meters changed dramatically!
There was a stone bed, and on it sat a skeleton, faintly emitting an ice-blue glow, still wearing a silver robe.
In front of the stone bed was an octagonal pond, with a crystalline liquid flowing inside, surrounded by a faint mist. The pond was surrounded by dense magical array patterns, which continuously drew upon the power of heaven and earth to maintain it.
On either side of the pond were two golden statues of strange beasts, each about twenty meters tall.
One golden statue resembled an ape, with chains wrapped around its body.
The other golden statue resembled a golden great roc.
"Alchemical creatures?" Dongbo Xueying, with his keen eye, immediately noticed the extraordinary nature of these two golden statues. "The one who has been dead for an unknown amount of time, whose skeleton still emits an ice-blue glow, this phenomenon... it's likely that the deceased was an Extraordinary."
A normal human's corpse would not exhibit such phenomena.
"These alchemical creatures, I wonder if they can still move." Dongbo Xueying pondered. Alchemical creatures require energy to function, and without energy, they cannot move! However, alchemical creatures left by an Extraordinary... Dongbo Xueying was not certain.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Dongbo Xueying quickly moved away, retreating to the crack where he had entered.
"Whoosh!" He suddenly threw a silver coin.
The silver coin transformed into a streak of fire, traveling over five hundred meters and accurately striking the golden ape statue. Suddenly, the golden ape statue opened its eyes without warning, its eyes glowing with a golden light. It extended its large hand, swiftly grabbing the silver coin, which crumbled into powder and fell through the gaps in its hand.
The golden ape creature scanned the surroundings and saw Dongbo Xueying at the crack entrance. It roared, "Mortal, do not disturb my master!"
"Hmm?" Dongbo Xueying's face lit up with joy, "It can speak?"
Alchemical creatures of an Extraordinary were different; they could speak!
"The silver coin I threw didn't even touch it, and it woke up and caught the coin." Dongbo Xueying thought to himself, "It seems that an attack within a certain range will wake it up. And from the speed at which it caught the coin... it doesn't seem too strong."
The silver coin was not a very suitable projectile; he had merely used it to test the alchemical creature.
After traveling over five hundred meters, the silver coin's power was already quite weak, and it was not difficult to catch it with a single reach.
"From the speed at which it caught the coin, it doesn't seem much stronger than me. And now that it's awake, I don't feel any oppressive aura from it." Dongbo Xueying felt a glimmer of hope. When he saw the massive black dragon-like creature during his fall into the Blackwind Abyss, just a glance from it made his heart tremble and his legs weak.
The two golden alchemical creatures before him did not seem to be invincible.
"Perhaps I have a chance to obtain some items left by the Extraordinary, which might help me find a way out." Dongbo Xueying could hardly contain his excitement. Since they were here, there should be a path connecting to the outside world!
"Let's try again." Dongbo Xueying flipped his hand, and a short spear appeared in it.
The short spear and the silver coin were on completely different levels in terms of power.
"Roar!"
Dongbo Xueying leaned back, instantly unleashing his bloodline power, fully integrating the subtleties of fire. The explosive power of the flames made the short spear even more powerful.
Boom!!!
The short spear instantly tore through the air, emitting a piercing roar, and almost instantly traversed the five hundred meters to the golden ape.
"Thud!" The golden ape angrily slapped it away with a loud noise, causing the short spear to roll and strike the ground beside it. The golden ape also took a step back, revealing a look of shock and anger.
"Ha ha ha, the gap isn't that big." Dongbo Xueying's eyes lit up completely.