FS-novel #212 - Cemetery
#212 - Cemetery
True Dragon Main Hall.
This book is first published on the entire network by 𝕥𝕨𝕜𝕒𝕟.𝕔𝕠𝕞
Even more majestic and imposing, filled with overbearing aura.
But it's hard to hide the dilapidated and old atmosphere.
Stepping into the main hall, the first thing that catches the eye is the huge dragon sculpture stone pillars.
They seem to be supporting the sky, holding up a dome that is dozens of feet high.
"Is this a real dragon, or a statue?" Xu Chengxian touched it curiously with his tail.
The dragon-shaped reliefs winding around the stone pillars have ferocious dragon heads and lifelike scales, as if they could break free from their restraints at any time and soar above the nine heavens.
But if you get closer, you will find cracks everywhere.
Whether it is external or internal, it looks very much alive.
No, it should be said that it used to be alive.
"This is the True Dragon Imperial Mausoleum," Ling Xiao said softly, exhaling.
"So the dragons on these pillars are all dragon corpses?" Xu Chengxian looked up.
Good heavens!
He couldn't help but yearn for the era when the true dragons were alive.
"I could eat this one for several days."
"…"
"…"
"Ha! You little brat, you have such a big appetite!" Da Hei couldn't help but laugh, "Why don't you say you're not enough for it to swallow in one bite?"
"Hmph~ How can I lower my prestige!"
"This hall probably won't last long," Ling Yunzi said, looking around the hall.
When the main hall of the Azure Dragon Secret Realm was forged, it seemed that a lot of spiritual materials similar to the plaque on the Sin Prison Hall were used.
Divine sense is not very useful here.
However, judging by eyesight and experience alone, some information can be seen.
"With such a huge palace, the underground spiritual veins can't support it."
The true dragon clan of the demon race has long disappeared.
The existence of the formation seals the entire hall.
Otherwise, everything would have turned to dust long ago.
"Let's go, there's nothing here," Ling Xiao urged Xu Chengxian.
The flesh and bones of the dragon corpses coiled on the stone pillars are like chewed sugar cane.
"Everything on the demon corpses has been extracted, it's useless to look," Ling Yunzi also said.
If it weren't for the formation seal, it would probably turn into fly ash with a touch.
Without them saying, Xu Chengxian had already guessed it.
No need to think too much.
The fact that they are still on the pillars in such good condition, without being scavenged by the demons who came in the past, must have a reason.
Either it can't be taken away, or it's not worth taking.
At this time, it is obviously the latter.
In contrast, the dragon egg in the middle of the main hall is empty.
The dragon egg that should have been on it is now only a lonely one left.
The dragon eggs in the True Dragon Main Hall are not comparable to the dragon eggs with mixed bloodlines in the previous imperial mausoleum.
It can be seen that the demons who came also knew what was good.
As long as it is a good thing, there is no reason not to want it.
"Where to?" Xu Chengxian, of course, took away the last dragon egg without any politeness, and then asked.
No matter what, it's a good start to have a harvest as soon as you arrive!
"Spirit Garden," Ling Xiao said.
…
Spirit Garden.
Mausoleum Garden.
Interesting.
Xu Chengxian scratched his head, looking at the plaque.
The true dragon clan actually plays on homophones.
This extremely vast courtyard.
Hidden behind the True Dragon Main Hall.
It is estimated to be hundreds of acres.
From some traces, it can still be seen that in its heyday, it must have been a blessed place with exotic flowers, rare herbs, and heavenly treasures.
But now, it can be described in four words.
"Devastated," Ling Yunzi's face was not good.
Although the spiritual energy is still considered rich, and you can even smell some residual aura of spiritual plants.
But it is also inevitably filled with some chaotic air.
Moreover, weeds are everywhere, and there are deep and shallow pits everywhere.
The further you go, the more serious the situation becomes.
The weeds are almost as tall as a person.
Even so, those pits are still conspicuous in it.
Big pits inside small pits.
Small pits next to big pits.
Some of the pits are even bottomless.
It looks very much like the traces left by digging up the roots in order to collect spiritual plants and spiritual objects.
The technique is very rough, so that there are still dead branches of spiritual plants left on the ground.
Ling Yunzi flicked his whisk, and a little spiritual power shot out, lifting the remaining branches and carefully examining them.
Then he shook his head.
"This is a broken branch of a dragon breath vine."
"The medicinal properties have dissipated."
"It's a bit too much to waste spiritual materials like this," Ling Xiao frowned upon hearing this.
How could this spirit garden be ruined like this?
Xu Chengxian shrank his body, transformed into a length of two feet, and followed behind the two.
While poking his head to look around, he listened to the two talking.
Thinking, the medicinal properties have dissipated, isn't this very normal?
Don't even think about how long it has been since the last time the imperial mausoleum was opened until this time.
Even if it is a spiritual plant, a dead branch will not last for ten years.
Of course, if it is a seed or root system, it may be possible.
"Don't look at the dead branches, hurry up and find out if there is anything that can still be used!"
This time it was his turn to urge Ling Xiao and Ling Yunzi.
After speaking, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Oh~"
"Huh?" Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Why sigh?"
"Tsk, I just feel that there are pits on the ground, which is very unpleasant," Xu Chengxian said, "And these grasses."
Such a good place is full of withered yellow grass and pits, which makes him feel particularly uncomfortable.
The land should be used to grow crops or vegetables.
It's a waste to abandon it, it's a waste of natural resources!
Ling Xiao glanced at him, thinking, could this old ghost have been a farmer in his previous life?
It seems to have a special feeling for farming.
But he didn't want to ask more, and instead said to Ling Yunzi: "Shall we split up and search this place?"
"That's exactly what I want," Ling Yunzi nodded.
This place is not small.
If you only use divine sense to investigate, you may miss something.
It's better to look carefully and search bit by bit.
The two decided and looked at Xu Chengxian.
Among the three, Xu Chengxian knows the least about spiritual objects.
So this is asking him whether to follow one of them, or have other ideas.
"You guys are busy, I'll take a stroll," Xu Chengxian decided to act alone.
His goals are different from the two.
I want dragon eggs more.
Furthermore, although he can't recognize the specific origin of spiritual objects, he can still sense whether they are good things.
What's more, Da Hei is here now.
"I've already agreed with Da Hei, you guys will evaluate the price of the good things it finds, and I'll give blood energy as a reward."
"Alright," Ling Xiao nodded.
This is a good idea.
The only concern is whether Xu Chengxian's blood energy will be detrimental to his cultivation.
But looking at the other party's appearance, he should know it in his heart.
The two also agreed.
So, the three divided into a direction.
Start searching in the spirit garden.
Just told Xu Chengxian: "Be careful, there may be something strange in this garden."
…
"Strange things?"
"What strange things?"
"It would be strange if there were no strange things in such a place."
Xu Chengxian muttered in his mouth, while using his tail to push aside a patch of grass.
The atmosphere of this mausoleum garden is very much like a graveyard.
No, it was originally a graveyard.
A type of graveyard formed by ancient battlefields because it is sparsely populated and shrouded in mountain mist all year round.
Except for some crazy guys, or surrounding hunters and medicine pickers who are familiar with the terrain, almost no one patronizes.
Moreover, there are no traces of beasts here.
Quiet, too quiet.
Quiet people feel hairy in their hearts.
It's like an ancient bloody battlefield, where countless demons and people died here.
Then time passed, the world changed, and the flesh and blood of dead creatures have long turned into loess and bones, buried underground and become fertilizer.
"So these weeds and shrubs grow so lush."
Especially, there are some dry bones and fragments at the bottom of some deep pits, which adds to the atmosphere.
"It would be even more appropriate to have a female ghost at this time."
Xu Chengxian while making up ghost stories in his heart to find excitement, while pushing aside the grass, to explore the spiritual materials.
Then.
He saw a dragon egg.
"Wow... um?"