The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 452

Chapter 452: Chapter 448: The Ancient Tomb in the Deep Mountain Chapter 452: Chapter 448: The Ancient Tomb in the Deep Mountain The situation inside the cave was as he had expected, with the ground and the stone walls on both sides being quite flat, constructed from huge blocks of stone. Every now and then, there were small black holes appearing in the walls, while rotten arrows lay scattered on the ground.

Mechanisms had obviously been placed within the walls, but they had long been triggered and broken into.

Seeing this, Shen Luo realized that over many years, many monks must have visited this place. His mind relaxed a bit, but his pace did not hasten as he continued to move forward at the same speed as before.

After walking some distance, the passage eventually came to an end, with a stone chamber appearing ahead. The two large doors had already been destroyed, lying on the ground.

The stone chamber was extremely large, around a hundred feet in size. It was grandly constructed but was very empty. Apart from a few giant stone pillars, some fragments of stone, and a few soldier and horse stone statues that had been toppled over, there was no other items. It was unclear whether they had all been taken away by someone.

The stone chamber's side walls were carved with numerous exquisite murals, painted with bright colors, as if depicting the life story of the tomb owner.

However, many of these murals had also been destroyed and were unclear. It seemed they were telling the story of the tomb owner's life on the battlefield.

Shen Luo glanced at these murals a few times, quickly losing interest and turning to look at other parts of the room.

Deep within the stone chamber, there were three other passageways leading in different directions, their depths out of sight, leaving him unsure where they led.

Lu Huaming had never been to this ancient tomb before, so he didn't have much information about it and could not provide any guidance. Shen Luo could only improvise on his own.

After a moment of contemplation, Shen Luo chose the passageway on the far left to proceed.

The passage was quite long; he walked for about forty or fifty feet before reaching the end. There was also a stone chamber at the end of the passage, albeit much smaller, and the interior was similar to the previous one.

Of course, it was also very empty here, indicating that the items inside had either been taken or destroyed.

And, as in the previous stone chamber, there were three passageways leading in three other directions.

Seeing this scene, Shen Luo was stupefied, but quickly composed himself. After a moment of silence, he chose a passageway and continued moving forward.

The ensuing situations were the same as before; walking along each passageway, he would find a stone chamber, and within that stone chamber, there would always be two or three passageways leading onward.

Initially, Shen Luo was quite surprised, but after several repetitions, his mood gradually calmed down.

After traveling through several passages, he vaguely felt that these passageways seemed to be leading underground and that the Yin Sha Qi was becoming increasingly heavy.

Upon reaching here, fewer traces of previous explorers' destruction could be seen in the passageways and stone chambers, indicating that not many people had made it this far.

However, up until now, he had not encountered a single ghost.

“Could it be that I haven't reached the deep depths of this ancient tomb?” He thought in alarm. From the outside, the mausoleum appeared benign, but the breadth of its interior was probably far beyond his expectations.

He continued following a passageway forward, and after walking for a while, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shifted. A black shadow soared from the ground beneath, directly lunging at his face.

“Boom” – A muffled sound like something shattering echoed!

Shen Luo took a step back, dodging the opponent's attack. Then, his green short axe swung out, with green lightning flickering atop it, slashing at the black shadow.

The black shadow was cleanly split into two pieces and fell to the ground. It was a grey-black skull ghost. The lower half of its body was motionless, but the upper half leaped up from the ground, trying to escape into the distance.

Shen Luo was not about to let it escape. Just as he was about to use the dark green jade ruyi above his head to pursue it, his gaze suddenly changed, and he stopped the magic spell in his hand, waving his other hand.

A small black bag shot out from his hand, overtaking the skull ghost in the blink of an eye. It was the Qiankun bag.

A black halo rolled out from the bag and covered the ghost, the skull ghost instantly became stiff, unable to move.

The Qiankun bag suddenly enlarged several times and, covering it down, engulfed the form of the skull ghost.

A smile appeared at the corner of Shen Luo's mouth. Raising his hand, the Qiankun bag quickly shrank back to its previous size and flew back into his hand.

Inside the Qiankun bag was a black space the size of a room, with countless liquid-like black lights flowing inside.

The skull ghost fell into it, and the force that bound it suddenly disappeared. It looked around in panic and roared angrily. The two skeleton hands flashed with black light, like two black blades, and fiercely stabbed the black space barrier.

Shen Luo wanted to try the toughness of the Qiankun bag, so he didn't drive the prohibition in it to restrain the skull ghost, letting it struggle inside.

This skull ghost was not weak and comparable to a monk at the Qi Refining Stage 5-6. Although it had been chopped in half, it still maintained considerable combat power. The two skeleton hands hit the black barrier, making muffled noises.

However, the black light flowing on the barrier was like greasy fat. The attack of the skull ghost fell on it, and immediately slid to the side. Ten percent of the attack was immediately slid away by seven or eight percent. The black barrier was very tough. Like thick cowhide, no matter how the skull ghost attacked, it always remained solid, without any signs of rupture.

“Not bad.” Shen Luo sensed the situation, nodded, and stopped allowing the ghost to attack. He moved his mind and urged the attacking restriction inside.

A burst of dark green light surged out, enveloping the skull ghost.

The body of the skull ghost started to melt rapidly as if it had been splashed with strong corrosive acid.

Fear was evident in the eyeholes of the ghost, and it scurried around.

But the space inside the bag was effective, and the action of the skull ghost was futile. Its already incomplete body quickly melted by half and collapsed on the ground.

A dark green light enveloped the ghost, grinding it repeatedly. After a few breaths, the body of the skull ghost had completely melted, turning into a puddle of black slime.

Shen Luo took a small breath of cold air. The Yang poison energy contained in the bag was so powerful. Ghosts usually have quite strong resistance to poison, but the poisonous gas in this bag melted it just in a few breaths.

Of course, the greater the power of this bag, the better. He summoned back the Qiankun bag with a pleased expression and put it into his sleeve, continuing to move forward.

In the blink of an eye, half a day had passed.

Shen Luo was sitting in a passageway to rest. He took out an elixir to recover mana and began to refine it.

He had completely understood how large this ancient tomb was. The internal passageway was winding and twisting, and there were several branches from time to time, leading in all directions. It was simply like an underground maze.

In the past half-day, he didn't know how many stone chambers or how many passageways he had passed through, and he still hadn't explored the bottom of the ancient tomb.

During this period, he also made some gains, finding quite a few Yin-attribute spiritual materials and encountering some ghosts.

Unfortunately, these ghosts were all relatively weak. The most powerful were only in the middle stage of grain avoidance and were unsuitable to use.

Moreover, for a long time, he only encountered ghosts of this level, no matter how deep he went into the ancient tomb, he couldn't find any more powerful ghosts.