189: Chapter 189 Mysterious Space, Giant Stone Platform!

He roared quite loudly, but the next moment, two stone pillars suddenly shifted horizontally from left and right, nearly crushing him in between.

Xu Chen was so scared his scalp tingled; he hugged the ancient desolate hall and rolled away in a sorry state, barely dodging them.

Boom!

The two stone pillars collided, the shock making his ears ring loudly.

Xu Chen lay on the ground, catching his breath.

"Damn! Even these stones know how to adapt."

"They've learned how to crush people!"

Just as he scrambled up, two Stone Puppets charged at him from the front.

Xu Chen gritted his teeth and simply laid the ancient desolate hall horizontally on the ground, then stepped back half a pace to circulate his spiritual power.

Layers of ancient patterns immediately lit up on the surface of the ancient desolate hall, and a heavy pressure descended, directly knocking the two Stone Puppets off balance.

Seizing the opportunity, Xu Chen snatched up the ancient desolate hall and slammed it down again.

Clang! Clang!

Two hits. Both Stone Puppets were smashed over.

Xu Chen grinned while panting, his face covered in dust.

"I've spent so many years on the Fourth Peak; I haven't mastered anything else, but when it comes to taking a beating and smashing people, I haven't fallen behind at all!"

Just then, Lin Yi and Su Yuxi finally fought their way to the end of the main path.

The space here was not large, but in the center stood the thickest black pillar.

The pillar body was wrapped in dozens of array patterns, and the lines extended outwards, perfectly hooking into the entire stone forest.

This was the main array eye.

Looking at the black pillar, Su Yuxi felt another sharp pain in her Sea of Consciousness, and the fragments of her memory pieced together more completely.

"We cannot attack blindly; it will borrow power to divert the strike."

"We must first cut the third array pattern below, then shatter the locking patterns above."

Lin Yi did exactly that, punching the ground and causing it to crack.

The second punch slammed into the crack, the fist force drilling into the base of the black pillar, precisely shattering the third array pattern.

The black pillar trembled instantly.

Su Yuxi raised her hand, the light of the Dao transforming into blades, and she slashed the three locking patterns above in succession.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

The sounds of shattering exploded one after another, and the entire black pillar shook violently.

Immediately after, the entire living stone forest seemed to have had the wind knocked out of it, and the stone pillars that were previously shifting horizontally all slowed down.

Not far away, Chu Wanqing and Shen Qingyue also followed the tremors and arrived here.

As soon as Chu Wanqing appeared, she shook the jade box in her hand.

"I have a harvest."

"Found a lamp."

"And it's solid evidence."

Xu Chen also ran over from the middle section, covered in dust, his hair disheveled.

"Big Brother, you're finally done."

"If I keep guarding this place, I'll really have to become sworn brothers with this bunch of rocks!"

Lin Yi glanced at the dust on him.

"You're still alive, which means you guarded it well!"

Xu Chen instantly perked up.

"That's a must!"

"My greatest strength is that I'm tough!"

Chu Wanqing was about to say something snide, but her gaze suddenly paused.

To the side, behind a cracked stone wall, something seemed to flash.

The speed was extremely fast, but she still managed to catch a glimpse of it for an instant.

A black shadow looked like a Dragon horn, along with a pair of eyes that were chillingly evil.

The smile on Chu Wanqing's face vanished instantly, and her grip on her zither tightened.

"Big Brother Lin Yi."

"There's something over there!"

Everyone turned their heads at the same time.

But behind that cracked stone wall, there was only deep darkness.

That shadow with the Dragon horn was already gone.

Chu Wanqing turned to the side and pointed at the cracked stone wall.

"Over there!"

"That black shadow just now darted through that way."

Xu Chen shook the dust off his head and said with a serious face.

"I can vouch for Sister Wanqing; I saw it too."

"That thing had a pair of horns on its head!"

Lin Yi strode toward the cracked wall to investigate.

With the main array eye gone, the activity in the living stone forest had quieted down significantly, though the surrounding stone pillars were still shifting slightly.

Wang Hong scanned the surroundings and stood on the outer side, holding his weapon.

"Saint, you go ahead."

"Leave this place for us to guard."

Lin Yi nodded.

"I'll have to trouble you Elders."

Shen Qingyue took out the broken flag and gripped it in her hand, following closely behind.

The old blood on the corner of the flag had long since faded, but the fabric of the flag remained taut, carrying an indescribable chill.

Su Yuxi walked on Lin Yi's left side, her forehead still aching slightly.

The previous fragments of memory had rushed in too violently, and her Sea of Consciousness was still buzzing even now.

The group passed through the cracked wall, and behind it was an extremely narrow stone crevice.

The stone walls on both sides were absurdly high; looking up, one could only see a sliver of gray, heavy sky.

The surface of the stone walls was covered in crisscrossing marks.

Some were thin, some were wide.

The deepest ones had almost gouged out half the stone wall.

Xu Chen took a couple of glances, his throat feeling dry.

"Damn, if this thing was really clawed out..."

"Then if it hit me with one swipe, I'd probably be flattened into a pancake."

Chu Wanqing walked forward, clutching her zither, and immediately delivered a verbal strike.

"Xu Chen, don't worry!"

"If it sees you, it will probably find you too tough to chew!"

Xu Chen smacked his lips.

"Sister Wanqing, your way of comforting people is truly unique!"

Shen Qingyue raised her hand and brushed against the stone wall, her fingertips picking up a layer of extremely faint black ash.

Beneath the black ash, there was hidden extremely fine gold powder.

That was not mineral dust.

That was the trace left behind after blood had dried completely.

Walking to the end of the stone crevice, the ground beneath the group suddenly disappeared, and the area ahead opened up abruptly.

A ruined ancient platform, a hundred zhang square, lay quietly in the heart of the stone forest.

The four corners of the platform were all cracked, and the jagged gaps on the edges were all traces left by fierce battles.

In the center, there remained a few pools of darkened blood, blackish-gold, exuding a rotting stench.

Even more eye-catching were the claw marks on the surface of the ancient platform.

Each one was several zhang long, overlapping one another, and terrifyingly deep.

One of them tore from the surface all the way to the edge, even ripping open the stone foundation below.

Su Yuxi stopped in her tracks, her chest tightening violently, and the Dragon roar that had been suppressed for a long time in her ears slammed out once again.

This time it was closer.

More urgent.

And more chaotic!

There was not a shred of arrogance in that roar, only anger and an irrepressible sense of grievance.

Su Yuxi raised her hand to press against her chest, her voice cold.

"It suffered a loss here."

"And a significant one at that!"

Lin Yi activated his Primordial Immortal Pupil, and the ancient platform immediately changed appearance in his eyes.

Although those pools of blood had been dry for a very long time, the ferocious aura within them had not yet dissipated.

The trail of blood dragged all the way back, pointing directly to the torn opening deep within the ancient platform.

In other words.

The evil Dragon that left the blood had been roaring as it retreated back then, and it hadn't retreated very gracefully.

Lin Yi walked forward a few steps and stopped in front of one of the deepest claw marks.

In that claw mark, a faint fluctuation remained.

Chilling!

It also carried a sense of high-and-mighty contempt!

This fluctuation was almost identical to the Dragon shadow that circled above White Bone Beach when Shen Qingyue previously caught the broken flag.

Shen Qingyue also walked close by, and the broken flag trembled slightly in her hand.

"That wisp of aura at White Bone Beach was swept out from here."

"It has been to this place."

Xu Chen hugged the ancient desolate hall and stood at the edge of the ancient platform, peeking around.

"Came deep, but retreated quite fast."

"I just said, when Sister Yu Xi heard that Dragon roar earlier, the vibe was off."

"That posture, it didn't look like it won at all; it was clearly beaten up by someone and was still refusing to accept it."

Chu Wanqing pressed down on the zither strings and lifted her chin.

"Does it matter if it doesn't accept it?"

"Its blood is already spilled here!"