190: Chapter 190 Dragon Eyes Revealed, Destroyed with a Single Sword!

Su Yuxi stared at the fissure deep within the ancient platform, her brows knitting tighter and tighter.

The familiar feeling pressing against her chest grew heavier and heavier.

Lin Yi flashed onto the ancient platform.

Hum!

The platform shook.

The surrounding Stone Forest trembled in unison.

The next moment, the mass of dead, silent black Qi above the ancient platform suddenly began to surge.

Above everyone's heads, a screen of light slowly appeared, with thick black bubbles churning within it.

As soon as the light screen formed, Xu Chen was the first to curse.

"What the hell is this thing?"

"It looks so disgusting!"

The black water rippled, and two blood-gold vertical pupils opened deep within the light screen.

There was no face, no body.

Only two vertical pupils hung in the black water, carrying an unsettling air of condescension.

Chu Wanqing stepped forward half a step, the sound of her zither taut between her fingers.

"Hiding inside and playing god, get out here!"

A scoff came from the black water, grating against the ear bones.

Immediately after, a cold, sinister Divine Thought pressed down.

"The gatekeepers have all been buried."

"A few pieces of trash who stumbled here, and you dare to touch the gate?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Chen's temper flared instantly, and he swung the ancient desolate hall, wanting to smash it upwards.

"Shut up, who are you calling trash!"

"If you have the guts, show your head, and I'll crack it open for you!"

Shen Qingyue's hand gripping her flag tightened, the chill in her eyes no longer containable.

Su Yuxi stared at those two vertical pupils, her breathing slightly hitching.

That malice.

That air of looking down upon the Human Race.

It was exactly the same as the Dragon shadow she had encountered in her memories before.

Lin Yi stood in the center of the ancient platform, looking up at the light screen, and calmly spat out a sentence.

"A mere wisp of festering Divine Thought, and you dare to show your head!"

As the words fell, the black water light screen shuddered violently.

The ferocity in those two vertical pupils immediately surged up.

"Human Race junior, you are courting death!"

Lin Yi couldn't be bothered to listen further; he flipped his right hand, and Sword Intent erupted from his fingertips.

Grass Sword Art, he slashed immediately upon starting!

On the ancient platform, killing intent exploded instantly.

There was not a single word of nonsense or probing.

As soon as the sword light appeared, the entire Stone Forest was slashed until it trembled.

Swoosh!

The black water light screen split down the middle.

The blood-gold luster in those two vertical pupils was instantly shattered by this Sword Intent.

Roar!

A furious low roar came from within the light screen.

Xu Chen stood to the side, his back teeth aching just from hearing it.

"Ouch!"

"That feels good."

"You acted tough for so long, so it turns out you can feel pain too!"

The sword light's momentum did not stop; after cleaving through the black water, it slashed all the way into the layer of fog above the ancient platform.

Bang!

Most of the mass of black fog exploded.

The blood-gold vertical pupils shook violently, the contempt within them dissipating, leaving only sinister venom and resentment.

It stared fixedly at Lin Yi, wishing it could carve this face into the gaps of its bones.

Lin Yi stood where he was, flicked his wrist, and a second wisp of Grass Sword Art Sword Intent followed up immediately.

This time it was even more ruthless; the light screen was completely shattered.

Black water scattered, and a foul, fishy stench flooded the entire platform.

Those two vertical pupils exploded into several fragmented golden lights, and in the blink of an eye, they were stirred into nothingness by the Sword Qi.

Chu Wanqing lifted her fingers to pluck the strings, and a string of fierce sound blades swept across the air.

"Next time before you act tough, remember to look in a mirror first!"

The stuffiness in Su Yuxi's chest eased slightly.

But the string in her heart did not loosen.

That thing retreated too quickly, so quickly that it seemed as if it never intended to show its head at all.

Lin Yi, however, didn't care what its true purpose was.

As long as it dared to come, he would just keep slashing!

After the black water light screen dissipated, the sky above the Stone Forest suddenly brightened.

Everyone looked up at the same time.

The thick fog that had originally been pressing down on their heads retreated to the sides in layers.

Further away, a hazy, looming remnant gradually emerged.

It was a city, an old city buried in the fog.

Half of the city wall had collapsed, and only the outline of the city gate remained.

Many buildings still maintained their appearance from back then, but they were all submerged in the gray fog, appearing cold and dead.

Xu Chen opened his mouth wide and squeezed out a sentence.

"You've got to be kidding me?"

"This time you just put out a whole city?!"

Su Yuxi stared at the outline of the fog city, murmuring in a low voice.

"That place..."

"I have an impression of it."

Shen Qingyue raised her head, her broken flag moving without wind.

"There is the aura of the Shen Family inside that city!"

Chu Wanqing pursed her lips, her fingertips sliding slowly across the zither strings.

"They really know how to play."

"They've thrown another huge pit at us!"

Just as her voice fell, the ancient platform under their feet suddenly shook violently.

Click, click, click!

The surrounding stone pillars sank one after another.

Immediately after, the entire Stone Forest was slowly sinking.

Wang Hong shouted immediately from his side.

"Saint, be careful!"

"There's a change beneath our feet!"

Lin Yi grabbed Su Yuxi's wrist and took her, sweeping back to the edge of the ancient platform.

Shen Qingyue and Chu Wanqing also retreated at the same time.

Xu Chen hugged the ancient desolate hall, rolling and jumping, still shouting in his mouth.

"I knew it!"

"This place won't let me breathe quietly for three breaths!"

The Stone Forest sank deeper and deeper.

The stone pillars that had originally blocked the front actually formed a straight, long path during the sinking.

The long path was paved with layers of ancient stone steps, leading all the way to the ruined city in the fog.

The surface of the steps was covered with cracks and stained with mottled bloodstains.

One look at it was enough to make one's bones tighten with cold.

Lin Yi steadied his figure, looked up, and swept a glance at the ruined city at the end.

The road that was meant to come was already laid out before them.

Xu Chen gasped, hugged the ancient desolate hall tighter, and forcibly braced himself.

"Big Brother!"

"Are we heading for the main course this time?"

Lin Yi stepped to the front of the stone steps, a trace of a smile curling at the corner of his lips.

"Let's go!"

"I'd like to see what else is hidden in this city!"

Everyone moved forward cautiously, the stone steps leading all the way down, and the fog getting heavier and heavier.

After the stone walls on both sides retreated, an old city half-buried in the black fog finally revealed its outline.

The city gate had collapsed by more than half, the ruined walls slanted into the ground, and the bricks and stones were covered with dark, black stains.

When the wind blew, dust and debris fell along the city bricks, bringing out a scent of decay.

Xu Chen hugged the ancient desolate hall and shrank his neck.

"Big Brother, this place doesn't look like it welcomes the living!"

Chu Wanqing lifted her chin and swept a look of disdain at him.

"You actually have some self-awareness!"

Lin Yi didn't pick up on that, his gaze landing first on the top of the city gate.

There should have been a complete plaque there, but now it was split into two halves.

The left half was engraved with a 'Shen' character that had worn away quite a bit.

The right half was engraved with the two characters 'Heaven and Earth'.

The two remnant plaques were side by side, left and right, level with each other, with no difference in height or hierarchy.

Shen Qingyue stood where she was, her gaze pausing, and her hand in her sleeve tightened slightly.

Xu Chen poked his head out to take a look, stunned at first, then hissed.

"Hanging the plaques side by side?"

"Doesn't that mean the whole thing about the Heaven and Earth Gate's ancestral Legacy they were spouting earlier started falling apart right at the front door?"

Chu Wanqing held the imperial zither and scoffed.

"More than just falling apart."

"It's about to flip the whole pot over!"

These two remnant plaques placed here were enough to explain many things.

The Shen Family and the Heaven and Earth Gate were both gatekeepers back then, and neither was superior to the other.

Su Yuxi stared at the half of the 'Shen' remnant plaque, her brows twitching slightly.

A fragmented image flashed across her eyes again.

People were entering and leaving in front of this gate.

There were guards in green armor.

There were medical cultivators in white robes.

And there was that gray stone gate deeper inside that made it hard for people to breathe.

The image only flashed for an instant before quickly dissipating.

Lin Yi turned his head to look at her.

Su Yuxi shook her head gently.

"We are very close; let's go in and see!"

Lin Yi nodded.

"Let's go!"