64: The flowers on the other shore are blooming, creating a joyful fantasy.
As the stone wall above vibrated, Li Yan acutely sensed someone attacking the mountain protection array.
There must be something happening outside!
And Yao Chen, the Utility Disciple beside him, seemed to be hesitating about something, but quickly made a decision. Yao Chen took out a human skin map from his懷.
“Senior Brother, it seems there’s something going on up there. But my cultivation is too low; staying by your side would only hold you back.”
“This is a map I drew myself. I’ve left marks throughout the cave, and if you follow this map, you can reach the location of the Divine Tomb.”
Seeing the human skin map handed to him, Li Yan raised an eyebrow: “If you had this, why didn’t you take it out earlier?”
Yao Chen shyly rubbed the back of his head: “Before, I was still wary of Senior Brother. Senior Brother gave me this protective Talisman, and I…”
Hearing the youth say this, Li Yan didn't think much of it.
There was no time to waste words again. Li Yan, who picked up the map, threw out a Stealth Talisman.
“Find a place to hide. I’ll come back to take you out.”
After throwing out the Stealth Talisman, Li Yan began to move, no longer caring about Yao Chen’s fate.
If the youth was lucky enough to survive until he emerged from the Divine Tomb, Li Yan would certainly keep his promise and take him out of the grotto.
Casting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, Li Yan memorized everything with just a glance at the map.
After all, with his current cultivation, photographic memory was just the most basic ability.
“Let’s go.”
Li Yan stepped onto his Flying Sword and began to rush towards the Divine Tomb.
Yao Chen watched Li Yan leave, cupping his hands in farewell: “Senior Brother, take care! You must… you must come back alive.”
It wasn’t until Li Yan disappeared that the youth Yao Chen suddenly changed his expression, revealing a composure that didn’t belong to his age.
The youth sighed with an old-fashioned air: “I hope this Li Yan doesn’t disappoint me. Presumably, he should be able to come out of the Divine Tomb alive.”
Ahead, the grotto’s tunnels were wide and crisscrossing.
Li Yan followed the map in his memory, riding his Flying Sword through the tunnels.
As he flew, Li Yan looked down at the human skin map in his hand.
“A human skin map… Am I overthinking it? After all, there are no plants in the grotto to make paper, but dead bodies are everywhere, so skin is used as paper.”
Li Yan always felt that Yao Chen was hiding something from him.
But so what?
He would adapt to the situation. With the System’s blessing, even if the Divine Tomb was filled with curses and resentful curses, the greater the side effects, the less they mattered.
As Li Yan flew, Corpse Puppet Su Mo also followed him.
The master and servant, at the fastest speed, precisely found the location of the Divine Tomb within this grotto filled with branching paths.
Looking at the engravings on the wall, those were the marks Yao Chen had made in the grotto.
“The Divine Tomb is just ahead.”
Li Yan only stood at the periphery and felt a surge of blood Qi rushing towards him.
And when he arrived near the Divine Tomb, the Magic Eye at his waist also transmitted a thought.
【This foolish boy, wants to go into the Divine Tomb to seek treasure?】
【Heh, he doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth. He has never seen the true appearance of an Ancient Divine Venerable, how could he understand the terror of an Ancient Divine Venerable?】
【Presumably, once he reaches the periphery of the Divine Tomb, he will start to retreat.】
Ember Immortal, who resided in the Magic Eye, secretly mocked Li Yan’s youth.
Ancient Divine Venerables, those were the most primitive beings born at the beginning of Chaos.
Not long after Ember Immortal’s thoughts came, Li Yan had already stepped into the periphery of the Divine Tomb.
When he entered this place, he immediately felt a surge of blood-fiend Qi rushing towards him.
Accompanied by bursts of laughter…
What greeted his eyes was a sea of corpses and blood!
Mountains of crimson flesh, and corpses everywhere with extremely hideous death expressions.
But these piles of corpses were covered in blooming crimson Lycoris flowers, the Manjusaka blooming brilliantly.
Crimson petals, like silk dyed with fresh blood, moved without wind, twisting into strange arcs, as if thousands of resentful souls were falling.
The stamens, like congealed blood, extended from the heart of the flower, precisely like soul-hooking冥 hooks. The stems were pale like human bones, wrapped with dark red veins.
And on these piles of corpses where Lycoris flowers bloomed, there were actually living people!
A group of women in white robes were holding hands, stepping on the Bloodline Poison Pool of flesh and bones, and amidst thousands of fresh flowers, dancing around a Jingguan piled up with human skulls.
The pure white robes stood out strikingly in the Bloodline Poison Pool filled with corpses.
The black hair of the white-robed women was adorned with wreaths woven from Lycoris flowers.
They tirelessly emitted bursts of silver-bell-like laughter, holding hands and circling the Jingguan, performing a strange dance similar to a bonfire dance.
The scene was extremely bizarre; they seemed tireless, constantly spinning in the Bloodline Poison Pool of flesh and bones.
Their clear laughter echoed in the empty grotto, but this pleasant laughter repeated endlessly, like demonic sounds filling the ears.
They seemed to be performing some ritual, or living in some kind of illusion, never stopping for generations, dancing for the Divine Tomb.
When Li Yan saw such a bizarre scene, a normal person would probably have their scalp tingling.
But Li Yan noticed one thing: these white-robed women were not blood Qi Cultivators of the Dharma-ending Age!
They had Spiritual Qi on them; these white-robed women were true Cultivators!
Seeing this, Li Yan astonishingly put forward a hypothesis.
“Qi Refining Realm, Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Realm… I didn’t expect them to be genuine Cultivators.”
“Could it be that these people are from tens of thousands of years ago? And they are still alive now?”
They seemed neither old nor dead, forever confined in the Divine Tomb, dancing in the Bloodline Poison Pool covered with Lycoris flowers.
Tens of thousands of years passed, and none of them aged, forever immersed in this bizarre yet joyful atmosphere.
And at the entrance, Li Yan saw dozens of corpses of Utility Disciples.
Their bodies had turned into mummies, but their faces still held the smiles they had before death.
Eerie.
At this moment, Li Yan could not describe the scene before him; the shock of witnessing it firsthand rendered any textual description pale and powerless.
From the Magic Eye at his waist, Ember Immortal’s thoughts also came.
【Heh, an ordinary person, seeing such a scene, should understand the danger of this place.】
【Even a Sect Master of the Demonic Dao like this Venerable could not resist the erosion of the Ancient Divine Venerable. How dare you, a mere little Daoist, step into the Divine Tomb?】
Ember Immortal was certain that Li Yan would immediately turn around and leave.
Back then, her Great Ascension Stage cultivation had fallen here, leaving only one eyeball.
Could this little Daoist, Li Yan, be more powerful than her, a Great Ascension Stage Immortal?
Just as Ember Immortal was waiting for Li Yan to make a fool of himself, Li Yan actually stepped into the Divine Tomb right under her nose.
“He’s crazy! Is this boy crazy?”
Ember Immortal almost couldn’t help but speak up to warn Li Yan, this little Daoist who didn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth.
Although this little Daoist’s cultivation was comparable to the Foundation Establishment Stage, the Ban Xue Realm of the Dharma-ending Age was weaker than the Foundation Establishment Stage of the Immortal Law Age.
With his cultivation, he dared to enter the Divine Tomb?
But Li Yan not only dared, he even walked up to the group of dancing white-robed women and observed them up close.
At this moment, Ember Immortal’s heart was almost in her throat.
“Little Daoist, stop! You absolutely cannot awaken them! You will be dragged into the Blood Realm’s pleasure.”