Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 951 - 42 Heavenly Demon [Combined Two in One]

Chapter 951: Chapter 42 Heavenly Demon [Combined Two in One]

Kacha...

This was a courtyard scattered with rubble, the collapsing walls unable to form a complete enclosure, but the gray stone tower inside remained intact, albeit covered with marks of ancient damage.

Chu Liang and his party entered the courtyard cautiously, their faces full of vigilance.

In the Thousand Buildings Valley, such a simple and unadorned tower was actually quite abnormal. Previously, every time they approached a pavilion, phantom illusions of wandering souls would evolve, but here it was just quietly decaying.

"Could it be that when Shenxu fell, there were no creatures here? So even though it crashed, there are no wandering souls here," guessed Venerable Azure Dragon.

"Possibly," nodded Cai Yi.

The three leaders walked ahead while Chu Liang silently followed behind, scouting around.

This tower indeed did not look like a residence, with eight floors and eight angles, the eaves hung with copper bells rusted and clogged. Looking through the door frame inside, there were no decorations, just empty stone walls, and the walls had several square holes dug out, inside which lay some overturned jar fragments.

"It looks like a tower used for Buddhist rituals, inside which are placed the bones or relics of the powerful," added Azure Dragon.

All four entered the tower, and with no sudden incidents, they boldly proceeded forward. At the end of the corridor was another door, and passing through it, they could exit. However, when the group walked through the door behind, the scene before them was somewhat horrifying.

The area was densely packed with skeletons.

The extent of decay of these bodies did not seem to date back to Ancient Times, some clothing was still not corroded and most of the skeletons still preserved a dull golden luster. It seemed there were various colors of clothes, both men and women, but the only commonality was that these people were all powerful beings from at least the Seventh Realm.

A courtyard full of powerful beings’ skeletal remains!

Dozens of Seventh Realm cultivators, the Immortal Cultivation World would take many years to lose as many, and today they were all piled up here. But the group was not surprised, recalling the legends about the Thousand Buildings Valley, the identities of these people were coming to light.

"This must have been the team jointly formed by the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands back then," Chu Liang looked over them one by one. Now their faces could no longer be distinguished, yet it was still vaguely possible to tell from their clothes and magic artifacts which Immortal Sect they belonged to, "Almost all were wiped out here."

"Indeed," Cai Yi raised her guard to the fullest, her body starting to reveal a Demonic Aura, "the illusions earlier, even if forcefully brute-forced, wouldn’t have been able to stop so many cultivators. If the team back then all died here, it only implies that the enemy here is even more terrifying."

All this was real; she could no longer simply break through as before.

The main gate could be seen far ahead, the distance between only a few hundred feet. Yet, this distance, scattered all over with skeletons, made them hesitant to move swiftly.

Chu Liang spread his Divine Sense and murmured, "But there’s no trace of the enemy, we don’t know where it came from, perhaps... perhaps we should first collect the remains of these predecessors."

He bent down, intending to collect these skeletons into his Storage Jade Slip.

This act was naturally out of respect for the ancestors of the Human Clan; he couldn’t bear to see their bodies exposed here. Of course, all these were powerful beings from the Seventh Realm onwards, together they definitely formed a small treasure. Naturally, the bones had to be sent back to various Immortal Sects for burial, while it was quite normal for some items to be missing?

"My master always taught me that those who cultivate should harbor kind thoughts, assist people to rest... ah, to be happy and to rest in peace," Chu Liang muttered as he attempted to collect a nearby skeleton.

Suddenly, he sensed something was amiss.

Below this skeleton, there was a round protruding object that initially didn’t move, but as Chu Liang touched it, it suddenly rolled upwards to the position of the skeleton’s crown.

It seemed to be a black round bead about the size of a goose egg?

Before he could make out what it was, he saw the skeleton’s eye sockets light up, shining with a black and golden light!

"Be careful!" Daoist Yan decisively shouted a clear warning.

Chu Liang had already grasped the Daoist Master Wu Ju’s techniques; at the moment the sudden change occurred, he had already moved ten feet away. However, the skeleton had already stood up, emitting a fierce Demonic Aura. Each of its bones made a creepy creaking noise as it moved.

"Leave it to me," Venerable Azure Dragon stepped forward steadily, positioning himself between Chu Liang and the skeleton, and sent a palm strike directly to the skeleton’s chest.

Bang—

A loud crash.

No matter if it had been a decayed skeleton for hundreds of years or even if this were a Seventh Realm powerful being unharmed standing here, it wouldn’t have been able to withstand the strike from Venerable Azure Dragon.

But bizarrely, this palm struck the skeleton’s chest, and aside from a loud sound, it only slid backward a yard.

Venerable Azure Dragon’s combat ability was not strong, but that was relative to powerhouses at the Peak of the Eighth Realm. Even beings within the Eighth Realm with lesser cultivation wouldn’t have been able to take it so easily.

What kind of power did this skeleton possess?

"That bead is suspicious," said Cai Yi suddenly, "It looks like a Buddhist relic containing Spirituality, but it’s filled with Demonic Qi..."

"Whether it’s Buddhist or demonic, it won’t be wreaking havoc here!" Perhaps feeling that he had lost face earlier, Venerable Azure Dragon, a bit irate, twisted his wrist and instantly transformed his hand into a Dragon Claw, fiercely slashing at it!

Boom—

This strike was violently fierce, ruthlessly making impact, instantly sending the skeleton flying apart, turning into a pile of shattered bones.

"Phew..." Venerable Azure Dragon let out a breath of relief, scoffing, "A mere demon daring to cause trouble?"