Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1297: The Body of an Unidentified Innate Expert

Chapter 1297: Chapter 1297: The Body of an Unidentified Innate Expert

Several hundreds of meters below the Eternal Death Zone, in the Essence Stone Mine, the sudden appearance of a mummified corpse before Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu felt utterly eerie.

Luckily, both were skilled and courageous Martial Artists, not frightened by the mummy, yet they couldn’t imagine how this corpse was buried in the Essence Stone Mine below their feet or how it remained so remarkably preserved.

It should be noted, the Fire Elemental Stones of the underground Essence Stone Vein were countless, endlessly emitting scorching Fire Primordial Qi. Over the years, let alone the flesh of a fallen Martial Artist, even a body as hard as steel would have likely melted away; yet this mummy was intact, not a single piece of its clothing torn, making it incomprehensible and unbelievable.

With deep questions, Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu, disregarding their joy from their recent breakthrough, glanced at each other, stood up, and with a sweep of their palms, scattered the Essence Stone dust around the mummy, and cautiously stepped forward.

"Who knows why this Martial Artist died here, but he must have been a very handsome man in life."

Xia Chenyu encircled the mummy and closely examined it, thereafter drawing her conclusion.

Although the skin of the mummy was shriveled and dry, making it difficult to discern its true age, the features that remained fairly recognizable indicated that he must have been extraordinary in appearance during his lifetime.

"Being handsome is just one aspect. The strength he possessed in life was also exceedingly formidable... formidable enough to surpass the vast majority of Martial Artists in this world..."

Fang Bai also observed the mummy, murmuring.

Xia Chenyu, hearing the excitement in Fang Bai’s voice, turned her head to look at him, seeing a strange gleam in his eyes, curiously said, "You seem quite interested in this mummy?"

Fang Bai, touching his chin, said, "An Innate Expert with a Fire Spirit Root, standing atop the Martial Artists of this world, and also a High Rank Array Master... Aren’t you interested?"

"Ah?"

Xia Chenyu was momentarily stunned, then, regaining her senses, excitedly pointed at the mummy and said, "You... you mean this mummy had the same Innate Fire Spirit Root as me? And was an Innate Realm expert? Moreover, a High Rank Array Master?"

Fang Bai nodded and said, "Exactly."

Xia Chenyu took a deep breath, suppressing her excitement, furrowed her brow and said, "But he must have been dead for many years, how did you deduce all this?"

Fang Bai glanced at the mummy, said, "Innate Experts possess robust bodies, often referred to as the ’Vajra Indestructible Body’, which pertains to Innate Experts. But just the Vajra Indestructible Body is not enough to withstand the long-term assault of Fire Primordial Qi underground; eventually, even his body would disintegrate. Only a sturdy body combined with the Fire Spirit Root closely aligned with Fire Primordial Qi, along with the protective Force of Defensive Arrays, enabled his body to remain intact even post-mortem."

Xia Chenyu listens to Fang Bai’s analysis, nodding in agreement, sighed, "That makes sense! From your explanation, he indeed was an extraordinarily rare Martial Dao Genius, it’s unexpected that he met his demise here."

Fang Bai continued, "The entrance to this Essence Stone Mine might have been excavated by him. He came here, presumably for personal cultivation. A mishap during cultivation resulted in severe injuries, with death looming. He used a large amount of Fire Elemental Stones to seal himself in a confined space, setting up Defensive Arrays around him to prevent external forces from destroying his body after death... Of course, this is just my conjecture, the specifics are unknown to anyone."

Xia Chenyu’s eyes landed on the Spatial Ring worn on the mummy’s finger, her eyes shining, she said, "As an Innate Expert, there must be many treasures inside his Spatial Ring, right?"

"Don’t touch!"

Seeing her reaching to remove the Spatial Ring from the mummy’s finger, Fang Bai quickly pulled her back, smiling wryly, "This was an Innate Expert, before his demise, he surely set up some essential measures for self-protection, to guard his body from being damaged. I bet, had you touched his Spatial Ring just now, you’d already be dead! I wouldn’t have been able to protect you in time!"

Xia Chenyu, startled, said, "You mean... this fellow might have been carrying powerful Spiritual Artifacts for both offense and defense?"

Fang Bai replied, "How could an Innate Expert be without several powerful Spiritual Artifacts. Let’s step back and find out."

He dragged Xia Chenyu back several zhangs away from the dried corpse, then swiftly set up a miniature defensive array around them to protect both himself and Xia Chenyu. Only then did he shake his hand and shoot out an Essence Stone towards the finger of the dried corpse that wore the Space Ring.

Xia Chenyu’s eye widened in shock as she watched the Essence Stone whistling through the air toward the dried corpse, her expression revealing her nervousness.

Whoosh!

The Essence Stone cast by Fang Bai, with a piercing sharp whistling, crossed the space of several zhangs in an instant and crashed into the Space Ring on the finger of the dried corpse.

Just as the Essence Stone was about to touch the Space Ring, the ring suddenly flared up with bright scarlet light, and two fiery Qi blades crossed into a crucifix shape burst from within the ring, slashing ferociously towards the spot where Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu were standing.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

The two incomparably sharp scarlet blades tore through the space in front of Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu, slashing onto the miniature defensive array set up by Fang Bai with a speed several times greater than that of the Essence Stone he had thrown.

Boom!

Amid a thunderous sound, the defensive array set up by Fang Bai vibrated violently, then unexpectedly collapsed.

The scattering fire Qi surged like roaring rapids, encompassing the entire crater space, and instantly the temperature within the space shot up significantly.

Fang Bai had not expected the murderous intent hidden within the Spatial Ring to be so powerful that it not only instantly shattered his defensive array but also continued, with undiminished force, slashing towards them, which greatly startled him.

Fortunately, having experienced numerous battles in his past and current life, Fang Bai, faced with the strongest attack since his rebirth, while shocked, didn’t panic and hastily reached out his right hand where the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade appeared in a flash of dark light.

"Soul Severing! Silence Annihilation!"

Amid a fierce shout, Fang Bai’s right arm swung fiercely, unleashing the two strongest moves from the Mad Blade’s triple attacks.

"Woo..."

The Blood-Drinking Mad Blade let out a deep mournful sound as two blood-colored blades, filled with Fang Bai’s full force, met the lightning-speed blades that slashed towards them.

Boom...

As the two blade lights collided with the two blade intents, they exploded in a huge roar, causing Xia Chenyu’s ears to ring and her head to reel.

Crash...

The surrounding Fire Elemental Stones of the deep pit collapsed and fell in chunks due to the intense shockwaves produced by the collision of the blade lights and blade intents.

Fortunately, the structure of the Essence Stone at the bottom of the pit was dense and the space sufficiently sturdy; otherwise, had the deep pit collapsed, they could have been buried hundreds of meters under numerous Fire Elemental Stones, and that would have been a huge problem.