Chapter 1024: 1006 Stone Statue Army_1
The next second, the Blood Demon Qilin, which had been weak and gasping for breath, suddenly burst forth with a beam of blood light!
"It worked!" Qing Yu, eyes wide open, exclaimed in surprise. She had been transferring Divine Power to the Blood Demon Qilin all night to no avail, but Chu Qin, with just a drop of his blood, had saved the Blood Demon Qilin!
"Hmm!" Chu Qin said with a smile, "You've worked hard, Qing Yu!"
Qing Yu shook her head firmly and said, "This was the task you gave me, Chu Qin, and I was determined to revive the Blood Demon Qilin."
"So you must complete any task I give you?" Chu Qin said with a smile.
"Because..." Qing Yu stalled, slightly at a loss for words.
Chu Qin seemed to see something in what Qing Yu said, a clear sense of admiration for him!
Perhaps there were also some other feelings mixed in!
"Alright, Qing Yu, you should go and rest. The Blood Demon Qilin should be fine now," Chu Qin said with a smile.
"Okay, Chu Qin, I'll be leaving first," Qing Yu nodded and said. Then, without further ado, Qing Yu stepped forward without looking back and walked towards the cabin.
Chu Qin only gave Qing Yu a glance, then turned to instruct the Scarlet Dragon Lord and the Azure Qilin Dragon to guard the Blood Demon Qilin well while he himself headed to Azure Dragon's room!
Because Chu Qin wanted to pass on the four ancient bloodlines to his women, and among his women, Azure Dragon undoubtedly had the strongest capacity to endure!
And overnight, Azure Dragon had broken through directly to the Second Layer Saint Honor!
The next day.
Chu Qin and the ladies returned to the cave.
"Ya Yue, it's up to you now!" Chu Qin looked towards Ya Yue.
Just now, Ya Yue had deciphered the memories of the Blood Demon Qilin and finally understood the method to open the Ancestral Demon Tomb!
"Hmm!" Ya Yue nodded, then promptly smeared the blood obtained from the Blood Demon Qilin onto the southwest corner of the wall.
"Who would have thought that the key to opening the Ancestral Demon Tomb was actually the blood of the Blood Demon Qilin!" Phoenix said, slightly shocked.
"It seems that the Blood Demon Qilin was indeed the guardian of the Ancestral Demon Tomb," You Yin said.
"To be precise, the guardian should be the father of this Blood Demon Qilin!" Jiu Yin said, "He must have been killed by the Black Emperor, who then left behind this young Blood Demon Qilin to consume her blood and to use it to open the tomb's passage!"
"However, having bled so much, the Blood Demon Qilin should be alright, right?" Lan Lan asked, holding the small Qilin in her arms. For convenience, the Blood Demon Qilin had already become a small pet, just like the Scarlet Dragon Lord and the others.
"Don't worry, Lan'er," Chu Qin smiled, "After taking her blood, I fed her a bit of mine; she won't have any issues!"
"Wu wu!" The Blood Demon Qilin quickly nodded within Lan Lan's embrace. Her large, beautiful, and adorable eyes looked happily at Chu Qin.
Because she knew that Chu Qin was her life-saving benefactor!
And then, accompanied by a thunderous noise, the stone wall before them finally burst open!
Suddenly, everyone was shocked by the scene before their eyes.
At a glance, it was an incredibly vast open space!
Above this open space stood innumerable, endless stone statues!
These statues were all carved in the shape of demi-demons; at first glance, one might think they were facing an army of billions of magical beasts!
"So many statues!" Everyone was surprised.
Chu Qin had seen the terracotta warriors in his previous life, but compared to what was before him now, it was nothing.
The statues here, each one ten meters tall, were numbered, presumably, in the hundreds of millions!
"Where did all these statues come from!"
"Eh, Chu Qin, these statues don't seem to be made from ordinary materials!" Suddenly, Ya Yue exclaimed in surprise, "It seems they are made from the rocks of the Ancestor Demon Mountain Range!"
"What! Impossible!" Qing Yu, Jiu Yin, and the others immediately were shocked and hurriedly approached the statues.
Everyone knew that the rocks of the Ancestor Demon Mountain Range were indestructible.
And now, they had been cast into stone statues, which was astonishing!
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"It seems that it really is made of stones from the Ancestor Demon Mountain Range!" Xiaowu drew out the Xuanyuan Divine Sword and struck one of the stone statues, leaving no trace at all.
Despite being at the Supreme Lord Realm, Xiaowu couldn't even penetrate a single small stone statue, which was astonishing.
And this further supported the likelihood that these were sculpted from stones of the Ancestor Demon Mountain Range!
"What do you think, could these stone statues... move?" Suddenly, Li Ji expressed a bold idea.
"Surely not!" exclaimed the World Tree, "If they could move and be controlled by someone, they would be an invincible army of Puppets!"
Indeed, if practitioners of the Supreme Lord Realm couldn't break them and they could be controlled, that would be absolutely terrifying!
"Follow me!" With a sweep of Chu Qin's Divine Sense, his gaze quickly focused on the center of the Stone Statue Army.
Everyone immediately followed Chu Qin's lead and flew towards the center.
And soon, a vast open-air palace emerged before them.
This palace had no dome; eight staircases ascended on all sides. In the center of the palace lay merely a well and a King's Throne.
Atop the King's Throne, there actually sat a skeleton wearing armor without any sign of decay; although it had a human form, its feet, hands, and face bore the distinct features of a magical beast.
"Who is this?" Li Ji asked, slightly taken aback.
"It looks somewhat familiar," suggested Dongfang Qinxin.
"This seems to be one of the eight generals under the Ancestor Mo Xie, the great General Magic Ape, whose original form is the Six-Eared Demon Ape," Ya Yue said.
"Right, look at the six ears; it really does seem like the Six-Eared Demon Ape," Jiu Yin also exclaimed in surprise.
"The Six-Eared Demon Ape, is it dead or alive?" Zhu Zhuyun asked curiously.
"It should be dead, I think," Jiu Yin said uncertainly.
At this moment, Chu Qin turned his attention to the well.
The women quickly approached, and Chen Mu asked, "Chu Qin, is there something special about this well?"
"You see, this well also gives off a feeling of unfathomable depth!" said Chu Qin.
At these words, everyone's Divine Senses swept down and indeed felt as though they had entered a bottomless pit!
"What exactly is down there?" Chu Qin wondered aloud. He had always been puzzled about what the Tian Qiang Elder and the Black Emperor were plotting against the Inner Universe.
"Could it be that this well leads to the Inner Universe!" Chu Qin exclaimed.
"The Inner Universe?" exclaimed Azure Dragon, Phoenix, Shengming, and Bi Bidong, among others.
"Chu Qin, are you saying that below this well is the Inner Universe?" asked Ye Zixi with an incredulous look.
"It's just a guess," replied Chu Qin with a smile, "You might not know this. In the Inner Universe, Qing Er and I once captured a person named Tian Qiang Elder, who originates from these Infinite Heavens."
"The Tian Qiang Elder, from the Infinite Heavens?" Hearing this shocking revelation for the first time, everyone was thoroughly astounded.
"Yes, I saw someone in the Tian Qiang Elder's memories," Chu Qin continued, "Guess who it was?"
"Who could it be?" the women asked, curious.
"The Black Emperor!" declared Chu Qin.
"The Black Emperor!" Ya Yue expressed an incredulous look.
"Right, the Black Emperor has always been in this Ancestral Demon Tomb. And he was able to send the Tian Qiang Elder to the Inner Universe, which implies that there's likely a passage to the Inner Universe here!" Chu Qin said with certainty.
"What is the Inner Universe?" Qing Yu and Li Ji asked, puzzled.
"Qing Yu, Li Ji, you're not aware that beneath Mount Buzhou, there exists another universe. I was exiled there by the Outer Heavenly Lord, and it was there that Chu Qin saved me. Chu Qin and everyone else came from that universe," Jiu Yin explained.
"Then why would the Black Emperor send someone to the Tianmen Universe?" Ya Yue inquired.
"That's another point I'm puzzled about. Qing Er and I once speculated that someone might want to attack the Inner Universe because that Tian Qiang Elder was collecting all information about the strong beings of the Inner Universe," said Chu Qin.
"Thank goodness he didn't succeed!" exclaimed Ning Rongrong in retrospect, "Otherwise, with our strength at that time, how could we have been a match for the Royal Venerate?"
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