Ancient Temple 182

  The foundation-building period is already considered a good cultivation in today's immortal world. However, in ancient times, during the era of that great cultivator's dominance, there was no distinction from ants.

  Gazing at the divine dragon stele in front of her, for the first time, she felt how small she was, as small as a drop of water in the ocean, while the vast sea stretched out endlessly, and with just one ripple, she would disappear into the water.

  That's the pressure of the ancient divine beast, although it's just a residual breath.

  Don't mention foundation-building cultivators; even those who have formed their core won't be able to resist under such pressure.

  "Brother Ye!"

  Upon hearing Jiang Shang's voice, Mo Tian Ge snapped back to reality and sighed: "No wonder it's called the Dragon's Breath, such immense power..."

  Jiang Shanghang said: "If Ye Shidi enters that underground palace, he will find that the dragon's breath inside is even stronger."

  "An even more powerful Dragon's Breath......" Mo Tian Ge had an even more powerful Dragon's Breath, indicating that the Earth Palace was no ordinary place, and it might be extremely dangerous. What kind of treasure could it be, that Ren Yu and Feng hadn't even entered yet, but were already secretly plotting against her?

  "Never mind, let's go in and talk later." Mo Tian Ge looked around and asked Jiang Shang Hang, "Brother Jiang, where is the entrance to the underground palace?"

  Jiang Shang brought her around the divine dragon stele, only to see a flat ground with a dark and mysterious cave entrance. If one wasn't careful, they might think it was a hole dug out by some sea creature.

  "Here?"

  "Hmm." Jiang Shang said, "This cave entrance was definitely not opened with real manual labor. Perhaps it was attracted by the same dragon's breath as this place and emerged."

  Many secrets are initially hidden and unknown to the public, but nothing can withstand the passage of time. Gradually, the original power will fade away, and this underground palace is probably no exception.

  The two of them checked their belongings one last time and prepared themselves. Jiang Shang navigated the way, slowly leading them into the entrance of the underground palace.

  Dark space, narrow stone path, no different from underground palace on land.

  As soon as they entered the underground palace, their minds felt a moment of dizziness, because the dragon's breath was even thicker. Such a sacred and vast, anciently oppressive aura, for these small cultivators, under such pressure, they couldn't help but tremble with fear.

  After a moment of silent adjustment, Mo Tian Ge finally calmed down her mind. Under the effect of Lian Shen Jue, she still had this feeling of being deeply shocked.

  Jiang Shanghang also said in a light tone: "Ye Shidi, be careful, this road is not the correct entrance, there may be traps."

  "Where did you guys go last time?"

  "This is as far as we got last time, except for Shifu," he said, and they had already passed through the long stone corridor and entered a stone chamber.

  The stone chamber was extremely high, deep and vast. There was no longer any light from the entrance here, and only a little moonlight stone brought by the two people illuminated it, and it was impossible to see the end. The stone chamber didn't have anything else, not like a hall, nor like a pavilion, it seemed to be just a wider stone path.

  "That carp beast has been living here for years, I don't know how many." Jiang Shang said as he slowly swam to the four walls to check.

  Mō Tiān Gē Dào said, "Looking at the stone chamber's appearance, it's at least tens of thousands of years old. That Water Rhinoceros is only fifth-grade, no matter how long it lives, it can't possibly reach tens of thousands of years, right?"

  Jiang Shanghao was taken aback and nodded: "Right, could it be that the Water Carp Beast is not a creature of the Earth Palace?"

  "Could it be that you're saying it completely disregards the restrictions around the Divine Dragon Stele?"

  The two of them looked at each other, and then fell silent again. If the Water Rhinoceros was not actually the guardian spirit beast of this underground palace, then either this underground palace did not have a guardian spirit beast, or it had one that was even more dangerous than the Water Rhinoceros.

  If it's the former, then it's easy to handle, just keep moving forward and kill Ren with the wind. But if it's the latter...it's not something that foundation-building cultivators like them can tackle, and they'll end up losing their lives for nothing.

  The two of them pondered for a while before Jiang Shanghang couldn't help but ask, "Ye Shidi, what do you think about this matter?"

  Mo Tian Ge slowly said: "Actually, there's nothing to be afraid of. The eight of them are walking ahead, if there's any danger, we can quickly retreat, isn't that fine?"

  She thought to herself, surely it wouldn't be that she didn't even have the time to enter the Void Sky Realm? Jiang Shang was weaker than her and she had several methods to instantly knock him unconscious and then drag him into the Void Sky Realm.

  Jiang Shang hesitated for a moment before nodding: "That's also true. In that case, let's follow them from behind?"

  "Let's go for a bit first. If it's confirmed to be safe, we can head somewhere else."

  Jiang Shang nodded in agreement and the two set off once again.

  This was not a stone room, but a spacious stone path. The path was very long and they walked slowly for a long time without reaching the end. Fortunately, there were traces left by the eight people in front along the way. They also did not dare to use their escape technique, firstly because they feared being discovered by the other eight people, secondly because they worried that there might be some danger within.

  Judging from the marks on the road, it seems that the eight people in front also went through several battles, but the objects were not monsters, but rather seemed to have encountered some mechanisms and road collapses.

  Fortunately, with these few people leading the way, Mo Tian Ge and Jiang Shang Hang walked along without encountering any danger.

  They walked quietly for a while and finally entered a grand hall. The heavy stone gate was half open, with dragon patterns carved on it like the Dragon Stele. As they stepped inside, tall stone pillars supported the entire hall, with neat stone slabs covering the floor, all depicting the same dragon shape.

  As I walked slowly inside, a towering stone statue gradually emerged from the darkness. With deer antlers and bull horns, camel head and rabbit eyes, snake neck and tortoise belly, fish scales and eagle claws, its grandeur was awe-inspiring, as if it pierced through the clouds.

  There is actually a statue of the Dragon God in this grand hall!

  Mo Tian Ge and Jiang Shang Hang exchanged a look, both of them unable to speak. The aura emanating from the dragon statue was even more powerful than the Dragon Stele, its oppressive might almost rendering them speechless.

  She took a step back and exhaled: "This is no ordinary place."

  Jiang Shang Hang's face turned pale as he nodded. The two of them almost retreated to the door before the oppressive atmosphere eased up.

  After a brief silence, Mo Tian Ge suddenly said: "Brother Jiang, what do you think this place is?"

  Jiang Shanghuan turned his head and looked at her, puzzled: "What does this mean, Ye Shidi?"

  The stranger pointed to the shallow carvings on the back of the stone gate: "Look, what are these engravings?"

  Jiang Shangfan had a belly full of doubts and walked closer to take a look: "This is just an ordinary mural, if it's a relic from tens of thousands of years ago, having these things isn't strange at all."

  "Not bad, but take a look, what's engraved on it?"

  Jiang Shanghuan turned his head and looked back, after a moment, he was shocked: "This is..."

  "A sacrificial scene from hundreds of millions of years ago." Mo Tian Ge said faintly, "This could be a ancient temple from the distant past."

  Legend has it that ancient temples were built in the style of palaces, and although this underground palace is rough, when enlarged, it indeed resembles a magnificent palace. The wide stone path may be the passage leading to the real hall, and these stone walls are painted with murals, with few words, because at that time, characters had just been created, and people were used to recording events with murals.

  On the wall painting, there is a tall altar, on which several priests are standing, wearing white robes of the same color, while the men and women kneeling below are all wrapped in simple animal skins - only ancient humans would wear animal skins.

  "Hundreds of millions of years..." Jiang Shang's face turned slightly pale, finding it hard to believe. He asked finally, "The relics from hundreds of millions of years ago, is it possible that they still exist today? And why would they be in the sea?"

  Moy Tian smiled and said, "Jiang Shixiong, there's an old saying that goes: 'White clouds and gray dogs, the blue sea and mulberry fields.' After hundreds of millions of years, what was once a vast ocean is now a mulberry field. Perhaps the ancient temple was also submerged in the sea. Maybe it's because it sank into the ocean that no one has visited for hundreds of millions of years, allowing it to be preserved until today."

  Stroking the rough stone wall, silently feeling this distant time and space, both of them fell silent for a moment.

  "Hundreds of millions of years... So, there's actually nothing valuable in this underground palace..." Jiang Shanghang muttered to himself, a hint of disappointment flashing across his eyes. Hundreds of millions of years had passed, and anything that was once a treasure would have lost its effectiveness - don't think that the elixirs of immortality could truly last forever, that's simply impossible.

  "That's right." Mo Tian Ge didn't feel disappointed, she wasn't there for the treasure in the first place. After thinking for a moment, she furrowed her brow, "No, that's not it, there is treasure here."

  Jiang Shanghang raised his head, puzzled: "What?"

  Mo Tian Ge looked at him with a smile: "Ren Yu Feng, after going through thousands of hardships to arrive here, and even designing an assassination plot against me, will there be no benefits? If this is indeed the temple from several million years ago, then it won't have any magical treasures or elixirs. However, it has the aura of a divine dragon, which is even thicker than that of the Divine Dragon Stele!"

  Jiang Shang Hang's face gradually turned pale upon hearing this: "The Dragon God's Breath, is he trying to get himself killed?!"

  Such a powerful force, can they, as small foundation-building cultivators, aspire to it? This mysterious power from ancient times, let alone them, even if they were Yuan Ying cultivators, wouldn't dare to think about absorbing! You should know that taking in a power that you can't control will lead to your body exploding and dying!

  "Perhaps he has some secret method." Mo Tian Ge furrowed his brow in deep thought, "We all know that Ren Yu Feng can't possibly be unaware of these things. He designed these events and made his attitude clear, which shows that his goals are not small. Besides the Dragon's Breath, what else could satisfy his demands?"

  Jiang Shang didn't say another word, this matter had exceeded his imagination. He had never thought that Ren Feng would come up with such an idea, and he didn't know what to do for the best. Coming to this underground palace, of course, was to search for treasure, but now not only were there no treasures in sight, it seemed like a disaster might be looming instead.

  "Ye Shidi," Jiang Shanghang said after a long silence, "since there's no treasure, shall we head back?"

  Mentioning this, Mo Tian Ge also hesitated. She wanted to kill Ren Yu Feng, but didn't want to risk her own life. Who knew what method Ren Yu Feng was using? If he succeeded, possessing the Dragon's Breath, his cultivation would definitely increase greatly, and at that time, whether she could defeat him or not would be a problem. If he failed, exploding and dying, then did the method he used have any other effects? What if it implicated her as well?

  The two of them sat opposite each other, deep in thought for a long time, unable to make up their minds.

  Everyone saw it, I'm a slow hand... determined to update more, as a result, writing until now, hmm, continue...