Chapter 232 - Nether Palace (1/2)

While the Golden Sun Condor continued its journey to the Capital City, Ye Chen continued to inspect below with his Astral body.

Chirp! The Golden Sun Condor suddenly alerted. It was slightly trembling.

The Golden Sun Condor was trying to hint that there was danger up ahead and if they should take a detour. Whatever it was up ahead, it had terrified the Golden Sun Condor greatly.

“Big Brother Ye Chen, there seems to be something over there.” Little Wingsy pointed toward the direction of the mountains.

Ye Chen and Little Tanuki directed their gaze to the direction Little Wingsy had pointed at. In the mountains far away, they saw what seemed to be a building. It was a magnificent looking structure. The building was hidden within the thick forest as only a small part was slightly exposed. It was difficult to notice the building unless you were looking closely.

Little Wingsy’s eyesight was distinctly better than Ye Chen and Little Tanuki.

Sensing the Golden Sun Condor’s fear, Ye Chen wondered what kind of place it was.

“Little Tanuki, should we go over and take a look?” Ye Chen asked.

Little Tanuki’s eyes fluttered as she looked at Ye Chen. She was not sure if she wanted to go as she felt they would face dangers if they headed over.

Little Wingsy stared ahead. He had an eager look on his face, obviously very curious about the place. Little Squido seemed to have sensed Little Wingsy’s excitement and responded by waving his three arms, seemingly dancing around. Looking at Little Wingsy and Little Squido’s expressions, Ye Chen made up his mind and said, “Let’s go. If we’re careful, there should be no problems.”

Ye Chen’s Astral body was capable of detecting any dangers ahead. If he felt that something was off, he could just immediately retreat.

Although the Golden Sun Condor was still slightly afraid, upon receiving Ye Chen’s orders, it continued to fly toward the building’s direction. They hovered above it for a moment while Ye Chen inspected it using his Astral Body. It was only then that he had realized just how large the building was. He was not sure what the building was as a large portion of it was built into the mountains where several thousand meters of the mountain had been dug out. He could hardly fathom the scale of this project.

Ye Chen’s Astral Body was able to vividly chart its outline as well as some of the building structure. As the Astral Body was trying to enter its central core area, there seemed to be a layer of restrictive spell protecting it. Ye Chen was unable to go further.

The inner core structure of the building seemed to have some sort of restrictive spell set up by a powerful individual to prevent outsiders from prying inside. Ye Chen’s Astral Body patrolled the hallways within the outer section of the building and saw several rooms which had plenty of jars placed within. These jars were sealed tightly. He wondered how many years they had been there. The jars were not spirit artifacts but the materials used to construct the jars could rival a Tier Two or Three spirit artifact. They were covered in a thick layer of dust. Ordinary people would not be able to tell if there was anything special about them. Several rooms had some Tier Two to Three longswords scattered around, most of them were damaged and some of them were evenly split in half. The split was clean.

Ye Chen’s Astral Body continued to explore the building. The outer section of the building was built like a maze with plenty of traps laid around. It seemed to be very dangerous. Even though there was a restrictive spell laid around the central core area, there was still an intimidating aura exuding from it.

Compared to this aura, the Purple-fire Astra Lion’s aura had only paled slightly.

There must have been something incredible hidden deep within this building.

It was not possible to set foot within the restricted area. As for the jars, they only had to navigate around several traps and cross another hallway to get to it. Ye Chen was not going to take any unnecessary risks but if it was not going to cost him much effort to get to it, then why not go for it? Besides, these Tier Two and Three spirit artifacts were just within his arm’s reach.

Ye Chen pondered for a moment. Then, he had the Golden Sun Condor land on an open field beside the building’s entrance.

At the building’s entrance stood a magnificent door made of stone. It was half-closed. Six pillars stood on both sides with the pillars about fifteen meters tall. These stones must have endured many years of passing. They were corroded out of shape and thick vines covered the pillars.

Beside the pillars laid a slab of stone tablet. Several texts were etched onto it. After ripping off the vines covering it, Ye Chen was able to read the text “Nether Palace”.

A gust of chilling wind rushed past the entrance carrying an eerie chill, making them feel uneasy.

There was no telling what in the world was hidden in this place.

“Little Tanuki, we’re just gonna check out the first hallway, then come back out. We’re not going further inside,” Ye Chen said. There was too much unknown in this world. If Ye Chen were to be too careless, these risks would cost him his life.

“Hm,” Little Tanuki responded and proceeded to leap inside.