Chapter 357 (1/2)

”Darn why is it so dusty in here? Do these sect people never clean their precious lightning tower?”

Zhang Dong complained while trying not to get too much dust on himself. Thankfully he was powerful enough to create a little dust shield around his body that would also protect him from getting stuck in cobwebs.

At this point in time, he was making his way through this lightning tower. He had seen through all of the protective formations that were keeping all the secret entrances from him.

'I have to give it to them, these illusory formations are quite good. I'm not sure anyone that isn't at least a formation grandmaster would be able to get past this.'

It was a little bit odd that this room that he entered was so well protected. To get here he was forced into a secret passage that was barely large enough for him to fit through.

The moment he entered he noticed that the mechanism was quite old. It was as if it hadn't been operated in many years. On the inside, it also looked quite old and unused.

The only reason for this place being so unkept and unused was that it was probably some kind of old secret evacuation passage. Maybe it led all the way up to the most important parts of the tower but never found its use.

'Even if that's true, they could clean it up every year or something…'

The further he went the worse everything looked, finally after walking for about an hour he finally arrived at what looked to be the end.

'What is this?'

He scanned this place with his spiritual sense but could not feel any living being. Luck was on his side though as when he looked up he could see a large cristal.

This cristal would periodically give out a burst of light followed by a crackle of thunder. It was actually quite loud but a formation around this room was keeping all the noise from reaching outside.

'That was easier than I expected…'

Zhang Dong was convinced that on his way through this tower he would need to knock out a few guards. Maybe turn into them to sneak in further before he was discovered. Now on the other hand he was looking at a source of great lightning power.

This chamber looked like a crypt. In the middle, there was some kind of large coffin. Each time the room lit up strange runes on the ground would glow. After a few glances, Zhang Dong already had a theory about what this place was.

”The room seems to be purifying the lightning energy that the crystal is giving off. It's then injecting it into that coffin for some reason, is there someone in it?”

With another jolt of his spiritual sense, he tried focusing on the object in the middle of the room. Even when he tried he could not feel anything, the inside of this thing had no living being.

”Hm…”

Zhang Dong looked around, without seeing any traps he finally approached the large rectangular coffin. The room around it had some columns and on the walls, he could see some faded pictures with faces that were unrecognizable.

'Has no one been here for hundreds or thousands of years?'

He wasn't sure but he was still wary of the inside of this coffin. This world clearly had demonic beings in it. There was always a possibility of some kind of undead creature being in there. He did not feel the presence of any shielding formations but that didn't mean that there was nothing there. If something exceeded his current cultivation or his old one, he would not be able to detect it.

'Here goes nothing…'

It needed to be done, trying to cultivate with this unopened box of pandora would be dangerous. What if a bag of bones popped up and tried biting his nape or some kind of evil spirit tried to take over his body when he wasn't paying attention?

”Hm?”

He quickly dropped his guard as the only thing that was inside of this coffin were rocks.

”Wait… doesn't that look like a head?”

He approached and after looking everything over again he noticed that the rocky bits were shaped as a person. It looked like an old statue made from stone was there. It was clearly broken and crumbling. The moment he picked up what looked to be the head, it just crumbled into dust.

”Why would they put this in here…”

It was a big unknown, it looked like someone just placed a stone statue in here and locked it. Was someone trying to fake their death a thousand years ago or was there more to it?

”Hm?”

This wasn't all, on a part that used to be the right hand he noticed something shining. After looking this up he found a storage ring, it was quite old but still in working order. It was locked but for someone that studied craftsmanship, this was nothing. After a few minutes, he managed to unlock it and peeked inside.