119 The Real Tomb of the Heaven Monarch (1/2)
”Am I dead? Is this the netherworld? Why is the netherworld so bright?”
Jiang Yi gradually woke up and couldn't open his eyes due to the glaring light. He shook his head in a daze and felt his abnormally parched mouth. He swallowed his saliva and licked his lips; he was only able to open his eyes after a short moment of rest.
”Eh?”
The scene before his eyes made him perplexed. He was lying within a grand hall, and he was surrounded by totems that had mysterious carvings on it. The ceiling was at least a hundred feet high and had similar carvings of complex diagrams. It was even embedded with precious stones that glittered with white lights, giving out a dignified, simple, and unadorned feeling.
He stared for a moment before he struggled to twist his neck and look around. He realized that this grand hall was confined by green-colored walls. There wasn't even a single window—not to mention doors, and yet he didn't feel stuffy. He felt mystical instead.
Finally, his eyes landed on the stone wall straight ahead. On it was a giant floating sculpture that looked like a man: an elderly clothed in black robes.
”This black-robed elderly is truly formidable. It is just a sculpture, but it is making me feel suffocated. Could it be a master of the Heaven Monarch class?”
Jiang Yi looked into the eyes of the sculpture, and his body suddenly shivered like he was struck by lightning. He promptly closed his eyes and didn't dare to look any longer. He recalled the sculpture of the Heaven Monarch of Massacre that was within the Hall of Divine Monuments. It had the similar kind of terror that intrigued one's curiosity.
He remembered clearly that when he entered the Death Trap, a powerful force was about to turn him into dust. At that moment, he fainted from the imposing pressure. But why wasn't he dead but stranded in this strange place instead?
”Black essence force!”
Jiang Yi's eyes suddenly widened when he remembered the weird behavior from his black essence force before he fainted. The information from Qian Wanguan was extremely clear: anyone who touches the Death Trap was certainly going to die—even for experts at the peak stage of the Purple Mansion Realm. Jiang Yi, who was only at the sixth stage of the Cast Tripod Realm, was certainly supposed to die, too. The only explanation for this current situation was that his black essence force saved him!
”What exactly is this black essence force? It is not only mysterious, but it also has the ability to blend with other essence forces, reinforce the power of essence force and elixir's effects, enhance all human senses, and even make contact with the restrictions of the Heaven Monarch of Massacre? Right now, the black essence force even saved me from the Death Trap… by turning it into a Teleportation Trap and sending me to this strange place?”
Jiang Yi muttered with a confused mind, thinking about where did this nameless art come from. Jiang Yunhai once mentioned that it probably wasn't left by his mother. So who was the one who bestowed this nameless art to him? And who was it that sealed him?
There were too many doubts, and Jiang Yi couldn't find any answers. He threw all those thoughts aside and struggled to sit up. He took out a recuperation elixir to begin recovery in meditation.
This was a confined space that had no ways out. He had to quickly recover his body and find a way out. If not, he would die from starvation in here.
As for… the outside matters, Jiang Yi didn't dare to go think about it. He was afraid that once he thought about it, his heart would ache. Su Ruoxue was not in an unknown predicament. If she was to land in the hands of Jiang Yiliu… Jiang Yi didn't want to imagine what would happen next!
”Eh?”
When Jiang Yi began his meditation, he felt something weird. He didn't consume any Earth Essence Elixir for this meditation because he didn't have any black essence force left in his dantian and had no way to enhance the elixir's effect. But right now, his cultivation speed was actually five folds faster!
”What exactly is this place? Why is there such a dense amount of heaven and earth essence force?”
The cultivation room within the Mt. Spirit Beast College was already at three folds the normal speed, and that was one of the three major colleges of the continent. But the heaven and earth spirit qi within the grand hall had a higher density than at the cultivation room in the college. It was apparent that the spirit concentration array was ridiculously effective!
”It doesn't matter. Recuperation comes first!”
Jiang Yi expelled all distractions from his mind and cultivated in peace. Once his black essence force was refilled, he channeled it to enhance the elixir's effects and used his essence force to complement the recuperation effects.
Two hours later, Jiang Yi opened his eyes. His injuries were barely recovered, but he couldn't sit any longer as he prepared to find a way out.
But after exploring the entire grand hall and using his black-essence-force-enhanced vision to look for mechanisms, Jiang Yi fell into despair. He searched for two hours and couldn't find anything in the grand hall. This was a place of death—a sealed up prison!