Chapter 190 Great Emperor Arrives Late (1/2)
Chapter 190 Great Emperor Arrives Late
This was a two meter-tall humanoid. Its wings spread out four meters as it flew towards Ye Fan from the depths of the ancient mine.
Its sharp claws were like knives, coldly flickering. A strange sound wave came from its throat that caused Ye Fan’s ears to ring.
Ye Fan raised the stone blade and sent it slashing forward towards it, cutting across its path.
Its two sharp claws slammed into the stone blade, immediately causing a metallic ringing to fill the air and sparks to fly.
“Didn’t grandpa Zhang say that these stone clothes could avoid evil? How come I ended up disturbing a nameless lifeform as soon as I entered?” Ye Fan was extremely puzzled, but he wasn’t afraid. He felt that this creature shouldn’t be that difficult to handle.
It flapped its wings as it soared into the air, once more collecting its strength and charging down. This time a snow-bright light ray was spit out of its mouth, slashing down like a sharp blade.
Ye Fan put away the stone blade. This lifeform clearly had some innate techniques, and using the stone blade to attack it would just cause it to snap apart.
He raised his hand, releasing five sword rays that were as dazzling as lightning, lightning up the pitch-black ancient mine.
The creature spit out another light ray that managed to break a single sword ray, while the other four all slashed into its body.
Blood splashed as it was pierced through. It began to flap its wings to flee back to the depths of the ancient mine.
Ye Fan didn’t want it to flee, and with a light shout, an angry wave rushed out and shook it down to the ground.
He knew that this most likely was not a lifeform from the primordial era. Otherwise there was no way it could be so weak. It was a far cry from those legendary existences.
Ye Fan advanced and opened its wings to reveal its true form and carefully examine it.
This two meter-tall lifeform was covered in gray bestial fur. Its wings were made of flesh, making it appear like a human-shaped bat.
“This is..”
Ye Fan thought of an ancient record. There was a creature that lived at the lowest level of the earth, called the Demon Bat. It was very rare, practically impossible to find.
According to legend, once one reached spirituality and became a sovereign, it would begin to have many descendants. After dozens or hundreds of generations, the blood essence gradually became thin and if those descendants were unable to attain spirituality, they would become Demon Bats.
“According to that ancient text, places where Demon Bats exist are extremely ominous and evil places…” Ye Fan shuddered.
Who knew whether it was their nature that dictated it, but these rarely seen subterranean creatures only made their home on the fringes of extremely dangerous places.
“This doesn’t bode well…,” muttered Ye Fan. He believed that the purple mountain very likely held the legacy of an ancient Great Emperor. But now it seemed that his chances weren’t that good.
Ye Fan didn’t tarry in the end. He continued forward, traveling ten more kilometers in before meeting big trouble. There were over a hundred Demon Bats here. He didn’t think twice; when they dared to attack him, he had to use the golden tome to slash through them all.
In the end, a five meter-tall Demon Bat whose wingspan was over ten meters long appeared. Only after it was smashed apart by his fist did the ancient mine become calm once more.
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Everything was completely silent as he continued forward another ten kilometers. The ancient mine was completely pitch-black and extremely isolated. He muttered, “Have I entered the range of the danger land?”
He continued another three or four kilometers not slowly and not quickly. He saw quite a few stone inscriptions along the wall, all left behind by ancient people.
The drawings were very plain. They had to do with the mining of Sources from back then. Ye Fan didn’t think they were boring and actually began to carefully study them.
At the beginning they spoke of very trivial things. But in the final drawings were quite a few corpses. Those were all people that had died here.
“What did those ancient people from hundreds of thousands of years ago want to leave behind?”
Ye Fan was getting more and more startled. This was a kind of story. In the end, those people excavated all kinds of strange things and people started to die in greater numbers.
Later, a humanoid lifeform with a horn on its forehead appeared. When it was excavated from the mine’s vein, almost everyone was completely annihilated.
This horned lifeform was six arms long and had a pair of wings. It seemed to despise all beneath the heavens. In the drawing, it roared to the heavens, causing heaven and earth to crack, the mine shaft to collapse and underground magma to surge out.
Could this be a lifeform from a Divine Source? Its roar could shake heaven and earth. Such a mighty existence truly caused people’s hearts to turn cold. No wonder so many people had died.
The later carvings were even more shocking. This horned lifeform actually kneeled onto the ground and kowtowed towards a huge Source.
“Such a powerful lifeform actually acted so subserviently and kowtowed towards it?!”
He impatiently scrolled to the next carvings, to see just what kind of existence from those peerless Divine Sources had such might.
The next image revealed that the Divine Source’s lifeform had to yet to appear and was still trapped in mist.
Although it hadn’t appeared in the world, it was surrounded by endless corpses. A land full of death stretched far out in every direction.
“Just what rushed out of that Source?” Ye Fan couldn’t help being shocked.
Before it even stepped back into the world, it was already able to perform such a massacre. According to the carvings, the amount of dead was uncountable.
In the next few drawings, that Divine Source still just lay there without a lifeform coming out of it. But the amount of corpses around it became ever greater, forming mountains. Many of those were cultivators.
Blood ran and condensed into rivers, winding out in to the distance. It was practically a scene of hell.
As for that horned, winged creature, it continued to devoutly kneel to the side of the Divine Source.
“How many people died from this bitter event? The carvings show that the land clearly was shattered and the mine collapsed. How could it still be existing now?”
Ye Fan had originally come for the Heavenly Source Book, but now he had become completely captivated by the ancient mine’s profound carvings.
In the next few carvings, that peerless Divine Source was still extremely hazy and no life form could be seen. But as ever, the human corpses continued to increase.
As for that kneeling lifeform in front of the Divine Source, it never took action, instead simply kowtowing.