Dragon's Origin

Chapter 574: Empty (Part 1)

The Tongming Sect Leader felt a little guilty and feigned ignorance, asking everyone, "Why are you all looking at me?"

What else could they be doing? Just now, this Tongming Sect Leader was doing everything he could to smear the Old Lord Temple, insisting that they had already secretly opened it, and even trying to make trouble in front of the stone wall. But now that the stone wall was opened, it turned out to be like this, and the Tongming Sect Leader was immediately dumbfounded.

Who knew that opening this stone wall would turn it into powder? If he had known this would happen, why would the Tongming Sect Leader have jumped up and down looking for trouble? As a result, he had only finished jumping for half an hour when reality slapped him firmly in the face. They really hadn't opened it before, the evidence was conclusive, and the Tongming Sect Leader's previous antics became a joke.

"Tongming Sect Leader, take a good look, examine it carefully, see if our Old Lord Temple has ever been inside," the Grand Master's voice came from behind, slow and deliberate, yet with an indescribable sense of irony: "Examine it carefully and let us know, we still need to clean up these fragments to open the passage."

"Humph!" The Tongming Sect Leader was exasperated and snorted coldly, but he couldn't say anything and retreated to the side, crestfallen.

The Grand Master waved his hand, and several old Daoists of the Qing generation immediately stepped forward, collecting the fragments of the shattered stone wall into their respective storage rings. In less than half an hour, a newly cleared tunnel appeared before everyone's eyes.

Several old Daoists of the Qing generation were using air-exchanging formation stones while cleaning up, so by the time the rubble was cleared, the air inside the tunnel had been mostly exchanged.

Because it was shattered by the formation, this section of the tunnel, about three zhang long, appeared uneven, and the ground was full of potholes, so everyone was very careful when walking.

Leading the way were two old Daoists of the Qing generation, holding torches to light the way.

Fortunately, there was only one path after the tunnel opened, so they just had to follow the tunnel and didn't have to worry about getting lost.

After walking forward for about several hundred meters, everyone was stunned. Another flat stone wall blocked the way.

Getting closer, everyone saw six very faint but relatively clear circles on the stone wall. Needless to say, this was the same place as the previous stone wall, still requiring the six Sect Leaders to open it with their respective hilt keys.

This time, the Tongming Sect Leader no longer mentioned the possibility that the Old Lord Temple might have already been inside, and behaved much more honestly. He did what everyone else did; the other Sect Leaders took out their hilts and continued, and he took out his hilt and continued as well.

Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Lingxu were basically walking at the back. Wang Sheng wouldn't do anything that would put him in the limelight, and the old Daoist disdained to do it, so they let them make a fuss.

Half an hour later, this stone wall once again turned into fragments. Still the same treatment: exchanging air, cleaning up rubble, and then continuing forward.

When they opened the third stone wall, everyone discovered that the space ahead suddenly became larger, as large as the main hall of the Old Lord Temple.

In the huge space, other than an old Lord statue standing alone in the center, everything else was empty.

The old Lord statue wasn't very tall, about two people high, with a kind face, but in Wang Sheng's opinion, the carving technique wasn't refined enough. At least the Three Purities statues that Wang Sheng carved at the Three Purities Temple were more vivid than this old Lord statue.

Everyone didn't seem to have expected such a scene, and they looked at each other in this empty place.

Fortunately, the least devout person to the Dao Ancestor here was probably Wang Sheng. Everyone else walked to the old Lord statue and respectfully saluted. Wang Sheng was no exception, following Old Daoist Lingxu, doing whatever the old Daoist did, without standing out at all.

After saluting, everyone began to carefully examine this space.

Several old Daoists of the Qing generation placed torches in several corners, and with more than a dozen torches in total, the area was illuminated very brightly.

The surrounding walls were empty, with nothing on them. Several directions had been carefully checked, and there were no circles like those on the previous stone walls. Moreover, the sound of knocking sounded like solid stone walls, with no hollow sounds at all.

Apart from the tunnel they came from, there was nothing in other directions, and there was no exit, as if this was the end of the tunnel.

"Is this the place?" Wang Sheng looked at the empty space with only the old Lord statue and asked Old Daoist Lingxu in confusion.

There really was nothing here, and there weren't even any formation fluctuations around. Was this the inheritance land with the incredibly powerful inheritance formation that Old Daoist Lingxu said even he couldn't destroy?

"I don't know!" The old Daoist was also shaking his head, looking puzzled: "The Old Lord Temple's records don't say what the inheritance land looks like, only that the inheritance formation is very powerful. Maybe, other sects' records do?"

The old Daoist was explaining to Wang Sheng, but his voice was a little loud. The lowest cultivation level among those who came in was probably Wang Sheng, so everyone heard clearly. Several Sect Leaders understood that Old Ancestor Lingxu was actually saying this to them, and at the same time asking if their ancestral records also contained any information.

The oldest one was straightforward and directly shook his head, saying loudly: "Our ancestors only told us to keep the keys safe, and also said that the inheritance formation was very powerful, but there were no other records."

The straightforward one was the same: "We are the same, there is nothing recorded in the handed-down classics."

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Several people spoke in turn, and finally even the Tongming Sect Leader, who had never been liked by everyone, also stated his position. Basically, what was recorded in everyone's classics was similar, only saying that there were keys to open the inheritance land, that the Old Lord Temple controlled the location of the inheritance land, and that several other different sects controlled the keys, but no one knew what was inside the inheritance land.

The inheritance land, which had been closed for at least a thousand years, was so mysterious that several Daoist sects yearned for it, and there had even been various struggles for the inheritance land in the past, but when everyone came here, they did not expect that the so-called inheritance land with a powerful inheritance formation would be like this.

"Could it be that the inheritance formation has失效(shixiao: become ineffective; lose efficacy)?" Since everyone couldn't say why, Wang Sheng didn't mind stating his judgment: "The formation has been through thousands of years, without stable spiritual energy support, and without any earth fire veins or the like to provide energy, it's normal for it to失效(shixiao: become ineffective; lose efficacy), right?"

"Impossible!" Everyone retorted in unison: "The inheritance formation cannot 失效(shixiao: become ineffective; lose efficacy)."

"Could the key be in this statue?" Seeing that everyone was unanimous, Wang Sheng didn't argue with them and directly attracted everyone's attention to the old Lord statue.