Chapter 367 - The Historical Demon That Escaped
Chapter 367: The Historical Demon That Escaped
“With Cui Hua’s speed and my abilities, even if the Sculpture Monsters get resurrected, we still can be able to kill without any hesitation. If the monsters did not get resurrected, this proves that there was no one that went inside this Bronze Hall before. The remains of the historical demons are still intact. I cannot let this kind of opportunity go.”
The Great Structure was just problematic to the top tier S-level players. Of course, they could not battle with numerous Structures until death. If not, they would still use too much energy and die just like that.
He weighed his options inside his heart. He decided to go inside the Bronze Halls, and patted Cui Hua, as he said, “Let’s go. Let’s go inside.”
Cui Hua went together with the wind, and ascended up the stairs. She went up half of the stairs in an instant, using less than ten seconds to go up to the hundred meter tall ring shaped stone steps.
The cat was silent as it stepped on the ground. She had her guard up as she had a look around her surroundings. It was obvious that this Bronze Hall was not visited before, due to the thick layer of dust on the floor, and there were no footsteps seen.
After confirming that the surroundings were safe, she was happy as she said, “We have the remains of the historical demons to swallow up again.”
Although she was not so blessed to swallow the remains of historical demons, she was still happy. It was because this meant that Li Xianyu would have more and more hidden trump cards.
The remains of the historical demons were extremely powerful. Normal people were unable to swallow it down.
The human and cat followed the metal chain and came over to the end of the pond. They had their guards up, and were fully prepared for the historical demons to attack them anytime. After they went down ten meters, Li Xianyu’s heart sank.
Swoop!
He managed to land onto the ground successfully, and Cui Hua followed behind. She did not create a sound when she landed. The flesh on its feet were the reason that a cat could go anywhere without being realized.
The bottom of the pond was all empty, and did not have anything at all.
“Why are there no remains of the historical demons?” Li Xianyu had a tightly knitted frown on his forehead, this was not too similar to what he imagined.
“Could it be we guessed it wrong, and it is not every space that would hold a historical demon down?”
If the Great Deities Palace was a prison, it did not mean that every jail cell had a “prisoner”. Maybe it was merely a guess that there were eight historical demons trapped inside the eight Bronze Halls. And it was a mistake from the start.
“Oh right, the painting on the wall!” He raised his head up to shine the torchlight, and shone it towards the wall.
As long as there were historical demons pressed down in the bottom of the pond, there should be drawings on the wall. It recorded how they were trapped inside, although it was not much information, the people who drew it would still be an artist that had his own style. As for the people from Great Deities Palace, all of these were precious information.
At this moment, there were some rustling from the tops of their heads. The walls from all four sides started to shake slightly, and it was just as if there was someone who was following the chains as they came down.
Li Xianyu’s facial expressions changed. Cui Hua’s irises contracted and became a straight tight line. Both of them were thinking of the same thing, as they helped each other out.
The person on the top sensed the movement of energy from the bottom of the pond, and the rustling ceased. The metal chain stopped shaking, and after a few moments, the metal chain started to move again. At the same time, there were a few streams of torchlights that shone down, and it reflected the reflection of Li Xianyu and Cui Hua.
“Hmph!” Li Xianyu took out the brightest torch light that he had from his leather wallet, six torches, the aura that was controlled appeared in mid air. He switched the lights on, and the shaking bouts of light shone back. Anyone would be only able to look from a distance away.
“Switch off the torchlight.” There was a person who spoke in English.
Quickly after that, there were a few lightsticks that were thrown down. It illuminated the bottom of the pond up.
The person also came down from the top, it was a group of ten people. They were all foreigners with blonde hair, Westerners with defined features.
Li Xianyu saw a “familiar person” from the group of foreigners. It was Bill that he beat up before, together with his Older Brother William.
The empire on which the sun never sets, the Murdoch empire.
“Sixteen people, five are S-level, and the other two are top tier S-level. The others are probably high level staff with A+ standard. When they entered Great Deities Palace, they had around fifty people. This means that they still have people on guard, and are not easy to mess around with.” Li Xianyu observed the opponent’s team.
With the makeup of this team, it was already beyond his abilities.
“There is too much qi accumulated inside your body. The moment it explodes in one shot, I think that you probably have the power to reach Half-Step Gokudo Path. Why don’t you borrow this chance to let it all out?” Hua Yang’s voice rang out inside his mind.
He did not step into Half-Step Gokudo Path. But with the amount of energy that he accumulated, if it all exploded right now, the damage that he could create would not lose to Half-Step Gokudo Path at all.
Li Xianyu already experienced three times of awakening, strong spirits, and flexibility. It was on a freakish level right now. A normal bloodline was unable to absorb so much energy, and would have long exploded.
If he had to describe the situation right now, he was just like a man at his most critical period. He was about to come out right now, but he had to hold himself back.
He controlled that crazy amount of explosion inside his body.
That is such a waste. I would save this bout of energy for a key period to save my life, Li Xianyu replied inside his heart.
He did not have any interactions or grievances with the empire on which the sun never sets, the Murdoch empire. At the most, he just bullied a young fella from the servant. The other party would obviously not bring such a huge team over just because of this small matter.
This was also not a time for them to fool around without using their brains.
William Murdoch, who had a slicked back hairstyle, was also observing Li Xianyu at the same time. His features and hairstyle was a little like Leonardo DiCaprio when he acted as Gatsby. But as a bloodline, no matter how exquisite his features were or how smooth his skin was, his aura was not something that a normal person could relate to.
“The Unparalleled War Spirit is not by his side…” William Murdoch was extremely disappointed.
He led the talions from the Murdorch family, and searched for the traces of the Unparalleled War Spirit. At the same time, he also tried to meet with alliances from the Soul Destroying Alliance.
After meeting the powers from the other spaces, William Murdorch immediately sensed that the truth of the eight spaces joining with one another. Other than being shocked, he was more overjoyed.
His heart told him that this was the Unparalleled War Spirit.
He thought that during this journey to Great Deities Palace this time, he could already declare the Soul Destroying Plan as a failure, and could only search for another time to do so, and he did not expect that the eight spaces would actually be merged together.
Even the Heavens wanted the Unparalleled War Spirit dead.
Ten minutes before, his younger brother Bill suddenly sensed the position where Li Xianyu was. William Murdorch immediately brought his people and rushed over, and wanted to be by the side of the descendant of the Li family. After the members of the Soul Destroying Alliance gathered together, they would kill the Unparalleled War Spirit together.
Who would have thought that there was only Li Xianyu and his precious pet at the bottom of the pond?
“The Unparalleled War Spirit is unable to run away. We will find him at the end, why don’t we kill the descendant of the Li family first?” William Murdorch said softly.
Their first target was the Unparalleled War Spirit. But if the conditions permitted it, if they could get rid of the descendant of the Li family right now, there was also a need for it.
But after a moment of quiet observation, William Murdorch took in a breath of cold air.
“What is going on? What’s up with the endless amount of energy?”
The energy that the descendant of the Li family had was almost bursting out of his body. It made him afraid even though he was a top tier S level player, as it was just as if he was facing a fierce tiger. If he let his guard down for a single moment, he would be pounced on and bitten.
“Although there is no Unparalleled War Spirit, the movement of his energy is very weird. The power of his favourite pet is also not weak. If we start a fight without preparation, we might not be able to kill him, and might even suffer huge losses.”
Li Xianyu and William Murdoch looked at one another, and they both had a relaxed smile on their faces as they said, “It is such a coincidence.”
“That’s right, that’s right.”
After confirming their gazes, they were sure that they were unable to offend the other party.
“When did you come down?” William Murdoch spoke in London-accented Chinese.
“I just came down, and there is nothing here at all.” Li Xianyu sighed out loud.
“There was someone who came here first and got everything?” William Murdoch raised his eyebrows.
“It is obvious that it is not the case, I believe that the wall paintings would tell us the truth,” Li Xianyu said, as he raised the torch up, and shone it on the drawings on the wall.
The four walls were covered in paintings, and the style of the drawings and stamp was the same person that built the Bronze Hall that Slime came from. This time, the main character of the painting was a long worm.
Li Xianyu looked at it for a long time, and guessed that it was actually a dragon.
The style of the drawing was too simple, and it was a long worm that had long legs and corners. It swam in the huge rivers, and was powerful, and could create rain on call.
There was a day, where it left the huge river, and it flew towards the mountains. The goal on the peak of the mountain, and it was the Great Palace that was up in the clouds.
It had the same ending as the other historical demons. It was killed underneath the pond, and had four chains trapping it.
At that time when he saw the last painting on the wall, Li Xianyu’s irises contracted.
After getting locked up for so many years, he did not know how the remains of this long worm actually managed to escape from the chain. And it managed to escape away from the Bronze Hall.
“In the distant past, the historical demon that was trapped underneath the pond that is beneath our feet managed to escape out from Great Deities Palace. This is an unbelievable discovery,” William Mudoch muttered to himself.
He believed what Li Xianyu said, that there was really nothing here because that thing escaped away.
“Then where did it go?” Bill Murdoch’s facial expressions changed, as he said softly, “There was a historical demon that escaped out, it might be hidden in the midst of us humans?”
This was a very bold guess.
They could tell from the information of the wall paintings, that a long worm escaped out. It was not like the other historical demons that were locked up.
This meant that there was a historical demon that was hidden in some corner of the world, and it might even be in the society of humans…
“It might not have hidden its presence,” Li Xianyu said. “If I did not guess it wrong, this is a dragon.”
He thought about what Big Boss told Great-Grandma back in the past, “I found a dragon at the mouth where the Yangtze River merged together with the oceans.”
“Dragon?” William looked at the painting on the wall, and the animal that was drawn simply on the wall. He had a bitter smile as he said, “I really can’t tell, how are you so sure.”
“Dragon is the totem of China. There are numerous legends about the dragon, and it represents many animals. It is just as if it is the random combination of many animals. It is an animal that exists in our imaginations.” Li Xianyu said softly, “But it might really be real, and not the imagination of the people back in the past.”
“Great Deities Palace is in China, and it escaped out in the distant past. It managed to be active on this piece of land, and the people back in the past have revered it as a God, and bowed down to its power. As for its story, it blossomed on this land,” Li Xianyu murmured out loud.
In Chinese legends, a dragon was majestic, but it was also sinister. Some bad rumours said so, and there were so many good legends about dragons that existed and they were still in the majority.
People back then revered it, and at the same time, they also wanted to get rid of it.
If it was a historical demon, everything could make sense. Because in the eyes of the historical demon, humans were only a bunch of monkeys that wore clothes.
To the historical demons, humans were just like ants.
It could be interested and cause havoc, and could also be happy due to the humans seeing it as a god, and chose to protect them instead.
So in the stories that were passed down as mystical stories, the dragon had both a good and evil image at the same time.
Li Xianyu remembered the dragon salamander that he met in the water storage containers. The dragon salamander might have very close blood relations to it, so dragon salamander was special. It almost could not morph into a human. Rumours said that if they trained for five hundred years, they could even morph into dragons.
The most key thing was that dragon salamanders only existed in China worldwide. All of these clues matched up.
“It turns out that this is the case, there is a mystery inside my heart that is finally solved.” William Murdoch laughed before he said, “It has already decayed.”
“Why do you say so?” Li Xianyu raised his eyebrows.