"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! "
Savaged by countless magical equipment, the underground world was enshrouded in smoke. The high temperature of hundreds of degrees vaporized a lot of the silver lake water and raised clusters of silver mist in midair.
The cries of the apocalyptic beast at the bottom of the lake were even more miserable and hideous. Pillars of water soared to the sky and hit the wall of the cave. A lot of rocks were falling down. For a moment, the mountain was shaking violently, as if there was an earthquake.
Li Yao and his teammates accelerated to the highest speed and dashed into a new gap. When they were thousands of meters away from the silver lake, the roars of the apocalyptic beast at the bottom of the lake were still echoing in their ears.
"Thankfully, Vulture is fast enough to collect the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. He finished the collection before the apocalyptic beast at the bottom of the lake revealed itself!
"Chances are that the apocalyptic beast at the bottom of the lake is heavily wounded or under some barriers. It can't float to the surface of the water easily. Now that it has forced itself to float to the surface, it will certainly pay a heavy price. Now that it has been bombarded by us, chances are that its wounds have worsened. If we come back on the same path, we can try to hunt it down!"
The six of them were all excited that they had obtained the invaluable Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
"Team Tiger Deity left a new telepathic thought ball!"
The crystal processors of the six of them received a telepathic thought that was as thin as a hair. It was marked on the 3D map and came from an inconspicuous gap more than four thousand meters ahead of them on the left side.
The six of them were in high spirits. Li Yao performed a quick maintenance on everyone's Crystal Suit first and replaced the seriously corroded ones. Then, they moved toward the source of the telepathic thought.
Half an hour later, they appeared in a narrow, dark cave.
Scanning with mystic rays and telepathic thoughts, they found a skeleton half lying at the end of the cave. It was two meters tall, with bright gold bones. Mysterious, complicated stripes were growing on the bones of the arms.
"It's a body practitioner!"
Ding Ling Dong's eyes shone. "Spiritual stripes on the bones and a Flowing Gold Battle Body. The body practitioner must have been of a high level. At least above the middle level of the Core Formation Stage. I didn't expect that he would die here! Now that Team Tiger Deity has discovered him... Why didn't you collect the corpse? "
Li Yao took a step forward and scanned every inch of the skeleton carefully with his mystic light. Some soft materials were scattered around the pale gold skeleton. They looked like some kind of protective soft armor like a mustard-seed battle suit, but they had been worn out by the passage of time.
From one of the soft materials, half of the Red Dragon Swallowing the Sun emblem could be vaguely distinguished, which was the symbol of the Star Ocean Imperium.
In that case … He was a Cultivator from the Star Ocean Imperium.
Li Yao retracted his gaze. After pondering for a moment, he understood why Team Tiger Deity didn't take the skeleton away.
The Cultivators of the Star Ocean Imperium had all died here at least seven to eight thousand years ago. Jin Dan and the other experts had not reached the level of immortality yet. Even though they were body practitioners with extremely tough bodies, their bodies would decay quickly after they died.
This skeleton had long since rotted. The slightest movement would cause it to turn into fine powder. He couldn't store it in his Universe Ring at all.
In the corner of the cave, Team Tiger Deity left a second telepathic thought ball.
The information stored in the second telepathic thought ball was ten times more abundant than the first one.
As it turned out, it was right next to the skeleton of the Cultivator of the Imperium. There was also a lot of magical equipment that hadn't completely decayed, including several jade chips, which were all taken away by Team Tiger Deity.
However, before they left, the experts of Team Tiger Deity cracked the barriers of the jade chips and deciphered a lot of information inside.
The Xing Yao Federation and the Star Ocean Imperium were of the same origin. Although thousands of years had passed, their languages, customs, and social forms were more or less the same.
Team Tiger Deity. They also had a rarely-seen hybrid-type Cultivator who was both talented in fighting and research. Other than being an Orb Patroller, he was also a historian and archaeologist. He was best at studying the history of the Star Ocean Imperium, including the barriers and secret codes in the army.
After his deciphering, a lot of information flooded into the crystal processors of Li Yao and his teammates.
The keywords contained in it shocked the six of them.
"What? The real name of Ultimacy is' Boneyard ', and it was the residence of Skeleton Dragon, one of the nineteen strongest demons in the early years of the Great Dark Age?"
The six of them were truly shocked!
"Skeleton Dragon?"
"Everybody, hurry up and search your crystal processors and your brain. Share all the information about Skeleton Dragon with us!" Hong Tong said in a hurry.
The early years of the Great Dark Age were almost forty thousand years ago. After all, it was a long time ago. Most of the files at that time were scattered in the sea of stars. Even if they had read some of the files, they were usually buried deep inside their brain and wouldn't waste their precious computational ability to recall them.
Everybody racked their brains and tried their best to recall the information they had. After integrating it with the files attached by Team Tiger Deity, they formed the basic profile of Skeleton Dragon.
In the early years of the Great Dark Age, or rather, at the end of the age of ancient Cultivators, billions of demon beasts were created to fight against each other.
After thousands of years of fighting, countless powerful species were born among the demon beasts.
A lot of top experts were born among the powerful species.
Under the leadership of the demon beasts, the demon race was awakened and rebelled against the world of Cultivators!
However, the demon race was an artificial creature. Their estrangement from each other was much deeper than that between human beings. Many demon beasts were natural enemies to each other. It was even less likely that they would listen to each other's orders.
Therefore, at the very beginning, the nineteen most powerful demon beast species formed an alliance and launched an attack on the world of ancient Cultivators!
After the arrival of the Great Dark Age, the world of ancient Cultivators was devastated. The civilization of mankind was reduced to a vassal of the demon beast civilization.
Without a common enemy, the so-called 'Alliance of Demons' naturally collapsed.
The leaders of the nineteen demon beast species all hoped to be the one and only demon emperor who ruled over the entire sea of stars. Therefore, a cruel war broke out!
Skeleton Dragon was one of them!
To this day, most of the files about the war of the demon emperors in the early years of the Great Dark Age had been lost. Human beings today only knew that Skeleton Dragon was not the winner of the war.
With the bloodiness and cruelty of the demon race, it was not hard to imagine what would happen to the loser!
Boneyard turned out to be the residence of Skeleton Dragon …
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Skeleton Dragon, a top expert among the ancient demons, obviously had more than one residence.
It might be a base for his counterattack, or it might be a place where he secluded himself after he was heavily wounded.
In any case, a lot of secret treasures must have been hidden inside the residence!
Li Yao pondered for a moment and figured it out.
In the early years of the Great Dark Age, Skeleton Dragon, an expert of the demon race, commanded thousands of demon beasts and annihilated countless sects of ancient Cultivators.
The demon race was not a primitive civilization. Their training pattern at the beginning was the same as that of the ancient Cultivators. Therefore, he must have looted the arts and secret treasures of countless ancient Cultivator sects in order to strengthen his own race and make his family members and descendants stronger.
Those treasures might have been buried deep inside Boneyard!
Everybody understood the logic. Therefore, at the end of the Great Dark Age, when the Star Ocean Imperium was rising and the last Demon Beast Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, the two parties discovered Boneyard by accident and sent exploration teams to the place at the same time!
The Cultivator from the Star Ocean Imperium, who had bright gold bones and battle stripes on his arms, came to Boneyard for exploration at that time.
The enormous platform that Li Yao saw at the bottom of the canyon and the enormous tunnel that led to almost eight thousand meters below the ground were all the works of the Star Ocean Imperium.
According to the battle diary left in the ancient jade chip, the exploration team of the Star Ocean Imperium had slain countless powerful spiritual beasts on their way. The four kinds of spiritual beasts in the silver lake had all been annihilated!
"That explains a lot. No wonder our journey was so smooth. The spiritual beasts around the Heart Locking Flowers and the Flowing Brightness Grasses were so weak.
"As it turns out, the real powerful guardian spiritual beasts have long been annihilated!"
That was basically the information in the ancient jade chip. Other than that, a lot of information had been imposed with high-level barriers, which could not be deciphered for the time being.
According to the battle diary, the exploration team of the Star Ocean Imperium had run into the exploration teams of the Demon Beast Empire several times on the Boneyard Planet. The two parties fought each other several times, but there was no clear winner.
The skeleton of the body practitioner was intact. There was no damage at all. He didn't seem to have been killed by an expert of the demon clan.
There was no telling what kind of accidents they encountered later, or who won the battle between them and the exploration team of the Demon Beast Empire.
However, it didn't matter who won the battle.
Because after almost ten thousand years, both the Demon Beast Empire and the Star Ocean Imperium had been blown into smithereens like dry leaves in the wind and gone forever.
"The residence of the strongest demon forty thousand years ago, even if it is just a foothold, must contain countless secret treasures. We are really rich this time!
"We are truly lucky! With our capability, we shouldn't have been able to explore the residence of the ancient demon seven thousand meters below the ground. But a predecessor of the Star Ocean Imperium cleared a path for us!
"Maybe this is the destiny of the civilization of mankind!"
The six members of Team Blue Bronze stood solemnly at the same time and expressed their respect to the bright gold skeleton from the Xing Yao Federation.
Right then, the crystal processors of the six of them received signals from another independent communication network at the same time.
The signal was intermittent. Perhaps it was blocked by the rocks below the ground, but they couldn't reach the communication channel of Team Blue Bronze even after several attempts.
"Help!"
"It's the distress signal of Team Tiger Deity!"
The faces of Li Yao and the other members of the team all changed. Without any hesitation, they took action quickly.
Yan Yangtian activated the probe magical equipment of her Crystal Suit to the maximum and searched for the source of the signal. Half a minute later, the signal was located 9,500 meters below the ground!
"Let's go!"
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