The fracture caused by the explosion happened to be a relay station after it was simply leveled. The members of the exploration team made the final preparations in the place before they slowly sank into the ground through a temporary lift.
More than a hundred warriors who were responsible for exploring the way and several times more small demon beasts were sent into the place for preliminary exploration. After ensuring that everything was safe, the researchers entered the place in batches.
Li Yao was assigned an interactive brainwave receiver that looked like a tentacle and two biochemical chips that looked like contact lenses.
When he stuck the tentacle to his forehead softly and put the biochemical chips on his eyeballs, a lot of information and a series of instructions immediately popped up on his retina after beeping noises, including the general layout of the Mausoleum of Chaos.
The underground space outlined by bright green lines was dozens of times larger than Li Yao had imagined. It had multiple floors and countless pathways and independent spaces. It truly looked like a splendid underground palace.
The pulleys rotated quickly, and the lift slowly descended. Li Yao felt that he was like an ant that had been lowered to the bottom of a cliff ten thousand meters high with a string tied to his waist.
After passing through the narrow, vertical pathway, a space more than five hundred meters both in length and width appeared in front of his eyes. The dark walls in all directions seemed to boast a weird attraction force that swallowed all the light and sound.
They seemed to have fallen into an abyss. It was not until three minutes later that the lift finally reached the ground.
The ground was dry and hard, made of a certain unknown rock material. It was not until his feet touched the ground that Li Yao finally took a breath in relief.
When the mutated fireflies flew randomly in the enormous space and sprayed their cold fluorescence in all directions, everybody, including Li Yao, was attracted by the skeleton of an enormous creature at the center of the space.
There was no telling what the remains of the ferocious beast it belonged to, but the thick bones were protruding toward the sky, forming a dense primitive forest. Illuminated by the fluorescence, the bones were emitting bright green, metallic colors. Quite a few of them were dozens of meters long. They were even thicker than the main guns of crystal warships.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and looked at the walls around.
Dozens of iron rings had been nailed to the walls. Enormous chains were tied to the rings and tied to the bones. After forty thousand years, all the chains were as shiny as new. Even the hair-thin spirit patterns on them could be seen clearly.
Almost all of the chains showed signs of being forcefully pulled. Many of the iron rings were even pulled out from the wall. Only holes that were full of cracks were left. Some of the chains were stretched to the limit like noodles.
The surrounding walls were covered with claw marks that were several meters deep. Many thick claws and finger bones were broken and deeply embedded into the walls.
There was also a crater with a diameter of several dozen meters on a certain part of the wall. It was as if a huge battering ram had once struck this place.
Li Yao closed his eyes and imagined the scene of forty thousand years ago.
There was a ferocious beast that was hundreds of meters long. For some reason, he was locked here by some people with iron chains.
The giant beast, on the other hand, seemed to be in excruciating pain. It struggled and tore apart many chains that were engraved with rune arrays.
At the same time, it also left shocking claw marks on the wall. It was so painful that its claws were broken and embedded into the wall, but it did not stop. It continued to use its head. He slammed into the wall.
What was it exactly that caused such pain to the giant beast?
Was it some kind of experiment?
A few paleontologists and historians approached the body of the giant beast and whispered to each other.
One of them was a paleontologist. He seemed to have been assigned a mission, which was to study the giant beast. He immediately got to work with his assistant.
Li Yao, who was very experienced in fighting, soon noticed a weird phenomenon, too.
The bones on the giant beast's torso were broken in many places, but they were not broken inwardly. Instead, they were bursting outward.
It was as if something had crawled into its stomach and crawled out again after making a big fuss.
Li Yao swallowed. For the first time, he felt that it might not be safe to explore the Mausoleum of Chaos even if he was a Yuanying.
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao led the researchers deeper into the enormous space under the guidance of the arrows on his retina.
After passing through a long pathway, the scene in front of him, however, gave him the illusion that he had stepped on nothing and fell into a sea of stars.
The enormous space that appeared just now had already given them a sense of the magnificence and profundity of a palace.
However, compared to the temple in front of their eyes, it was like the difference between a matchbox and a skyscraper!
The temple was boundless. They were only at the top of the temple. There was a straight staircase leading downward in front of them, but it was covered in a vague gray mist.
The gray mist was fluctuating like a living creature. It was indescribably mysterious.
Li Yao finally understood why Yuchi Ba had risked recruiting so many newcomers to take part in the operation.
The Mausoleum of Chaos was too vast. However many explorers entered it, they all vanished into thin air like salt sprinkled into water.
Very soon, the virtual picture of the entire temple was displayed on his retina through the biochemical chip.
According to the echo detection, the temple was more than thirty kilometers in length and width. It was almost an enormous city.
Also, it was only the first floor.
Under the guidance of the arrows, they groped for ten minutes before they finally reached the bottom floor of the temple.
The ground here, however, was not made of hard flagstones but moist soil. Squeaking noises would echo when they stepped on it.
The edges of the hall were still pitch-black rocks, but on the rock walls, there were magnificent relief sculptures carved at intervals.
Most of the reliefs were pictures of bizarre-shaped giants sowing the seeds of life in bizarre worlds. Sometimes, when several enormous reliefs were connected, a complete story could be constructed.
For example, at the beginning of one of the reliefs, a huge light gray disc descended on a steaming planet, and in the ocean below the reliefs, there were traces of ancient creatures.
The second relief was a series of gigantic Tyrannosaurs that were sent to the planet by a cone-shaped light wave.
However, compared to the fossils unearthed today, the tyrannosaurs all boasted extremely strong arms, which were somewhat similar to the Pangu that Li Yao had seen in his memories.
In the third reliefs, the tyrannosaurs extended their arms to the ocean. Under the corrosion of a certain weird force, their arms shriveled. But a lot of bright golden liquids were secreted from the wrinkles of their skin and dripped into the ocean.
It seemed to be the essence of their arms.
In the fourth reliefs, countless sea creatures that swallowed the golden liquids evolved primitive limbs and began to march to the land.
When the four reliefs were connected, they seemed to be suggesting that the tyrannosaurs gave the sea creatures the ability to march to the land at the cost of their arms.
"In such a case, at least the first hypothesis about Chaos has been disproved."
Solemnly, Chu Zhengqing, a master of the studies of Chaos, said slowly, "Judging from the structure of this temple and its relative position in the entire underground architecture system, this should be a temple where the ancient people worshipped. Since so many scenes where the Pangu created the world and enlightened the living beings are recorded in the reliefs around the temple, it suggests that Chaos worships the Pangu, too."
"In the history of the demon race in the past ten thousand years, the mainstream opinion has always been that Chaos is the Pangu's mortal enemy. These reliefs can strongly refute such an opinion."
"Of course, Chaos is not the Pangu's enemy but the rightful heir of the Pangu," another researcher said coldly. "It was part of the ambitious, insane demons that betrayed God Chaos and ended up like this! What we need to do is to excavate everything inside the Mausoleum of Chaos and reveal the truth to the world! "
Chu Zhengqing smiled and continued to walk forward.
A lot of members of the exploration team had already gathered in the front. They had established the most basic illumination system, too.
Under the illumination of the mystic light, Li Yao saw that an indescribable object was standing at the end of the temple. It looked both like an integrated cockpit and a weirdly shaped, magnificent throne. Embedded in it was a bright gold skeleton more than ten meters long.
The skeleton should be wearing some sort of armor. However, after such a long time, the armor had been melded with the body.
The upper body of the skeleton was almost identical to that of a human being, except for the fact that it was slightly larger.
However, when it came to the hip bone, it suddenly constricted and gathered into a thick dragon bone. It was not until the end of the tail that the bone suddenly split into more than ten bones and spread out like the claws of a crab.
If the skeleton had been restored to its original appearance, it should have been some sort of half-human, half-snake, or half-human, half-dragon.
Dense spiritual stripes were everywhere on the skeleton that was not covered in armor, especially on the skull that was relatively intact. The circles of spiritual stripes attracted Li Yao's eyes and soul like mysterious swirls.
Several paleontologists and archaeologists were already busy next to the throne of bones. They were cleaning the dust on the skeleton carefully and scanning every section of the skeleton.
"The shape of the armor and the seat of the skeleton are utterly incompatible with the style of the buildings around and the civilization level of forty thousand years ago that we know. There is an air of transcendence about it. It is especially so in the area right next to the skeleton, which seems to be an 'operation platform'. The spiritual stripes on it are so complicated that even we can barely decipher them today.
"Right now, we can conclude that the skeleton and the seat that it has melted with were not built in the Mausoleum of Chaos but moved here from somewhere else.
"The coordinates of the skeleton in the temple happen to be at the center of a few golden incisors. According to the rules of construction in the age of the ancient Cultivators, it is a deity's seat!
"It is safe to assume that the skeleton is the 'god' that Chaos worshipped!"
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