Just as the elder entered the hall, the stone sword immediately emitted a terrifying sword beam in a bid to kill the elder on the spot.
As the elder looked at the sword beam from the stone sword, his body underwent an earth-shattering change in an instant. His flesh, skin, and even his clothes instantly turned into a jade-like state. It was as if his entire body had turned into a strange jade statue.
The sword beam struck the elder's jade-like body, but it was shattered by the elder's hand.
Terror transformation! Zhou Wen was alarmed. For the elder to shatter the stone sword's sword beam, he was clearly a Terror-grade expert.
Without any hesitation, the stone sword was unsheathed again and slashed at the elder with an invisible sword beam.
The jade-like elder suddenly extended his hands to clamp the stone sword. For a moment, they were in a stalemate. The stone sword couldn't stab any further, but the elder couldn't repel the stone sword either. The man and sword were in a stalemate.
"Who is this old fellow? He can actually withstand the stone sword's power! "Liu Yun exclaimed.
However, Zhou Wen didn't say a word. With a flash, he rushed into the palace.
Liu Yun also reacted. He gritted his teeth and rushed into the palace.
The stone sword and the elder were in a stalemate, so they didn't have the strength to stop Zhou Wen and Liu Yun. In the blink of an eye, the two of them had already rushed into the hall with the bamboo slips.
Seeing that the elder was still in a stalemate with the stone sword, Zhou Wen wasn't in a rush to rush in. He casually took a bamboo slip from the shelf and opened it to take a look.
When he saw that the words written on it were laws, he randomly picked a few bamboo slips from different shelves to read. They were all laws. He couldn't help but find it odd.
I heard that Emperor Qin believed in the art of immortality promoted by Warlocks back then. I originally thought that the books buried with him would be related to alchemy and the art of immortality. I never expected it to be a Book of Law. As Zhou Wen walked, he casually flipped through the books and realized that there were no records related to alchemy. They were all laws.
"Junior Brother, why aren't you leaving? What's so good about those bamboo slips?" Liu Yun also flipped through a few scrolls and lost interest when he saw that they were all laws.
Zhou Wen put down the bamboo slip and quickened his pace. He walked to the back of the palace with Liu Yun and saw another door. However, it had already been opened. It was clearly Jing Daoxian's work.
Behind the door, there was a screen made of jade blocking the way. The two of them walked around the screen, and what they saw shocked them.
The ground was littered with broken pieces of bronze and jade, as if a great battle had taken place. However, there was no one to be seen, nor were there any doors leading to other places.
"There might be a secret door," Liu Yun said as he searched the wall, hoping to find the secret door.
"Stop looking. Look at the water in the pool. Is there anything wrong with it?" Zhou Wen said as he pointed at a pool.
The water in the pool was black like ink, but it didn't have any strange smell. It shouldn't have turned black because it had gone bad.
"Are you saying that there's a path under the pool?" Liu Yun sized up the pool, but the water in the pool was too dark. He couldn't see anything clearly.
I don't know if there's a path down there, but there shouldn't be a secret door in this palace. Zhou Wen had already used Truth Listener to scan the entire palace. If there was a secret door, it was impossible for him not to discover it.
"Should we go down?" Liu Yun was somewhat hesitant.
"I'm afraid we can only go down," Zhou Wen said as he looked outside and saw that the elder had already rushed in.
Unlike Jing Daoxian, who had charged in, the stone sword chased after him. Wherever the sword beam on the stone sword passed, it destroyed almost everything.
Without any hesitation, Zhou Wen jumped into the pool with Ya 'er in his arms.
The Azure Dragon Seven Mansions Essence Energy Skill was activated as though an azure dragon was coiling around his body, repelling the black water outside his body.
Liu Yun gritted his teeth and jumped down with Zhou Wen.
Strangely enough, the black water in the pool didn't seem to have any buoyancy. Just as they jumped in, they quickly plummeted. Furthermore, they fell faster and faster as though there was a force pulling them from below.
Bam!
When Zhou Wen and Liu Yun landed on the ground, the powerful impact nearly broke their leg bones.
Before they could see the environment in front of them clearly, two more shadows landed above them. One was the jade-like elder, and the other was the stone sword.
The moment the stone sword landed, it emitted thousands of sword beams that enveloped the surrounding area.
Zhou Wen and Liu Yun quickly dodged. Zhou Wen flipped over and hid behind a huge object. The object blocked the stone sword's sword beam. He watched as the torrential sword beam struck the object, but it didn't shatter.
Only then did Zhou Wen realize that the item he was using to take refuge was a huge alchemy furnace. It was more than ten meters tall and looked like it was made of copper.
However, it wasn't the bronze that was commonly seen in that era. Instead, it was a type of purple copper.
The sword light struck the purple copper pill furnace, causing it to ring loudly. However, it was unable to damage the pill furnace in the slightest.
Zhou Wen looked into the furnace and realized that it was filled with flames. The flames inside were already a blazing white color, and the temperature was unimaginably high. However, the purple copper furnace was only warm to the touch. It didn't feel hot at all.
Strange. I've never heard of a furnace burning inside. It should be heated by the flames burning below, but this furnace is burning inside. What's the reason? Zhou Wen found it odd.
As the stone sword fought the elder, Zhou Wen took the opportunity to size up his surroundings. Only then did he realize to his surprise that he was at the top of a mountain.
In the pitch-black and huge underground space, a mountain occupied a huge space. They stood at the top of the mountain and were only twenty to thirty meters away from the stone dome above them.
The surroundings were pitch-black. As the space was too large and there was no light, only the flames that emitted from the purple copper furnace's wind hole emitted light. This made the distance even darker.
The area that Truth Listener could sense was empty. Instead, a cold wind blew from afar. Furthermore, the wind was very strong, causing Zhou Wen's clothes to stick to his body. The cold wind drilled into his bones.
Where did Jing Daoxian go? Zhou Wen hugged Ya 'er and had his back facing the cold wind. After searching for a while, he didn't find Jing Daoxian.
Liu Yun also rushed behind the pill furnace and met up with Zhou Wen. He said, "There's nothing on the mountaintop except a pill furnace. Do you think the Pill of Immortality refined by the Emperor is inside the pill furnace?"
"I don't think so. Otherwise, why wouldn't Jing Daoxian be here?" As Zhou Wen spoke, he suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound from afar. It sounded like thunder.
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