Everyone in the Profound Heaven Sacred City was startled by this shout. They all looked in the direction of the Profound Heaven Cloud Palace in shock, not knowing how to describe their feelings with words.
Li Zhiyuan, was this person possessed? Or was he crazy?
He had just massacred the Four Seas Divine Sect, and now he wanted to go against Xuan Tianyun Palace? Did he want to defeat all the martial arts giants in the Northern Wilderness Region with his own strength?
This was simply too crazy.
At this moment, Li Mu stood at the entrance of Xuan Tianyun Palace. He looked at the gate that had been kicked open, as well as the broken horse path and courtyard that were overgrown with weeds. His face revealed an extremely shocked expression.
The scene of Xuan Tianyun Palace disciples swarming out and surrounding him did not happen.
The world behind the gate was a barren wasteland.
If he did not know that this was where Xuan Tianyun Palace, which shook the Northern Wilderness Region's martial arts world, was located, Li Mu would have thought that this was actually a dilapidated, dilapidated, abandoned manor that was overgrown with weeds.
The famous Xuan Tianyun Palace, behind its towering gate, was actually such a barren scene?
Moreover, this place was clearly deserted. It did not look like someone had lived here for a long time. It had obviously been abandoned for decades or even centuries.
This was Xuan Tianyun Palace?
Shen Jia's mouth was wide open, his face full of disbelief.
Could he have gone the wrong way?
But that was impossible.
The entire Northern Wilderness Region knew that Xuan Tianyun Palace only had one base here. Apart from that, there were no other branches in the Northern Wilderness Region.
Shen Jia looked at Li Mu.
Li Mu strode toward the gate.
There were no ripples of formation runes, nor was there any aura of Taoist techniques. The scene in front of him was not an illusion.
The weeds behind the gate were already half a person's height. They were messy and wild, and one could even see traces of wild beasts passing through. Bird droppings piled up layer after layer on the walls and fake mountains. Some of the walls had already collapsed and were in ruins. It was a dilapidated scene, but there were no signs of a battle. It was obvious that it had not been maintained for a long time and had been exposed to the elements.
No one had been here for at least a century.
The two of them advanced on the overgrown horse path.
On both sides of the road, there were white stone statues with blurred faces, toppled or standing, as well as posts for tying horses. After walking for about 100 meters, there came the rumbling sound of rubbing rocks behind him. The stone gate that was kicked open by Li Mu slowly closed.
Shen Jia's palms were sweaty.
He looked up at Li Mu for the second time.
Li Mu didn't say anything and continued to walk inside.
In the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, the two of them passed through a ruined horse path, a collapsed bridge, a dried up lake bed, a collapsed shrine, and an abandoned training field. They walked all the way inside and finally arrived in front of the Mysterious Sky Palace, the symbol of the majesty of the Mysterious Sky Palace.
The main hall, on the other hand, was perfectly preserved. There were no weeds around it, and it looked slightly lively.
A narrow and winding path was formed in the weeds. It went all the way past ninety-nine stone steps and extended towards the tall and majestic Mysterious Divine Palace.
After climbing the stone steps, they arrived at the entrance of the main hall.
The main hall had the typical architectural style of the Northern Wilderness Region. There was a circle of arcades on the outside, and a circular dome was supported by hundreds of meter tall stone statues. Each statue represented a hero of the Northern Wilderness Region. Most of them were from the Mysterious Sky Palace, and a few were legendary figures from other sects. They had all created legendary achievements in the history of the Northern Wilderness Region, and countless warriors worshiped them.
The stone door of the main hall was more than twenty meters tall and ten meters wide. It was pitch-black inside, like the mouth of a monster. A cold wind blew out from inside, bringing with it an abnormal gloomy coldness.
Li Mu still couldn't figure out what was going on.
Could it be that the Mysterious Sky Palace had already been destroyed in the dust of history?
But a few days ago, there was the special envoy from the Mysterious Sky Palace, and the assassination on the street. What was going on?
Things were getting more and more interesting.
Li Mu walked step by step into the dark main hall.
Shen Jia followed closely behind.
The hall was spacious and huge, but it was empty. Everything inside seemed to have been emptied a long time ago. The sound of wind came from between the pillars of the hall. Perhaps it was because of the wind, but there was not a speck of dust on the ground. Shen Jia's footsteps formed echoes in the vast space.
The young man's face was filled with confusion.
Li Mu suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed the back of Shen Jia's neck.
In the darkness, Li Mu caught a dagger that looked like the fangs of a poisonous snake. With a twist of his wrist, the dagger was broken. Li Mu stabbed it into the void with a backhand. With a scream, a dark shadow fell out of the dark void and fell to the ground …
It was a figure clad in a black fish-scale armor from head to toe, almost identical to the black shadow Li Mu killed on the long street.
The dagger was smeared with the God's Sob Poison, so the black figure turned into a puddle of black water in a breath's time. It bounced up and pounced towards Li Mu and Shen Jia, but Li Mu used the Heaven's Shock Qi to send it flying.
"Stand where you are and don't move."
Li Mu said softly.
He had already sensed that there was more than one assassin hiding in the hall. They were all using the [Spirit Hiding Ghost Escape] technique to hide in the darkness. Compared to the strange foggy and dusty environment on the long street, the dark hall was obviously more suitable for this kind of escape technique. Even if they were not proficient in it, they could still make use of the darkness to hide perfectly.
But unfortunately, they met Li Mu.
Li Mu's figure, like an illusory bubble, gradually melted in the darkness.
He also knew [Shadow Ghost Evasion], and he was more proficient in it than the Shadow Assassins here.
Like a mad shark king diving into the deep sea, he launched a counter-hunt in the darkness.
Shen Jia opened his mouth in surprise, watching his master completely disappear from his sight.
Then, in the darkness, miserable cries rang out one after another.
Plop, plop.
One figure after another in black fish scale armor, like fish thrown out of the water, fell out of the darkness.
When Li Mu's figure appeared again, there were a total of 16 figures wearing fish scale armor and headgear lying on the ground.
But before Li Mu could interrogate them, the bodies of these 16 Eighth and Ninth Realm experts all turned into black pus. After a final counterattack, their bodies and souls were destroyed.
"These black assassins should not be from the Xuantian Cloud Palace."
Li Mu had some guesses in his heart.
Could it be that the real Xuantian Cloud Palace had already been destroyed, and for so many years, there was another force of unknown origin, using the skin of the Xuantian Cloud Palace, secretly controlling the order of the Northern Wilderness Region?
However, these black-clothed assassins seemed to be guarding something in the Mysterious Heaven Palace.
Or were they guarding something?
Li Mu began to search in the hall.
In the end, he really did find a mechanism in the inner wall of the hall. He twisted the lion head on the wall, and with a rumbling sound, the wall rose, revealing a secret door.
Behind the secret door was a black tunnel, winding to an unknown place.
The chilly wind in the hall came from this tunnel, and it was mixed with a dark and decaying smell.
Li Mu was skilled and bold, so he led Shen Jia into the secret door.
After walking for about 50 meters, Li Mu could be sure that this was a very old prison.
He saw a fine steel fence made of steel as thick as an adult's arm, blocking the way.
The bars had already rusted, and they were all specially made. It was very difficult to open them with brute force. Behind the bars was a huge cave-like space. The stone walls were densely packed with beehive-like cells. There were hundreds of them, and they were all of different sizes. However, they were all sealed by steel doors.
The steel door was covered with layers of rivets, giving off an unbreakable feeling. In the middle, there was a round hole about the size of an adult's finger, perhaps for ventilation or other purposes.
But Li Mu could not see the guards, so he could not be sure if there were still "prisoners" in this prison.
The steel fence was thick and hard, and ordinary people could not break it.
After thinking for a while, Li Mu returned to the Dark Heaven Palace and found several key-like black tokens on the liquefied traces of the 16 Shadow Assassins. Then, he went back to the fence, and after a little try, he opened the special iron chain of the fence.
Squeak!
He pushed the steel door open, and the slightly rusty door shaft made a harsh sound.
At this moment, Li Mu's ears twitched.
He was keenly aware that there was a slight movement in some cells, but he could not tell whether it was insects and mice being disturbed or there were living people imprisoned in them.
Shen Jia did not notice these.
The young man felt as if he had come to a cold cemetery full of the smell of death.
He walked over and opened the steel door of a cell at the bottom with the key.
A decaying smell hit his face.
There were no living people inside, only six pale-white skeletons neatly lying on the ice-cold rock floor. They were still wearing clothes. From the clothes, it could be seen that there were both men and women. Moreover, they were quite young, probably around twenty or thirty years old. They had been dead for at least a hundred years. The moment the prison door was opened, fresh air rushed in from outside. As the wind blew, the clothes turned into ashes and scattered …
"This …" Shen Jia was a little scared.
In that instant, Li Mu determined that these six skeletons were definitely disciples of the XuanTianyun Palace when they were alive. This was because the style of their clothing was exactly the same as what the XuanTianyun Palace disciples were known to wear.
After that, he opened several steel doors of the first floor.
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