Splash!!
There was the sound of a huge impact.
Lu Sheng crashed into the deep blue pool like a cannonball. A ten-meter wave shot up into the sky. Using the acceleration of gravity, he plunged into the depths of the pool like a fish.
At the bottom of the dark blue pool, there was a large beehive-shaped black rock wall.
When Lu Sheng came down, he saw a piece of clothing flash past one of the beehive-shaped holes.
Without hesitation, he chased after them.
The water temperature at the bottom of the pool was extremely low. There were almost no schools of fish or aquatic plants. The strangest thing was that the water in the pool was extremely viscous.
Lu Sheng thought it was not water. But after sensing it carefully, he could not tell the difference between this liquid and water. Apart from the thickness, the water in the pool was the same as ordinary water.
There was no difference even if he drank it.
Gurgle …
He spat out a series of bubbles and rushed into the beehive-shaped hole, trying to chase after the owner of the piece of clothing.
But as soon as he entered the small cave, he couldn't see a single person in the pitch-black winding tunnel ahead.
It was dark and quiet. Lu Sheng moved forward at high speed, turning one corner after another. He was extremely fast. Even if this body did not have any special abilities against water, his original body had the understanding of the laws of water.
Now, with just a little bit of use, his speed was comparable to the fastest fish.
After chasing for more than ten minutes, there was a faint light in the darkness ahead. There were faint human voices coming from the faint light.
"Chris, Chris, Arredaras!"
"Chris, Chris, Arredaras!"
A hazy, prayer-like voice came from the light.
Lu Sheng swam closer. The light was on top of his head. The light was faint blue, reflecting on the surface of the water above his head.
Lu Sheng's entire body was reflected in the blue light.
He paused for a moment and listened carefully. But the voices he could still hear just now were fading as he listened carefully.
Lu Sheng waited for a while, but he did not hear any new voices from outside the water.
He squinted and quietly floated up from the corner of the water.
All he could see was a patch of ghastly white, a ghastly white.
In the pale white sky, a pale white sun hung in the sky. But when Lu Sheng looked at it, he felt a thick deathly stillness and withering.
Looking at the sun was like looking at a withering flower.
He shifted his gaze and looked around.
In all four directions, there were endless, undulating white bones.
The wind blew the bone dust, forming a white fog-like sandstorm that moved slowly between heaven and earth. The bones in the distance were faintly discernible.
Lu Sheng carefully sensed around and did not find any living beings. He then slowly stood up from the pool.
"This place …" He looked into the distance. As far as his eyes could see, all he could see was a sea of corpses and mountains of bones.
Some of these corpses were piled up into mountains, towering into the clouds. Some were like plains, flat as a horse galloping across. At a glance, all one could see were bone fragments.
Lu Sheng walked out of the pool and turned around to see where he had come from.
The pool was covered by a huge skeletal hand, and he just walked out from the gap between the huge skeletal hand and the pool.
What surprised Lu Sheng the most was that he had seen too many skeletons, but the skeletons in front of him were rather peculiar. They were all the skeletons of humanoid creatures.
He randomly picked up a thigh bone from the ground and carefully identified it.
"It's indeed a human's leg bone, and the time of death should be more than tens of millions of years ago …" With his Master-level medical skills, he had absolute confidence in this aspect.
His medical skills were superb, and he cultivated in many different energy systems. He only needed to separate a little bit of earth energy to examine it, and he would be able to quickly calculate the age of this bone through a large number of formulas.
"But I clearly heard human voices just now …" Lu Sheng raised his head and looked around. Other than the sound of the wind, there was no other sound.
He narrowed his eyes and his nostrils twitched slightly as he sniffed the air. Then, he moved his feet and dashed out like lightning.
In a few breaths, he had crossed a distance of several hundred meters and stood at the top of a tall pile of bones.
From the top, he looked around. In the distance, a desolate, tall, and dilapidated temple of bones quickly entered Lu Sheng's eyes.
"Let's go there first. Maybe I can find some clues."
He moved his feet and his figure shot out like lightning. He tapped lightly on the pile of bones a few times, and in a dozen breaths, he had rushed to the door of the temple of bones.
Only two of the four long bone walls of the temple remained. The rest had been eroded over the years and collapsed.
Lu Sheng stepped over the side of the collapsed wall and walked inside.
Inside was an area that resembled a Chinese garden with winding doorways, passageways, gardens, and courtyards.
Lu Sheng smashed the bone wall in front of him with a few punches and walked straight to the center.
At the center was a spacious hall. On both sides of the hall, which was more than ten meters tall, stood ghastly white bone totem poles.
The totem poles were carved with strange men with ears that looked like the wings of birds. They were naked and performing various activities such as worshipping, cheering, and offering sacrifices.
Further away, there were small people much smaller than them. They kept kneeling and worshipping them from all directions and offered up large amounts of food and prey.
Lu Sheng wiped some bone powder off the totem poles. He activated his Earth Qi and did some calculations. His expression immediately turned grim.
"It has at least a few billion years of history …"
It should be noted that some of the weaker planets might not even be a few billion years old. It was unbelievable that these totem poles had existed for so long.
He was stunned for a moment. Lu Sheng did not forget his main goal here, which was to capture Pang Yuanjun and share his family's happiness with him.
When he thought of this, he quickly walked around the hall of the temple. Soon, he found a huge, dilapidated statue that was more than ten meters tall.
The statue's upper body was missing. Only the lower half of its legs, which were wearing a long skirt, were left. In front of the statue platform, there were various skulls of different sizes. Most of them seemed to be standard human skulls.
Lu Sheng examined them. These skulls were hundreds of thousands of years old.
Moreover, he found a spear leaning against the ground on the wall to the right of the statue.
On the wall that the spear was leaning against, there were finally rows of unique runes that looked like words.
Lu Sheng tried to identify them, but he could not tell what language they were.
After all, he was not omnipotent. Although he was knowledgeable, there were too many independent languages in the universe. He could not completely understand them.
After giving up on understanding the words, Lu Sheng walked around the statue again. He found an opening at the back.
Walking out of this opening, there were rows of neatly arranged burial mounds outside.
"This must be the tomb of this temple," he guessed.
There was a strange stench of decay in the air.
Lu Sheng stood at the entrance and did not move forward. The stench of decay was making his skin uncomfortable.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, he looked down. Because his palm was holding on to the frame of the door, he had reached into the tomb. Old age spots appeared on the back of his hand.
"I can't even feel the power here …" Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat. He took a step back. The Earth Qi in his body quickly flowed into the back of his hand. His skin recovered. Soon, the greyish brown age spots disappeared.
But he could clearly feel that his lifespan had been reduced by at least ten years.
There was no ripple of power or energy. He had just reached into the tomb, and he had lost ten years of his lifespan …
Lu Sheng's expression turned ugly. Although this body could live for a few thousand years with the nourishment of his Earth Qi.
But losing ten years of lifespan for no reason was not something anyone could let go of.
He took a few steps back. He glanced at a broken totem pole on the ground. He walked over and kicked it.
"Bam!!"
After a muffled sound, the totem pole spun and smashed into the tomb. It then smashed into the top of a grave with a boom. It was embedded in there and did not move.
Apart from a splatter of bone ash, there was no other movement.
Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes. He looked at the tomb before him. He channeled some Earth Qi into his arm and spread it over his fingers. Then, he slowly reached toward the tomb.
…
…
"Ah!"
Pang Yuanjun reached out and grabbed the Sand King, who had screamed. He pulled him back from the edge of the abyss of bones.
The two elders, who were not far behind him, broke out in cold sweat. They quickly ran over.
Just now, a sudden gust of gray wind blew past. Inexplicably, the Sand King, who had been hurrying on his way in silence, was suddenly dazed by the wind. He silently made his way straight toward the nearby abyss of bones.
If Pang Yuanjun had not noticed that something was wrong with him and pulled him back, the Sand King would have fallen into the abyss. His fate would have been uncertain.
"Huff, huff, huff …"
The Sand King's chest heaved rapidly. His face was pale. Beads of sweat rolled down his temples.
"… I can't thank you enough. I owe you my life!" he said to Pang Yuanjun seriously.
"Be careful. This relic is strange. Anything can happen," Pang Yuanjun reminded them in a low voice.
This was not the first time the four of them had been here.
This relic contained treasured medicine that could improve their cultivation base and strength. However, there were also countless strange threats and dangers.
The gray air flow just now was one of them.
"We've come in too hastily this time. The timing isn't right. We came in too early, and the location we calculated is completely wrong. We can only rely on ourselves now. I hope nothing goes wrong, "Su Han said in a low voice.
Xu Sunjing held her walking stick and took a water gourd from her waist. She tilted her head back and drank from it.
"We're not the only ones who received news of the opening of the Dust World this time. The three major sects have information about this all along. It's very likely that they'll enter as well. If we encounter them, we must be careful. "
"The Dust World opens a rift every ten years. The three major sects won't miss such a rare opportunity. Although it's dangerous here, the two Martial Emperors broke through here. No matter what, we must be as careful as possible," the Sand King said with a nod.
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