Ding Zhen gleefully dove into the entrance of the underground palace passage.
However, after only a dozen breaths, Ding Zhen scrambled out in terror.
"Damn it, this is truly cursed!"
With that, he shoved the corpse back into the coffin and pushed the coffin over the opening.
"If I hadn't been quick-witted, I would have truly died here."
Ding Zhen complained, then turned and left.
Clearly, he had seen something extremely horrifying underground just now.
"It's not here. Could it be in someone else's tomb? I'll go out and check."
Ding Zhen hastily left the underground palace.
Once he confirmed Ding Zhen had left, Qin Xuan let out a breath and walked to the edge of the coffin.
"Clatter!"
He opened the coffin and glanced at the old man's corpse struggling inside, Qin Xuan nodded slightly.
"This Ding Zhen really kills but doesn't bury. He doesn't even care that this corpse has reanimated."
After speaking, Qin Xuan shook his head slightly.
"There's nothing valuable left in the coffin. Besides, even if there were, it would only be a Spiritual Artifact or something similar."
"The key is still beneath the coffin."
Qin Xuan stroked his chin in thought, and a moment later, he pushed the coffin aside and looked at the opening below.
As the coffin was pushed open, a cold gust of wind immediately blew out from within, causing Qin Xuan to shiver involuntarily.
Looking at the pitch-black opening below, Qin Xuan narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and squeezed into the opening.
The opening to the bottom was not deep; in just a few breaths, Qin Xuan saw what was below.
Although it was pitch black all around, using his double pupils, Qin Xuan clearly saw what was inside the opening below at a glance.
"This, this is..."
Qin Xuan was utterly shocked.
Below the entrance was a massive space.
Looking around, the entire space was incredibly vast, stretching as far as the eye could see.
However, this was not what shocked Qin Xuan the most.
What truly shocked him was that this space was currently filled with corpses.
Countless Cultivators dressed in blue robes lay haphazardly inside, almost submerging the entire space.
Not only that, thousands of corpses hung suspended from the top of the space, each with its head hanging low.
"Who are these people? Why are they piled up and filling this space!"
Qin Xuan watched this scene in shock.
Only now did he understand why Ding Zhen had immediately scrambled back up after only just descending.
Such a terrifying situation was simply unbelievable.
Just as Qin Xuan was looking at these hanging corpses, suddenly, these thousands of corpses began to move.
One by one, their lowered heads lifted and looked at Qin Xuan.
Their faces were all covered with masks, so their original appearances could not be seen.
The masks were painted with a bizarre smiling face, which even looked like a child's scribble, but as Qin Xuan looked at the eerie smiling face on the mask, he felt a chill run down his spine.
"Quickly retreat!"
Seeing this, Little White hurriedly shouted at Qin Xuan.
However, Little White's words came a bit late.
A cold wind blew from all directions, enveloping Qin Xuan.
This cold wind was incredibly icy and bone-chilling, causing Qin Xuan to shiver involuntarily.
In an instant, he felt as if something was trying to grab him.
"Crack!"
His bones actually began to deform and twist.
How could this be!
Qin Xuan was startled.
He was already a Chaotic Body, and his Physical Body strength was terrifying.
But now, just a cold wind was trying to twist Qin Xuan's body!
"You're courting death!"
Qin Xuan roared, and the Taihuang Aura instantly surged out, enveloping him and dispelling that trace of coldness.
At the same time, Qin Xuan's left eye swirled, and his double pupils appeared in his eyes, intimidating the surroundings.
The cold wind receded, but even so, Qin Xuan knew he could not stay here long.
"No time to lose, let's go!"
Qin Xuan coldly shouted, immediately retreated from the passage, and then re-blocked the passage with the coffin.
He didn't know what material this coffin was made of; it could actually suppress the cold wind inside.
"What exactly happened in here to cause such a situation?"
Qin Xuan said with lingering fear.
Leaving aside everything else, why were so many corpses piled up down there?
Moreover, judging from the state of these corpses, they should not be from the Qixia Sect.
"No matter where these corpses came from, this is definitely not the entrance to that Sect ruin."
Little White also said with lingering fear.
Even it had rarely seen such a situation in the ancient era.
"What is this on you?"
Just then, Little White jumped down from Qin Xuan and looked at Qin Xuan's shoulder.
There was a pair of black bloodstains on Qin Xuan's shoulder.
These bloodstains looked like the claws of some fierce beast.
"The cold wind just now!"
As Little White spoke, Qin Xuan's expression became somewhat grim.
Something had actually left claw marks on his shoulder; this was simply too disgusting.
"It seems there's something unclean in the cold wind!"
Qin Xuan said coldly.
Taking off his clothes, Qin Xuan's expression immediately became even uglier.
"Damn it, these claw marks have even reached my skin."
Qin Xuan looked at the mark on his shoulder in shock.
Even his clothes couldn't block this mark; this thing actually left a mark on his body!
"It seems it has targeted you!"
Little White said vigilantly.
Qin Xuan nodded.
More than just targeting him.
If it weren't for the Taihuang Aura blocking it just now, he would probably already be hanging in the space below like those other people.
"I'd like to see what kind of thing this is, daring to provoke me!"
Qin Xuan also became fierce; he clenched his fists tightly, a flash of killing intent in his eyes.
Changing into a new set of clothes, Qin Xuan raised his hand and conjured a Spiritual Fire, burning the previous clothes to ashes.
A moment later, a red smoke floated up from the clothes, with several red hairs mixed in the smoke.
"Filthy thing!"
Qin Xuan snorted coldly, waved his hand forcefully, and a bolt of lightning instantly flew out, directly severing the red hairs.
"Fire and Thunder Devourer, I want to see what evil dares to come here."
After speaking coldly, Qin Xuan stopped, and the chill in his eyes grew heavier.
"Let's go, this is not a good place."
Little White said, Qin Xuan nodded, and immediately led it to retreat through the passage they came from.
The rammed earth layer had already been sealed by Ding Zhen.
However, Qin Xuan had many ways, and soon he opened up a passage himself and left the tomb.
After resealing the tomb, Qin Xuan frowned deeply.
"It's a bit strange. It's not here either. Where exactly is it?"
Ding Zhen was clearly here to find something, and the others should also be here to find the entrance to the ruins.
But finding nothing after searching around like this was quite unexpected.
"It seems this place is indeed hard to find. I still need to study it carefully to see where it truly is."
