Ancient Devouring Technique

Chapter 947 Exploration
Hearing Tiedan's roar, Ye Xuan's face darkened slightly. He waved his right hand and an invisible force rolled out, rolling up the 'Huayan Shengzhi' powder that had flowed into the cracks in the stone, and observed it carefully in front of his eyes.

"It is elixir powder, for sure, but the spiritual energy has been completely lost and it has no medicinal effect at all... Could it be that the medicinal fragrance just now was just an illusion?" Ye Xuan frowned slightly, his eyes full of doubts. Before 'smashing' this 'Huayan Shengzhi', each of them felt the medicinal fragrance and spiritual energy, but now they have all disappeared, making people wonder if they had felt it wrong before.

"It is indeed the eighth-level 'Holy Rock Transformation Ganoderma'... Or rather, it 'used to' be that, but now it seems to have decayed after too much time..."

Ye Xuan just found it unbelievable. Except for a few special types, the older the various spiritual materials in the world are, the better. In order to make a spiritual medicine decay due to too much time, the years required would probably be unimaginably long.

"This is very similar to the situation of the Iron-backed Earth Dragon..." Ye Xuan looked back at the place where the Iron-backed Earth Dragon's corpse was found before, and murmured, "What is going on in this small world? Why is there such a weird situation? Speaking of which, this situation seems..."

What Ye Xuan could think of, Tianyin Xuannv and the others had obviously also thought of. When he walked back, Tianyin Xuannv frowned and said: "This small world seems to be more dangerous than we imagined. The strange 'decay' of the Iron-backed Earth Dragon and the Holy Rock Ganoderma, could it be..."

Ye Xuan nodded and said, "It's the rumors from the outside world about the changes in the Fallen Phoenix Valley..."

Ye Xuan said solemnly, "The rumors mentioned the 'mysterious power of decay', which seems to be very similar to the situation we are facing now."

The Tie Ke brothers were terrified. Thinking of the strange situations in the rumors, they felt a chill in their hearts. Even the great sages died in an instant. If they encountered the same situation, would they have any chance of survival?
"No matter what caused this strange situation, we still have to continue exploring. We can only be safe if we leave this small world as soon as possible. Let's keep moving forward!"

Ye Xuan sighed, encouraged everyone, and then continued to lead the way elsewhere.

……

After the previous experience, everyone became very cautious afterwards. Fortunately, they did not encounter the dangerous situation they were worried about. However, they saw similar things like the Iron-backed Earth Dragon and the Holy Rock Ganoderma several times.

In just half a day, Ye Xuan and his companions encountered the corpses of five powerful monsters and many spiritual medicines - but without exception, they were all "fake".

In the end, everyone was even a little numb, so that when they saw the corpse of a monster that was as big as a hill and shaped like an elephant, no one reacted much.

“Even the corpse of the Great Saint Realm Monster has appeared…” Tie Ke sighed, “If these are all hallucinations, please let me wake up quickly… Seeing good things again and again, and then disappearing before my eyes, this is simply a torture!!”

Ye Xuan did not relax, and continued to carefully examine every detail. What surprised him was that he actually made a new discovery. His eyes lit up slightly and he said, "This... seems a little different."

The others were stunned. Bingyu asked in surprise, "What's different?" As she spoke, she hurriedly used her divine sense to carefully examine the corpse of the monster in front of her. However, she was not as careful as Ye Xuan, and did not find anything special for a while.

"We'll know after burning it." Ye Xuan smiled faintly, raised his hand and threw a blue fireball. The fireball landed on the corpse of the monster and quickly spread. In a short while, the entire huge corpse was burned to ashes. As expected, what was left in front of everyone was just a pile of ashes.

"Isn't it all burned to ashes? What's there... uh!" Tiedan was talking when he suddenly saw Ye Xuan raising his hand to grab something. Then, something suddenly flew out of the pile of ashes and fell into Ye Xuan's hand - it was actually a golden demon pill the size of a fist!

"Demon Pill!!" Bingyu said in surprise, "It didn't get burned this time?! What a surprise! This is a Great Sage... Eh? No! Not a Great Sage, this... is actually just an Emperor-level Demon Pill?! What's going on!!"

The surprise in the eyes of the Tie brothers turned into disappointment and madness, because they discovered that the demon pill in Ye Xuan's hand was only emperor-level, which was a far cry from the great sage-level demon pill they had originally thought.

Tie Ke said, "Is it wrong again?! Is this just an emperor-level monster? But that's not right! I saw with my divine sense before that this monster pill is several times larger. Judging from the type of monster, it must be a great sage-level monster pill. Why has it become an emperor-level one now?! Could it be that it 'shrunk' after being burned?! This is too weird!!"

Ye Xuan put away the demon pill and said with a smile: "Since the situation this time is different from before, it means that we should be heading in the right direction. I have a hunch that we may be getting closer and closer to the 'answer'. If we continue to explore, we should gain something."

"That's right! At least there is still one demon pill left this time!" Tianyin Xuannv also agreed with Ye Xuan's point of view.

……

As night fell, the inky darkness enveloped the entire small world. There were no stars or moon in the sky, and it was pitch dark.

In the next half day, Ye Xuan and others saw ten corpses of various monsters and dozens of spiritual medicines along the way. Two of the monsters left behind demon pills, one of the saint level and the other of the emperor level. There was also a sixth-level holy medicine that did not decay after being picked, which surprised everyone.

Another night later.

"Huh? Have you noticed that the 'fog' has become so much thinner!!" Bingyu said in surprise while standing on a hillside and looking around.

Although there was still a hazy white cloud around them, it was not as thick as when they first came in, and the visible distance was already several dozen feet.

Ye Xuan said: "I discovered it a long time ago. As we walked along, the 'fog' became thinner and thinner. It felt to me like we were approaching some unusual place..."

Tian Yin Xuan Nu smiled slightly: "You mean... the heart of the world?!"

"It's possible." Ye Xuan nodded expectantly.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed and he turned his head to look to the right.

"Ow!!!"

Almost at the same time, a deafening roar of a beast suddenly came from the other side of the mountain, and a powerful breath of a monster followed.

This unexpected change shocked everyone. Tie Ke's face changed drastically: "Monster?! Alive!!"

(End of this chapter)