Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 144 Sarcophagus
The inner core is roughly equivalent to the "inner cauldron" cultivated by demonic beasts.

But the demon crystal is the "spirit palace".

In the Ling Kingdom, this thing has always been in a state of being expensive but not available. Even in Youzhou, which is full of mountains and hills, before the arrival of the Yi people, this thing was rarely seen in the cultivation market.

Pear's eyes lit up, and while she was still in Pei Xia's arms, she stretched out her arms and started thrashing about.

As for being a master, the key is to apply what you've learned. If you want to break through, besides having someone to teach you, it's simply a matter of learning and practicing more.

With these inner core demon crystals, Lu Li will be able to try array practice more often, and her chances of breaking through will be much greater.

It would be a lie to say that Pei Xia wasn't tempted, but precisely because it was so alluring, he became even more cautious.

The spiritual light subtly amplified, and his senses slowly spread outwards like threads. He had even connected with the Calamity Pig, ready to deal with any unexpected situation.

But no, nothing happened.

Under the light, the three spirit crystals and several inner cores lay quietly on the ground.

This time, Pei Xia personally went over and picked up the items.

Indeed, nothing happened.

He stuffed a spirit crystal into Lu Li's pocket, put one in his own clothes, and with another one, along with a few inner cores, handed it to Ye Lu, who was not far away: "There's a treasure."

Ye Lu glanced at it and waved his hand: "I don't need it, Hanzhou doesn't lack this."

Pei Xia thought about it and agreed, so she gave them all to Lu Li.

He is now basically certain that these spirit crystals and inner cores were collected by someone in ancient times and left here without being taken away.

After all, it's one thing to have one demonic beast occasionally, but given the environment here, it's really too difficult for so many Open Mansion Realm demonic beasts to be born at the same time.

Ye Lu paid no attention to this unexpected windfall. His gaze wandered around the corner of the room, where the light cast undulating shadows that caught his attention.

He drew his sword and slowly approached.

A moment later, his shout came: "Pei Xia, there's something here."

Pei Xia quickly stepped forward and, after seeing what was in front of Ye Lu, understood why the room was so low and cramped.

It was a row of stone coffins, finely polished and even carved with decorative patterns.

This is definitely not the work of later generations. If there are remains inside, then they must have been the remains of people who lived in the underground palace back then.

Pei Xia hesitated for a moment, then reached out and placed her hand on the coffin lid.

It is indeed unethical to desecrate the remains, but in the current situation, whether for safety reasons or to find clues to leave the underground palace, it is unavoidable.

Ye Lu held the sword, while Lu Li stared at Pei Xia's hand.

Under the tense gaze of the three, the coffin lid was pushed open, slowly revealing one of the already decomposed and broken human skeletons.

The skeleton was extremely incomplete, with only teeth, skull, and some long bones remaining; the rest had been decomposed and mineralized.

Pei Xia lacked professional archaeological knowledge, and even with the help of the calamity pig, he couldn't determine the age of the skeleton, but it was clear that it must have taken at least several hundred years to form.

Apart from the broken skeleton, the stone coffin was empty.

Pei Xia looked at Ye Lu beside her: "What do you think?"

Ye Lu reached out and tried to touch the remaining bone fragments, but the remaining bones shattered with just a gentle squeeze.

He pondered for a moment and said, "That's not quite right."

It's not surprising that the bones of ordinary humans would turn out like this after the passage of time.

But this is Kyushu. Ye Lu said, "When a martial artist reaches the Transcendent Realm, their bone strength is already extraordinary. Although the long period of time will certainly have an irreversible effect on them, it is impossible for them to wither like this."

Pear, patting the three demon crystals and a handful of inner cores in her pocket, was all smiles. Hearing Ye Lu's words, she replied nonchalantly, "It doesn't mean that everyone living here has to be a cultivator, does it?"

"The stone gates along the way all require spiritual power to open, which shows that those with even a little status are all cultivators."

"Then it can't be someone with absolutely no status?"

Ye Lu tapped the exquisitely crafted stone coffin: "It doesn't deserve a coffin."

Judging from the earliest dining area, there must have been quite a few people living in the underground palace. If we really want to distinguish between ordinary people and cultivators, then the number of ordinary people should be very large.

It's unlikely that every ordinary person would be given such a grand burial in a stone coffin.

He is a cultivator, but his physical strength is quite average.

The two adults and the child were all taken aback, and then came to the same conclusion.

Su Shi.

Ye Lu stood up and looked towards the corner of the morgue. The exquisite stone coffins were densely packed together, numbering over a dozen at a glance.

"Master Su, what are you doing gathered in the underground palace?"

Ye Lu frowned deeply. He could only shake his head at the mystery of the underground palace from an unknown time ago, unable to guess what it might hold.

Pei Xia, however, inexplicably thought of the missing corner of that stone mural.

They closed the coffin lid again, without disturbing the deceased any further. The three searched the small coffin room for a while and found another stone door further inside.

As before, the door had been opened, and judging from the footsteps and bloodstains, it should still be that square-faced man.

Upon entering the room, Pei Xia discovered that it was almost identical in structure to the coffin room from before. The only difference was that almost all the empty spaces on both sides of the room were now filled with stone coffins.

Pei Xia randomly checked a few bodies, and the situation was the same as before.

However, if we follow the previous reasoning, then the number of vegetarian masters gathered here is probably extremely astonishing.

It's not difficult to become a master of spiritual energy, but mastering it and successfully refining pills and weapons requires a considerable amount of time. In addition, there is almost no improvement in combat power. It is a profession that requires a large investment, has a long cycle, and yields slow results, so the number of such masters is extremely small.

As a result, vegetarian masters are extremely rare in the Kyushu region.

Could it be that during the era when the underground palace was in operation, vegetarian masters were very common?
Pei Xia couldn't quite describe her feelings, but she had a subtle, slightly uneasy premonition.

However, they really had no other way out at the moment, so they could only look for an exit and continue forward.

They explored two more stone chambers, both with the same scenery: low, cramped spaces filled with exquisitely carved stone coffins containing human corpses whose bodies had dissipated and whose bones were broken.

Their sheer number has even begun to make Pei Xia and Ye Lu doubt their initial assessment.

Could it really be that they've placed the corpses of ordinary people here? Otherwise, there are far too many Su Shi (Taoist Priests). What reason would so many Su Shi have to gather together and live in this dark underground place?

They walked in silence, and in the darkness and stillness, the atmosphere gradually became eerie.

Until the last stone door was pushed open, Pei Xia and the other two finally left the cramped coffin room. The vast and empty darkness enveloped them once again, and the light of spiritual energy could not even reach the end of the place for a moment.

Pei Xia once again wielded his Qi-infused flying sword, which flashed with bright spiritual light as it slashed through the darkness.

The brief moment of light was not enough for them to see the entire underground space clearly, but in that fleeting glimpse, the three of them noticed something that caught their attention most.

An exceptionally large and magnificent long coffin lay quietly on a blue stone platform.

(End of this chapter)