"A stone box?" Lin Xuan frowned and spoke in some surprise. "Since you found something, shouldn't that settle it? Don't tell me you actually couldn't open it?"
"That was not it."
Ouyang Qinxin sighed softly. "Though Azure Cloud Mountain was only a small power, we were not so incapable that we could not open a box. But what happened after we opened it left us even more astonished."
"Oh? Tell me." Hearing this, Lin Xuan could not help growing somewhat interested.
"Inside was a shield, pitch-black and unremarkable..." Ouyang's cherry lips parted slightly as she slowly told Lin Xuan the secret that had brought great disaster upon Azure Cloud Mountain. "Originally, my two senior brothers and I thought it was an Ancient Treasure, but after we poured magic power into it, there was not the slightest reaction. It could not be controlled at all."
"Oh?" Lin Xuan rubbed his forehead with his hand, a pensive look appearing on his face. He vaguely had a guess, though whether it was true or not would have to wait until he saw it before it could be confirmed.
However, Qinxin's words still failed to resolve the doubts in his heart. According to the clues obtained through soul searching, after Red Cloud Valley was occupied, on the surface, this place had become the Wei Family's main altar. In reality, however, not only had not a single bald donkey from the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect left, but quite a few old monsters of the Nascent Soul Realm had come instead.
They were acting all secretive, as if they had some scheme, but unfortunately, the old man had only been a Core Condensation Realm immortal cultivator and could not possibly have come into contact with the core secrets.
Interesting!
A faint, playful smile appeared at the