Dragon Emperor!

"Your Wind Saint, this is...?"

Xia Yan and the others looked at each other, all somewhat puzzled.

The grand hall stood like a mountain, supported by massive stone pillars. In comparison, Xia Yan and her companions appeared as small as ants.

"Don't ask so many questions."

Meng Yunjie's blue eyes swept across the room indifferently, immediately silencing everyone present. Then, she stepped directly into the main hall.

Her indifferent demeanor clearly indicated that she was very familiar with this ancient hall.

After all, this Wind Saint's previous incarnation was the Wind Emperor, who had a very good relationship with the Thunder Emperor, so it's normal for him to be familiar with this place.

Seeing this, Xia Yan, Yun Xin Yue, and Shang Buyu immediately followed.

Illusion Venerable Xia Yin, Wen Fengxiang, Shang Daoming, and others exchanged glances and followed.

As for the large number of powerful figures from the Mystic Xia Imperial Family, the Righteous Qi Sect, and the Longshen Merchant Family, they wisely remained outside the ancient hall.

These powerful individuals, having traveled extensively with their master's family, were all seasoned veterans. They understood that some secrets and rare treasures were simply not something people of their level should know. If they were to accidentally learn them, it would be more harmful than beneficial, so it was better to leave them outside this ancient hall.

Moreover, these powerful individuals skillfully dispersed, forming a defensive formation that protected the floating island and blocked the exploration of various forces.

At this moment, Xia Yan and her group entered the ancient hall.

As they ventured deeper, they discovered that the ancient hall was covered with ancient and mysterious runes, from the golden stone bricks beneath their feet that remained pristine despite their age, to the walls and pillars.

"Those are celestial Heaven Rank used in mythology to forge palaces, making this palace indestructible."

Meng Yunjie explained casually, her blue eyes filled with a look of reminiscence.

Upon hearing this, Wen Fengxiang channeled his inner energy into his feet, then stomped hard on the golden bricks beneath his feet. However, he found that the pristine golden bricks did not react at all, not even leaving a crack.

This greatly alarmed Xia Yan and the others.

You must know that Wen Fengxiang is Martial Grandmaster. The power of that kick was the full force of this Righteous Qi Sect. Even a mountain would tremble under his foot.

Such immense power could not even budge a single golden stone brick, which speaks volumes about the power of the Heaven Rank within this ancient hall.

Soon, Xia Yan and her group reached the end of the ancient hall, and then they froze in shock.

At the far end of this ancient hall stood a colossal statue, as large as a mountain.

The statue was dressed in exquisite blue armor, holding a gleaming bead in its hand. It had a graceful figure, long legs, and a beautiful face; it was actually a woman.

Most importantly, the face of this female statue is exactly the same as Meng Yunjie's!

Xia Yan and the others immediately realized that this statue was probably a sculpture of the Wind Emperor from the mythological era!

Sure enough, Meng Yunjie raised her head and looked directly at the face of the Wind Emperor statue. She said with a melancholy tone, "After many years of vicissitudes and fierce battles, the statue of my previous life still stands. It seems that they were still so loyal until the very last moment."

After a pause, Meng Yunjie turned around, looked around at everyone present, and said in a low voice, "This palace is called the Taiyi Wind Emperor Hall. It was built by the Thunder Emperor himself during the mythological period."

At this point, a hint of nostalgia flashed in Meng Yunjie's eyes, and then she continued, "In my previous life, whenever I traveled across mountains and seas to visit the Thunder Emperor, I would rest in this Taiyi Wind Emperor Hall. This place can also be considered an embassy."

Upon hearing this, Xia Yan and the others finally understood.

The Wind Emperor and the Thunder Emperor had a good relationship, so they often visited each other, although they lived far apart.

To showcase their friendship and to ensure that the Wind Emperor would have a pleasant stay whenever he visited, the Thunder Emperor built this palace as Meng Yunjie's place of rest.

Since both the Wind Emperor and the Thunder Emperor are rulers of top-tier powers, their relationship is more like that of two emperors of an empire.

Therefore, this Taiyi Wind Emperor Hall, like an embassy of an empire stationed abroad, has great symbolic significance.

"Why am I telling you all this? It's all useless, distant memories."

Meng Yunjie gave a self-deprecating smirk, then flashed away and arrived behind the statue from her past life.

Xia Yan and the others quickly followed, and saw a hidden door behind the statue of the Wind Emperor.

With a flick of her sleeve, Meng Yunjie's robe revealed a huge, mysterious rune that then seeped into the hidden door.

The next second, accompanied by the sound of mechanical gears turning, the hidden door opened.

Then, the group followed Meng Yunjie into the secret door.

Inside the hidden door was a spacious underground hall, filled with coffins made of golden stone bricks. Above the hall's ceiling hung an exquisite glass chandelier.

This glass chandelier, though its age is unknown, is still functioning, radiating a silvery glow that illuminates the entire underground hall.

Of course, Xia Yan and the others had no time to pay attention to the ever-burning lamp; their attention was drawn to the coffins made of golden stone bricks.

When Meng Yunjie saw the coffins made of golden bricks, she was first startled, then seemed to realize something, and a look of sadness appeared in her blue eyes.

She walked to a coffin, and with a flick of her sleeve, pushed open the heavy coffin lid, revealing the corpse inside.

To be more precise, it should be skeletons.

The skeleton inside the coffin was in a terrible state; the pale bones were broken into pieces, clearly indicating that it had survived a great battle, its body shattered, and then reassembled and buried in the dark chamber of the Taiyi Wind Emperor Hall.

Looking at the broken skeleton, Meng Yunjie blushed and almost cried.

Meng Yunjie turned her head away and pushed open the lid of the coffin next to the skeleton. Then, she burst into tears.

Because the remains in this coffin were even more gruesome; there wasn't even a complete skeleton, only a pale white skull remained.

The skeleton's body and limbs were replaced with wooden parts carved from fragrant wood, which were then pieced together with the skull.

Meng Yunjie silently shed tears as she pushed open many more coffins, the skeletons inside almost all of them incomplete.

Clearly, these skeletons were all killed or even destroyed in a fierce battle.

At this moment, Xia Yan also arrived in front of a coffin. After looking at it for a while, she bent down and saw a glimmer of light shining from beneath the broken bones. She then reached out and took out a cyan token.

The token is engraved with mysterious and ancient patterns, as well as a mythical Azure Luan Sacred Beast soaring high in the sky.

"This..."

Xia Yan narrowed her golden eyes, just as she was about to examine it closely, she saw that the token, because it had existed for too long, actually cracked and shattered, then turned into powder and scattered in the wind.

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, then stood on tiptoe and looked at the remaining skeletons that had been pushed open from the coffin.

Beneath those skeletons, a faint light shone.

Upon seeing this, Xia Yan gave a wink, and Yun Xin Yue and Shang Buyu immediately understood.

They walked to the coffins and took out tokens from under the skeletons. They were all blue and engraved with the sacred beast, the Azure Luan.

"This should be a token symbolizing identity."

Yun Xin Yue whispered from the side.

Shang Buyu nodded in agreement with this view.

Xia Yan, watching Wind Saint tearfully uncover the coffin, began to speculate.

These skeletons were probably guards of the Taiyi Wind Emperor Hall in life, who perished in the great war that swept across the entire Thunder Emperor Minor World.

In other words, these skeletons should all belong to Wind Saint's subordinates in his previous life.

After that great battle, the Thunder Emperor's side should have won; at the very least, some of the powerful figures under the command of the Wind and Thunder Emperors were still alive.

Otherwise, no one would have buried these subordinates of the Wind Emperor, let alone had the leisure to piece together their fragmented bodies and carve corpses from fragrant wood.

Moreover, the Thunder Emperor Relic were not completely destroyed during the mythological period, but continued into the ancient era before finally collapsing.

Since it has continued into ancient times, it is likely that some of the powerful figures under the Thunder Emperor are still alive and have continued to pass on their legacy.

However, why these powerful figures under the Thunder Emperor disappeared in ancient times remains a question.

However, these clues are limited and still need to be revealed by His Majesty Wind Saint himself.

"These skeletons are indeed my guards from my previous life, known as the Azure Luan Guard."

Seeing the curious looks on people's faces, Meng Yunjie wiped away her tears, regained her aloof demeanor, and said.

"Are they the Azure Luan Guard?"

The elder of the Longshen Merchant Family, Shang Daoming, changed his Shang Daoming and exclaimed in surprise, "Ancient books record that from the mythological period to the ancient times, there was a mysterious force called Wind Suppression Hall, which was guarded by the Azure Luan Guard."

After a pause, Shang Daoming continued, "Rumor has it that every Azure Luan Guard is at least at the King Rank Martial Venerable level, and there are even quite a few Martial Saint level experts among them!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Yan and the others were immediately shocked, their eyes involuntarily drawn to the skeletons in the coffins.

Are all these skeletons at least at the Martial Venerable level in life?

This is absolutely terrifying!

As expected of the forces under the Wind Emperor during the mythological era, they are ridiculously strong!

"You seem to know quite a lot."

Meng Yunjie glanced at Shang Daoming and said indifferently.

Upon hearing this, Shang Daoming immediately said in a flustered manner, "Your Wind Emperor is too kind. I only happened to have read an ancient book that recorded the Azure Luan Guard."

"Good to know."

Meng Yunjie gave a cold reply, then with a flick of her sleeve, her figure transformed into a stream of light, instantly flashing to the end of the dark room.

At the end of this dark room, there was another hidden door.

When Xia Yan and the others saw this, their lips twitched involuntarily. Good heavens, is this a nested doll?

Just as they were complaining, Meng Yunjie had already opened the hidden door.

Inside the hidden door was a huge plaza.

This square is so large that it seems to stretch as far as the eye can see. It is paved with blue bricks and exudes an ancient atmosphere.

Xia Yan curiously surveyed the huge square, her gaze sweeping around before suddenly looking towards the distant horizon.

There, one could see many enormous stone seats standing.

On each of these stone seats stands a golden human-shaped sculpture.

These golden human-shaped sculptures are so lifelike and vivid that they stand on stone pedestals as if they were alive, and they even faintly exude an amazing energy fluctuation!

However, of these golden humanoid sculptures, only three are intact; the rest are missing limbs, and some are even headless.

Xia Yan stared at the golden human-shaped sculptures, but couldn't figure out what they were all about.

She just felt that these golden human-shaped sculptures made her feel very dangerous.

The well-preserved sculptures, in particular, sent chills down her spine!

However, at that moment, the expression on Illusion Venerable Xia Yin's face suddenly changed drastically. She exclaimed, "Undying Golden Body? These golden sculptures are the remains of Martial Saint level experts!"

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Yan and the others were so shocked that their hearts almost jumped out of their chests!

The Undying Golden Body is not only the remains of a martial saint, but also represents combat power at the saint level!

It should be noted that due to the concentration of primordial energy, by the ancient times, martial saints were already the pinnacle of humanity. Their bodies could endure the passage of time without decaying, and even their bones turned golden!

When a martial saint reaches the end of their lifespan, that is, after they die, their body can still live on in the world, and even retain powerful strength within them.

Therefore, the remains of those deceased martial saints are also known as the Undying Golden Body!

"Supreme Martial True Body!!"

Xia Yan immediately thought of the true trump card of the Mystic Xia Imperial Family, because this Supreme Martial True Body was forged from the Undying Golden Body of the Martial Saint!

In the beginning, the Undying Golden Body of martial saints were only worshipped by their descendants and had no practical use.

However, due to the popularity of puppetry, some powerful families that had produced martial saint ancestors began to have wicked ideas.

These forces refined the remains of their martial saint ancestors, the Undying Golden Body, into combat puppets.

Then, this trend of turning the Undying Golden Body of ancestors into combat puppets intensified, and countless forces that had once produced martial saints engaged in this act of mourning without being able to express their grief.

These combat puppets, forged from Undying Golden Body, may not reach the same level of strength as when they were alive, but they should not be underestimated.

The strength of combat puppets is often determined by the cultivation level of the martial saints they lived in, and thus varies in strength.

The combat puppets made from the remains of ordinary martial saints basically have the combat power of King Rank or Emperor Rank martial venerable.

Some exceptionally powerful Supreme Martial Saints even possessed Saint-level combat power in their remains!

For example, the remains of the first emperor of the Mystic Xia Empire, the Martial Saint of Emperor Xia.

Because the first emperor of the Mystic Xia Empire was so powerful during his lifetime, almost reaching the level of a martial god, the combat puppet he created was also ridiculously strong, capable of displaying the power of Heavenly Human Martial Saint!

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