Azure Dragon did not respond to Luo Zheng and remained silent.
Luo Zheng felt somewhat depressed.
What exactly were these things connected to?
Unable to find an answer, Luo Zheng decided to investigate on his own.
Thus, he carried the Night Pearl and continued forward. Aside from the murals, the rest of the hall was completely empty.
Soon, he reached the back of the hall and stepped into another room. The moment he entered, it seemed that he had stepped on something beneath his feet, and a cracking sound rang out.
"Snap..."
A cloud of dust immediately drifted into the air.
Luo Zheng lowered the Night Pearl and saw that he had crushed a skeleton—a human skeleton.
No one knew how many years these skeletons had lain here. They had long since become brittle, and that single step had turned one of them into powder.
Following the skeletons and shining the light farther ahead, Luo Zheng's gaze flickered constantly under the illumination...
There was more than one skeleton here!
The skeletons were piled together in utter disarray, but most of them had retained their complete frames. This meant that before these people died, their corpses had remained intact.
Or perhaps, they had all died here...
The time it took for a skeleton to decay depended on the height of a martial artist's cultivation.
Any martial artist capable of entering Slaughter Sword Mountain would certainly possess formidable cultivation. Ordinary martial artists could not withstand the ravages of that slaughter energy and would go mad and die halfway there.
After death, experts above the Divine Sea Realm could have their skeletons transform into bone jade, allowing them to remain preserved through the long passage of time.
But bone jade would not remain undecayed forever. After an immense span of time, once the