The furnishings in the secret room are quite simple, with only a stone bed, a few jade shelves for storing medicinal materials, and some simple utensils. There is nothing surprising about it.
However, the strong medicinal fragrance and a strange energy fluctuation in the air show that this place is extraordinary.
Mu Chen walked to the stone bed, with his back to Jiang Donghua, and was silent for a moment.
Then, he slowly raised his hand, unbuttoned his gray cloth, and took off his shirt to his waist, exposing his back and chest.
"Look here."
There was an imperceptible tremor in his voice.
Jiang Donghua's eyes immediately focused on Mu Chen's chest, above the heart.
I saw a shocking dark mark there!
The mark was about the size of the mouth of a bowl. The color was not a bruise or a birthmark, but a strange color that was so deep that it was almost black!
The edges are irregular, squirming slightly like some kind of living thing, and like some kind of ferocious rune brand, exuding a chilling and ominous feeling.
What made Jiang Donghua's pupils shrink even more was that as Mu Chen breathed, the rich medicinal power and vitality exuded by the rare medicinal materials in the secret room were attracted by some invisible force and converged towards the black mark, and then were swallowed up by it silently like a mud cow entering the sea!
During the devouring process, the surface of the black mark actually emitted an extremely subtle but creepy sizzling sound, accompanied by a weird aroma produced when flesh and blood were slowly burned and rubbed!
This strange scene made the well-informed Jiang Donghua frown for a moment and fell into deep thought.
"This curse that continues to devour the host's vitality and energy and has burning and corrosive properties is by no means an ordinary bloodline curse or Soul Curse, but more like some kind of active, parasitic vicious energy body, or an extremely evil Secret Method curse..."
Jiang Donghua was rapidly eliminating various possibilities in his mind, but for the time being it was difficult to find an ancient book record that completely matched it.
He raised his head, looked at Mu Chen solemnly, and asked in a deep voice.
"Did you have this thing since you were born?"
Mu Chen shook his head slowly, put his clothes back on, and turned around, with a complex expression on his face that was a mixture of pain, fear, and anger.
He took a deep breath and mustered up great courage before speaking slowly, his voice low and hoarse.
"No, it's not natural."
His eyes became a little distant, falling into that unbearable memory.
"That was five years ago."
"At that time, I had just reached the peak of Nine-Star Battle Spirit, and I was very high-spirited and accepted a difficult mission issued by the Inner Academy to explore an ancient ruins on the edge of Black Corner Region..."
Mu Chen's voice had an imperceptible tremor, and the memory itself carried a biting chill and great fear. He slowly opened his mouth, uncovering the scars from five years ago.
"The ruins are said to have been left by a powerful man who died hundreds of years ago. They are located deep in an extremely secret canyon on the edge of Black Corner Region. The mission description at the time was vague, only saying that there might be a valuable treasure, but the risk was extremely high."
"I, several other Inner Academy sect members, and many Black Corner Region experts who heard about it, broke into the core area of the ruins almost at the same time, and that's where we met that thing!"
Mu Chen's breathing became a little rapid, and his face became a little paler.
"That's not a valuable treasure at all! It's an old monster that has been dead for hundreds of years and can still exist in a soul body!"
"What?!"
Jiang Donghua heard this, his pupils suddenly shrank, and a turmoil arose in his heart!
After being dead for hundreds of years, the soul body can still maintain its shape and be aggressive?!
This simply goes against common sense!
How strong does Soul Force need to be able to sustain such a long period of time without dissipating after the body decays?!
Mu Chen's face showed lingering fear.
"That soul body is extremely violent and irrational. It kills everyone on sight!"
"The attack method is weird and unpredictable, and the power is even more terrifying! Fortunately, the secret realm attracted a large number of Black Corner Region strong men at that time, and the scene was extremely chaotic..."
He smiled bitterly.
"We intruders, after the initial panic, had to temporarily join forces. Everyone's first goal is to kill that crazy soul body first!"
"Otherwise, no one can survive!"
"It was a melee that was too brutal to describe."
Mu Chen's voice deepened.
"Dou Wang expert was easily torn into pieces under the attack of that soul body, and dozens of people died! Even Dou Huang expert, who came from Black Corner Region's powerful force, had one of his arms torn off and escaped with serious injuries!"
Jiang Donghua felt awe-struck in his heart.
Dou Emperor lost an arm, Dou Wang suffered dozens of casualties!
The strength of this soul body during its lifetime was simply appalling!
"In the end, everyone gathered their strength and paid an unimaginable price, and finally the soul body was forcibly exploded and annihilated."
Mu Chen Speaking of this, a trace of pain flashed in his eyes.
"However, at the last moment when it completely dissipated, it let out an extremely vicious soul scream, and its remaining Soul Force turned into several fragments, like cursed arrows, randomly shooting at the people closest to it!"
Mu Chen slowly raised his hand and pointed at the black mark on his chest, his voice full of bitterness and despair.
"And I was one of the unfortunate ones who got hit."
There was a brief silence in the secret room.
Jiang Donghua's heart has already set off a huge wave!
After being dead for hundreds of years, the soul body can still severely injure Dou Emperor and massacre Dou Wang. How terrifying does it take for Soul Force?!
"Spiritual Realm Soul! This is definitely the intensity of Spiritual Realm Soul!"
Jiang Donghua Almost certainly!
Only if Soul Force has entered the spiritual realm, can it be possible to maintain such a powerful force a hundred years after the death of the physical body!
"With Spiritual Realm Soul, if he was not a Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster during his lifetime, he must have been a peerless strong man whose cultivation level has reached at least the Dou Zun level!"
Jiang Donghua quickly made a judgment. No matter which one it is, it is definitely the old monster standing at the top of the Battle Qi Continent pyramid!
Such a terrifying existence used his last remaining strength and overwhelming resentment to send out Soul Curse before his death.
Its power is so weird, vicious, and difficult to eliminate, it can be called terrifying!
Far beyond the ordinary sense of injury or poison!
No wonder even the great elder Ye Tianxing could only shake his head and smile bitterly, no wonder Alchemy Master, the fifth and sixth grader, was helpless!
This is simply not a problem that ordinary pills can solve!
This involves the level of Soul Origin!
Jiang Donghua's face became more solemn than ever.
He finally understood that the problems with Mu Chen were a hundred times more difficult than he originally expected!