The Great Dao Awakens

"Beyonders seem to have an obsession with scalping. When they defeat a powerful and worthy opponent, they must cut off the other party's scalp as a sign of respect."

Xu Ying examined the bones and thought, How did these bones get here? These skeletons don't look like those of powerful and worthy opponents.

He crouched down to inspect them, frowning slightly. There were far too many bones. Almost every skeleton bore fatal wounds—holes piercing the skull, ribs, and other places. They should have been injuries caused by magic treasures piercing through them.

Besides that, there were also blunt-force injuries, probably inflicted by heavy magic treasures such as hammers and axes.

Xu Ying examined them one by one, his brows drawing tighter.

He discovered that these skeletons belonged not only to adults, but also to the elderly and children. Their skulls, too, bore traces left by cutting.

Their scalps had also been removed.

After a while, Xu Ying rose and came beneath the emerald-green stone tablet. Carved from Cui Yan, it bore text written in Principle Script. The inscription recorded a cultivation technique, and as he studied it closely, he could not help being moved.

The stone tablet recorded a profound technique reaching the ninth level of the Great Dao. It used the Taiyin Great Dao as its foundation and cultivated the Great Dao until it became one's very body.

However, the stone tablet was incomplete. It only contained the method for cultivating up to the eighth level. Someone had sliced away the ninth-level technique with a sharp weapon.

But even so, it was many times more complete than the techniques the Beyonders had passed down to the Heavenly Immortal Realm!

Xu Ying examined the cut marks on the stone tablet, his heart stirring slightly. *A weapon this sharp can rival