Chapter 863: The ancient being in the murals "Y-yes... right...?"
Someone spoke in a voice tinged with disbelief.
Once the stone door had opened completely.
Everyone looked closely.
Beyond the door was a flight of stone steps stretching into the distance, with faintly glowing luminous pearls embedded along both sides.
Their light was weak, but enough to illuminate the way ahead.
The middle-aged man in red stepped forward first.
He shouted, "Fortune lies ahead! Let everyone seize it by their own ability!"
As his words fell, his figure flashed, and he charged into the underground palace.
Seeing this, the others hesitated no longer.
They rushed inside one after another.
Li Longxiang mingled with the crowd.
He followed closely behind.
The stone stairway was long.
They descended for an unknown length of time.
Then the space ahead suddenly opened up.
It was an enormous underground chamber.
Its vaulted ceiling rose dozens of yards overhead, and the surrounding stone walls were covered in ancient, profound murals.
Nine enormous stone pillars stood at the center of the chamber.
A lifelike stone dragon coiled around each pillar.
At the center of the circle formed by the nine pillars, a glassy jade bottle hovered above a stone platform.
The jade bottle radiated a gentle halo.
Everyone's gaze was instantly drawn to it.
"This is..."
Someone's voice trembled.
"It must be a half-saint's relic!"
Someone shouted.
The atmosphere instantly erupted.
Several figures darted out like phantoms.
They rushed toward the half-saint's relic above the stone.
"You dare!"
"Insolence!"
But just as their hands were about to touch the jade bottle.
Scarlet light suddenly flared in the eyes of the stone dragons coiled around the nine pillars.
As though coming to life, they all opened their blood-basin maws.
Several blasts of dragon breath erupted, striking those at