Dragon Blood Battlefield

"The third Key of Sealing... fragment?" Lu Chen's heart jolted, and he immediately stepped forward.

He picked up the black fragment.

It was heavy and icy cold in his hand, containing a peculiar energy fluctuation that seemed capable of sealing all things and freezing time and space.

Yet unlike the previous two complete fragments, this remnant was only one-third of its original size, with clear fracture marks along its edges.

"Just a fragment? Not a complete Key of Sealing?" Lu Chen frowned.

He took out the tracking compass.

On the compass, the third point of light remained dim, but its flashing seemed slightly faster, and the direction it indicated... was not these ruins, but deeper into the mountains.

"Could the complete Key of Sealing have shattered and scattered across different places? Is this fragment merely one piece of it?" Lu Chen speculated.

He brought the black fragment close to the other two complete fragments.

A faint resonance arose among the three, but the black fragment's resonance was clearly much weaker, and it could not join with the other two.

"Just a part, as expected." Lu Chen put all three fragments away.

He then inspected the pit and the battle traces around it.

Judging from the scene, these groups seemed to have discovered the anomaly here at the same time and fought over it, only to ultimately perish together.

And whatever had been in the pit had most likely already been taken, leaving behind only this fragment and some insignificant bits of metal.

"Who took the main portion? A survivor among these people? Or... someone else?"

Lu Chen's gaze swept across the corpses. Suddenly, he spotted something clutched tightly in the hand of one Sky Wolf Sect disciple.

Prying apart the stiff fingers, he found a dark golden scale the size