Song Wen and Blood Brow proceeded along the left corridor for ten li, and the space before them suddenly opened up.
Ahead lay a long, narrow underground hall stretching dozens of li.
A great number of stone coffins were arranged throughout the hall.
The stone coffins varied in size. The largest were a hundred zhang long, while the smallest measured only three chi.
All the stone coffins were lidless, yet restrictions sealed them shut.
Out of curiosity, Song Wen flew above a stone coffin roughly one zhang long.
Inside lay a corpse with the head of an ox and the body of a human.
The corpse was soaked in some specially prepared corpse-nourishing liquid. After the erosion of tens of thousands of years, it remained remarkably well preserved, lifelike as though still alive.
Song Wen noticed a line of small characters carved on the coffin's outer wall at its head.
"Human-Ox: A creature born from the union of a mortal and an ox demon."
Song Wen looked at another stone coffin nearby.
This coffin was enormous, a full thirty zhang long.
Within lay a giant wolf. Yet instead of four legs, it had eight octopus tentacles.
The small characters at the head of the coffin read:
"Eight-Clawed Wolf: A creature born from the union of a demon beast Silver Wolf and a deep-sea giant octopus."
Song Wen's gaze swept over the stone coffins one after another and found that every single one contained a corpse.
Without exception, these corpses had all been hybridized from two or more kinds of living creatures.
"Why are there so many hybrid creatures here?" Song Wen asked.
"The Demon Spirit Hall was originally a place where the Divine Blood Sect researched the hybridization of living creatures," Blood Brow replied.
She had no interest whatsoever in