Chu Feng and the others had long known there were remains beneath the five crop fields that held the Celestial Master Demon-Subduing Art Legacy.
Those remains were not especially ancient. They dated not from the Primordial Era, but from after the Pre-Qin period, when Celestial Masters still lived on Longhu Mountain.
Among them were Daoists from the East and riders from the West, all buried in the earth, their essence drained away.
But though Chu Feng and the others knew there were remains beneath the Legacy site, they had never entertained any ideas about them. They had left them undisturbed.
They were not about to seek benefits from corpses.
As Heaven and Earth continued to revive, those remains might one day crumble to ash and become one with the earth.
This time, the fighting had unearthed some of the bones. It was purely an accident.
But as Chu Feng looked at the broken sword in his hand, he discovered another surprise.
The broken sword had come from the remains of a Western rider clad in rotting Battle Armor. The rider had still been gripping it.
Chu Feng sensed an unusual fluctuation from the blade.
"After all these years, and after the Medicine Field drained its energy, could this weapon still have some power left?" Chu Feng wondered aloud. It seemed hard to believe.
He looked at the rider's remains on the ground and guessed that the man must have been extraordinarily powerful in life.
The riders who had marched east and fought their way to Longhu Mountain had long since died, their bodies rotted away.
But that did not mean they had been weak. It only meant the ancient Celestial Masters of Longhu Mountain had been too strong.
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