Qin Tiexin stood there for a long time unable to calm down, and those scenes seemed to be replayed frame by frame in front of his eyes.
Devil King shattered half of the sect with the power of a casual palm, and tens of thousands of Spirit Stone in the center of the formation were turned into ashes.
Elder Meridian Opening Realm's flesh and blood was instantly drained into white bones during the formation.
True Person Iron Bone skyrocketed from an eight-foot old man to a foot-five. He raised his two hammers high, with a shocking fighting spirit, and no bones were left.
Devil King Ye Cang's mysterious fireball and purple spreading formation instantly sucked up all the monks' flesh, blood and spiritual power.
Two Nascent Soul True Lord came from the horizon and only had time to seal the mountain and leave a seal.
Five hundred and seventy-eight disciples, from the outer sect, from the inner sect, elders, hall masters, and deputy sect masters, all sat in this underground square with their hands touching the ground.
The strongest people Qin Tiexin has seen before are Meridian Opening Peak and Golden Core Peak True Person. That is the limit of the monks he has seen.
But the three-foot-tall Devil King in the picture, the two Nascent Soul True Lord crossing the sky in an instant, and the pressure that could make his scalp numb even through the memory imprint, refreshed his understanding of "power" again.
Devil King Ye Cang Those few blows, Iron Spine Sect many Meridian Opening monks plus hundreds of elite Body Refining disciples, relied on the High Antiquity formation to fight for everyone's lives before they could withstand it.
But Ye Cang didn't really take this seriously from beginning to end. He was just looking for something, but when he couldn't find it, he threw a Law Technique and left. It was like turning over a piece of Shitou and finding that there were no bugs underneath, so he kicked a piece of soil when he got up and left.
In addition, a lot of doubts linger in Qin Tiexin's mind.
What is Ancient Witch Arm? Devil King of the level Ye Cang, risking being intercepted and killed by the human race Nascent Soul, went down to the domain to find something. It cannot be just a mortal thing.
True Person Iron Bone insisted to his death that he had never heard of it. Is that thing in the Iron Spine Sect? If so, where is it hidden?
Where is Central Heaven Great Region? The message left by Primordial Unity True Person mentioned Central Heaven Great Region, Su Qiao True Lord also came from Central Heaven Great Region, and Lu Ming also went to Central Heaven Great Region. With so many people's trajectories pointing to the same place, what is the difference between that place and Azure Xuan Region? Is the ladder created by Ye Cang using the "Ascension to Godhood Token" the passage connecting the two domains?
Qin Tiexin pushed these questions back to the bottom of his heart one by one and did not continue to think about them. Now is not the time to think about these things.
He put Edgeless back on his back, stood up straight, and straightened his clothes. Then, facing the hundreds of bones in front of him, he bent down, cupped his fists with his hands, and made a deep bow. His forehead almost touched his knees, and his back was stretched into a straight line. He stayed in this position for three full breaths before straightening up.
"I am a disciple of Qin Tiexin, Flowing Cloud Sect." His voice was not loud, but his words were clear in the empty underground palace square, "I once learned the "Heavy Mountain Saber Technique" and "Mountain-Shaking Steps" techniques of your sect from the Library Pavilion, Today, fortuitous opportunity learned about the cause of the Iron Spine Sect's annihilation by chance. Although I have never formally worshiped Iron Spine Sect and have only scratched the surface of what I have learned, I have obtained the complete copy of "Heavy Mountain Saber Technique". Iron Spine Sect and I have a half-teacher friendship."
He paused and glanced at the bones sitting cross-legged in front of him.
"I have written down the revenge of the Iron Spine Sect. If I succeed in my cultivation one day and step into Central Heaven Great Region, I will repay this blood debt for all my seniors."
After saying that, he made a deeper and longer bow.
When he straightened up, Qin Tiexin was slightly startled. At that moment, he seemed to feel a very subtle change in the atmosphere around the bones in the hall, as if a tension that permeated the entire space was quietly relaxing. It was as if a group of people had been holding in their breath for too long and finally let it out.
He wasn't sure if it was an illusion. He stood there and sensed it for a moment, but the aura had completely dissipated.
Qin Tiexin took back his thoughts and started to think about another thing.
According to what the elder deacons said before entering the ruins, the mountain sealing formation will be completely ineffective in three days, and Wind and Snow Pass will officially take over the entire ruins by then. More people will enter here by then - The monks of Wind and Snow Pass, the deacons of the Ice and Snow Pavilion, the disciples of the Iron Fist Sect and Yang Household, and perhaps Rogue Cultivator took advantage of the chaos to sneak in.
If the bones in this underground palace square were left here as they were, they would either be viewed as a spectacle by those who came after them, or they would be turned over by looters looking for relics, or they would be cleared away by the sect that would rebuild this place in the future.
This is absolutely not okay.
He remembered that when he first entered the ruins, he had seen from the leaning tower that in the northwest direction of the entire ruins, near the edge of the periphery, there was a tomb with numerous stone tablets. The distance was not too close, separated by about two hills.
"Seniors," Qin Tiexin said to the bones, "The juniors moved you to the sect's old place for burial, which can be regarded as allowing you to return to your roots."
He took out an empty Storage Bag from his waist and opened the bag to his side. Then he walked to the bones of the Body Refining Realm disciple in the outermost circle, knelt down on one knee, gently supported the shoulder blades and pelvis of the skeleton with both hands, and held up the entire skeleton smoothly.
The moment his fingers touched the skeleton, a very subtle flow of information was transmitted from the surface of the bone along the fingers to his mind.
"Zhao Shi, Body Tempering Eighth Layer, three years into the Iron Spine Sect, outer disciple."
Qin Tiexin paused, what is this? Is this also the ability of True Lord in white?
This is good, at least you know the name and identity of the disciple in front of you.
Qin Tiexin carefully placed the skeleton into Storage Bag, stood up and walked towards the next one.
"Zhou Tie, Body Tempering Seventh Layer, two years into the Iron Spine Sect, outer disciple."
"Wang Li, Body Tempering Ninth Layer, four years into the Iron Spine Sect, outer disciple."
"Li Xing, Body Tempering Eighth Layer, three years into the Iron Spine Sect, outer disciple."
Every skeleton, every time it was touched, had a name and the briefest history seeping from the skeleton into his consciousness. This information was not a complete memory, but perhaps just the last trace of obsession left by the disciple in the remaining bones - who they were, where they came from, and how long they had been here.
Qin Tiexin collected them one by one, from the outer ring to the inner ring, with slow and even movements. His hands were very steady, and there was almost no vibration when he lifted the skeleton. He restored every displaced hand bone and rib before inserting Storage Bag.
"Sun Yu, Qi and Blood Early Stage, fifteen years after joining Iron Spine Sect, inner disciple."
"Qian Hu, Qi and Blood Middle Stage, twenty-two years into the Iron Spine Sect, inner disciple."
"Zheng Yan, Qi and Blood Early Stage, joined Iron Spine Sect for eighteen years, deacon of the inner sect."
The closer you go to the inner circle, the higher the disciple's cultivation level is, and the years attached to the name are getting longer and longer. Fifteen years, twenty-two years, thirty-five years, fifty years. Some people have been here from Body Refining First Layer, from handymen to inner disciple, and have never left this sect in their entire lives.
Qin Tiexin When he was concentrating on gathering the bones, he didn't notice that the ring on his chest was getting hotter and hotter, pointing towards the center of all the bones.
Further inside, it was hundreds of years longer than the inner circle. Qin Tiexin knelt in front of several skeletons in the innermost circle. When his palm touched the first one, the obsession that came back was more than an order of magnitude greater than the previous Heaviness.
"Fang Yue, Meridian Opening Early Stage, three hundred and eighty years into the Iron Spine Sect, the master of Cultivation Method."
Three hundred and eighty years. Qin Tiexin looked down at this skeleton, which was much thicker than the disciples in the outer circle. The arm bones in both arms were thicker than any Body Refining monk he had ever seen. There was a layer of fine bone spurs on the shoulder blades., are the traces left by the Cultivation Method who has been cultivating a certain type of extremely strong upper limbs for many years. The master of the Cultivation Method hall - the disciples he is responsible for teaching, probably a large part of them are sitting in the outer and inner circles behind him.
"Liu Lie, Meridian Opening Early Stage, four hundred and twenty years into the Iron Spine Sect, law enforcement elder."
"Zhou Jun, Meridian Opening Middle Stage, five hundred and sixty years into the Iron Spine Sect, Iron Spine Sect deputy sect master."
Zhou Jun. Qin Tiexin repeated the name. The deputy sect leader's frame was lighter than expected. Five hundred and sixty years, which is longer than the time it took for many sects to establish a sect. He stayed at the Iron Spine Sect for five hundred and sixty years, and finally sat at the center of the mountain-protecting formation together with an entire sect's disciples.
He firmly placed the deputy sect leader's skeleton into Storage Bag, stood up, and looked around. All the bones in the square had been collected, and the jade ground had returned to smoothness, leaving only the pile of ashes in the center.
He walked over and took a closer look. Spirit Stone, pills, heavenly materials and earthly treasures rich in Spiritual Qi, all the things that could provide energy were all piled together. The moment they were hit by Ye Cang Devil King, they were sucked out and turned into this pile of residue.
Since there was no wind here, and no vibrations came in later, all the ashes still maintained the shape they had at the moment they were evacuated, like a pile of gray snowdrifts frozen in time. Qin Tiexin stretched out a finger and touched it lightly, and the ashes collapsed silently, turning into a very fine dust and spreading on the ground.
It was only then that Qin Tiexin noticed how hot the black ring on his neck had become.
The ring's pointing was always locked in the center of the ashes. He was so focused on collecting the remains that the heat of the ring kept reminding him, and he reacted slowly.
Could it be said that the thing the ring points to is here?