A layer of cold sweat broke out on Qin Tiexin's back.
Ancient Witch Arm.
Devil King Ye Cang chased from Central Heaven Great Region to Azure Xuan Region, and risked being intercepted by the human race Nascent Soul to tear open the domain wall just to find this thing. Iron Spine Sect couldn't find it even after destroying the whole family.
He couldn't help but think of some passages he had seen in some ancient books.
Witch Race.
The Elder Gu ethnic group existed on this continent earlier than the human race. Their physical strength is so strong that it cannot be measured by the current cultivation system. However, the Witch Race disappeared in ancient times, leaving very few records. There is no unified statement about what they looked like.
Some people say that Witch Race is more than two feet tall, with a green face and fangs; some people say that Witch Race has the same appearance as the human race, but is physically a hundred times more powerful. Qin Tiexin has always regarded these as legends and stories, and never thought that one day it would have anything to do with the word "witch".
But the arm in front of him clearly does not belong to an ordinary monk.
Unless a human monk has practiced some kind of extremely special Secret Method, it is extremely rare to be ten feet tall. But this arm alone is more than five feet long. If its owner maintains normal proportions, he will be at least one foot six tall. But its bone shape is very close to that of a human arm - the number and arrangement of shoulder joints, elbow joints, wrist bones, and phalanges are exactly the same as those of the human race.
This is not the forelimb of Demon Beast, nor the wing claws of Devil Race, but an enlarged human arm.
He didn't have time to think deeply. The key was what to do now.
Qin Tiexin took a deep breath and backed away slowly while holding Edgeless. He didn't dare to turn around or run. In the stone room and in the square, this arm appeared within three steps of him twice, and he didn't even see where it came from. This ability is super It's beyond his understanding. He's not the kind of person who has to bite the bullet when encountering something he doesn't understand. Things that Nascent Soul Cultivator will grab are not something that he, a newcomer at the Qi Refining plus Body Tempering stage, can touch.
He has no greed at all in his mind, he just wants to stay away from it.
Duan Xuan poked half of his head out from behind his shoulder and whispered, "Is this the thing that scares you so much?"
"That's it."
Duan Xuan stared at the arm lying quietly on the ground for a few seconds, and his expression changed from nervous to curious. "It doesn't look like anything special..."
Qin Tiexin began to retreat slowly. His steps were very small. His front feet landed first, and then his back heels slowly pressed down, making almost no sound. Edgeless's knife tip was always pointed in the direction of the arm. Duan Xuan retreated with him, and when he was about five feet away, the arm suddenly disappeared.
Qin Tiexin only saw the last moment it sank into the ground. His arms sank suddenly, and the gravel and dust on the ground didn't even move. It was gone.
Then he lowered his head and saw that the arm was lying quietly on the ground three steps in front of him. There was no sound of wind and no trace of turning of the soil. It was exactly the same position and posture as before, as if it had been rearranged.
He backed away again.
Five feet. The arm disappeared and appeared three steps in front of him.
He moved sideways five feet to the right, his arm disappeared, and reappeared three steps in front of him.
Qin Tiexin's back is already soaked.
He saw it clearly. The moment the arm disappeared, it penetrated into the ground at an extremely fast speed, as if the small patch of ground it touched turned into a pool of invisible water. The arm sank in and emerged from the ground in front of the two people.
The whole process takes less than half a breath.
"Its maximum distance is five feet. If it exceeds five feet, it will move over."
"Searching for the master's mark?" Duan Xuan also saw the clue, "Or is it tracking the magic circle?"
"It's all possible."
Qin Tiexin retreated to a distance that he thought was relatively safe - three feet. He could see every movement of the arm clearly and had enough room to react. He cleared his throat and gave the arm a monk's bow.
"Senior, this is Qin Tiexin, no offense intended. If there is anything worthy of senior's fancy, I will definitely give it to you."
The arm is unresponsive.
Duan Xuan thought for a while and whispered to the side, "Is it hungry? It has such a long arm and its muscles are all shriveled. It definitely needs blood food to supplement it."
Qin Tiexin thought it made sense. He pulled out a large piece of bear meat from Storage Bag, which was the hind leg meat of the Ironback Bear he had hunted two days ago. The blood had not yet been completely drained, and the surface had a fresh dark red sheen. He used his full strength to throw the bear meat over, and the piece of meat drew an arc in the air and landed exactly half a foot beside his arm.
The arm is unresponsive.
Qin Tiexin took out a few more spiritual fruits and placed them next to his arm.
No response.
He took out a few more medicinal herbs that were worth a lot of Spirit Stone in the outside world, and placed them next to his arm, but there was still no reaction.
He took out more and more elixirs and spiritual materials from Storage Bag, and piled a small pile next to the arm. The arm did not move at all, and the Spiritual Qi fluctuations emitted by those spiritual materials had no effect on its runes.
Duan Xuan dug out a few pieces of Middle-Grade Spirit Stone from his Storage Bag and threw them over without even flashing the runes on his arms.
"Could it be a living thing?" Duan Xuan crossed his arms, with a hint of contemplation in his tone, "There may be some kind of tracking circle engraved on it, and it senses some kind of spiritual energy fluctuation on your body and follows you. Tiexin, think about it carefully, have you touched anything that shouldn't be touched after entering the ruins?"
Qin Tiexin thought about it carefully. He had touched too many things - the stone wall of the corridor, the stone platform of the light pillar, the bones in the underground palace square, the sternum in the ashes, Mystic Bone Mausoleum the black soil.
But he couldn't figure out the connection between these things and this arm for a while.
"I have tried other methods." Qin Tiexin took out a dagger from Storage Bag. It was found from a certain monk's Storage Bag before. The workmanship is average, and there are a few bumps and curls on the edge. "Do you want to try attacking it? If it is a magic circle, it should react to external force."
Duan Xuan took a few steps back and came back behind him.
Qin Tiexin weighed the dagger, aimed at the elbow of the arm, and threw it out with force. The dagger was released, flipped half a circle in the air, and landed on the ground half a foot away from the arm with a clang.
Duan Xuan glanced at him strangely. "You are so accurate with your javelin, but your accuracy is so bad when you throw a dagger?"
Qin Tiexin blushed. "I... didn't attach Divine Sense, I just... threw it away casually."
"I'll do it." Duan Xuan took out a short thorn from the storage ring. It was slender and long, without too much aim. With a flick of his wrist, the thorn turned into a ray of silver light and shot straight towards the elbow joint of his arm.
This shot was fast and accurate, the short thorn barely flipped in the air, and the tip pointed directly at the elbow where the runes were densest.
Just when the short thorn was about to touch the arm, the dense layer of golden runes on the arm suddenly lit up, and a dazzling golden light burst out like ignited gunpowder.
The short thorn was bounced away by an invisible force, turned several somersaults in the air, and inserted into the gravel ground next to it with a clang, while the thorn body was still buzzing.
"Useful?" Duan Xuan was stunned for a moment.
Before Qin Tiexin and Duan Xuan could exchange glances, the arm suddenly moved.
The arm bounced directly from the ground, and the five-foot-long bone body drew a curved arc in the air, bypassing Qin Tiexin and shooting straight towards Duan Xuan.
Qin Tiexin kept staring at that arm. He reacted the moment the arm bounced up.
The target is not him, but Duan Xuan.
The direction of its attack was around him. The arc turned an obvious angle in the air, deliberately avoiding his front.
His body was faster than his thoughts. When his arm was halfway through the flight, he had already taken a step across and turned sideways in front of Duan Xuan. Edgeless was lying across his chest, and the dark blade was like a shield, blocking the arm's impact route.
The arm seemed to retract its strength at the last moment and paused slightly, but it was still too fast and still hit the side of Edgeless hard.
Bang!!!
Qin Tiexin felt like he was hit in the chest by a meteorite falling from the sky. The force of the impact was transmitted through the blade to the metacarpal bone, from the metacarpal bone to the arm bone, and from the arm bone to the shoulder blade. Then the whole person was lifted off the ground by this brutal impact. He and Duan Xuan behind him were knocked out together, and their backs slid against the gravel ground for more than two feet before coming to a stop.
There is a fist-sized depression on the side of Edgeless, and the edge of the depression is turned outward, as if it was hit from the front with a heavy hammer.
Qin Tiexin His throat felt sweet, a wave of heat surged up from the bottom of his throat, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, falling just on the arm. The runes on the surface of the arm lit up for a moment when they came into contact with the blood, and then dimmed again.
Qin Tiexin didn't notice this detail. He was struggling to stand up from the ground, blocking Duan Xuan behind him, and clenching Edgeless with his hands again. The pain in his chest had not dissipated, and at least one of his ribs was cracked, and every breath was stinging.
He stared at the arm, but the arm did not continue to attack. It hovered in the position where it had just been knocked away, stagnant for a moment, and then slowly fell back to the ground, lying down quietly again.
Qin Tiexin Just stood firm and before he could say a word, a voice exploded in his head.
The sound was like a loud bell coming from a very far distance, Heaviness, making his sea of consciousness buzz.
Every word carried an irresistible sense of oppression, directly overcoming all his defenses and penetrating into the deepest part of his will.