"The person from before?" Lin Chuan walked over and looked at the pry mark, "Didn't you say this is the secret realm that Centennial Grand Star Selection opened for the first time?"
"Or, there may be other ways to get in." Liu Suifeng shrugged, "Or maybe it was done by the dynasty monks who came to explore. For an unexplored secret realm, someone must come in first to explore the way to confirm that there are no existences beyond Golden Core Middle Stage and no desperate situation that cannot be entered. We cannot really let Star Selection candidates take risks."
Everyone searched the third supply point again, but found nothing except a few sporadic spiritual iron fragments. However, Qin Tiexin sensed a relatively complete broken sword Upper-Grade Law Artifact deep in a half-collapsed tunnel. The sword body was bent by the debris of the collapse, but Spirit Rune was still there.
Several people searched the third supply point and continued on the road after confirming that nothing was missing.
At noon the next day, when a few people passed by a small slope, Qin Tiexin suddenly stopped.
Spirit Material Sense captured an extremely weak fluctuation less than two feet below a pile of rubble on the top of the slope, which is unique to the storage material Law Artifact.
He walked to the top of the slope and used his Zen staff to push away the gravel and sand on the surface, revealing half of the gray hand bones.
The joints are thick, and there is a dark gray storage ring on the finger bone. The Spirit Rune on the ring is still flowing very slowly, and the material is good.
Others saw the remains of a monk here. After confirming that there was no danger, they all came closer and worked with Qin Tiexin to clean up the surrounding sand, gradually revealing the complete remains.
This is the skeleton of a monk half buried in rubble. Most of the body is still buried in the soil, and only the upper body is exposed.
There were several fatal injuries on this skeleton, four ribs were broken, the left shoulder blade was penetrated by some sharp object, and a third of the spine was cut off at the lumbar level. The cracks were jagged. It didn't look like it was left by a sword, but more like it was hit by some kind of blunt object from the front.
The remaining clothing has almost completely rotted, and the original color and style cannot be seen, but a few Buddhist patterns can be vaguely discerned on the fragments.
"It should be a monk from the Pure Land Chan Sect." Qin Tiexin pointed to the fragments of monk's robes remaining on the bones, "Looking at the condition of the bones, it should be Golden Core Realm."
Du Heng came over and squatted down, taking a closer look at the wounds on the bones.
"This is a fatal injury to the spine. Judging from the direction of the wound, it was struck diagonally downward from behind. It can break the spine of monk Golden Core with one blow. The opponent is at least the same level, maybe even higher."
Xu Ying squatted next to the skeleton and carefully scanned the bone texture with Divine Sense.
"The bone surface Spirit Rune has completely dissipated. It has been dead for more than a thousand years, and its spiritual power has long been exhausted." She sighed softly, "A Golden Core monk, after fighting to this point, has not even a Law Artifact left on his body. No one has collected the bones. He can only expose his corpse in the wilderness. The intensity of the battle is evident."
Qin Tiexin took off the storage ring from the phalanx, and Divine Sense inserted it.
The internal space of the storage ring is not small, but there are only a few things inside.
Several neatly folded old monk robes, a pair of replacement cloth shoes, and a palm-sized copper Pill Furnace, the workmanship is quite fine. There are three Jade Slip and Qin Tiexin in the corner. I took them out and glanced at them. They were all Pill Formula recorded third-level elixirs. is specially provided for the use of Golden Core monks. One is Healing Pill, the other is Pill Formula for restoring spiritual power, and the third is Pill Formula for auxiliary training of the Golden Core Realm.
In addition, there is not a Spirit Stone, a bottle of elixir, or a Law Artifact in the storage ring.
"All available resources have been exhausted." Qin Tiexin took out the contents of the storage ring and placed them on the ground. "Spirit Stone and the elixirs have been used up. Law Artifact was either destroyed in the battle or lost. Only these few belongings are left."
"We don't know who he is, but no matter which monk he is, he deserves respect from us."
Lin Chuan squatted down, picked up the scattered bones piece by piece, and put them back into the dug pit. Du Heng put down the broadsword and squatted next to him. Together, they returned the broken bones to their original positions and buried them again with sand. Xu Ying took out a clean piece of cloth from the storage bracelet and covered it. Liu Suifeng stood aside for a moment, took out a formation flag from his arms, and placed it on the grave as a mark. Qin Tiexin raised his hand with one hand and saluted the simple tomb.
Lin Chuan used earth spiritual power to tamp the grave head, and then pressed a flat piece Shitou on top.
"We are in a hurry, so we can only do this for now. When we return, if we have time, we can search carefully to see if we can find anything that can prove his identity. It would also be good to set up a monument."
Du Heng stood in front of the grave and was silent for a while. "This senior really fought until the last moment, used up the last bit of spiritual power, and ate the last pill. Unfortunately, he still didn't survive."
"We monks are fighting against the sky, and we must be better prepared at all times." Lin Chuan patted the sand on his body, hung the sword on his waist again, "Let's continue on our way."
Liu Suifeng recorded the location of this temporary tomb. After doing all this, he held up the array plate again, and the detection light spread in a circle around it.
Suddenly, a small patch of very faint blue light lit up on the edge of the array disk, flickering in the upper right corner.
"Wait a minute." Liu Suifeng raised the formation plate in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, "There are traces of spiritual energy from monks' activities in the northeast. There is more than one, at least five or six."
Lin Chuan's hand pressed on the hilt of the sword. "Can you judge the exact distance?"
"It's too far. We can only detect the approximate direction. The distance can only be judged to be about ten miles. They should be monks who came to participate in Secret Realm Trial. There may be something good there."
"Don't be careless." Lin Chuan came to Liu Suifeng's array map and traced his fingers back and forth between several marked points on the map for a while, "Take a short break while everyone recovers their spiritual power and maintains their best condition. We will set off again in half an hour. At that time, Suifeng will adjust the sensitivity of the array to the highest level and alert immediately if any abnormality is detected."
The five people dispersed on the spot and each found a comfortable position to adjust their breath.
Lin Chuan was leaning next to the boulder, with the long sword on his knees. Xu Ying sat not far from him, closing his eyes and adjusting his breath, but every once in a while he would open his eyes and look at Lin Chuan. Du Heng sat down cross-legged on a dirt slope, with a broad sword stuck beside him. Liu Suifeng leaned behind a few gravels and set up a small Spirit Gathering Formation for himself. He consumed the most spiritual power and recovered the slowest.
Qin Tiexin sat cross-legged on a protruding rock, placing the Zen staff across his knees. Fire of Life in the ventricle was beating steadily, and Essence Blood was flowing slowly in the blood vessels., the Qi and Blood consumed previously has long been restored. The white gold bead in Dantian is slowly rotating, sucking the surrounding Spiritual Qi into the spiritual liquid pool one by one.
Half an hour later, the five people reorganized into a team. Qin Tiexin was still at the front, with the tail of the Zen staff touching the dark red gravel. Du Heng followed closely behind, Liu Suifeng was in the middle, Xu Ying was half a step behind, and Lin Chuan was behind.
The terrain ahead began to undulate.
The dark red wasteland was gradually replaced by a stretch of low hills, and the remains of several artificially dug stone steps could be vaguely seen between the hills. The stone steps were eroded by wind and sand to the point where they were almost integrated with the mountain, and only a few neat sections could still be seen.
Liu Suifeng raised the array disk again, and the detection light spread out again. The blue light spot in the upper right corner was still there, and its position did not change much, but there was a row of smaller light spots next to it, arranged neatly.
"There are monks gathering close by." Liu Suifeng's voice lowered, "The speed is probably about the same as ours. It seems that there is something good. It seems that we are lucky."
Lin Chuan is not very optimistic. Here, hostile monks are more dangerous than Demon Beast. The few people in Withering and Flourishing Temple are bloody examples.
"Remain vigilant and act accordingly."