Chapter 1062: The Ancient Palace of Living Beings (Part 2)
As the anger dissipated, the stone life and death grass in Xu Changqing's hand completely turned into a pool of powder, and there was no longer the almost real feeling. ¥f, After the anger around Xu Changqing completely disappeared, the earthworm-like monsters also left as if they had lost interest in Xu Changqing, and continued to wander around the hall aimlessly.
Xu Changqing patted the dust in his hand and saw the dust falling to the ground, disappearing like melting snow. Then he turned to look at the damaged life and death grass relief on the stone pillar. Under his gaze, the originally damaged relief grew back again. However, the part that grew did not give Xu Changqing a feeling of living things, but it was more like an ordinary stone sculpture, which was not at all in line with the aura of the creature formed by the reliefs around it, making people feel like they were adding to the snake.
Although the phenomenon of this stone sculpture growing back like a plant is surprising, Xu Changqing did not care about this matter. His eyes were completely placed on the relief stone pillars that were arranged neatly and could not see the end. His heart was also shrouded in an inexplicable mood of shock and had not calmed down for a long time.
Through the experiment just now, Xu Changqing already knew the relief on this stone pillar and what was the main hall of this Wa Royal Palace.
Just like the realm of virtuality and reality, the hall in front of Xu Changqing was also a legend that could not be confirmed in the ancient prehistoric period.
To create new acquired monsters, Nuwa needs to collect a large amount of material from the prehistoric land. Originally, she was only interested in those spiritual creatures with spirituality and spiritual energy, but later, she expanded the scope of her collection to every prehistoric creature, including those common and visible weeds and shrubs.
At first, the innate gods were very puzzled by the actions of Nuwa, but later there was a rumor spread among the innate gods, saying that Nuwa collected so many things that were not even spiritual objects, in fact, she wanted to build a special library and preserve all living beings that appeared in the prehistoric world in the warehouse in a special way, so that any accident of the world breaking in the future can be used to recreate the prehistoric world through these preserved species.
After this rumor spread, some people disagree, while others believed it true, but they didn't think the rumored plan could be successful. Because the creatures on the prehistoric land can only take countless plans, even the existences that are as powerful as the top of the world, such as the Hongjun family and Pangu family, cannot figure out how many kinds of creatures there are in the prehistoric land. It is obviously impossible to sit in the prehistoric land. What's more, this collection scope not only includes the original body of the prehistoric land, but also the divine realms of the other worlds attached to the prehistoric land are within the scope of its collection of creatures.
Perhaps it is because this plan is too large and too secret. So until the prehistoric world is broken, no one has seen this creature library with his own eyes.
In Zhen Yuanzi's incomplete memory, there are records about this creature warehouse, and I remember that Nuwa once allowed the innate gods to free themselves for a long time to collect all species on the prehistoric land, from young weeds and insects to powerful innate monsters. However, not only Zhen Yuanzi, but even the same tribes among the innate gods who have a very good relationship with Nuwa have never seen this warehouse, so in Zhen Yuanzi's incomplete memory, this memory has always been summarized into false rumors.
Xu Changqing is almost certain that the palace in front of him is the legendary creature storage library built by Nuwa. All the creatures that seem to be reliefs on the stone pillars are living creatures, and they are blocked here by special techniques. The original flesh and blood bodies of plants and trees have all turned into stone, but this change has not changed the essence of these creatures. It has not changed what kind of power and spiritual energy these creatures have before, and can even continue to grow.
Although Xu Changqing himself had never seen the Life and Death Grass, nor had he used the Life and Death Grass, Zhen Yuanzi used it. It was the first time that the ancient dragon clan was seriously injured, and there was a problem with his soul. Because he took a purple-gold Life and Death Grass, his injuries were healed. Even the soul's injuries were restored as before, so this Life and Death Grass left a deep impact on him. Through this memory of the effect of the Life and Death Grass, it was not difficult for Xu Changqing to judge that the vitality of the life and death grass that had just broken was not as good as the one he took. However, it was definitely comparable to the purple Life and Death Grass.
The life and death grass alone is enough to surprise Xu Changqing. Now, in the palace in front of him, the prehistoric creatures contained in countless relief stone pillars are the same as this life and death grass. The shock this brought to Xu Changqing is absolutely unimaginable. Not to mention him, even the innate gods of Zhen Yuanzi might be suppressed when they see it.
Just as Xu Changqing was stunned in shock, the earthworm-like monsters seemed to be attracted by something, and quickly gathered towards a stone pillar in the distance. The monster's abnormal movement just pulled Xu Changqing out of his shocking mood. He didn't think much about it and flew towards the pillar where the monster was concentrated. This was not only because he was curious, but also because in the current environment, any small abnormality could become a clue that made him understand this further.
Soon Xu Changqing came to the pillar, and saw that the pillar surrounded by these monsters was a monster relief that was not recorded in Zhen Yuanzi's memory. This monster looked like a tiger but had deer antlers, snake eyes, bird beaks, and nine tails at the tops of the heads of different monsters. The surface was half of the tiger's skin, half of the purple scales, and four-legged eagle claws. The whole body exuded an indescribable majesty aura.
There was nothing abnormal on the surface of this pillar, but when the monsters were spinning around the pillar, they took turns spitting out some silk-like substances to the same part of the pillar. As soon as this substance touched the pillar, it immediately melted and merged with the pillar.
Through the power of the Great Light Divine Eye, Xu Changqing could easily see that there were some very fine and dense cracks in the places covered by silk matter. Although these cracks were insignificant compared to the entire pillar, Xu Changqing felt that if he left it alone, he might be completely broken in the near future.
Repairing this pillar is obviously a huge burden on these earthworm-like monsters. The more silk material they spit out, the more empty the body will become. Soon dozens of monsters spit out the last silk thread and their bodies will completely disappear.
As the last crack on the pillar disappeared, Xu Changqing seemed to hear an unwilling roar coming out of the pillar, and then the majestic aura I felt before also disappeared from the pillar, leaving only the vitality of the living creature still floating on the surface.
After the pillars were repaired, the surrounding monsters also scattered everywhere. Many of them were floating and wandering, and their bodies suddenly split into two, turning into two monsters, filling the number of monsters that had disappeared.
It is almost certain that these earthworm-like monsters should be the administrators and maintainers of this palace. Their function is to protect the integrity of these stone pillars and also to repair the damage on the stone pillars. This also made Xu Changqing wonder, because from all the situations, the behavior of these monsters was set in advance. They were eager for anger, but they would not attack any creatures, nor would they leave the palace. However, what happened before was contrary to the behavior of these monsters he saw now, and they were simply two different monsters.
"Can there be some prehistoric creatures that can get rid of the ban on such stone pillars and control them without the monsters being able to detect them?" A speculation soon emerged in Xu Changqing's mind.
Thinking of this, Xu Changqing looked at the surrounding stone pillars, and then his eyes fell on the monsters that were wandering in the air. In his opinion, if there were indeed prehistoric creatures controlling monsters to capture living creatures and perform blood, after he had just removed the controlled monsters, the prehistoric creatures would definitely control another group of monsters. Although the circumstance of these earthworm-like monsters was not indifferent, their location was not without traces. Judging from some signs, each group of these monsters was only responsible for one area. As for other areas, unless the stone pillars were repaired, they would not enter the boundary.
It is precisely because of mastering this rule that the palace in Xu Changqing's eyes was quickly divided into small areas by the movement range of these monsters, and he also found that these divided small areas had some rules, such as spiritual objects with a combination of breath, monsters would be divided into one area, the origin and branches of a certain type of monster would be divided into one area, etc.
Soon, Xu Changqing used the Great Light Divine Eye to find the object he wanted to find based on the division of these different regions, the number of monsters owned in different regions, and other clues.
In an area about 30 kilometers away from the entrance, although the monsters in that area did not wander to other places, there were still some abnormalities. According to Xu Changqing's calculations, there should have been 300 monsters wandering here, but now there are only 299 in that area, one less. This number is not a random estimate, but the result of Xu Changqing's repeated inspections, and it is absolutely impossible to make an error.
At this time, Xu Changqing also remembered that when his divine thoughts penetrated into the monster's body, he felt that the monster was a whole. Now it seems that his feeling was not wrong. Those monsters should have been divided by a monster in violation of the established rules. It was precisely because Xu Changqing destroyed it outside the palace that one of the monsters in the palace was missing. As for why one of them was not split from the 299 monsters to fill the vacancy, it is probably related to the limitations made when the monster was created and the restrictions on the palace itself.
Chapter completed!