Chapter 964

Han Li was secretly on guard, and his eyes followed the direction of the fire line. He saw that it extended along the ground for more than a hundred feet before it seemed to reach the end and stopped.

With a whoosh, raging crimson flames suddenly rose from the ground on either side of Han Li, illuminating the entire space that he was in.

Han Li's eyes narrowed slightly, and after looking around, his expression changed slightly, and his heart was amazed.

He saw that this space was about two or three hundred feet in circumference, and the surrounding walls were continuously carved with huge stone carvings. Among them, there were towering mountains, rushing rivers, and some seemingly majestic city walls were distributed among them.

Above the carved mountain forest, there were rare and strange beasts wantonly galloping, and there were cultivators flying in the air. It looked like a scene of the Immortal World, and it had nothing to do with this Scale Hollow Realm.

"How can there be such a mural here?

Could it be that the people who were exiled here in the past remembered the past and carved it here? "Han Li muttered to himself.

While thinking, he stepped around the stone platform in front of him, and carefully examined all the murals along the wall. He saw that although the pictures on them were complicated, they were not coherent, and there seemed to be no obvious connection between them.

Not long after, Han Li arrived at the depths of the space and saw a ten-meter-wide black stone coffin on the ground. There was a puppet-like man carved on top of the coffin, and there was a thread hanging from each of its joints. The puppet's expression was wooden, and its limbs were stiff. It was a very strange sight.

Those silk threads wrapped around the surface of the sarcophagus, and finally gathered above the puppet man's head.

Han Li walked forward, and after a closer look, he found that above the puppet man's head, all the silk threads were connected to each other, converging into a circular pattern shaped like the Eight Trigrams. There was a yin-yang fish picture in the center, but there was no Eight Trigrams on the periphery.

After a little hesitation, he raised his hand and gently touched the Eight Trigrams for a while, and found that the lines on the Eight Trigrams were not dead, but could be pressed down.

Seeing this, Han Li was overjoyed. He muttered, "Qian San Lian, Kun Liu Break, Zhen Yang Pan, Gen Fu Wan …" He then raised his hand and pressed on the eight positions.

As the eight array diagrams emerged, the fish eye position of the Yin-Yang Pisces diagram in the middle suddenly sank, followed by a rumbling sound of stone rubbing.

The sarcophagus slowly slid open. There were no corpses inside, but a five-inch square transparent crystal box appeared.

Inside the envelope was a silver hollowed-out ball, which was covered with extremely complicated and strange patterns. Inside the ball, there were waves of strange power that seemed like Divine Soul fluctuations.

"Looks like this is it …" Han Li's eyes flickered as he muttered to himself.

He looked at the hollow ball for a moment, then carefully looked around the coffin for a while. Just as he was about to reach for the letter, he suddenly frowned. He vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Thinking of this, Han Li raised his head and looked around. He looked at the landscape murals around him, and his eyes flashed. He retracted his hand, retreated to the front of the sarcophagus, and pushed the coffin lid back up.

He paced back and forth a few times, repeatedly recalling the contents recorded in the jade slip in his mind. There was a sentence in it that suddenly flashed in his mind, "The Octagonal Array Position is in form, but it doesn't matter. You need to use this map."

Han Li suddenly stopped, and his eyes fell on the murals around him again. A look of realization flashed in his eyes.

He walked straight to the back of the sarcophagus, raised his hand and groped on the mural for a while, then pressed down heavily on the round sun carved on it.

"Chi …"

After a series of soft sounds, the round sun actually sank into the ground.

"Sure enough …" Han Li was delighted, and he walked to the next mural on the right.

The mural depicted a scene of a storm rising from the clouds. Han Li found a cloud from the mural and pressed it against the mural.

Immediately afterward, he found a river and a mountain in a picture of a river flowing across and a picture of a hidden mountain, and pressed them down respectively.

The sky was the sun, the clouds were the wind, the water was formless, and the mountain was the power … The Octagonal Array Position was hidden on these murals and reliefs.

As Han Li pressed down on all of the hidden mechanisms that represented the eight trigrams formation, the entire space began to violently tremble. The stone coffin that was placed on the ground began to sway and sink down, revealing an entrance to a passageway.

"What a good 'in form, but it doesn't matter' …" Han Li said with a smile and walked over.

The entrance to the passage was not big. It was a stone staircase that extended to the underground, and it could only accommodate one person.

Han Li did not hesitate too much and walked in.

After walking a dozen steps, the stairs turned to the left, and a door that was as tall as a person appeared. The inside was lit up with a white light.

Han Li carefully walked in, only to find that the inside was only a dozen feet in radius. There were not many furnishings, and it seemed a little empty.

However, although the space was not very big, the walls were densely inlaid with snow-white star bones, and it was the light emitted by these star bones that illuminated the space exceptionally bright.

Han Li looked up and saw that in the position facing him, there was a long black stone table against the wall. On it, there were two very exquisite white jade boxes.

After a quick check, he didn't find anything strange, so with a click, he opened the lid of one of the jade boxes.

When the lid was opened, there was no treasure light overflowing, and no strange phenomenon appeared. There was only a fist-sized ball lying quietly in the jade box.

The ball was completely black, and its appearance was very similar to the one he saw in the stone coffin just now. It was also multi-layered, and it was densely covered with strange talisman patterns.

However, this ball did not have the slightest power fluctuation. Except for the exquisite appearance, it did not look strange. In comparison, the previous one was more like the real one.

Han Li raised his hand and picked up the hollow ball. He held it in his palm and carefully examined it. He could faintly see that in the depths of the ball, there was a hair-like golden lightning swimming. It seemed to be silent, but it had the momentum of thunder.

He faintly felt that this thing was definitely not simple, so he carefully kept it in his arms.

After taking a moment to compose himself, Han Li cast his gaze toward the other jade box.

This jade box was a little different. There was a disk embedded on the surface, and it was engraved with complicated patterns. There were two hollow circular holes on the periphery, and below each hole, there was a golden talisman pattern the size of a rice grain.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly as he raised a hand to pick up the jade box. He wanted to bring it closer to examine it, but he discovered that it seemed to have fused as one with the table and was firmly embedded in it.

The mystic acupoints on his arm lit up upon seeing this, and he abruptly grabbed the jade box and raised it upward.

The jade box tremored violently, and the table beneath it also tremored violently, but that was all. Neither item was forcibly pulled up by Han Li, and they were still as stable as Mount Tai.

Han Li raised his brows as he suddenly raised his fist and smashed it toward the jade box.

White light flashed from the surface of the jade box, and a layer of starlight suddenly lit up from within before transforming into a burst of tremendous force.

Han Li hurriedly took a step back, dispersing the force of the blow.

When he turned to look at the jade box again, the confusion in his eyes became even more grave. Daoist Xie's jade slip clearly stated that the metal ball was something that he had to obtain.

As for what was hidden in the other jade box, he didn't mention it at all.

Han Li's brows furrowed tightly as the mystic acupoints on his body lit up, and an even more powerful burst of force erupted from his body as he smashed his fist toward the jade box.

Rumble!

Unsurprisingly, the backlash from the jade box also became even more powerful, forcing Han Li to stumble back several steps. Only when his back was pressed up against a wall did he manage to stop himself.

Han Li harrumphed coldly, but he had no intention of giving up. Just as he was about to smash open the jade box with even more force, he discovered that there was a crack beneath him that was expanding all the way to the bottom of the jade box on the stone table.

His brows furrowed as he realized that he couldn't use external force to break open the jade box. Otherwise, this space would be destroyed along with it, and he didn't have any more time to waste here.

Just as Han Li was about to return to the front hall to check on the situation there, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a star diagram on the ground under the illumination of the Star Bones on the surrounding walls.

However, compared to the star diagram he had seen on the dome, not only was this one much smaller, there were also many flaws.

Han Li carefully stared at the star pattern for a long while, and a hint of surprise suddenly flashed through his eyes. He suddenly rubbed his hands together and came to a sudden realization. "So that's how it is, so that's how it is..."

After that, he pulled out the Starwave Brush from his sleeve and started to repair the star diagram.

After a long while, Han Li completed the final stroke and abruptly stood up.

Following this stroke, the star pattern on the ground began to blossom with a dazzling radiance. A slight sound of a mechanism turning rang out, and the disk on the jade box began to slowly rotate. Finally, with a "pa" sound, it opened by itself.

Han Li was delighted and stepped forward to take a look. He saw that there was a piece of light gray leather from an unknown scaled beast in the jade box, neatly stacked into a small square.

"This is..."

Han Li picked up the leather and gently spread it out to take a look. His brows couldn't help but wrinkle again.

He saw that the leather was painted with a pentagonal altar deeply embedded in the ground, and the five corners of the altar were painted with a strange beast with a pair of wings on its back. It was the appearance of the blood sacrifice array that the five City Lords of Xuan City were activating at the moment.

On the top of the leather, there were four ancient seal characters "Weeping Blood Array Diagram". This was obviously different from the blood sacrifice array that Edgar had told everyone.

Han Li's heart was filled with doubts as he began to carefully look at the entire array diagram.

He soon discovered that some of the structure of the upper part of the Weeping Blood Array was exactly the same as the blood sacrifice array in the front hall. It was basically certain that they were the same one, and the reason why Edgar deliberately concealed it must have an ulterior motive.

In addition, through the array diagram, it could be seen that the space inside the blood pool of the great array was extremely large, and the formation patterns carved on the walls inside were so complicated and secretive that it was simply incredible.

Outside the array diagram, there were small paragraphs of annotations around, respectively describing some of the key points and specific functions of the array.

The more Han Li looked down, the tighter his brows furrowed, and finally understood what Edgar wanted to do.

He browsed all the way down, and his eyes finally fell on a paragraph of annotations in the lower right corner. His brows suddenly raised, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a trace of a smile.