Chapter 89

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As the people of the Qingyun Sect fell into a brief state of shock, Ding Qi looked at the dozens of skeletons in front of him, took a deep breath, and recovered from his surprise.

When the stone door of this grand hall first opened, due to its limited width, these skeletons were hanging on both sides of the walls. Everyone could only see from the front hall that there was a very spacious grand hall behind, and no one had noticed these strange skeletons beforehand.

However, after entering the grand hall, they were ultimately stunned by the terrifying scene before them.

The people of the Qingyun Sect had all experienced the numerous dangers of the mechanical passage before barely making it through and surviving. They were well aware of the dangers of the underground palace. But seeing the bizarre scene before them now still made them feel a chill in their hearts.

The first few high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect to recover from their shock cleared their throats a few times before the others, who were pale-faced, finally came to their senses from the shock.

If ordinary people saw this inexplicable and bizarre situation, they would probably have fainted. However, these people of the Qingyun Sect were ultimately people of the martial world. Even though they were shocked, they were far from being as easily frightened as ordinary people.

After the Qingyun Sect people regained their composure, they looked at the terrifying skeletons in the hall and then at the few high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect. Ultimately, everyone's gaze focused on Zuo Yang.

At this moment, Zuo Yang was also looking at the dozens of bizarre and grotesque skeletons hanging on both sides of the walls with an uncertain expression.

After a long silence, Zuo Yang said to the Qingyun Sect people looking at him, "Now that we have encountered this bizarre situation, I understand everyone's feelings. However, we must investigate this underground palace. Otherwise..."

Although Zuo Yang did not finish his words, the meaning was very clear. In fact, even the other people of the Qingyun Sect understood this principle very well.

However, now, these people of the Qingyun Sect were so stunned by the bizarre scene before them that they lost their composure for a moment.

In the following time, the people of the Qingyun Sect finally began to examine the grand hall in the bizarre atmosphere. However, this grand hall was originally empty, and soon everyone's gaze focused on the dozens of terrifying skeletons.

These hanging and grotesque skeletons were truly terrifying. Even the people of the Qingyun Sect, who were people of the martial world, did not want to touch them if it was not necessary. However, now, without finding any clues in the grand hall, they could only shift their gaze back to these skeletons.

These skeletons had clearly been there for over a hundred years. However, from the postures they displayed at the moment of death, it was clear that these people had been nailed to the walls alive.

Before they died, they had all experienced inhuman pain.

It was unknown for what reason these people had been nailed to the walls like lanterns, and ultimately tortured to death in this cruel way.

Ding Qi, like the other people of the Qingyun Sect, came to the walls on both sides of the grand hall and began to examine them.

He stood in front of a corpse, looked at the skeleton in front of him, then slightly turned his head to look at another skeleton beside it, with no expression on his face.

After examining for a while, Ding Qi realized that he could not discern anything from the two skeletons in front of him and decided to turn around and leave.

At this moment, a 'ding' sound came from the skeleton he was about to leave. Attracted by the sound, Ding Qi turned around again.

He saw that a token-like object had fallen from the skeleton he had just examined and landed on the ground. Clearly, this token had been hidden somewhere on the skeleton, and it fell off due to the ground shaking when Ding Qi left.

Ding Qi squinted and looked at the token, then bent down to pick it up out of curiosity.

The token was made of jade, but it was not of high quality, just a common type. The jade token was oval-shaped, with some simple decorative patterns on it.

It was clearly just an ordinary jade pendant.

After determining that the jade pendant was just an ordinary item, Ding Qi found it uninteresting and threw it aside, then walked to another place.

However, if the person who found the jade pendant was not Ding Qi but the Deputy Sect Master Sha, he would not have casually discarded the jade pendant like Ding Qi.

Because Deputy Sect Master Sha also had a similar jade pendant.

The jade pendant he had was a family heirloom of the Sha family, carved by the first generation ancestor of the Sha family who joined the Qingyun Sect. There were two of them. However, back then, the first generation ancestor of the Sha family disappeared mysteriously while on a mission for the Qingyun Sect.

The jade pendant that the first generation ancestor of the Sha family wore also disappeared.

Unexpectedly, the jade pendant reappeared here.

And the nameless skeleton that Ding Qi had examined was undoubtedly the first generation ancestor of the Sha family who had disappeared.

However, for some unknown reason, he appeared here, experienced inhuman pain, and was ultimately tortured to death.

Ding Qi naturally could not know these things. To him, the skeleton he had just examined was just one of the dozens of ordinary skeletons in the grand hall.

As he threw the jade pendant aside and walked to another place, the people of the Qingyun Sect were carefully examining these bizarre skeletons. Unlike Ding Qi, who found nothing, these people actually discovered something after examining the skeletons.

Some people of the Qingyun Sect recognized the origins of some of the skeletons.

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"This skeleton is wearing a long sword, which seems to be the Wind Pattern Sword that the sect lost two hundred years ago," a hall master of the Qingyun Sect said in surprise after recognizing the long sword hanging on a skeleton.

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"This is the Blood Bone Knife, which is recorded in the sect's history as having disappeared two hundred years ago," another person of the Qingyun Sect recognized the red, thin knife on a skeleton.

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"… This thing's style is … Star Piercing Spike …!"

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"… Green Water Soft Sword …."

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The weapons carried by these hanging skeletons were recognized by some people of the Qingyun Sect. Many of these weapons were famous weapons used by high-ranking experts of the Qingyun Sect two hundred years ago. The rest were weapons used by famous experts in the martial world two hundred years ago.

Ding Qi watched as the people of the Qingyun Sect repeatedly recognized the weapons on the skeletons, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

"These weapons are the ones that the Qingyun Sect lost two hundred years ago… which means these skeletons… many of them were originally people of the Qingyun Sect!" Ding Qi thought, his eyes narrowing.

If Ding Qi could think of this, the other people of the Qingyun Sect could not possibly not think of it.

After realizing this, many people of the Qingyun Sect looked at the skeletons in the grand hall with very unpleasant expressions and strange gazes, thinking that many of the skeletons were the bodies of their sect's ancestors.

Two hundred years ago, these famous experts in the martial world were tortured to death in this cruel way and hung on the walls for two hundred years.

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While the people of the Qingyun Sect were feeling strange and suspicious about the scene before them, in another part of the underground palace, a cultivator surnamed Feng stood in a hall with a dark expression.

The hall was extremely chaotic, and the stone floor, as if hit by a powerful force, was completely overturned and broken.

Feng looked at the empty stone table in the center of the hall, and his expression was very unpleasant.

This hall was where Ding Qi had destroyed the Spirit Locking Array and taken the box of Spirit Gathering Pills.

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