Asura Mad Emperor-Chapter 373: Divine Stone

A person, a Red Luan, and a tiger, hurried toward the central area of the Heavenly Demon Forest.

Although the Red Luan was the natural predator of many demonic beasts, causing quite a stir wherever it passed, its own aura was so strong that, coupled with the flowing pattern of the green-eyed tiger by its side, no other demonic beast dared to come forward.

The journey was unobstructed.

Before long, Qinchuan arrived at the central area of the Heavenly Demon Forest.

Upon entering this place, the aura underwent a drastic change, with the demonic qi around becoming even richer and more intense. The black mist that filled the air rushed toward him, piercing into the depths of his heart.

This sinister and evil demonic qi not only blocked the sight of everyone but also hindered the Divine Sense of Qinchuan and the Red Luan. At this moment, it was as if both were trapped in a boundless ocean.

"What kind of wretched place is this! Cold and damp, with an overwhelming demonic miasma, it’s too oppressive!"

Although the Red Luan favored cold places and enjoyed devouring divine soul demonic beasts, it was very repulsed by lands filled with such sinister demonic qi, and couldn’t help but grumble.

It spread its bright and beautiful wings at once. The wings ignited with raging purple flames, shimmering like Phoenix Feathers unfolding. As the huge wings spread and flapped, a violent gale immediately arose, with a hurricane accompanied by flames whirling up sand and stones, creating a sky-high inferno.

The fierce wind dispersed the demonic qi, scattering it in all directions.

A moment later, the demonic qi around had all been fanned away by the Red Luan, and as the clouds dissipated, the true form of this place was revealed.

The trees around this place were even thicker, with many so wide that not even several people embracing them could span their girth. The abundance of leaves on the towering trees blocked the sky from the earth; looking upward, not a hint of starlight or moonlight could be seen.

Through the light of the Divine Fire radiating from the blazing flames on the Red Luan’s body, Qinchuan saw a huge stele standing a few dozen meters ahead.

Not far in front of the stele, there was indeed a circular platform constructed of piled jade stones.

The altar wasn’t large, simple and unadorned, built from countless strangely-shaped Divine Stones, filled with the breath of ages.

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However, the light within those Divine Stones was incredibly dim, and to the naked eye, they would seem like nothing more than a pile of ordinary rocks. But as his Innate Pupils rapidly moved, he distinctly discerned that within those Divine Stones around the altar, five different kinds of divine light were radiating.

"What purpose does this altar serve?"

Qinchuan frowned, continuing his way toward the altar and stele.

Having been reincarnated nine times, he had traversed the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and whether it was the various Formations of the Divine Territory or the profound secrets of the Jiuyou Ghost Sect, Qinchuan was versed in them all.

But this altar in front of him, he could not comprehend!

His Innate Pupils spun madly, yet aside from sensing some oddities in the Divine Stones that constituted the altar, he found no other information.

He casually walked up to the stele. The stele wasn’t tall, only about the same height as Qinchuan, but standing in front of it, he suddenly had an illusion.

It was as if he were an ant standing before a towering mountain, looking up in awe and gasping for breath, feeling as if he could be crushed into mud by the stele at any moment.

Such was the intense feeling of oppression.

The Asura Divine Soul within Qinchuan stirred slightly, emanating an aura of invincibility, and that odd sensation then disappeared.

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Qinchuan approached and ran his fingers over the seemingly simple and unremarkable surface of the stele.

Suffering through hundreds of thousands of years of wind and sun, the face of the stele was already covered with a thick layer of dust.

As Qinchuan’s fingers swept over it, the surrounding dust fell off in heaps, revealing the true face of the stele.

"Hmm? Runes?"

Qinchuan felt a strange sensation at the tips of his fingers.

Suddenly,

his Innate Qi started to circulate and burst forth from his fingertips.

The next moment, the entire stele violently shook, and a hissing sound emerged as the thick layer of dust that covered the stele began to fall away.

In no time,

all the dust that coated the stele had fallen off, revealing the stele’s true appearance: smooth and shiny, as if it were a jade carving. Despite being washed by the sands of time for hundreds of thousands of years, the stele showed no signs of wear and tear, obviously far from being a mortal grade object.

Above the stele, a stone-shaped pattern with a diameter of more than a foot was carved, appearing uneven and unremarkable. If it hadn’t been for the Divine Stone embedded at the top, emitting a faint green light, he would have been unable to discern the true shape of the pattern.

That Green-eyed Tiger seemed very fearful of this stele, saying from a good distance away with a resonant voice, "The Divine Stones inlaid on the masks of those mysterious people are exactly like this one on the stele, except this stone emits a greenish glow."

Qinchuan felt a movement in his mind, and his Innate Pupils wildly operated as he closely observed the Divine Stone, about the size of a Spirit Fruit.

The Divine Stone was crystal clear throughout, set upon a stele of White Jade as pure as snow. Together they complemented each other perfectly, with not the slightest discord.

But in the next moment, he discerned something out of the ordinary within the Divine Stone.

This stone contained a trace of the power of the Heavenly Dao!

Indeed, it was the power of the Heavenly Dao.

Although faint, it most certainly existed.

"It’s from the Upper Realm people again!" Qinchuan’s eyes lit up with a piercing brilliance, breaking through the darkness, aiming towards the distant stars and beyond the thirty-third heaven.

The Divine Wilderness Continent is governed by the Great Dao. All things are not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Dao; hence neither Heavenly Treasures Materials nor Refined Magical Treasures should bear traces of the Heavenly Dao. Yet, this Divine Stone contained the power of the Heavenly Dao, which was enough to suggest that the Divine Stone, came from the Upper Realm.

"What exactly has happened these hundreds of thousands of years? I originally thought that the Upper Realm’s meddling in the Lower Realm was only in the last hundred thousand years. But it now seems that those people had already stretched their black hands into the Lower Realm several hundred thousand years ago."

"What do they want to do? And who exactly are those mysterious people in the Silver Masks? Could they be a rising power from the Upper Realm, and what are their intentions?"

Many doubts reemerged unbidden in Qinchuan’s mind.

Fifty thousand years ago, it was the time between his sixth and seventh reincarnations, and he was still lost in the cycle of reincarnation, powerless to do anything about the fall of the Seven Great Devils.

However, around that period, either in his sixth or seventh life, he had never heard of such a mysterious organization dressed in white robes with Silver Masks.

These questions were like puzzles, leaving him utterly confounded.

While pondering, Qinchuan reached out towards the verdant Divine Stone.

"Master, be careful, there are Prohibitions on this Divine Stone!"

Seeing Qinchuan attempting to pry out the Divine Stone, the Green-eyed Tiger couldn’t help but cry out in alarm.

The stele, white as jade and smooth as the rosy clouds of dawn, topped with a brilliantly glowing Divine Stone, would invariably elicit the same desire in anyone who saw it for the first time—to take down the Divine Stone!

The Green-eyed Tiger, when he first saw the Divine Stone embedded in the stele, was no exception. On first sight of the stone, he sensed that this dazzling green Divine Stone was extraordinary and made the same attempt as Qinchuan to take it down.

But the result was that he was almost killed by the overwhelming Divine Power surging from within the stone.

That’s why he immediately warned Qinchuan.