Chapter 691: Treasure?
"What the hell kind of reason is that!" All the martial artists were wildly complaining in their hearts. Offending someone just by stepping in with the left foot first? How shameless were the martial artists of the Divine Ability Civilization?
"Hahaha, sorry, martial artists from our Divine Ability Civilization tend to have some OCD," Fang Jueyu smoothed things over. "I'm the type who insists on spending money to come out even, Lu Benwei has to take a dump all in one go, and if it breaks off, he throws a fit."
"What kind of condition is that?" Hearing Fang Jueyu's words, everyone was astonished. There actually existed such a peculiar disorder in the world.
"And there's Liu Mou, who has to walk an even number of steps when he goes out. If it's an odd number, he'll break his own leg out of anger, going as far as to beat himself up."
"That other guy can't go a day without his strength booster or he feels miserable!"
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"So really, it's not us looking for trouble. Blame Kedon for stepping in with his left foot first when he entered, or else Beijita wouldn't have gone mad and started killing people!"
Many martial artists who were about to enter the gate suddenly paused. Their abilities were nowhere near Kedon's level. If they offended the martial artist called Beijita by stepping in with the left foot first, they believed their deaths would be ten thousand times more gruesome than Kedon's!
Nobody was a fool. In their minds, it was as clear as day that Kedon's action of making Fang Jueyu scout the way had angered Beijita. The whole left foot, right foot, OCD thing was just an excuse.
But even so, nobody dared to say it out loud because they believed if they did, the guy named Beijita could very well use the fact they were breathing through their noses as a reason to kill them.
"Demon! Absolute demon!"
"How shameless!"
"The people of the Divine Ability Civilization are vengeful. They must not be allowed to gain admission to the Cosmic Federation School, or no one will be able to restrain them once they grow stronger!"
"If there's an opportunity, we must find a way to eliminate them in this estate ruin!"
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"Host, this ruin is remarkably well-preserved, and there are many types of civilization relics here, including martial arts, magic, mechanics... It seems that in the era of the Root Universe, this estate was quite extraordinary."
"So what if it was extraordinary? It's not like it hasn't become a desolate ghost town now," Fang Jueyu said while scanning the relic with his Divine Sense.
The estate had numerous buildings, but it seemed the energy here had been completely depleted. None of the buildings had any protective measures remaining.
However, according to Xiao Yi's database, many relics prohibited Divine Sense scanning. Triggering certain areas of the ruins could likely activate some extremely dangerous prohibitions. It's said that even a Demigod Warrior had fallen this way.
"Will there be nothing here?" Fang Jueyu wondered aloud. It seemed that even in that era, this place had already been deserted and abandoned.
"Hard to say. Whatever happened in that era remains a mystery to this day, and I have zero information about this estate, but it's still a possibility."
"Damn!" Fang Jueyu couldn't help but roll his White Eye. If he had come all this way and found nothing, wouldn't that be a huge loss?
"Stop being a sore winner. Even if there are no treasures, you've completed 90% of the third-phase permissions task and have earned several million Cosmic Coins. Isn't that sweet?"
"True," Fang Jueyu felt a bit more at ease after Xiao Yi's words.
"Come and take a look! There's something that looks like an altar here!" Suddenly, a shout came from a direction while everyone was wandering the ruins.
"Looks like someone found something!" Fang Jueyu quickly gathered his twenty-three other clones and headed in that direction.
"Hiss!"
This shout almost drew everyone in. When they all arrived at that location, the sight before them made everyone gasp in awe.
It was a massive square within the estate's ruins, filled with Blue Jade Skeletons standing in various poses. They all seemed to have experienced immense pain before death, numbering at least eight to ten thousand!
And at the center, there was a Purple Crystal Skeleton, radiating an aura of supreme dominance from afar.
The owners of these skeletons had been deceased for millions of years, yet there was still an aura of intimidation emanating from those remains, suggesting they were formidable beings in life.
"I know that martial artists' bones start turning gold when they advance to Transcender. What's the deal with these Blue Jade and Purple Crystal Skeletons?" Fang Jueyu asked, puzzled.
"Demigods! They're all Demigods!" Xiao Yi exclaimed. "Only when martial artists advance to Demigod do their bones undergo a transformation into these Blue Jade Skeletons, marking them as Demigods!"
"What?" Fang Jueyu's pupils instantly widened multiple times.
Throughout the material universe, there were perhaps only a few dozen Demigods out in the open. Even counting those unknown powerful beings lurking in the shadows, there wouldn't be more than a few hundred Demigods.
Yet here, in this estate's ruins, there lay thousands of Demigod remains! How could this not be shocking? What happened here to create such a Demigod graveyard?
As for that Purple Crystal Skeleton, could it be the remains of a being of an even higher realm than a Demigod?
"There's something there!" someone suddenly noticed a small altar-like structure in the center of the square. On this structure lay a rather peculiar object.
It looked like a Lego-like model, almost a miniature replica of the entire Secret Realm of the estate, compressed into a space of just a few square meters.
These buildings, even these skeletons, were vividly replicated on that tiny model.
"Treasure! That must be the treasure of the ruins!" Everyone gazed fervently at that model. To be surrounded by so many powerful corpses, it must be a precious treasure!
"That treasure is mine!" The Mechanical Clan warrior Stella, having restored the power system, mobilized all her energy and rushed toward the altar with an unbelievable speed before anyone else could react.
"You wish! It's mine!"
"Grab it, whoever gets it first wins!"
Finally, everyone reacted and rushed toward the altar.
But about two hundred meters from the altar, Stella's movement came to an abrupt halt.
Her whole body shook, making creaking noises as if she were about to fall apart at any moment. Her machinery ran at full power, as if against a strong resistance.
"Boom! Boom!" Each step she took seemed to bear immense pressure.
Around the altar, an incredibly terrifying aura enveloped the area. Starting from two hundred meters away, each step toward it increased the pressure. By the time she got to within a hundred meters of the altar, she could hardly advance any further!
"Boom!" As she attempted another step forward, her body was suddenly struck by a force, sending her flying backward. Her armor was dented, and even her energy levels rapidly diminished, indicating the power of the impact.
Everyone who was rushing forward immediately stopped in their tracks. If a genius who reached Divine Ability User status couldn't proceed there, how far could they?
But this also convinced them even more that the object on the altar must be the most valuable treasure in these ruins!