Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Still waters run deep, and their power is like mountains.

Zhang Yuanjing suddenly stopped.

"Yuanjing, what did you find?" Lu Tianying's spirits lifted, shaking off the boredom of their continuous journey.

"A sacrificial altar!" Zhang Yuanjing said, emphasizing each word.

"A sacrificial altar?" Lu Tianying raised his eyes and strained to see ahead, his face full of excitement. "Is it up ahead? What kind of altar is it? One of the heretical cultivators or the demonic cultivators?"

Zhang Yuanjing shook his head. "Its form is very ancient, I'm afraid it was left behind a long time ago."

"That makes it even more worth exploring!" Lu Tianying strode forward. "Yuanjing, let's hurry over there, maybe there's a great opportunity!"

Zhang Yuanjing hesitated for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Martial Uncle Lu, this altar is likely related to that exotic beast bone. Don't act rashly after getting close!"

Lu Tianying responded casually, "Got it!"

Traveling several more miles, a huge sacrificial altar rose from the flat sand in front of them, appearing hazy and mysterious in the deep water.

The altar was built entirely of cyan-gray boulders, its surface covered with cracks of varying depths, with faint dark red lines flowing within, like dried bloodstains.

Twelve stone pillars carved with runes surrounded the altar, each pillar topped with a fist-sized strange stone, emitting a faint blue light.

The altar was in the shape of an Eight Trigrams diagram, with a raised cauldron-shaped container in the center, inside which stood a two-foot-long milky white bone fragment, sometimes flashing with fierce killing intent, sometimes fading into dimness.

"Crack!"

The sound of something breaking underfoot came. The three lowered their heads and saw countless white bones of varying lengths mixed in the sand, snapped unintentionally by their feet.

"Wait!" Luo Yuanhao suddenly transmitted his voice to the other two. "There's something strange here."

Zhang Yuanjing stopped. Lu Tianying was eager to try, but he had experienced many battles and had a strong sense of danger, knowing that this place was indeed somewhat inappropriate.

"How so?" Zhang Yuanjing asked.

Luo Yuanhao said with slight surprise, "When Luo Mou saw the altar, Xiao Yousong's memories about the exotic beast skeleton in my mind suddenly became a little disordered. His, his memories, seem to have been tampered with. Perhaps, this is where he discovered the skeleton!"

Zhang Yuanjing's gaze fell on the bone fragment in the center of the altar, and a thought flashed through his mind: this bone fragment is somewhat similar to the one he obtained in the Profound Origin Secret Realm.

He resisted the urge to take out the bone fragment, pointed to the altar, and asked, "In Xiao Yousong's memory, is there this altar or the bone fragment in the altar?"

Luo Yuanhao trembled and said, "There wasn't originally. Now, now there is! This, this bone fragment is where that evil soul is寄生!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the runes around the altar suddenly lit up. The dark red lines, as if alive, began to flow slowly.

The three felt the sand under their feet vibrating slightly, and a strange power appeared in the water.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, I'm afraid the bottom of this Water Abyss is all a trap set by that evil soul! We—" Luo Yuanhao seemed to have thought of something terrible, his body trembling slightly, and he retreated repeatedly.

Zhang Yuanjing said in a deep voice, "Don't act rashly! Now that we're here, let's see what means it has."

With a flip of his hand, he raised the Sun Refining Umbrella, releasing a faint light to protect the three of them.

Although this place was strange, it did not make Zhang San feel irresistible, so Zhang Yuanjing was not afraid.

Under the shroud of the faint light, Luo Yuanhao calmed down, his gaze falling on the Sun Refining Umbrella, revealing a hint of greed and desire.

After a few breaths, a beam of intense light shot out from the altar, heading upwards, exploding a hundred feet away, falling like star flowers, and soon disappearing into the deep water.

The water returned to cold silence, as black as ink, only the silent altar underwent a strange change in the three people's spiritual consciousness.

This altar had become larger without them noticing, and it was still expanding, but not a single sound was transmitted.

At a certain moment, the runes on the stone pillars flashed again, and the dark red lines began to twist, forming a strange pattern.

In the vast void, an exotic beast resembling a large fish was leisurely swimming among the stars. On its head grew a curved horn, which sparkled with a soft light, like a beacon in the darkness. Its body was covered with peculiar scales, seemingly condensed from countless tiny stardust, each scale emitting a faint silvery-blue light. As it swam, the scales reflected brilliant starlight, like the Milky Way flowing on its body.

"Ha!" Luo Yuanhao couldn't help but exclaim, the air rushing into the water, creating a series of bubbles.

Zhang Yuanjing transmitted his voice and asked, "Does Fellow Daoist Luo recognize this beast?"

Luo Yuanhao hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "This is the Star Horn Kun, recorded in the Nine Cold Valley's records."

Just as Zhang Yuanjing was about to continue asking, the Star Horn Kun formed by the runes suddenly turned its eyes to look at the three of them. Its eyes were as deep as black holes, revealing the light of wisdom, as if it could see through the mysteries of time and space.

"Master, danger! This thing is alive!"

Zhang San's warning came from his ear, and Zhang Yuanjing attached his voice with mana and shouted, "Be careful! Martial Uncle Lu, use your thunder techniques when you need to!"

The Star Kun Beast vibrated its large and transparent fins, cutting through the resistance of the deep water's force like a sharp blade cutting through tofu, and pounced towards the three of them. Its huge lips opened, revealing a darkness, like endless void.

"Ha!"

Lu Tianying roared, both excited and somewhat fearful, tightly gripping a golden long sword in his hand, and slashed at the incoming huge beast shadow.

"Rumble!"

Golden lightning was like fire, blazing fiercely, penetrating the pressure of the water and blasting towards the giant beast.

"Roar—"

The Star Kun Beast let out a long roar from its open mouth, directly swallowed the incoming golden lightning, and continued to charge forward, wanting to swallow the three of them as well.

Zhang Yuanjing had been prepared for a long time, driving the Sun Refining Umbrella to shoot out golden blazing sun rays, pouring them into the exotic beast's mouth, refining the void in its belly, and penetrating out from its tail fin.

At the same time, the Star Kun Beast's wide-open mouth swept past the three of them, followed by its belly and tail, and finally the whole thing passed through, as if it was just an illusion.

However, the three people within all knew that this was not an illusion, but reality. After being swallowed by the exotic beast, there was clearly some kind of evil will hidden in its belly, peeking from the side. But it feared the scorching of the golden sun and dared not attack the three of them.

Lu Tianying waved his golden sword and released another golden lightning strike, attacking the Star Kun Beast from behind. However, before this golden lightning could break through the resistance of the water, the exotic beast suddenly disappeared.

"Zhang San, where did that evil soul go?"

Zhang Yuanjing stared at the place where the Star Kun Beast disappeared and quickly asked Zhang San.

"It disappeared, Zhang San can't sense its trace either!"

At this moment, Luo Yuanhao, who had been somewhat panicked, suddenly shouted, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, look, look at the altar!"

Zhang Yuanjing turned his head and couldn't help but be stunned. Where was the altar? There was only a fragmented skeleton over a thousand feet tall, standing there quietly, as if it had been like this for millions of years.