Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 4309: Mysterious Ruins

chapter 4309: mysterious ruins

as the gate swung open, their eyes fell upon a small mountain of spirit stones, and long chen couldn't contain his excitement at the sight.

“primal chaos spirit stones!”

xia chen and guo ran joined in long chen's jubilation upon realizing these were primal chaos spirit stones. however, their enthusiasm was short-lived as they rushed over and saw the reality.

“how can this be?”

long chen picked up a spirit stone, only to find that it was already shattered inside. that was a clear sign that its energy was exhausted.

although the spirit stone still had some remnant primal chaos qi fluctuations, it was just an empty shell, as no primal chaos qi could be extracted from it. these primal chaos spirit stones were nothing more than worthless debris.

“fuck, we are one step too late! these primal chaos spirit stones are all used up!” xia chen couldn’t help gnashing his teeth when he saw hundreds of thousands of depleted spirit stones.

“we’re probably not just one step, but more likely ten thousand steps too late. it’s very likely that the black tortoise was so powerful that it inadvertently activated the formation here, resulting in it unleashing the energy of these spirit stones,” sighed long chen.

in this repository of spirit stones, everything had already been exhausted and rendered worthless. their initial elation had been in vain.

“what are you doing?” asked long chen upon seeing guo ran grabbing a few spirit stones and putting them away.

“even if they’re trash, we should keep a few as mementos,” said guo ran solemnly.

long chen was speechless. “don’t be like that. the main reason we’re here is for primal chaos spirit stones. xia chen, let’s take a look. there should be other depositories. if there’s nothing of value, let’s just leave.”

xia chen did a quick scan and found a weapon storehouse, but it was empty. all that remained were some broken weapons that were already rusty.

following that, xia chen found a treasury in a collapsed area. based on the remains, this place had once housed precious medicinal plants. however, they had long since crumbled to ash, and long chen couldn’t even recognize what they were.

out of nowhere, xia chen let out a shout and plucked a thumb-sized crystalline spirit stone from the debris. this was a pristine spirit stone, with primal chaos qi embedded inside in the form of mist. it seemed that not a trace of its primal chaos qi had dissipated.

“there’s more!” guo ran cried out as he found another primal chaos spirit stone nearby. they then found dozens of primal chaos spirit stones scattered around this area.

“what’s going on? these are primal chaos spirit stones! why are they on the ground? is there some sinister scheme here?” guo ran’s expression suddenly changed, and he looked around suspiciously.

“there’s no scheme. they were just tossed around during the ancient battle. primal chaos spirit stones are indeed treasures for the human race, but to other races, they are just mundane rocks. they can't harness the stones’ power at all,”? long chen rubbed the primal chaos spirit stones and sighed. “perhaps only they know what happened back then. but they cannot tell us.”

spirit stones were truly eternal divine items. if their essence was not extracted, they could survive for eternity. however, they weren’t photographic jades, incapable of recording what had happened back then.

hearing that, guo ran relaxed and continued his search. however, he was quickly disappointed. aside from a few dozen spirit stones, there was nothing else here.

however, just a few spirit stones were good enough as they were priceless treasures. if the primal chaos qi within them was unleashed, it would lead to an inconceivable density of primal chaos qi within a specific range and duration.

if they were to use that energy for battleships, who knew what kind of effect it would produce? guo ran and xia chen were looking forward to it.

the three of them continued searching carefully. after a while, xia chen quickly sensed the fluctuations of a formation underground and immediately tried to connect to it. however, he failed countless times without being able to reach it through space.

“ah, let me do it!” guo ran took out a strange tool; it was a metal pangolin with dozens of spades at the front.

"what's this?" long chen inquired. then he recalled, "did you get this when you were with mo nian?"

long chen’s guess was accurate. this thing’s function was to dig through the earth, and it was extremely fast. in less than an hour, they were already deep underground.

boom!

all of a sudden, the surroundings illuminated, and they let out startled cries as they found themselves face-to-face with an armored monstrosity. its mouth was agape, exposing its bared fangs, and it was fixedly glaring at them.