Luo Cheng returned to the Leng Mansion in a cheerful mood, eager to start refining Alchemy Pills and also examine the black metal piece to know what it was.
Luo Cheng impatiently ran to his room and carefully locked the door... He then brought out the recently purchased herbs and the black metal piece.
Keeping the herbs aside, he held the black metal piece in his hands. The black metal piece had an Ancient and Evil aura around it, it seemed as if it had not been touched by someone for ages. It also seemed to be incomplete like the broken part of a whole Metal piece.
Luo Cheng tried inserting his Qi into the black metal piece to get a reaction from it, but his Qi didn't have an effect on it. He stared at the black metal piece for a long time and thought, "What would happen if i used my blood?"
Luo Cheng was curious and guessed that the black metal piece was hiding a secret. Maybe after studying the black metal piece, he could find out the reason why his bloodline reacted and became restless the moment he saw the black metal piece, so he decided to give it a shot.
Luo Cheng bit his finger and dropped a few drops of blood on the black metal piece. For a few moments, nothing happened with the black metal piece. Seeing this, Luo Cheng became disappointed. As Luo Cheng thought the black metal piece wouldn't have any reaction, he decided to put it back into his spatial ring for now.
However, at this moment, a dim light shined from the black metal piece. Under Luo Cheng's astonished gaze, the black metal piece that had no reaction just now had actually emitted a faint glow, and the drops of blood of Luo Cheng was absorbed by the black metal piece. After absorbing Luo Cheng's blood, the light became brighter and brighter.
When the black metal piece started to grow brightly, at this moment, Luo Cheng felt as if he was standing in front of a vast and boundless ocean of blood. He felt his own body was incomparably small, and the monstrous wave brought by the black metal piece possessed a massive killing intent that was going to swallow him whole. Luo Cheng knew clearly in his heart that all of this was an illusion, so he calmed down.
At this moment, a severe pain hit his mind, the pain wasn't physically as it only attacked his mind. Luo Cheng only felt like a sledgehammer hitting his head hard. The unbearable pain made him almost yell out, but he held in with his willpower. The pain continued for some time before it finally stopped.
At this point, a strange crimson light jumped out of the black metal piece and flew into his head. It went straight through his head and finally in his sea of consciousness.
Luo Cheng swiftly closed his eyes, focusing his soul sense in his sea of consciousness. Very swiftly, Luo Cheng managed to sense the crimson light in sea of consciousness.
Immediately Luo Cheng's soul sense made contact with the crimson light, he was sucked into it, then he found himself in a mountainous region.
There were nine mountains piecing through the skies resembling swords. The nine sword mountains looked ancient and had an evil aura around them. The surroundings was eerily dark and dry like a desert. There were massive skeletal remains of both humans, demonic beasts, Xuan Beasts and also devil-like creatures with horns.
These were skeletal remains of cultivators from the past eras of the Great ThousandWorld. The mere aura from their skeletal remains made Luo Cheng's soul tremble in fear and dread.
Luo Cheng could also sense an oppressive feeling from the nine sword mountains. "What a terrifying aura. What a brutal evil Qi." Thought Luo Cheng who was astonished.
He was quite a distance from the nine sword mountains but he could still distinctly sense the Evil Qi it contained, wrath, humiliation, hatred and all sorts of negative Qi was present, and they were resonating with the Yin part of his bloodline.
Luo Cheng felt like his entire body was being oppressed by an incredible sword Qi which prevented him from moving. The Yin part of Luo Cheng's bloodline was becoming restless, inducing a feeling of longing into him. It felt like something important to his bloodline hidden deep within the nine sword mountains.
Luo Cheng felt that these nine sword mountains were alive and they were all staring at him. A rumbling sound echoed in Luo Cheng's mind as he blacked out and disappeared from this strange realm.
Luo Cheng slowly woke up and found that he was back in his room, and his body was covered in sweat. "Was i in an illusion all this time, or was that place real? If it is real then it must hold something very important to my bloodline." Luo Cheng said as he thought back to what happened.
Looking around for the black metal piece, Luo Cheng discovered that it had entered into his dantian without him noticing it and became a rusty, ordinary looking metal piece once again.
Luo Cheng tried to bring it out of his dantian multiple times, but it just remained stationary. "I guess i should leave it there for now. Hopefully it doesn't affect my cultivation."
At this time, Luo Cheng found that there were some information that appeared in his mind. There were information about the black metal piece and the strange realm he was brought to by the crimson light.
From the information, Luo Cheng discovered that the black metal piece was one of the parts of an ancient tablet. It was a key to unlocking the God Sealing Rune, an ancient rune used to seal powerful entities in the Primordial era.
There were two pieces of the ancient tablet and when joined together, it produces a map that leads to an Ancient Secret Realm. There was only this information in his mind. How to find the other missing piece of the ancient tablet was not mentioned in the given information.
'I guess finding the other piece in this world would be up to fate then.' Thought Luo Cheng.
"Taking a glance at his sweat soaked robes, Luo Cheng decided to take a bath before he starts refining Alchemy Pills.