"What place is this?" Pang Ye regained consciousness. It was pitch black all around, with not a single ray of light.
"Click... click..." Pang Ye struggled to get up. His whole body was devoid of strength. But as soon as he got up, a strange sound emanated from his body. What was that sound?
It was the sound of bones rubbing against each other!
Pang Ye's heart jolted. A very ominous feeling welled up in his heart. To confirm his suspicion, Pang Ye stretched out both hands and touched his own body. The next moment, extreme fear pervaded his heart. Pang Ye wanted to scream out loud, but he couldn't make even the slightest sound in his throat.
"Click... click..." Clear sounds echoed in the boundless darkness. Pang Ye was stunned. How had he become a skeleton? Was he dead?
Pang Ye sat down again, and his thoughts became active. He was the renowned First War God of the Celestial Realm. During the war when the Demon Realm invaded the Celestial Realm, he had fought the Great Demon King Ovan for three days and three nights. In the end... in the end, he had been secretly attacked by someone, and then he had lost consciousness. Until now when he woke up, what on earth had happened?
Who had plot against him? If he was really dead, then why had he become a skeleton? And why had he been resurrected again?
What on earth was going on? Who could tell him? Pang Ye's mind went crazy. No one could stay calm in such a situation, because it was just too strange and beyond comprehension.
I don't know how much time had passed. Pang Ye raised his head. There were only two empty holes left where his eyes used to be. Pang Ye also didn't know where he was, whether it was day or night at the moment, and what he should do.
Just then, Pang Ye suddenly heard a faint sound. Although he couldn't see anything, Pang Ye still walked forward without hesitation. "Click... click..."
With a crisp "bang" sound, Pang Ye bumped into something that blocked his way. He reached out his hand to feel it. It was a hard stone wall. His finger bones gently slid across the surface of the wall. There was a depression in front, which seemed to be a door. Pang Ye exerted some strength, but he couldn't budge it even a little bit. He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He, the prestigious War God of the Celestial Realm, had such high cultivation. Now he couldn't even do anything about a stone wall. It was really ridiculous.
The sound was exactly coming from outside the stone wall. Because of the separation of the stone wall, the sound was already very faint. Pang Ye pressed closely against the stone wall to listen and could vaguely hear something.
"Ziyi, hurry up. This place seems to be an ancient tomb. Let's quickly find the entrance and go in. I hope we can avoid that pack of wolves." A man's voice sounded, anxiously.
"An ancient tomb. I'm scared." The woman's voice trembled a little as she spoke.
"Ziyi, what time is it now? If you're afraid, then there's only a dead end. If we hide in the ancient tomb, maybe there's still a glimmer of hope for survival. Hurry up and find the entrance. It's getting dark now, and the wolves will come out soon. These beasts will follow our scent and find us. Do you want to be torn apart by them? If not, then hurry up and find it."
"Okay, I'll look. Why are you being so fierce?"
"Sorry, Ziyi. I'm just in a hurry. After all, there are only the two of us left. We must survive."
"Alright, let's look together."
After the two of them finished speaking, a sound of groping came from outside. Presumably, they were looking for the entrance to the ancient tomb.
After hearing the conversation between the two, Pang Ye knew that he was now in an ancient tomb. An ancient tomb? It seemed that he was really dead, and he had been dead for a considerable period of time. He didn't know what the final result of the God-Demon War was. Did the army of the Demon Realm retreat or was the army of the Celestial Realm unable to withstand them?
No! The army of the Celestial Realm is invincible! But he couldn't see it now.
Pang Ye sat down leaning against the stone wall, making a "click" sound, which was quite loud, but it had already become very faint through the stone wall. However, in the silent night, the man still heard a little of it. He let out a cry of surprise and whispered, "Ziyi, did you just hear any sound?"
The woman was obviously puzzled by the man's behavior and said, "Sound? We're looking for the entrance, so of course there will be some sound made."
"No, it's not the sound we made. I just heard another sound."
"What? Don't lie to me. I'm really scared." The woman said in a trembling voice.
"I really heard it."
...
At this moment, Pang Ye calmed down and thought of many things. The Supreme Hongmeng Celestial Lord of the Celestial Realm had a cultivation level that had reached the limit of the sixth rank of the Divine Realm. He didn't know if he had made a breakthrough now and reached the Emperor Realm. There was also his good brother, and his vice-general, Mie Zhan. Just thinking of Mie Zhan, Pang Ye couldn't help but smile. He was a typical battle-loving person, and his cultivation was second only to his own. Moreover, he was extremely loyal to him. They had fought everywhere, and he didn't know how he was now.
Finally, Pang Ye thought of the most important woman in his life, the Fairy Lingbo. She was the daughter of the Hongmeng Celestial Lord. Thinking of her beauty and tenderness, Pang Ye's cold heart couldn't help but warm up a little. Although he was just a skeleton now and had no heart left, that feeling was very real. Did she know that he was dead? Would she be sad?
There were also the Heavenly Soldiers he led, a hundred thousand strong, who had fought everywhere for the Celestial Realm and had never been defeated. Especially in the God-Demon War, they were invincible and made the Demon Army tremble with fear. If it weren't for the fact that the Demon Realm had four Great Demon Kings in command, he would have already led the hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers to defeat the Demon Army and charged into the Demon Realm. It was a pity that he had been secretly attacked. However, his good brother Mie Zhan definitely wouldn't let him die in vain. With his personality, he would definitely go on a rampage and kill everywhere, which was why he had the title of "Slayer God".
I don't know how much time had passed. Pang Ye was awakened by a loud sound. At the same time, the stone wall behind his back shook a little and moved slightly. Outside the stone wall, the man's excited voice came, "Ziyi, I've found the entrance. Come quickly. It turns out there's a mechanism here. I just pushed this protruding stone, and this stone door moved. Hahaha, we'll be safe soon."
"Really? That's great. Hurry up and open the door. Let's go in and take shelter for the night, and then find a way out tomorrow."
Then the stone wall shook violently, making a series of "rumbling" sounds. The stone wall slowly moved to the side.
Pang Ye quickly got up and stepped back. He didn't want to be discovered by others, especially now that he had lost all his divine power and was extremely weak. He simply couldn't deal with them, so it was better to avoid them. Moreover, he could continue to listen to them talk about some things outside and let himself know about the current world.
Groping his way back to the place where he had been lying for I don't know how long, there was a depression there. In the dark, he should not be discovered by them, because he had heard them say that it was already night, not daytime.
Not long after Pang Ye lay down, with a loud "rumbling" sound, the stone door opened. The two of them rushed in quickly, and then the stone door closed automatically. Then came the two of them's heavy gasping sounds, because there had been the faint howling of wolves just now.
"That was so close. We almost died." The woman said in a hurried voice.
"Yes. It seems we're really lucky. I didn't expect that out of our group of more than twenty people, only the two of us are left. Curiosity really kills people. If we hadn't insisted on entering this ancient dense forest at the beginning, this wouldn't have happened."
"Xue Hua, Chen Xiangdong, Liu Qianqian... They're all dead. Wuwu." Thinking of her teammates being killed by the fierce wolves one by one, the woman couldn't help but cry softly.
"Stop crying. We didn't want this to happen either." The man comforted the woman softly.
The two of them were holding a flashlight. They found a flat place to sit down and talked in a low voice. And the place where they sat was just in the front left corner of where Pang Ye was, not far away, about five meters.
"Xu Feng, what do you think we should say when we go back? So many people died." Fang Ziyi, that was the woman, said in a low tone.
Xu Feng smiled bitterly and said, "What else can we say? Just tell the truth."
"Sigh. There's no other way. We shouldn't have come here in the first place. If we hadn't encountered this dense forest, we wouldn't have come in, and the things that happened later wouldn't have happened either."
"What's the use of saying these things now? If we had known this would happen, why did we do it in the first place?"
Not far away, Pang Ye listened to the two of them talking, but he couldn't understand it at all. Where were the demons? Where were the gods? They didn't mention them at all. Could it be that this was the Human Realm?
"Anyway, we shouldn't have organized the exploration team in the first place. Then none of this would have happened."
"Okay, stop talking. There's an ancient tomb here, which is very strange. How about we check it out around here?" Xu Feng said with interest.
"Hmph. You still want to explore at this time? Do you still want something else to happen?" Fang Ziyi said a little angrily.
"Anyway, we have nothing else to do sitting here. And we've been in here for a long time. If there was really any danger, it would have happened already. So this place must be very safe. Moreover, this dense forest is very ancient. Do you think the ancient tomb hidden in the depths of the dense forest would be ordinary? Maybe we'll really have some unexpected gains?" Xu Feng continued to persuade without giving up.
It seemed that Fang Ziyi thought what Xu Feng said made sense, and she didn't insist anymore. But she was so physically and mentally exhausted now that she didn't want to move at all. So she said, "I'm very tired. If you're interested, you can look for it yourself. I want to take a rest."
"Okay then. You take a rest. I'll look around." After saying that, Xu Feng turned on the flashlight, and the faint light shone into the dark space.
After the bloody battle last night and the whole day of fear today, Fang Ziyi was already extremely tired at this moment. So she quickly fell into a drowsy sleep.
Xu Feng, on the other hand, was shining the flashlight and wandering around the ancient tomb, hoping to find something of value. Suddenly, Xu Feng saw a skeleton. In this silent night and in an ancient tomb, imagine how strange it was to see a skeleton.
"Ah," Xu Feng let out a scream. His right hand trembled, and the flashlight fell to the ground with a soft sound. The faint light disappeared. Obviously, the flashlight was broken, and the surroundings immediately fell into darkness.
"What's going on?" Fang Ziyi, who was awakened by Xu Feng's scream, quickly asked.
"I, I saw a skeleton."
"Ah, a skeleton? Where is it? Don't scare me." Fang Ziyi was after all a girl. How could she not be afraid when she heard there was a skeleton here?
"It's not far away. But don't worry. It's just a dead person." Xu Feng was a man, and his immunity to these things was stronger than that of a girl. After the initial shock, he quickly regained his composure. He picked up the flashlight on the ground and tapped it twice. There was no light. It was broken.
"The flashlight is broken."
Just then, the sound of "click... click..." rang out. It was particularly loud in the silent night. In an instant, the hearts of Xu Feng and Fang Ziyi seemed to fall into an ice cave, turning completely cold. Infinite fear surrounded them, making them almost faint.
Was the skeleton alive?