Chapter 636A – Ancient Tree

Powerful fluctuations of aura erupted. Cracks began to appear on the surface of the statues as an oppressive atmosphere descended. It was like mountains falling upon a person’s chest, making it difficult to breathe.

Qin Yu had a dignified expression. He had never tried facing 12 statues at once before. He lifted his hand and the jade box appeared. Opening the lid, the green ‘god water’ was revealed. With a thought, he stimulated it to send out its aura.

Roar –

The walking corpses that were pushed away became restless once more. They moved all around, their formidable strength causing the ground to crack.

The aura of the ‘god water’ was an incomparable temptation to them.

A walking corpse that had its chest blown open and its organs half-hanging out suddenly cried out loud and threw itself forward.

But before it could reach Qin Yu, it screamed out in pain. An invisible hand seemed to grab it in midair, causing it to freeze in place.

Bang –

Its head blew apart!

What followed after was a second, third, and fourth walking corpse…they all rushed forward after suppressing the fear in their hearts. But without exception, all of them were easily killed.

Qin Yu didn’t even turn his head around to look at the walking corpses falling around him. All of his concentration was completely focused on the awakening statues.

If the ‘god water’ wasn’t useful, then facing the encirclement of 12 statues he would only be able to temporarily escape this area.

Luckily, the scene that Qin Yu was worried about didn’t occur. The cracks on the surface of the statues began to appear at an increasingly slow pace before they finally came to a stop. Then, these cracks started to close up. By the time they vanished, the statues had returned to being completely quiet.

Qin Yu didn’t dare to put away the jade box. He stepped forward and raced ahead, passing through the 12 statues and entering the palace gates.

A long shrine appeared in his line of sight. Both sides of the shrine were filled with stone beads. Although they were low-grade, the pure quantity alone made Qin Yu’s heart skip a beat.

They were buried in a thick layer of fallen leaves. Besides a few that were green, most were withered and yellow.

Qin Yu pursed his lips and continued walking towards the shrine. He saw four terrifying statues that were 10,000 feet tall.

They stood two on each side, occupying all cardinal directions of the world. A rich blood red light shined from their eyes. The light converged in midair and scattered downwards, forming an incomparably large imprisoning blood cage.

But now, these four stone statues were all damaged and the blood red imprisonment had several openings cracked open on its surface. Although they weren’t too large, it was enough for a cultivator to freely wander in.

Qin Yu carefully sensed his surroundings. When he didn’t sense anything wrong he flew up until he was just outside one of the cracks.

When he looked in, he stiffened for a moment. His jaw dropped open and a look of shock colored his face.

What was growing within this blood red cage was an incomparably large ancient tree. Its exposed roots twisted around like giant dragons. Its bough that seemed to block out the skies was formed from countless branches. Between the verdant green leaves were blue fruits – these fruits were the key to entering the Sealed Stone World and the treasure that could resist the ‘destruction of will’, they were stone beads!

That’s right, although the color was different, whether it was in appearance or size they completely matched. And most importantly, a thick layer of stone beads had fallen beneath the cover of this ancient heaven-reaching tree…this could no longer be described with numbers alone. Rather, this was a mountain formed of stone beads!

At this time, even Qin Yu’s mind went blank for a moment. He fell into a long period of stunned silence. Within the Sealed Stone World, people struggled and competed for these stone beads to survive, even slaughtering each other for them. But they were actually fruits grown on a large tree. After they matured they fell down beneath this tree. They remained here uncollected, like crushed stones along a river bank.

After a long time, Qin Yu took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He had a sudden impulse just now to immediately rush in and collect all of the stone beads.

If he could rush in and absorb all of them, just how formidable would his will become? Just thinking about that left him shaking in excitement!

“Don’t be anxious! Stand firm, stand firm!” He repeated these words to himself again and again, warning himself to be cautious. Sometime later, he opened his eyes and carefully looked around the ancient heaven-supporting tree and the stone beads that had piled up beneath. Soon, he found something wrong.

Although the ground was stacked with thick layers of dead branches and leaves, the thickness wasn’t even throughout. Some places had withstood some sort of barrage and large pits had formed as a result.

Moreover, the roots that were exposed aboveground were incomplete in some places. They