Chapter 58
Chapter 58 – The skeletons in the cave
Translated by Sunyancai
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Perhaps it was because of the existence of the king stone worm, but up to now, the only creature Shao Xuan encountered was the insect which dragged him away earlier. All the rest of the other creatures and worms seemed to have disappeared.
Probably all those eyeless spiders and other worms hid in their dens since the king stone worm woke up and took a walk around.
As for the insect which was just beheaded by Shao Xuan, perhaps it was just too anxious to take revenge.
If that was true, perhaps Shao Xuan should go back to the three-forked crossing and choose a new path?
Never mind. Shao Xuan shook his head, and continued to follow the intuition. It was very strange and weird in this mountain.
Shao Xuan glanced over those four skeletons and their stoneware, and then his sight focused on the skeleton in the middle.
There was a bone ornament in front of his chest. Shao Xuan did not know what kind of bone it was made from, but it had a brighter color than any of the skeletons in Shao Xuan’s special view.
Ever since he had obtained that special capability, Shao Xuan had given serious thought and done much research about the special view. In his special view, different warriors of different level had bones of different colors. For instance, junior warriors had pale gray skeletons, while intermediate warriors had white skeletons. For senior warriors, such as the Chief Ao, he had bright white skeletons. However, right now, all those four skeletons were in the color of bright white. Although they were in different shades, it was true that they were all quite advanced warriors. Among them, the one in the middle had the brightest color. But even so, these four skeletons could never be compared with the bone ornament.
But that wasn’t the most important thing he had observed.
The thing that caught Shao Xuan’s undivided attention was a ball beset in the bone ornament. It was no bone, but it lit up the surroundings like a light bulb, which created the light cover that Shao Xuan saw earlier.
Once again, he switched the view and withdrew his special ability. This time he tried to look at it with the normal view, only to find that it was still nothing but darkness, with no trace of light. However, when he used his special ability to see, he noticed that the ball was as bright as always, and the light it created enveloped the surroundings into its cover.
With a little more observation, Shao Xuan also found that unlike the other three skeletons, the skeleton in the middle was the most complete one in good condition. The others had sunk into the ground to some extent. The things that were located closer to the edge of the light cover sank deeper into the ground.
In the range of the light cover, some scattered stoneware could also be seen. They were all made out of fine stones, but some of them had already submerged under the ground with only parts of them still above to be seen.
However, outside the range of the light cover, Shao Xuan had not seen any stoneware, skeletons, or bones.
This mountain was ‘eating’ people. Not only people, it was “eating” other things as well. If the insect killed by Shao Xuan wasn’t eaten by other creatures, it’s remains probably would also be swallowed by the mountain gradually.
In fact, this mountain had “eaten” a lot, for instance, the long-lost humans, dead worms or insects, and other things in here. Aside from those caves and tunnels, nothing had been left.
However, even after hundreds of years, the warriors and stoneware in the range of that light cover could be preserved up to today, because of the lighting ball.