binnovel Chapter 228
Chapter 228
Although they were very curious about what was inside the coffin, Zhang Qilin stopped them and told them that peeking into the coffin would lead to bad things, so they suppressed their curiosity and did not go forward to check.
"This stone box is so exquisite! Is it carved with dragon patterns?"
Upon entering the ancient building, Zhang Qilin forbade anyone to look at the contents of the coffin, so everyone shifted their attention to other things.
"Dragon pattern?"
Upon hearing the words "dragon pattern," the image of a dragon-patterned stone box suddenly popped into Zhang Hao's mind.
The Zhang family's decline and eventual disintegration were all due to the dragon-patterned stone box incident.
Everyone in the Zhang family shares a belief: immortality.
Inside the dragon-patterned stone box in the ancient building is an immortal baby, who is the faith of the entire Zhang family.
Later, under the instigation of spies from the Wang family, the current Zhang family patriarch could not withstand the pressure from his clansmen and was forced to open the dragon-patterned stone box ahead of schedule.
When the dragon-patterned stone box was opened, there was only a dead infant inside.
The Zhang family patriarch chose to conceal the truth for the sake of his family. He slaughtered everyone who saw the opening of the dragon-patterned stone box, and then found an infant to replace the holy infant in the stone box.
However, the truth eventually came out, and within a few years, the matter of the Holy Infant was exposed.
Upon learning of the Holy Infant's death, the Zhang family's faith crumbled instantly, and they lost all their previous cohesion.
A once-complete family split into several branches, some of which migrated to other places and lost contact with their original family.
Rival families also took this opportunity to suppress the Zhang family.
As a result of this incident, the Zhang family declined completely.
Could this stone box on the shrine be the same dragon-patterned stone box that contained the Zhang family's holy infant?
No one knew better than Zhang Qilin whether or not the stone box with dragon patterns was real.
Because he was the baby chosen to replace the Holy Infant.
Therefore, his childhood was not smooth. If it weren't for the high purity of the Qilin bloodline in his body and the fact that he obtained the clan leader's token, the Soul-Stabilizing Bell, in the ancient city of Sizhou, perhaps...
Zhang Hao snapped out of his daze and noticed that Zhang Qilin was also staring at the stone box on the shrine.
Suddenly, he drew his black gold ancient sword and slashed his palm, creating a foot-long wound that instantly gushed blood.
Zhang Qilin smeared the blood flowing from his wound onto the stone box.
Blood instantly flowed along the dragon patterns on the stone box, and in the next moment it flowed all over the stone box.
The white stone box was covered with bright red patterns.
Suddenly, the stone box flashed red light, and all the blood on it was absorbed and disappeared.
It's as if there's a blood-sucking monster inside the stone box.
Zhang Qilin shook his head upon seeing this: "My blood is not pure enough, it seems I can only use your blood."
Zhang Hao understood Zhang Qilin's meaning. Just like when they entered this place, although his Qilin blood reacted to the stone door, it couldn't be opened. This stone box was in the same situation.
Zhang Hao took out a dagger and made a cut on his palm, letting the blood drip down the wound onto the stone box.
The next stone box then emitted a bright red light. A dazzling red beam of light shot out from the stone box.
"Look! There's an image inside the red light!"
"Holy crap, this is unbelievable! It's just like a holographic projection!"
"Who exactly were your Zhang family ancestors? How did they come to possess such skills?"
Zhang Hao took a few steps back and looked into the red light. He saw that it was like a movie was playing inside, with one scene after another appearing in the red light.
The scene shows a towering mountain range that reaches into the clouds, and within the mountain range appears a dark mass.
The thing was so blurry that its outline was impossible to discern, and no one knew what it was.
Countless human-shaped phantoms could be seen among the rocks of the mountain range, each carrying a corpse.
They threw the body into that black mass.
Whenever a corpse is stolen into the black thing, it grows larger and erodes the rocks in the mountains, turning the originally bluish-gray rocks as black as ink.
As more and more corpses were thrown in, he grew larger and larger, and the area he eroded expanded, soon encroaching on the entire mountain range.
What was once a snow-covered mountain covered in ice and snow has become a dark, lifeless mountain range.
Even after it eroded the entire mountain range, the black mass did not stop moving.
He was able to erode other mountains through underground dragon veins.
The black mass kept growing, first a mountain range, then two mountain ranges, and then an entire region.
Everything that originally lived in this area, whether human or animal, died instantly, their flesh and blood drained away.
Wherever that black thing passed, everything became pitch black, devoid of all life, like a living hell.
As he traveled further and further, more and more people lost their lives.
He said that wherever he went would be the end of the world, and people would have nowhere to escape.
It wasn't until two powerful families emerged and used bronze to build bronze gates underground to block the dragon vein that the black aura was finally stopped.
Zhang Hao noticed that the black thing did not cause any changes when it absorbed the corpses of ordinary people or animals.
It only expands when the phantom in the stone transports a corpse and throws it in.
This easily leads one to believe that the phantom was transporting the corpses of the Zhang and Wu families.
If that's the case, then the shadowy figure must be the so-called god.
He was actually a mass of black energy that could expand infinitely, and the condition for him to expand and grow was to feed the corpses of the Zhang and Wu families.
No wonder he was determined to find the Zhang and Wu families even if it meant traveling the world.
Without their corpses, this god cannot grow, and is thus trapped in one place forever.
At this point, the red light abruptly stopped, and then with a "click," the stone box opened, bringing everyone back to their senses.
What exactly is that black thing?
"He has managed to conquer countless mountain ranges and spread his influence through underground dragon veins. The footage shows that he has already invaded at least a million square kilometers of land!"
"I never imagined that the appearance of those no-man's-lands was because of him!"
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Everyone who saw the scene was shocked by the power possessed by that mass of black energy.
No life could escape him wherever he went.
Its enormous size far exceeds imagination; it is a collection of thousands of massive mountain ranges.
Zhang Hao originally thought that with his current strength, even if a god couldn't kill him, he would still be able to protect himself.
But after seeing the face of God in the picture, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
With his current strength, it would be impossible for him to destroy a mountain range; he wouldn't even dare to dream of it.
However, God is as vast as thousands of mountains.
But Zhang Hao isn't someone who gives up so easily.
Moreover, he now possesses the All Things Fusion System, a system with an extremely high limit. As long as there is no life, it can even fuse with a planet.
With enough effort, one day he will be able to defeat that god with a single punch and completely resolve the troubles between the Zhang and Wu families.