Chapter 661 The Elder Of Veritable Demon Sect


    Austin stepped on the altar to collect those spiritual energy crystals, when a sudden dizziness


    overpowered him. For the next few moments, the whole world around him seemed to sway before his


    eyes as if he was caught in a mist whirling slowly.


    ''Is it... Is it a teleportation array?'' Austin wondered. Everything around him seemed to be swirling and


    he was unable to keep a clear head.


    Trying hard to focus, Austin suddenly realized that the whole altar was actually a teleportation array,


    and he had identally activated it.


    Austin groaned inwardly at this fact. His doubts seemed true as the altar looked very ancient. Quite


    understandably no one had ever talked about it or knew its story since it was deserted from a long time


    ago. He was worried. God only knew where this array was taking him.


    Austin couldn''t ignore his fear of the unknown. Even though he was a powerful cultivator, he still got


    butterflies in his stomach while he was being transported. The idea of not knowing where he wouldnd


    terrified him. He could only wish that his destination would not be a dangerous ce.


    For moments which seemed like forever, he kept spinning and shaking. Finally hended on his feet


    and regained his bnce.


    Just when he was back to his senses, the passageway of the teleportation array whooshed and closed


    behind him. Now there seemed to be no way for him to go back. Austin sighed and looked ahead. He


    found that he was in a dark and spooky ce, which was enveloped with an eerie green light. This


    seemed no ce for the living. There was a strange cold wind blowing incessantly. Ghastly cries and


    screams seemed to being from the distance. Austin shuddered listening to those voices and


    feeling the vibes he got from the ce.


    ''Damn it!'' he cursed in his mind. ''Don''t tell me, I''ve been brought to hell.''


    He felt utterly ufortable and apprehensive.


    "Where are we now, master?"


    Violet''s voice rose in Austin''s Soul Sea. Although she was kept in the Illusion Bead, she could sense


    almost everything happening outside. She was eager to know where they had been brought by the


    teleportation array.


    "I don''t have a clue," Austin replied. "Don''te out now. You are not strong enough," he added.


    Austin moved around and took a good look at the ce.


    The light was quite dim, barely bright enough to let Austin see things around. He paid attention to the


    surrounding and realized that it was filled with vital energy, and the density was incredibly high. It was


    high to the extent that it started to form white clouds and spread around like thick floating cotton.


    "Gee, this is strange!


    I bet there is more vital energy than air in this ce,"


    Austin eximed in surprise.


    He had been to many ces in the Prime Martial World, but none of them had held this amount of vital


    energy. He had never been to anywhere which could bepared to the ce where he had just


    It was quite clear that no medicinal pills or even vital energy crystals were needed if one wished to


    improve his cultivation base here. All he had to do was to absorb as much vital energy as possible from


    there, and wait for the breakthrough to happen.


    It was truly an ideal ce for practicing and refining if one didn''t care about its weird atmosphere.


    Austin unleashed his spiritual sense to go as far as it could so that he could investigate more about the


    mysterious ce. After a while, a look of surprise came over his face.


    He was getting more ideas about this strange ce. First, there was vital energy in literally every


    corner of the ce, like air which filled a balloon.


    Second, it seemed to be an isted and closed space which was about the size of a town. It was about


    100 kilometers long and 100 kilometers wide, which by no means was a small area.


    Besides, there were thick stone walls standing on the edge of that ce. There were also stones about


    a dozen meters above Austin''s head which made up the ceiling. When he looked down, he realized


    that the floor too was made of the same kind of stones. It was strange but it seemed to him like he was


    standing in a huge box of stones.


    A stone box about the size of a town. This was really mysterious!


    The next thing he discovered was that the ce was guarded by various dangerous spell formations,


    restrictions and traps, which gave off a smell of hidden force and killing intent. One would have to face


    ruthless and horrible attacks if one unfortunately touched them.


    Thest thing he found there was terribly creepy. It gave him shivers. There were arge number of


    coffins ced in the stony space. They were scattered around like stars in the dark night sky, but in a


    spine-chilling way.


    One by one, and row after row, there were coffins of huge size. These coffins were ced on the cold


    ground. It would be fair to say that the ce was densely packed with those coffins. All those countless


    coffins.


    But that wasn''t the end of it all. There were other things too. The ground beside the coffins was littered


    with bones, probably it would be right to say there were skeletons. The flesh had already dropped from


    them and rotted. Clothes that once covered them had now turned into dust, except for a few stranded,


    tattered pieces clinging onto the bones.


    From the look of them all, Austin could make out that those skeletons belonged to people who had died


    there a long time ago. Most of them were still in their skeletal shape, but one could imagine that they


    had long been weathered. The slightest touch would crumble the bones into powder.


    Piles of bleached human bones scattering on the ground, tens of thousands of huge coffins lying


    silently were enough to give anyone the chills. None of these lifeless things made any sound. The


    whole space was filled with the air of death. Standing among these filled Austin with uneasiness and


    even depression. He suddenly felt like he no longer belonged to the living world.


    Feeling out of ce, he looked more carefully at his surroundings and observed that those coffins were


    of different weird shapes and colors. That added to the eeriness of the ce.


    Now Austin understood what exactly created the horrible, "ghostly" atmosphere that he felt when he


    had set foot there after being teleported by the array. With so many dead things around, the air would


    be cold and spooky. There was not a trace of life.


    Austin reflected how the dense vital energy was not the only strange thing in this ce. There was the


    looming shadow of death, cast by all the bones and coffins.


    It was literally a huge and secluded tomb. A tomb whererge amounts of vital energy was enclosed in


    the shroud of death. These two coexisted and achieved a perfect but rming bnce.


    Slowly, Austin gathered some vital energy to wrap himself up. He was trying to protect himself from any


    potential attacks. He looked around, and his eyes fell on the nearest coffin. Carefully he walked


    towards it. He needed to find out more about it.


    Soon, he found himself standing in front of the big and spooky eternity box.


    He was surprised to find that the lid of the coffin had been left unlocked. For some reason, he didn''t


    expect it to be sealed with any nails. Slowly and carefully, he released a rather gentle vital force to


    remove the lid. It moved. Discreetly, he lifted the lid up and ced it down on the floor, making the


    slightest sound possible.


    Having done that, Austin took a deep breath. The hair on the back of his neck rose, as he was


    strangely nervous. He didn''t know why, but instinctively he had a sense that he was in dire crisis in this


    dead space.


    He got closer to the open coffin and looked into it. His heart was pounding harder in his chest. There it


    was! The dead body of a middle-aged man lying peacefully in the box. It was well-dressed. Looking at


    the body, Austin thought that the man might not have been very old when he died.


    He raised his eyebrows in thought. ''Who was he?'' He wondered and looked for more details to figure it


    out. Just then, a small jade badge caught his attention. It was ced on the chest of the body, and had


    a little dust on its surface.


    Some words seemed to be engraved on it. Austin tried to read the words but it was not easy for him.


    Intrigued, Austin reached out and took the jade badge out of the coffin.


    He held his breath as he pulled the badge up as gently as he could. He didn''t want his gentle pull to


    disturb the ancient corpse.


    But that wasn''t to happen! No sooner had the jade badge left the body than Austin heard a small


    crackle.


    The next thing he knew, the exquisite clothes that had been covering the body crumbled to dust. That


    was not all. The skeleton copsed and reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye as if a hidden bomb


    had exploded within.


    Austin was stunned. For a moment, he didn''t dare to move. He was left shocked by what he had seen.


    Like other dead bodies in that ce, the one he had seen crumble, had spent ages in darkness and


    be fragile. Naturally, it would turn to dust by the slightest touch or disturbance.


    Austin turned himself away to avoid the bone dust that was filling up the air. He started to examine the


    jade badge carefully.


    As expected, a few words were carved on it. They were too small but still recognizable.


    Austin read it to himself. It said, "Here lies the third Elder of the Veritable Demon Sect, Eddie". Austin


    could read the date of his death that was engraved below the name.


    ''Veritable Demon Sect?''


    Austin read those words again. The name rang a bell. He hade across it somewhere.


    Suddenly, he remembered that Marwell had once mentioned to him about the Veritable Demon Sect


    when he was introducing all the sects of the Heavenly Dragon Holy Kingdom to him.


    Marwell had said that the Veritable Demon Sect was good at transforming human bodies to great


    strengths and make ferocious men. Those men could be as strong and cruel as beasts, and death was


    what could be expected if they were in on you in a fight.


    Thus, the Veritable Demon Sect was known as the factory of formidable transformed humans in the


    Heavenly Dragon Holy Kingdom.


    And the fact that it was one of the five top sects in that kingdom meant that it had lived up to its name.


    It was not just stories and myths, they indeed must have been so powerful to leave a mark in the


    kingdom.


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    "That''s strange! Howe the Elder of the Veritable Demon Sect wasid to rest here?


    What exactly is this ce?"


    Questions whirled in Austin''s mind after he read those words on the jade badge.


    He looked at it again. This time his eyes were focusing on the date of the Elder''s death. He was able to


    make out something. After a simple calction, he was shocked to the core.


    From what was written on the badge, and if he was not mistaken, the so-called third Elder of the


    Veritable Demon Sect had died seven hundred years ago!