Chapter 512: The Mysterious Underground Palace

Xiao Fan hurried along according to the location Qiao Rong had given him.

He didn't even need to think to know that something must have happened to Qiao Rong and the others.

Xiao Jin's speed was now incredibly fast. As he galloped along, he caused quite a stir across the Secret Realm's terrain.

Now that the Golden-Haired Lion had advanced to a Rank 4 Yao Beast, the aura it emitted was thick and terrifying, striking fear into the weaker Yao Beasts they encountered along the way, making them dare not provoke it.

One day later…

Xiao Fan didn't know how many miles he had traveled, but he finally reached the location Qiao Rong had provided.

"This place is…"

Xiao Fan looked around, his expression filled with shock.

Before him was a massive underground palace. Half of it was buried in yellow earth, yet it exuded a terrifying aura…

"Is it here?" Xiao Fan looked into the underground palace.

The interior was pitch black. Even with Xiao Fan's current half-step Profound Dan cultivation, he still couldn't see the situation inside.

There was only darkness…

Xiao Fan exhaled and glanced at his communication jade slip.

"I can't reach her anymore…" Xiao Fan's face looked grim. Ever since Qiao Rong sent him that message, he hadn't been able to contact her.

Although the Golden-Haired Lion had advanced to a Rank 4 Yao Beast, its courage was still as small as ever. Sensing danger within the palace, it kept backing away…

"Coward, get in there." Xiao Fan patted the lion's head.

"Wuuu… scared…" Xiao Jin trembled. Yao Beasts were born with powerful perception and were extremely sensitive to danger.

Xiao Jin sensed an incredibly terrifying danger coming from within this underground palace…

In truth, Xiao Fan knew it himself without Xiao Jin having to say anything.

When he and Xiao Jin had entered within a hundred miles of the palace, they hadn't seen even a shadow of a living creature.

This showed just how terrifying this underground palace was.

At the same time, Xiao Fan was curious: why would Qiao Rong and the others enter such a place?

"Let's go!"

Xiao Jin naturally couldn't win against Xiao Fan and braced itself to charge inside.

Xiao Fan didn't continue riding Xiao Jin, opting to walk instead.

The underground palace was pitch black and extremely eerie. With Xiao Fan's current strength, even the dead of night shouldn't have affected his vision, but this palace suppressed it.

A ball of fire appeared in Xiao Fan's right hand, illuminating several hundred meters around him.

Xiao Jin shivered as it followed behind Xiao Fan…

As the dark palace was lit by the flames, Xiao Fan saw various ancient paintings carved onto the surrounding walls…

"This… this is…"

Xiao Fan examined the ancient paintings. They featured many symbols that looked like script, but they were characters Xiao Fan had never seen before.

He continued forward…

Looking at the ancient paintings on the palace walls, some depicted various Yao Beasts. Xiao Fan had never seen most of these beasts, nor had he even heard descriptions of them…

"Could these be beings from ancient myths? Like the True Dragon or Phoenix?"

Xiao Fan was shocked as a possibility occurred to him, because the records in these ancient paintings were simply too sensational.

A massive, long dragon was depicted with lifelike detail…

In one ancient painting on the stone wall, there was a bright sun in the sky, yet next to it was a Yao Beast several times larger than the sun, blotting out the sky in a terrifying manner…

"Could these be scenes from the Primordial Era?" Xiao Fan was shaken, feeling more and more that this underground palace was anything but simple.

In fact, the Secret Realm itself was not simple, and this underground palace was even more extraordinary.

Xiao Fan took in all the ancient paintings along the way, and the sight left him so stunned he was speechless.

He even felt like staying there to properly study these ancient paintings.

However, he didn't have the time. Qiao Rong's previous plea for help proved that she was certainly in danger.

Xiao Fan continued forward. Xiao Jin had no interest in the ancient paintings and kept shivering…

Xiao Fan didn't know how far or how long he had been walking inside…

After entering this place, the surrounding pitch-black darkness caused him to lose all sense of time.

"Has it been two hours?"

Xiao Fan estimated the time. It was a very unpleasant feeling; in the dark passage of the underground palace, there was only a single ball of fire providing light.

The ancient paintings on the walls continued without end…

They were carved with all sorts of unheard-of living beings…

Finally, after Xiao Fan had walked for about another two hours, he finally saw something different.

Ahead was a massive stone gate…

"This… it's so big."

The size of the stone gate astounded Xiao Fan. The mountain gate of the Jixian Sect was imposing enough, but this stone gate was even more terrifying…

Xiao Fan didn't know how long he had been traveling through the underground palace, but he couldn't even see how high this massive stone gate reached.

On either side of the massive stone gate were two stone beast statues…

The stone beast statues were enormous, standing hundreds of feet tall and carved with lifelike precision.

Xiao Fan didn't recognize these two types of Yao Beasts and had never seen them before, but judging by their appearance, if such beasts existed, they would surely be world-shakingly terrifying.

"Wuuu… scared…" Xiao Jin growled lowly, terrified to the point that its limbs were trembling.

Xiao Fan exhaled. "Useless…"

Though he said that, he was actually a bit afraid himself. This underground palace was incredibly creepy.

"Qiao Rong said this is a tomb… What kind of person could be buried here? Could it… really be an Immortal?" Xiao Fan muttered to himself. He tried to contact Qiao Rong, but he couldn't reach her at all.