342 The Genuine Relics of the Garden of Zhou

The so-called sky was the edge of the space. It did not have weight, so itsfragments were naturally lighter than the lightest leaf. The fragment fellgently towards the grassland, sometimes in the east, and sometimes appearing inthe west hundreds of li away. It was impossible to estimate its trajectory atall. After an unknown amount of time, under the attention of countless terrifiedgazes of despair, the fragment of the sky finally landed. It may have been onpurpose, or it may have been accidental, but it landed perfectly on themountainous Monster Bull. Immediately, the fragment transformed into extremelydazzling white flames, which gave off an endless amount of light and heat. TheMonster Bull gave out a moo of grief and indignation, and disappeared into thewhite flames. Nothing remained of it, not even ash or smoke. The grassland shook violently. In a radius of several li, the monsters allfell onto the ground one after another. The monsters that stuck to the ground,like the dragon serpents, were shaken even more, shaken to the point where theyvomited blood and died. The shaking spread to the area around the mausoleum,and the cracks between the huge rocks and gray stones spat out a lot of dust. The two maids, Ning Qiu and Hua Cui, were shaken awake. They could feel theterrifying explosion of energy in the distance. Their terrified faces werepale, and they did not know what was happening. Nanke closed her eyes, and feltthe crack in the blue sky. She vaguely understood something, and mumbled, “Soit was like that.” Things that were already happening could not be changed. What had to be donewas to find the cause of the matter. Chen Changsheng quickly retracted hisgaze, and looked at the origin of the clear light that had shot into the sky.He discovered that the clear light had been emitted by a stone pillar in frontof the mausoleum. In the surroundings of the mausoleum, there were ten stone pillars that weresimilar in shape. Yesterday, when he and Xu Yourong had arrived in themausoleum, they noticed the stone pillars—the stone pillars were around severaldozen feet in height, and some patterns with unclear meanings were carved onthe surface. With the erosion of time, wind and rain, the patterns had becomevery blurry, making it even more impossible to understand their meanings. He had noticed the ten unremarkable stone pillars because they made him thinkof the stone pillars outside the Li Palace. It was also because when the stonepillars were compared to the grand mausoleum, they seemed overly shabby andunpresentable, giving off a very strong feeling of dissonance. They seemed tonot be qualified for the mausoleum, and were not an integral whole with it atall. Looking at it now, the ten stone pillars that seemed to be unremarkablewere indeed unusual. Such terrifying power was actually hidden within a stonepillar, and the clear light that it had given off was able to shatter and pulloff a fragment of the sky. The fragment of the sky transformed the strong Monster Bull into nothing, andat the same time, it disappeared. The grassland became peaceful again, or inother words, deathly silent. No matter if it was Chen Changsheng, the two maidsor the countless monsters, they could only stare at the stone pillar. There wasan indescribable sense of nervousness and restlessness. Suddenly, a layer of rock fell from the surface of the stone pillar. The layerof rock was around several fingers thick and several inches wide. It shatteredinto many pieces when it landed on the gray stone ground, giving off a softsmash. The sound was very soft, but it seemed very hair-raising in the deathlysilent grassland. The monster tide began to surge, and it was unknown how manymonsters had been frightened and had fallen into the water plants. A while later, another Qi pierced through the surface of the stone pillar. Ittransformed into a clear light, and left the mausoleum without a sound. At that moment, Chen Changsheng felt it. It was an extremely ancient Qi thatwas paramount without equal. The Qi was even older than the continent. Just what were the stone pillars? This time, the clear light did not fly towards the blue sky, and insteadfloated in a tilted and very casual manner towards the edge of the grassland.It was not known where it would fly to before stopping. Countless terrifiedgazes focused on the clear light, as if they were following it with their eyes.They saw the clear light fly over a thousand li away, and were no longer ableto see where it was clearly. After a very long time, there was a muffled sound of collision and a clearrumble. It had originated from the edge of the grassland over a thousand liaway, and spread to the surroundings of the mausoleum. Because of the greatdistance, the muffled sound was not clear. However, the tremble remained asviolent, causing countless water plants to fly up, and the mausoleum to becloaked in dusk once again. The powerful tremble caused Chen Changsheng to stumble. However, his gaze wassteady, and remained focused on the stone pillar. He noticed that another layerof rock had fallen. The stone pillar had experienced the effects of wind and rain, so its surfacewas extremely rough. The color was dark gray, and it seemed like ordinarystone. After the two layers of rock fell off from in front and behind it, theinner part of the stone pillar was revealed. Under the bright sunlight, itcould be seen extremely clearly that it was… black. The Qi from inside the stone pillar continued to pass through the surface anddisperse outwards. It turned into rays of clear light, and danced above thegrassland. It would sometimes land on the sky high up, sometimes on the farawayedge of the grassland, or sometimes on the ground not far away from themausoleum. It would rip the sky, flip the earth and bring terrifying explosions. The rays of clear light contained an extremely terrifying power. It wasunblockable, even if Chen Changsheng had ten thousand swords with him. This wasbecause the Qi that came out of the stone pillars had already far exceeded whathe could understand. It was a power that was not recorded in the Daoist Canon. The world shook. The violent energy exploded and enveloped the entire Plainsof the Unsetting Sun. Although it could not be seen, it could be imagined thatthe rest of the Garden of Zhou was also in such a situation. With the appearance of the rays of clear light, the layers of rock on thestone pillar constantly fell off, shattering under the stone pillar. Itrevealed more and more of the true appearance of the pillar. It was still stoneinside the pillar, but the color was black. It seemed like a patch of mottling,like a book of rubbings that were not done well. Looking at the mottled surface of the stone pillar and the black stone thatwas revealed underneath, Chen Changsheng felt that it was rather familiar forsome reason. Thinking of a certain possibility, the knuckles of his hand that held onto thedagger hilt paled slightly. His body trembled gently, and his lips wereabnormally dry. Before, when he faced up against the Golden-winged Great Peng,he was daring enough to fight it with the dagger in hand, but now, seeing thestone pillars, he seemed to have even lost the courage to draw his dagger. Full of shock, he thought in his heart… impossible. The stone pillar continued to give off clear light. The layers of rockcontinued to fall off without stopping, revealing more and more of the blackthat was inside. The explosions of the violent energies finally met, which turned intocountless terrifying whirlwinds. They began to blow violently and wreak havocin the grassland. Most of the shaking from the surrounding Garden of Zhou traveled to themausoleum, and reached his feet. What was even more terrifying was that the remaining nine stone pillarssurrounding the mausoleum also began to tremble slightly. Layers of rock felloff the stone pillars with cracking sounds, and the terrifying Qi was about toappear. Chen Changsheng held onto the dagger hilt. He knew what he should do, but hedid not know how he could do it. He felt slightly absent-minded. The hilt trembled gently. As it turned out, the ten thousand broken swords were used to suppress thestone pillars. More correctly, they were used to temporarily seal the Qi in thestone pillars. Now, the Sword Sea had been taken by him, so the objects hidden in the tenstone pillars were about to appear. Just what were the stone pillars? Chen Changsheng already guessed it, but he did not dare to believe it. He didnot want to believe it. However, it had already truly happened. A large portion of the layer of rock had already fallen off the stone pillars. A square-shaped black stone slowly appeared before the world. It stood tall and upright between the heavens and the earth. Although there were still a lot of leftover layers of rock on the surface ofthe black stones, complicated lines that were barely comprehensible couldalready be seen. Chen Changsheng obviously felt that it was familiar. It was impossible for anyperson who had stared at it for so many days to not find it familiar. In a mausoleum in the south of the capital, he had once seen many objects thatwere similar to the black stones. There were countless lines on the surface of the black stone. The lines werepatterning and texts. With texts carved onto the square stone, it was naturallya monolith. As it turned out, the black stones were monoliths. Black stone monoliths.