Asura Mad Emperor-Chapter 725: Blood Moon Anomaly

Qinchuan was very curious about what treasure was contained within this jade box.

Immediately, he employed various methods, attempting to open it.

However, the box was guarded by strong prohibitions, and no matter what approach Qinchuan used, the box remained unyielding.

Even when he used a divine artifact to chop at it, his efforts were thwarted by a mysterious force of prohibition, leaving no mark on the box.

"Enough, I'll keep it first and discuss later. Since it's something even ancient Demon Race powerhouses cared a lot about, it must have a significant origin!"

Muttering to himself, Qinchuan was about to put the jade box away.

At that moment, he sensed another disturbance emanating from within the Dao Lotus space.

"Hmm?"

"What does this fellow want to do?"

Just as Qinchuan was about to stow away the jade box, the divine corpse, which had been calm and still in the Dao Lotus space, suddenly took the initiative to tear through the Dao Lotus and emerge from the space.

This headless ancient corpse that had run out from the wall of the Spirit Martial Great Tomb had found its head in the Dao Palace Tomb and had then fused with a heart of the Divine Race.

Afterward, it laid quietly in the Dao Lotus space, no different from an ordinary dead body.

Unexpectedly, it ran out again at this time.

The ancient corpse snatched the jade box from Qinchuan's hands.

Afterward, it began performing a seal gesture, and its withered arm formed a complicated golden mark in the void.

"This fellow? Could he possibly know the method to open this box?" Qinchuan's pupils shrank as he thought.

At the same time, he became even more curious about the origins of this divine corpse.

Sure enough, as the golden mark was fully formed, the corpse's dry hand shook slightly, and the golden mark was pressed into the box.

"Hum!"

The jade box, which he had failed to open using all sorts of methods, suddenly opened on its own, with the Immortal Mist enshrouding it, revealing its content.

"Is this... a stone?!"

As Qinchuan got a clear view of the item in the box, he couldn't help but feel puzzled once more.

Within this jade box, which looked mysterious and enigmatic, lay a completely ordinary-looking stone.

This stone, although it appeared extremely strange, had no trace of spiritual power or Qi emanating from it; if it were thrown into a river, it would be indistinguishable from common stones.

From afar, it seemed even less precious than the jade box it was inside.

However.

When he reached out to pick up the stone, he finally understood that this stone was anything but ordinary.

"Primordial Stone! This is called a Primordial Stone!"

At that moment, as his skin came into contact with the stone, the name unknowingly flashed across his mind.

This was not due to someone whispering in secret, nor a powerful being guiding him from the shadows; it just suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Primordial Stone, what is this thing?"

Qinchuan pondered in his mind for a long time, certain he had never heard this name before.

"Never mind that now. Since it's an item of the Demon Race and has even drawn the attention of this unnamed divine corpse, it must have some use."

In the end, Qinchuan stored both the Primordial Stone and the divine corpse within the Dao Lotus.

Lastly, Qinchuan searched the bottom of the pond with one punch and did not find any other supreme treasures.

As for the alluring demon corpse, although it was a Demon Race corpse, because it looked no different from a member of the Human Race, he ultimately decided against obtaining materials from her body.

...

The Holy Pond.

Five mysterious individuals wearing silver masks were collecting a mysterious kind of stone called Stellar Stone from the bottom of the Holy Pond.

What were called Stellar Stones were actually fragments of stone twinkling with splendid light.

Their faces were each inlaid with red, golden, yellow, white, and green Divine Stones, corresponding to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

"Third junior brother, how's the progress!"

The person with the silver mask inlaid with a golden Divine Stone spoke up at this moment.

The third junior brother was the man wearing a yellow mask, holding a Bronze Vessel in his hands, from which divine radiance poured forth in waves.

The Stellar Fragments they had collected were placed within it.

"How strange, we are still one piece short!" The third junior brother shook his head, "We now have nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine pieces, one short of completing the task. But I've searched the entire Holy Pond, it's completely empty now, with no Stellar Stones left."

"Do you think, could there only be one hundred thousand Stellar Stones inside the Holy Pond?"

Just then, a weak voice sounded as the girl with a mask inlaid with a cyan Divine Stone spoke up.

"One hundred thousand pieces?" The second senior brother and the third junior brother frowned and whispered, "The master did not specify how many Stellar Stones were there, but he asked us to collect one hundred thousand. Could it really be such a coincidence?"

Third junior brother continued, "Moreover, even if there were exactly one hundred thousand, we are still one piece short now, aren't we?"

It was at this moment that the man wearing a fiery red Divine Stone mask spoke, his voice deep, "No need to search anymore, let's go!"

The second, third, and fourth junior brothers were taken aback, not understanding, "Eldest senior brother, are we not looking for the last Divine Stone?"

"I know where it is!" The eldest senior brother had already sprung to his feet, heading away from the Holy Pond.

Leaving behind three puzzled people.

"Um, senior brothers, the little sister might have made a mistake..."

At this point, the younger junior sister timidly mentioned how Wu Xin Fairy had snatched a Stellar Stone from the center of the Holy Pond.

Originally, she thought that the Holy Pond had an endless number of Stellar Stones, so Wu Xin Fairy taking one wouldn't matter much.

But now, it turned out to be precisely that one stolen by Wu Xin Fairy that prevented them from completing their task.

...

The third junior brother put the Bronze Vessel into his space as he left the Holy Pond.

Meanwhile, far at the exit of the Ancient Realm, Qinchuan had also left the deep pool, returning to the shore.

"Eh... Why is the blood moon growing darker?"

Just as Qinchuan returned to the surface, he keenly noticed this.

The blood moon, originally hanging high in the sky of this Ancient Realm, had begun to grow dim.

Although the change was extremely slight, it still caught Qinchuan's attention.

As the moonlight dimmed, not only did Qinchuan notice, more and more cultivators were also becoming aware of the anomaly.

"Why is the moon in this world growing darker?"

"Could it be that a calamity is about to descend again?"

Some recalled the meteorites that fell for ten consecutive days when the Ancient Realm had just opened, and they couldn't help but turn pale, with many cultivators already digging deep holes again, ready to hide from the disaster.

But as time went on, the brightness of this blood moon eventually stopped at about half of its original brightness.

Seeing that nothing unusual happened, many cultivators finally relaxed and came out from the depths of the earth.

What the cultivators did not know, however,

Was that as the blood moon in this Ancient Realm grew dimmer, in the Underworld on the other side of the Barrier,

That blood moon suspended high in the sky was getting brighter and brighter.

In the Underworld where there were originally blood, gold, and silver moons, all dim like faint soul lamps,

The blood moon had suddenly brightened one day.

Finally, on this day, the brightness of this blood moon reached its peak and completely stabilized.

If Qinchuan had entered the Underworld at this time, he would have discovered,

That while the blood moon in the Ancient Realm had become dim, the blood moon in the Underworld was now as bright as the original blood moon in the Ancient Realm had been.