Chapter 242.

If this scene in front of him wasn’t really too frightening, the one-armed old man wouldn’t have believed that the trickster assembly in front of him was awake.
He was even a bit skeptical if he had been inside this black palace for so long that he had already hallucinated.
Creeps were not conscious of living beings, and this was the same whether it was in the ancient times or today’s times.
Even the smallest one of the eerie existed without any consciousness, and even the most powerful person could not change the eerie.
If they could really change it, I’m afraid that many of the things they did in the past would have been unnecessary.
For example, going to death to seal the rift, then the psychic space piled up with death, and even this one relief sculpture condensed from the bones of past sages.
But now, with the facts in front of them, there was no way for the one-armed old man not to believe it.
After being stunned, the one-armed old man was also quick to react, with a hint of fire in his eyes, saying, “What exactly did you do to make the Guile Gathering regain consciousness?”
Zhou An at this time, someone covered, that was not with fear at all: “Is it important?”
“Very important, if we can completely figure out the reason, you and I will certainly be able to change the entire world.”
The one-armed old man fervently said, “Even after ten thousand years, the world will still remember, history will still exist, this is a great move that can change humanity!”
Zhou An shook his head, “It’s useless.”
How it changed, only he knew, it was an extremely complicated process.
And it couldn’t be replicated, it was only a method that he and the Guile Coven could use.
First of all, one had to be as brave as the Wind and Rain Building’s owner, weaving a layer of skin for the Guile Rally with the Ayala Cozy Weave, and then charging with a gun.
Secondly, children would have to be born.
Lastly, and most crucially, there had to be a special connection between the children and someone like Zhou An.
Even more, there needed to be Zhou An’s Holy Spirit Demonic Body to bring the half-human, half-creepy existence back to its senses.
In here, either way, it was harder than climbing up to the heavens, and one wrong step would be impossible.
“Besides, you’re about to die.”
Zhou An said indifferently, “These things are not for you to worry about.”
The one-armed old man was slightly stunned, “Between you and me, there is actually no grievance or hatred, even if it is a great hatred, it can be resolved.”
“I was born in the Ancient Early Era, and I know too much knowledge, so I might be able to solve the mystery.”
“What kind of grievances and feuds can’t compare to the fact that from now on, I am the only one under the world and underground.”
“As long as we can unlock the secret of the bizarre sobriety, the entire world, is yours and mine, we can work together, benefits, far more important than hatred.”
He seemed confident that he could convince Zhou An.
In fact, if any other person was here, they would probably be convinced by him.
Because the attraction was simply too great, as the one-armed old man said, it could indeed be so great that one could forget about hatred.
But Zhou An was different.
“Heaven and earth, I am the only one?”
Zhou An shook his head, “I can do it, and I don’t need your methods.”
He had the proficiency and what he needed to do was simple, he just needed to keep on livering.
Time, that was what Zhou An needed.
After giving him enough time, he would be able to reach this point sooner or later, and didn’t need any other risky methods.
What’s more, Zhou An had always practiced the philosophy of never letting his enemies live.
“Elder, do it.” Zhou An said slowly.
Although the Guile Rally would tell him to call his aunt, Zhou An felt that it was still not possible to do so.
This was because whenever he called out these two words, he would suddenly think of a certain deceased person, and the sense of dissonance was great.
When Zhou An said this, the first one to react was instead the one-armed old man.
Ever since the Guile Gathering had appeared, the one-armed old man knew that nowadays, he was already a fish on the chopping block.
He couldn’t fight, nor could he go to fight.
Because in front of him, was the Guile Assembly, an extremely ancient existence.
That was why the one-armed old man wanted to convince Zhou An.
But now, it seemed that not only was he unable to convince Zhou An, he had even made Zhou An strengthen his resolve to kill him.
He wanted to live!
There was only one way to live!
The one-armed old man turned around and headed towards the room behind him, running fast.
The speed was so fast that he arrived in the blink of an eye, and in just an instant, he had already arrived close to the room.
As the one-armed old man got closer and closer to that room, on his body, a terrifying sign appeared.
A mass of black air, enveloped the one-armed old man’s entire body, all of it.
This black palace was a prison cell, specifically designed to hold the one-armed old man, and the room, the key.
The key was placed here, but it wasn’t so easily accessible.
That black mass of air carried an aura of destruction, as if it was going to turn all the living beings into ashes.
“Ah!”
The one-armed old man let out a miserable scream, but still insisted on stretching out his hand and probing towards the room.
The pain, like a tidal wave, surged.
The one-armed old man knew very well that he had no extra choice.
He knew exactly how treacherous it would be after approaching the room.
However, approaching the room was nine deaths, and fighting the Guile Gathering was ten deaths.
Between the two, he would rather choose the nine deaths, at least, there was still a chance to live.
But just as the one-armed old man’s hand, was about to touch the room, an abnormality appeared.
That room was originally very close, but in the eyes of the one-armed old man, it became very far away.
The vision, was stretched out without limit.
In front of the one-armed old man’s eyes, an ancient and gloomy street emerged, exuding a frightening gloom.
Dilapidated, old, and eerie.
A strange gathering of voices came from behind him, causing the one-armed old man’s heart to tremble slightly.
“Zhou An said, let you die, you, shall not live.”
As the words fell, the one-armed old man felt that the ancient streets all turned into the world’s unique and terrifying killing weapons.
“No, I have suffered so much, I am not letting you kill me!”
The one-armed old man gritted his teeth and lifted the brush in his hand.
However, after he lifted the brush, the surrounding relief appeared to change.
The originally calm relief appeared with a long, dark whip that viciously lashed at the one-armed old man.
“Ah!”
The one-armed old man let out a mournful cry, a pained expression that took up his entire face.
This was a prison cell, and he was looking for death if he dared to use his strength.
“By what right!”
The one-armed old man rolled on the ground.
That long whip, as if it could touch the pain of the soul, even at his level, he simply couldn’t resist it.
“Her! She’s the trickster!”
The one-armed old man pointed at the Guile assembly and frantically said, “You are all heroes, all epics of history, you should deal with Guile, not me!”
“You all dealt with one of my kind, in vain as heroic sages in human history!”
“Ahhhhhh!”
The whips fell like rain, and the one-armed old man let out a miserable cry and rolled uncontrollably.
“Let me end your suffering.”
Seeing this, Guile Rally shook his head.
Then, a ferocious aura wrapped the one-armed old man.
Guile Rally extended his white right hand and slightly clenched his fist.
As the fist-clenching motion appeared, the one-armed old man who was wrapped in the Fierce Fury aura, starting from the position of his legs, unexpectedly gradually turned into ashes.
Simplicity was the ultimate.
A simple attack technique, even at the level of the one-armed old man, was still unable to cope with it.
A moment later, only a piece of ash remained on the ground, other than that, there was nothing left.
“Solved.”
The Guile Assembly would look towards Zhou An, meaning that it was finished.
At this moment, on the Guile Assembly’s body, there was already some bizarre aura.
This was the miscellaneous weapons of the Miscellaneous Sect gradually weakening.
After all, the White King was only at the beginning of the All Saints realm and was not yet too solid, so the Miscellaneous Weapons that had been gathered were just too weak.
Therefore, the Guile Gathering wouldn’t be able to stay awake for long.
“The reliefs around me have already begun to recognize me, and if my bizarre aura continues to increase, they will attack me.”
The Guile Rally looked around, a hint of gravity and scorn in her eyes.
Even she would not be able to hold out against this historical relief.
Just now, it was merely utilizing human sanity to fool these reliefs.
Every corpse and bone here was a bigwig of the party when they were alive, even if there was very little power left after death.
But there were a lot of them!
If the spooky assembly really carries a spooky aura, it is estimated that it will be suppressed on the spot, and then it will be accompanied by the one-armed old man.
Don’t underestimate the reliefs, this is the crystallization of history “Senior, take a look, that room, what’s so peculiar about it?”
Zhou An also reacted quickly and asked quickly.
With the thought of using it if he could, Zhou An hurriedly asked about the secrets of that room.
There were many things here that he had figured out.
For example, the one-armed old man who became a prisoner, for example, the black palace itself was a prison cell, for example, the reliefs around it were the corpses and bones of the sages of the past generations.
But the only thing that was a secret was that room, which Zhou An, until now, hadn’t been able to figure out.
You’d have to let him try to go in by himself, Zhou An said, that would be impossible.
It was too dangerous, and didn’t match his steadfastness.
Clairvoyance couldn’t penetrate either, putting an end to his thoughts of trying to look through the air, so there was only one way.
Before Creepy Coven turned back to his unconscious state, he hurriedly asked Creepy Coven to help him take a look.
Creepy Coven swept Zhou An a glance and said, “Do you want me to die so badly?”
Zhou An sniffed and said strangely, “Why did senior say that?”
The Guile Assembly pointed around and said, “The reliefs around here are enough to suppress me for countless eras.”
She pointed at the room again, “What’s more, this room is the core of the entire black palace, if I go in, I’m a dead man, it’s not just as simple as suppression.”
“I can feel that inside the room, is a terrifying behemoth, hidden inside, something that would deter countless people.”
“It is impossible for me to go in.”
Hearing this, Zhou An finally understood.
He knew that this cheap mother-in-law of his was, by and large, wimped out.
There was no reason not to wimp out, after all, after going in, one hundred percent would die.
Zhou An stroked his chin and said, “That’s not good.”
He was still thinking that he would see what was inside, but now, he couldn’t see anything at all.
“What’s so bad about it?” Guile Gathering said strangely, “If you go in, there is no danger at all.”
Zhou An froze, “Why?”
The Creepy Assembly said, “This is a prison cell, used to imprison that old thing, it is also a weird forbidden place, going in is a death.”
“But you’re not a prisoner, and you’re not Creepy, there’s no problem going in at all.”
Zhou An sniffed and fell into deep thought.
It seemed like the argument of the Creepy Gathering seemed to hold true.
He wasn’t a prisoner, and he wasn’t Creepy, and he wasn’t bound here.
The ones buried here were all sages from the ancient early years.
What are sages?
Not to mention other things, just the fact that they were willing to die for humanity, this kind of ancient existence, even after death, would not pose a danger to future generations.
“All you need to do is to go in with reverence and not mess with the things inside.”
Guile Gathering said, “Would I harm you? Harming you would be harming the Black Jade, and I won’t do that.”
As the words came out of his mouth, the bizarre aura on the Creepy Gathering’s body had become more and more dense.
At this time, the surrounding reliefs had already exhibited an ancient and terrifying aura.
This aura, which gathered the residual power of countless generations of sages, reached a terrifying level when brought together.
Any guile that came here would only end in death.
“I’m leaving, it’s reached critical mass.”
The Creepy Gathering slowly said, “If this continues, I will immediately be suppressed here.”
After saying that, the Creepy Coven would not give Zhou An time to think and disappeared quickly.
The ancient and gloomy street gradually blurred before his eyes, finally turning into endless nothingness.
Before his eyes, there was still that black palace, but at this moment, there was only Zhou An and Black Jade.
After the Creepy Gathering had left, the relief returned to silence, and that terrifying aura had disappeared cleanly.
It was as if it had never appeared.
But the hasty departure of the Guile Rally just now signaled the terror that lurked here, as well as a place of extermination for the Guile.
Zhou An stood in the middle of the quiet black palace, looking at the room not far in front of him and falling into deep thought.
After roughly half a pillar of incense, Zhou An made up his mind.
Go and take a look!
Come all the way.
If you don’t go in, it’s a loss anyways.
Besides, what the Guile Rally had said just now, it was extremely reasonable.
The Guile Gathering wouldn’t screw over his own daughter!
Just in case, what benefits can be gained?
No matter what, it would be possible to get the big secret!
Thinking of this, Zhou An made up his mind and held Black Jade’s hand.
“When you go in later, you must be very good and not show any weird aura, understand?” Zhou An admonished.
Black Jade tilted her head and looked at Zhou An cutely and lovingly, muttering, “I’m very good.”
“Then go into my shadow.” Zhou An pointed to the ground.
“I don’t want to!”
Black Jade resisted, “It’s so dark.”
“Dang!”
Zhou An faintly withdrew his hand.
The Black Jade covered its head with an aggrieved face, but still burrowed into Zhou An’s shadow.
Soon, Zhou An was the only one left here, as well as those black reliefs.
Zhou An took a deep breath, then lifted his feet and walked up towards the location of the room.
As Zhou An got closer and closer to the black room, on him, there was a feeling that grew stronger and stronger.
At Zhou An’s current realm, his perception of danger was actually already very sensitive.
He did not feel the slightest bit of danger.
But the closer he got to the room, the more he could feel that within the room, an extremely sad aura was transmitted.
This kind of aura was like being in a world full of weeping and mourning, without the slightest bit of laughter.
But strangely enough, no matter how close Zhou An got, this aura of sadness, which was always just sadness, would not affect him in the slightest.
Instead, he had a strange feeling.
“It’s like, they’re protecting me.”
Zhou An muttered, “Sure enough, just like what Cheap Mother-In-Law said, these sages of all generations, even if only a little bit of their power remains, will still subconsciously, protect their descendants.”
“This is …… goodwill.”
The black reliefs around them, exuded a burst of goodwill, like a magnificent shadow, stretching out a solid arm, protecting Zhou An inside, so that Zhou An would not be attacked by the sadness.
That warm feeling made the surrounding blackness, all of it, seem not so cold.
Zhou An stopped his steps.
At this moment, he was already at a close distance from the door of this room.
And by now, he also finally saw the black room door, what it actually looked like.
The door of the room was also a black unknown material, and there were also reliefs on it, but what was depicted on the reliefs was not a variety of human portraits.
There was only one on it, and it was a horrifying crack.
Even if it was just a relief, Zhou An could see the aura contained on the crack.
It was cold, terrifying, and yet intimidating.
“This is …… modeled after the crack and made a relief?”
Zhou An stroked his chin, then placed his hand on the door.
When this action was done, the door in front of him, was easily pushed open by Zhou An.
After pushing the door open, Zhou An also saw the scene inside.
“So, it’s this big?”
Zhou An was slightly surprised.
It was like a Sumeru space, looking small from the outside, but inside, there was a space that could not be seen at a glance.
It was even more enormous than the black palace outside.
Inside the room, there was a square stone slab, stacked in piles.
On each of the stone slabs, there was a fear-inducing aura that filled the entire room.
Zhou An took a deep breath, then slowly raised his feet and walked into it.
He arrived at one of the stone slabs and surveyed the front of it.
On the stone slab, a portrait was engraved in a marvelous manner.
Zhou An was surprised to find that it was actually the same as a certain relief outside, which looked exactly the same.
And in the lower right corner of this stone slab, there was a line of small, densely-packed words.
The words, Zhou An did not recognize, but the general font, it was able to distinguish.
It was exactly the same as what it had seen when it had taken out the graveyard.
Zhou An looked carefully, and suddenly had a guess.
He rummaged around the place, and in the end, corroborated the conjecture.
For every stone slab, there was a portrait, and in the lower right corner of every stone slab, there were small, densely-packed words.
“This is a …… tombstone!” Zhou An was shocked.
If the bas-reliefs outside, were the graveyard of a sage, then this one stone slab, was a tombstone.
“Age-old brushwork, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it.”
Zhou An sighed as he stroked the traces on it, especially when he looked at the text on it.
This writing, he was all too familiar with it.
Traces that could not be completely buried even by the years, still existed in this world, and only the Age Brush Technique, was able to do it.
Zhou An stroked his chin and secretly said, “It should be written by the same person, this handwriting is too similar.”
He had seen those things, and he had also seen the writing left behind from the last Age Brush Technique, so he could tell at a glance that the handwriting left behind on this was written by the same person.
“If there are only tombstones here, it’s just similar to the reliefs outside, it’s too little.”
Zhou An thought about it and continued to explore.
This place was huge, far from being the end, and the location Zhou An had just traveled was less than one percent.
As Zhou An explored further and further, he understood more and more why the one-armed old man had been suppressed.
The one-armed old man couldn’t stand just the reliefs outside, let alone the tombstones inside here, and the words carved down with age-old brushwork.
“The Green Clothes at the time, even though he was severely injured, but the layout was tight, and laid it all out, all of it.” Zhou An was slightly emotional.
All of this stacked up, it was a natural prison cell, shut in, you couldn’t run away.
With such a mood, Zhou An went deeper and deeper.
Subsequently, Zhou An saw an unusual scene.
Not far ahead, amidst the layers and layers of tombstones, a four-square space was enclosed.
The space was large enough to stand hundreds of people.
Due to the reason that the tombstones were stacked very high, coupled with the fact that these were made of special materials, Zhou An’s Clairvoyance couldn’t see what was going on inside.
Zhou An thought about it briefly, said an offended voice, and performed the Flying Dragon Stance to cross over these tall stone tombstones.
Soon, Zhou An landed firmly on the ground and stood in a huge space surrounded by tombstones or something like that, and also saw the situation inside the space clearly.
Here, there was an empty space, but in the center, there was a skeleton that had long since dried up, sitting cross-legged on the ground.
On the skeleton, there was also a white coat, and at first glance, there was a faint white light shrouding the white coat.
Even if it is a skeleton, also let a person not the slightest sense of fear, as if the skeleton in front of you is not the dead, but a solemn statue.
Coupled with the faint white light, a holy and ancient aura emanated from the skeleton.
Zhou An’s gaze moved and then rested on top of the skeleton’s right hand.
In the position of the right hand, a pen made of white jade was held.
The jade pen was crystal clear, flashing with the characteristic soft light of jade, and at a glance, it was clear that it was not a mortal object.
And in front of this, there was also an ancient text that was only half written, these words, Zhou An could not understand them all the same.
However, this did not prevent Zhou An from guessing, the true identity of this skeleton.
“He, should be the ancient existence that knows the Age Brush Technique, using the brush in his hand to write down a piece of epic and thick history.”
Zhou An took a deep breath, feeling that he had found a big secret.
This kind of ancient existence, even if it knew the Age Brush Technique, had similarly drowned in history.
There were only corpses and bones that were left behind, sleeping here for a long time.
Zhou An stood still, lamenting for a while, then lifted his feet and walked towards the corpse bones in front of him.
He still wanted to see what secrets were inside.
As Zhou An got closer and closer, when he was only ten steps away from the skeleton in front of him, all of a sudden, everything in front of him, changed significantly.
Above the skeleton, a layer of white light appeared.
When the white light appeared, it immediately enveloped everything around it, in its entirety.
The light was quick, but it did not have the slightest sense of oppression or danger.
Zhou An could feel that when the light came, everything in front of him, was gradually changing ……
The tombstone was gone.
The skeletons were gone.
The sinking sadness was likewise gone.
There was nothingness all around, and in front of Zhou An, there stood an old man.
On the old man’s body, there was a faint layer of aura flowing, it was a Confucian aura that was so strong that it made people admire it.
Readers?
Age-old penmanship?
Illusion?
A former past?
Zhou An sensed once and realized that he was in an illusion.
It seemed that it was because of of of his proximity that had caused the changes on the skeleton.
“Since it has appeared, let’s continue to see it.” Zhou An pondered slightly and decided to continue observing.
The old man held a pen in his hand and carved on the tombstone over and over again.
The Age Brush Technique was in the old man’s hands, as if a brush that wrote about the world’s living beings, encompassing everything.
“Chen Pingsheng, born in poverty, died in battle in a crack in the sky, had no children in his life, and left no last words when he left.”
“Wei Wu, once the head of the Armament Division of the Great Domain Kingdom, died in battle in a rift in the sky, had a son at his knees, and then died in the psychic space without leaving any last words.”
“Zhang Fah, once the master of the Limitless Sect, when the rift appeared underneath, in order to protect the people of a city behind him, he lifted the entire sect’s strength and died in battle in full, without leaving any last words.”
Every time the old man recited a word, he drew portraits on the stone slabs, while at the same time, on the lower right side of the slabs, he wrote densely packed small words.
Seeing this, Zhou An already understood.
“That line of small words, is the biography of each person, the old man who knows the Age Penmanship, seems to be specializing in letting them leave everything behind.”
One line of words, what made Zhou An feel his heart shake the most, were the words “no last words left behind”.
Almost every single one of them, ended with these words.
“Just imagine, in those days, there really wasn’t a need to leave last words either.” Zhou An thought.
As he thought so, a change appeared on the old man’s side.
The old man recited over and over again, his eyes gradually becoming moist.
At this time, he took out a handkerchief and wiped it with a kiss.
“Deceased people, all of them have already left, yet I want to use this way to record their lives.”
“Once the closest relatives, close friends, family and friends, all want me to record with my own hands, I can not bear it in my heart.”
“Every single stroke is the cruelest memory for me.”
The old man held the jade pen, a sadness in his eyes, as if it was an endless abyss for people to sink into.
Just as the old man was muttering to himself, a figure appeared.
What appeared was a middle-aged man.
On the middle-aged man’s body, there was also a powerful aura, and in the hands of this middle-aged man, what he was carrying, was a piece of black relief.
“Old thing, what are you crying for, it’s good to be dead, and when you’re dead, you don’t have to be so sad.”
The middle-aged man was disdainful of the old man’s grief.
The old man put his handkerchief away, “When you carved the reliefs, you bawled your eyes out every two days, aren’t you just like me?”
Zhou An had been acting as a bystander, and when he heard this, he finally understood the identity of this middle-aged man.
The reliefs around the black palace were actually all carved by the middle-aged man.
“Thinking about it carefully, it’s actually normal, this huge black palace is not something that can be accomplished by just one person.” Zhou An Xin thought to himself.
The relief on the ground was the middle-aged man’s likeness.
“Old thing, I’m dying, I can’t accompany you anymore, in the long years to come, you’ll be the only one traveling alone here.”
The middle-aged man sighed.
The old man was slightly stunned, then fell into silence, and after a long time, he slowly said, “Go well.”
The middle-aged man hemmed and hawed and smoked several more mouthfuls of dry cigarettes before lying down on top of the relief.
“In this life, I have carved too many stone sculptures, starting from a stone sculpture peddler, coming from the south to the north, I have seen a lot.”
“I have also stood on top of the world, and have been a teacher, a father, a husband, and a son, and have lived enough.”
“It’s just a pity that I wasn’t able to accompany you, this old thing, to walk through the last part of my life.”
The middle-aged man just lay on the relief, his tone becoming more and more confused, and his vitality gradually disappearing.
A moment later, the middle-aged man transformed into a corpse bone.
After the corpse bone appeared, it instantly began to melt, turning into a skeleton that merged onto the relief.
The relief became animated, as if it was inhabited by a living person.
The old man had been watching silently, becoming the sender of the middle-aged man.
He waited until the middle-aged man had passed away and took out a blank slate from the side, writing on it.
“Xu Chenming, born a stonemason, rose to prominence at the end of the microcosm, once in the middle of an underground rift, fought tens of thousands of bizarre and suffered serious injuries, with a son and a daughter at his knees, all died in battle before, without leaving any last words.”
“You are well, the mission is accomplished, also finally died.”
“I can’t see you crying, I’m crying alone, and no one laughs at me.”
“How long will I live? I’m in a higher realm than you, I don’t know, how long can I live, I guess there’s still a long, long time to go.”
“Live, instead always suffer, die like you, instead you don’t have to suffer this heart-rending pain.”
The old man smiled to himself, carefully, putting the dry cigarette aside, like an extremely precious treasure.
Only after doing this did he continue to start writing.
Within the entire space, it was quiet, only the sound of the old man writing remained, echoing continuously, as if a small fish had jumped into the long river of years.
Before his eyes, time began to fly by, and the scenery was gradually changing.
A tombstone, in the old man’s hands, continued to take shape.
And as the old man was writing, he gradually became even older, visible to the naked eye, becoming sluggish and feeble.
Although the old man’s face did not change, the twilight in his body was gradually deepening.
At the very beginning, the old man could write hundreds of stone tablets a day, but the further he went, the slower the old man’s speed became, and today, he could only write down ten or so.
Around him, it was already covered with tombstones.
During this period, Zhou An saw the old man cry several times.
A few times, he even nearly broke down emotionally.
The sorrow around them gradually coalesced over the years just as the old man bawled.
Time passed and the images changed rapidly.
Even Zhou An, who was in the illusionary realm, did not know how much time had passed.
At this time, the old man was still continuously carving away.
But in this black palace, there was a new guest.
The young girl in green, dragging the collar of a one-armed old man, slowly walked in.
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