Supreme Martial Artist - Chapter 104
Chapter 0104 The Mysterious Skeleton!
Earlier, when he heard this legend from Lei Zhen, Qin Fei felt that Lei Zhen was exaggerating.
After all, manpower was limited. Even if a Heavenly Martial Realm expert was powerful, it wouldn’t cause a mountain to collapse, right?
However, ever since he encountered the Heavenly Martial Residual Soul in the Iron Castle in the cave of the Snow Mountain, he had begun to feel that Heavenly Martial Realm experts were truly powerful. It was simply beyond his imagination to see that even after hundreds of years of death, their souls were still able to exist.
But now, looking at this huge cave, he had no choice but to believe Lei Zhen’s words. The Chaos Stone Hill could really be destroyed by a Heavenly Martial Artist.
The Iron Scepter’s next words confirmed the existence of this legend.
“There are traces of their battles back then. Look!” The Iron Scepter pointed at a scratch and said.
The scratch was nearly a meter deep into the stone wall, and after years of washing, it had already emitted an aged aura.
However, it could be seen at a glance that this was not formed naturally, but was caused by some kind of unbelievable power.
The reason for the formation of the light was also found. The cave was filled with glowing stones. This was a very common type of ghostly stone. It came from the ground and emitted a faint light. Some mountain people would pick it up and put it in their homes for illumination.
Although the cave was more than ten meters away from the ground, with the light emitted by these ghostly stones, one could clearly see everything here.
Qin Fei followed closely behind the Iron Scepter and walked deeper into the cave.
After traveling for about a thousand meters, the space in front of him suddenly opened up. The surroundings seemed to have been purposely tidied up, forming a space that looked like a stone room.
A skeleton rack appeared in their line of sight. The clothes on its body were covered in dust. The skeleton sat upright and leaned against a huge rock. It crossed its legs and placed its arms in its lower abdomen. It seemed to have died peacefully.
Qin Fei felt strange. How could there be skeletons in this cave? Could it be that someone has been here?
He didn’t see the Iron Scepter follow him. He turned around and saw the excitement on the Iron Scepter’s face. His eyes were actually filled with tears, as if he had seen his deceased relatives.
“What’s wrong? Do you know who he is?” Qin Fei asked curiously.
“He is the fourth Castle Master of our Iron Castle! I didn’t expect him to die here!” The Iron Scepter said excitedly.
“The fourth Castle Master? The one who rebelled against the third Castle Master?” Qin Fei curled his lips and immediately looked down on the skeleton shelf.
“Ah … you don’t know anything. Do you know the origin of our Iron Castle?” The Iron Scepter said in a low voice.
Qin Fei nodded his head. He had only heard Old Man Chen mention this matter before, so he was naturally very clear about it.
“What you know is only a superficial phenomenon, our third castle master was indeed assassinated to death! But not from within us, but the empire secretly set it up, It caused the internal division of the castle, We found out that the one who framed the castle master was the empire’s royal family, As a result, one radical faction advocated rebelling against the empire and simply letting the artificers control the world. However, the other conservative faction strongly opposed it. They felt that if they were to openly oppose a colossus like the empire, all of them would be annihilated. In the end, Iron Castle would be annihilated by the empire, so they advocated not moving.
“There was a fierce dispute between the two factions, which eventually turned into internal strife, with the radical faction gaining the upper hand, and the remaining conservatives withdrawing from Iron Castle and leaving the country, not caring about the affairs of Iron Castle.
“Later, the radical factions began to cause trouble for the empire. Who knew that these radical factions were all a bunch of brainless idiots with martial power. They were actually tricked by the empire again. The empire led the calamity to Xuanwu Palace. The radical factions then attacked Xuanwu Palace, but in the end, they were completely annihilated.
The Iron Castle had also disappeared from view. The conservatives had finally returned and moved the Iron Castle into the depths of the snowy mountains. They had not dared to go out for hundreds of years. At that time, the leader of the conservatives had already become the fourth castle master, so the rumors that the fourth castle master had killed the previous castle master were simply nonsense. It was just random speculation!
“When the fourth Castle Master left the Iron Castle, he secretly took two of the three divine artifacts with him. The Iron Castle, which is the first of the three divine artifacts, was the divine artifact you obtained. It was not until we found it in the cave that we realized that the third Castle Master had hidden it long ago. Let’s get back to what we were talking about, The fourth castle master returned with two divine artifacts. Although Iron Castle’s strength had greatly declined at that time, And he no longer dared to appear in the eyes of the world, However, revenge still needed to be avenged. The empire could not afford to offend them, but the Black Tortoise Palace, which was helping the tigers, could not just let it go. At that time, the conservatives had only a thousand people after fighting with the radical factions. The fourth castle master decided to go out alone to avenge the Black Tortoise Palace in order to prevent the number of artificers from decreasing.
“He took away two divine artifacts, However, there was no news from now on. Everyone knew that he had died. He must have been killed by Xuanwu Palace. The two divine artifacts had become the things that the artificers wanted back the most. After cultivating to a certain level, the successive Castle Masters walked out of the depths of the snow mountain to search for the divine artifacts, but none of them had ever returned.
“After hundreds of years, the fortress masters gradually disappeared and the forging technique gradually disappeared.” The Iron Scepter paused for a moment.
Qin Fei asked doubtfully, “Although the Castle Master is gone, the Weaponry Refiner is still here. How could the Weaponry Refining Technique be lost?”
“Ah … this is the ruthlessness of time. Human life is limited. Although we also want to pass down artifact forging techniques, one generation is inferior to another. By the time the sixth Castle Master arrives, artifact forging techniques will have completely lost their inheritance and disappeared. Iron Castle is already in name only!” The Iron Scepter sighed.
“Which castle master are you?” Qin Fei looked at him.
“Thirteenth! My predecessor, my master, was killed by the Black Tortoise Palace. The most important thing for each of us is to retrieve the lost divine artifact from the hands of the Black Tortoise Palace. Only by obtaining the divine artifact can artifact forging techniques reappear in this world! This is our mission and the responsibility of each of us Fort Masters! We have sworn with our lives.”
The Iron Scepter spoke with incomparable seriousness. He turned his head to look at the skeleton and became excited, “The clothes on his body are clothes that only the Iron Castle Master can wear. Every Castle Master has a set of clothes!”
Qin Fei curled his lips and said, “Are you sure this skeleton isn’t the fifth or ninth one?”
‘”Of course! Because there are obvious marks on the clothes of every castle master! Look at the sword-shaped mark on its collar. Look at the four markings on the scabbard. It’s proof of its identity!” Said the Iron Scepter.