Chapter 731: 731
Through the formation constructed by the white-robed Oracles, Wu Qi and the two heads of the treasury from Directorate of Celestials were teleported to a cluster of magnificent palaces .
In the middle was a square, ten miles in length and width, surrounded by numerous square shaped black palaces . In front of each palace stood a great number of stone pillars, where green light shone from the fire bowls placed atop them and smeared everyone's face green like ghosts . Gusts of cold wind blew through the gaps between the halls and across the square, filling the air with eerie whistles that sounded like the sighs of ghosts . The place looked quite bleak .
The square and palaces were extremely ancient . Every stone, every pillar, and every paved slab was showing signs of age . The square and palaces here were extremely ancient, every stone, every pillar, and every paved slab showing signs of age . All the palaces lay like ancient monsters on the ground, with a terrible, ferocious, and mysterious aura slowly seeping out of the heavy gloominess that shrouded them .
Many black-robed Oracles could be seen moving in and out of the palaces . Their pace was slow and unhurried, just like how people felt about the entire Great Yu . Their faces were stiff and unsmiling, and their eyes were locked on a spot on the floor in front of them as they walked, which made them look dull and almost vacuous . But, it was clear that these Oracles all possessed a mighty overall strength, judging from the golden suns and silver moons embroidered on their sleeves .
Dull, rigid, lifeless, yet containing a power in their bodies enough to destroy everything…This was not only the impression these Oracles gave, but the entire Great Yu as well .
Wu Qi had no time to take a few more glances at the nearby scenery, for the two black-robed men were escorting him to a distant palace . Using some kind of magic, it only took them a few steps to bring him to the front of the palace .
Like all the palaces in this place, the square palace was constructed from huge black stones . The surface of the stones polished as smooth as mirrors was carved with countless intricate runes and inlaid with numerous black energy stones, forming a powerful defensive formation . On the rooftops of the palace stood a group of black-clothed Heaveneye Men and Heavenear Men, who formed an impenetrable defense system to keep outsiders away from the palace .
Directly in front of the palace was a doorway that was over a hundred feet tall and ten feet wide . Darkness reigned inside the doorway, warding off any pale-green light that tried to sneak into the palace . It gave the impression that the doorway led directly to another world, a world that did not belong to the living .
Sitting on an about thousand feet tall stone platform, the palace could be reached through a flight of steps paved with huge stones stretching upward from the front of Wu Qi . Hundreds of soldiers in heavy armors and black cloaks draped over their shoulders were scattered across the stone steps . Each of them was covered with a variety of tattoos on their exposed skins, which flashed with faint light and wriggled slowly as if they were alive, forming a set of living formation diagram .
'Could this be the unique Tattoo Formation of Great Yu's Directorate of Celestials?' thought Wu Qi as he rested his eyes on those soldiers . It was an art of drawing various rune formations on the human body with a special potion and unique technique . Such formations could actively absorb various natural energies, inject them into the bearer's body and, according to the design of the formation, strengthen the bearer's muscles and bones . Coupled with a variety of special drugs, the warriors with Tattoo Formations could quickly become powerful fighters without going through lengthy cultivation .
This was what Great Yu's Directorate of Celestials excelled at: the ability to quickly produce powerful fighters in large quantities . It was said that there were several fierce clashes between the Heaven's immortals and Great Yu during the ancient times, during which, the immortals, although in an advantageous position where they almost won the battles, were thrown into utter confusion by the fierce and fearless fighters the Directorate of Celestials had produced in a very short period of time . Eventually, all the clashes ended up in internecine outcome with neither side gaining anything but losses .
The most terrible thing was that the souls of the fighters with these tattoos would be imprisoned in their bodies forever after they died . Their fleshly bodies would be transformed into half-zombie and half-ghost existences with a prowess that was a hundred times greater than before . Because of this characteristic, the art of Tattoo Formation was a forbidden art in Great Yu, and the Directorate of Celestials dared not to produce large quantities of such fighters unless it was absolutely necessary .
Wu Qi could not sense the aura of a living person from these fighters in front of him, with only two faint green flames beating in their eyes . Evidently, they were no longer alive, but dead men whose souls were imprisoned forever in their bodies . Then, he cautiously probed their power with his divine sense, and found that they were indeed very, very strong . These fighters were emanating an aura of death that was completely different from the aura of the living, which made their attacks lethal .
Escorted by the two black-clothed old men, Wu Qi made his way up the stone steps as the fighters' ghostly eyes followed him, entering the palace through the pitch-black doorway . No sooner had he entered that a chilly wind with an indescribable smell came blowing at his face, which tickled his nose and made him sneeze several times .
Amidst his sneezing, faint specks of light lit up in the dark hall .
"As decreed by His Majesty, Marquis of Dong Hai Province can pick a Supreme Tower here and take it with you," one of the old men said in a low voice . "Hehe, a genius who cultivates both fleshly body and magic deserves this privilege! I'm sure Marquis of Dong Hai Province will be a mighty Supreme Oracle in the future . "
The other old man took Wu Qi by the hand and led him to a corner of the hall . While chuckling, he said, "Please pardon me for taking this opportunity to do you a favor, Marquis of Dong Hai Province . Here are the best Supreme Towers you can find in Directorate of Celestials . I ask not much, just take care of our descendants when you have risen high in the future!"
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