sinovels Chapter 947 The Rules of the Bone Ruins
Chapter 947 The Rules of the Bone Ruins
The rules of the Bone Ruins.
Don't ask where they came from, don't ask where they're going.
They certainly won't meddle in other people's business.
The old man slowly put down the small knife in his hand and placed the bone fragment back on the stall.
His movements were slow.
It was as if they were processing the scene they had just witnessed.
Blood Demon Power...
He silently recited it in his heart.
Lin Qiye stood in front of the stall, his expression calm.
"Are you still selling the medicine?"
The old man looked up and gave him a deep look.
A moment later, he reached into the back of the stall and took out a black jade bottle.
The jade bottle was a size smaller than the other bottles on the stall.
The patterns engraved on the surface are also finer.
The bottle opening was sealed with three layers of dark red wax.
The old man placed the jade bottle in front of Lin Qiye.
Then a second one was taken from another position.
The two jade bottles were placed side by side.
Two.
The old man said.
"The top grade Yuan Qing Dan."
"The bone fragments will be discounted by 30%, and I'll also deduct two drops of your essence blood."
"Your life essence is worth this price."
Lin Qiye did not respond.
He simply put the two jade bottles away and tucked them into his pocket, without saying another word.
He stepped away from the stall.
The pace was neither fast nor slow.
Same as when I came.
Not a single extra word was spoken throughout the entire process.
The old man looked at him, his eyes darting around.
……
The two guards at the entrance to the Bone Ruins still leaned against the bone pillar, like two gray-white statues.
They saw Lin Qiye come out, and their gazes lingered on him for a moment.
No one stopped him.
No one spoke.
Lin Qiye walked through them, his boots sinking into the ashes with a soft popping sound.
The moment he stepped out of the Bone Ruins, he suddenly stopped.
There was no turning back.
There were no unnecessary movements.
He simply stood in the urn, quietly pausing for a moment.
Then continue walking forward.
step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
About three hundred feet behind him, at the foot of the tall flagpole at the entrance to the Bone Ruins, another figure appeared.
The figure was very thin, wearing a large gray robe, similar to the attire of the stall owners in the Bone Ruins.
But he wasn't wearing a hood.
In the dim light of the day, that face was so pale it was almost transparent.
His eyes were vertical pupils, dark red, like two drops of congealed blood.
He stood under the flagpole, watching Lin Qiye's back from afar.
"Blood Demon."
He muttered two words under his breath.
The voice was very soft, yet carried a strange excitement.
"interesting."
He raised his hand and took out a palm-sized bone whistle from his pocket.
The surface of the bone whistle is covered with fine lines and has a dull gray sheen.
He didn't blow it.
He simply placed the bone whistle to his lips and exhaled a wisp of extremely fine, grayish-white primal energy.
The source energy flowed along the patterns on the bone whistle, and the entire whistle suddenly lit up.
A silent wave spread outward from the Bone Ruins.
Extremely fast.
Extremely far.
Like ripples on water, it spread out in circles across the gray wasteland.
……
Lin Qiye walked for about half an hour.
He didn't take the same route he came by.
He followed the footprints on his way here, heading northeast.
On his way back, he deliberately turned off course and headed due north.
I'm not lost.
It's going around in circles.
He wanted to see if anyone had followed.
The layer of ashes was very thick, sinking into the ankle with every step, making it much more strenuous to walk on than on ordinary surfaces.
But for Lin Qiye, this level of exertion was almost negligible.
He trained in the arena for almost a year.
He sparred with Kefa every day, and with those lower-ranking gladiators.
His body had long since adapted to the primordial energy environment of the original universe.
Although the layer of ashes was thick, it did not affect his walking.
What truly mattered to him was something else entirely.
He sensed it the moment he left the Bone Ruins.
A gaze.
They weren't from the stall owners in the Bone Ruins.
Although the stall owners would secretly glance at him, their gazes were scattered, filled with curiosity or wariness, but none of them actually locked onto him.
This gaze is different.
It is locked.
I've been following this from the very beginning, from the Bone Ruins, until now.
And there was more than one.
Lin Qiye walked for half an hour, and the feeling of being spied on grew stronger.
There was only one dish at first.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, it became three paths.
Another quarter of an hour passed, and it became seven paths.
They were scattered in different directions, at varying distances, but they all followed him precisely.
Not a coincidence.
It's an encirclement.
Lin Qiye's steps remained unchanged.
He continued to move forward at his own pace.
Not fast, not slow.
But his right hand had already quietly gripped the black iron spear at his waist.
The layer of ashes made a faint sound on the sole of his boot.
puff.
puff.
puff.
The entire wasteland remained deathly silent.
The grayish-white, fluffy things in the sky are still falling.
There is no wind.
There is no sound.
Only Lin Qiye's footsteps could be heard.
And those unseen trackers.
Another fifteen minutes passed.
Lin Qiye stopped.
He stopped beside a giant horn that jutted out from the ash layer.
The giant horn was dark gold in color and its surface was covered with natural patterns.
It was the very same one he had seen when he arrived.
He stopped at the base of the giant horn and slowly turned around.
Facing the way we came.
There was nothing on the wasteland of ashes.
Under the hazy sky, there was only an endless expanse of grayish-white ashes and huge white bones half-buried in the ashes.
There was no sign of him.
There was no movement.
But Lin Qiye knew that those things were there.
He spoke.
"come out."
The sound wasn't loud.
But in the desolate wasteland, it traveled very far.
no respond.
The ashes are still falling.
Lin Qiye added, "The rule of the Bone Ruins is not to ask where you came from or where you're going. But those rules are set for people who do business."
"He's followed me for half an hour; he probably doesn't want to do business with me."
There has still been no response.
But Lin Qiye sensed it.
Those gazes paused slightly.
Was discovered.
A slight twitch appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Hiding their heads and showing their tails, are the people of Bone Ruins all so unruly?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the layer of ashes moved about fifty feet to his right.
A figure slowly rose from the ashes.
It's not about standing up.
It emerged from underground.
The person was covered in a layer of grayish-white bone powder, like a corpse that had been buried in ashes for too long.
His face was hidden under his hood, with only his vertical pupils showing.
Dark red.
He looked exactly like the guard Lin Qiye had seen in the Bone Ruins.
Then, the second, the third, the fourth...
One after another, figures emerged from the ash layer.
Their attire was almost identical, all covered in grayish-white bone powder, and their eyes all had vertical pupils.
There are seven in total.
Adding to the seven gazes Lin Qiye initially sensed, they met perfectly.
Seven figures were scattered around Lin Qiye, partially surrounding him.
The closest one was less than thirty feet away from him.
The furthest one is about two hundred zhang away.
Lin Qiye glanced at them.
"People from Bone Ruins?"
No one answered.
The first figure to emerge spoke slowly.
"Blood Demon."
His voice was hoarse, much like the voices of the two guards at the entrance to the Bone Ruins.
"The Blood Demon hasn't appeared among the outsiders for a long time."
Lin Qiye asked, "So?"
The person did not answer directly.
He merely tilted his head, his vertical pupils flickering slightly beneath his hood.
"Bone Ruins does not engage in forced sales."
"But outside the Bone Ruins, there is no such rule."