"Murals? These small things have that ability?"
Pointing at the crystal crabs, Feng Yuan looked incredulous, and Veronia snorted lightly and said,
"That’s uncertain. The situation here is very strange. There are clearly numerous murals, yet no signs of human activity. From the tenth level onwards, each layer’s murals are different."
"Mine tunnels painted with murals?"
Agunas looked skeptically at Veronia. No matter which civilization, there is no precedent for this; at least, there is no such record in the annals.
"Not mine tunnels, more like ancient passages, primarily structured with bricks and stones. I think Tamur should be more familiar with this."
"I don’t know, it’s just the prevailing method of that time."
Tamur shook his body lightly and said coolly, Feng Yuan smiled and said,
"So, the mine tunnel isn’t everything. Wait? Agunas, is there any record in the research materials about such changes in the mine tunnels after a certain number of layers?"
"No."
Swishing his tail, Agunas answered affirmatively yet doubtfully; it had already reviewed all the materials and understood the place, but didn’t expect the situation here to be so complex that humans couldn’t uncover the secrets deep inside the mine tunnel.
"Tsk, then there must be something blocking it."
Saying this, Feng Yuan looked at Veronia. He didn’t think the researchers would overlook this; if there were something, there would definitely be records, even if it can’t be fully explored due to other reasons, there would be relevant reminders and records.
However, Agunas was unaware, indicating that, in the eyes of previous researchers, the mine tunnel was the entirety, the more obvious brick-and-stone passage below was undiscovered.
Achieving this isn’t difficult; most relics have this ability; otherwise, archaeologists wouldn’t have headaches, due to the existence of subspace and hidden space techniques, they aren’t sure how much space is hidden inside relics.
Presently, subspace hasn’t been detected here, but they might have used special methods to conceal the path forward; as for why Veronia didn’t notice?
No matter how it’s said, the crystal rose vine is Veronia’s Divine Beast Technique; ordinary hiding effects don’t work on it, let alone cause Veronia to sense something. Crystal tendrils, after all, are just an ultimate move, can’t retrieve all information.
"It should be some kind of illusion technique, but no matter, the tendrils ignore it."
Veronia recollected and said, indeed, it hadn’t sensed anything abnormal during the spread of the tendrils, which at least proves there’s no physical barrier obstructing, as for other issues?
It indeed doesn’t have an impact, at least for Feng Yuan’s group it is so. They just need to follow the spread of the tendrils to move forward, completely disregarding all illusions and other non-material impacting forces.
"Should we proceed now, or wait until I finish investigating?"
"Hmm, let’s check out the mural; I’m curious about what the murals actually record."
"Hmmph, just graffiti."
Following the crystal rose vine tendrils forward, walking for a long time, Feng Yuan’s group saw the end of the mine tunnel appearing ahead of the crystal rose vine tendrils, the shimmering crystalline glow of the tendrils unabashedly penetrated the rock wall.
"This is probably where the illusion is located, but this is really..."
This end is quite inconspicuous; if not for Veronia leading the way, even Feng Yuan might not have realized it’s an illusion, as for perception? Going all out, naturally could detect, but that is too tiring, Feng Yuan generally wouldn’t do that, the others...
Perhaps the Divine Beasts could discover, but human researchers are likely helpless; they couldn’t possibly use specialized detection devices on all mine tunnels, there are simply too many and too complicated.
The illusion posed no obstacle, following the crystal tendrils past the illusion, in sight, was the passage made of bricks and stones, similar to the mine tunnel, this stone passage was also very narrow.
On both sides of the stone passage, Feng Yuan did not see the murals Veronia mentioned, turning to look at Veronia, Feng Yuan said with a puzzled face,
"Where are the murals you mentioned?"
"Hmmph, still ahead, but the aura here... vast and ancient, really strange."
Veronia surveyed the surroundings in confusion, the place was far too odd, the previous mine tunnel had none of this aura, entering here, it’s like falling into an ancient city.
"The aura of an era."
Tamur suddenly spoke; seeing everyone looking at it, Tamur shook slightly and said indifferently,
"I don’t know what’s going on, here, there’s the aura of a past era, not the Mythical Era, but a period during the Dynasty Era."
As the Era Divine Beast, it is very sensitive to this kind of perception, it therefore detected that vast ancient aura, completely different from the Mythical Era aura.
Strangely, Tamur felt somewhat excited, but soon it looked disappointed, as the aura was faint, and not quite the same as its Mythical Era aura, at least, energy level-wise, not reaching the Divine Beast Level.
That is, merely the work of an Ordinary Spirit Beast, or some special device of humans?
Feng Yuan didn’t notice Tamur’s changes, touching his chin, he said,
"Era aura? This place is truly peculiar, why is there all sorts of random stuff."
Even he couldn’t figure out what was going on here, various strange things piled together, like someone casually taking some parts and throwing them together to form this bizarre Molan Giant Pit.
"Underground City? This place truly is... oh dear, we’ve been discovered."
Muttering, Veronia’s expression changed, the ground trembled slightly, Agunas looked at Veronia discontentedly and said,
"Don’t use explosive effects and ultimate moves in such places."
"It’s not me, those strange crystal sphere creations hit my tendrils by themselves."
"The power is so great, they’re not afraid it’ll collapse."
The continuously spreading crystal rose vine tendrils were obstructed for the first time, and the ongoing explosions made Feng Yuan and his group dare not stay in place, they must rush to that place to deal with those things.
At this time, Veronia had already withdrawn the tendrils that delved into the underground city, but unfortunately those creations chased out, the constantly emerging crystal spheres kept exploding, the ground trembled incessantly, Veronia couldn’t help but suspect those things wanted to collapse the place through explosions?
To let the secrets be buried by the collapse? But why?
Feeling the ongoing tremors, Feng Yuan hurriedly shouted to Agunas, though he could initiate similar actions, not as conveniently or safely as Agunas.
Agunas didn’t hesitate, with a wave of the little claw, an ancient clock emerged, its rotating hands froze by endless colorful ice, the trembling ground immediately halted.
No, not just the ground, the entire Molan Giant Pit was enveloped in a powerful time energy, from an external view, at this moment Molan Giant Pit was encapsulated by a giant sphere of chaos color.
Xiqing City naturally detected the massive energy reaction occurring here, but they quickly adjusted the alarm level, not only knowing Feng Yuan was there, but also because their monitoring systems recognized the sphere contains Agunas’s force.
As Divine Beasts naturally gain trust, especially considering Agunas’s reputation in Great Xia due to its involvement with the United Army.
Currently, they’re simply curious about what transpired in the Molan Giant Pit for Agunas to engage heavily.
"I can’t maintain a large-scale lockdown too long, must hurry."
Agunas said to Feng Yuan swiftly moving forward, Agunas’s time lockdown not only halts time flow, but separates the lockdown area from the time river, effectively preventing Time Spirit Beasts from using their methods to break the time stop effect.
But this also means Agunas doesn’t dare to maintain it too long, lest the separated area causes continuous anomalies in the time river, eventually creating massive disturbances.

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