Shen Ran’s expression changed slightly. Then he condensed the spiritual power in his body and smashed it fiercely at the huge stone altar in front of him.

“Boom!!!”

A powerful air wave blocked Shen Ran’s attack, causing a violent tremor.

How can this be? Shen Ran approached and realized that this wave protection came from the eight stone pillars.

It seems that I have to destroy these eight stone pillars first. Shen Ran changed targets.

He reached out and grabbed at the air. A cold sword appeared.

The cold sword slashed out, and a sharp sword qi slashed at one of the stone pillars.

The moment the sword light slashed out, a ball of red aura quickly rushed out of the stone pillar. This ball of aura quickly condensed and formed a mutated beast.

The mutated beast’s eyes were scarlet as it glared at Shen Ran and let out a thunderous roar, “Who dares to disturb my rest again?”

Shen Ran looked at the mutated beast in front of him and revealed a trace of doubt. He said in a low voice, “Who are you? Why are you guarding this poisonous miasma?”

The mutated beast looked straight ahead and emitted a terrifying beast power. It was as if thousands of huge beasts had spoken at the same time, “How dare you!”

The mutated beast rushed towards Shen Ran and was the first to launch the attack.

An extremely strange red aura instantly scattered and changed into various forms.

Shen Ran’s expression was fierce. He held the cold sword in his hand and quickly flashed, drawing out sword lights.

“Cha!”

“Cha!”

The sword light collided heavily with the mutated beast and quickly dissipated.

The mutated beast’s eyes turned extremely black as it stared at Shen Ran. It let out a painful howl and rushed over again.

This time, purple miasma erupted from the beast’s body.

Shen Ran’s expression changed. His body moved violently, and the spiritual energy around him formed a huge barrier. He flew over and stabbed with his sword.

“Bang!”

With a full-powered strike, the sword light erupted, and the entire forest emitted a muffled sound.

The mutated beast’s body split apart and emitted strange purple light. It exploded into an even more intense purple miasma before finally dissipating.

The moment the mutated beast dissipated, the other seven stone pillars began to tremble violently. The chains kept colliding.

“Clang clang clang!”

“Clang clang clang!”

Shen Ran stared at everything in front of him and guessed something.

These stone pillars sealed mutated beasts as defense. The blood on the chains was the blood of those mutated beasts.

Who the hell did this?

Shen Ran frowned and observed his surroundings. He probed with his spiritual power and realized that there was no one else around.

As the stone pillar seals were continuously broken, seven mutated beasts appeared one after another. Their eyes were red as they attacked Shen Ran together.

Shen Ran pointed his sword at the starry sky and jumped up. He mobilized all the spiritual energy around him and absorbed the surrounding energy as support to attack these mutated beasts.

The sword light was like a sharp light that swept through the world. Ripples appeared in the void, and the air kept trembling.

A sharp light flew over, and a terrifying force tore through the void. These mutated beasts did not have the strength to fight back at all. They all turned into condensed purple miasma and dissipated.

After doing all this, the stone pillars were all destroyed, and the surroundings returned to silence.

Shen Ran’s gaze was cold as he stared at the stone altar that was still emitting miasma and he slowly approached.

He realized that the material used to make this stone altar was very special. With the sword in his hand, he could not destroy it at all.

What exactly is the Mystic Crystal made to suppress? Shen Ran frowned.

This thumb-sized Mystic Crystal was extremely beneficial to cultivation.

At this moment, in front of Shen Ran was an entire Mystic Crystal that had been formed.

If the people outside found out, these Mystic Crystals would be enough to cause a bloody storm.

However, Shen Ran was not interested in these Mystic Crystals now.

He was interested in why this stone altar was built with such expensive materials like Mystic Crystals.

As everyone knew, Mystic Crystals had the effect of healing and increasing spiritual power.

Therefore, could it be that what was under this stone altar needed the help of so many Mystic Crystals to heal its injuries??

Then what was this miasma?

Only by destroying this stone altar would he know everything.

Shen Ran frowned slightly, his gaze was steady. He stopped attacking the stone altar and turned to attack the ground.

There must be something beneath. Shen Ran’s sword qi scattered and slashed at the ground.

A few sword lights flew over, and a few huge ravines were exposed on the ground.

Part of the structure of the stone altar was still hidden in the gully. A passage was opened under the ground, and the surroundings were still covered in Mystic Crystals.

Shen Ran’s expression was solemn as he suddenly thought of something.

Perhaps these Mystic Crystals were not used for healing, but for suppression.

Apart from being beneficial to cultivation, the Mystic Crystal also had a great effect of suppressing evil spirits.

That’s right. There must be something evil down below.

Shen Ran understood and looked at the exit of the stone altar that emitted miasma.

The miasma here was the densest. It could be imagined that if one went deeper into this passage, the miasma inside would be even richer.

It was not impossible for him to block this miasma with his spiritual power, but he did not know how powerful the evil creature inside was.

I can’t care so much. Shen Ran decided to try.

He immediately flew towards the miasma exit. As expected, he saw a passageway big enough for three people. It was relatively spacious.

Shen Ran plunged all the way down the passageway for thousands of meters before he saw flat ground.

It’s actually an underground palace. Shen Ran was surprised to find that when he arrived at the underground palace, the miasma had completely dissipated. Did I guess wrongly?

Shen Ran was even more curious about this underground palace.

He wanted to see who was playing tricks.

Just as Shen Ran continued walking, he suddenly felt a chill.

This coldness seeped into his bones and struck his soul, making him unguarded.

Who is it? Shen Ran frowned and looked around warily.

At this moment, a soul body condensed in front of him.

This soul body emitted a blue light and assumed the posture of an old man. “After waiting for ten thousand years, someone finally came.”

Seeing that the old man did not have any ill intentions, Shen Ran asked, “Who are you? Why are you emitting miasma here?”

The old man looked at Shen Ran with a complicated expression before revealing a look of surprise. “Are you… really a Saint Body? Since you really have a Saint Body? Hahahaha…”

Shen Ran was speechless and said solemnly, “Do you know about the miasma outside?”

The old man stopped smiling and nodded slowly, “Of course I do.”

Shen Ran asked again, “This miasma is poisonous and has already covered the entire forest. What is it used for?”

The old man sighed and explained, “This underground palace is a cage. I’ve been trapped here for ten thousand years. Other than me, there’s naturally someone else here. That miasma should be emitted from that person.”

“That person? Who is it?” Shen Ran sensed that something was amiss, as if the old man was very afraid of that person.

“That person… He’s very dangerous. This miasma is his way of taking revenge on the world.” The old man sighed again, then shook his head. “However, you can’t defeat him. Don’t court death.”

The old man tried to persuade him kindly.