Chapter 990 - Nine-Tailed Icefox (1/2)

The magic beast statues atop those twelve thick stone pillars seemed to come alive, and the entire temple seemed to be resurrecting.

After three minutes, that huge array at the front of the temple started shining. With a flash of light, the thirty people instantly disappeared.

Then, everyone reappeared in a new area.

The first thing they saw was a long, dusky hallway that was over a kilometer wide and several hundred meters high. Thick columns were supporting the dome above their heads.

They were standing atop huge pieces of ashen cyan rock that were covered in simple yet magnificent patterns.

“Hell, the ground is actually made of Ash Bluestone, and it’s a solid piece of Ash Bluestone! So extravagant…”

Upon seeing what they were standing on, Morgan couldn’t help bending down to try digging at it, his eyes red.

Lin Yun was slightly startled as he heard this. He had glanced at it but hadn’t been too sure. Morgan’s surprised shout slightly distracted him.

Ash Bluestone… That name didn’t seem particularly amazing, but it hadn’t been produced since the Nesser Dynasty.

It was loved by the Pureblood Elves and was one of the few hardest kinds of rock in Noscent. More importantly, Ash Bluestone came with its own patterns. It had innate magic patterns and possessed extremely high resistance to physical attacks. Those under the Heaven Rank could only dream of splitting Ash Bluestone.

And its magic resistance didn’t pale in comparison to its hardness. Both fire and ice had no effect on it. The only general method to cut Ash Bluestone was to compound a special potion, allowing those under the Heaven Rank to mine the precious mineral.

The recipe behind that compound had always been a classified secret of the Pureblood Elves. Besides their higher-ups, no one knew about it.

Because of this, Ash Bluestone could only be obtained from the Pureblood Elves at the time, and only the most respected people would be qualified to use Ash Bluestone in their buildings. At that time, the Pureblood Elves’ most powerful war fortress was mainly built using Ash Bluestone.

In those days, the Dark Elven rebellion failed and they were exiled, but the main reason behind their defeat shouldn’t be ignored. It was because the Pureblood Elves dispatched a floating war fortress made of Ash Bluestone.

During the 3rd Dynasty, no Ash Bluestone veins could be found within Noscent’s land. Only the Endless Sea might still have some, but that was at the seabed. Even if they discovered it, they couldn’t mine it from that place.

But the tiles here were made of ten-meter-wide pieces of Ash Bluestone, and each one of them had gone through strict selection regarding cutting and polishing. Each piece seamlessly merged with the rest, and the magic patterns were completely linked together.

In such a large place, the defenses built were absolutely comparable to a Spatial Barrier, and even if Heaven Rank powerhouse went all out, he wouldn’t be able to shatter the floor.

The floor aside, even those thick stone pillars were made of Ash Bluestone. Besides Ash Bluestone, nothing else could support that huge hallway. The current Noscent couldn’t create a hallway of this size without the help of magic.

Everyone cautiously took a step forward, when suddenly, flames ignited on the pillars.

At this time, everyone could see the parts of the pillars that weren’t still shrouded in darkness. Countless statues of ancient magic beasts were spiralling atop the pillars, and spheres of flames were coming from their mouths.

All the spheres of fire within the statues’ mouths burned even brighter, illuminating that originally dusky long hallway.

Then, a sort of huge pressure pierced through their eyes, seemingly suppressing everyone’s souls.

As the darkness was cleared by the light, twelve huge statues could be seen.

Both sides of the hallway had caved-in shrines, and those huge statues were standing in those shrines.

“Those are the twelve Beast Gods worshipped by the Beastmen!” someone from the Odin Kingdom exclaimed.

They all vigilantly walked through the hallway and were able to confirm that those twelve shrines were only statues and not some terrifying magic beasts.

These twelve Beast Gods had nothing in common in terms of appearance. The tallest had the shape of a Golden Behemoth, and the top of its head was already reaching the ceiling.

There were plenty of different beasts, but they were over a hundred meters in height. Lin Yun reacted to one of the statues in particular.

That Beast God statue stood a hundred and fifty meters in height, and it was in the shape of a large, majestic wolf. It had no fur, as it seemed to be covered in a layer of bone armor. Its neck had a malevolent ring of bone armor that seemed to be a layer of sharp knives.

The most conspicuous part was the third eye on its forehead, and that eye seemed to pierce through time, apparently understanding the flow of the river of time.

Seeing that statue, Lin Yun suddenly thought of the young Three-Eyed Wolf he had been raising. Apart from its speed, the small wolf didn’t have much fighting power.

Lin Yun became pensive as he thought about those two Ancestor Souls shamelessly living in the Demiplane and trying to brainwash their Wolf God every day.