Chapter 797 - 791: Target Located

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan quickly looked around, trying to find the hidden presence in the shadows.

However, Lin Yuan’s consciousness quickly spread throughout the entire thirty-third space.

In this thirty-third space, it was empty; not even a mouse could be found, let alone a person.

"Nothing?"

"How could there be nothing?" Lin Yuan was puzzled, with a head full of question marks.

If there was no one, who buried the Three Thousand Demon Gods?

Surely, they couldn’t have buried themselves?

"Could it be that this mysterious entity that buried the Three Thousand Demon Gods has some means of concealment that I cannot discover?" Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Since magic couldn’t find the hidden presence,

then strategies must be used.

Lin Yuan had a sudden brainwave and shouted: "Come out!"

"Come out quickly, I have already discovered you!"

"Come out, let’s have a good talk."

Lin Yuan attempted to use this method to flush out the hidden presence.

However, no matter how much Lin Yuan shouted, there was no response from the surroundings.

For a moment, Lin Yuan couldn’t discern whether his strategy was too childish and had been seen through,

or if the so-called mysterious person lurking in the shadows didn’t exist at all.

Lin Yuan furrowed his brows in contemplation, and after a long while, he murmured to himself: "Since I can’t find the so-called mysterious person in the shadows, I can only start with what’s around me, what I can find and see."

"Grave mounds, I need to see what is buried inside these grave mounds."

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan turned his gaze to the dense graves and then touched them with his consciousness.

Soon, Lin Yuan discovered a crucial problem.

The contents within these grave mounds couldn’t be spied upon.

Every time Lin Yuan’s consciousness touched a grave mound, his spiritual power would be bounced back.

Lin Yuan tried touching each of these grave mounds with his consciousness, but not a single attempt was successful.

Every time, his spiritual power was deflected, unable to ascertain what was buried within these grave mounds.

"Could it be that the ultimate grand formation controlling the Returning Ruins is hidden within these grave mounds?"

"Grave mounds can repel spiritual power and cannot be spied upon; do I have to excavate each one to check?"

"There are exactly three thousand grave mounds; if one were to dig through them all, who knows how long that would take?" A series of questions flooded Lin Yuan’s mind, and he felt a buzzing in his head, as if it were about to split open.

Gritting his teeth, Lin Yuan drew the Human King Sword with a sharp clang and said: "Damn it, let’s cut them all open."

Digging through all three thousand grave mounds one by one to check was indeed daunting.

However, daunting or not, it had to be done.

This was already the end of the Returning Ruins; there was no place further up.

This meant that the ultimate grand formation controlling the Returning Ruins had to be here.

Besides these three thousand grave mounds, Lin Yuan couldn’t find any other potential hiding places for the ultimate grand formation.

He had no option but to cut open and check each grave mound.

"Boom."

"Boom boom."

Just as Lin Yuan drew his sword, the grave mounds before him suddenly cracked open on their own.

The cracked grave mounds resembled void fissures; inside was pitch black, and he couldn’t see what was inside.

Lin Yuan stared intently at the cracked grave mounds, trying to discern what lay within.

At this moment, from the foremost cracked grave emerged a pair of beast claws.

Soon after, black gas and yellow gas emerged from some cracked graves, while green willow branches grew from others...

Seeing this, Lin Yuan turned pale with fright.

"Could it be that what’s buried here is really the Three Thousand Demon Gods of the Returning Ruins, and now they are either resurrecting or reanimating?" Lin Yuan felt a chill sweep over him, unable to stop muttering.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan felt as if something was standing behind him.

He turned his head to look behind, his heart sinking.

At this moment, what was a half-chilled heart was now thoroughly cold.

Behind Lin Yuan stood countless strange "people."

If they can even be counted as people.

Even though Lin Yuan had never seen these humanoid monsters, he could roughly guess that these humanoid monsters were the Three Thousand Demon Gods of the Returning Ruins.

These humanoid creatures had no trace of vitality, yet they emitted dense malice.

They were dead, of this, Lin Yuan was certain.

However, encountering the dead Three Thousand Demon Gods was more troublesome than encountering the living ones.

If he encountered living Three Thousand Demon Gods, at least they would have reason and could be reasoned with.

But if he encountered dead Three Thousand Demon Gods, they acted purely on instinct and were uncontrollable.

Lin Yuan could feel that the instinct of these malice-emitting Three Thousand Demon Gods was to kill him.

No, it should be to eat him.

At this moment, Lin Yuan’s back was drenched in cold sweat.

He appeared calm, but in reality, he was extremely flustered.

Back in the Returning Ruins’ heyday, the Three Thousand Demon Gods, though varied in strength, were undeniably all Tier One.

When alive, any one of the Three Thousand Demon Gods would have been much stronger than Lin Yuan.

The corpse-like Three Thousand Demon God bodies were far from their former power.

Moreover, the bodies of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, having been buried for so long, were already decayed.

Many Demon God corpses were dropping debris simply standing there, like crumbling pancakes.

If Lin Yuan faced a single corpse of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, he could utterly destroy it.

If he faced ten corpses of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, he might struggle, but he could handle it.

If, hypothetically, he faced a hundred corpses of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, with a fierce battle and putting in all his efforts, he could likely escape.

However, he was now facing all three thousand corpses of the Three Thousand Demon Gods.

At this time, Lin Yuan had no other options, only one:

Run!

"Boom."

"Boom boom."

After all three thousand grave mounds cracked open, the thirty-third space continued to tremble as if an earthquake was occurring.

Just as Lin Yuan attempted to flee to a lower layer of space, the ground of the thirty-third space disappeared, replaced by a palace rising from the cracks.

The palace exuded an imposing aura, and Lin Yuan could feel an incredibly powerful grand formation slowly awakening within the palace’s main hall.

Yes, awakening.

Lin Yuan had a feeling that the grand formation within the palace’s main hall was alive.

"The grand formation controlling the Returning Ruins!"

"Yes, it must be the grand formation controlling the Returning Ruins!" Lin Yuan said confidently.

Even though he had never seen the grand formation controlling the Returning Ruins.

But when this formation appeared, Lin Yuan was certain this was the grand formation controlling the Returning Ruins, this was his goal.

He found it!

Finally, he found it!