Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 786 A Mystery

The scene in front of Rocky flashed in a thunder of lights and suddenly changed into a desolate landscape. The ice tomb was gone.

"How could this be?!" Rocky froze in total shock then flew down. Just a moment before, he was staring at a huge ice tomb. All of a sudden, it was gone.

Rocky pulled the treasure map from his pockets and looked at it again. It indicated that he was in the correct place.

"Could the treasure map be wrong?" Rocky told himself as he stroked his own chin. "Emperors and ministers from the ancient times used to create simulated tombs to bait people and avoid the destruction of the real one. Does that mean that the Myriad Spirit Tomb is actually in a different place?”

Rocky wondered how he could differentiate what was real or not. He closed his eyes and thought long and hard before jumping down from the sand slope.

When he opened his eyes, the scene changed back into the original landscape.

"This must be an illusion.” Rocky leapt and landed on the huge ice tomb. On it, he saw countless figures of all shapes and sizes. Some of them were extremely tall, perhaps more than ten meters high, while others were only the size of a palm. Some had black faces and tusks, while others had wings like birds. None of them looked human.

The creatures’ sight only reminded Rocky of one thing: the spiritual race.

Rocky ran across the ice road that went through the entire ice tomb. He was shaking in fear. The ice tomb buried tens of thousands of members from different clans of the spiritual race. Why they were buried altogether, he did not know.

As he explored further, he gained some answers. It looked like the clans had undergone a very fierce battle. Many of them only had fragments of broken bones while some were beheaded. All of them looked terrifying.

"It looks like they went through an intense battle before dying,” Rocky guessed. He could only imagine how intense it must have been. The tens of thousands of members fighting at the same time would have caused quite a scene.

He remembered the battlefield of beasts he had just passed by. Perhaps that could explain the broken corpses he was seeing. He figured that the masters of the beasts fought with each other as well, thus resulting in a completely desolate place.

Perhaps a terrible deadly war had occurred on the land he was in.

However, Rocky could only speculate. The truth might be more complicated. For all Rocky knew, the bodies buried might be clans of the spiritual race that existed on the Wild Spirit Land, both extinct and non-extinct ones. He was unable to guess what could have caused the war to begin with.

Of course, these clans of the spiritual race might represent two or even more forces. If that was the case, then conflict was not impossible.

But a question remained: why did they all have to be buried in a single place? Why built such a huge ice tomb? This was an even bigger question if they were in fact from different forces.

With his mind racing, he continued walking along the ice road and had finally arrived at the center of the ice tomb. He looked up and saw that there was an engraving of the three powerful lively runes. They did not look like they were written by humans; most likely they belonged to some clans. Nevertheless, Rocky was able to read the inscription as, "Myriad Spirit Tomb."

"So this is the legendary Myriad Spirit Tomb after all. The place where tens of thousands of clans of the spiritual race, which is now rare on the Wild Spirit Land, are buried. What a great opportunity for me to see many different clans of the spiritual race at once!" exclaimed Rocky.

Then, Rocky went to the back of the icy tombstone where he saw several lines of runes. Unfortunately, he was unable to decipher it. He decided to memorize the lines of runes. On his way back, he could seek help from experts in translating them. Perhaps this could help him understand the true background of the Myriad Spirit Tomb.

"The treasure map showed this Myriad Spirit Tomb without any other instructions. I hope that means the treasure is nearby.” Rocky continued exploring the icy tombstone but had failed to see any signs of treasure.

"Hmmm, ' Rocky thought, “maybe this isn't a treasure map. Maybe this is just a guide to find the Myriad Spirit Tomb." Rocky inspected the treasure map in his hand. If what he thought was true, then he came in vain and only exposed himself to risks. He would come home empty-handed.

He almost gave up but, suddenly, he felt a strong aura coming from all directions. The temperature dropped and the atmosphere became grave. The entire place filled with strong resentment.

Rocky perked up. He could sense that someone was approaching him. Shivers went down his spine. He could feel someone's sticky glares on his skin. He started to tremble.

His face turned pale. He wanted to leave the Myriad Spirit Tomb immediately. He knew that any treasure he'd find was not worth his life. But before he could take any action, a dozen of black beast shadows with different shapes appeared in the air. Rocky's eyes widened. He could feel the beasts" aura. It was at the Supernal Stage.

The gravity of the situation dawned on Rocky. He was surrounded by a dozen strong warriors at the Supernal Stage.

"Wait a minute. Are those Soul-shadow Beasts recorded by the Beast Encyclopedia? From what I know, those are souls without a physical body. They looked like shadows and possessed a power greater than that of a spirit-manipulated beast. It was said that the Soul-shadow Beast was refined by the soul of an ancient spiritual beast by the spiritual race, but without a lot of success. These are supposedly rare creatures. Only the spiritual race is able to control such a Soul-shadow Beast.” Rocky recalled all the information about the beasts in front of him. He looked like he was in complete shock. He didn't think he'd encounter such a rare beast, especially more than ten of them at the same time.

However, it was also recorded in the Beast Encyclopedia that Soul-shadow Beasts were divided into two kinds. One was the Shadow Beast and the other was the Soul Beast. The latter was more powerful than the former.

Rocky supposed that the dozen of black beasts in front of him were Shadow Beasts instead. If they were Soul Beasts, Rocky couldn't even begin to imagine what would happen to him.