Shen Qing felt icy cold all over. She rummaged through the memories after receiving the inheritance, only to find that there was no information about this part in her memory.
Shen Qing walked forward slowly. When she clearly saw the cruel scene in front of the stone statues, she suddenly closed her eyes. She was afraid that if she was a second late, she would vomit.
The lingering smell of blood had turned into a stench, lingering in Shen Qing's nose. She had no choice but to seal her sense of smell with spiritual power. Only when the stench disappeared did Shen Qing feel less uncomfortable.
She endured her emotions and opened her eyes, surveying the surroundings.
The merman corpses were neatly placed in front of the stone statues. These mermen had been drained of blood and died. Their faces were hideous, and their skin was as pale as paper.
As for the blood of these mermen, it was casually splashed around the stone statues, casting a strange and terrifying shadow over these originally solemn and majestic stone statues.
The mermen's bellies had been brutally cut open and stuffed with the limbs and skeletons of spiritual beasts, making their bellies bulge high.
This was clearly a cruel sacrifice of living beings.
The scene in front of her reminded her of the tragic situation of the spiritual spring.
Lin Yibai had let the demon soldiers massacre the living beings in the secret realm. At that time, Shen Qing could still console herself that the living beings born in the secret realm would return to the earth after death and would eventually reappear as spiritual beasts.
But now, all the living beings massacred in front of her were spiritual beasts with spiritual intelligence.
Needless to say, the mermen.
If Li Xian saw this scene, she didn't know how much he would loathe the Dragon Clan.
Wuwang was worried that Shen Qing would be in danger alone, so he also endured the nausea and chased after her, closely following Shen Qing's side.
He covered his nose with his paw and said小心翼翼ly, "Shen Qing... Does our Dragon Clan have the custom of sacrificing living beings?"
Shen Qing's mouth moved faster than her brain and immediately denied it, "How could there be such a thing!"
But after she said that, both she and the sword fell silent.
The scene in front of them was evidence, and it wasn't something Shen Qing could deny.
Shen Qing covered her mouth. When she raised her hand, she found that she had been trembling.
Just now, she had only been looking at the strangely placed corpses on the ground and had forgotten to observe the stone statues.
There were a total of four stone statues, which were huge in size. Shen Qing looked up and felt that the stone statues were almost as tall as the roof. No wonder the space here was made so large.
The heads of the stone statues were in the shape of dragons, wearing jade crowns. Below the heads, they were carved to be wearing a long - sleeved cross - collared palace dress, and the embroidery patterns on it were carved vividly.
The eyes of all four stone statues were closed. Shen Qing noticed that except for the stone statue on the far left, which had a glimmer of light, the other stone statues were dull.
Shen Qing was puzzled. Just as she was about to step closer, she was blocked by Wuwang's paw. "Shen Qing, don't go over!"
"These stone statues are so hideous, and they all have green faces and fangs. How dare you go over there!"
Hearing this, Shen Qing looked back in surprise and asked, "What did you say?!"
Wuwang quickly repeated what he had just said. In his eyes, the four stone statues in front of him didn't look like the Dragon Clan at all. Instead, they looked like hellish demons, and they all had blood and tears streaming from their eyes.
Only the one on the far left looked a bit better, with a less terrifying expression.
After hearing Wuwang's description, Shen Qing was a bit dazed for a moment.
She cast her eyes on the corpses placed on the ground again. Enduring the fear and nausea in her heart, she looked at them one by one.
The merman corpses were placed extremely neatly. Even though the time flow in this space was slow, they were gradually turning into mummies. Shen Qing could only console herself slightly in this Shura - like scene.
Fortunately, these corpses hadn't rotted...
Wuwang was shivering, but seeing Shen Qing bravely investigating, he had no choice but to stay by her side.
Slowly, Shen Qing noticed something strange, and this strangeness gradually made her ignore the fear in her heart.
She quickly asked Wuwang, "Did you just say that only the stone statue on the far left doesn't look so terrifying?"
Wuwang quickly nodded and followed Shen Qing's gaze. "Yes, yes! Did you discover something... Hey! Hey! So that's it!"
In front of the stone statue on the far left, it seemed as if someone had deliberately cleaned it. There was a particularly clean wiping mark.
The merman corpses in front of the stone statue had also been deliberately moved away. There were no merman corpses in front of this stone statue.
But Shen Qing could tell that the person who did these things seemed to be in a great hurry. He seemed to want to clean up everything here, but due to some reason, he only had time to clean the stone statue on the far left.
Thinking of this, the haze in Shen Qing's heart dissipated a bit.
At least this could prove that these cruel sacrifices were not the custom of the entire Dragon Clan. As long as these were cleaned up, the stone statues would return to normal.
But then, Shen Qing's eager heart cooled down again.
If these sacrifices were not the tradition of the Dragon Clan, then someone had deliberately placed them here, with the intention of... making the Dragon Clan lose their abilities and thus become fish on the chopping block.
So, on the day the Dragon Clan was exterminated, in fact, the Dragon Clan had a chance to save themselves!
But because of this person, the Dragon Clan lost their ability to save themselves and could only be brutally massacred.
Who on earth... would do such a thing!
Seeing Shen Qing's face changing from sunny to gloomy, Wuwang softly called out, "Shen Qing... Are you okay?"
Shen Qing came back to her senses, thought for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "We need to clean up these corpses properly. Only in this way will the stone statues regain their light."
Wuwang twitched the corner of his mouth and glanced at the hideous stone statues and the terrifying corpses out of the corner of his eye.
Shen Qing! Are you listening to what you're saying!
Wuwang said tremblingly, "Shen Qing, or you could use your spiritual sense?"
Hearing this, Shen Qing closed her eyes and spread out her spiritual sense. This time, she saw the scene in Wuwang's eyes, but Shen Qing could see more clearly than Wuwang. The stone statues were covered with black smoke.
Those were the lingering grudges of the massacred living beings in front of her.
They entangled the stone statues, absorbing the power of the stone statues. After tens of thousands of years, these grudges had already merged with the stone statues. It would be extremely difficult to purify them.
No wonder these stone statues shed tears of blood.
Shen Qing knew that she couldn't complete this arduous task with her own ability alone, but she immediately thought of someone.
Xueling!
At this moment, Xueling, who was holding back Li Xian from going crazy, shivered...
After making up her mind, Shen Qing immediately decided to leave this place first and bring Xueling in.
But when Shen Qing saw the merman corpses, she hesitated for a moment. If Xueling knew, then Li Xian would surely know too.
By then...
But in just a few moments, Shen Qing immediately despised herself.
Since she couldn't use the space technique here, Shen Qing simply picked up Wuwang and quickly left this place, walking outside the temple.
This place was already bound to her spiritual sea, just like when she came and went in the space. Shen Qing closed her eyes, and her figure reappeared in the teahouse.
Shen Qing was about to go looking for Xueling when she found that this place was in a mess. Even the yard was in disarray, as if it had experienced a fight.