Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1512 - 453: [World-Origin Object: I Am Here.]

A stone pipe winds down to a depth of dozens of meters underground, the slender pipe only as thick as a person’s thumb.

A small insect crawls down the pipe and, upon reaching the exit, spreads its wings and flies.

Below the end of the pipe is an underground cavern.

It appears not to be artificially carved, as though formed by nature itself.

However, on the ground, some stone slabs are laid, as if placed and adorned by later visitors who discovered this place.

The cavern’s space is not large, approximately twenty or thirty square meters, but its height exceeds four or five meters, with lower sides and a higher center.

Moreover, the rock walls appear extremely solid.

After landing on the ground, the insect transforms into a human figure.

This place is pitch black, devoid of any light source, yet Chen Yan, thanks to the Illusion-Breaking Divine Skill, can see as clearly as in daylight even in such darkness.

After carefully scanning the cavern, Chen Yan’s brows furrow.

Is this... a graveyard?

No, it might not be. Yet, even if it isn’t a graveyard, it is undoubtedly a "dead zone"!

In this enclosed space, the air is thick and suffocating, filled with an extremely pungent scent of blood!

The blood scent is so intense that the air almost feels viscous.

As Chen Yan steps here, he feels a slippery sensation underfoot, as if stepping on soft, muddy soil.

On the edges of the cavern, there are several mummified corpses.

The corpses’ clothing has long been weathered, and even the flesh has rotted and dried up, leaving only the skeletal outline.

The mummies number four in total, all posed in the same position: kneeling on the ground with hands on their chests.

To pose corpses in such a position after death is quite difficult, as the body stiffens, making complex postures hard to arrange.

Thus, according to Chen Yan’s judgment, this kneeling posture with hands on the chest must have been adopted voluntarily before death to maintain its form post-mortem.

All four mummies kneel in the corners, facing the center of the cavern.

However, upon closer inspection, Chen Yan realizes there are five mummies, not four.

One of them has fallen and its skeletal outline shattered, scattered on the ground, losing its complete form—perhaps due to extreme aging, leading to decay that makes maintaining posture impossible.

He examines each mummy in turn, noticing differences.

Though the clothing on the mummies has weathered, traces reveal the style of the garments.

Yet, some personal artifacts have resisted the erosion of time.

On one mummy, Chen Yan finds a stone dagger, rough-hewn as if a tool from primitive civilization.

Another mummy has next to it on the ground an extremely long tooth-carved weapon, over two meters in length, mostly decomposed. It appears to be crafted from a giant beast’s tusk.

Judging by the remaining size of the tusk carving knife, there is no land animal in the present world with a tusk this long.

Even the largest land animal now, the African Elephant, has tusks over two meters, but they are curved or bent.

This straight tusk, over two meters long, couldn’t match the size even of an African Elephant’s tusk.

Chen Yan thinks, based on his rudimentary biology knowledge, he can only conceive of the ancient Mammoth.

In the third mummy’s arms is a rotten leather sheath containing a metal short knife.

This material is different again.

Chen Yan watches for a while before nodding slightly.

The personal weapons of these mummies range from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, indicating these mummies are not from the same era.

They must be people from different times who, before dying, came here to kneel, then died in that pose.

This place is certainly ancient enough!

However, these mummies are not the most important things in this cavern.

Chen Yan’s gaze falls on something in the center of the cavern that makes his breath quicken—it grips his attention, leaving it stuck in his vision!

Chen Yan feels his heartbeat becoming erratic!

He takes a deep breath, steadies himself, and retrieves a powerful flashlight from his Storage Jade Pendant.

Although with his Illusion-Breaking Divine Techniques he can see in darkness, the object he discovered is too precious!

Chen Yan fears missing even a minute detail during examination, so despite having Illusion-Breaking Divine Techniques, he must illuminate with the flashlight to ensure adequate light conditions for close observation.

At the center of the cavern, on the ground, is an "plant" emerging from the surface.

Describing it as a plant is not accurate.

It’s because this thing’s form is reminiscent of a plant, like a small tree with a trunk as thick as a human fist, growing upwards, branching out and adorned with oval-shaped "leaves" on the branches.