68 Ruins

Lucien entered the ruins and walked through narrow paths until he found some kind of hall or something. Fortunately for him, there weren't dark because the Washuu Clan already built everything for proper excavation.

This hall was not overly big but not even small. There were several people inside, all of them were agents of Vasuki and were guarding the single door, that was at the end of the hall. Doors were huge enough to be called a smaller gate. They were made from metal and were dark gold in color. The entire hall was covered with various carving on the walls, describing various legends and myths about the Kunlun Mountains. It created a very beautiful and mystical sight.

When Lucien observed closer, but still remaining hidden, he noticed that entire hall was filled with various gadgets and crates. Agents of Vasuki were on high vigilance as they guarded the small gate, leading to the deeper parts of the Ancestral Site of the Shi Xue Clan. As there were only eleven agents of Vasuki here, Lucien congealed his kagune and rushed at the closest agent.

As this was ambush attack, the poor man was killed before he could even draw out his sword to defend. Lucien proceeded to another one, with great speed, killing them one after another. Lucien was too strong for them to resist, and after several minutes they were all killed. Then he stored the bodies inside, Cross Crest, Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory and went to the carvings on the wall.

On one peculiar carving, which caught Lucien's interest, was described something interesting. There was a fight from several hundred years ago when they were fighting against those Holy Knights, and eradicating them in process. But the losses were too huge, and even though they achieved victory, there was nothing to celebrate. When he was reading this carving, he noticed that it wasn't finished entirely. Probably they couldn't finish the carving, as the Shi Xue Clan was betrayed and massacred by the Washuu Clan soon after the end of the war.

On another carving, next to this one, was an image of some mythical Divine Beasts, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise and lastly White Tiger. They were very imposing images of these creatures and just by look one could tell the nobleness and divines of the carving.

After looking at all carvings and reading them all, Lucien went to the small gate and with both of his hands, he managed to open it without any problems. The small gate was extremely heavy, Lucien thought the Washuu Clan must use some machine or something to open it. When he looked back at the hall, there were some things reminiscent of some machine.

When he looked behind the small gate, there was a stairway leading deep underground. Even Lucien couldn't see the end of the stairway. But he knew that this was leading to the Ancestral Site of the Shi Xue Clan, as the true site was located deep under the Kunlun Mountains. He walked down and after half an hour he finally arrived at the end of the stairway. Before him was another small golden gate, same as the previous one.

When he opened the small golden gate, he almost fainted from what he saw there. There was a giant cave, of unknown size. This cave was so huge, that Lucien couldn't even see the end of the cave. Small rivers were going through the entire place and some trees and bamboos were growing here. The trees growing here weren't the same as those on the surface.

There were glowing in light blue color and thanks to them, the entire place wasn't dark and had a nice atmosphere. Aside from trees, bamboos and many other plants that were growing here, there were also many buildings in ancient Chinese architecture across the place. Clearly, they were abandoned for several hundred years and some were even half destroyed.

Lucien went to the house, that was close to him. It was a very small house as they weren't any large building here. He opened the door and entered the house. The first thing he saw was the skeleton of a man on the ground.

'Probably some members of the Shi Xue Clan managed to survive and either remained here during the war or returned after war and betrayal of the Washuu Clan. Either way, there is now a slight almost impossible possibility that maybe someone survived. If they entered hibernation they could survive for several hundred years.'

Thought Lucien as he searched the house for some valuables. He found several blood essences hidden here and immediately he stored them away. Then he exited the house and followed the road that was constructed here. The road itself was constructed from stone and was going through entire cave and rivers.

Not even five minutes went by as five agents of Vasuki and two members of the Washuu Clan appeared and were already rushing at Lucien with their katanas. Lucien entered Kakuja V2 this time and he disappeared from the place where he stood. He only appeared behind the agents of Vasuki and members of the Washuu Clan, with blood on his kagune katana as he slashed in the air.

He looked behind him and watched as all of them fell on the ground, without any sights of life. He stored the bodies inside the Cross Crest and proceeded further. He constantly admired the beauty of this place as he was watching various buildings in ancient Chinese architecture and the unique beauty of nature here as they were coexisting together, creating wonderful and rare scenery.

He also searched every building in his way and managed to obtain several good things and even some important treasures. Also, he killed several more agents of Vasuki and members of the Washuu Clan.

From the houses, he searched he obtained tens of blood essences, which was a good harvest. Good thing on the blood essence of that, even after countless years it wouldn't lose its effect as it had when it was freshly refined. Next things obtained were three Blood-Essence Sacred Refining Furnaces in the best condition. He stored them in his Cross Crest, Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory. These Blood-Essence Sacred Refining Furnaces would be a very huge help to the Aeon House, as Blood-Essence Sacred Refining Furnace was limited treasure and only a few of them was in hands of Aeon House and Tepes House.