I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon novel Chapter 1174

"Mr. Chen..."

"Mr. Chen?"

Chen Mo snapped back to reality, only to realize Yu Hongyin was standing next to him, looking at him with concern. "Are you okay?"

"What happened?" His expression was still a bit dazed.

Yu Hongyin scratched her head, "Just now, after you touched this stone monument, you didn't move at all. It was like you were hit by an immobilization spell; your face even lost all its color. You looked quite frightening..."

"A hallucination?"

"No, it was all real. I witnessed what happened back then with my own eyes!"

Chen Mo came to his senses, filled with shock.

He wasn't sure how this scene had been preserved. Perhaps it was Baxa's obsession in life, or maybe it was the effect of this stone monument.

But what he could confirm was, he recognized the man who killed the alien beast!

And they had met not long ago!

"Martial Saint Pei Fengmian..."

"It was him?!"

Compared to the elder he had seen at Martial Saint Mountain, the man looked much younger, but his facial features were quite similar, maybe eighty to ninety percent, and his voice was exactly the same. It could almost certainly be concluded that it was the same person!

"He also mentioned the name Ling Xiao, which should refer to that Qilin?"

Back then, Huo Wuya had said that after proving his path to the Ultimate Venerable and founding the Martial Saint Mountain, one day Pei Fengmian and the Holy Beast Qilin suddenly disappeared, leaving no clue of their whereabouts.

Long after, only the heavily injured Qilin returned to the sect, yet Pei Fengmian was still missing. Only when the bound Divine Soul Jade Scroll shattered did they know he had perished!

Martial Saint Mountain searched for hundreds of years but never found the body, nor understood why their ancestor ultimately fell...

"Could it be that Master Pei died here?"

Chen Mo furrowed his brows tightly.

From what he could see in that scene, the pressure Pei Fengmian exuded was at the top tier of the Ultimate Venerable level, possibly even surpassing Huo Wuya.

Such a figure wouldn't be far off from being invincible in the world.

What terrifying entity, then, could have killed Pei Fengmian?

"Now's not the time to think about these things. It's been so long, and chasing it down wouldn't yield any results."

"What's most important now is to find the Immortal Materials to refine a Golden Core first."

Just as Chen Mo was about to leave, his gaze fell upon that stone monument, surprisingly discovering that he could suddenly understand the characters upon it.

[Mountains and rivers fall into the palm, the stele rises to suppress the Nine Abysses, majestic and unyielding, unreachable and unattainable.]

"Zhenyu Stele..."

"Since it could suppress and kill Baxa, it must be an extraordinary magical treasure. Maybe I should just take it along."

He activated the Purple Extreme Cave Heaven, with an invisible force field spreading and climbing the monument, trying to refine it.

Yet the stone monument was too large, and even when extending the force field as much as possible, he couldn't entirely envelop it.

Reluctantly, Chen Mo had to give up. He muttered unwillingly, "What a pity; if only it could shrink a bit..."

Shrrr—

A soft sound echoed.

Perhaps it was a misconception, but the stone monument seemed to have indeed shrunk a bit.

"Hmm?"

Chen Mo was taken aback for a moment, then tentatively said, "Even smaller?"

Under his watch, the stone monument's size shrank again, the height reducing to fifty zhang!

"It really works!"

"Smaller, even smaller..."

Eventually, that towering hundred-zhang stone monument shrank to the size of a palm and fell into his grasp!

Weighing it in his hand, it felt quite hefty, about a hundred pounds. It seemed that not only could its size be adjusted at will, but its mass also changed accordingly, truly extraordinary!

Immediately, a system prompt flashed before his eyes:

[You have obtained a wonder: Zhenyu Stele.]

Only then did Chen Mo realize that this magical treasure did not need refining; from the moment he recognized the inscription, it already belonged to him!

"Could it be that because I obtained Master Pei's inheritance, this item easily recognized me as its owner?"

"Consider it an unexpected gain..."

Putting away the Zhenyu Stele, he turned around, only to find Yu Hongyin and others staring at him in astonishment.

"What is it?" Chen Mo feigned ignorance, asking, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Yu Hongyin moved her throat, gesticulating with her hands, "How did such a big stone monument suddenly become so small?"

"Oh, you're talking about this." Chen Mo chuckled, speaking nonchalantly, "Perhaps this thing is fated to be with me and recognized me inexplicably."

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