Chapter 5201

“This is… the clan leader’s token of my Hu clan!”

Hu Mazi picked up the token, shaking with excitement. “It is said that only the clan leader can have it. I didn’t expect to find it here!”

Kai picked up the animal skin and unfolded it. The words on it were obscure and difficult to understand. Fortunately, he had dabbled in ancient characters and could barely make out the general meaning.

The animal skin records the origin of the Demon Burial Abyss. This was once the battlefield where humans and demons fought each other in ancient times, and countless powerful people died here.

Later, a powerful talisman master set up a large formation and sealed the dead monsters at the bottom of the abyss, hence the name “Demon Burial Abyss”.

The talisman master who set up the formation was none other than the ancestor of the Hu family!

“Your ancestor was actually an ancient talisman master!”

Kai looked at Hu Mazi with a hint of surprise in his eyes. “It is said on the animal skin that he exhausted all his efforts to seal the monsters at the bottom of the abyss. Before he died, he hid a part of the inheritance of the talisman in the depths of the Demon Burial Abyss, hoping that his descendants in the future generations can inherit his will and protect Jiupan Mountain.”

Kai finally understood why Hu Mazi’s spells were so powerful.

Hu Mazi looked at the words on the animal skin, his eyes reddened: “It turns out that my Hu family is not an ordinary family. Our ancestors had such great achievements…but why did we end up being exterminated?”

Kai continued to read, and the back half of the animal skin recorded a shocking secret.

The seal of the Demon Burial Abyss is not eternal. It weakens every thousand years. The mission of the Hu family at that time was to enter the Demon Burial Abyss when the seal weakened and re-reinforce the talisman formation.

But two thousand eight hundred years ago, the seal suddenly became abnormal, and the monster at the bottom of the abyss almost broke out.

The Hu family used all their strength to barely suppress it, but they were severely damaged and attacked by unknown forces.

“It seems that the extermination of your Hu family may be related to the seal of the Demon Burial Abyss.”

Kai put down the animal skin and said, “That unknown force is probably trying to use the monster to break the seal, or covet the talisman inheritance left by your ancestors.”

Hu Mazi clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms: “No matter who it is, I must find out!”

He carefully put away the patriarch’s token and the animal skin, as if he was holding the hope of the entire family.

Kai cast his gaze towards the depths of the cave, where there was a narrow stone door with the same symbol array engraved on it as the bronze box.

“It looks like this is the real entrance. Let’s go.”

With the clan leader’s token, the talisman array on the stone gate collapsed by itself, and the two of them successfully entered the next area.

This is a long corridor with runes carved on the rock walls on both sides. Different from the ones seen before, these runes emit a faint golden light and are obviously left by human rune masters.

“These runes can suppress evil spirits. It seems that they were laid by your ancestors.”

Kai reached out and touched the runes, feeling a gentle force surge into his body. “Following these runes, we should be able to avoid most dangers.”

At the end of the corridor is a huge stone chamber. In the center of the chamber stands a ten-foot-tall stone tablet, which is engraved with dense runes and shines with dazzling light.

There are several skeletons scattered around the stone tablet. Judging from their clothes, they should be members of the Hu clan.

“These are… my Hu family’s ancestors!”

Hu Mazi looked at the talisman remaining on the bones, his eyes moistened again, “They should have come to reinforce the seal, but they couldn’t go back…”

Kai walked up to the stone tablet and studied the runes on it carefully. The more he looked, the more frightened he became.

The arrangement of these runes was extremely exquisite, containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth, far beyond his understanding of the art of runes.

He tried to probe his spiritual consciousness into the rune, and actually felt a huge flow of information pouring into his mind, all of which were insights and techniques about the way of runes.