The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 1376 The Valley of the Heart Remains the Same as Before, But Chen Cuiting Is No More.

After Liu Qianyun left with gratitude, Lin Chen approached the scorpions again to observe them carefully.

These scorpions are unique; they are powerful in attack and have high defense. Strangely, they don't have a particularly strong aura. When you scan them with your divine sense, they seem no different from ordinary scorpions and venomous insects.

Lin Chen's Three Provinces Sword cannot shatter them, but it can easily knock them away. As long as you are on guard, it is not easy to be hit. However, if you are unprepared, you will suffer a great loss.

The scorpion's venom was so potent that even Qi Jun, a peak-level immortal, was extremely wary of it, demonstrating the extraordinary toxicity of the poison.

Lin Chen observed these scorpions to determine whether their peculiar behavior was due to racial characteristics or acquired later in life.

If it's the former, then it's just a strange species. But if it's something that developed later in life, then what interfered with them, causing them to eventually possess such characteristics?
Having lost their target, the scorpions began to retreat deeper into the valley.

Lin Chenren hovered in mid-air, his divine sense following them.

The scorpions arrived at the foot of the cliff and crawled into a cave that was taller than a person. The depths of the cave should be their lair.

Lin Chen extended his divine sense into the depths of the cave and soon discovered the scorpion's lair. There, a large group of scorpions, including many young ones, were present.

Lin Chen observed carefully and found that the young scorpions did not exhibit the characteristics of adult scorpions. Instead, they were no different from ordinary scorpions, which greatly interested Lin Chen.

Lin Chen observed quietly and discovered that, in addition to normal behaviors such as foraging and resting, the scorpion swarm would also go to a stone wall in groups. The adult black scorpions would use their hard shells to knock on the stone wall and produce some powder. The young scorpions would eat the stone wall fragments and then lie down and not move, as if they were digesting and absorbing the stone wall powder they had eaten.

Lin Chen was secretly delighted; there was something wrong with this stone wall!

Having set his target, Lin Chen didn't wait any longer and threw a punch.

"boom!"

The cliff was instantly pierced, collapsing into a large hole. The scorpions' lair was gone, and the stone wall that was originally hidden in the soil was revealed. It turned out to be a black stone tablet, square and at least three meters high, with a number of characters on it.

Character?
Lin Chen opened his eyes wide, his mood becoming somewhat strange.

Isn't this little world supposed to be uninhabited by humans?
Why is there this black stone tablet with obvious human traces and writing that only humans would use?
Lin Chen didn't have time to think, because the scorpions below, whose homes had been destroyed, had gone mad and rushed out of the cave in unison, launching an attack on Lin Chen.

Lin Chen reached out and grabbed at the air, and a giant hand appeared out of thin air, directly grabbing the black stone tablet. Then, he soared into the sky, dodging the attack of hundreds of scorpions.

Thankfully, these scorpions can't fly, otherwise, such a large number of them would be really difficult to deal with!

Lin Chen moved away from the valley before landing and slowly examining the stone tablet before him. The stone tablet resembled black metal, its blackness tinged with a hint of luster, its age indiscernible, and the inscription on it was very simple.

"Xin Valley remains as it was back then, but Chen Cuiting is no more—Li Yongzhi"

Is this a tombstone?
It seems that a man named Li Yongzhi erected this monument to commemorate a woman named Chen Cuiting.

Lin Chen thought about it carefully and realized that there was no tomb beneath the cliff he had just blasted open.

How did this stone tablet end up here?
Thinking about it more carefully, the location of the stone tablet in the valley makes it seem as if the stone tablet descended from the sky with immense power, directly shattering the mountain range and creating a huge valley. The stone tablet was eventually buried in the valley and covered by the collapsed soil.

This cover may last for millions of years.

Lin Chen had many questions, but no one could answer them for him.

He stopped thinking and focused his attention on the stone tablet itself, which was completely black and produced a clear, metallic sound when tapped.

The bottom of the stone tablet is somewhat missing, probably because it has been worn away by the dust and debris from the scorpions over the years.

Just a little bit of ground powder can make an ordinary scorpion so invulnerable. What would happen if it absorbed the entire stone tablet?
Lin Chen was quite tempted.

Lin Chen already possessed an incredibly hard and resilient body, but who would complain about being even more powerful once it became even harder?
However, this matter still needs to be explored and practiced. It is unknown whether the method of absorbing the Xuan Tie Wu Jing by refining the sword bone can absorb the special substances in this metal.

Lin Chen carefully put away the stone tablet and continued his exploration.

The Moonlit Illusionary Realm wasn't very large, and Lin Chen quickly explored its edge.

It was an invisible barrier formed by rules, and the world gradually went from clear to blurry, to chaotic. Lin Chen, who was well-versed in books, understood it at a glance.

Space crack.

After flying a distance along the spatial rift, Lin Chen finally confirmed one thing.

This small world was not formed naturally, but was created by humans.

Perhaps this space originally belonged to the Thunder Immortal Realm, but was chosen by a powerful being who used extraordinary means to fold it and hide it!

(End of this chapter)