Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Chapter 1164 Ancient Extraordinary Technology

The fire-attribute soul power dancing at Ye Ge's fingertips suddenly surged, transforming into a warm and stable source of light that instantly dispelled the thick darkness.

In an instant, the entire underground space was revealed in full by the flickering firelight.

This is indeed an extremely vast underground space, with clear traces of artificial excavation remaining on the walls and dome, clearly indicating that it was created by human hands.

However, it is completely different from the magnificent and resplendent mausoleum of the First Emperor of the Human Race. It looks ordinary and more like an ancient mine that has been forgotten for countless years, rough and simple.

Ye Ge bent down and pressed his palms firmly against the cold, hard ground. His soul power extended out like invisible tentacles, carefully sensing the pulse of the earth's veins.

'Hmm...the depth is about...only a little over a thousand meters underground...' he murmured to himself, his brows furrowing slightly.

The Earth Spirit Priest's earth-shattering "Earth Explosion Burial" was originally intended to bury them all alive a hundred kilometers underground.

But when we got here, we stopped.

"Even with the earth-attribute divine power of an eleventh-level earth spirit priest, he couldn't completely penetrate the rock strata here..." Night Song's fingers caressed the ground, feeling the hardness far exceeding that of ordinary rocks, and he pondered, "So hard... it can't have been formed naturally..."

This place... could it be another creation of a genetic engineering company?

wrong.

The company must have only recently found this stone slab; such a deep underground space couldn't have been created by the company on short notice.

Moreover, the traces here are clearly from many years ago, indicating that no one has been here for many, many years.

This underground palace is located right below the pyramid where the special celestial prophecy stone tablet is stored. Could it be related to that prophecy stone tablet?

After thinking for a long time, Ye Ge stood up and let out a breath.

This was a miscalculation. They thought they could sneak away with the prophecy tablet while Adam, Karl, and the others were fighting the earth spirit priest, but they didn't expect the earth spirit priest to be so powerful; he almost buried them alive too...

Regardless, let's find Xue'er and the others first.

[Night Song: Xue'er, how are you all doing?]

[Gao Shenxue: We're alright.]

[Gao Shenxue: The Earth Spirit Priest's skill didn't target us; we were just buried by ordinary soil, and none of us were injured.]

[Night Song: That's good. (She breathed a sigh of relief)]

[Gao Shenxue: We just found something here, you can come and take a look.]

[Night Song: Oh? (Curious)]

[Night Song: Okay, send me your location.]

[Gao Shenxue: [Positioning]]

......

Inside the black pyramid.

The Earth Spirit Priest hovered at the edge of the massive well formed by the collapse, his deep gaze piercing through the darkness, looking down into the bottomless abyss.

The huge black prophecy slab did not fall; it was currently enveloped by a pure, earth-yellow divine power, hovering steadily beside him.

'They only sent them a thousand meters underground...'

The Earth Spirit Priest gazed at the bottomless abyss below, thinking, 'There seems to be something in those rock layers; even my earth-based divine power can't break it...'

Shall we go down and take a look?

The Earth Spirit Priest hesitated for a moment.

That's all...

Anyway, those guys are unlikely to survive.

Let's take this prophetic stone tablet back first.

Without further hesitation, he clenched his fist. Countless tiny grains of sand, like living quicksand, rapidly enveloped and covered the suspended black stone slab layer by layer. In the next instant, the Earth Spirit Priest's figure, along with the stone slab covered in sand, turned into fine dust as if weathered away, silently dissipating into the air.

......

Ye Ge wandered around the underground palace for a while.

There were no traps in this underground palace. Ye Ge had sensed it with her mental power and there was no danger.

He quickly found Gao Shenxue and the others.

Xia Xiyao, Gao Shenxue, Ye Bing, Bai Xueling, and Nangong Qiuyue were sitting together taking a short rest. Having "fallen" up from a depth of a thousand meters, they were inevitably covered in dust, their hair and clothes stained with dirt, making them look somewhat disheveled.

"Xiao Ye!" Xia Xiyao was the first to spot him. Her eyes lit up, and she ran over excitedly like a little bird returning to its nest.

Ye Ge habitually ruffled her hair, his gaze quickly sweeping over everyone with concern: "Is everyone alright?"

"Mm." Gao Shenxue, Bai Xueling, and Nangong Qiuyue nodded.

Ye Bing, with an indifferent expression, leaned against the side with her arms crossed: "Tch... The few of us here are all extraordinary beings at least at the Saint Realm. How could they possibly be in trouble so easily if they weren't locked onto by the opponent's divine magic? You're treating them too much like little girls."

Ye Ge tilted her head: "Is it because you, the fallen angel queen, have never been worried about or cared for by your friends that you feel so strange?"

Ye Bing: "......"

"Xue'er, you said you found something here?" Ye Ge asked, "What did you find?"

Gao Shenxue raised her head slightly and pointed to the wall in front of her: "Look."

All that could be seen on the mottled and rough rock face was countless intricate and mysterious ancient divine patterns and characters.

The divine patterns on these walls, eroded by the passage of time and covered by dust, have long since faded and become blurred. Many details are now difficult to discern, and many lines are no longer visible, as if they might be completely lost to time at any moment.

"These... are all ancient gods' script?" Ye Ge asked thoughtfully.

“It’s not just about text and patterns.” Gao Shenxue’s voice remained calm as usual, yet it carried a penetrating insight into the essence of things. “These specific divine runes and patterns are arranged and combined in an extremely precise matrix structure. Their design concept is basically the same as the core principle of the ‘magic pattern matrix’ in the magic energy technology we use.”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over the dim patterns: "These patterns and runes can transmit energy. Through specific energy activation methods, this divine rune matrix can efficiently convert and amplify the input energy, releasing powerful extraordinary forces. Essentially, it is a sophisticated 'energy conversion and amplification device'."