This cave residence indeed harbors another world.
The moment the cave appeared, a long-accumulated black Yin Qi swept forth.
Even with Jiang Fan’s body at the Divinity Transformation Realm, he felt waves of trepidation within this Yin Qi.
And this was with the Undying Bell paving the way; facing this Yin Qi directly might allow it to invade his body.
As the Yin Qi dispersed, Jiang Fan could finally see the situation of the hidden cave residence.
In front of a simple stone platform lay a tall member of the Asura Clan.
Having endured the passing of a thousand years, his body remained perfectly preserved, showing no signs of decay, akin to the Misfortune Sage.
His identity was almost self-evident.
The remains of an Asura Emperor from a millennium ago!
At this moment, he held a pen in his hand, with an ancient painting before him, still incomplete.
It seemed he was still painting in his final moments.
As Jiang Fan moved closer to look, his heart jumped fiercely.
In the painting.
Flowers in full bloom, a woman in a green long dress stood among the flowers, followed by a flock of Five-Colored Roosters.
A rainbow crossed the sky behind her, as if adorning the scene.
She held a radiant pearl in her left hand and gently brushed her flowing black hair with her right.
At first glance, she was identical to the Ancient Saint of Cloud Desolation depicted in Wu Manyue’s found picture.
Jiang Fan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, immediately looking at her face.
But unfortunately, it seemed this Asura Emperor had encountered some resistance, drawing only a pair of eyebrows and eyes before the stroke of the pen abruptly ended.
Jiang Fan understood how he had died.
Attempting to depict a Saint forcibly, he died from divine retribution, much like how Hua Xin nearly perished when merely mentioning the Boundary Master of the Hell Realm.
"What a pity, it was so close to being completed." Jiang Fan regretted, just a little more and he could have seen the true visage of the Ancient Saint of Cloud Desolation.
He carefully examined the Ancient Saint in the painting, the more he looked, the more familiar she seemed.
"Huh, where have I seen those eyes before!" Jiang Fan exclaimed in surprise.
He tried hard to recall, comparing them with the women he had seen in his life.
But soon, his thoughts seemed to sink into a quagmire, becoming sluggish, as the memories of numerous women in his mind gradually blurred.
His memory was being blocked!
This startled him into a cold sweat, quickly averting his gaze from the painting, before the memories of the women became clear again.
But the memory of the eyes in the painting remained unclear.
Jiang Fan was secretly shocked: "Is the might of the Ancient Saint truly so inscrutable? I can’t even think about it!"
He dared not look at the painting anymore, lest his memory suffer irreversible loss.
However, he couldn’t let go of the painting.
He reached out and took the painting.
Plop——
Unexpectedly, as the painting was drawn out, an object pressing down on the painting was pulled from the stone table and fell to the ground.
Jiang Fan looked down, startled:
"The Yin Marrow Talisman?"
He incredulously picked it up, then rummaged through the Heavenly Thunder Stone, finding the other Yin Marrow Talisman.
The two were almost identical, tiger-shaped talismans with half sides.
The difference was that they were mirrored left and right.
Jiang Fan’s mind buzzed: "Why are there two Yin Marrow Talismans?"
"Wait!"
He remembered that when commanding armies in the Mortal Kingdom, the two halves of a tiger talisman had to combine to mobilize a thousand troops.
Could it be that the Hell Realm’s Yin Marrow Talisman is the same?
No wonder a half Yin Marrow Talisman doesn’t have such a powerful commanding effect on the creatures of the underground world, it merely evokes awe.
It turns out it was missing a half!
Jiang Fan was overjoyed, possessing the Yin Marrow Talisman meant he could command the Hell Realm’s army?
What a pity.
If he had obtained it before the Ancient Giant War, he might have summoned an entire army from the Hell Realm to fight the Ancient Giants.
Central Earth would win more easily.