Chen Nan's heart was shaken; such a small piece of scale, yet so heavy.

Tightly grasping the scale, Chen Nan exerted his Inner Strength to lift it, but as soon as the scale was two inches off the ground, it fell back with a "boom," causing the entire tomb to tremble violently.

Obviously, this ground was not ordinary, otherwise, it would have cracked under such a heavy blow.

The two people and one chicken promptly looked over: "What are you doing?"

"This scale is not ordinary."

With the lesson learned, Chen Nan used his full Inner Strength this time to lift the scale, but his arms still trembled, showing how much effort it took.

Given Chen Nan's current Martial Body strength, combined with Inner Strength, his arms probably wield tens of thousands of pounds of force.

Yet, with such great strength, lifting these two scales was still so laborious, showing how heavy this scale was.

The two people and one chicken swiftly gathered around.

Seeing the dark dragon scale in Chen Nan's hand, the Black Feathered Chicken was full of shock and trembled as it spoke, "This... this must be the Reverse Scale!"

Reverse Scale!

The most special and mysterious scale on a Divine Dragon's body!

As the saying goes, a dragon's Reverse Scale, touch it and it will rage; the Reverse Scale is the Divine Dragon's taboo, no one is allowed to touch it.

On the body of an adult Divine Dragon, there are thousands of ordinary dragon scales, but only one Reverse Scale, located under the Divine Dragon's neck, growing in the opposite direction to the other scales.

It looks like a crescent moon in shape.

The part embedded in the flesh is relatively flat, while the exposed half is sharp and razor-like, with the tip as sharp as a sword, crescent-shaped.

It is said that the blood of the Divine Dragon gushes from the main artery of the heart and disperses to the branch arteries at the Reverse Scale. Even the calmest Divine Dragon, when its Reverse Scale is touched, erupts like a volcano, emitting infinite Dragon Power.

Of course, this is just legend.

Whether the untouchable nature of the Reverse Scale is truly due to this, Chen Nan could only speculate.

"Is it really that heavy?"

Seeing Chen Nan's trembling arms, Hua Xian'er was a bit skeptical.

Chen Nan extended the scale towards her, saying, "If you don't believe me, you can try holding it."

"Aren't you afraid I'll take it and not return it?"

"If that's the case, consider it a gift from me." Chen Nan said calmly.

Hua Xian'er gathered her magic power in her hands, supporting the scale from underneath, and said to Chen Nan, "You can let go now."

"Bang!"

As Chen Nan released his hand, Hua Xian'er's hands were pressed down hard.

At less than three inches from the ground, Hua Xian'er let go to avoid injuring her hands, and the scale fell back to the ground.

The nature of the ground was unknown, only a shallow mark appeared from such a heavy blow.

"Who would have thought, such a small piece of scale would be so heavy."

Hua Xian'er looked surprised.

Although her magic power was strong, her physical strength was far less than Chen Nan's.

Moreover, the path Chen Nan pursued in the martial world focused on strength and supplemented with technique, suppressing everything with absolute force in battle.

Therefore, his strength was considerably greater than either Zhao Han's or Hua Xian'er's.

After all, one was a magician, the other a cultivator, though their Inner Strength and magic power were not weak, their physical strength was far inferior to Chen Nan's.

Chen Nan looked at Zhao Han and Hua Xian'er: "I don't understand the techniques of Artifact Refining, does anyone want this Reverse Scale?"

"You found it, it's yours." Hua Xian'er said.

Zhao Han nodded in agreement: "I have enough of these scales, you should keep the Reverse Scale, it will surely come in handy someday."

"Kid, I want it, give it to me!"

The Black Feathered Chicken's feathers stood on end as it excitedly rushed over, opening its mouth to peck at the scale.

Pa!

Chen Nan slapped it away and gripped the Reverse Scale with both hands: "You beast, you have plenty of treasures yourself; giving it to you is worse than keeping it for myself."

"Cluck cluck cluck..."

The Black Feathered Chicken was furious, squawking and cursing loudly.

Chen Nan glanced at it: "Cursing won't help, this Reverse Scale is now surnamed Chen, not Chicken."

"Damn!"

The Black Feathered Chicken flapped its wings and crowed to the sky.

The way it was acting, you'd think someone had taken away its beloved hen...

Seeing this spectacle, Zhao Han and Hua Xian'er couldn't help but chuckle; though that cheeky chicken was annoying, it was sometimes quite amusing.

At this moment —

"Boom..."

A massive sound shook the entire tomb.

It wasn't the previous heartbeat sound, but a powerful energy impact, causing the entire tomb to shake violently, with stone fragments and dust falling from the ceiling, making it seem as if the entire tomb was about to collapse, with endless roaring echoes like a thousand horses galloping.

"Bang!"

A giant stone the size of a millstone fell from the ceiling, and Chen Nan and the others quickly evaded.

After a full thirty seconds of intense shaking, the tomb finally settled down, and the dust in the air was settled by Hua Xian'er's water magic, spraying it with water mist before letting it fall to the ground.

Everyone looked at the Black Feathered Chicken: "What happened?"

"Someone came in." The Black Feathered Chicken said solemnly.

Chen Nan frowned: "Even if someone came in, it shouldn't cause such a big commotion, right? It was very peaceful when we entered earlier."

"Do you remember those two dragon corpses in the first tomb?" the Black Feathered Chicken asked.

Everyone's faces showed surprise: "You mean someone came in and disturbed those two dragon corpses?"

The Black Feathered Chicken glanced at Zhao Han, saying, "The person who came in is likely another cultivator like this kid, who couldn't resist trying to peel off the dragon scales for Artifact Refining, accidentally triggering the Dragon Clan Secret Technique."

"Such a powerful outburst, even a Heavenly Passage Expert might not survive," Chen Nan said.

The Black Feathered Chicken pointed towards the exit, saying, "Whether they live or die is none of my business, what I care about is, with such a strong outburst, the first tomb must have collapsed, blocking our way out."

Hua Xian'er said, "No worries, stones belong to the Earth Element of the Five Elements; I can use Earth Magic to quickly create a passage."

"Then I'm relieved."

Everyone continued collecting dragon scales and searching for treasures.

As for Chen Nan, it took the strength of ten thousand oxen—no, the strength of a million—just to store the Reverse Scale into his storage ring.

"Darn kid, such a good thing not letting Chicken Grandfather have it."

Even though everything had settled down, that Black Feathered Chicken was still muttering, despising Chen Nan.

Then "thud," that strong heartbeat sounded once more.

Everyone exchanged a glance and walked towards the stone gate leading deeper into the tomb. After finding the mechanism to Open Gate, they carefully proceeded inside.

Out of a desire to understand the source of this dull heartbeat sound, even though it could be very dangerous, everyone wanted to find out.

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