Chapter 2334 - The Western Mausoleum? The Mysterious Gray-Robed Elder! (2/2)

“What’s going on? He went to the Imperial Palace?”

In the True World state, Wang Chong was able to trace the elder’s journey. He had been on the streets outside the Imperial Palace, and then he had jumped onto the wall and vanished within.

Wang Chong had wanted to know the elder’s background the moment he had appeared, but he had never imagined that this person would disappear into the Great Tang Imperial Palace, one of the most heavily guarded places in the world.

But whether it was the Imperial Army, the city guard, or the Dragon Guards, no one had noticed this elder entering the Imperial Palace.

Amateurs hid in the wilderness while masters hid in court. Wang Chong had never imagined that this person would have emerged from the Imperial Palace.

As the most illustrious subject of the Great Tang, Wang Chong had often been to the Imperial Palace. During the Rebellion of the Three Princes, Wang Chong had even infiltrated the place. He could not be considered a stranger to the palace.

Moreover, the Sage Emperor had presided over the Imperial Palace, and the place was still guarded by the powerful Dragon Guards and imperial servitors. Besides that, the Imperial Palace was frequently patrolled. It should have been impossible for someone to hide in the palace.

For a few moments, Wang Chong floated in the air, dumbfounded.

Could he be an imperial servitor?

Wang Chong narrowed his eyes as the thought occurred to him, but he quickly rejected the idea. Putting aside the fact that the servitors did not have such high levels of cultivation, imperial servitors had tokens on their waists, and they had no need to enter the palace by jumping over the wall.

So is he someone from the Celestial God Organization? Wang Chong’s mind immediately went to another possibility.

The capital was no longer what it once was. The Sage Emperor had passed away and the entire capital, including the Imperial Palace, was completely under Heaven’s control. In secret, this place had already become the territory of the Celestial God Organization.

This gray-robed elder was very strange, but all of it could be explained if he was part of the Celestial God Organization.

But Wang Chong quickly shook his head again.

He was mortal foes with Heaven, and after what had happened on the steppe, no one from the Celestial God Organization would come to see him in secret. More importantly, this person didn’t seem like a member of the Celestial God Organization.

This was intuition!

The gray-robed elder was not part of the Celestial God Organization!

However, this conclusion only made the gray-robed elder seem even stranger.

Wang Chong couldn’t think of a party in the capital besides his own side and the Celestial God Organization, much less one that was connected to the Origin Immortal Lord’s prophecy.

Wang Chong was growing more and more curious.

“Let’s go!”

Wang Chong quickly suppressed these thoughts and entered the Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Palace was quiet, the golden-armored Imperial Army soldiers manning their posts. Even though it was affected by the Celestial Palace, the Imperial Palace was still the center of the realm and heavily guarded.

Wang Chong quickly landed on a cinnabar wall.

The gray-robed elder was already gone, but with the power of the Archon of Destiny, Wang Chong quickly found his trail.

It was a barely visible wisp of gray energy, drifting in the air and rapidly dissipating. But it was enough to point Wang Chong in the right direction.

“Over there!’

Wang Chong continued his pursuit of that blurred figure.

A few moments later, at the northwestern side of the Imperial Palace, that elder’s energy once more disappeared.

“This is the Western Mausoleum!”

Wang Chong was shocked as he stared at the building before him.

In front of Wang Chong was a set of white jade stairs, flanked by a set of white jade railings, and at the top was a massive stele in the form of a dragon and an enormous tomb.

The Western Mausoleum!

Everyone in the Great Tang knew that this was where Emperor Taizu of the Great Tang was buried—Emperor Taizong’s father and the founder of the Great Tang.

When Taizu died, Emperor Taizong had been overcome with grief, so he buried him near the Imperial Palace to honor him.

But there was something else special about the Western Mausoleum. It wasn’t just Taizu’s burial place, but also where the sovereigns of the Sui Dynasty had been buried, including Emperor Wen of Sui. Even Emperors of the Han Dynasty and some sovereigns from the Warring States Period had been buried here.

According to the number one astrologer and diviner of Emperor Taizu’s time, Heavenly Master Yuan, the Western Mausoleum was the dragon’s den of the realm, where the true dragon rested.

This was why the sovereigns of so many generations had favored it.

But the grounds of the Western Mausoleum were limited, and after so many sovereigns had been buried here, it could not take much more.

Though there had been a proposal to have the sovereigns of the Sui moved out, Emperor Taizong was benevolent and believed that the new dynasty should not do this, as it could be imitated by future generations and lead to discord.

Thus, he had chosen another place to be the imperial mausoleum.

After the burial of Taizu, the Western Mausoleum became a forbidden ground. No eunuchs, maids, guards, or even members of the imperial household could enter.

For one hundred years now, the Western Mausoleum had been completely sealed off, no one even talking about it.