Chapter 98 (1/2)
The scale of the old tomb was larger than people would think, and they had only just reached outside the tomb after walking for so long.
With the ghost, Gu Bai and his party left the burial pit and soon came to a downhill stairway. There was no end to the whole thing. It was long and dark, plus a strong cold and Yin atmosphere, which made people feel terrible.
They followed the female ghost, all while trembling, and kept going down. Along the way, they pa.s.sed through many caves. There were burial halls with gold and silver treasures, and mountain walls carved with stone reliefs of various monsters.
It was unknown how long they walked, as the darkness disappeared, and before them, a dazzling palace instantly appeared, along with gold bricks paving the ground, white jade obelisks, construction that surpa.s.sed nature and gave off an extravagant and impressive loftiness.
At the direction up ahead was a dragon-headed jade bed, which laid a corpse wearing a monarch’s clothing. Without a doubt, this was Emperor Nanxun’s corpse.
Everyone stared at the scene before them, standing there stupefied for a very long time, before muttering with rueful sighs, “Too beautiful, too grand…”
StarNet was also in an uproar; even the emperor stood up in excitement. This tomb was the Interstellar’s greatest discovery!
“What’s there to sigh about? No matter how pretty or elegant it is, they’re all just inanimate things. ; they’re all buried underground, never to see daylight…”
The female ghost didn’t really like seeing everyone sighing in adoration, so her tone was very bitter. Despite how distinguished and favoured she was during her life, she still ended up being buried alive to serve as company for the monarch and even turned into a fierce ghost after death, trapped underground for tens of thousands of years, unable to reincarnate. Naturally, she was resentful.
Everyone instantly shut their mouths and no longer dared to speak due to the faint complaint in her tone. Gu Bai was not scared of the female ghost, but they were very much so.
“There is no way forward in the place. Where is the main tomb you spoke of?”
Gu Bai ignored the l.u.s.trous gold and silver valuables in the palace and went straight for the main topic. He felt as if he was approaching something, the flame marking on his forehead suddenly burning up.
When the female ghost heard this, she immediately turned grim and reached out to perform sorcery. Instantly, accompanied by a rumbling noise, the wall left of the palace slowly s.h.i.+fted and finally revealed an abyss.
They could only see that the abyss was so deep that the bottom could not be seen. There were no cliffsides around it, leaving only a suspension bridge connecting to the precipice on the opposite end. Surprisingly, suspended in midair of the abyss were several dozen soldiers in black armour with their eyes closed, in deep sleep!
“This-this is simply too inconceivable! How did they do this?!”
Everyone exclaimed in shock. Without the help of any flying devices, these people were surprisingly able to stand unmoving in midair, so much that even their expressions were vivid and lifelike. This was simply unimaginable; something like this wasn’t possible even with the current technology.
Gu Bai was also very astonished, but was still much better off than everyone else. He wasn’t astonished about these people being able to stand on nothing, nor was he astonished that their appearances remained unchanged even after thousands of years.
This was because he could see that these weren’t people at all, but simply soulless puppets. It was natural that they wouldn’t age.
What he was astonished about was that the energy guarding the puppets was extremely strong. No wonder the female ghost said she couldn’t go near the main tomb. With such powerful puppets guarding it, don’t even mention the female ghost. Perhaps even those daoist immortals from upper planes wouldn’t necessarily be able to approach.
“Great Immortal, this concubine dares not go further. These guards are the divine army the expert bestowed to the emperor at the very beginning. After the emperor died, they’ve always been standing guard at the main tomb. No one can go near it. You have that protective marking the expert left behind. It may be a.s.sumed that these guards won’t harm you. If you wish to look, simply cross this bridge…”
Gu Bai nodded. He was rather impatient to go, but was caught by Han Lijun. “I’ll go with you…”
“Admiral, you can’t !”
A surviving soldier yelled worriedly from the back. That female ghost had already said that only Student Qiao Qi could cross. If the admiral went along, it was hard to say whether or not there would be an accident.
Though Admiral Han was very powerful, this tomb was truly too strange. Ghosts and whatever had already exceeded everyone’s range of understanding.
Seeing this, the female ghost hesitated a moment before adding, “Great Immortal, this young master can probably go with you. This concubine can see that this young master is not ordinary…”
Far more than ‘not ordinary’, she could feel an even more frightful aura from this man than the ‘great immortal’. It simply made one tremble and gooseb.u.mps rise from the bottom of their heart. Without a doubt, this man who appeared normal was in fact an extremely frightening character.
She, on the contrary, could not make out Han Lijun’s true ident.i.ty. But she had cultivated for tens of thousands of years, so someone with such cultivation still had a sense of intuition.
Han Lijun simply ignored the female ghost’s words. He just did not want Gu Bai to be even a hair’s breadth away from him. Taking hold of Gu Bai’s hand, he walked up to the bridge while leading him along.
The suspended bridge was several thousand years old. Even if the tomb was protected by spiritual energy, some decay couldn’t be evaded. Although the bridge did not break while they walked over it, the swaying made one scared. Gu Bai had some indescribable fear, but the hand being tightly held by Han Lijun brought incomparable relief.
The instant the two of them stepped onto the bridge, the puppet guards floating in the air suddenly opened their eyes and went into fighting stances. But immediately, the flame marking on Gu Bai’s forehead glowed, and the puppet guards withdrew their fighting stances.
At the same time, the intelligent camera following the two abruptly failed and fell down into the dark abyss. The netizens on StarNet could not watch at a closer distance and could only watch the scene from afar, through the cameras of the survivors left on the other side of the abyss.
“Sure enough, the Great Immortal is the one chosen by the expert!”
The female ghost’s face revealed excitement and pleasant surprise. If he was not chosen by that expert, these puppet guards would have instantly leapt over and killed the trespa.s.sers.
The others didn’t know such amazing reasons, and thus weren’t as excited. They only watched nervously and in amazement as Gu Bai and Han Lijun walked towards the other precipice step by step.
When Gu Bai and Han Lijun crossed the bridge and reached the cliff, they did not see any palace of glorious splendor, nor did they see any priceless gold and silver treasures.
The whole cliff was extremely empty. Aside from the relief sculptures carved all over the mountainside, there was nothing else at all.
This main tomb was so heavily guarded by powerful puppet guards, yet it only had a few ordinary relief sculptures? This was simply too illogical.