Chapter 849: Scapegoat (1/2)

“But they say that the entrance to the tomb is beneath the mountain,” Bai Zhaoju objected with surprise.

“That’s not a mountain, it’s a corpse!” Lu Yun corrected solemnly. “The mountain is wrapped around the corpse, which has mostly decayed and is filled with dreadful corpse poison. The three of us won’t be able to withstand it.” He quirked his lips with ruefulness.

“A corpse? Who’s?!” Bai Zhaoju’s eyes widened enormously.

”How would I know who’s body it is?” grumbled Lu Yun. “Start digging here. Sixty-eight kilometers down lies another entrance to the tomb.” He pointed at his feet.

“You dare treat this emperor as manual labor?” Bai Zhaoju glared at him.

“What, you want me to do it instead?” Lu Yun shrugged. “With my strength, I’ll be burnt to a crisp before I get five kilometers down.”

“Fine then, I’ll do it.” Bai Zhaoju waved a brilliantly gleaming sword into his hand that made Lu Yun’s heart spasm painfully.

This sword…

Traceless!

Lu Yun was very familiar with it since he’d refined the sword. Who would’ve thought it’d be Bai Zhaoju’s personal weapon!

Whoosh!

A ray of brilliant splendor flared from the sword and stabbed into the earth beneath their feet. A thieves’ tunnel running sixty-eight kilometers long quickly appeared within a hundred breaths. At the same time, a fiery breath spewed out of the passageway, sending Lu Yun scrambling backward.

“There’s another legend!” Bai Zhaoju turned incomparably grave. “That year when Taiyi entered the tomb, he didn’t make it out alive. He died in there and only his obsession walked out. His obsession gave the Bell of Chaos to Tushan and then left to fight the connate demon gods. It ultimately dispersed in battle!”

Lu Yun took a look inside his robes. That was what Luo Houluo had said as well, and his goal inside the tomb was plainly some treasure belonging to Taiyi.

“Taiyi’s true form is a three-legged suncrow. He is a connate great god born of the sun, and he’s also a mighty monster spirit,” Bai Zhaoju continued, “I’m looking for the sole true feather on his body. What about you?”

History might’ve regarded Bai Zhaoju, Ling Weiyang, Zhi Guangji, and Chi Biaonu as four peak powerhouses, but they weren’t born as such. They all developed and later grew into their strength.

“Me?” Lu Yun frowned slightly and thought back to Luo Houluo again. The demon god likely wanted Taiyi’s body so he could come back to life in it! “I’m just curious, I just want to take a look around in it,” he changed the subject.

Bai Zhaoju took a close look at the boy’s face and nodded.

“Then refine that golden spirit pearl first before we go in.” He was no idiot, he could tell that something was up from Lie Shan’s expression and that acting normal was paramount.

In this era, the path of refining items had yet to rise. Connate treasures—naturally forming ones—were the equipment of choice, but they were also extremely rare. Bai Zhaoju had given one to Lu Yun so easily—plainly at the behest of Fuxi, who wanted him to take good care of humanity’s rising star.

Here, refining treasures were done in the most primitive manner of melding one’s blood with it. Lu Yun hadn’t collected any useful treasures yet, but this pearl was also a bit too powerful for him.