"Fatty, I never expected you to be capable of thinking!" Hu Bayi said, a hint of surprise on his face.
"Hmph, who do you think I am? I'm the handsomest, smartest Fatty, loved by all, making flowers bloom just by seeing them. These things are just a piece of cake," Fatty boasted.
Zhang Tian and Hu Bayi exchanged a look and shook their heads. This guy was truly someone who would go on a tangent with just a little praise.
"Boss, if it really is the Golden Core sect, and they can also refine pills, then Fatty has a point. We could look for the pill treasury first," Hu Bayi suggested.
Zhang Tian nodded, thinking the same thing. The treasures in the tomb were secondary; he simply enjoyed the adventure.
"Then let's change our strategy for now. We'll keep an eye out for any potential mechanisms or hidden chambers. The chance of finding burial pills here is very high," Zhang Tian said. Everyone nodded, even Zhang Qilin becoming serious.
Only Wu Tianzhen and Wang Banyue looked bewildered. They thought they were here for grave robbing, so why were they looking for hidden chambers now?
"Uh, Young Master Zhang, the pills and such, is it what I'm thinking?" Wu Tianzhen asked weakly.
"Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking," Zhang Tian replied decisively. He desperately needed pills and medicinal ingredients. If they had medicinal ingredients, Zhang Qilin could break through. If they had pills, the group could also achieve breakthroughs. Therefore, both were crucial to the team at this moment.
"Holy crap, does that mean I can also achieve immortality?" Wu Tianzhen exclaimed excitedly, his heart filled with longing at the thought of living forever.
Zhang Tian shook his head, not explaining further. If one pill could grant immortality, then that pill would definitely not belong to this world.
"You're overthinking it, Young Master Wu. If it were that simple, our anti-Japanese war period wouldn't have happened," Hu Bayi doused Wu Tianzhen's enthusiasm with a splash of cold water. This guy had quite the beautiful imagination.
"Young Master Wu, there's a saying, isn't there? Oh right, 'thinking beautifully and playing wildly'," Fatty chuckled. Wu Tianzhen knew he had asked too much and said no more, only giving Fatty a glare.
As Zhang Tian quickened his pace, the group soon exited the tomb passage. Unlike before, Zhang Tian and his companions now had a clearer objective. After passing through the passage of the White Tiger tomb chamber, Zhang Tian and his companions arrived at a chamber entirely in red. The entire tomb room looked incredibly opulent. Even without the searchlights, the entire chamber was illuminated. The red crystals on the walls were exceptionally striking, and the space of the tomb room was incredibly delicate.
"Boss, this tomb room is so strange. It looks like a big bird!" Fatty, after surveying the entire chamber, couldn't help but exclaim.
"What are those crystals on the wall? Tianzhen, do you recognize them? Are they valuable?" Wang Banyue asked curiously, looking at the red crystals on the wall.
"I don't know. They should be deep-sea ores. I don't recognize this kind of thing, but it should fetch a good price if sold," Wu Tianzhen analyzed the objects on the wall carefully.
"Boss, this tomb room should be a small island beneath the Vermilion Bird constellation. I didn't expect so many red crystals here," Hu Bayi remarked, looking at the crystals on the wall.
"These crystals can illuminate for thousands of years, truly remarkable. They should contain something. Moreover, the entire tomb room looks very strange." Zhang Tian's gaze swept across the room, a slight frown on his face. The tomb room was empty except for the hanging lamp above. It was as desolate as a cave filled with red crystals. The red crystal chandelier was located in the very center of the tomb room, resembling a bird's beak. Simultaneously, on both sides of the tomb room, besides the crystals, there were some strange carvings that Zhang Tian could only see up close.
"Boss, there's nothing here. It's not as good as the last one. At least it let Fatty have some fun," Fatty grumbled, looking at the empty tomb room.
"The calmer the place, the more dangerous it is. This place is not simple," Zhang Tian said, his gaze scanning the surroundings. There wasn't even a single corpse in the vicinity. The floor was spotless, not even a pebble in sight.
Zhang Tian punched towards the tomb passage. With a rumbling sound, several stones fell. Zhang Tian picked up a stone and threw it into the tomb room. The stone traced an arc through the air. "Clang." The stone hit the ground with a crisp sound. The next moment, as the stone landed, the ground where it landed made a noise. Immediately, the ground where the stone had just fallen disappeared, and a void instantly appeared, swallowing the stone. After the stone entered, the underground void vanished. The entire tomb room returned to its original state. Seeing this, everyone was stunned. Good heavens, this was killing without a trace! Fortunately, they hadn't entered prematurely. If they had, wouldn't they have been reduced to dust?
"No wonder there are no corpses on the ground. It turns out they all fell into that pit."
"Boss, this thing is a real trap! If it were hundreds of meters deep, wouldn't we have just fallen to our deaths?" Fatty gritted his teeth, complaining incessantly. He was also relieved; luckily, Fatty was sharp and didn't go in directly.
"It shouldn't be very deep. With the technology of that era, they wouldn't have built a hundred-meter-deep hole, and even if they had, falling wouldn't kill you," Zhang Tian said, his gaze falling on the empty tomb. It seemed that to get useful information, they had to go inside.
"Young Master Zhang, how did you know there was something below?" Wu Tianzhen asked curiously.
"If there are no mechanisms on top, then they must be below. That's experience," Zhang Tian replied faintly, looking at Hu Bayi.
"Old Hu, any thoughts?" Hu Bayi was momentarily stunned, then replied.
"This should be a famous formation and a famous mechanism from the Qin Dynasty, in feng shui, called the 'Phoenix Reborn from Flames'."
"The entire tomb room will be divided into two halves, one for bathing in fire, and the other for nirvana."
"Boss, this is another malevolent formation, and the interior of the formation is very complex." Hu Bayi's expression grew serious again. This was only the second tomb room, and it was already this powerful. What about the ones further ahead?
"How do we break the formation?" Zhang Tian got straight to the point.
"Breaking the formation requires research, and Boss, I suspect there might be a hidden door in this tomb room!" Hu Bayi suddenly said, his voice low.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Tian's eyes lit up. If there was a hidden door, it meant that the pills might be hidden here. Suddenly, Zhang Tian thought of the tomb passage they had passed through in the Vermilion Bird tomb chamber. The murals on the passage were all about refining pills through nirvana. The alchemy furnace, the Vermilion Bird, nirvana – all these elements suggested that there might be a hidden door here. However, Zhang Tian was very doubtful about where this hidden door would appear!