After the plan to descend using the Rune Book failed, Lovis secretly devised many malicious schemes.
However, before these plans could be put into action, he abandoned them himself.
As the god of 'idiocy,' Lovis was self-aware. His hastily assembled think tank was merely less brain-dead than average, and he had no friends to rely on for advice. All strategic planning fell to him.
Although he was intelligent, his cleverness was entirely devoted to runic studies. He was incompetent in matters of conspiracy and intrigue.
Therefore, recognizing his own limitations, Lovis decided it was unnecessary to antagonize the wielder of the Rune Book.
He could simply negotiate with the other party. The wielder would help him descend into that world, and he would offer something the wielder desired in return.
Even serving as a subordinate for ten or eight years would be an acceptable price.
Lovis's calculation was sound, but before he could utter a word, he heard a crude Washingtonian curse.
"Fuck you, you big idiot with shit for brains!!"
Then, his connection with the Rune Book was severed…
Lovis was so enraged he almost passed out. Who curses upon first contact?
He raged, rolling back and forth in the forest, crushing many of his idiotic dependents. Seeing them prostrate before him even in death, he let out a long sigh and ceased his venting.
His hundred-meter-tall form sat in the forest, watching the sunset, a melancholic aura emanating from him…
Legend has it that the next day, a country's birds flew into the forest, which the great Rune God Lovis perceived as an invasion, thus igniting an absurd war…
Of course, none of this concerned Wen Wen. After cursing, he put away the Rune Book and placed it in the containment facility for isolation.
With the Rune Book, abilities like flames and lightning no longer needed to be stored on the rings of the Disaster Gauntlet.
Although using the Rune Book exposed him to mental contamination from the other party, Wen Wen had tested it and understood how to use it safely.
The real world and the inner world were separated by an immense distance, resulting in a significant delay in information transfer. It took about two to three minutes for the other party's words to reach him, and his own words took a similar amount of time to be transmitted.
As long as Wen Wen paid attention to the timing during use, he could ensure he was not affected by the other party and even provoke them…
After putting away the Rune Book, Wen Wen descended to the third level. Like the second level, this level also contained many black corpses, and these corpses were more powerful than those on the second level.
However, to Wen Wen's surprise, one person on this level was still alive.
It was a bald young man in tattered red clothing, likely a monk from the Ming Wang Secret Teachings judging by his attire. He must have been hanging there for many years but still clung to a sliver of life.
When he was hung here, he must have been a fairly powerful super-powered individual.
Wen Wen first took the monk down and then, as on the second level, set the area ablaze to cleanse it.
Things discovered should be dealt with immediately. One should not think of waiting or using them for bait.
Who knew when these things might be activated? Delaying by even a minute could lead to significant casualties.
With the bodies removed, Wen Wen began to observe the three underground levels. This area was likely beneath the Muyuan District, and perhaps these three cellars were one of the tombs of the Yintian Tomb.
At the end of the third cellar, Wen Wen discovered a small room.
This room was Tian Lao Qi's secret chamber. It was locked with thick iron chains at the door, but Wen Wen easily tore them apart.
Inside, there was a set of a table and chairs, a kerosene lamp, some ancient books, and a notebook.
Wen Wen collected everything. Finding no clues here, he left the cellar.
He then left a lightning-attributed rune array at the cellar entrance to prevent anyone from accidentally entering and causing further trouble.
The puppets were highly efficient. During Wen Wen's time in the cellar, they had already ransacked the hotel, even taking the carpet that had covered the secret door. All the items were piled in the courtyard.
Wen Wen aimed his right hand at the courtyard. Chains shot out, collecting bedding, tables, chairs, and various electrical appliances into the containment facility.
He simply threw things in; how they were dealt with was someone else's concern.
With the miscellaneous tasks completed, Wen Wen opened some of the documents he had acquired. As he read, the connections of the matter became clear to him.
He could now confirm that the burial site below was indeed the tomb of the Northern Yin Emperor.
Furthermore, the body of Luo Feng, the Northern Yin Emperor, was truly within it. This meant that the figure in Mangshan Fengdu was not the Northern Yin Emperor as previously speculated.
During the peak of the Northern Yin Dynasty, the place that is now Lingyuan County was once a small town subordinate to Northern Yin.
At that time, the Northern Yin Dynasty had friendly trade relations with the Tudou Kingdom on the Qingji Plateau, and over time, a small town formed here.
In the eyes of the Central Plains nations at that time, the Qingji Plateau was still a desolate and barren land, so this town did not attract the attention of other forces.
Luo Feng then built mausoleums in both Northern Yin territory and the area where Lingyuan County was located.
The mausoleum in Lingyuan County was originally a backup. However, in his later years, Luo Feng indulged in the pursuit of immortality, gathering Taoist priests from all over the world to refine elixirs for him.
Unfortunately, after swallowing just one golden elixir, Luo Feng immediately kicked the bucket…
However, Luo Feng's body did not decompose after death, and strange phenomena frequently occurred around it.
To prevent incidents from occurring in the imperial city, loyal soldiers transported Luo Feng's body to the backup mausoleum for burial.
To prevent the anomalies around Luo Feng's body from spreading to the outside, they invited the most famous geomancers and术师 (术师 - sorcerers/masters of arcane arts) in Northern Yin to remodel the mausoleum.
Before the mausoleum was sealed, the original townspeople and the craftsmen who remodeled it were all sent into the mausoleum as burial accompaniments. Sudan Novel Network.
The name of that geomancer was Tian Bula, who was Tian Lao Qi's ancestor.
Tian Bula and those soldiers remained there, continuing their role as tomb guardians for generations, and gradually evolved into the present-day Lingyuan County.
Luo Feng's death was known only to a few in the Northern Yin court. Not long after, Northern Yin collapsed, and the undead calamity that swept through Huafu occurred.
Therefore, in the historical records that have been passed down, there is no record of Luo Feng's death.
The strangeness of this mausoleum primarily stemmed from the anomalies of Luo Feng's body and the resentment of the townspeople and craftsmen who were massacred at the time.
However, all of this was isolated by the mausoleum itself. Coupled with the continuous repairs by successive generations of tomb guardians, everything had been peaceful for a thousand years.
But several decades ago, a major earthquake struck Lingyuan County, creating a fissure in the tomb.
To repair that fissure, the already dwindling number of tomb guardians were all killed or wounded, leaving only Tian Lao Qi and Wang Dayi.
It was from that time onwards that the Sleeping Mist began to appear in the Muyuan District every night…