Chu Tian suggested whether his grandfather had scouted the location, and Lin Qingyuan paused his busy hands.
“If that’s the case, I don’t even want to go in!”
Chu Tian, not understanding, tilted his head to look at him.
“Why?”
Lin Qingyuan gave a wry smile and resumed his searching on the wall.
“If it really was Master who scouted it, then this place would be absolutely empty! What’s the point of us struggling here?”
Judging by his expression, he had negated Chu Tian’s suggestion.
Lin Qingyuan felt around the wall a few times, then took out several runes.
He inlaid them onto the wall according to a specific pattern.
Buzz…
The runes, arranged in a circle, shone with brilliance, and a ripple appeared in the center.
The ripple was folded, and Chu Tian frowned as he watched.
“This…” Chu Tian felt increasingly uneasy, while Lin Qingyuan was ecstatic upon seeing this.
“It’s open, let’s go in!”
However, Chu Tian held him back and asked calmly.
“Earlier, you said… what did you mean by exit?”
Chu Tian remembered that when the young man was placing the runes, he had said this was the exit when detecting miasma?
Seeing the passage he had opened now… it was folded, like a chrysanthemum, and indeed it was an exit!
This kid actually wanted to crawl in from here!
It was really a bit disgusting.
And why did this tomb have both an exit and an entrance?
Could it be alive?
“Yes, this is the exit, and there’s also an entrance. Both are safe paths to enter the tomb. For a grand tomb like this… it’s impossible to get in without finding a path!
I chose to enter from the exit because…”
Lin Qingyuan spoke at length, but at this point, his eyeballs rolled around.
After hearing him say so much, Chu Tian interjected.
“Because you couldn’t find the entrance, right?”
Lin Qingyuan paused, his expression changing slightly.
“How could that be? It’s because it’s safer to enter from here!
If you enter from the entrance, you’ll inevitably be sucked in by the grand tomb, making you lose control. But entering from here, though more difficult to go against the flow, allows you to control yourself.”
After he finished, Chu Tian pouted. This kid was just trying to save face because he couldn’t find the entrance.
Chu Tian was too lazy to expose him and simply shrugged.
Lin Qingyuan turned around and crawled into the chrysanthemum-like passage.
Chu Tian could only quickly follow him in.
Lin Qingyuan, with his limited cultivation, was someone Chu Tian worried about encountering danger inside.
After all, he was his grandfather’s disciple, and had even been recognized as a godson.
This kid was genuinely enthusiastic about tomb robbing.
Perhaps he could truly carry on his grandfather’s legacy.
Although Chu Tian didn’t understand why his grandfather had been a grave robber,
Chu Tian knew that his grandfather was definitely not doing it for the treasures in those grand tombs.
As for why this kid Lin Qingyuan was so excited, he didn’t know.
Years later, when Chu Tian asked him, he said…
It was purely a hobby. To bring ancient artifacts buried underground back to daylight, what an exciting prospect that was!
However, upon hearing his righteous words, Chu Tian almost threw up.
Yes, ancient artifacts brought to daylight, that’s fine!
But why did you frequently drag out the tomb occupants to sunbathe?
Making their descendants chase you all over the world.
And you still enjoyed it, relishing the process.
But this is all for later. Chu Tian followed Lin Qingyuan in.
Immediately, he felt an extremely chilling aura that attacked his body.
Was this the so-called miasma?
Lin Qingyuan had said the miasma concentration was very low.
But what Chu Tian felt was like ten thousand steel needles piercing all his pores.
In contrast, Lin Qingyuan seemed unfazed. The hard hat on his head emitted a yellow light, enveloping him.
Not long after Chu Tian and Lin Qingyuan entered from here, a large number of people arrived from the opposite direction.
These people were none other than the grave robbers Lin Qingyuan had lured.
Among these thousands of people, there were many capable individuals, and quite a few had actually found the so-called entrance.
One of them, a tall figure carrying a Heaven-Overturning Seal on his back, had somehow become the leader of this group of grave robbers. A contingent followed him as they gathered at the entrance of this grand tomb.
From another direction, there was a man in a grey robe. Half of this man’s face was covered by a mask, and the exposed half was terrifyingly pale.
A few people followed him, forming a small group.
In addition, there were many such small groups.
“This grand tomb is truly extraordinary. Perhaps we’ll need to join forces to break through the entrance restrictions!”
The voice of the man carrying the Heaven-Overturning Seal on his back was extremely sharp, sounding neither male nor female, giving one goosebumps.
“Heh, Yin Thirteen, what trick are you trying to pull now? Are you trying to use people as cannon fodder? With your strength, cracking this small formation at the entrance should be easy, shouldn’t it?”
The man with half a mask heard the other’s words and sneered, directly exposing him.
The people behind Yin Thirteen looked at each other upon hearing this.
“Gui Mian, don’t try to sow discord here. I, Yin Thirteen, don’t have as many schemes as you. Be careful following Gui Mian, you might end up with nothing left but dregs!”
The man carrying the Heaven-Overturning Seal on his back, named Yin Thirteen, retorted directly after hearing the other’s words.
“Hmph, Yin Thirteen, just pretend. I don’t have time to waste here with you. It’s just a minor entrance formation, it won’t stop me!”
Whoosh…
Gui Mian produced a stack of talismans and shot them out like a volley, sticking them onto the wall which appeared no different.
The void trembled violently, runes on the stone wall flickered, some lighting up, others dimming. The runes shifted and reformed, and a passage directly appeared, slowly forming a portal.
“The tomb gate is open, everyone relies on their own abilities. My talismans will last for three hours. If I don’t see you return by then, you’ll have to find your own way out!”
Gui Mian said triumphantly to the people behind him, then provocatively nodded towards Yin Thirteen’s direction, before being the first to step inside.
…
Upon entering the chrysanthemum, Chu Tian’s first sensation was a cold pain.
After entering, Chu Tian found that the place they were in was not very large, and another stone door blocked their way.
Lin Qingyuan fumbled around for a while, and the stone door slowly opened. What rushed out was not the aura of death and decay, but rather a fresh, tranquil natural fluctuation. Chu Tian was very surprised.
Walking along the passage for more than ten miles, a lush forest appeared ahead. Birds sang and flowers bloomed within the forest, like a paradise.
“This… it’s actually a world of its own.” Lin Qingyuan was greatly astonished. He was a minor tomb robber and had explored countless tombs in the Lin Dynasty, but this was the first time such a situation had occurred.
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