"Fuck you! Keep up! What are you scared of?!"
At dawn, the silence of General Mountain was shattered by Adjutant Mo's curses.
Following Lu Xuan's instructions, they had brought only five hundred elite soldiers, traveling light.
Halfway up the mountain, the feng shui master leading the way stopped on a patch of damp grass along the mountainside and stamped his foot against the ground.
"Marshal," the master reported as he turned around, a trace of disdain on his face, "the soil here is loose, and Killing Intent is leaking out. There are also traces of hastily buried grave-robbing tunnels along the way.
"It seems quite a few blind little thieves have already visited this place. They must have offended the owner of the tomb and fled in all directions, abandoning their companions."
With that, he changed tack and pointed toward the solitary dark-red stone mound in the middle of the valley.
"Great General Wei Yuan's true tomb entrance could never be in such an obvious place halfway up the mountain.
"In this subordinate's view, that 'Corpse Bait' stone mound, or the 'Tiger's Mouth' fissure before it, is the true road leading to heaven!
"These robbery tunnels have merely scratched the surface of the tomb. They have not even reached the side chambers!"
Lu Xuan merely listened to the feng shui master's well-founded analysis without committing himself either way, offering no comment.
Only after the feng shui master had finished did he casually raise a hand and point toward an ordinary-looking patch of level ground not far in front of the “tiger's mouth” fissure.
"Go over there. Open the tomb for this Marshal. We're going straight in."
To Lu Xuan, a cultivator at the peak of the Earth Master realm, the flow of spiritual energy through the world's mountains and Earth