Phoenix

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This is a relatively simple game of human nature.

When you finally find the location of the Main Tomb Chamber by following the feng shui layout and overcoming numerous obstacles and traps, you will find skeletons lying inside, along with burial Law Treasure and identity tokens...

Even if it's disappointing, people usually assume that's just how it is.

Of course, this is a very early tomb. Back then, tomb raiding wasn't as common as it is now. This kind of manipulation of people's minds was quite effective at the time. But nowadays, cultivators have seen it all and are much harder to fool.

Therefore, those with extensive tomb raiding experience would search further to see if there were any fake tombs or hidden compartments. The stall owner from before couldn't have completely missed a search.

But he couldn't find it.

No matter how hard you search, there are no secret passages or rooms here, just a square stone house.

Qin Yi handed Li Qingjun over to Qing Cha to take care of, and then searched along the corner of the wall, turning over the ceiling and even the area under the corpses. He searched for a full half hour, but found nothing suspicious.

No wonder the stall owner couldn't find it; he assumed there was nothing left there and returned disappointed.

But Qin Yi was certain there was something here. If he couldn't find anything suspicious, it meant he was thinking in the wrong direction.

Liusu released her Divine Sense to observe the entire tomb and said, "For the entire tomb, this place is the Innocent Position. Try going to the Great Possession Position and take a look; there might be some connection."

Liusu wasn't an expert in tomb layout, but her knowledge of formations could be applied here; the principles remained the same despite the variations. Qin Yi rushed out and triggered a mechanism as he turned the corner.

Flames surged and instantly engulfed the corridor; the intense heat even caused the Myriad Demons Magic Robe to show signs of being scorched.

Qin Yi was not surprised but rather pleased.

The more powerful the mechanisms along this route, the more likely it is to prove that the approach is correct.

The real tomb chamber is in the same location as the fake tomb chamber, but the method to open it is not there; it is in another place.

He summoned his Joyful Buddhist Beads and forced his way through the fiery array. Just as he reached the end of the corridor, several more beams of gray light shot towards him. He didn't know how the gray light emitted its light; it looked extremely eerie.

The prayer beads emitted rings of light, completely blocking out the gray light.

Qin Yi hadn't used these Joyful Buddhist Beads much, but he found them increasingly useful, with excellent protective effects. He had just used his Azure Light to barely recover some of his Law Power, and the beads were automatically protecting him, requiring no effort from him. The reason was simple: this was a Buddhist Treasure, while the gray light was considered a kind of netherworld evil.

This is complete spontaneous restraint.

The Great Joy Temple, a place of demonic cultivation, is actually considered Buddhist Treasure ... Qin Yi didn't have time to complain and flashed into another corridor.

Learning formations wasn't for nothing; the so-called "Great Possession Position" is just a matter of turning a corner. Qin Yi sometimes wondered, did those time-traveling predecessors who were always trying to learn the Dugu Nine Swords even know where Gui Mei Follows Wu Wang was?

The Great Possession Position is not a room, but a wall carved with various sculptures.

Qin Yi glanced at it and couldn't help but exclaim "Eh!"

The wall carving depicts a phoenix rising from the ashes, its wings soaring across the sky amidst raging flames. Numerous tiny images are locked in battle between heaven and earth; some are relatively recognizable, like a silly snake... oh, Soaring Serpent. Others are simply human figures, faceless, too ordinary to be carved in their entirety.

This was the first time Qin Yi had seen a carving depicting an ancient war. Although it was somewhat montage-like, the main character was a phoenix, and the others were just "the crowd" or "passersby." If there were Liusu among them, they would probably be one of those passersby as well.

"Hey, are you in there?"

"Pah, how could these people have seen me before?"

Just another random passerby.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Liusu retorted angrily, "Not a passerby, but someone they can't see!"

"Alright, alright, I got it." Qin Yi touched the spikes of the Wolf Tooth Club.

Liusu:"..."

Qin Yi immediately changed the subject. "Speaking of which, this sect actually worships a phoenix? Then how come it's so Ghost Qi and ghostly?"

"Is it strange? Is it a Buddhist monk or a lewd monk?"

"That makes so much sense, I'm speechless."

"Humans worship the phoenix... not necessarily out of respect for it itself, but perhaps out of reverence for its power of rebirth, whether in fire or in the netherworld. Besides..." Liusu sneered, wanting to say something, but ultimately held back, only adding a lightly sarcastic remark, "It's not a good thing."

Qin Yi sideways.

Is this the first time Liusu has used this tone to evaluate someone from back then? Could it be that Phoenix is its enemy?

It's uncertain. Liusu can't hide other things, but she's particularly good at hiding things related to this matter. It's understandable that she's cautious, afraid of accidentally revealing something that will be noticed by her superiors. She might not even want to mention the word "phoenix," so she uses "it" instead.

After all, mentioning words like "Liusu" might sound different from how others do it.

Qin Yi knew he was too weak at the moment, and there was no point in knowing more, so he didn't force himself to ask.

After stroking his chin and looking around for a while, he could roughly tell from the exquisiteness and artistic level of the architecture and reliefs that this place was definitely not Savage Wilderness place from the time of Liusu. It should be the descendants of the tribe that worshipped these "gods". The real era should be after the war between immortals and gods and before the Demon Calamity. It was most likely a sect that was destroyed by the Demon Calamity.

Qin Yi ran his fingers along the relief carving, but still couldn't find any mechanism.

He frowned, looked up, and stared into the phoenix's eyes for a while. The phoenix silently met his gaze.

Qin Yi suddenly realized something, took out the Black Jade Token, and placed it in front of Phoenix.

A light slowly shone in the phoenix's eyes, shining on the token as if it were trying to identify and analyze it.

Liusu remained silent, seemingly also looking into the eyes of the phoenix.

A moment later, a rumbling sound came from the original location of the tomb chamber. Qin Yi immediately put away the token and rushed back.

So this token is for swiping cards... and it's definitely not just used in one place. As a form of "identity verification," it's probably used for everything related to this. The original owner of the tomb placed the token outside the fake tomb not only to confuse people, but also as a traditional way to break through the impasse—leaving you with a crucial key and leaving you to decide whether to use it or not.

Back in the tomb, the scene inside had changed.

The original floor was gone, replaced by emptiness. Surprisingly, the fake skeleton didn't fall; instead, it was held aloft by some force, remaining unchanged.

The area below was extremely cold, not the cold of ice and frost, but the cold of Yin Qi, a dark and gloomy forest.

Ju Yunxiu, riding on auspicious clouds and carrying Li Qingjun's Qing Cha, waited quietly there. Seeing Qin Yi return, she said, "There's another stone chamber below."

"Let's go down and take a look."

Descending from the clouds, a soft "click" sounded above. Looking up, the void had filled in again, transforming back into the thick floor—their current ceiling. The entire stone slab seemed to have "grown" out of thin air, eerily strange.

Judging from the process of how it "grew out," the stone slab must have been at least ten feet thick. No wonder you couldn't find anything on it no matter how you touched it; it was a solid floor.

Qin Yi had no interest in looking at the previous things anymore, and his gaze fell on the new stone chamber.

In the very center is a large phoenix sculpture with outstretched wings, beneath which is a heavy black bronze coffin. The coffin is also carved with patterns in the same style as the reliefs on the outer wall, with an ancient and weathered appearance, yet the coffin itself looks brand new and has a slightly shiny luster.

There really were Pill Furnace, Earth Fire, and all sorts of tools around. There was also flowing water by the wall, and a small Spirit Pool with flowers on it.

Many people's tombs are actually fully-equipped cave abode, where they can try to cultivate and break through before they die, or... hope to be reborn, or find their memories after reincarnation and be able to come back and use them directly.

Without a doubt, this is the real tomb!

If it were a modern tomb, there might be a third layer, leading people to believe the second layer is the real one and miss the final truth. But early experience didn't involve such tricks.

The Spiritual Qi here is incredibly rich, comparable to Cheng Cheng's Water Fire Quiet Room; it's truly a feng shui treasure. This treasure is several times higher in status than the ancient Gu Song Layman's tomb, and with the protection of nether energy, Drought Demon would absolutely not arise here.

There's a very high chance the body won't decompose, and there's a good chance the person will come back to life. Or perhaps they'll linger in the coffin, never truly dead!

No one had time to observe their surroundings anymore; they were all focused on the Black Bronze Coffin, their vigilance instantly reaching its peak.