The Sacred Mausoleums had been built to bury the warriors of Ying who had died in battle and to worship the Eight-headed Serpent. There were as many as eight such special sites throughout Ying.
According to the intelligence Dongfang Bubai had gathered in Ying through warriors such as the secretly cultivated Sarutobi Nichigetsu, she had once fortuitously entered a Sacred Mausoleum that had been dug open by a group of tomb-raiding strongmen. There, she killed one of the Eight-headed Serpent's severed bodies, which had been sealed away and severely weakened after a bloody battle, obtaining the Eight-headed Serpent's poisonous blood essence.
After surviving that calamity, Dongfang Bubai used it to leap from the Heavenly Human 3rd Realm straight into the Heavenly Human 5th Realm. The Eight-headed Serpent's venom also entered her body, and her strength advanced by leaps and bounds.
As for this second Sacred Mausoleum, Dongfang Bubai said that it had never been entered or explored by anyone since the sealing. It contained countless mechanisms, as well as one of the Eight-headed Serpent's fully intact body segments.
"A divine beast like the Eight-headed Serpent is almost as powerful as the Four Spirits of our Central Plains martial world—I mean the Four Spirits at their full strength. Legend says this serpent was born from the calamities of Ying and exists alongside Ying itself. It has eight heads and eight tails. Its heads resemble dragons, its eyes are as crimson as red vinegar paste, its back is covered in moss and trees, its belly festers and bleeds, eight-colored storm clouds often drift above its heads, and its body is as enormous as eight mountain peaks and eight valleys."
"That absurd? Was the one you encountered before really that huge?"
Jiang Dali crossed his arms and looked at Dongfang Bubai in surprise