I followed Tong Sanjin into the tunnel. This time, the mechanisms in the underground palace had reset, returning to the state they had been in before the mysterious man unlocked them.
However, Tong Sanjin seemed to have participated in the underground palace's construction back then and knew all the traps inside out. I followed him, leaping here and there along the way. We were fairly safe, though I could barely keep up with his pace.
After walking for a while, I summoned Chen Shanyun and had her follow him.
More than two hours later, we returned to the underground palace's corridor and entered the core area.
The coffins in the underground palace were still where they had been. The main coffin had already been covered, and the two secondary coffins had their lids on as well. After all, even the Corpse King needed to rest and recover her ghostly energy.
Madam Qi and Madam Gao occupied the two coffins beside the main one. There was no movement from them now, while the remaining hundred-plus coffins had all been covered. It seemed our arrival had not attracted their attention at all.
"Guard Commander Tong, what's going on?" I asked, puzzled.
"Heh heh, who do you think you are? You expect the two madams to come out and welcome you personally?" Without Zhao Yu, Tong Sanjin had no intention of giving me the time of day.
There was nothing I could do to him here. I had temporarily returned the jade pendant to him, and the only thing I could do was borrow the path between yin and yang.
"Little Tong, that bastard Zhao Yu seems to have cleaned you up quite nicely. You could do more of that. Just wait and see how I deal with you later." I sneered and