According to the late adventurer Shi Fei.
The origins of this great tomb were shrouded in mystery. Supposedly, it held a peerless expert who had broken through the limits of supernatural power.
Although no one had ever been able to explain who this person was, what breaking through the limits of supernatural power even meant, or why someone so powerful would still die.
And why, after dying, they had buried themselves beneath Rakshasa Lake...
The story had been passed down through generations.
There were always adventurers unafraid of death who came to try their luck. What if they found the corpse and uncovered its secrets?
What if they were the lucky one?
What if they were the protagonist of their era?
It wasn't just ordinary adventurers. The great clans had also sent people to explore.
But almost all publicly available exploration records, without exception, seemed to indicate that the burial chamber was empty. No corpse had been found.
Of course.
There were several possible explanations.
First, they really hadn't found the corpse and had returned empty-handed every time.
This possibility.
Probably reflected most people's actual experiences.
Second.
A small number might really have discovered something, only to die inside the burial chamber. With even their corpses gone, they naturally had no way to send word outside.
Third.
A very small number had discovered some secrets.
But kept them to themselves.
In short.
The end result was that the danger of this great tomb had been deliberately downplayed in the information circulating outside, probably to lure an endless stream of adventurers inside to explore.
The truly important information circulated only within the major factions and top clans.
It wasn't made public.
So...
"That hand really might belong to the tomb's occupant." Jiang Qiao frowned. "Judging by how terrifying it was, it