The corpse of the previous civilization

After Lin Yu, a university student, and Chen Le, a PhD, analyzed the situation from different perspectives for high school student Li Nian, they also answered some of the questions Li Nian had when she last came here.

"I see... So, if we can steal these wooden furniture and tools, they might be rare items that can fetch a good price to those foolish fish in the Outer Sea of the Nether Void Realm?"

Li Nian looked at the wooden furniture, and her previously uninterested eyes suddenly lit up with a glint of light—a glint of calculation and estimation.

Hearing Li Nian's words, Lin Yu said helplessly, "If you want to take it away and sell it to someone Outer Sea, that's not impossible..."

"However, once outside of this [Azure Sea Sky Dome], these timbers will likely be difficult to store in the sea... and they're not very convenient to carry either—if you have to be careful about waterproofing them, isn't that a bit too much trouble?"

"The Sea Moth doesn't have that much space to store it."

Hearing Lin Yu's words, Li Nian said, "Oh dear, Sister Zhu Ming, I'm not stupid—don't worry, I'll just pick one or two items that are easy to carry and look relatively complete and beautiful to take with me."

Upon hearing Li Nian's words, Lin Yu replied, "Alright, but don't take too long..."

"Hey, Sister Zhu Ming, are you questioning my professional skills as a 'Master Thief'?" Li Nian looked at Lin Yu, opening her arms, "While we were chatting, I already chose and got it!"

Two wooden items lay quietly in Li Nian's hands.

One was a dark brown wooden comb with a few broken teeth, decorated with two winged, Flying Fish fish-like creatures.

The other is a wooden folding fan—this fan doesn't use paper or silk for the fan surface; instead, when unfolded, each thin wooden fan rib is tightly interlocked like a flower petal, making the fan rib itself the fan blade.

At the same time, each of these fan ribs is also carved with patterns of ripples and swimming fish.

The damaged part of the fan was that several of its ribs broke off, causing it to wobble and become unusable when unfolded.

Looking at these two wooden items, Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh.

"You really have a discerning eye, A Nian... These two items look like the most valuable ones in this pile."

Li Nian proudly put the two "spoils of war" into her arms.

"Of course... I'm a professional!"

Afterwards, Li Nian, satisfied with his "findings," led them out of the Warehouse.

Although the interior of this wooden and stone Palace is very spacious, its structure is quite simple.

After stepping out of this room, you will see a spacious hall and a straight corridor that stretches to both ends.

Several large doors were located along the corridor, and Li Nian casually introduced them to each other.

"Last time I came, I basically went into every room and wandered around. Entering through the back door of this Palace isn't very interesting. Apart from this storage room, the rest are the kitchen, the food storage room, the cleaning tool room, the servants' rooms... At least the storage room is piled with a lot of things, but those places are basically empty, as if someone deliberately emptied them out."

As Li Nian spoke, she pointed to the other end of the corridor.

"Turning that way and going further ahead is a bit more interesting. There are some very spacious and grand rooms, probably where the former powerful figures of the Mu Continent held meetings, dined, and worked—of course, they didn't leave behind anything useful."

"The bookshelves and display stands are all empty; very little intact furniture remains, except..."

At this point in Li Nian's speech, Lin Yu finally understood.

"Besides the 'room' we're going to, right?"

Li Nian nodded. "That's right, there's a room that might be equipped with the facilities for the Nine Treasures... Calling it a room isn't quite accurate, because it should be the 'main hall' of this Palace."

"Besides the several large structures standing in the middle, there's also a structure that looks like a 'high platform,' which I suspect is a 'throne' or something like that."

"So... let's ignore the other rooms for now and go check that place out—I already checked it for you last time anyway—you can see that most of the doors aren't fully closed; it's all my doing."

As Li Nian spoke, she led Chen Le and Lin Yu lightly through the Palace corridors and arrived at the gate of their destination.

And this double, heavy wooden door, which was significantly taller than the doors in the other rooms and was as tall as seven or eight people, was also... wide open.

The crack in the door that Li Nian had pushed open last time, just big enough for one person to pass through, was still there.

Lin Yu gently held the massive door, applying slight pressure with his palm, but the heavy door remained completely still.

Such a heavy door, without a mechanism, is indeed not something an ordinary person could push open. In anime, it would often become some kind of "test"—like the main gate of the Zoldyck Family.

Therefore, Lin Yu couldn't help but ponder...

Were those who lived within this Palace on the Mu Continent all races born with divine Divine Power?

Although he himself should be able to push it with all his might, it would be by no means an easy task for Lin Yu.

Therefore, Lin was also somewhat curious.

"A Nian... how did you open this door by yourself last time you came?"

As Lin Yu spoke, Li Nian laughed smugly, "Hehe, Sister Zhu Ming, you're not the only one with Summoned Creature!"

"I've also gotten some Summoned Creature [Item] that can be used as 'laborers' before... well, but compared to Sister Zhu Ming, all your [Summoned Creature] are permanent, mine usually have usage and time limits, and once they're used up, they're gone."

"However, when I came here last time, I happened to have a very strong Summoned Creature on hand, so I asked it to help open this door."

Lin Yu nodded and said.

"I see."

He stepped into the gap, which was actually quite spacious, but compared to the entire door it was really just a crack, and saw the "main hall" that Li Nian had described.

This place is indeed magnificent—the ceiling is so high it's like a huge cave, and several enormous wrought iron crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling.

The eight giant pillars supporting the entire space are decorated with reliefs of various Sea Beast, and three large, elegant, and complex-looking facilities are distributed throughout the hall.

Among them... the one that Li Nian mentioned, whose color matched that of the "Dagger," was located on the Right Hand side of the hall, between two pillars.

It was a huge instrument composed of several metal rings, like a giant planetarium magnified more than ten times.

Inside the center of the turntable, there is indeed a Dagger- shaped notch.

And although the target instrument is right here...

However, what was most eye-catching and attracted the attention of the three within the Palace was not this instrument.

Rather, it was the "high throne" that Li Nian mentioned.

Li Nian's description was very accurate... At the far end of the main hall, against the wall, there was a high platform with three sides and sixteen steps, arched around it.

The wall behind it originally seemed to have some kind of carving, but now it has been covered with a thick layer of mud, making it impossible to see what the original carvings were.

In the very center of this high platform was a huge, spacious chair made of jade—from a distance, it looked almost exactly like a double bed.

Judging from the heavy and massive gate of the main hall, Lin Yu even had reason to suspect that... the rulers of the Mu Continent Civilization in the past, the royal family of this Lost Kingdom, were very likely some kind of giant.

Certainly...

Lin Yu knew that the truth might not be so simple.

Because on that throne... sat a solitary figure.

It was a human wearing a magnificent long robe embroidered with cyan-gold ripples on a black background, and with thick, seaweed-like hair.

His size is similar to that of an average human; upon closer inspection, one can notice...

The skeletal structure of this creature appears to be that of an adult male.

Most of his face was hidden under his loose, long hair, making his features unclear—but because he had no beard, at least the lower half of his face was visible.

Therefore, Lin Yu could also notice the biggest difference between the other party and ordinary humans - there were diagonal openings on both sides of his neck and chin, like fish gills.

This man was undoubtedly a king from Lost Civilization.

Although his body showed no signs of decay or deterioration, Lin Yu could clearly sense that he had indeed been dead for a long time.

There was no fluctuation of soul, no fluctuation of spirit, and not even the slightest trace of residual Life Force.

Just like those puppets outside—the only difference being that this body, devoid of any consciousness or remaining Life Energy, was even filled with a dense "death aura."

If Lin Yu could truly be convinced that he was indeed a "corpse," a corpse that had once lived—after all, only a life that had "lived" would produce this kind of death aura after it died.

As for those puppets outside... Lin Yu couldn't tell whether they were corpses that had been cleaned up after death, or Empty Shell that had been recreated.

The corpse before them was most likely that of a powerful figure from a Lost Kingdom on the Mu Continent, and it was even more lifeless than an ordinary corpse.

It was as if he wasn't a solitary corpse, but a real graveyard.

Lin Yu scrutinized him closely, while Li Nian beside him smiled and spoke up.

"What do you think, Sister Zhu Ming? Isn't this chair impressive?"

"Although I don't know whether jade or wood is more valuable in the Nether Void Realm... jade is definitely more valuable in our world!"

Hearing Li Nian's words, Chen Le said helplessly, "Hey, you're not planning to move this whole chair away, are you?"

Listening to their conversation, Lin Yu was about to advise Li Nian not to covet the chair when he suddenly realized something was off.

Soon, Lin Yu figured out where the awkwardness in their conversation came from.

He looked at the corpse again and realized something...

Li Nian and Chen Le.

It seems the body is not visible.