The dark tunnel fell behind him.
The exit lay ahead.
Gu Qingshan emerged and found himself standing at the entrance to a Mountain Cave.
A graveyard stretched before him, its stone steles standing in rows.
Beyond the graveyard, a small path led to the palace complex proper.
The sky was overcast.
Not a soul was around.
Gu Qingshan sighed, gripped his long blade, and walked toward the graveyard.
As he walked, he looked over the tombstones.
They were covered in all sorts of strange writing, most of which he couldn't read.
In that case, there was no way to know who was buried in the graveyard.
Strangely, whenever he looked at a tombstone, knocking sounds came from the burial chamber beneath it.
"Summon me."
A voice rang out in Gu Qingshan's mind.
As his gaze swept over the densely packed graveyard, the knocking beneath the ground rose into a cacophony.
"Summon me."
"Summon me."
"Summon me."
"..."
One chilling voice after another rang out in Gu Qingshan's mind, as if countless dead were trying to claw their way up from underground.
Gu Qingshan shook his head.
It seemed those things needed to be summoned by the living aboveground before they could appear.
I'm not stupid enough to actually summon them. What's there to be afraid of?
Gu Qingshan lifted his head and strode through the graveyard.
Time passed.
He soon reached the center of the graveyard.
At its heart stood a gigantic burial mound, as big as a hill.
Gu Qingshan hadn't planned to stop, but one glance at the writing on its tombstone made him freeze.
It was written in the common script of the Human Race:
"The Six Paths War General is buried here."
Gu Qingshan stopped at once.
War General.
That title sounded a lot like "Six