Chen Mo followed the cliff face upward and reached the top of the cliff. On this side was a gentle slope, and halfway up it stood a stone house that had collapsed beyond recognition. Yet if it were restored, it should have been quite magnificent.
This was the structure above the Counterweight Stone in the cave passage, the aboveground building that led to the tomb. After a thousand years, it had long lost its former splendor and fallen into ruin.
Even the statues and such in front of the building had weathered beyond recognition.
Judging from its overall appearance, the structure here was a distinctive type of funerary architecture found in the Western Regions. However, it was clearly very old and had been built in the desert, so there were no inhabitants nearby. In the end, when it collapsed, no one paid any attention to it.
Sure enough, nothing could withstand the ravages of time. Given enough time, even the most dazzling structure would become ruins.
Still, based on the building's appearance and the collapsed sections, it must have once been beautiful and grand. Especially considering that long passageway and the parts connected underground, it must have taken enormous labor and wealth to construct something so magnificent back then.
Now it had become a pile of ruins. Chen Mo was no archaeologist, so there was nothing to dwell on. He chose a direction and headed swiftly west, as Lan Caijie had said. He should finish his business first, then hurry home and rest properly for a few days.
Thinking of his Tingting and Ouyang Ruo Xi made his heart burn, and his movement speed increased by another thirty percent.
He did not use Sword Flight. It was broad daylight, and he did not know the situation around him, so he