Relying on his Spiritual Power perception, he could find a stone chamber every five minutes on average.
Lan Mu gradually discovered that the stone chambers were distributed according to a pattern. After choosing three forks in a row, there would definitely be a stone chamber nearby.
The larger stone chambers naturally held slaves, and each one contained a deep pit. However, not every pit held corpses.
Lan Mu found several empty slave chambers. Presumably, the slaves once imprisoned there had all been taken away for sacrifice.
Besides that, some of the smaller stone chambers held mountains of weapons: bronze daggers, obsidian spears, bone bows and arrows, slings, and the like.
To archaeologists studying the Aztec civilization, these might have been important relics. The designs painted on some shields might even have thrilled certain scholars.
Yet Lan Mu regarded them as trash. He fiddled with a bow; it was very light, and even in his lich form, he could draw it. Its power was simply too weak.
The tips of the bone arrows were blackened, likely coated in poison. It seemed Aztec warriors sought to poison their enemies to death rather than shoot them down.
"Legend says the Aztecs were at the height of their power when the Spanish destroyed them, but their civilization was still primitive..."
After briefly inspecting the armory, Lan Mu continued searching for the slave quarters.
Unless a slave chamber was completely empty, it contained at least fifty, sometimes more than eighty, departed souls.
These souls dissipated extremely slowly while trapped in the stone chambers, and all of them benefited Lan Mu.
Densely packed black souls rushed at Lan Mu and were all absorbed into his body.
The negative emotions of slave souls were especially intense. Lan Mu had to spend considerable time separating and organizing them