The Northern School's long heritage had given it the most complete tomb-raiding techniques and burial excavation methods.
Because of this, Northern School practitioners had often criticized the Southern School as a bunch of brutes who only knew how to smash and dig recklessly, ruining all the good things. If they could bring out thirty or forty percent of the burial artifacts intact, that was already considered pretty good.
Yet at the same time, that stable inheritance made Northern School tomb raiders place the greatest importance on tradition and rules. Their overly rigid adherence to certain rules that now seemed unreasonable had also drawn plenty of criticism from the Southern School.
For example, no tomb raiding after the rooster crowed. Back then, if tomb raiders were discovered at daybreak, they would be escorted to the authorities and beaten to death. Naturally, they did not dare work once it was light. But Southern School people were relatively less wary of such things.
Did they even understand the weight carried by the fact that the head of the Nine Gates was Changsha's defense commander?
So the Southern School had never had such a rule.
Another example was no tomb raiding once the lamp went out. In the Southern School's eyes, it merely meant there was wind or the oxygen had run out. They could just use a windproof lamp, widen the robbing tunnel a little, or, in extreme cases, dig straight through the top of the tomb. Why would they fear the lamp going out?
But Northern School people would often truly stop the moment the lamp went out. Some would even put the artifacts they had taken back exactly as they were, kowtow to the tomb owner, and then leave the tomb chamber.
For people of the Northern School like that, even