The Emperor's Tomb

The tunnel was very long; it took the group about half an hour to reach the end.

"Shopkeeper, if you go up from here, you'll reach the Emperor's Tomb," Lin Wuchi said, pointing to the hidden compartment above.

"Then why don't you open it?" Ma Feifei said irritably.

Do I need you to tell me what's up there? Do you Ma Feifei I'm stupid?

"Oh!" Lin Wuchi was startled and quickly stepped forward to try and push open the hidden compartment.

"Hmm?" Lin Wuchi pushed hard, but found that it didn't budge, which puzzled him.

Another push, and it was the same.

I tried pushing it three times, but it still didn't work.

"What's going on?" Ma Feifei asked confusedly from behind.

"It seems like something is pressing down on it. Beiguo, you come here." Lin Wuchi explained, then stepped aside and let Li Beiguo go.

In terms of strength, Li Beiguo was much stronger than Lin Wuchi.

"Ugh!!" Li Beiguo pushed the hidden compartment with all his might, his face turning red, but the compartment remained unmoved.

"This doesn't make sense!" Lin Wuchi looked at the scene with a puzzled expression and said, "We were able to open it last time we came, why can't we open it this time?"

"Should we try using Spiritual Power?" Ma Feifei said from behind.

Lin Wuchi shook his head and replied, "Using Spiritual Power would easily cause disturbances in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy. We have already entered the imperial mausoleum, and the guards around us are very close. If there is any abnormality in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, it will alert the guards."

Without using Spiritual Power, it's clear that an ordinary person wouldn't be able to open this hidden compartment.

At that moment, Li Beiguo suddenly remembered something and said, "I know what's up there!"

"What?" Lin Wuchi asked.

Li Beiguo looked at Lin Wuchi and said, "Do you remember when we came here last time, we placed a piece of Sunken Gold on top of the hidden compartment to prevent forgetting about this passage? But later, we got lost in the formation and went out through another path, so we didn't come back here. That piece of Sunken Gold has been lying on top ever since!"

"So you're saying that your inability to get out is entirely your own fault?" Ma Feifei was speechless; he really felt like he'd encountered two idiots.

"Hehe, an accident, an accident." Remembering the reason, Lin Wuchi was a little embarrassed. He had only wanted to find this cave to make it easier to get out. Who would have thought that they would go out from a different place later? He certainly didn't expect that they would come to this place again.

"Tell me how we get out of here." Ma Feifei wasn't in the mood to scold the two of them. Right now, he just wanted to complete this Main Quest and then say goodbye to these two idiots.

At this moment, Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo both turned their attention to Yun Qingyang.

Yun Qingyang frowned slightly, and the two quickly lowered their heads.

Ma Feifei was taken aback and asked, "Why are you looking at her?"

Lin Wuchi replied softly, "When you hold the Sunken Gold in your hand, it weighs one jin (500g), but when you put it on the ground, it weighs a hundred thousand jin (50,000kg). And Saint, without using Spiritual Power, can lift a million jin (500kg)..."

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Ma Feifei was a little surprised that Spirit Saint cultivator could lift something weighing a million catties without using Spiritual Power!

Li Beiguo nodded and said, "Once a cultivator reaches the Spirit Saint realm, their physical body will be tempered by the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, further enhancing their physical strength."

Ma Feifei glanced at Yun Qingyang and said, "Go push it away?"

This time, Yun Qingyang wasn't arrogant. She stepped forward, raised one hand, and the hidden compartment opened upwards.

Easy!

After exiting the tunnel, everyone returned to the surface, where they found themselves surrounded by a desolate plain with no tombs in sight.

"The tombs of emperors throughout history are hidden within arrays. According to my and Li Beiguo's deductions, each array here represents the tomb of an emperor," Lin Wuchi said, taking out his Formation Cloud Disk.

"Do you remember where Emperor Chu the Conqueror's tomb is?" Ma Feifei asked. There are quite a few formations here, and it would be embarrassing if we entered the wrong one.

"If the formation doesn't change, of course we'll remember it. But the formation here changes its position every now and then, so the formation that was in the last position may have moved this time. However, we left a cloud disc mark in the tomb of Emperor Chu the Conqueror last time. With this mark, we can still find the tomb of Emperor Chu the Conqueror." Lin Wuchi fiddled with the cloud disc, and the cloud disc began to spin rapidly.

With a "whoosh," a beam of light shot out, striking the air and creating a ripple.

"Found it, it's that formation!" Lin Wuchi said excitedly, leading the way over.

Ma Feifei and the others followed behind, and the four of them stepped into the formation.

"Buzz"

As the sound passed through the array, the scene before them instantly changed dramatically.

A vast cemetery appeared before them, divided into a 3x3 grid. The tombs in each grid were of roughly the same size, except for the largest tomb in the center.

Lin Wuchi pointed to the central tomb and said excitedly, "The coffin of Xiang Yu, the Emperor Chu the Conqueror, is buried in the very center."

Ma Feifei nodded and said, "Then you can begin."

Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo were taken aback, looked at Ma Feifei, and asked, "Shopkeeper, aren't you going down?"

Ma Feifei asked with slight surprise, "Why would I go down there?"

"This..." Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo exchanged a glance, unsure of what to say.

"Shopkeeper, don't you want to see how many treasures are buried in the tomb of Emperor Chu the Conqueror?" Lin Wuchi tempted.

The tomb of the founding emperor of the Great Chu —heaven knows how many treasures were buried inside.

Ma Feifei shook his head, found a rock to sit on, and said, "Don't Captivate me anymore. Go on, I'll wait for you here."

Sending Ma Feifei down to rob a tomb is simply a joke. Tomb robbing is an extremely dangerous activity, especially the tomb of Xiang Yu, the Emperor Chu the Conqueror, Feng Shen Ji who conquered the Azure Dragon Continent five thousand years ago. Do you think his tomb would be simple? Ma Feifei certainly doesn't want to die in his tomb.

Besides, what in this world could be more attractive to Ma Feifei than Mysterious Bookstore? A single Yellow Quality could produce an eighth-tier spirit sword capable of soaring to the heavens and plunging to the earth; what about Epic-grade, legendary -Legendary-grade, or even Mythic-grade Sacred Beast?

Ma Feifei felt that as long as he honestly ran the Bookstore, he would have all the magical artifacts and Divine Beast he needed. Even if Emperor Chu the Conqueror was incredibly powerful, he was only at the Peak of the Ninth Stage of Spirit Saint, just an ordinary mortal. He didn't have any magical artifacts or Divine Beast, so why should Ma Feifei take the risk?

"Why don't you two go already!" Ma Feifei was baffled when she saw the two of them still standing there dumbfounded, and urged them on.

"We dare not go down!" Lin Wuchi said in a low voice.

"Didn't you come here last time? Why are you so timid this time?" Ma Feifei asked.

"I've been here before, but I can't find the entrance," Li Beiguo said softly.

"You can't find the entrance, but I can?" Ma Feifei said irritably. "Didn't I tell you to read that Grave Robbers' Chronicles? Maybe we can find it now. Hurry up, hurry up!"

And so, urged on by Ma Feifei, Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo headed toward the nine-square grid.

Ma Feifei watched the two figures disappear into the distance and nodded in satisfaction.

"Are you afraid of dying?" Yun Qingyang suddenly asked from the side.

Ma Feifei rolled her eyes and said, "Nonsense, aren't you afraid of dying?"

"Then why did you let them in?" Yun Qingyang asked, tilting his head.

"Because that's their dream!" Ma Feifei said matter-of-factly.

"Is it okay to die for a dream?" Yun Qingyang asked doubtfully.

Ma Feifei frowned, looked up at Yun Qingyang, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Yun Qingyang pointed to the tomb of Xiang Yu, the Emperor Chu the Conqueror, and said, "There seems to be someone inside."

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