Zhang Yuanqing's gaze fell on the top of the passageway entrance. A Yellow Paper Talisman was pasted onto the wall's three vaulted arches, its twisted incantations drawn in cinnabar.
That hadn't been there in the illusion.
"Huh?"
Zhang Yuanqing stared at the Yellow Paper Talisman for a moment before ultimately deciding not to touch it.
I can't be reckless, he thought silently, having already put away his handgun and gloves.
Rather than heading toward the main burial chamber behind him, he proceeded down the tomb passage in the opposite direction.
Just then, he recalled another description from a tomb-raiding novel. In ancient times, nobles of status would have an epitaph erected in their tomb passages after death, recording the tomb owner's identity, birth date, and life story.
Zhang Yuanqing entered the passage and searched around. Sure enough, he found a recess built into the side of the passage with blue bricks, containing a stone stele.
Most of the writing on the stele had been worn away by time, leaving the information incomplete.
Based on what remained, Zhang Yuanqing roughly learned the princess's identity. She was the eldest daughter of a prince in the early Ming Dynasty, with the given name Yin Yao. Intelligent from childhood and beautiful as a flower, she possessed a rare talent for cultivation.
She had cultivated under the Lady of Three Paths Mountain in Song Prefecture. After completing her training, she traveled the world and lived for two full sixty-year cycles, only passing away in the middle to late Ming Dynasty. She never married in her life.
This princess was the old crone's disciple?!
"There are so many Night Wanderer Transcendent Stage instances. The first time, I entered the Temple of the Lady of Three Paths Mountain. The second time, I entered her disciple's tomb? Do