The passage leading to the underground palace was pitch-dark, as though it ran straight into the depths of the earth. A faint, deep-tunnel chill gradually drifted up from the stone steps. After another half hour of walking, a thin layer of black mist could be seen floating at the end of the stairway, spreading like water before an enormous stone gate.
Heavenly King Luan Sheng did not know how long he had walked before a space resembling the entrance to a tomb appeared ahead in the passage. At its entrance stood a massive gateway, with two tomb guardian beasts erected outside, their forms ancient and unadorned.
Both tomb guardian beasts had human faces and beastly bodies, strange horns growing from their foreheads, and could even breathe flames from their mouths.
"Great Achievement Emperor's Hundred-Spirit Tomb Guardian Beasts?"
Even someone as worldly and knowledgeable as Heavenly King Luan Sheng was sharply startled in that instant.
"Emperor You truly was ruthless. He even dug up the imperial mausoleum of that Great Achievement overlord—otherwise, how could he have found these two tomb guardian beasts?"
The two enormous tomb guardian beasts swayed their heads. Black gemstones were set into their eyes, while flames burned in both their mouths and eye sockets, casting a clear, ghostly radiance. Wherever that light reached, the black mist and netherworld qi scattered and retreated.
These were wondrous artifacts forged by the divine shamans of the Great Achievement Dynasty, carrying traces of ancient witchcraft. The Great Achievement Dynasty had ties to the orthodox legacy of the ancient Witch Sect, and it had also been the only dynasty in all the ages to establish its capital within Nanling Circuit.
These two strange tomb-guarding beasts had been forged from all manner of rare treasures and spiritual materials, with the soul essences of