Yin Soldiers

Shen Luo brought his axe down again, and the stone door finally collapsed with a crash. Beyond it lay a stone chamber more than ten yards across.

He watched for danger as he stepped inside. The chamber resembled a study, with two bookshelves and a desk piled with books.

The paper was of good quality. Though decades had passed, the books had not rotted.

No one seemed to have entered the chamber in decades. Dust covered the shelves and desk.

Shen Luo picked up a book from the desk, shook off the dust, and leafed through it. Disappointment soon showed on his face.

It was neither a cultivation manual nor a book on spiritual materials. It dealt with construction and mechanisms, recording methods for making traps and devices, along with designs for siege engines, boats, and carriages.

He flipped through several other books. They, too, concerned mechanisms.

From what Fang Yuegong said, the owner of this tomb was a master of mechanisms. Could these books be what he left behind? Shen Luo wondered.

He searched the room but found nothing besides the books, leaving him rather disappointed.

Still, they might contain something valuable. He had no time to read them now, and his two Storage Magical Artifacts had ample space, so he packed every book away.

He was about to leave when he glanced outside. After a moment's thought, he turned and walked to the back of the chamber, reciting the Spirit-Linking Demon-Commanding Art.

A short while later, Shen Luo emerged from the chamber with a bronze bracer on his right arm.

The others had each broken through a stone door and were searching the chambers beyond for treasure.

Seeing this, Shen Luo went to another stone door and swung his short axe to break it open.

Before long, they