"Thank goodness, Grandfather's grave is still here."
Green Ox Village.
After leaving the underground palace, Xu Taiping followed his childhood memories and found his way to the graveyard where his grandfather lay buried.
This graveyard had once been a barren hill behind Green Ox Village. Now, after the true fire had scorched it, all the vegetation on the hill had turned to ash, making the burial mounds on its slopes stand out starkly.
"Taiping, don't rush."
Just as Xu Taiping quickened his pace toward the graveyard, Fairy Lingyue suddenly spoke up to caution him.
"Mm."
Xu Taiping nodded.
He knew Sister Lingyue was worried there might be an ambush in the graveyard.
"Sister Lingyue, although we completely blocked the entrance to that underground palace, we still left quite a few traces. I'm a little worried someone might follow them and find the Black-Eagle Banner again."
Xu Taiping secured his Concealment Cloak and advanced warily toward the graveyard while transmitting his words to Fairy Lingyue in his mind.
In truth, there was still much he did not understand about the underground palace where the True Martial Great Emperor had placed the Black-Eagle Banner.
"There's something you don't know, Taiping."
Fairy Lingyue manifested from the Gourd.
"When the True Martial Great Emperor made the Black-Eagle Banner a formation node, he had already arranged everything."
At this point in her explanation, she pointed at the ground, then gestured to Xu Taiping.
"Press your hand against the ground, then use your divine soul to sense the underground palace below."
"All right." Though his face was full of puzzlement, Xu Taiping crouched down and pressed his hand against the ground.
At first, Xu Taiping felt nothing. Only when he released his Divine Soul Power through his palm did he sense an enormous thing moving slowly