Xu Qingtong stared at the mound in the middle of the courtyard for a long while. The longer he looked, the more something seemed wrong, so he asked, "Senior Sister Dongfang, why does this mound look like a grave to me?"
Hearing this, Dongfang Hui also turned her attention to the mound in the courtyard.
"There's a stone tablet over there. Let's go take a look!" Dongfang Hui said.
Only then did Xu Qingtong notice a stone tablet behind the mound. He hurried forward and came up beside it.
There were only four words on the stone tablet: Tomb of Our Ancestor!
"It really is a tomb! But why bury someone here?" Xu Qingtong said, puzzled.
"I think the tomb might have been here first, and the palace was built here afterward. Didn't you see 'Tomb of Our Ancestor' written on the gravestone?"
Xu Qingtong pondered briefly, then nodded. "You have a point, Senior Sister! Let's leave it for now and check the rooms for anything good."
The two entered the main hall. It was empty, with nothing inside. "Nothing but four bare walls" could not have been a more fitting description!
No! It was not entirely empty. There were many pictures and words carved into the four walls!
Xu Qingtong looked closely. The pictures depicted human movements, while the words beside them were formulas. It seemed to be some kind of body-tempering art.
"Senior Sister, these pictures seem to depict a body-tempering art!"
Dongfang Hui nodded. "I think so too!"
"Let's look in the other rooms!"
With that, Xu Qingtong stepped out of the main hall and turned into the room on the right.
The room on the right was almost identical to the main hall, just as empty. The carvings on its walls, however, were different from those