"Oh, and you'd better hurry about that poison, too. It won't kill you, but it'll hurt like hell-and the longer you wait, the worse it'll get. Don't go dying in there."
Sima Cheng's face flushed crimson, and he nearly spat blood!
He ground his teeth, towering hatred flashing in his eyes-
Twenty years of forbearance, twenty years of plotting, and success had been within reach, only for this man to ruin his plans again and again. Now he was trapped in this damned cocoon, his life hanging by a thread!
He couldn't delay any longer!
Gritting his teeth, he suddenly raised his hand, and True Qi surged from his body!
Drawn by his True Qi, the Imperial Heirloom Seal slowly rose from the Jade Casket and hovered in midair!
Sima Cheng turned both hands over at once, revealing half a tiger tally in each palm-
The tally was blue-black throughout, shaped like a crouching tiger with its jaws gaping and eyes half closed. It was the Sima Clan's ancestral secret treasure, the [Tomb Tiger Tally], whose power to manipulate earth veins alone surpassed even the [Earth-Bearing Formation]!
A tomb was the earth's dwelling for the dead, the burial place of earth veins, the source of all soil.
The so-called tomb tiger was no savage beast among the graves, but the lord of earth veins, the guardian of dragon veins.
When it lay still, mountains and rivers fell silent; when it stirred, the earth split and mountains crumbled!
Sima Yi had crafted this tally in his later years, naming it after his own epithet, "Tomb Tiger." It could command the vital energy of earth veins, transforming ordinary soil into indestructible "heavy earth."
It was this very tally that had allowed Sima Yi to escape death at the hands of Zhuge Liang's