Whether Heavenly Capital Ghost City had ghosts was anyone's guess, but Heavenly Ruins Ancient Tomb was a genuine ancient tomb.
An entire mountain, hundreds of zhang tall and stretching for dozens of li, had sunk underground. Its slopes were covered in tombs and burial mounds from successive ancient dynasties. These overlapping graves were crammed together into an enormous, misshapen cone that had sunk into an even larger limestone cavern.
Broken tomb guardian beasts and stone steles with illegible inscriptions mingled with massive timbers from cypress burial enclosures, stone coffins, and scattered bones. Ghostly flames shimmered among them.
Standing before this enormous mountain of graves, Lü Bufan scratched the back of his head. "Good heavens, it's so big... Where exactly has that Ghost-Work Master Craftsman hidden himself?"
"The people of the Incomplete Gate would like to know too... Have you decided? Are you really going to negotiate with those people and ask them to stop hunting the Ghost-Work Master Craftsman?"
"Take me to see them!"
The two dwarfs chuckled. "You're just a martial warrior who's barely entered the middle third realm, aren't you? A reminder: the Incomplete Gate's sect master and four ghost kings are all fifth- and sixth-realm villains... Wicked men who offended powerful factions outside and could no longer survive there! The sort who willingly cut off an arm and swore never to leave Heavenly Capital Ghost City... What makes you think you can get them to spare the Ghost-Work Master Craftsman?"
Lü Bufan smiled. "Benefits, of course... If they refuse, I'll try another method!"
The two dwarfs snickered sinisterly and led Lü Bufan toward a burial chamber whose crooked entrance lay exposed.
Two filthy men, each missing his left arm and holding an iron axe in his remaining hand, glared viciously at Lü Bufan. One said to the