What lay beyond the tomb door?
Lin Hanzhi's breathing was calm, so calm that it seemed nothing had happened. But under these circumstances, calm was not normal.
Beneath the Min Di Sea, he had once seen a disabled Teleportation Array belonging to the Lin family. After copying its patterns, he had discovered that its ultimate destination was the Huai'an River.
It was known that the Lin family had preserved the Records of Corpse Liberation, and that the Anomalous Affairs Bureau's director from two terms ago had known about the past between the emperor and the Director of Astronomy, as well as the secret beneath the Huai'an River. That former director had come from the Lin family. In other words, the Lin family had known that the tomb on the riverbed had been built by the Director of Astronomy who had written the Records of Corpse Liberation.
Although the Lin family was a family of Metaphysics practitioners, they were still only flesh and blood. They could not predict what would happen after becoming immortals, but for fear of harming others, their plan from the start had been to voluntarily retreat through the corpse passage into the tomb beneath the sea after dealing with the S-rank malevolent ghosts, never to emerge again, if they retained their consciousness after corpse liberation.
Lin Hanzhi's eyes gradually grew wet, yet his chest remained still and deathly quiet, as peaceful as though his heart had stopped beating. Words of comfort seemed powerless at that moment. Qi Gu only gently stroked his back, telling him that he would face it together with him.
[What's wrong with Zhi Zhi? Is there something really scary behind the door?]
[It doesn't feel like fear. More like... he can't bring himself to face it?]
[Did Gugu and Zhi Zhi see something