Qu Zan's eyes flew wide. After comparing them repeatedly, he confirmed that they were exactly alike.
"No way. Could the previous owner of this Ghost Hand have been this very king?"
Qu Zan looked at the sculpted image, thoughts surging through his mind.
The crown of khyung horns on the monarch's sculpted image was called a Toga. Its main body was a circle, with an ancient human face above it, adorned with a khyung.
The khyung was a divine bird of myth.
"This crown is connected to the royal family of Guxiangxiong."
Qu Zan confirmed that, apart from its missing head, the corpse still had its left hand.
"So the owner of this tomb wasn't the man in the painting. He was a subject of the man in the painting, and because he admired this king, he painted his portrait on his own coffin lid?"
"What a pity there's no way to find that head. If it were still here, perhaps I could obtain some useful information using the treasure-revealing method."
Qu Zan now focused his attention on the symbols and writing on the coffin.
Above the head in the painting was a short line of Esoteric Script, so small that it would go unnoticed without careful scrutiny:
My great king, you shall never die. Through the flesh and blood of your enemies, you shall rise again and return... Qu Zan went over the Esoteric Script in his mind, thinking, What does this mean?
Was this simply the man's worship of his king, a few bold declarations, or could this crowned man from a thousand years ago truly return to life?
Although this world was filled with mystery and strange horrors, as far as Qu Zan knew, no one had lived to a thousand. Otherwise, there was only reincarnation.
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