Yet Yu Kunlun was not the only one deeply worried about opening Ji Yang's Tomb.
"Your Majesty! I believe the Imperial Preceptor's concerns are entirely reasonable."
Zong Shenhua held up the Eight-Sided Wind-Extinguishing Lantern and looked around, his brows furrowing into three deep lines. "I keep feeling that Ji Yang, Li Mountain Old Mother, and the others retreated too easily, as though they deliberately yielded the place. Even with the help of the Four Great Corpse Ancestors, Your Majesty, it remains suspicious. Moreover-"
His voice paused as he looked beneath their feet. "I am somewhat uneasy about this Reversal of Yin and Yang Array. I do not doubt the Imperial Preceptor, but this tomb belongs to Ji Yang, after all. She lived here for hundreds of thousands of years. It is hard to say whether she left other contingencies inside. And this array itself was built upon the array Luo Hanzong left behind. Your Majesty! We must guard against repeating the overturned cart ahead of us."
Emperor Jianyuan knew that the overturned cart Zong Shenhua mentioned referred to Chu Fengge tampering with things right under their noses, resurrecting Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun and setting Great Ning's national fortune on its decline.
There was also Chu Ming, the baleful corpse he had painstakingly refined, whom Chu Xisheng had seized in much the same way.
This "Illuminating World Demon Lamp" was already one of Great Ning's few pillars, and someone Emperor Jianyuan trusted relatively well now.
More importantly, what he said made perfect sense.
Emperor Jianyuan felt inexplicably irritable. As he pondered, the hand stroking the Heaven-Gazing Hou pressed a little harder, making the Heaven-Gazing Hou clone give a displeased hiss.
The Moon God High Chief Priest, Yue Xiner, disagreed. She clasped her hands behind her back. "Aren't you overestimating Chu