Inspecting East Mountain

Zhang Xuezhou encouraged everyone to relax and adjust their mind and body, and he did the same for himself.

After reaching the Divine Ability Realm, the Yin-Yang School requires Creation Pills for cultivation, which Zhang Xuezhou has never been able to refine. Even with the perfected Realm Technique, he can only advance his realm using the water-milling method.

The Mental Strengthening Chapter has already entered its seventh chapter. To acquire the power that Ren Yisheng can control, a trigger is needed, which is not something Zhang Xuezhou can do simply by wishing to.

Sequence advancement involves the R33 catalyst, which requires Zuo Teng or Zhang Xuezhou to deal with Qimeng Haige, then create the R33 catalyst, and then seek out enough blood serum before there is any possibility of advancing to the Fourth Sequence.

For Zhang Xuezhou, the matter of improving his cultivation level had almost come to an end.

If there's anything else he needs to work on, it's that he needs to improve and perfect some Technique Method, make up for the lack of evasion techniques, take medicine to rapidly advance his physical body techniques, and also go to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Zhang Xuezhou to temper his body.

These practices require gradual accumulation over time, and even Zhang Xuezhou cannot skip them or rush them.

For this reason, Zhang Xuezhou spent two days at the B13 Research Institute in North Rehe before going to work at the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum.

Having not visited the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum for half a month, Zhang Xuezhou felt almost like a stranger here.

In this vast area of Dongshan, the noise of machinery is everywhere, creating an extremely chaotic atmosphere.

"I wonder what they dug up?"

Zhang Xuezhou sat in the company car, occasionally peeking out to check the situation outside.

With the support of the Western Capital City Sequence Committee, construction on the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum began as soon as the funds arrived, involving nearly two hundred construction teams, each with between one hundred and nearly a thousand people.

However, the large number of people did not appear crowded in the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum area; in fact, they were somewhat scattered, with only the roar of machinery responding to each other.

"Director Zhang, in the past, when we built imperial tombs, we would often employ thousands or even tens of thousands of laborers. Now, there are as many as 68 imperial tombs undergoing protective excavation and renovation, and these laborers are scattered everywhere, with not a single person to be seen!"

The man accompanying Zhang Xuezhou on his inspection was named Feng Ziqiang. He was fifty years old and looked somewhat old, but his eyes were full of energy.

This man was Feng Xiangyu's second son, who had signed the contract with Zhang Xuezhou. However, when introducing the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum, he still carried a sense of superiority typical of the old regime, mentioning that more people had built it during the Luofu Dynasty era.

He even recounted with great enthusiasm the story of the simultaneous major renovation of three imperial tombs during the reign of Emperor Luo Qi, a project involving nearly 200,000 people.

"Emperor Luo Qi's mausoleum is enormous!"

Zhang Xuezhou could only offer perfunctory responses from time to time.

The most important thing to do in building the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum was to build roads, and mountain roads often mean difficult roads to travel.

His gaze inadvertently drifted towards the direction of Emperor Luo Yan's tomb, realizing that it would take another two hours of driving in a special car to get there, and he would inevitably have to listen to Feng Ziqiang's nagging for two hours.

"This is the Mausoleum of Emperor Luowu. Emperor Luowu was the most powerful emperor in the history of Luofu. This 'most powerful' doesn't refer to his great achievements, but rather to his unparalleled personal strength. He could charge into battle wearing over 300 jin of heavy armor, lift the Luofu Heavy Bell weighing over 1,000 jin, and move as fast as the wind. In that era, he was like an insurmountable mountain, making all the surrounding neighboring countries and enemies tremble with fear!"

"Legend has it that Emperor Luo Wu's strength stemmed from a boundless jade disc. He could see his own reflection in it and correct his martial arts techniques. Some unreliable historians say the boundless jade disc was just a clearly visible bronze mirror, but I don't believe it. Mirrors in that era were blurry. But so many people had mirrors, and I haven't seen anyone who was even half as strong as Emperor Luo Wu!"

"Emperor Luo Wu died in middle age. Historical records indicate that his death was related to the Wuliang Jade Disc, which is why he did not allow his descendants to inherit the jade disc, but instead chose to be buried with it!"

"We suspect that the Boundless Jade Disc may have contained some kind of radiation, which affected Emperor Luo Wu's strength and caused genetic mutations due to radiation, ultimately leading to his death!"

Zhang Xuezhou agreed to set up a museum at each imperial tomb, and the museum would provide an objective and historically accurate account of each emperor. This has kept many former officials and their descendants quite busy these days.

Besides the construction of the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum, an unknown number of people were also collecting various materials.

Feng Ziqiang was not familiar with the more than 700-year history of the Luofu Dynasty, but his eloquent speech at this moment stemmed from the synthesis of various sources.

After visiting each imperial tomb, Feng Ziqiang would always review the information on the visual instrument and then compile a description.

"Emperor Luo Wu, the Boundless Jade Wall, that's interesting!"

Imperial tombs almost always represent the level of craftsmanship of an era, and they also contain rare and precious items from the emperor's reign.

For example, Emperor Jing's Yangling Mausoleum contained many burial objects, including a precious treasure such as the Suihou Pearl, as well as Li Guang's Heaven-Shaking Arrow.

Although it is said that hundreds or thousands of years is enough to corrode a treasure, it is true that imperial tombs contain good things.

When Zhang Xuezhou was surveying the imperial tombs in Dongshan, he randomly searched for the tomb of Luo Gaozu and unearthed a piece of spiritual jade.

He echoed Feng Ziqiang's words and casually cast a treasure-hunting spell with his right hand.

When he received no feedback, Zhang Xuezhou shook his head, but then he added a Feng Shui Site Surveying Technique.

The purple light in his hand flickered and disappeared, which piqued Zhang Xuezhou's interest even more.

Zhang Xuezhou had used his treasure-hunting techniques several times, but this was the first time his Wind Technique site-finding techniques had actually worked.

To be fair, the location where Emperor Luo Wu was buried is quite good. If used properly, this place could perhaps be transformed into a formation site.

The Yin Yang Nine Heavens Sect deals with array formations and alchemy, but Zhang Xuezhou has never actually done any array formation work over the years. Apart from conducting feng shui site surveys while searching for the Ba Snake, and causing some sabotage using Acupoint-Fixing Technique, Zhang Xuezhou has done nothing else.

He was quite pleased that his array detection Technique Method had elicited a response.

"Stop the car, stop the car! Let's take a look around Emperor Wu's tomb!"

Zhang Xuezhou waved, indicating that he wanted to get out of the car and take a look.

"Only heroes can recognize heroes. Director Zhang is the number one among the younger generation. You must really admire His Majesty Emperor Wu," Feng Ziqiang said happily.

"That's right!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded perfunctorily, which pleased Feng Ziqiang greatly. He quickly opened the car door and led the way.

At this time, eight excavators were constantly digging in the area of the Luowu Emperor's Mausoleum, and road rollers were rolling back and forth to compact the road surface as much as possible. Trucks were also unloading equipment. However, no construction had started in the area involving the Luowu Emperor's Mausoleum, and everything remained as it was.

"Emperor Luo Wu didn't restrict entry when he built his mausoleum, but he erected the Ten Thousand Dragon Gate at the site. This gate used heavy bluestone pillars weighing thousands of pounds each. Only by lifting these pillars could one gain basic access to the mausoleum," Feng Ziqiang said happily. "A strongman once tried to enter the mausoleum, but he discovered that after lifting one pillar, there was another. These pillars formed a mechanism; if one wasn't careful, they would be crushed into a pulp!"

"It'll be a bit troublesome to get in then!"

"Of course," Feng Ziqiang said. "Even if we could move these bluestone pillars, we'd still have to come out. If we carried the pillars with both hands, we couldn't bring anything out." He continued, "Therefore, although people are allowed to enter this imperial mausoleum, it has remained completely undamaged for hundreds of years."

"This is Emperor Luo Wu's confidence," Zhang Xuezhou nodded.

"Yes, His Majesty the Emperor is confident!"

"Since he's allowed in, let's call those excavators over to baffle these stone pillars. If that's not enough, we'll add more. Let's go inside and take a look, and also search for His Majesty Emperor Wu's Boundless Jade Wall!"

"An excavator?"

Feng Ziqiang deeply resented the new era. The traps that even a peerless figure like Emperor Luo Wu confidently set up seemed like a joke to people of his time.

Zhang Xuezhou was right. If only a few excavators were mobilized to lift the bluestone pillars, the Wanlong Gate set up by Emperor Wu would be broken.