Stripped of All Adornment
"They just vanished like that?"
Rong Tianding rubbed his eyes vigorously.
Watching the middle-aged beauty lead Zhang Xuezhou into the wall, he still couldn't understand the principle behind this technique.
"Where did this deity come from?" Rong Tianding murmured. "If we had such abilities, wouldn't we be able to go wherever we wanted!"
The most powerful cultivator Rong Tianding had ever met was Dong Zhongshu, but Dong Zhongshu's life had been so full of hardships that Rong Tianding had no concept of what a master was.
When the middle-aged beauty demonstrated this skill, he couldn't help but feel a longing in his heart, thinking that there were many extraordinary people in the world.
I wonder if my cousin will run into trouble!
The middle-aged woman indicated that she had limited abilities and could only take Zhang Xuezhou away. Rong Tianding didn't mind, since he couldn't help anyway.
Conversely, Rong Tianding's body is still in the process of recovery, and he cannot run around aimlessly.
He sensed the Law Power within his body, pondered for a while, and then began reciting the Vast Righteous Qi Instruction.
On the other side, Zhang Xuezhou's eyes widened.
He felt as if the walls and mud he encountered while being led by the middle-aged woman were phantoms, passing by with a light step.
Even in the darkness underground, Zhang Xuezhou could still feel himself moving forward, getting further and further away from the inn where he was staying.
"Alright!"
The only downside to being carried along by a middle-aged beauty is the difficulty in breathing.
But as the middle-aged woman began to speak, Zhang Xuezhou felt a gust of damp air enter his nostrils.
He also saw a glimmer of normal light.
Where does this tunnel lead?
The ground beneath his feet was damp. Zhang Xuezhou looked ahead and then behind him.
He entered not the end of the passage, but the middle section, with no end in sight.
This made Zhang Xuezhou somewhat puzzled about which area this passage ultimately connected to.
The fact that such a passage lacks personnel and allows a middle-aged woman to move freely suggests that it was not built in modern times.
The middle-aged woman did not answer Zhang Xuezhou's question, but instead took out a bronze chariot the size of a palm.
She blew a breath toward the bronze chariot, and the bronze chariot rapidly expanded and changed size.
"Get in the car!"
The middle-aged beauty pointed to the bronze carriage that was half a person's height, and then sat down first.
Once Zhang Xuezhou caught up, she lashed the bronze horse pulling the carriage with her whip, and the carriage immediately sped off through the passage.
"Your treasure is wonderful!"
Zhang Xuezhou had ridden in the Liang King's cloud sedan chair, but the Liang King's cloud sedan chair required four cultivators to continuously provide Law Power in order to fly at low altitudes.
This bronze chariot not only extends and retracts freely, but also possesses the ability to levitate and run.
Zhang Xuezhou in amazement.
If he hadn't obtained the Venerable White Bone's black and white twin horses, the middle-aged beauty's treasure would have made him drool with envy.
"It's just an ordinary thing!"
Zhang Xuezhou had just been feeling quite pleased with himself, thinking that his black and white twin horses were no less impressive than the bronze chariot, but the middle-aged beauty's casual remark that they were just ordinary items made him lose interest.
Clearly, the other party didn't care much about the bronze chariot.
Thinking back to the "good" items the other party had mentioned in their feedback, Zhang Xuezhou felt that those items might exceed his expectations, given the other party's high standards.
"No greed, no greed, I absolutely must not be greedy!"
While the baby was certainly nice, Zhang Xuezhou was more concerned with freeing himself from the effects of the imbalance in his fortune.
Having endured countless ups and downs in life, all he wanted now was a peaceful life, to avoid living in constant fear and to stay out of increasingly dangerous situations.
Zhang Xuezhou Zhang Xuezhou suppressed his greed and couldn't help but ask about the lucky charm the other party had mentioned.
"Go and see for yourself," the middle-aged woman said. "I'm not the owner of that treasure, so I can't explain why, but he told me back then that it could ward off my bad luck and ensure my lifelong peace. It should work for you too!"
"Will the owner of that treasure have good luck throughout their life?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"It couldn't be better!"
The middle-aged woman smiled and replied, but then withdrew her sentence.
The owner of this precious item had excellent luck throughout his life, but his only shortcoming was that he didn't live long enough and died at the peak of his fortune.
She didn't mention these unlucky things, lest Zhang Xuezhou become suspicious and fall into cognitive biases.
"You saying that makes me happy!"
Zhang Xuezhou was overjoyed.
He felt as if he had searched high and low without finding it, yet it came to him effortlessly.
Exorcising bad luck is a great thing, but because it involves fortune, it won't bring him any major hidden dangers. It's unlikely that he'll receive a benefit only to be dealt a blow later.
As long as his luck is normal, Zhang Xuezhou believes that everything will be fine once he can balance the imbalance caused by Emperor Jing's infusion of luck.
He rode in a bronze chariot that flew rapidly through the air. After a quarter of an hour, the bronze chariot had entered an underground palace.
"This tomb is high-class!"
The tomb of the King of Liang was carved out of the entire mountain to resemble a palace, and this underground palace in front of us is the same, even higher than the tomb of the King of Liang, and also has traps and mechanisms set up.
The other side even had an outer palace for the tomb keepers to live in.
Looking at the fruit on the small table in the palace, Zhang Xuezhou felt that this tomb keeper was living a pretty good life.
His gaze fell in the direction the middle-aged woman had led him, where he saw a large bronze gate tightly locked.
"I swore an oath not to take anything from this tomb without permission, as this is part of changing one's fate. You can go there yourself!"
The middle-aged beauty jumped off the carriage, used magic to open the gate, and then gestured for Zhang Xuezhou to sit in the carriage and move forward.
"Really impressive?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"You're really something," the middle-aged woman assured her. "I'm still waiting for you to heal my girl; I won't harm you!"
Seemingly sensing Zhang Xuezhou's thoughts, the middle-aged woman made a special explanation.
This prompted Zhang Xuezhou to take the bronze horsewhip from the middle-aged woman's hand.
He cracked his whip, and the bronze chariot immediately began to move forward in that direction.
"See that five-legged cauldron? Just stand in the center of one of its legs!"
Zhang Xuezhou drove the carriage forward until the middle-aged woman reminded him, at which point he noticed the enormous pillars standing all around him.
In the dim light of the oil lamp, a colossal five-legged cauldron, ten feet tall, stood erect.
One zhang is the height of one floor of a building. Above Zhang Xuezhou was a giant casting that was ten stories high.
Countless fish, insects, birds, and beasts swam in the faint light emanating from the giant cauldron.
"How did you manage to fit something so big inside?"
Looking at the giant cauldron, Zhang Xuezhou felt that this was a treasure beyond human control. To put such a giant cauldron into an underground palace was a bit like stuffing a pear into a wine bottle.
It's obviously impossible to lift the mountain and weld it back together, and it's also difficult for the cauldron to grow a little bit every day and then grow to this size.
Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, feeling that the tomb builders' abilities exceeded his expectations.
He listened to the middle-aged woman's words, gestured the distance between the five giant tripod legs, and then drove the bronze chariot into the center.
After only ten seconds, Zhang Xuezhou felt something fall from the cauldron, and a feeling as if he were taking a bath to remove dirt arose, making him feel much more comfortable.