Chapter 307: But how come it feels like you showed off in front of me again

"Your Majesty, I was too anxious just now." Wu Nanzhi lowered her head somewhat annoyedly and began to reflect on her mistakes in actual combat.

If Li Chen hadn't been by her side, she might have already died facing this situation alone.

Li Chen smiled and patted her shoulder: "You have already done very well. Combat experience is accumulated slowly like this. You also know that I have very little combat experience; I also fought a lot before I knew what kind of force to use to kill the opponent without wasting too much power."

Wu Nanzhi: "..."

Although I am very grateful for your comfort, how come it feels like you showed off in front of me again?

Other people's combat experience is how not to be beaten to death, while your combat experience is how to appropriately beat the enemy to death, right?

If it weren't for the fact that she had been following Li Chen and learned from some consorts that Li Chen had lived deep in the palace and didn't come out until he reached the Sage Realm, so he really didn't have much combat experience, Wu Nanzhi would definitely feel that Li Chen was deliberately putting on airs.

Li Chen was just this kind of person—even when stating a fact, he could make people around him feel incredible.

Having solved the puppets, Li Chen and Wu Nanzhi stepped into this magnificent palace.

The design inside the palace was completely different from the luxury outside the tomb; instead, it exuded a sense of solemnity and elegance.

The walls were carved with exquisite patterns, and every detail appeared delicate and fastidious.

The ground was paved with smooth marble, reflecting the light of the night-luminescent pearls, as if every step were taken on the galaxy.

As soon as Wu Nanzhi stepped into the palace, she smelled a faint fragrance.

This fragrance was elegant but not strong, carrying a hint of familiarity, as if she had smelled it somewhere before.

She frowned, feeling some doubt in her heart—how come this fragrance felt like the incense often used by the consorts in the imperial palace?

Wu Nanzhi looked around and found that the furnishings in the palace were extremely similar to the sleeping quarters of the consorts in the imperial palace.

Exquisite screens, carved tables and chairs, hanging gauze curtains, and even the style of the window lattices were exactly the same as those in the imperial palace.

Wu Nanzhi couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "The structure of this building is about the same as where the consorts live in the imperial palace."

Li Chen also nodded, his brows furrowed.

Ever since entering the palace, he had had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

This place didn't look like a tomb at all; it was clearly a miniature version of the imperial palace.

"It seems that the owner of this place has a status that is not simple," Li Chen said in a low voice, his curiosity about the identity of the tomb owner growing.

The two continued to venture deep into the palace and soon arrived before a carved wooden door.

Li Chen reached out and pushed open the wooden door, and what came into view was a room arranged extremely elegantly.

Wu Nanzhi walked into the room, her gaze falling on the large carved bed in the center of the room.

On the bed lay a soft quilt, the gauze canopy hanging down lightly, and one could vaguely see a plump and stunningly beautiful woman in palace attire lying on the bed.

The beautiful woman was wearing a gorgeous palace attire, with complex dragon and phoenix patterns embroidered on the fabric, appearing incomparably noble.

Her face was as exquisite as a painting, her skin as white as jade, and her eyebrows and eyes revealed a noble and luxurious temperament.

Her long hair was scattered on the pillow like a waterfall, and a few exquisite hairpins were dotted in her hair, emitting a faint light.

Even though she was lying there quietly, the scale of her chest was very full, giving people a sense of excellent temptation, wanting to see her true face.

However, seeing her attire, Li Chen and Wu Nanzhi could both determine that she should be the consort "buried" here.

At this moment, Wu Nanzhi spoke: "Your Majesty, do you think she might still be alive? Just cultivated some fake-death technique or something? Remember the two people we saw at the tomb gate just now—perhaps they are also consorts here."

Wu Nanzhi's judgment was still fast, because her father was also a Sage Realm cultivator and occasionally chatted about some ancient secret techniques.

Coupled with the fact that after entering the palace as a consort, she could usually check materials, she had such a hypothesis.

Originally, Li Chen didn't intend to move this woman, but since Wu Nanzhi said so, Li Chen, upholding the principle that practice is the sole criterion for testing truth, personally reached out and groped around the person "buried" before him.

It was indeed big—no, it should be that there was indeed vitality, but the body was in a state of fake death; perhaps reaching some condition would allow her to wake up. This was the conclusion Li Chen analyzed after a serious groping.

The two observed for a while, and Wu Nanzhi continued: "Your Majesty, this tomb is really too big, and we can't find the Thunder Spirit Pearl you are looking for for a while. Why don't we wake her up and ask her about the situation here?"

Li Chen pondered for a moment and said: "This might not be very good. If we wake her up, she might not tell the truth."

From this sentence, Wu Nanzhi could hear that Li Chen really had a way to resurrect the palace-attired beautiful woman after that groping.

Wu Nanzhi smiled slightly and explained: "The emperor sleeping here should already be dead. Look at these women still being buried—how pitiful! You are saving them by doing this. And hasn't Your Majesty cultivated the 'Imperial Dragon Holy Scripture'? She will definitely tell the truth."

Everything had a solution; anyway, the "Imperial Dragon Holy Scripture" of the previous dynasty was so easy to use, why not use it?

Hearing Wu Nanzhi say this, Li Chen felt relieved, thinking it was also true—it was such a waste for so many beautiful women to be buried here. Since the emperor here didn't need them, then he would use them.

In fact, there were many types of fake death; according to incomplete statistics, the May Tian Ce Dynasty estimated there were over a hundred types of fake-death techniques.

But most of these techniques were used after being defeated by enemies, in order to survive, faking death for a short time, appearing to have no vitality.

After a period of time, perhaps ten days, perhaps half a month, they would automatically revive.

According to Li Chen's observation, the palace-attired beautiful woman before him belonged to long-term fake death, similar to being sealed by some peerless powerhouse, and she was actively cooperating.

To untie this seal, there were several ways.

First was to force it open, so the person who wanted to untie the seal must have strength greater than or equal to the sealer.

But this method was very dangerous; a moment of carelessness would make the person faking death truly die.

Second was to be familiar with the technique of the person faking death; as long as they were a master-level cultivator, they could slowly prescribe the right medicine.

Coincidentally, the "Imperial Dragon Holy Scripture" Li Chen cultivated felt exactly the same as the person faking death.

In fact, this was very normal; the "Imperial Dragon Holy Scripture" was a technique created by the first emperor of the previous dynasty.

Many secret techniques of the Yuan clan of the previous dynasty were extensions of this technique.

Since this was the case, Li Chen intended to urge the "Imperial Dragon Holy Scripture" to resurrect the palace-attired beautiful woman.

Next was a period of deep exploration; the various functions in the palace-attired beautiful woman's body began to operate, restoring vitality.

Slowly, her blood began to flow, and she began to have breathing and heartbeat, and even gasping.

To resurrect her, Li Chen had worked hard for over three hours.

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