Chapter 98

After the two left here, they walked directly toward the location of the Sleeping Hall in the tomb.

The road the two walked was no longer a karst cave full of soil, but a tomb passage paved with bluestone. The tomb passage was square, the road was flat, and it made a clattering sound when walking on it.

Tomb chambers appeared from time to time on the left and right of the tomb passage. Some doors were open, some were closed, and the things in the vast majority of tomb chambers had long been looted.

Given the time, the two did not enter other tomb chambers but walked directly toward the Sleeping Hall in the deepest part.

The tomb passage leading to the Sleeping Hall was very complicated, and a crossroads would appear from time to time. If it weren't for the map's guidance, he might really have gotten lost.

In this world, many powers had the ability to move mountains and fill seas, so building a huge ancient tomb was not a difficult thing for people in this world. The ancient tombs in this world were also generally much larger than those in his past life.

And just as he expected, the various mechanisms in the ancient tomb would also display progress in his eyes; he could completely see the positions of all mechanisms.

However, it was useless. After being robbed several times, the various mechanisms had basically been dismantled, and there was no need for him to see where the mechanisms were anymore.

The two arrived at the location of the Sleeping Hall safely and without incident.

Regarding the intelligence of the Sleeping Hall, any clan currently knew very little. They only knew that the Sleeping Hall was very dangerous, but no one knew what the specific danger was, because everyone who entered the Sleeping Hall died, without exception.

Including two Gu Kings.

Neither of them was the kind of person who didn't want their life for treasure.

Long Xuan just simply wanted to see if his golden finger could break the danger of the Sleeping Hall, only looking from afar, and would never go in.

Only Long Ziyan's purpose might be to study history, and there might also be other purposes. Perhaps her purpose was also the same as his, harboring the idea of picking up leaks, but she clearly also had no intention of going in.

The two stood in the bluestone tomb passage leading to the Sleeping Hall, watching the situation in the Sleeping Hall from afar.

An eye appeared between the eyebrows of both. Whether it was Long Xuan's Heavenly Mechanism Eye or Long Ziyan's Evil Dragon Emperor Eye, both had long-distance vision ability. Even if they were far apart, they could see the situation in the Sleeping Hall clearly.

The Sleeping Hall was very large, and there were ten statues of Golden Crows inside, distributed in all directions of the Sleeping Hall, carved vividly, as if they were about to come alive.

The ground was paved with white stones that reflected light, which seemed not to be ordinary materials, and the hardness was not low.

Many oil lamps that had been burning for an unknown amount of time hung on the walls, and the entire Sleeping Hall seemed dark and bright.

And what was carved on the walls was actually not murals, but the complete "Sun Moon Heart Scripture," but without the supporting spiritual technique part.

This situation was very strange, as if the tomb owner wanted to generously show the "Sun Moon Heart Scripture" to everyone.

Not only did the Sleeping Hall have the inheritance of the "Sun Moon Heart Scripture," but many tomb chambers also had traces of the "Sun Moon Heart Scripture," and Li Laodao could find a paper version.

Did she intend to spread her cultivation method? Did she want more people to learn her cultivation method?

People were already dead; what was her purpose in doing this? Could it be that she wanted to find someone who could repair the flaws in her cultivation method? Long Xuan couldn't help but have such a baseless thought in his heart.

He temporarily put aside this strange thought and focused his sight on the crystal coffin in the very center of the Sleeping Hall. The crystal coffin was made of some kind of crystal stone and was translucent; it was not difficult to see the things inside.

Long Xuan immediately felt curiosity and wanted to see what the Yaoguang Female Emperor, who had stirred up the wind and clouds, looked like, so he probed his gaze into the coffin.

The Yaoguang Female Emperor wore a golden robe embroidered with many Golden Crows, and her fingers and neck were also hung with many jewelry and treasures, glowing, clearly all things of great value, making him look with heat.

He hurriedly looked at the Female Emperor's face, but he was disappointed. There was a flower in the coffin that looked extremely enchanting, its roots and stems wrapped around the Female Emperor, and coincidentally, the leaves just happened to cover her peerless face.

This demon flower was very bizarre. Although it was full of energy, what it contained was not spiritual power, and his perspective ability actually couldn't penetrate those thin leaves, making him feel very surprised.

The only thing he could see was the Female Emperor's bright red lips, but just looking at the lips, he was enough to see that the Female Emperor definitely had a peerless appearance and must be stunningly beautiful.

Suddenly his brows furrowed. He suddenly discovered that he actually didn't see the Female Emperor's progress. Even if a person died, logically speaking, it should display progress, right?

After all, her corpse hadn't rotted due to special reasons and still maintained a young state. Even if the corpse rotted, it would display the rotting progress.

His brows furrowed deeper, and he immediately looked at the ground, looking for a corpse to compare.

Many people had already entered the Sleeping Hall, and many corpses had been left on the ground.

There were also several fresh corpses, the bloodstains not yet dry, clearly having died not long ago. There were really people who were not afraid of death; even Gu Kings had died here, and they still dared to enter.

Looking at this, he was suddenly surprised. Two of those fresh corpses were actually old acquaintances he was very familiar with—weren't they the Feng Clan Ancestor and the Gu Clan Ancestor?

Looking at the injuries, the two seemed to have died from killing each other for treasure, perishing together.

He looked carefully on the ground again and actually didn't find the storage bags of the two, and was stunned.

He didn't believe that anyone could get out of the Sleeping Hall alive.

So there could only be one explanation at this moment.

The purpose of those two Gu King avatars entering the tomb was, without surprise, for the tomb-securing treasure of this Sleeping Hall.

They were just mere Spirit Gathering stage avatars; even if they died, it wouldn't hurt. If they could really luckily bring out the tomb-securing treasure in the tomb, then it would be a huge profit.

The psychology of those two ancestors was to send avatars into the tomb to gamble at a very low cost. As for the Spirit-Charging Grass, it was entirely their incidental harvest; the Spirit-Charging Grass wouldn't make them go to great lengths to send avatars on a trip.

They also knew that the probability of their survival on this trip was very low, so of course, they would hand over all the Spirit-Charging Grass on their bodies to the family Gu cultivators to take out, including some very valuable things on themselves, so it was explainable that they didn't have much wealth on them.

Long Xuan had to sigh at the cunning of those two ancestors; they had never thought of letting their avatars live out.

If they didn't go out, there would be no proof. If he hadn't recorded a small video, they could really have deceived everyone.

However, what puzzled him was what treasure they had found that caused the two to kill each other. Had they really found the tomb-securing treasure?

Where was that treasure? It was impossible for it to have been taken out by anyone, yet there was nothing on the ground. He couldn't figure it out; the situation in the Sleeping Hall was simply too bizarre.

Without surprise, there was progress on the corpses. The lifespan of those who died of old age would disappear, and the lifespan of those who died violently would not instantly clear to zero; they would still maintain a young appearance. If the corpse didn't rot, the young appearance would always be frozen.

Out of curiosity, he looked at Long Ziyan beside him.

"Ziyan, do you know..."

His voice suddenly stopped abruptly, because he actually didn't find any progress on Long Ziyan's head.

His expression stiffened.

"Not good..."

He hurriedly dodged, but was still a step slow, and was slashed on his right shoulder by a sword, blood flowing out, and was quickly frozen.

Good fellow, the second-tier Dragon Silkworm Treasure Garment could actually be pierced by her sword, just like paper.

Long Xuan only felt a cold aura surging into his body, making his limbs cold, his actions slow, and his heart felt like it was about to be frozen.

If it weren't for the Water Bear Gu being so good at resisting cold, a normal person would have died under this strike.

Long Xuan was terrified and quickly pulled away. When he looked at that Long Ziyan again, she had actually disappeared into thin air, and in another position, another Long Ziyan appeared out of thin air.

This Long Ziyan was looking at him and the wound on his right shoulder with a stunned expression.

Seeing that there was progress on her head, Long Xuan knew that this Long Ziyan was real, so he hurriedly ran over and grabbed her arm.

"Go..."

After the two ran a distance, they entered a tomb chamber. Long Xuan leaned against the wall, panting heavily. The scene just now was simply thrilling.

If he didn't have the golden finger that could see progress, what would happen? He would either be ambushed and killed by that damn illusion, or be deceived by the illusion, fight with his real Senior Sister, and finally perish together.

At this moment, he finally knew how those two ancestors died. Just now he was still surprised why the two of them would fight inexplicably when there was clearly no treasure on the ground.

Now he finally knew; they had fallen into the illusion's trick of sowing discord, mistakenly thinking that the other party had attacked them, so they had an internal strife.

The two Gu Kings who entered here several times to rob the tomb were also likely to have died this way, killing each other under the deception of the illusion, and finally ending up perishing together.

Such a realistic illusion was almost rarely seen through by anyone in the world except himself. It could be said that those who were hit would definitely be sown discord and be deceived.

And no matter what the gap in strength between the two sides was, they would definitely end up perishing together.

Because that damn illusion was different from normal illusions. Normal illusions were visual deceptions and would not produce physical attacks.

And the illusion in the tomb could not only perfectly transform into a person but could actually simulate a person's ability 100%, launch substantial attacks, and leave real injuries on people. This was simply outrageous; it was his first time seeing such an evil illusion technique. Such an illusion technique was simply terrifying.

Even if you luckily killed your real opponent, you would be killed by the illusion in a wounded state. Even if you luckily killed the illusion, so what? Things like illusions were not one-time things; they could appear repeatedly.

Unless you could see through that this was an illusion, the illusion would automatically dissipate. Just like Long Xuan suddenly suspected that Long Ziyan, who didn't have progress, might be an illusion, the illusion automatically disappeared as soon as he had such a thought in his heart; otherwise, the illusion would keep chasing him.

This was the common disease of most illusions. As long as you could see through that this was an illusion, then the illusion would automatically disappear.

"What happened just now? Why were you suddenly injured?"

Long Ziyan looked at his injured shoulder, and seeing that his wound had been frozen, emitting an aura very familiar to her, she frowned her beautiful brows. How did this wound look so much like it was caused by herself?

Junior Brother wouldn't misunderstand, would he?

Long Xuan didn't answer her words and hurriedly stared at her eyes: "Tell me quickly, did you see that flower!"

After a brief deduction, he finally determined that it was definitely that demon flower that was playing tricks.

Everyone died in the Sleeping Hall, so of course he would think that the danger would only be in the Sleeping Hall area, so he dared to watch from afar in the tomb passage, thinking that if he didn't go in, there would be no danger. Long Ziyan thought the same.

But now he clearly hadn't entered the Sleeping Hall, yet he had inexplicably been hit. By finding the difference between himself and that group of corpses, it could only be because he possessed long-distance vision ability and could see that strange flower in advance.

Others didn't have long-distance vision ability and only saw that flower when they walked very close, so they all died in the Sleeping Hall.

As for why he only suspected that flower and didn't suspect other things in the coffin.

It was entirely because apart from that flower, everything in the coffin was an illusion.

That Female Emperor's corpse without progress must also have been transformed by an illusion. That crystal coffin was empty, and there was nothing in it except a demon flower.

At this moment, he broke out in a cold sweat, only feeling a chill surging into his bone marrow, and goosebumps instantly appeared on his back.

Where did the Female Emperor's corpse go?

With that demon flower there, even a Gu King would die; it was impossible for it to have been taken away by anyone.

Then there was only one answer: she walked out herself and took away all the tomb-securing treasures in the coffin.

His fear in his heart was even greater.

When did this happen? When did the Female Emperor's corpse run out?

It shouldn't have been before the tomb was robbed.

Because many people had brought out a large number of valuable treasures from the tomb, and the Long Clan had even brought out the precious Golden Crow Blood.

If she had left before the tomb was robbed, logically speaking, she shouldn't have left those treasures behind.

He hadn't thought of zombies at all. This wasn't a horror story; people in this world wouldn't turn into zombies under natural circumstances after death unless refined by special methods.

So she must be conscious and was awakened during the period of tomb robbery, and then took away all the treasures in the coffin.

A great expert with explosive combat power was resurrected?

Did this happen just now, or did it happen a long time ago? Did that Female Emperor run out early, or was she still in this ancient tomb at this moment?

Long Xuan felt his scalp go numb.

So his first sentence at this moment was to ask Long Ziyan whether she had seen that demon flower.

If she also saw it, then there would be big trouble.

If she was ambushed by a fake Long Xuan transformed by an illusion, and then attacked him, the real Long Xuan, in anger, that would really be a life-threatening thing.

So once he knew that Long Ziyan saw that flower, he must hide far away. Long Ziyan at this time would be very dangerous.

Fortunately, Long Ziyan showed a confused look at this time and asked in surprise: "What flower? I have been watching the divine ability part of the "Sun Moon Heart Scripture" on the wall just now. The content on it can perfect my avatar, so I didn't look carefully at other places in the tomb."

"That's good, it's right not to look carefully." Hearing this, Long Xuan let out a long sigh of relief and patted his little heart.

He quickly told Long Ziyan his guess and finally asked: "You are knowledgeable, do you know the origin of that demon flower?"

He expressed deep wariness toward that demon flower. Just now, he scanned it in a hurry and didn't look carefully. The progress of that demon flower was simply too long; it seemed not to be five decimal places, but seven decimal places, simply scaring people to death.

And the energy contained in that demon flower was not spiritual power. Its form was something that the Yan avatar had never seen even after flipping through all the atlases. He didn't know its variety, didn't know its function, and was completely ignorant of everything.

Long Ziyan frowned slightly. Clearly, the fact that the Female Emperor's avatar might have run out also shocked her not lightly. In this way, this ancient tomb was simply too dangerous now and must be left as soon as possible.

"I also don't know the origin of that kind of flower. If it's a spiritual medicine that even I can't recognize, then there is only one situation."

Long Ziyan's eyes flashed slightly, and she said with great confidence: "That is that this kind of flower is simply not something from this world. It may come from another world, for example, the Demon Realm."

"The energy that is not spiritual power in your mouth may be magic power. The Demon Realm is a higher plane, so the energy level of magic power must be higher than spiritual power. A demon flower possessing magic power will be extremely difficult to deal with, and its ability is definitely not so easy to crack." Long Ziyan showed a solemn expression.

(End of this chapter)