Chapter 155: Entering the Door

The eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month, early morning.

Outside the village of the twelve branches.

Li Miao looked at the several short men in front of him, smelled the cold earthy smell faintly emanating from them, and couldn't help but frown, his fingers moving.

He wanted to point these people to death with a Profound Heaven Finger.

Because these few were the tomb robbers invited by various major sects—that is, grave robbers.

Whether it was Li Miao's past life or this life, Central Plains people value blood inheritance the most. Digging graves and disturbing ancestors' peace has been a life-and-death grudge since ancient times. In terms of deserving death, grave robbers are no worse than human traffickers.

However, Li Miao thought about it, and forgot it.

These grave robbers have inheritance, and they look down on ordinary people's graves, all of them are rushing to some high-ranking officials and princes' graves.

If it's a clean official, there is nothing in the grave, and these people won't dig it. As for those greedy officials and princes who are buried with a pile of things... dig it, anyway, those things were scraped from people, and someone has to take them back from their hands.

"This is it, right?" Li Miao asked.

"Yes, Master, the Miao people's secret passage is here."

A leading grave robber replied: "We inserted some steel rods to explore, about the width of two or three people walking side by side, there is wind, it is a living mouth, not a sealed one."

"Okay, go down."

Li Miao waved his hand, and several people nodded one after another, running away in a hurry.

Li Miao turned to look at several sect leaders and said.

"Everyone, I'll go in and see. You don't have to fight this village, just surround it, don't let these people run."

"Yes, Master."

Several sect leaders nodded one after another.

Li Miao then looked at the secret passage dug by the grave robber and walked in calmly.

Letting the southern major sects do witchcraft for him was actually to be lazy, thinking that by bringing everyone here, he could save some trouble.

But now, Li Miao didn't want these people to go in.

Because this village is not just as simple as the inheritance of witchcraft. Ji Tianrui's origin, the Ming Sect's calculations, and all the truths that have continued from fifteen years ago, are all likely to be answered here.

Maybe even more than that.

Before Ji Tianrui left the An family, she left a stack of draft paper for practicing calligraphy on the desk in the secret chamber. Li Miao certainly wouldn't believe that it was left unintentionally. What is written out can be called heartfelt words? It was clearly left for him to see on purpose.

There are a few words in it that are particularly conspicuous.

"Great Ming. Zhu family."

"Emperor, Heaven-Man."

"Ming Sect, Founding."

Facing these few words, even Li Miao had to be cautious and had to seriously seek the truth.

In the thirty years since coming to the Great Ming, he had obtained enough martial power to protect himself. But, pure martial power has its limits, he is not a lone person, he cannot rush around like a brute. He can't die, but Zhu Zai, Wang Hai, and Xiao Si might not. He must have a thorough, deepest understanding of this Great Ming to know where he has reached and what he can do.

And the fewer people who know these things, the better.

Walking about a hundred yards along the secret passage, Li Miao frowned.

Because the direction of this secret passage was indeed extending toward the village, but the slope was getting steeper and steeper, rushing toward the ground.

After walking another hundred yards, the stone walls on both sides bulged, as if something was embedded in them.

Li Miao looked carefully, but felt *déjà vu*.

On this stone wall, there were clearly embedded a pile of mouse bones, exactly the same as the situation in the Miao King's tomb. And on the stone wall in front, there were also bones of chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, and cows embedded in sections.

Li Miao didn't understand the Miao people's faith. But these primitive faiths are all connected, and burials often carry a certain religious attribute, and the various images that appear in them have their unique meanings.

If the stone wall here is exactly the same as the Miao King's tomb, it means that this place is on par with the Miao King's position in the Miao people's primitive faith. The Miao King is a human god in the Miao people's faith, almost an existence of supreme height. What can be on par with him?

Li Miao continued to walk forward, and sure enough, the bones of people and various animals began to appear mixed on both sides of the stone wall, exactly the same as the situation in the Miao King's tomb.

After dozens of steps, he saw a hole vertically downward, pitch black, bottomless.

Li Miao jumped in directly, borrowed strength from the left and right stone walls, slid down for dozens of feet, and landed on the ground.

This place is also a karst cave, but there are no dense coffins like the Miao King's tomb. Instead, the ground is extremely flat, and faint light-colored traces can be seen, as if someone often walks around.

Li Miao walked forward along this path, and before long, he saw a firelight.

There is a building there.

Li Miao looked at it intently, and it looked like no one was there from the outside, but in fact, there were some disharmonious shadows hidden in several depressions in the stone wall around it. There were countless subtle breathing sounds surrounding it, not just people.

Looking at the degree of defense, it should be that the right master has been found.

Li Miao walked along the stone wall, and the energy circulation inside changed to a path instantly, and his footsteps and breathing became almost imperceptible.

It was the Divine Thief Sect's light-body technique and internal energy, most suitable for sneaking.

Walking all the way to a depression in the stone wall, Li Miao flashed and appeared in front of the person inside.

"!!!"

The person's eyes blurred, and before he could speak, he lost consciousness.

Li Miao bypassed this place and did the same, and after a while, he pulled out all the dark sentries in this direction.

After doing all this, he climbed onto the roof and walked outside the door of the highest room, listening intently.

He heard a commotion inside, as if they were arguing.

"I said we shouldn't have been soft-hearted! Afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, letting those families escape, now they have found us! What to do!?"

"You say it lightly. Even if they were all cast with Gu by us, and several major sects could be controlled by us, could they block the Imperial Court's soldiers!? Don't forget how Gupu Tianrui died!"

"So what? Do we still have the qualifications to pick and choose? It's death either way, pulling a few cushions to die with us can also make us feel at ease! Better than being cowardly now!"

Several people were arguing, and it sounded like they were about to move their hands.

Suddenly, an old voice sounded.

"Stop arguing, since the clues we left didn't work, then saying these things now is useless."

"Right now, we need to think about how to get through this pass."

"No... only by letting 'that one' out."

As soon as this sentence came out, the several people who were arguing just now spoke in unison.

"No!"

"Absolutely not!"

"We are rebels! You haven't seen the 'Pupa Maiden'? If we let him out, we will die a hundred times more miserably than the 'Pupa Maiden'!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 156 =====