Chapter 433 - Inside the Tomb of the God of Sin
Chapter 433 Inside the Tomb of the God of Sin
The elder sister was a 16-year-old beauty with willow-leaf-shaped eyebrows, fair and smooth skin, ice-like flesh, and jade-like bones. She wore her hair in a large bun on the top of her head. Her white robes embroidered with plum blossoms and snow set her perfect body off to advantage. Her plump beasts were steep like two rising peaks which seemed to stretch out the robes. Indeed, she was an attractive girl.
It was worth mentioning that although the elder sister looked really hot, she had a gentle and refined air, which formed a very strange contrast.
The younger sister seemed to be only 13 or 14 years old. Her facial features were extremely exquisite as if carved with extra care. Yet, she had a kind of male-like demeanor. The sword-shaped eyebrows shot obliquely into her hair. Her eyes have an aggressive edge. And a broadsword that was even longer than her height was dangling from her waist. The girl did look quite bizarre.
The one who asked that question was the younger sister. In the tone of young adult, she gazed at the entrance of the tomb where the black smoke was oozing out and said, “Sister, why does this place look like a rat hole?”
The elder sister chuckled and said, “Don’t talk nonsense. Here is buried a real deity. Let’s go in.”
Two girls quickly crossed the entrance to the tomb.
At the same time, in a pit in the southeast, more than a dozen men and women dressed like those from witch tribe in the extreme south also picked an entrance and marched into it.
The one in the lead was a 16-year-old girl from the witch tribe. Her face was as delicate as an artwork. She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, a short skirt, and a pair of cloth shoes. She was dangling with various silverware accessories, which jingled with her every step.
In her arms sat a boy who appeared to be around two years old.
The boy was holding a jade plate in his hand. The whole party was bathed in the brilliance of the jade plate.
“Don’t be afraid, I will protect you.” The boy remarked.
In the northeast, a young man in black walked into an entrance in silence. Behind him followed an old woman with silver hair, holding a cane with one end shaped like the head of a dragon. She was hunchbacked. And the blood-colored rope tied around her waist was particularly eye-catching.
In total silence, the young man and the old woman slowly entered the Tomb of the God of Sin.
Not long after they entered the tomb, another old man and a young man arrived at the same place. The old man had gray hair and a burly body. He was more than two meters in height. He was cladding in a set of linen robes, with a gold band on his head. His strides were like a dragon’s gambol and a tiger’s walk. Riding on his shoulders was a girl around four or five. She was wearing a red bellyband, with her lotus-root-like pink arms and legs exposed. She was not wearing any shoes but was happily playing with a long stripe of red silk, flinging it out and withdrawing it…
“Uncle Ma, it’s dark inside. Ling’er is scared.” The little girl said with a smile, showing no sign of fright.
“Sweetheart, don’t be afraid.” The old man coaxed the little girl patiently.
Then, the old man and the young girl also entered the Tomb of the God of Sin.
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“Which entrance shall we going in?”
Li Mu and Guo Yuqing stood at the bottom of a pit. Protruding from the black soil ahead was a part of the strange buildings, which seemed to be 12 door-like entrances in different shapes and sizes.
Obviously, the Tomb of the God of Sin was a huge complex buried deep in the ground. The pits that emerged in Lin’an after the eruption of black light were just the tip of the iceberg.
“Our chances are always ours no matter which way we take. Why not go in from there?” Guo Yuqing said as he pointed at a door at random.
Li Mu laughed, “Sure.”
The two soon entered through that door.
They were instantly overwhelmed by black flames. The black flames did not burn but corroded them. The corrosive force not only acted on their physical body but also their spiritual force. How horrible it was!
Li Mu and Guo Yuqing each employed their magical powers to resist the weird corrosive force.
Soon after entering the gate, they came to a dilapidated hall strewn with collapsed stone pillars, rusty armors, and decaying bones. All of that indicated that a battle had broken out in there. And in that battle, the dome of that hall was directly penetrated, leaving several large holes in it…
Li Mu looked up at the dome and fell into a trance.
The Tomb of the God of Sin was buried deep in the ground. Theoretically, there should only be dirt above the dome, but why was there sparse starlight spilling down from the big holes in the dome?
The armors and broken weapons on the ground were very rusty, as though they could crumble at a gust of wind. Yet, when Li Mu picked up a machete whose blade was covered in rust and gently flung it, the air was sliced in half like hot butter. Next, he took out a fine iron broadsword he had hand-forged from his storage space and sent the blade to make gentle contact with that machete. A second later, his own broadsword broke in half as though it was made of tofu…
“Holy cow…”
Li Mu was taken aback.
He released a jet of Broadsword Qi, which collided with a rusty protective mirror next to him. With a clear clink, the Broadsword Qi disappeared, but it did not even leave a mark on that mirror.
“Those are very sophisticated Taoist instruments. It’s just that they’d long been broken in the battle, so the Spiritual Qi in them had all dissipated. But there is no doubt that they are still very solid.” Guo Yuqing pointed at a skeleton leaning against a collapsed stone pillar aside and said, “I’m afraid this one was an expert above the Void-breaking Realm when he was alive.”
Li Mu nodded.
Judging by the rust on those instruments, the battle must have occurred a long time ago. But as the white bones of the skeleton were still glittering, one could imagine how powerful the practitioner was when he was alive.
There were a lot of bones like that, all scattered on the ground.
“At least two or three thousand years have passed since that battle…” Li Mu sighed with emotion.
That hall was not large. It was rather rundown. The collapsed stone pillars bore all the traces of the battle. Broadswords marks and holes left by swords were all over the pillars. Even the palm prints were still distinct. Other than the broken armors and weapons scattered on the ground, there was nothing special about the hall.
Li Mu thought about it for a moment and then began to collect all the broken armors and weapons on the ground.
“Even those you won’t let go of?” Guo Yuqing teased.
Unashamed, Li Mu answered, “Yeah. Why not? Even mosquitoes are counted as meat.”
Even though those weapons were already useless in combat, he could still recycle them.
After a short deliberation, Li Mu also collected all the bones and skeletons on the ground. He explained, “I’ll bury them properly when I get out. It’s much better than leaving them here.”
After that, the two passed through the hall and walked down a long corridor.
The corridor was lined with stone pillars that could be held by one person. Those stone pillars supported the top of the corridor. And between those pillars stretched stone fences, blocking out the black flame outside that was boiling like lava. Looking at the horrible sight, Li Mu had a hunch that if a man fell into the black flame, he would be burnt to ashes in a fraction of a second.
There were also signs of the battle on the corridor.
All sorts of shattered armors, cracked weapons, and crumbled skeletons were littered everywhere.
Li Mu put all those away as he did in the hall.
Heading forward for about an hour, they encountered a load of ancient battlefields. The farther they went, the more brutal the battle seemed to be. In addition to human skeletons, there were also some monster corpses, all of which looked unnerving. Their dried bones were crystal-clear, with slight pressure and faint Spiritual Qi flowing around them. That showed they used to be terrible creatures above the Void-breaking Realm.
“Why are there so many ancient battlefields in the tomb? Has this place been attacked before?” Li Mu was quite puzzled.
Guo Yuqing said, “Before I came, I checked some books from Wolf Temple. From what I’ve learned from the books, this Tomb of the God of Sin must be rumored Grave of the Immortal King. It had opened before and incurred huge chaos in the world. Blood flowed like rivers, and experts fell to the underworld like a meteorite shower. Probably the last time it was opened, the strong experts who invaded the tomb had a fierce fight against the grave keepers, and that’s why there are so many ruins here.”
“Grave keepers?” Li Mu was startled. “There are grave keepers in the Tomb of the God of Sin?”
Earlier, Jiang Qiubai, the previous master of the Wolf Temple, had mentioned the Grave of the Immortal King, and used that as an excuse to take Shangguan Yuting away, forcing Guo Yuqing to return to the Wolf Temple. It turned out that the so-called Grave of the Immortal King was exactly the Tomb of the God of Sin.
It was just that there were still grave keepers in the tomb. That made the whole thing much trickier.
Now that those strong experts above the Void-breaking Realm were all killed by the grave keepers, the two of them had practically entered the tomb as sacrifices, hadn’t they?
Li Mu came to realize that the situation was more dangerous than he had thought.
As they headed forward, Guo Yuqing said, “Judging by what we’ve seen here, the grave keepers in the tomb must have also suffered heavy losses. Perhaps they have all died out. So, we may still have a chance.”
Halfway through the long corridor, the road ahead was intercepted by black magma, only with a collapsed giant pillar that could be held by two people lying above the black magma, which served as a one-way wooden bridge leading to the next hall.
Li Mu and Guo Yuqing bravely marched down the collapsed stone pillar.
They walked like that for about four hours and covered at least several hundred kilometers. Then, the corridor ahead gradually widened. Above their heads was a deserted starry sky, giving them the illusion that they had traveled from the underground to the universe.
Li Mu scanned the place with his Third Eye. He immediately realized that it was a phantom produced by a certain clever tactical deployment. In fact, there were just slates over their heads, which was the top of the tomb.
“We’ve penetrated the periphery of the Tomb of the God of Sin, and further forward is the core area. Be careful now.” Guo Yuqing cautioned, his face stern with tension.
Li Mu nodded in agreement.
He also sensed that a certain suppressing force began to permeate the air, compressing the natural qi in his body, reversing the magic rules so that he could no longer fly.
A black river that might be several kilometers wide appeared in front of them. The eerie black liquid was flowing like a river. The surface of the black liquid was rippling, as if some terrible creatures were lurking beneath it. That sight was rather spine-chilling.
“Let’s leap to the other end.” Li Mu said as he eyed the black river.
Guo Yuqing shook his head. He raised a hand and slammed a nearby rock the height of a tall man towards the opposite bank.
Splash!
When the rock was halfway through the flight, a black wave suddenly surged up as if it had sprung to life. It swiftly wrapped itself around the rock like a giant black shark and then corroded it away. Only the sizzling sound was still ringing……
“Holy sh*t!” Li Mu’s jaw dropped.
It was not until then that he registered how dreadful the black river was.
The rock that was placed on the side of the black river was extremely hard. It was not broken even after taking a punch from Guo Yuqing. That meant it was as strong as a Taoist instrument. However, in just a second, it was corroded away by the black water. If it was a man caught by that black wave, perhaps half of his flesh would be eroded in a second, and that strike could be lethal.
The two walked along the riverbank for another kilometer and saw a black stone bridge on the river which led to the opposite side. But two statues of one-legged other beasts that were more than 10 meters high were stationed on both sides of the bridge.
They crossed the stone bridge, and what awaited ahead was a smooth journey.
The land ahead was pitch dark with not even a blade of grass growing. It looked like a black desert.
After marching down another 10 kilometers, a tall city wall appeared on the horizon.