radicalducati Chapter 104 The Spiritual Realm, the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum
Chapter 104 The Spiritual Realm, the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum
Chapter 104 The Spiritual Realm, the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum
"Here, the sheep talisman allows my soul to leave my body, the snake talisman is responsible for invisibility and concealing my aura, the rooster talisman allows me to better control the movement of my spirit, and the ox talisman is used to stabilize the power of my soul."
Xiaoyu counted on her fingers one by one: "The Tiger Talisman is split in two. One half stays in the yang body, while the yin spirit carries the other half. In this way, a stable bridge can be built between yin and yang. Even if the soul leaves the body for a long time, there is no fear of not being able to return. The Dragon Talisman is for self-defense."
I'm a darling!
Is this Xiaoyu?!
Russell was completely stunned. Did Shendu know that the talismans could be combined like this?
"Wait a minute—" Russell noticed the key point and poked Xiaoyu's illusory head: "You can still use the power of other talismans while in an astral state?"
"Uh—is something wrong?" Xiaoyu asked, puzzled. She didn't think it was difficult and took it for granted.
"It's alright." Russell shook his head, silently giving Xiaoyu a thumbs up in his heart. The Holy Lord should be crying his eyes out in the toilet right now.
After pouring the elixir into a jade bottle crafted by the old alchemist to seal in spiritual energy, and then inscribing the fourth volume of the Heavenly Book with the Heavenly Emperor's Nether Stone, Russell searched the area to make sure there was nothing left. Only then did he say to Xiaoyu, "It seems this is all we have here. We should head back."
"Um, Brother Luo," Xiaoyu hesitated, pointing to the Heavenly Emperor's Nether Stone in Russell's hand, and asked, "Could you give me this thing?"
"You're in a soul state now, are you sure you can hold it?" Upon hearing this, Russell raised an eyebrow, asking the question, but his hands moved without the slightest hesitation as he handed the stone to Xiaoyu.
In her soul form, Xiaoyu steadily caught the Heavenly Emperor's Nether Stone, closed her eyes, and poured her soul power into the stone. Suddenly, the light of the Heavenly Emperor's Nether Stone changed from a seven-colored wheel to a deep and tranquil blue.
The blue light rippled outwards like water, illuminating a wall that had been empty not far away. The wall became illusory in the blue light, and an oval door with a faint glow and rippled edges like water silently appeared.
"Yay! I knew it! There really is a hidden dungeon!" Upon seeing this, Xiaoyu excitedly clenched her fist into the air and jumped for joy.
"Amazing!" Russell couldn't help but applaud when he saw this. Xiaoyu never disappoints.
The two then arrived at the illusory portal, Russell in front and Xiaoyu behind, and stepped inside one after the other.
Behind the door was a long, winding passageway filled with dazzling light and shadow. As Russell walked through it, he felt his senses being magnified and extended infinitely, and the boundaries of the material world becoming blurred, as if he had stepped from solid land into the deep sea where consciousness and spirit flowed.
After traveling for nearly two hours, they finally arrived at the end of the passage.
This is a huge void, and in the center of the void, a magnificent and ancient palace stands silently.
The palace was constructed entirely of some kind of pitch-black megaliths, with an ancient style. It was shrouded in a thick, ever-flowing, pale yellow light shield, on which runes were faintly visible, radiating a powerful protective and sealing force. Judging from its shape and aura, it should be an ancient mausoleum.
"This is... the mausoleum of the Heavenly Emperor?" Russell exclaimed in surprise.
"How should I put it, Brother Luo? I told you you had to bring me along!" Xiaoyu's face was beaming with excitement. This was more exciting!
She didn't want to spend all her time at school learning those letters and numbers that gave her a headache.
"Stay behind me and be careful." Russell instinctively reached out to tap her on the head, his fingers passing through her semi-solidified spirit body, only causing a slight ripple.
The Heavenly Emperor's mausoleum is surrounded by protective barriers, far more powerful than those on the gates of the Heavenly Emperor's treasury, but these barriers could not stop Russell.
Russell once again took out the Earthly Lock, broke the restrictions around the mausoleum, and entered the mausoleum with Xiaoyu.
The two explored the mausoleum but found nothing. There were no burial objects, not even a single rice dumpling.
Xiaoyu's initial excitement was gradually replaced by disappointment, and she pouted slightly: "What? There's nothing at all. Is the Heavenly Emperor really that poor?"
She had already prepared the dragon talisman, just waiting to spawn monsters and unleash her power, and this is what happened?
It's like you're fully equipped and charging into a dungeon, only to find that there aren't even any monsters, let alone treasure chests. It's really disappointing.
Russell chuckled and ruffled the head of the almost solidified jade, comforting her, "The main burial chamber is just ahead. If there's anything there, that's the most likely place."
Following Russell's gaze, Xiaoyu saw the two tall, unadorned bronze doors covered in mottled patina at the end of the passageway. Her enthusiasm rekindled, and she casually asked, "Brother Russell, do you think the Heavenly Emperor might still be alive?"
"Ugh!" Upon hearing this, Russell got goosebumps all over, a chill running down his spine to the top of his head. He quickly pinched Xiaoyu's cheek and forced a smile, "Xiaoyu, don't say such unlucky things!!!"
Do you even know what Murphy's Law is?!
This is terrifying!
The Heavenly Emperor is a powerful figure from who-knows-how-many years ago. If this guy were to rise from the dead, it's hard to say whether they could even escape.
Although the level of the Jade Dynasty world is not considered high, Russell and Xiao Yan have never had any intention of looking down on it.
Leaving aside the fact that the Holy Maiden Linglong of the Southern Frontier created a monster like the Beast God, which was born from heaven and earth, the five volumes of the Heavenly Book that gave rise to the current cultivation system of the cultivation world, and the Asura sealed in the Dragon-Subduing Cauldron, are irrefutable proof of the past glory of the cultivation civilization of this world.
boom!
The extremely heavy scraping sound echoed throughout the silent mausoleum.
As Russell pushed open the bronze door of the main burial chamber, a huge space came into view. Pillars that would take several people to encircle supported a dome that was invisible in height. The distance between the walls on both sides was initially estimated to be twenty zhang (approximately 33 meters), which means that the width of this main tomb was sixty meters.
The walls are covered with intricate and dazzling patterns. These patterns, woven from twisted yet orderly lines and symbols, give one a dizzying feeling that seems to draw one's soul in, even when viewed with the naked eye.
Above their heads was even more outrageous: a deep, seemingly real starry sky slowly rotating, with the sun and moon shining brightly, and countless stars arrayed in the heavens, moving slowly along mysterious trajectories, casting down a cool and eternal radiance that enveloped the entire main tomb chamber in an unfathomable starlight.
Beneath this man-made starry sky, in the center of the tomb chamber, a towering platform built of black stone stands majestically.
On the high platform, a huge coffin lay across the ground, exuding an ancient and desolate aura.
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