Chapter 12

He quickly and accurately cut Mako Shigeki's throat. Tang Qingyu's eyes were cold and calm as he watched Mako Shigeki slowly stop struggling.

He stepped forward and felt Mako Shigeki's pulse. After confirming that the old man's soul had already returned to the underworld, Tang Qingyu pushed the corpse away, lit a candle, and entered the tomb effortlessly.

Behind the stone door was a stone room. He walked around the room and found that there were many scratches on the ceiling. Tang Qingyu thought of the information in Wulin Legend. The ceiling of the stone room in the Ancient Tombs was carved with the Nine Yin Manual by Wang Chongyang. He looked closely and found that the words had been scratched out, making it impossible to tell what was written.

Therefore, even if Zhong Zhenzi really entered the ancient tomb, he would only be faced with the Nine Yin Sutra that had already been crossed out. He had been working hard for decades and was very busy.

Maybe they shouldn't be in such a hurry to kill him. Letting Mako Shigeki crawl in alive would be a better punishment.

Tang Qingyu looked up at the engraving of the words that had been crossed out and thought.

So why did the people of Ancient Tomb cross out the Nine Yin Manual here?

Could it be that after the Dragon Snapping Stone was put down, there was only one entrance to the tomb, so to prevent people who didn't know the true nature of the Nine Yin Manual, they scratched out the Nine Yin Manual?

I don't know. Anyone who knows is already dead.

Walking around the stone room again, Tang Qingyu didn't find anything special. Then, he turned back and squatted beside the dried female corpse in the crack of the door. Looking at the plum blossom pattern hairpin on the female corpse's head, the golden satin chrysanthemum pattern coat on the female corpse's head and the brown horse-faced skirt, Tang Qingyu instantly understood what Master Zhongzhenzi had said when he saw the female corpse lying on the stone door.

Zhuo Yu wanted to poison the two senior sisters who were in charge of the tomb, but she was discovered by Ling Wan and chased out of the tunnel to kill her. At that time, Ling Wan's heart was injured by Zhuo Yu. She was afraid that if she couldn't kill Zhuo Yu, and Zhuo Yu brought an outsider back, then the tomb would fall into the hands of an outsider. So she put down the stone door and destroyed the mechanism, making the stone door like the Dragon Snapping Stone at the main entrance. Unless there was a bomb or cannon, it couldn't be opened.

But Ling Wan didn't expect that the two senior sisters who were poisoned by Zhuo Yu didn't die immediately. One of them might have woken up later and wanted to go out through the tunnel, but found that the stone door was closed and the mechanism to open the door had been destroyed. She could only lie in the crack of the door, dying.

Thinking back to the scene when she came back from "death" to "life", maybe the woman who suffocated to death in the tomb didn't hate Ling Wan for closing the tomb door. On the contrary … if there really were ghosts in this world, just like what the woman with the plum blossom hairpin, the golden satin chrysanthemum embroidered robe, and the brown horse-faced skirt in the "dream" just now said to him. Maybe Zhuo Yu turned into a malicious spirit and wanted to harm people, so her senior sister stayed in the same place and "watched" Zhuo Yu.

But if there really were ghosts, then where did Ling Wan go?

Did she not dare to show up because she felt guilty for causing the death of her senior sister, or did she reincarnate immediately after she died?

Or, haha, to be more funny, the fox who led him into the tunnel and found the corpse of the Inheritor of the Ancient Tomb was Ling Wan's reincarnation?

She didn't want everything between him and the Ancient Tombs to be destroyed, so she turned into a fox and led him here?

Well, this guess was getting more and more ridiculous.

After being stabbed in the heart by Mako Shigeki, Tang Qingyu felt something cold spread in the bottom of his heart, as if … as if in the process of reincarnation, he became an emotionless thing, like a sophisticated machine, constantly calculating and running, but it seemed that he only knew how to calculate and run non-stop.

When he opened his eyes again, he only remembered to take revenge on Mako Shigeki and vent the anger in his heart. His heart and eyes were full of this obsession. At this moment, when he really killed Mako Shigeki, he seemed to have "recovered" from the frozen state of being like a machine.

His emotions came back.

Happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy seemed to have "defrosted" at once.

He felt that he was a person again.

Not a machine.

He was … he was Tang Qingyu.

He didn't know why, but the trace of fear that had been lingering in his heart since his "resurrection" finally dissipated temporarily. Tang Qingyu's mind relaxed, and immediately, everything in front of him began to change.

Suddenly nervous.

Tang Qingyu began to feel nervous.

At this moment, he was very sure that everything that appeared in front of him was "code" and not an illusion. Because once again, the ancient tomb in front of him turned into a golden "digital world". He could even see the "characters" moving quickly through the walls. For a moment, Tang Qingyu had the feeling that the whole world was maintained by these "characters", which was the code that Xiao Bai spoke of.

Tang Qingyu, who was in the ancient tomb, naturally couldn't see that at this moment, although the sky above Mount Zhongnan was gloomy, the dark clouds that were about to dissipate once again became thick and heavy. In the dark clouds, lightning crazily struck down. Almost in a moment, the old Chongyang Palace on the top of the mountain, after being struck by lightning, was set ablaze and turned into a sea of red.

Tang Qingyu's consciousness did not collapse like the previous times when he was swallowed by the 'codes'. The 'sober' Tang Qingyu felt as if he had touched a realm that no mortal should touch. He reached out to touch the surface of the ancient tomb made of 'runes'. He looked at his fingers and found that his fingers were also glowing with a golden luster. There were also runes swimming on his fingers. Or rather, his hands and his entire body were made of runes just like the walls of the ancient tomb. The only difference was that the runes on his body were smaller, more complex, and denser in number.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind. Unexpectedly, Tang Qingyu reached out towards the wall with his fingers. He didn't want to touch it like before, but directly inserted his fingers into the wall. Then … his fingers pierced through the wall.

He didn't practice the Divine Flicking Finger or the Solitary Yang Finger, but his fingers pierced through the wall as easily as if they were tofu. It was as if the wall and his body were the same thing, so they were in perfect harmony.

He seemed to understand something, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't think of a reason.

But before he could think of a reason, the entire ancient tomb began to shake violently. Sand rustled and fell. Looking up, he saw an extremely thick bolt of lightning. It actually pierced through the thick layer of soil and struck the tomb.

The powerful lightning burned everything. It shattered the walls of the ancient tomb and blasted the hard rocks. The ancient tomb collapsed. Tang Qingyu, who had "disappeared" in this powerful energy, thought, well, the ancient tomb collapsed. It buried everyone underground and all the secrets. In this way, his "promise" to bury the descendants of the ancient tomb was not broken.

Because everything was buried in the soil in the end, covered by the rocks of the entire Zhongnan Mountain. No one would know what happened here.

That night, the Zhongnan Mountain burned for a day and night. In the end, it was barely extinguished because of the heavy snow. The people in the surrounding villages came to the mountain to see after the fire was extinguished. They found that the poor temple called Chongyang Palace had been burned black. Not even ashes were left. There were only a few scattered sparks that had not been extinguished.

Many villagers were puzzled when they saw this. It was winter, and it was winter with heavy snow. It was not easy to catch fire. How could it suddenly burn so fiercely?

Some villagers could not help but mutter to themselves. Could it be that a demon was really going through a tribulation?

Just as these villagers wanted to extinguish the last sparks to prevent the mountain fire from reigniting, suddenly, a person crawled out from the ashes. Immediately, many villagers were frightened and screamed, "Monster!"

They scattered in all directions.

The person crawled out from the ashes. No one knew if his clothes were burned clean or something. He crawled out with bare upper body. After crawling for a long time, he crawled out of the fire area and onto the snow. He rubbed his body clean a little. Only then did the people confirm that it was indeed a person.

Some brave villagers who did not run far shouted, "Is it someone who was not burned to death in the temple?"

These two days, the dark clouds and lightning on the Zhongnan Mountain were really strange. Although everyone joked that it was a "demon who was going through a tribulation", but when they saw the Chongyang Palace burned like this, some people could not help but believe it. When they saw the person crawling out from the ashes, they subconsciously thought that it might be a demon who was going through a tribulation. When someone shouted, everyone came back to their senses. Maybe it was someone who hid in the cellar to avoid the fire!

Immediately, their fear disappeared. Some brave people walked in front of the person who crawled out from the ashes and asked, "You … are you a human or a ghost?"