“What happened, how could this be?” Ye Ziyun questioned as her eyes began to redden and tears began to fall down from her cheeks. She saw a lot of children huddling in a corner. The children that should be very lovable when they were alive, were all dead.
Nie Li sighed and said, “This should be the temporary refuge of the Ancient Orchid City. They moved the elderly, women and children here.They were, probably, going to get them out after the war. However, Ancient Orchid City was destroyed, therefore, these people could only be trapped here, and starved to death.”
Ye Ziyun opened her mouth, revealing a painful expression.
Nie Li took a deep breath. At this moment, his heart fluttered, making it hard to calm down. Wasn’t Glory City like this too, in his previous life? Before the battle began, they moved a lot of people into the refuge area. Later, when Glory City was destroyed, they were forced to shift their location. He didn’t know what happened to those elderly, woman, and children, but they had probably died in the refuge from hunger as well.
The tragic scene of Glory City being destroyed was still so clear. Nie Li clenched his fist tightly, ‘I will not let the same thing happen again!’
“I think, we should go,” Ye Ziyun said, she couldn’t bear to stay here any longer.
“No, we can’t go. We need to take all of the treasure here!” Nie Li firmly said. “The treasures here can enhance our strength. Once our strength is enhanced, only then can we guard Glory City. Otherwise, Glory City will become the second Ancient Orchid City!”
Hearing Nie Li’s words, Ye Ziyun was stunned. A thought flashed across her mind, ‘Glory City will become the second Ancient Orchid City? Although Glory City is still rather safe, there are still demon beasts that often lurk around and even break the walls sometimes.’ Ye Ziyun’s expression firmed. They have to enhance their strength at all cost. Only then can they protect Glory City. Although it’s shameful to be a looter, what can it be compared to the countless lives in Glory City?
Nie Li and Ye Ziyun began to search the whole hall.
“There’s a bronze armour here!”
“There are several bottles of elixirs here! It’s a pity that they have all spoilt!”
“Heavens! This is a piece of soul stone!” Ye Ziyun exclaimed, her hands coming together, and prayed for a moment. After that, she removed the soul stone from the little girl’s neck. This soul stone is very delicate, tied onto a silver chain. The identity of this little girl, when she was still alive, is definitely a noble.
However, she is already dead. If this soul stone is to be given to a Gold rank expert, it might be able to assist that Gold rank expert to go even higher in his cultivation.
Nie Li also, more or less, had some harvest. In bronze armour and weapons alone he had collected a lot. There was a Silver rank dagger that was very well preserved, undamaged. Other than that, there were also demon crystals and many other valuable things. However, Nie Li has yet to find the Spiritual Lamp that he has been searching for.
Nie Li’s gaze fell to the center of the hall. At the center of the hall lies a huge stone coffin that was three meters long and about one meter in height. The surface of the coffin was covered with mysterious incarnations. Those incarnations were quite familiar, but he was unable to recognize it out.
‘What are these incarnations?’ he asked himself.
Moving closer to Emperor Kong Ming’s stone coffin, Nie Li felt a mysterious force rushing towards him. It felt, as he stood beside the stone coffin, like he was standing in the middle of the roaring ocean and could fly out any time. It was no wonder that those who died around here did not get close to the stone coffin.
“Nie Li, what’s wrong with that stone coffin?” Ye Ziyun asked.
Just when Ye Ziyun was coming over, about three meters away from the coffin, her face suddenly turned pale and had to step back.
“What’s wrong?” Nie Li asked, puzzled by Ye Ziyun’s actions.
“When I got closer, I felt a splitting headache!” Ye Ziyun replied.
Hearing Ye Ziyun’s words, Nie Li’s eyebrow twitched. This kind of force is very familiar. Its as though some unknown expert had laid a powerful restriction on the center of the stone coffin. Therefore, Ye Ziyun was unable to get close to it. However, why is it that when he got closer to the stone coffin, nothing had happened to him?
Could it be that this restrict only works on females and not males? Or is it that the restriction is invalid towards Nie Li?
Nie Li guessed within his heart. He turned his head and said to Ye Ziyun, “Go explore the other areas, leave this one to me!”
“En,” Ye Ziyun nodded and walked towards the other side.
Nie Li checked the stone coffin. The stone coffin was completely sealed with all kinds of mysterious inscription patterns on the top. Even though Nie Li’s knowledge is vast, he has never seen these inscription patterns before.
‘Is this stone coffin the coffin of Emperor Kong Ming? Why does the incarnation on top of it looks as though it isn’t from the Sacred Empire Era?’