Gritting her teeth, Ye Ziyun did not say anything and began to explore the surroundings. Ever since she was young, she had never been taken advantage of by others like this. And the most hateful thing is, Nie Li acted as though nothing had happened and began to look around the surroundings. She got more and more angry when she thought about it, and ruthlessly stepped onto Nie Li’s foot.
“Ouch!!” Nie Li yelled, inhaling a lump of cold air while he held his foot and jumped around.
Seeing Nie Li’s exaggerated reaction, Ye Ziyun couldn’t help laughing.
“If you dare to not be honest again, be careful. I might not forgive you!”
The scene of Ye Ziyun laughing made her even more beautiful and charming, and caused Nie Li to be dumbfounded.
Feeling Nie Li’s peculiar gaze, Ye Ziyun immediately recovered her gaze. Her cheeks felt slightly hot, not knowing why, and her heart beat became somewhat accelerated.
“Hurry up and look for a way out, otherwise we won’t be able to get out!” Ye Ziyun hastily said.
“Okay!” replied Nie Li as he took out a torch from his interspatial ring and lit it up. Using the light, he examined the surroundings. It appears that they have fallen into an underground palace. Just like a deep maze, there were five to six passages they could take, but they did not know where they would lead to.
‘ I can’t imagine how large the internal structure of this maze is,’ Nie Li thought.
He found a line of text on a stone wall by his side.
“Emperor Kong Ming’s resting place,” Nie Li murmured, and was suddenly surprised. “This is the tomb of the Sacred Empire’s Emperor Kong Ming!”
“Emperor Kong Ming?” Ye Ziyun asked, full of curiosity.
“Right” Nie Li slightly nodded and continued, “He is the most mysterious emperor within the history of the Sacred Empire. As an emperor of the Sacred Empire, he actually used his title as his form of address, which is a very strange thing. This particular emperor left the Sacred Empire in the middle of his rule and passed his throne to his son. It’s said that he had already cultivated to a frightening extent, becoming immortalized. Even his descendents couldn’t find his tomb. I never thought that he would actually be buried here.”
“Is there really anyone that has cultivated to the extent of immortalization?” Ye Ziyun questioned, looking towards Nie Li.
“No, that’s just a myth. Even if one cultivated to the realm above Legend rank, they can only live for two-three hundred years. They still couldn’t escape the cycle of heavens!” Nie Li laughed.
“A realm above Legend rank? What kind of realm is that?” Ye Ziyun asked, full of doubts right now. In her mindset, Legend rank is already the strongest existence.
“You will know it later on!” Nie Li smiled, shaking his head and did not continue talking.
Ye Ziyun was puzzled. Could Nie Li have seen an existence stronger than Legend rank? But Nie Li is the same as her. He has never been outside of Glory City. Did he see it in a book? Although she had her doubts, Ye Ziyun did not pursue any further.
“This should be a maze. Therefore, there should be pitfall related traps. We must be careful. You can only step on the place that I’ve previously stepped!” Nie Li looked towards Ye Ziyun and said.
Although she is depressed that Nie Li always talked to her in a commanding tone, sounding as though he was much older than her, she obediently nodded her head and answered, “En!”
Even Nie Li wasn’t aware that due to the fact that Ye Ziyun was still young, he had a kind of protective mindset towards her. Therefore, the tone of voice that they are using is inevitably different compared to his previous life.
“There are five-six passages here, which one should we take?” Ye Ziyun asked, looking at the surrounding deep passages.
“That’s simple, we should be moving towards the north. Because of Emperor Kong Ming’s fate, his tomb was built facing the south.”
“Why?” Ye Ziyun asked, puzzled, “Why must Emperor Kong Ming’s tomb be built facing the south?”
“Because that is written within the Sacred Empire’s Book of Numerology. Every fate has something that will benefit and harm them. This includes the location of tombs and so on! People from the Sacred Empire believed in this stuff!” Nie Li said, lightly smiling.
‘The Sacred Empire’s Book of Numerology,’ Ye Ziyun couldn’t help muttering this phrase, ‘Just how many books has Nie Li exactly read?’
“Then, which is the north? We are currently in underground. How are we supposed to tell the directions?” Ye Ziyun asked.
Nie Li lightly smiled and said, “This is very easy to distinguish. St. Ancestral Mountains are towards the north-south direction. By looking at the vein lines in the rocks, we’ll be able to tell the direction. Over here!” Nie Li strolled towards one of the passages.