Author’s note: In the previous chapter, the glory points should be three. It has been corrected. While writing, I kept looking at the clock on the computer’s bottom-right hand corner. Since time was too tight and my brain was filled with plot points, I had a slight short circuit and wrote it incorrectly. This is considered the second chapter for 27th Jan.
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Yi Yun followed the old man. After turning the corner around a staircase, he entered a dark walkway.
This walkway led underground.
There were everlasting lamps hung on both sides of the walkway, but the light from these lamps was not warm. On the contrary, gust after gust of cold wind blew through the depths of the walkway.
The old man did not walk slowly, but the walkway was extremely long. After walking for almost thirty minutes, they had covered a distance of almost four kilometers.
Finally, the old man stopped and said, “Here we are.”
The wind was even more chilling here. With a blow of the cold wind, the everlasting lamps flickered, dimming and brightening.
The old man slowly rotated his body. At the end of the passage, there were two large bronze doors.
On the surface of the two doors, there were carvings of an unknown primordial behemoth. The behemoth carvings contained an inexplicable abstraction within them that made one feel distraught when they looked at them.
“It’s in here!” The old man said as he rolled up his sleeves. He pushed the left bronze door with all his strength.
“Zha Zha Zha…”
With the sound of contraptions being activated, the bronze door slowly opened.
The door was extremely heavy and thick. As the metal shaft rotated, due to the sudden change in weight, the entire walkway began to tremor.
For some unknown reason, Yi Yun felt that the old man was not pushing a door, but a thick tombstone.
After the old man pushed the door open, he held the door open with one hand and said, “So heavy! I finally opened it. You can go in now…”
The old man pointed to the interior. Yi Yun hesitated and just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly felt a chill rush towards him, which caused his hair to stand up on end as he felt unease!
Killing intent!
Oh!?
Yi Yun was alarmed. It was as if there was a terrifying existence beyond this door.
What kind of door did this old man open?
“Kid, what are you standing around for? You do not dare enter?” the old man asked casually.
Yi Yun was surprised, “Senior, what is this place?”
“What place is this? Hehe…” The old man laughed sinisterly. “This is an ancient tomb.”
“Tomb!?” Yi Yun was flabbergasted. “A grave!? Could this be the resting place of some forefather of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom?”
“You have so many questions.” The old man impatiently waved his hand. But with some deliberation, he said, “Actually…there is no harm in telling you this…Do you know why the Tai Ah Divine City was built here?”
The old man answered Yi Yun’s question with another question. Yi Yun began thinking. He originally believed that the reason behind building the Tai Ah Divine City at this location was by randomly choosing a spot in the Divine wilderness that had a spiritual pulse thick in Heaven Earth Yuan Qi, which would allow the elites from the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom to train here.
But now, from the old man’s words, it seemed like that that was not the case.
Yi Yun shook his head, “I do not know.”
The old man patted the bronze door that was already opened and said, “The Tai Ah Divine City was built here because of this ancient tomb! The owner of this tomb is not a forefather of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, but someone else. In fact, this ancient tomb existed at least a few million years before the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom was established!”
The old man’s answer took Yi Yun aback. This ancient tomb predated the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom by so many years!
The old man carried on, “As for who the owner of the tomb is, there’s no way of verifying who it is. When the first city lord of the Tai Ah Divine City found this ancient tomb, it had already been opened. The funerary items, inheritance and the corpse had long disappeared!”
“But the ancient tomb’s array field still existed! There were many ancient array inscriptions in the ancient tomb. The founding city lord of the Tai Ah Divine City used the ancient tomb’s array field as a foundation to build up the Tai Ah Divine City’s large array!”
“All these years, the Tai Ah Divine City has been gathering Heaven Earth Yuan Qi. A portion of it is used to nourish the ancient tomb’s array field. If this array field is stabilized, the Tai Ah Divine City would be indestructible!”
After hearing the old man’s words, Yi Yun finally understood. Having stood in the Divine wilderness for tens of millions of years, the Tai Ah Divine City would inevitably suffer attacks from beast hordes!