Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1154 - 209: End of This Volume

Li Zhiyuan held the compass and walked within, quickly capturing the location.

As he approached that position, Li Zhiyuan could sense the Forbidden Array that ought to exist nearby, but had since dissipated.

On one side of the canyon, there was a concave hole, covered at its mouth by an old locust tree.

The old locust tree seemed to have been struck by lightning not long ago, with most of it charred.

Run Sheng and Lin Shuyou cleaned for quite a while before pulling apart the entrance of the hole.

Along with it, many bones of animals and humans were pulled out as well, evidently they were the old locust tree's food, drawn in to serve as its nutrients.

If it hadn't been struck by lightning, finding this place would have required dealing with this troublesome tree first.

The passage within the cave didn't lead downward but was level; the ancestral tomb of the Black Robe family should be built inside this canyon's mountain.

Its scale wasn't large, resembling a small noble's tomb.

Who would have guessed that the ancestor once laid the "Ascension plot" in the secret domain, but his tomb was built so small and simple.

Li Zhiyuan, having read the "Qi's Spring and Autumn Annals," and being a master of arrays, saw countless intricate mechanisms and residual arrays in the short path leading up to the main tomb room.

Though the tomb was small, its depth of danger was so profound that even Li Zhiyuan was shocked.

Fortunately, everything here followed what the ancestor wrote: when the time comes, the restriction self-dissolves.

Otherwise, even if Li Zhiyuan wanted to enter, it would be extremely difficult; even if he broke the obvious mechanisms and arrays above, who knew how many secrets lay hidden beneath?

The Black Robe people relied on the ancestor's bloodline to gain rule benefits in the secret domain tower.

In fact, his array achievements, or rather, at least the array level when he first came in here, was far inferior to Li Zhiyuan's current level.

Li Zhiyuan was now almost certain, what the Black Robe person referred to as "because I am dead, so I could enter the ancestral tomb," was completely a joke.

Back when the restrictions were intact, not only could the dead not enter, even if the White Crane Child came himself, he would probably have his god status dissolved here.

On the ground, on the walls, many corpses could be seen which had already turned into dry bones, presumably the ancestors of the Black Robe person.

Their ancestors left a message: not until the time is reached could they enter the ancestral tomb.

But who among the later generations could resist this temptation? After all, nobody knew whether they could live until that time.

And so, they all died here, died by the restriction the ancestor himself set, except for the Black Robe person.

Tan Wenbin: "Well, Brother Xiao Yuan, I have a suspicion."

Li Zhiyuan: "Go ahead."

Tan Wenbin: "Was the ancestor's last message intentional? He told future generations not to enter, so the events afterward had nothing to do with him?"

"Hmm." Li Zhiyuan responded, then pointed to the residual traces of restriction around him, "Including the so-called self-dissolving in due time, I suspect was not to make it easier for future generations to come in and take his book, but to make it easier for him to come out."

Lin Shuyou: "He's been alive here all this time? What would he look like by now?"

Tan Wenbin: "Definitely not human-like."

Lin Shuyou: "No, I mean, staying in such a small tomb for so long, it's like being in solitary confinement for a long period, could he really endure that?"

Tan Wenbin: "In the tower, in the Kneeling Corpse Pit, in the jade, so many people were confined for so long; there's a pie of immortality hanging in front, feeling lonely just makes you sniff a bit, and you can get through it."

With that, the group walked into the main tomb room.

The main tomb room wasn't very large, and its furnishings were quite ordinary, mostly made of stone.

However, there was no sarcophagus, only a stone bed in the central area.

Above there should be a fissure; at this time, the sun was directly overhead, casting a beam of light precisely on the stone bed.

On the bed, aside from some stones and lime, no remains were seen.

Lin Shuyou: "Did he walk away by himself, or did someone get here beforehand?"

Tan Wenbin: "The old locust blocking the entrance was cleared by you and Run Sheng; though previously struck and charred by lightning, it showed no signs of being tampered with."

Lin Shuyou: "Could he have climbed out through that crack up there?"

The group came before the fissure, looking upwards; the crack was narrow and small, yet the wall surface was extremely smooth.

A person with a small and thin frame could barely fit, but it was only limited to that with no room for climbing upwards.

Li Zhiyuan looked at the stones and lime piled on and beneath the stone bed, said: "He must have drilled out through the top."

"Drilled?" Tan Wenbin noticed Brother Xiao Yuan used "drilled" instead of "climbed," quickly raised his head, observing the distance again.

This was inside the mountain side of the canyon, drilling upwards from here to where sunlight could directly shine; even walking up from the side of the mountain peak would be laborious.

"Dear me, what exactly is this monster?"

After hesitating, Tan Wenbin looked at Run Sheng: "Run Sheng, could you drill through it?"

After all, Run Sheng was the strongest physically among those present.

Run Sheng reached out, touched Tan Wenbin's forehead, then touched his own.

Lin Shuyou used Qinggong to fly up, reaching the fissure above, touching the smooth curve there with his hand, then felt his shoulder joint: "Brother Bin, Brother Xiao Yuan was right, it really was drilled through by himself!"

Tan Wenbin: "I was just expressing amazement, not doubting Brother Xiao Yuan; didn't expect your thick brows and big eyes to learn to sow discord."

Lin Shuyou landed, blinked, he didn't understand.

Tan Wenbin patted Lin Shuyou's shoulder: "Another day, discuss with your family's child about him coming down to be human, and you going up to be Lord of Yin; I see that Lord Child quite knows how to be human now."

Though Tan Wenbin intentionally used joking words to relieve the group's tension, just thinking about a human-shaped creature being able to drill out of this rock was already enough to send chills down one's spine.

Li Zhiyuan reached out, pushed away the stones and lime on the stone bed, and saw a line of words on the bed.

From the appearance of the marks, it seemed to have been written directly with the index finger, and it read:

"Continue another day, a half-faced destiny."

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(The end of this volume)