Chapter 578: Breaking up _1
"There are the screaming souls again. This time, it feels as though the sound is right next to my ear," reported Lin Chuxue.
Upon peering into the deep ditch, Su Chengyu said, "This looks like a burial trench in which numerous bones are piled up. Judging by the scale of this, at least a thousand must have been buried in this pit."
On hearing this, Lin Chuxue and Yu Yanshu walked over to the ditch, peering down and indeed finding many layers of white bones, sending shivers down their spines.
"These people had such miserable ends, cruelly butchered alive for these sacrificial burials," lamented Lin Chuxue.
"Let’s hurry across the bridge. We have no idea what dangers still lie in the second chamber of the tomb!" urged Han Jing.
Su Chengyu took the lead onto the stone bridge. Seeing that there was no imminent danger after they had stepped onto the bridge, Han Jing and the rest followed in tow.
Having crossed the bridge, they found an open and level plane in front of them. With a flick of Su Chengyu’s fingers, the torches on the surrounding stone pillars lit up all at once, revealing dragon and phoenix carvings on the columns, adorned with golden items and jade stones.
These golden items and precious stones were merely ordinary treasures and held no magical properties. As such, Su Chengyu had no particular interest in them. In tomb raids conducted by the Golden Holy Door members, they wouldn’t pass up both priceless treasures and lesser gold and jade furniture.
However, Han Jing and the others had higher discernment. They scoffed at the idea of extracting these mundane items themselves and planned to have Zhou Li and his team do the digging instead.
On the walls of their surroundings were numerous engraved murals. After a careful look, Su Chengyu discovered that the murals depicted the life story of the tomb’s owner. Through the dozen or so murals, it was clear the tomb’s owner had once lived a life of glory, having earned honors and fought battles across the world.
In one of the last murals, the tomb’s owner was shown wearing a flat-topped imperial crown and embroidered dragon robe—an indication that he had unified the world, ascending to the throne as emperor and holding sway over it all.