Chapter 83: Sealed Earth, Where All Life Ends
Beneath the earthen-yellow towering wall knelt a hunched figure.
It was as if this figure had been kneeling here since the very moment of birth, never having moved even half a step. Its lower body was nowhere to be seen. In place of legs were countless tangled roots, driven deep into the earth.
Its head of white hair looked as though it had never once been combed, spreading outward like a treetop canopy before trailing across the ground.
Rather than a human, it looked more like a tree.
A tree that had stood eternal outside the Imperial Mausoleum’s burial mound.
Before this figure, Zhao Cheng was incomparably respectful.
“Elder Mu, this is His Majesty’s decree.”
Elder Mu slowly raised his head, revealing a weathered face lined with countless furrows, like decayed ancient wood.
Zhao Cheng produced a sheet of golden foil shimmering with seven-colored radiance.