Versatile Mage: I Awakened Nine Stars

Chapter 250: The Emperor, Deeply in Love and Far-sighted in Planning

More than ten minutes later, the Yangyang villagers, including Fang Gu, finally woke up.

Dozens of people marched towards the imperial mausoleum in a mighty procession.

Along the way, everyone forced themselves to smile and cheer each other up.

Some villagers pointed at the gray clouds in the sky and asked curiously why they were moving.

"Indeed, these clouds are a little too active."

"Could it be..."

Some villagers swallowed, and fear gradually became obvious in their eyes.

Because, a cloud fell down!

It was a mixture of broken bones and rotten flesh that had been rotten for years, forming an ugly and hideous corpse!
Xu Shen was shocked.

A star falls like rain in one go.

Incandescent spots of light fell.

The corpse turned into gray mist and dissipated.

"Let's go quickly, I'm a little scared..."

……

A few hours later, Xu Shen and others arrived at the ancient royal tomb safely.

Words cannot describe the majesty of this palace.

Each flight of stairs alone is several meters high.

Looking up, you can't see the end of the stairs, which just lead straight to the towering white palace in the sky.

Fortunately, the corpse clouds in the sky always carefully avoid this huge palace.

The pure white of the tomb and the filthy and smelly corpses coexist in the same world, making this world feel a little more unreal.

Xu Shen, Ding Yumian and Fang Gu are all mages. Their physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and they can barely climb these stairs.

But dozens of other villagers were just ordinary people who had difficulty even climbing the stairs.

Fortunately, Xiaobai can still be summoned in this world.

Dozens of people squeezed together and barely managed to take them all with them.

A group of people were crawling slowly. If you look down from the sky, they probably looked like a few ants crawling slowly on white silk.

Gradually, some stone figurines appeared on both sides of the endless stairs.

According to the normal plot, the stone men and the like in the underground palace will definitely come back to life.

However, perhaps it was the Weiju Village bloodline of Fang Gu and others that took effect. Until they reached the gate of the imperial mausoleum, these stone servants remained motionless and the stone skin showed no signs of falling off.

At the gate, the most eye-catching thing is a huge bronze mirror.

There are stone tripods on both sides of the bronze mirror.

The villagers of Weiju Village were whispering.

Perhaps they are saying that the gate and the steps of the imperial mausoleum are a bit like the well water paintings in their Kunjing, which will be reflected in the well water on every clear night.

In other words, the Kunjing Well outside can actually monitor the imperial tomb in real time?

What’s even more amazing is this bronze mirror. Fang Gu actually also has one of the same proportions, shrunk to the size of a palm!

He hesitated and used the small bronze mirror to look at the large bronze mirror hanging on the gate.

Then the big bronze mirror flashed, like an eye blinking.

“Buzz~~~~~~~~~~~”

Suddenly, the white square door slowly opened.

This scene almost made Xu Shen's jaw drop.

A fully automatic door from two thousand years ago?

He was amazed by the wisdom of his ancestors.

But soon, his mouth was forced shut.

The moment the door opened, an extremely terrifying gust of wind roared out from inside, almost blowing away the people who had climbed up with great effort.

Fortunately, this was not a soul-stirring chill, but a normal physical reaction caused by the large pressure difference between the inside and outside of the tomb because the tomb had not been opened for a long time.

"Hurry, those stone servants are moving!"

Fang Gu reminded.

Everyone looked back and saw that there were indeed bursts of noises coming from the stone steps, and the aura emitted by the stone servant was becoming more and more terrifying.

No one dared to delay and quickly entered the palace.

Fang Gu must have inherited some tradition passed down from his ancestors. He walked in this tomb palace in a very methodical manner, and he would stop to recall and think every time he walked a certain distance.

When they came to a corridor with stone paintings on the walls, Fang Gu reminded everyone not to look at these paintings, otherwise they would fall into the mind trap and be unable to extricate themselves.

But this gallery seems endless and there is no end.

"It seems that I have no choice but to go in," Xu Shen shook his head with a wry smile.

"Let me go." Ding Yumian said, pressing his palm against the stone painting, not giving Xu Shen any chance to refuse.

Fang Gu said worriedly, "According to our ancestral teachings, even a super-class mage cannot escape from this Soul Gallery. Can she?"

"Yu Mian is not an impulsive person."

Fang Gu sighed softly and shook his head silently.

Even though he had not seen much of the world, he had heard about the strangeness and difficulty of mental magic.

The thing located in the ancient royal tomb must be even more powerful. How could a mere high-level wizard escape from it?

Perhaps, our trip to the underground palace will end here.

But to his surprise, Ding Yumian's body soon recovered and his eyeballs began to move.

This endless corridor finally came to an end.

"What did you see?"

Xu Shen asked curiously.

Ding Yumian was a little absent-minded. She whispered, "These are some memories of the ancient king hunting Xiao Cai and other totem beasts."

Ding Yumian had seen this wise and capable king before in the Demonic Grottoes.

The majestic figure left her with an unforgettable impression.

But what is even more unforgettable are his few words.

If humans want to be truly independent and leave the cradle woven by totem animals, they must inevitably start from toddlerhood, and there will inevitably be times when they fall and get bruised and battered.

Although she agreed with the ancient king's views, she always felt that he was too extreme.

It was not until now that she truly understood his good intentions.

It turns out that there was another reason why the ancient king decided to break up with the totem beast completely.

Ding Yumian said: "The human soul is naturally strong, and the power of its faith and the power of nature combine to create the purest totem power. This is how the glorious totem era came about.

Just like humans cultivated wheat and rice, which provided them with food and clothing, but also confined them to farmland.

The pure power of the totem enables the demons to transform into totems, possessing a long lifespan and great power, but it also forces them to do their best to protect humans and give them a place to rest.

Human beings are to totems as wheat and rice are to humans.

It is unclear who domesticated whom. But the totem beast protects the human race, and feeds on human souls.

"Feeding on souls?"

Ding Yumian nodded and said:
"In the pre-Qin period, there were always various grand sacrificial ceremonies and temples and shrines all over the country. We now always think that this is just superstition, but in that era, it was a way to seize the power of faith. Excessive exploitation of the power of faith would cause the human soul to dry up and cause premature aging and death."

"!!!"

Xu Shen was speechless: "Why have I never seen similar records in ancient books?"

"Perhaps, humans at that time did not know this. They were just used to the fact that ordinary people could only live forty or fifty years at most."

"You mean, the ancient king discovered the secret?"

Ding Yumian nodded, with a complicated look on her face.

"The ancient king had been searching for immortality but to no avail, so how could he not study the secret of the reincarnation of the totem beasts? He imitated the totem vessels and made a set of armor that could capture the power of the totem, and thus found a way to immortality.

He could have used this to achieve immortality and make the ancient Qin Empire last for ten thousand years, but in the end he gave up and launched the most resolute totem hunting operation without hesitation.

Humans and totem beasts have lived together for generations, and have long been inseparable, with deep feelings between them. However, the ancient king will not allow humans to be exploited without knowing it. This war has nothing to do with good and evil, but is simply a battle of race and position. "

"!!!"

Xu Shen had a complicated expression.

No one can resist the temptation of immortality.

In order to achieve immortality, he had seen Huo Ling crying bitterly, and he had also seen many vampires who had turned themselves into something neither human nor ghost.

But this great emperor actually gave up the immortality that was once within his reach?!
It is undeniable that he is cruel and ruthless.

But what is even more undeniable is his long-lasting love for the human race.

"The power of faith, a thought of good and evil"

Ding Yumian's sight seemed to penetrate the abyss and saw the ancient king fighting with the angel.

"The armor on his body has absorbed too much evil and resentful energy. The ancient king may have really fallen into evil ways."

"what are you guys saying?"

Fang Gu looked at Xu Shen and Ding Yumian with some confusion.

I could understand every word of the conversation between these two people, but when they were put together, it sounded like aliens were talking.

What totem, what belief?
Only the ancient king's pursuit of immortality is still talked about today, and it is barely understandable.

But isn’t he a world-famous tyrant?

This fact cannot be erased even if he is his descendant.

Xu Shen and Ding Yumian shook their heads in silence.

(End of this chapter)