"Not only did he come here, but he also put or took something out of the notch!"
Liang Tianxin nodded and slowly uttered those words. His face looked terrible.
Hearing that, Qiao Sigui was shocked. He turned to look at the Qingzhou cauldron in my hand and exclaimed, "That's impossible!
That's impossible!
There's only one Qingzhou cauldron, and this guy has always been with me. No one else could have opened this door! "
Liang Tianxin sighed. "Although there's only one Qingzhou cauldron, there were nine cauldrons in ancient times. Who knows if the other eight cauldrons could also open this door?"
Then, he didn't wait for Qiao Sigui's reply. He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't panic. Open the door. Let's go down first."
The two of them brought me back to the ground. After we landed, Liang Tianxin let go of my arm and looked at the notch. Then, he lowered his head and scanned the ground.
After looking for a while, he took a few steps forward and picked up a thin strand of hair from the ground. It seemed to be the cat hair he'd mentioned.
After picking it up, he didn't look at it. Instead, he walked over and handed it to me. He said solemnly, "Carefully sense the aura on this cat hair."
Needless to say, I understood what he meant. I took the cat hair and carefully sensed it. As expected, I felt a faint trace of shaman energy on it.
I had to admit that Liang Tianxin was clever. He could set up a mechanism with a thin strand of cat hair. It was very difficult to be discovered, and it was very effective. Not only could he detect if someone had touched the notch, but the cat hair had a strong attachment to aura. No matter if it was Taoist or shaman energy, the aura on it would linger for a long time.
The cat hair had the aura of shaman energy, which meant that someone had used shaman energy in the notch, or had placed some kind of artifact that contained shaman energy.
Combining all the other circumstances, it was highly possible that someone had been one step ahead of us and had used a small cauldron filled with shaman energy to open this door!
After confirming it, I nodded at Liang Tianxin.
Instantly, Liang Tianxin furrowed his brows, his face extremely cold.
"Who could it be?
Who could it be?
Hunchback, have you ever leaked any information about this place? "
Qiao Sigui was obviously in an extremely bad mood at this moment, and he replied icily as well. "Both of us have obtained this enormous fortuitous encounter. In these past few years, I've been sleeping alone because I have the habit of talking in my sleep. I'm afraid I'll reveal this enormous fortuitous encounter in my sleep!
Do you think I'll leak the news? "
Liang Tianxin's expression changed several times. He turned his head and stared at me. "The two of us came here a few years ago, but we didn't find any traces of anyone else. But now, someone suddenly came … Did you leak the news?"
I helplessly spread my hands. "Daoist Liang, you brought me here today."
Liang Tianxin seemed to have realized that he was being too impatient. After a moment of silence, he changed the topic and asked. "You're a person who cultivates Wizard Energy. Do you know of anyone else in the world who cultivates Wizard Energy like you?"
His question was very important. If other people wanted to open this door, they also needed to inject their Wizard Energy into the small cauldron. From this point, I could indeed find some clues.
Besides me, Nangong is the only person who cultivates Wizard Energy in the world. Of course, it's also possible that he's a sacrificial offering to an evil spirit. However, his cultivation is too high, and I can't tell what kind of power he has. When I asked him about it, he gave me a vague answer. I'm not sure if he cultivates Wizard Energy or not.
Could it be that Nangong went in ahead of us?
I recalled the situation in the Yinshang Royal Mausoleum. It wasn't strange for Nangong to appear here. However, if he appeared, he would most likely contact me in advance. At the very least, he would leave me a message.
Although I was being watched by Liang Tianxin and Qiao Sigui, with Nangong's means, it wouldn't be difficult for him to avoid them. Why didn't he leak any information?
Could it be that it wasn't Nangong but someone else?
I suddenly thought of Tao Wu. It wasn't because Tao Wu cultivates Wizard Energy, but because Liang Tianxin was the one who had set up the 28 Evil Underworld Formation near my high school. Although I didn't know his ultimate purpose for setting up the formation, it seemed to be related to Tao Wu and the tomb of Chiyou. It was highly possible that it was also related to Nangong.
After letting my imagination run wild for a while, I shook my head at Liang Tianxin. "As far as I know, I'm the only one who cultivates Wizard Energy in the world."
This time, Liang Tianxin didn't say anything. Instead, it was Qiao Sigui who stared at me and asked, "All cultivators have a master. You don't need a master to teach you how to cultivate Wizard Energy. Did you learn it from nowhere?"
I shook my head with a smile and ignored him. Then, I turned to Liang Tianxin and said, "Fellow Daoist Liang, you've met the master who taught me how to cultivate Wizard Energy. You should know that I'm telling the truth."
Of course, I was referring to Xiao Jin. Liang Tianxin was slightly stunned. He nodded and didn't say anything else. Then, he turned to Qiao Sigui and explained in a low voice.
The three of us became silent. I didn't know what Liang Tianxin and Qiao Sigui were thinking about, while I stared at the two huge doors in front of me. I kept thinking about the Suan Ni in the Fire God Temple. Did the Chiyou Tomb hide the secret of what had happened in the past?
Was the so-called Way of Heaven that bound Tao Wu also related to Chiyou's tomb?
Also, what role did Liang Tianxin play in this matter?
With my current cultivation, killing Liang Tianxin and searching his soul was also an option. However, the Celestial Master was a Celestial Master after all. Killing him was easy, but searching his soul was difficult. The Celestial Master's soul was extremely condensed. Unless one cultivated the Yang Spirit and used the power of the Yang Spirit to search his soul, it would be impossible to find anything.
After a long silence, Liang Tianxin finally clenched his teeth and made a decision.
"The situation is still uncertain. We don't need to be depressed. Even if someone enters before us, it won't be easy to obtain Chiyou's inheritance. We still have a chance!"
Then, he and Qiao Sigui grabbed my arms and brought me to the groove so that I could put the Qingzhou cauldron inside.
I didn't understand what he meant by 'Chiyou's inheritance', but his decision was the same as mine. Regardless of whether someone entered before us or not, we definitely had to go to Chiyou's tomb.
I took out the Qingzhou cauldron again and carefully placed it inside the groove.
As soon as I put it in, there was a dull thud behind the giant door. It was as if the giant on the door had hit the ground with a giant axe.
Liang Tianxin and Qiao Sigui hurriedly brought me to the ground and stared at the giant door nervously.
After a while, the giant door shook heavily and slowly slid backward, revealing a gap.
Liang Tianxin pointed at the gap and told me, Yao Yao, and Qiao Sigui to enter first. He flew to the groove and waited for us to enter. Then, he took out the Qingzhou cauldron and followed us in with a flash.
After we entered, the giant door closed again with a loud rumble.
Similar to the inside of the Shang Dynasty's tomb, the inside of Chiyou's tomb was pitch-black. Of course, this was only for ordinary people. With our cultivation, the pitch-black environment wouldn't affect our eyesight. We could still see everything in our surroundings.
I looked around. The inside of the tomb was extremely crude. Not only was it not as grand as the inside of the Shang Dynasty's tomb, it couldn't even compare to the underground palace under Suan Ni's tomb. It was just a cave that was much larger than the outside.
However, just the word 'large' was enough to shock me. I roughly estimated that the cave behind the giant door was almost a hundred meters high. The distance between the two sides was even more frightening. It was at least one thousand meters.
Although we had been going down the tunnel outside, it was hard to say if we had gone down a hundred meters. According to common sense, the top of the cave was very close to the ground.
Of course, this was Chiyou's tomb, after all. We couldn't use common sense to judge it.
Apart from being huge, there seemed to be nothing special about this place. In the huge cave, other than some jagged rocks, there was nothing else. Only on the other side of the stone wall directly opposite the huge door, there was a round hole, as if there was another world inside.
Liang Tianxin and Qiao Sigui didn't pay attention to me and Yao Yao. The two of them walked around the stone wall. When they reached the entrance of the dark cave, they waved their hands and beckoned me to come over.
When I reached the cave entrance, I lifted my eyes and found something strange.
The cave entrance wasn't big, only about the height of a person. From afar, it seemed incomparably dark, but now that I was in front of it, I raised my eyes to take a closer look. I could only see a patch of darkness, unable to see anything inside.
With my cultivation, my vision couldn't be blocked by pure darkness. There was definitely something strange about this place.
I lifted my head to look at Liang Tianxin and Qiao Sigui. They were also frowning and looking at the cave entrance. It was obvious that they had found something strange.
Qiao Sigui seemed to be impatient. After a moment of silence, he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the cave entrance.
After the stone entered the cave, it disappeared into the darkness. After a while, we heard the sound of the stone falling on the ground.
After a short while, Qiao Sigui said, "You guys wait outside. I'll go in and check. If there's no problem, I'll inform you."
Liang Tianxin nodded and said, "Be careful."