I hurried to greet him. After checking that the fat man and the vixen were all right, I asked him, "What did you encounter in there? Why did you come out unscathed?"
Fatty's expression was a little strange. He glanced at Officer Wang and the others, who were walking behind me, and grinned. "We didn't encounter anything … We just walked out of the blood door and met the fox girl. We took her out with us. Oh, and your big dog. We also beat them out."
Big dog?
I was bewildered and followed the fat man's finger. It was the Kirin that had come out of the blood door with me … When we were in the blood coffin, everything happened so fast that I didn't have time to care about it. After we got out, I was so focused on the fat man that I had forgotten about the Kirin.
At first, the kirin was also looking in my direction. When I turned my head and our eyes met, the kirin raised his head and rolled his eyes. He looked away with an arrogant expression.
The fat man came out unscathed, and I felt much better. I cheerfully walked over and rubbed the Kirin's head.
The Kirin seemed to hold a grudge against me. He moved aside as if he didn't want me to touch him. However, he squatted at my feet like a dog and didn't move an inch.
Although this little guy didn't have any special abilities, he was smart. It would be good to keep him as a pet.
Except for the horn on his head, which was a little eye-catching, he didn't look any different from a dog.
When I went to check on the Kirin, Lin Acheng, Officer Wang, and the others had surrounded the fat man and asked him what had happened inside. The fat man didn't tell me the details and just grinned.
Later, he told me that there was no storm inside. Officer Wang suggested that we go back and check. On the one hand, we could find Lu Zhenyang and the others. On the other hand, we could go back and study the storm.
I had the same idea, so I nodded and was ready to take them back.
However, the fat man stopped me and said awkwardly, "We can't get in there now. There's nothing in the blood coffin."
There's nothing left?
Officer Wang and I looked at each other. We didn't know what the fat man meant.
After asking him, Fatty stuttered and couldn't explain clearly. In the end, he stomped his feet and said, "Forget it. You guys should go back and watch it. You'll know when you see it."
This fatty was strange. Apparently, he was hiding something from us. However, considering our relationship, he must have a reason to keep it from me. I didn't ask more questions. I turned around and called Officer Wang and the others. We reopened the bronze gate and walked in.
After entering, it was just as Fatty had said. There were no remnants of the storm in the tomb. Even the surrounding stone walls could not be seen.
While observing, I walked forward. After twenty or thirty steps, a stone wall appeared in front of me. It was the end of the tomb.
No!
I clearly remembered that after we passed through the bronze gate, we had to go through a cave on the other side of the mountain wall. It was hundreds of meters high and thousands of meters long. Moreover, if we wanted to go to the other chamber where the blood coffin was, we would have to go through a cave on the other side of the mountain wall that faced the bronze gate.
But now, we had only entered for about twenty meters and there was actually a whole mountain wall in front of us.
Could it be that the storm had loosened a boulder and blocked this chamber?
Or, was the storm so powerful that it created an earthquake that completely changed the appearance of this chamber?
I reached out and touched the mountain wall in front of me. I walked around and eliminated these two guesses.
Whether it was a boulder that had been blown here by the storm or a geological change caused by the earthquake, the new mountain wall should have been created from somewhere else. I could see some traces on the exposed surface. However, after observing for a long time, I found that the stone wall in front of me was blended with the surroundings. Moreover, it didn't look any different from the other places. It was dark and looked as if it had existed for thousands of years.
I studied it for a long time, but I couldn't find any clues. Officer Wang also came to check, but he didn't find anything suspicious. He turned around and looked at me in dismay.
Since I couldn't find any clues, I turned around and asked the fatty. The fatty rolled his eyes. "I don't know. It was like this when we got out."
Since he didn't want to tell me, I didn't know what to do. Officer Wang suggested, "Although there's a mountain wall here, I'm sure the chamber is still there. It's just hidden behind the mountain wall. Why don't we ask Ah Fu to break the entire mountain wall or create a cave for people to pass through? Then, we can go there together."
His suggestion made sense. I turned around and looked at the fatty. He wore an indifferent face and didn't respond to Officer Wang's suggestion.
I agreed with him. Officer Wang called Ah Fu and told him something. Then, he gave him the black Qingxu Sword.
Ah Fu nodded and didn't say anything. He walked to the stone wall and raised the Qingxu Sword in his hand. I didn't see him make any hand seals to cast a spell, but he simply stabbed the sword into the mountain wall in front of him.
The power of a Yang God Heavenly Master was extraordinary. After the Qingxu Sword was stabbed, I felt the ground under my feet shake. Then, I heard a rumbling sound as if there was an earthquake.
Then, with a bang, the mountain wall in front of Ah Fu burst open. From the place where the Qingxu Sword had stabbed in, countless cracks appeared in the surrounding like a spider web. Then, countless gravel fell down, and a cave as tall as a person appeared out of thin air.
After the gravel fell, Officer Wang was the first one to enter the cave to check. A few seconds later, he came out again. He looked incredulous. He pointed at the cave and said to me, "It's seven or eight meters inside, but it's still stone. The stone wall hasn't been penetrated yet."
Seven or eight meters, and it's still stone?
I raised my head and looked at the area of the stone wall in front of me. It was seven or eight meters thick. If it was really a stone wall created by a storm, it would be much bigger than the Tai Sui.
The density of a stone was about three tons per cubic meter. I guessed the stone wall in front of me weighed more than hundreds of thousands of tons.
While I was still hesitating, Officer Wang wasn't convinced. He turned to Ah Fu and said, "You go inside and keep digging. I don't believe it."
Since Officer Wang had given his order, Ah Fu wouldn't refuse. Without hesitation, he took the Qingxu Sword and got into the cave.
Not long after, there was another muffled sound. This time, before Officer Wang could go inside to check, Ah Fu came out. He shook his head at Officer Wang and me. "I've dug more than ten meters deep, but it's still stone."
If it was a seven-meter-thick stone wall blocking the way, I could believe it. However, I had dug more than twenty meters deep, and it was still stone. It couldn't have been caused by a stone wall or an earthquake. Combined with the previous discoveries, it was obvious that the stone wall had always been there. It wasn't a stone wall, but the surrounding mountains.
How could this be?
The huge chamber, the small chamber, the blood coffin, and the blood door … Was everything fake? Was it an illusion?
I turned to look at the Qilin and closed my eyes to feel the Heavenly Master's True Essence in my body. Everything was real. It wasn't an illusion.
But how could I explain the stone wall?
Officer Wang and I looked at each other in puzzlement.
After a moment of silence, I turned to look at the fat man. He was still grinning and didn't seem to want to explain anything to me.
Feeling helpless, I sighed and called Officer Wang and the others. Together, we left the graveyard and returned to the bronze gate.
Not far from the gate was the tunnel that Liang Tianxin and Qiao Sigui had dug. On the other side of the tunnel, there was another tunnel. It was surrounded by fresh soil, which Officer Wang and the others had dug when they came in. Liang Tianxin had set up two searchlights here. When the searchlights were turned on, the bronze gate was illuminated, but the places where the light couldn't reach were dark. That was why the two of them hadn't found this tunnel before.
As for the fat man and his son, they had found the tunnel that Officer Wang had dug and followed them here.
We walked through the tunnel that Liang Tianxin had dug and returned to the surface. We booked several rooms in the hotel I had stayed in before.
Although it was early in the morning when they came out, they had been tense in Chiyou's tomb. Moreover, they had encountered many things in succession, so their bodies were already exhausted. So, after they settled down, they returned to their rooms and prepared to rest.
Although I was also tired, I didn't sleep. Instead, I called the little fox girl and asked her what had happened after the storm in Chiyou's tomb took her back.
The little fox girl looked confused. "After I got sucked into the storm, I fainted and didn't remember anything. When I woke up, the fat man was already next to her. He asked her to leave with us. She didn't remember anything else."
Unlike the fat man, who seemed to be hiding something from me, the little fox girl looked confused. She was telling the truth.
It seemed she didn't know anything. I shook my head and was about to ask her to go back to rest. However, the little fox girl mumbled, "I don't know why, but after I got out of that place, I seemed to have … become stronger."
"What do you mean?" I didn't understand at first, so I asked in reply.
The little fox girl raised her right hand, and a mass of crimson power gushed out, forming a crimson halo in her palm.
She didn't need to explain to me.
Earlier in Guangzhou, her mother had told me that Yaoyao's cultivation base was at the early stage of Glorious Memory. The monster race could only transform into a human when they reached the Celestial Master realm. However, because of the uniqueness of the Qing Qiu clan, they could transform at the Glorious Memory realm.
Moreover, I had fought with Yaoyao at that time. She was indeed at the early stage of Glorious Memory, but I had defeated her with a wave of my hand.
But now, looking at the mass of monster energy in her hand, she had at least reached the complete stage of Glorious Memory. She was only a step away from the Celestial Master realm.