Early the next morning, when the restless Leslie Dracula and Koo Rok-in arrived at the Shih Sing Garrison again to discuss matters regarding the defense with Guhan, they were surprised to find that the entire Shih Sing Garrison was empty.
Not only was Guhan not in the Garrison Residence, but Guhan's swordmaidens were also nowhere to be found.
In the end, Leslie Dracula and Koo Rok-in received a message from Guhan from the adorable dolls who stayed behind in the Garrison Residence. He told them not to worry about where he was, but to guard the Garrison Residence well and watch out for the Wu people's attacks. That was enough.
After reading Guhan's message, Leslie Dracula and Koo Rok-in mumbled to themselves at the same time, "Did this guy go looking for trouble with the Wu people alone?"
So, what was the truth?
Leslie Dracula and Koo Rok-in's guess was right. Guhan had indeed gone to look for trouble with the Wu people.
However, Guhan did not go to the camp where the Wu people were gathered. Instead, he went to the Sun Star Garrison's territory.
Guhan was familiar with this place. It was the temporary landing spot of the star shuttle that Guhan had taken when he had just arrived at Shanhai Pass six months ago. It was the Sun Star Garrison's Imperial Star Garrison's Garrison Residence. It was also the core area of the Imperial Star Garrison's Garrison Residence. It was known as Shen City before the Great Calamity.
However, Guhan did not enter the Shen City ruins. Instead, he walked to another ruin eleven kilometers to the northeast.
The ruins were different from the modern city ruins that were filled with concrete and steel bars. The ruins here were made up of all kinds of stones and wood. From this, it could be seen that the buildings here were not the concrete and steel buildings of the ancient times before the Great Calamity, but the pavilions and terraces of the medieval era.
Although there were only some broken walls and walls left, judging from the exquisite carvings on the stone ruins, these ruins must have been grand and magnificent in the past. It was a grand building that only high officials and nobles could build.
In fact, before the Great Calamity, this place had been known as the Three Mausoleums Beyond the Pass, which were the royal mausoleums of the earliest emperors of the last dynasty of the Middle Ages, the Qing Dynasty.
The first one was the Yong Mausoleum where the four ancestors of the Qing Dynasty were buried, namely Nurhachi's father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-grandfather.
The second was Emperor Nurhaci's Fuling Mausoleum, and the third was Emperor Huang Taiji's Zhao Mausoleum. These three mausoleums were collectively known as the Three Mausoleums of the Outer Pass.
Of course, following the arrival of the Great Calamity, this once incomparably illustrious mausoleum was no longer noticed by anyone. It was left here to be exposed to the elements, with no one paying attention to this place … Because there was no Guardian Manor stationed here, even battles would not take place here. If not for Guhan coming here today, it was likely that not a single human would be able to come here for at least a year or two.
"It's definitely here!"
Guhan stood on top of Emperor Nurhaci's Fuling Mausoleum. Beneath his feet were some scattered tombstones and dilapidated buildings. Inferring from the geomancy layout, Guhan should be standing on the underground palace where Nurhaci was buried.
Generally speaking, the buildings on the surface of the mausoleum were actually unimportant appendages. They were just some simple decorations and places for later generations to worship.
The truly important part of the mausoleum was the underground palace, which was used to bury the coffins of the emperors.
The underground palace was usually located ten to twenty metres underground. There were abnormal emperors … such as Emperor Qin, whose underground palace was located more than forty metres underground.
Don't think that forty metres was not too deep. It must be known that in ancient times, when people could only rely on manpower, building a huge underground palace forty metres underground was a torturous task. In fact, the reason why the Qin Dynasty was destroyed so quickly had a lot to do with the fact that Emperor Qin had used so much manpower to build his own imperial mausoleum.
Even in the Celestial Dynasty in modern times, all the underground palaces of the imperial mausoleums were strictly protected. Only some of the imperial mausoleums that had been completely robbed were open for people to visit.
Obviously, Guhan's purpose in coming to the Three Mausoleums was not to see these dilapidated buildings on the surface. Guhan's purpose was the underground palace.
The underground palace of the Three Mausoleums was not robbed, so the underground palace of the Three Mausoleums was not opened during the Celestial Dynasty. Now that 1000 years had passed, the entrance to the underground palace had long been buried by countless ruins. As far as the eye could see, it was impossible to find the entrance to the underground palace.
But this did not matter. Mortals might have to use huge scanning equipment to find the entrance to the underground palace, but for Guhan, the method was much simpler. He directly stabbed the Juzi Sword in his hand into the ground, and then a sword Qi broke through the earth.
Even if it was blocked by hard granite, Guhan's sword Qi could still easily reach a depth of 20 to 30 meters underground. This distance covered the depth of the underground palace.
As long as Guhan's sword Qi could detect the existence of space under the land, it meant that the underground palace was under Guhan's feet.
It did not take too long to explore the location of the underground palace. Guhan only experimented 20 to 30 times before he successfully explored a large amount of space under the soil of a broken stone lion statue. This space was located about nine meters deep. Judging from the depth, it must be the underground palace of Fuling.
"Open!"
After confirming that the underground palace was under his feet, the Juzi Sword in Guhan's hand bloomed with countless sword Qi, like a large shield boring machine, smashing all the soil on the ground.
The strange thing was that the crushed soil did not fall into the underground palace. Instead, it continued to fly into the sky. This was definitely because the Sword Qi had brought all the soil with it as it rotated. From this, it could be seen how terrifying Gu Han's control over the Sword Qi was.
In less than a few minutes, Guhan drilled a passage to the underground. Without any hesitation, Guhan jumped directly from the intersection he opened and finally landed on the somewhat wet ground.
"The oxygen concentration in here is still 20%!"
After scanning the air composition in the underground palace with his personal terminal, Guhan was surprised to find that the oxygen concentration in the air in the underground palace was as high as 20%, which was not much different from the oxygen concentration of 21% in the normal air.
Generally speaking, because the underground palace had been closed for a long time, and the original air in the underground palace had consumed a lot of oxygen because of the existence of bacteria, the oxygen concentration was only about 7%. Ordinary people would feel the lack of oxygen in the brain within a few minutes in such an environment. If they did not inhale oxygen immediately, they might even die from lack of oxygen.
It was reasonable to say that Nurhachi's Fuling had been closed underground for more than 1,000 years, and the oxygen concentration should be about 7%. But the oxygen concentration here was 20%.
Then there was only one explanation. This underground palace was not completely closed. In the past 1,000 years, there must have been other channels to communicate with the outside world, so that the air from the outside could enter the underground palace. That was why the underground palace could maintain a 20% oxygen concentration.
"Sure enough, it's just as I guessed!"
This discovery confirmed Guhan's guess. He took out a flashlight and shone it on the surrounding walls. He found that he should be in the tunnel of the underground palace.
The tunnel of the underground palace was extravagantly made of raw white marble. The price of each raw stone was enough for a family of three to live for 50 years at that time.
And on the white marble, there were all kinds of complicated images.
Because when Nurhachi's Fuling Mausoleum was built, the Qing Dynasty was not Chinese, so the images carved on both sides were not like those in other tombs of the Qing Dynasty, which were filled with cultural allusions and myths. Instead, they were carved with the magnificent life of Nurhachi and various mysterious prayer symbols of Shamanism.
There was nothing much to see about Shamanism, but the pictures used to describe Nurhaci's life were very beneficial to Gu Han. At least, they solved many controversial topics about Nurhaci in history. For example, a certain expert of Korean descent swore to God that Nurhaci was actually a Korean, and that the whole Qing Dynasty was founded by Koreans.
There were a total of five copper doors in the tunnel of the underground palace, each of which was three or four meters high and made of heavy wrought copper. Each copper door weighed more than dozens of tons.
It was reasonable to say that these copper doors in the underground palace should be closed, but when Guhan came here, he found that all the copper doors were open, which obviously confirmed Guhan's guess.
Holding a flashlight, Guhan continued to walk deeper into the underground palace. After walking for more than 100 meters, he finally left the tunnel of the underground palace and entered a huge palace in the underground palace.
This palace should be the palace where Nurhachi's coffin was placed, because at this time, a very gorgeous wooden coffin was placed in the center.
Beside the coffin was an antique coffin and a modern equipment that didn't match with the coffin. It was a medical pod that was still in operation and was constantly flashing green light. Once the medical pod started flashing green light, it meant that the patient in the medical pod had recovered and was now in a state of recovery. It wouldn't take long for the patient to crawl out of the medical pod.
This medical cabin was very familiar to Guhan. It was the medical cabin that Yaoguang used. He never thought that Yaoguang's medical cabin would be stored in the underground palace of Nurhachi's Fuling.
"I said that a guest has come to visit. Is the owner not going to come out to see me?"
Guhan saw Yaoguang's medical cabin, but he was not in a hurry to rescue Yaoguang. Instead, he shouted at the empty palace.
However, there seemed to be no owner here. No one answered Guhan's voice.
"Well, since the owner is not here, I, Guhan, don't mind being a robber. I'd like to see what kind of treasure is in Nurhachi's coffin!" Guhan snorted coldly. The Juzi Sword in his hand instantly spat out a sword aura that was a few meters long.
Guhan had no doubt that when the sword aura hit the coffin, the entire coffin would instantly be broken into pieces.
"Are kids nowadays so rude?"
Guhan's threat was effective. An old but dignified voice came from behind Guhan. Immediately, a middle-aged man in a yellow robe and crown, dressed like an emperor, appeared in front of Guhan.