Chapter Fourteen: Behind the Bronze Gate

  The open bronze gate had become Jiang Feng's only escape route, and the four pottery figurines were actually walking in his direction. Although they looked extremely clumsy, Jiang Feng did not dare to gamble with his own life. He gritted his teeth, lowered his head, and slipped into the bronze gate.

  Jiang Fengshui had planned to stay near the bronze gate for a while, but as a result, a long spear suddenly pierced in from outside, less than an inch away from Jiang Fengshui's nose.

  And at this time, the bronze gate also underwent a change, with black spear-like objects protruding from all sides, but they were much longer than spears.

  Jiang Feng's eyes widened in horror as he scrambled forward, no longer caring how many times he was bumped. If he didn't exert himself to crawl forward with all his might, the black spearhead-like objects that were stabbing out from behind would pierce his body like a sieve in an instant if he slowed down even slightly.

  Jiang Feng cursed as he crawled along the riverbank, and in this short day, he had already experienced several things that others might not encounter in a lifetime.

  He also didn't know if he had hit the jackpot or fallen into bad luck, but judging from the current situation, he thought it was the latter.

  Jiang Feng didn't know how long he had been crawling, until the sound of piercing through his heart stopped behind him. He then looked around, panting heavily, and found that he was still in the passage leading to the Bronze Gate, but there seemed to be a glimmer of light ahead.

  After resting for a while, Jiang Yunshui crawled towards the bright place. It turned out that this place was another exit. Jiang Yunshui directly crawled out and as a result he crawled too fast, almost falling off the cliff!

  After Jiang's cold sweat, he slowly lifted his head and looked at this strange place. It turned out that this was the real main tomb!

  What shocked Jiang Yunshui even more was that within this vast space, the stone walls everywhere were densely covered with glowing stones. These stones made this place no longer shrouded in darkness, but rather like being in a place where stars were densely packed. As Jiang Yunshui continued to look up, he saw an even more shocking scene.

  From the stone walls around this cliff, dozens of chains thicker than his own body stretched out into the air, and where these chains were connected was a piece of land that was pulled tight by the chains and suspended in mid-air. From Jiang's angle of view, he could see that on this not-so-small piece of land suspended in mid-air, there were some palaces and pavilions, and it seemed like there was even a city wall!

  Jiang Yunshui didn't know why he was trembling, he tried his best to calm himself down, but it was simply impossible. The scene before him was just too shocking, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, even if hundreds or thousands of people told him about it, he wouldn't have believed it.

  Ke Jiang felt that he was still shocked too early, and he moved his gaze from the ground above to the bottomless abyss below the cliff.

  Then he saw a huge abyss appearing before him, with a stairway leading down from the edge of the cliff. In this abyss, as far as his eyes could see, he saw coffins hanging in mid-air, made of different materials and styles, seemingly not from the same era.

  But what truly shocked him was yet to come, for now he could see that beneath the seemingly bottomless pit, on top of a tower-like structure, at each level there was placed a coffin. These coffins were extremely rare, as evidenced by the one placed atop the tower-like structure, which was a coffin with a color like green jade, surrounded by a layer of white mist.

  Jiang Fengshui leaned against the stone wall, standing there, he didn't know how to describe his current mood either, it's just that if he wasn't leaning against the wall, he was afraid he would sit down on the ground, or possibly fall into the abyss below.

  They searched again, and found the mark left by Jiang Yunshui, but not seeing him afterwards, they knew things had gone bad. This time, it's likely that big brother's only son has been implicated in this matter.

  Peng Tianyang fiercely turned his head to look at Pang San, and after being looked at by Peng Tianyang like that, Pang San was suddenly frightened and hastily turned his head, not daring to make eye contact with Peng Tianyang again.

  Peng Tianyang said to Cha Qianzong: "Second brother! I'll go now and kill that guy with one knife!"

  Cha Qian stopped Peng Tianyao and said, "Old Six, don't make trouble at this time. Pang San is with over a dozen people. If we lay hands on him now, what will those he invited think of our Haozi Camp? Are we going to slaughter them all? Everything should prioritize the bigger picture. Moreover, Shuiying may not necessarily die here. Since she passed through that demon wall, it means her fate and luck are strong enough. Maybe this kid is hiding somewhere right now. Let's search for him first."

  Peng Tianyang looked at Cha Qianzong and said: "Second brother, I found that you have changed a lot."

  "Old Six, your second brother will always be the one you know. I'm not letting you touch Pang San now, but that doesn't mean I won't touch him later. If nothing happens to the fetus, I'll just take one of his hands at most. But if something really happens to the fetus, even if it's Emperor Yong himself who comes, I'll make sure he can't get away with it!"

  Peng Tianyang looked into Cha Qianzong's eyes and asked: "Is this true, Second Brother?"

  Zha Qian patted Peng Tianying's shoulder and said: "Second brother keeps his word!"

  After getting the reply from Zhang Qian, Peng Tianying temporarily suppressed his intention to kill Pang San Ye. He raised the torch and continued to move forward.

  The people of Zhang Qian and Haoziying immediately followed, then Pang San let his men go first, and he continued to move forward. Pang San's adopted son Du Zhong is much better than when he escaped from here before. His face looks a bit gloomy under the light of the torches, and it seems a little different from the beginning, but no one will pay too much attention in this place, even Jin Douzi beside Du Zhong didn't look at him, now his heart is thinking about other things.

  Behind the group of people led by Pang San Ye, Zhou Fu Tong would leave some special marks every few steps forward, although he also noticed that the people invited by Pang San Ye were secretly leaving marks too, but he was too lazy to care.

  Zhou Futong used a torch to take a look at the wall of the Yongdao, stretched out his hand to touch it, and then put it under his nose to smell it. After rubbing his fingers, he continued to beckon the brothers of the Haoziying camp beside him to follow him forward.

  The person who accompanied the eldest brother into this tomb the most times back then was not the three of them now, but rather his second brother, Cha Qianzong. He had always been planted in the government office, coordinating with the fourth elder at that time to coordinate the relationship between the government and the Huoziying. Peng Tianyang, being a Fengshui master, would not have been allowed by the eldest brother to follow him into the tomb back then. Instead, he was responsible for helping the Huoziying come up with strategies. Among them were also the fifth elder, seventh elder, and eighth elder, who often accompanied the eldest brother in and out of various tombs.

  Lao Xiao was the youngest, so he was assigned by his elder brother to lead a group of people from Huoziying to collect various rumors and some geographical names and county annals.

  If it weren't for the big brother's incident back then, I wouldn't have ended up in a place like this several times by now. But since that time, Zhou Futong has been frequently coming and going from such places.

  He is more meticulous than anyone else. Every time he enters the tomb, he will carefully observe and summarize his own things.

  He had just discerned something from some characteristics on the wall of the tunnel, but this matter he found inconvenient to tell Zha Qian and others for the time being, and could only wait until the opportunity was ripe.

  After walking out for dozens of steps again, the path finally came to an end. The place in front also became spacious, enough to accommodate all these people.

  Zhou Futong caught up from behind and saw Cha Qian and others standing there, looking up at a stone tablet. The tablet was about two meters high, with a base of about seven feet around. Under the tablet was a carved, extremely ferocious-looking evil spirit!

  When Peng Tianyang greeted him, Zhou Futong quickly walked a few steps forward and looked at the words on the monument, his heart also tightened involuntarily.

  The characters on this tablet are pre-Qin script. Zhou Futong recognized the four characters on it, which read: Forever in the underworld!

  After learning the meaning of these four words from Zhou Futong, Cha Qian and Peng Tianyuan also felt a sense of tension in their hearts, as this was the first time they had encountered such a situation.

  When Pang San Ye and those people heard Zhou Fu Tong say out the meaning of the words on the stele without intentionally concealing it, the faces of more than a dozen people invited by Pang San Ye turned ashen.

  One of them said: "Brothers of Haoziying, let's leave."

  "Apparently you know something, why don't you say it out loud and let's hear it."

  That person hesitated for a moment before sighing and saying, "To be honest with you, Investigator Qian, back then the four of us brothers entered an ancient tomb and came across a stone tablet that was similar to this one, but it was much smaller. However, there was also something underneath it that looked like a fierce ghost. At the time, we didn't pay much attention to it, but later on, we encountered extremely dangerous situations, and in the end, only I managed to escape with my life, leaving behind this scar."

  He revealed the scar on his body, from the temple down to the chest and even lower. Everyone who saw it was taken aback, including Zha Qian and others.