The Weirdo lying on the ground lifted his head to look at Xuexue and said, "That’s right, the real Imperial Mausoleum is right here. On the day of the funeral, what everyone saw was a fake Imperial Mausoleum."
Xuexue froze for a moment—whether in her past life or this one, she had never heard of such a thing—so she asked, "Senior, what on earth is going on?"
A fake Imperial Mausoleum, and they still made such a grand show of the funeral—who was the Emperor putting on that act for!
The Weirdo lay prone on the ground, speaking slowly and evenly: "Of course you don’t know. This is a secret within the Imperial Family. An ancestor of the Imperial Family—no one even remembers which generation—was terrified that after he died, someone would dig up his grave, leaving him restless even in death. So he came up with this clever scheme: the tombs that are buried out in the open are all fake, with fake corpses. It’s all to throw people off the scent, so the real remains can rest in peace."
So that’s how it is. Xuexue suddenly saw the light.
The Weirdo said to Xuexue and the Elder, "Come with me, both of you."
With that, his body sprang up from the ground in one motion and came to a large boulder. No one knew what he pressed or bumped into, but the big stone beside him rumbled open, revealing a pitch-black hole...
Xuexue took a Luminous Pearl from her bosom—she’d taken this one from Long Rui’s study. Don’t look down on its size; the moment she brought it out, the ten meters around them were lit up brilliantly.
Relying on the Luminous Pearl, they slowly walked into the Imperial Mausoleum. At first the passage was very narrow, but after they walked a while, it gradually widened.
The Imperial Mausoleum was enormous. As the Weirdo crawled deeper inside, he explained as he went.
It turned out that the Late Emperor’s own predecessor, in order to keep the secret of the Imperial Mausoleum from leaking out, had all the servants who participated in its construction put to death.
Come to think of it, it was quite ironic. These builders of the Imperial Mausoleum were locked by the Late Emperor into the very tomb they constructed and left to starve and die of thirst.
Xuexue felt the hair on her body stand on end. The Emperor’s heart was vicious beyond ordinary measure. Those people risked their lives for him, and in the end he still had them killed—truly tragic.
They walked and talked, and suddenly the space ahead grew bright and open. When they entered, they saw it was a great hall. On the wall of the hall sat a Luminous Pearl, illuminating the surroundings so that everything was clearly visible.
In the center of the hall, a large crimson coffin was strikingly eye-catching, as if it had just been placed there not long ago; there wasn’t a speck of dust on it.
Around the coffin were arranged several small coffins. Unlike the Empress Dowager’s coffin, which gleamed scarlet, these were black, giving off a faintly eerie air.
Most likely they were part of the Royal Family’s "refined" traditions—using living people as burial companions and such.
Seeing this, the Weirdo’s previously calm expression twisted into something ferocious. His body moved, and in a single leap he flew over.
"Bang!"
"Crack!"
The large red coffin took a heavy blow from him, bounced a few times, then fell back down. The sound of impact was deafening, yet the coffin remained unscathed; clearly its material was of excellent quality.
"Tch, even after dying that Old Devout Woman still gets to sleep in such a fine coffin!" The Weirdo slammed his body against the coffin a few more times in anger. He grew even more furious and struck it several more times.
"Bang, bang...!"
The coffin was still completely unharmed.
The Elder strode over and said, "Master, please step aside and rest for a while. Leave that Old Witch’s coffin to your subordinate."
"Very well."
Perhaps out of habit from always being above others, the Weirdo gave a light leap and landed atop a nearby pillar. From his perch he looked down, wanting to see how the Elder would manage to open the coffin.
Even after exhausting all his strength just now, he had been unable to pry it open.
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