Chapter 173 – The Mysterious Mausoleum
Chapter 173 – The Mysterious Mausoleum
The wall was originally painted with a snake with four wings on its back, and at some point, the painted snake opened its eyes.
Xu Chuniang felt a chill, as if she was being stared at by something.
She withdrew her gaze, ignoring the feeling of discomfort, and walked down the steps.
After walking along the steps for about half a quarter of an hour, she entered a stone room and was suddenly enlightened.
The walls of the stone room were no longer filled with those bizarre black lines, but were instead painted with murals.
Xu Chuniang raised her eyes and looked, this one mural had gone through many years, filled with mottled traces left behind by the years, only barely able to recognize what was painted on it.
She approached the stone wall and examined the murals in detail.
After reading all the murals, Xu Chuniang realized that what was shown in the murals was the life of a female ruler.
This female ruler was born in the midst of a chaotic world, and spent her entire life fighting for the stability of the gods of earth and grain in all directions, and when she finally pacified the rebellion, she passed away due to an attack of her injuries.
When she died, she was not yet thirty years old, and the nation mourned and mourned for three years.
Xu Chuniang pondered, could it be that the place she was in was not some underground palace, but the mausoleum of this female ruler?
She recalled the construction of the entire building, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt it was possible.
If this underground palace was a mausoleum, then the burial place of the female monarch was probably in the chamber next to this stone room.
It was just that she didn’t know what those black lines, and the many puppets at the ninth level of qi cultivation, had to do with this female ruler.
In the female ruler’s life, there were no cultivators, although she was the king of a country, she was only a mortal, so it was reasonable to say that she could not be related to these things in the Immortal Cultivation World.
But right now, it didn’t seem that simple.
Xu Chuniang shook her head and walked towards the front, all of this must be known only after arriving at the burial chamber.
Without much effort, she found the entrance to the burial chamber.
The stone door of the entrance to the chamber was carved with black lines, and there were even some bizarre runes.
Xu Chuniang frowned, she didn’t understand sorcery and didn’t know what these runes were for, but intuitively, it didn’t feel like something good.
“With a click, she pushed open the stone door and walked into the chamber.
Before she had time to scan the scene in the chamber, a sword light swept straight towards where she was standing.
Xu Chuniang’s complexion changed slightly, and without hesitation, she used her Spiritual Void Steps to retreat backward, avoiding the sword light.
The second, third, and fourth sword lights followed, and along with these sword lights rising and falling, four heavy figures, walked out of the stone door.
They were clad in armor and moved neatly, they were clearly four puppets.
Xu Chuniang narrowly avoided the three sword lights behind her, beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, these four puppets, each of them had an early stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.
The puppets relied on instinct to fight, possessing the characteristics of high defense, slow movement speed, and lack of flexibility.
Although the combat strength of the puppets was no match for cultivators of the same rank, the four early stage Foundation Establishment puppets were simply not something that the current Xu Chuniang could resolve.
With her current strength, she could at most deal with one early Foundation Establishment puppet.
After discovering Xu Chuniang, the intruder, these puppets chased after her, constantly waving the huge swords in their hands and attacking towards her in an attempt to kill the intruder.
Under the pursuit of the four early stage Foundation Establishment puppets, Xu Chuniang was in a sorry state.
Although they could only rely on their instincts to fight, and their attack speeds weren’t fast, the cultivation crushing was real, and she could only rely on her speed advantage to dodge these sword lights.
To draw an analogy, Xu Chuniang was like a nimble mouse, while the four early Foundation Establishment puppets were like four big cats with clumsy movements.
Although the big cats were slow, the mouse would have its skin split open just by taking a claw from the big cats. At this rate it wouldn’t take long for the rat to be completely slapped to death by the big cats.
Xu Chuniang frowned slightly and ran towards the direction she came from, but when she ran to the steps, she realized that it was actually blocked by a boulder.
It would take time to break the boulder open, or at least Xu Chuniang didn’t have the time to break it open when she was being chased by four early stage Foundation Establishment puppets at the same time.
The Foundation Establishment puppets held huge swords with full force, if she was slapped by the sword in its hand, she didn’t know how many bones would be broken, she couldn’t stop.
Xu Chuniang had no choice but to lead the four puppets in circles in the middle of the stone room while thinking hard about her strategy.
There was only one weakness in the puppet, and that was where its central mechanism was located.
After destroying the puppet’s center mechanism, even if it had a higher level of cultivation, it wouldn’t be able to exert the slightest bit.
However, the location of the puppet’s center mechanism was only known to the puppet master who made the puppet, and it was difficult for others to find its exact location.
Xu Chuniang recalled the location of the center mechanism of the other puppets she encountered along the way, most of them were between the waist and abdomen, and some were in the legs.
The four Foundation Establishment puppets in front of her and those Qi Practicing Stage puppets she had encountered earlier were most likely from one person.
Then would the center mechanism of the four puppets in front of her be the same between the waist and abdomen or in the legs?
Whether it was or not, one try would tell!
She took out her white pole spear, fully utilized her Spirit Void Steps, and turned back to stab towards the closest puppet.
As if the puppet didn’t see the white pole gun that was about to fall on it, it swung its huge sword unhurriedly and slapped towards Xu Chuniang.
In their world, even if they were to be pulverized, they must carry out orders and kill the intruder.
Xu Chuniang’s face changed slightly, sliding to the left to dodge the blow, the tip of the gun grazing the puppet’s waist.
The puppet was originally a dead thing, able to harden against all attacks, but she didn’t dare to harden against this blow.
After such a delay, the three puppets behind her that were a little farther away chased after her and kept swinging their swords down.
She had no choice but to avoid the front line for the time being, dodging while looking for another opportunity to strike.
Finally, after circling around in two big circles and distancing herself enough from these puppets, Xu Chuniang found an opportunity.
She poured her spiritual energy into the white pole spear and threw it fiercely towards one of the puppets.
The white pole spear came out of her hand and stabbed at the puppet’s left waist like a stringed arrow, penetrating into it fiercely and sticking into its waist.
After being hit by the white pole gun, it suddenly did not move, and its right hand, which was holding up the huge sword, hung down powerlessly.
Xu Chuniang couldn’t help but feel her heart racing, this attempt actually succeeded!
She retrieved the White Rod Gun and continued to dodge the attacks of the other three puppets, looking for a new opportunity to strike.
The three puppets were chasing her very closely, and she finally struck again, sparing her body to take a sword light.
After the White Rod Gun was released, it stabbed into the waist of one of the puppets with great speed.
It was just that after this puppet was struck, it looked as if nothing had happened. Obviously its center mechanism was not between its waist and abdomen.
Xu Chuniang was not discouraged, in fact, when dealing with the first puppet, being able to hit it with a single blow was already extremely lucky.
As long as she was able to maintain this speed and not get smashed by the giant sword, she would be able to slowly find the pivotal opportunity of these puppets and break them one by one.
She retrieved her White Rod Gun and calmly dodged the sword light and the attacks of the giant swords.
Puppets were just puppets after all, even if they possessed strong cultivation, it was difficult for them to exert a strength comparable to that of a cultivator.
(End of chapter)