Chapter 14:

Chapter 14: Willow Darkness and Blossoms

Anchored for thirteen years, another ancient books such as the Shangshu, Poetry, and Rites came out, and the world’s readers became more and more eager for that lost history.

In the fifteenth year of the Anchor, the Emperor was seriously ill. He wanted to seek the immortality elixir again to renew his life, so he sent his army of more than 100,000 people to excavate ancient tombs around, looking for traces of the elixir.

Although the courtiers had a lot of criticism, but there was no mass petition against it.

Unfortunately, the elixir was hard to find. Even though hundreds of tombs were excavated, no trace of it could be found.

At the end of the year, the emperor died with regret. Before his death, he passed on his throne to the King of Langya.

At this point, Li Fan finally took control of the world again.

Under Li Fan’s influence, the trend of visiting ancient tombs and searching for tombs became more and more prevalent.

In the 17th year of the Anchor, a hunter in the mountains was honored with the title of “Crown Prince” because he found an ancient tomb. Since then, the people of the world have become even more enthusiastic and crazy about the matter of visiting antiquities. No matter how remote the mountains and forests are, one can see groups of ancient visitors.

Time flowed and came to the twenty-third year of Anchoring.

Li Fan stood in the master’s mansion, looking at the summary of the clues obtained from the official and private visitors over the past few years.

Before this, there were only three thousand years of historical records in this world, totaling twenty-three dynasties.

And with the excavation of an ancient tomb, the previously lost history was gradually filled in.

Before these twenty-three dynasties, there were sixteen more dynasties, dating back to about six or seven thousand years ago.

And the earliest one that could be found was named Qi.

“Six or seven thousand years, it almost matches the Great Migration Era.” Li Fan secretly said.

With that, he began to order his men to focus on excavating the ancient tombs of the Qi Dynasty.

He even offered a reward to the world, and anyone who could find the ancient tombs of the Qi Dynasty would be granted a marquis.

As soon as the news came out, people all over the world rushed to tell each other.

Countless young people set out on the road to visit ancient times.

No matter how dusty the history is, it can’t withstand such a passionate excavation and search by people from all over the world.

Anchored for twenty-five years, the tomb of the first emperor of the Qi Dynasty, Yi Xing, was finally found.

Upon hearing the news, Li Fan led his inner circle to the scene in person and blocked off the perimeter.

Over the past decade or so, the technology of excavating ancient tombs in the Grand Xuan Dynasty had developed rapidly, summarizing an extremely effective scheme for opening tombs.

Even though the tomb of the first emperor of this realm was huge in scale and had countless mechanisms, with the efforts of the people from the Ancient Visitors Battalion, a passageway leading to the main chamber was chiseled through in just over a month.

After all obstacles were removed, Li Fan entered the interior of the tomb surrounded by the crowd.

The main tomb passage stretched for hundreds of meters, and the walls on both sides were filled with lifelike murals. Although thousands of years had passed, they were still clearly visible.

Li Fan paced slowly, looking over the murals along the way.

The murals were divided into several major parts.

In the first part, the main character of the painting, the first emperor of the Qi Dynasty, Yi Xing, was sitting on top of a mountain. Above the wispy white clouds, there were several immortal trails that seemed to be saying something to him.

In the second part, darkness representing calamity descends. The red color representing blood spills over the earth. Led by Yi Xing, the people who survived flew through the vast sea of clouds in one large ship-like tool after another, and after encountering countless ferocious dangers, they arrived at a vast plain. Since then, the people settled down here.

In the third part, Yi Xing, with the support of the people, made himself emperor and established the Qi Dynasty.

In the fourth part, there are all the trivial things that happened during Yi Xing’s reign.

……

After the murals were finished, Li Fan came to the main chamber.

The tomb space was forty to fifty meters high and thousands of meters in length and width. The top of the tomb seemed to be modeled after the layout of the stars, inlaid with thousands of night pearls.

Inside the tomb chamber, it was modeled after the layout of a certain mountain gate, with one mountain standing in a row, submerged in a sea of clouds.

This sea of clouds somehow generated, only fixed in the chamber, will not float around. Thousands of years had passed and it had not dissipated.

There were invisible paths connecting the various hills, and the people were all tutting and marveling as they walked along. “It really is an immortal’s means.” Li Fan said in his heart.

At the peak of the highest mountain was a simple grass hut, and the good land outside the hut was deserted.

It was only when the people walked in that they realized that the thatched grass of that grass hut was actually made of countless fine gold wires twisted together.

Obviously, this hut is the coffin of Yi Xing.

At Li Fan’s signal, the crowd opened the door of the grass hut first.

To everyone’s surprise, there were actually no remains of Yi Xing inside the house.

There was only a wooden tablet that stood quietly inside.

Written on the tablet were a few large golden characters, “Tomb of Yi Xing, Outer Disciple of the Taiyan Sect.”

Other than that, there was nothing else.

“It seems that although this person joined this sect called the Taiyan Sect, he was always just an outer disciple and failed to embark on the path to immortality. In the end, he was banished to this place by the Immortal Cultivators.”

“Before he died, he still couldn’t forget about his sect, and instead of being an emperor, he always referred to himself as an outer disciple of the Tai Yan Sect.”

“It’s just that according to Kou Hong’s previous statement, the world’s sects should have been dispersed in the great calamity before the Great Migration Era. Now, it seems that there should be another hidden agenda.”

Li Fan kept pondering in his mind.

“This Yi Xing should have been entrusted by the Immortal Cultivator of Tai Yan Sect to take charge of the Great Migration in this realm. It’s just that I don’t know if I can find the flying boat used for the migration in the first place this time.”

The search of the main chamber was fruitless, so Li Fan ordered the Visiting Ancient Battalion to excavate the perimeter, trying to find clues from the surrounding accompanying tombs.

A few days later, a bad news came that made Li Fan feel incomparably angry and helpless.

It turned out that the people of the Ancient Visitors Battalion had found a record of the words “flying boat” in the list of burial objects in one of the surrounding burial chambers. Unfortunately, this burial chamber was actually stolen early.

And according to the traces of destruction, the theft was also a thousand years ago.

“It’s like this again and again! Every time I see hope, yet it is ultimately as unattainable as a mirror!”

Li Fan very rarely lashed out, smashing several items around him.

The people around him were silenced.

After a long time, Li Fan was able to calm his complicated mind.

He still ordered the Ancient Visiting Battalion to excavate ancient tombs and look for traces of the Immortal Boat, but he himself returned to Xuanjing City, as if he did not have any hope for it.

So after another ten years, the time came to anchor thirty-five years, but things have taken a turn for the worse.

This day, Li Fan received an urgent report.

“Discovered the Immortal’s Tomb?” Li Fan was a bit stunned, then rejoiced and asked carefully.

It turned out that over the years, although Li Fan was somewhat disinterested, the folk’s enthusiasm for the matter of visiting the ancient world had not declined at all. Countless ancient tombs had been dug on the Great Xuan land.

And as those large ancient tombs were dug up, people began to turn their attention to those small ancient tombs that were previously unattended.

A few days ago, a group of young men were digging an inconspicuous tomb when they were suddenly injured by an inexplicable force, resulting in heavy deaths and injuries.

Those who survived immediately reported the incident to the officials.

One must know that in the decades that Da Xuan had been visiting the ancient world, even if there were deaths and injuries, they were basically injuries caused by organs. It was the first time that they encountered such a bizarre event before even opening the tomb.

The Ancient Visiting Battalion didn’t dare to slack off and sent people to investigate overnight.

Even though there were many experienced veterans and heavily armed soldiers, they could not shake this small tomb.

Shocked and delighted, the people hurriedly reported the matter to Li Fan.

Li Fan arrived on hearing the news, and after utilizing the Immortal and Mortal Miasma, he finally destroyed the nameless power surrounding the tomb.

Entering the tomb, amongst the array of burial objects, a small wooden boat was listed.

(End of chapter)