Chapter 12: The Imperial Mausoleum

Through the long shrine, the stone steps also extended upwards one by one. Next, you will see statues of civil and military officials on both sides. In addition to civil and military officials holding jade gui, there are also military officials carrying chariots and horses. Each one is also five or six meters high and is carved vividly.

Fang Ling walked while judging the direction and finally determined that the tomb was actually at the bottom of the North Mountain. The cave was probably not completely natural. Some of them were probably formed after manual hollowing out, which shows how much manpower and material resources it took to be built at that time. Emperor Xiaowu was able to do without knowing it, which shows how hidden it was and how cruel it was.

Because behind these stone statues, Fang Ling suddenly discovered a bunch of white bones. These should be the labor of the year, and they were killed here in order not to reveal their secrets.

Walking up the last stone staircase, a nine-level archway with five doors and six pillars appeared in front of it. It was majestic. When you pass through the archway, you can see a long white jade bridge.

The White Jade Bridge just passed through an unfathomable abyss of heaven, and at the front was a huge palace, where the sleeping tomb of Emperor Xiaowu.

The entire palace was chiseled along the tall stone walls, made of huge stone strips, which were airtight. The entrance was the ten-meter-high gate of the carved dragon mausoleum.

However, the entire palace is not complete. In a corner to the north, there is still a part that has not been built, leaving a hole so that people can clearly see the corridor inside.

Fang Ling guessed that it might be the sudden death of Emperor Xiaowu that the imperial tomb was not built and improved, but in this way, he could easily enter the imperial tomb.

As Fang Ling just walked across the bridge, he suddenly heard a low howl, and then a black bat flew over from above.

Fang Ling subconsciously looked up and couldn't help but feel his heart sank, because he suddenly saw a ferocious beast as big as an adult tiger!

The ferocious beast had a ferocious face, his eyes were like copper bells, his pupils were golden and shiny, and his forehead had two feet long, dark and flat horns as long as a blade. It had few hair on its body, and its muscles seemed to be carved. Each piece contained explosive power. Starting from the neck, red lines extended, which was very strange.

What's even more strange is that the four claws of this thing are like hooks, and they can actually hook deeply on the stone wall.

At this time, a bunch of bats bite from its mouth, which screamed and then was swallowed into its stomach.

Fang Ling couldn't help but feel a little scared. What kind of wild beast is this? It is unheard of. Not only is it hidden behind the imperial tomb at the bottom of the lake, but it can also climb up a stone wall hundreds of feet high like a gecko to eat bats to make a living.

Just as he was thinking about it, the ferocious beast had already jumped down and rushed towards Fang Ling.

Fang Ling was not good at secretly, so he quickly jumped forward. When he turned around, the ferocious beast had already landed steadily on the Baiyu Bridge, blocking his way, then roared and spit out a ball of red liquid.

Fang Ling hurriedly dodged, and saw that the liquid fell on the stone gate and corroded a big hole.

Fang Ling took a deep breath again, but he couldn't think about it anymore, because the ferocious beast had already shot over.

Fang Ling was not the one who surrendered. Seeing that this guy was fierce, he seemed a little clumsy. He sideways to avoid its attack. When he passed by, he punched it hard.

However, this punch that had enough strength only made the ferocious beast stop. It turned around and bit Fang Ling.

Fang Ling quickly retreated back, and at the same time felt that he had to use the magic skills, otherwise he would not be able to beat this thing.

Fang Ling took a deep breath and quickly accumulated sun fire power on his arms. Although the ferocious beast was strong, it was a wild beast after all. When it rushed over, Fang Ling avoided it and then punched it hard.

The punch hit the ferocious beast hard and roared angrily. At the same time, with one claw and digging, two long blood marks were immediately left on Fang Ling's arm.

Seeing that the boxing power was effective, Fang Ling was immediately overjoyed. One man and one beast were fighting in front of the stone gate. You punched and me and clawed, and the corroded mucus was constantly spitting out.

During the battle, Fang Ling gradually realized the wonderful use of using fire power, and even activated the ice power intermittently. The fire power was hot, and the ice power was cold. The two forces could not be integrated into one, but the Sun and Moon Resolving technique allowed it to be exerted as it pleased.

The ferocious beast is indeed powerful, with sharp claws and sharp horns. The thick stone door could not withstand a stroke. A deep hole immediately appeared, as if it was cut on tofu, and the mucus had a corrosive effect.

Fortunately, Fang Ling has never been lazy in practicing martial arts for more than ten years. He is as quick as lightning. He seizes the opportunity and punches and punches hard on the ferocious beast. During the battle, deep marks are inevitably drawn on his body.

In the midst of the fierce battle, the ferocious beast suddenly pounced on Fang Ling to the ground. Fang Ling didn't push it away. In desperation, he simply bit it on its neck.

Suddenly, boiling beast blood poured into Fang Ling's mouth. The ferocious beast was so painful that it was digging hard on the ground. However, Fang Ling was lying on his belly and could not digging no matter how hard it was. He even drank the beast blood in big mouthfuls.

In the end, the ferocious beast collapsed to the ground due to excessive blood loss and soon lost its breath.

Fang Ling then breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the beast blood had entered his body, it was extremely hot and was entangled with the Sun Fire Power. His stomach was like fire burning, but he felt that the fire power was constantly absorbing the beast blood. I don’t know how long it took, the beast blood disappeared, and there was a scarlet color in the color of the Sun Fire Power.

Fang Ling got up and saw the flat horns of the ferocious beast. He felt that it was a pity to throw it here. This thing is probably harder than an ordinary knife. It was actually such a thick stone door cut open like tofu. If it could be used as a weapon, wouldn't it be great?

He picked up the dagger and dug out the two-foot-long flat corners. The part in his head could be used as a hilt, holding it in his hand like a scimitar, and there were mottled patterns on the corners, which looked quite scented.

Fang Ling took a deep breath, took a flat-angled knife and drilled into the underground palace and mausoleum from the small hole on the side of the stone gate. As soon as he entered the corridor, he saw the pile of white corpses. He sighed inwardly, cleared the corpses to both sides, and then walked forward.

After passing through the long corridor, we saw the mausoleum dormitory and the ear chambers on both sides. There were huge deep pits dug in the ear chambers on both sides. One was filled with palace maids and the like, and there were many slaughtered horses, while the other was filled with clay pots and furniture and other daily necessities.

When he opened the door of the main room, Fang Ling couldn't help but gasp, and suddenly there was a golden light inside, pearl agate, golden jade, piled up like mountains, surrounding the main room in a circular shape.

In the main room, there are nine coffins, and a five-clawed golden dragon in the center is carved on the outside. With a thick golden coffin, it can be seen that inside is probably the bones of Emperor Xiaowu, and the eight surroundings should be the burial concubines and the like.

Fang Ling walked around inside and accidentally found an underground entrance. He opened it and found that there was a hidden space of the same size under the main room. It was filled with various jewelry, which was more than ten times more than the one in the main room.

Fang Ling picked up a pearl the size of a pigeon egg and looked at it again and again. He could no longer suppress the pleasure in his heart and laughed wildly. God really had eyes, and he actually found the imperial tomb of the late king of the Song Dynasty. It is said that Emperor Xiaowu is greedy for making money, but he did not expect to make himself better in the end. Now he is really rich enough to rival a country. With these treasures, no matter which barren fiefdom he is sent to, he can develop.

Just as he was thinking, his eyes suddenly lit up and saw a bronze medicine cauldron lying among the jewelry.

I don't know what era this medicine cauldron is, but it looks very simple, thirty or forty centimeters tall, with four legs and two ears, and is carved with strange patterns throughout the body, and a secluded eye is carved on the cover of the cauldron.

Fang Ling didn't think about why this medicine cauldron was put together with many jewelry, but he was really relieved, because no matter what age he was, he had been lying here for three hundred years, which fully met the requirements of alchemy.

After leaving the imperial tomb, Fang Ling returned along the original path. With the power of the Qi-accumulating Realm, when he returned to the deep waterway, he realized that there was a mechanism there, which could open the iron plate with just one pull, without much effort.

After coming out from the bottom of the lake, Fang Ling returned to the woods. In the sun, he had more than 20 wounds on his body, all of which were hooked out by the claws of the ferocious beast. Fortunately, he avoided it in time every time, and only hurt his flesh.

Because it was not convenient to enter the palace with the medicine cauldron, Fang Ling went to the rented place first. After talking to Chen Mou about making honey pills a few days ago, Chen Mou had already started to rent a house in two places, hired two batches of small workers to process half of the medicinal materials, and then transported them here for final processing. No one knows what the specific prescription is.

Fang Ling praised him for his careful and considerate thinking. He waited until nightfall and returned to the palace. He did not go back to Binghua Palace directly, but found Dong Canghai first.

After telling Dong Canghai when he was about to discover the tomb, Dong Canghai didn't close his mouth for a long time.

Fang Ling seriously told him to start looking for a few confidants and wait for the right time to salvage the treasures, so that he would take them to the fiefdom together when he left the imperial city.

Dong Canghai naturally agreed with this suggestion very much, and he has also collected a few confidants in the palace over the years, so there is no problem with his manpower.
Chapter completed!