3000 Years In The Meditation Phase! - Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Imperial Mausoleum

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

That night, the night before the Heaven Worship Ceremony began, Bai Qiuran walked to the Profound Heaven Imperial Mausoleum , which was a hundred miles away from the capital of the Profound Heaven Country.

This was the second breakthrough point he had chosen. Since he suspected that there was something fishy about the Heaven Worship Ceremony, and he could not find any clues from the organizer, he might as well directly go to the location and check if there were any problems.

After a simple inquiry, Bai Qiuran successfully asked about the location of the Imperial Mausoleum that everyone in the capital of the Profound Heaven Country knew about. Moreover, he rushed here that same night.

The imperial forest army was heavily guarded outside the Imperial Mausoleum of the Heavenly Profound Country. Thousands of troops guarded the Imperial Mausoleum layer by layer. However, this was clearly useless against Bai Qiuran. He did not even use any spells and only relied on the Breath Holding Technique and the lightness technique to easily pass through the eyes of the army and arrive at the Imperial Mausoleum of the Heavenly Profound Country without anyone noticing.

As the burial ground of the past kings of the Profound Heaven Country, the Imperial Mausoleum was naturally very imposing. In the Imperial Mausoleum guarded by the army, a wide stone path that could accommodate four carriages stretched from the entrance to the tomb. Two rows of tomb suppressing beasts were facing each other from both sides of the road. At the end of the path was the tall royal altar and the Imperial Mausoleum . The kings of the Profound Heaven Country were sleeping under the Imperial Mausoleum .

Bai Qiuran arrived at the Imperial Mausoleum . He first checked the location of the altar and the feng shui of the Imperial Mausoleum . Then, his divine sense directly probed the ground and began to pry into the tombs of the past kings of the Profound Heaven Country.

More than 3,000 years ago, when Bai Qiuran was born, just as the war between the Dao World and the demon race ended and the demon race returned to the wilderness, the Nine Continents and Ten Lands also abolished the old calendar and began to use the current Great Cang calendar.

He remembered that the Profound Heaven Country seemed to have been established in the 1800s of the Great Cang Calendar, which was when he was 1800 years old.

Because the Green Destiny Sword Sect was beside them, this country had lasted for very long. Up until now, it had already been about 1,200 years. The average lifespan of every emperor of the Upper Xuan Nation was about 50 years. In total, there should be 24 to 25 emperors now.

In this tomb, the burial positions of the Profound Heaven Emperors also went from deep to shallow according to time. In the early years, when the Profound Heaven Country was first established, there were also many emperors whose corpses were not collected after they died on the battlefield. Therefore, there was also a cenotaph in the tomb.

According to Bai Qiuran’s divine sense scan, there were a total of 18 corpses sleeping in this tomb. The other tombs were empty, and the items inside had long been destroyed by time.

After scanning the area twice, Bai Qiuran discovered something strange.

“This tomb is also empty?”

His divine sense landed in the tomb of the 16th Profound Heaven Emperor.

“That’s not right. There should at least be some relics in this tomb.”

In the 15th, 14th, and 13th Profound Heaven Emperor’s tomb before this tomb, the burial items that were buried with the corpses were still clearly preserved. But the 16th Emperor’s tomb was actually empty.

“I’ll go in and take a look.”

Bai Qiuran stomped his foot and directly entered the soil. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the tomb of the 16th emperor.

The tomb was empty. There was only a huge stone coffin that was filled with poisonous gas that had formed after being buried underground for years. However, this did not affect Bai Qiuran much. After arriving, he quickly walked towards the stone coffin and mercilessly reached out to open it.

Amidst crisp bangs, the rivets and mechanisms used to seal the stone coffin were directly shattered by Bai Qiuran’s huge force. The lid of the coffin flew up and pierced into the soil above the tomb.

Bai Qiuran waved his hand to sweep away the dust and looked into the stone coffin. Indeed, the coffin covered in yellow brocade was empty.

“Eh? This is?”

After taking a look, Bai Qiuran suddenly discovered some black marks on the yellow brocade. These black marks seemed to have originally been some kind of liquid but had now dried up. He dug some out and sniffed it.

“Human blood?”

Bai Qiuran’s expression became focused as he carefully looked at these black marks. Originally, when his divine sense swept past, because these marks had long lost their energy fluctuations, he thought that they were the dirt from the yellow brocade. However, now that he looked carefully, he discovered that these black marks were probably originally array formations formed by runes.

He compared the various array formations he had stored in his mind for the past 3,000 years one by one. Then, he used his true energy to try to engrave the original version again.

“As expected… the Blood God Sect’s Su Blood Formation.”

This kind of array formation was the most notorious array formation in the Blood God Sect. It was mainly used to match the Blood Coagulation Technique of the Blood God Sect. That Blood Coagulation Technique was a technique that could easily condense the blood of all the cultivators with lower cultivation levels to kill their opponents. It was very vicious. However, this move could also be used on themselves. They mainly used it to fake their own death, allowing them to escape.

This Su Blood Formation was used by those demon cultivators to revive all the blood in their bodies after pretending to be dead.

“In that case, it’s true that there are demon cultivators lurking in the Profound Heaven Country.”

Bai Qiuran clapped his hands and stood up, his eyes flickering.

“Or perhaps, the current emperor of the Profound Heaven Country is a demon cultivator who has cultivated the Blood God Sect’s cultivation technique. Since he wants to sacrifice boys and girls to the heavens, I wonder if he’s doing it to increase his strength or to extend his lifespan? No matter what, all of this should be revealed at the Heaven Worship Ceremony tomorrow.”

He walked around the stone coffin twice in the tomb and searched according to the clues that would be left behind by the Blood God Sect. Indeed, he found an array formation engraved by a demon cultivator with human blood directly below the altar.

The blood was still fresh. It seemed that this was set up by that demon cultivator not long ago. Bai Qiuran activated his Spirit Vision and could still see countless vengeful souls trapped in the human blood. They were struggling in pain, but they were restrained by the array formation and could not revive.

“Looks like this guy is responsible for the many deaths from the demon incidents in the Profound Heaven Country. He only dared to take advantage of the demons’ chaos. What a disgrace.”

Bai Qiuran looked at this scene and was somewhat furious. However, after living for 3,000 years, he could already control his temper very well.

“However, this arrangement is really crude. It makes me want to change it for him. Looks like he’s not the studious type. Perhaps he obtained an incomplete scroll.”

After taking a rough look, Bai Qiuran did not touch the arrangements of this demon cultivator and retreated from the tomb. Now that the demon cultivator was not around, it was useless even if he destroyed his arrangements. Instead, it might alert the enemy and cause more sacrifices.

It was not too late to save those vengeful souls after a while. Tomorrow was the Heaven Worship Ceremony. As one of the “members” of the 200 boys and girls, Bai Qiuran decided to prepare a surprise for that demon cultivator and let him have a good taste of being sacrificed.