Chapter 1027 Bloodline Barrier
The chaotic sword energy struck the tomb door, stirring up billowing dust.
Ye Wanxi was standing close by and was forced to take two steps back by the dust that rushed towards her. After a moment, she realized what was happening and hurriedly looked up at the tomb door.
As the dust gradually settled, a massive stone gate hidden behind it was revealed.
The stone door that the group had expected shattered and opened wide did not materialize. The stone door, which fit perfectly into the wall, remained unharmed, standing between them and the tomb chamber.
Feng Tianyu's sword strike didn't leave a single mark on it, at most only gathering some dust.
Ye Wanxi: "..."
Jun Wuduan: "..."
Feng Tianyu: "..."
An awkward silence spread through the tomb passage until Jun Wuduan finally broke it with a light cough.
"This tomb door is too sturdy; it's impossible to open it like this." He then stepped forward and touched it a few times, as if trying to see what material the tomb door was made of.
In the end, we couldn't see anything and ended up with our hands covered in dust.
Jun Wuduan: "..."
Ye Wanxi ignored him and instead turned her gaze to Feng Tianyu: "Senior Brother, what were you doing just now?"
Feng Tianyu remained silent with a stern face, and Ye Wanxi did not urge him either, just quietly confronting him.
Jun Wuduan felt a headache coming on as he looked at the two of them. Unfortunately, there were only the three of them present, so he had no choice but to act as the peacemaker.
"The eldest brother just wanted to try to break the door open by force. Before we came, Xiao Jihui's men mentioned this door to us, and they tried many methods but couldn't open it."
"So, you want to try to force it open?" Ye Wanxi's face was ashen, and it was unclear whether she believed it or not.
"The archaeological team couldn't open the tomb door because they wanted to enter the tomb without damaging the integrity of the entire burial chamber or the contents inside. Therefore, even if they had a way to blast the door open, they wouldn't use it easily."
“We are different. We just want to get in. Besides, this place has been invaded by mutated plants and animals from the surrounding area. Even if we don’t take action, it probably won’t last long if we leave it here.”
Ye Wanxi chuckled lightly, then said meaningfully, "So, you admit that Senior Brother just tried to destroy this door?"
Jun Wuduan's eyelids twitched; he could clearly see that his junior sister was genuinely suspicious and that he couldn't be fooled anymore.
Ye Wanxi's gaze swept between the two of them, then she lowered her eyes imperceptibly and turned to look at the tomb door.
Although she wanted to unconditionally trust her senior brother, she wasn't stupid after all, and it was understandable that she wanted to break down the door and enter the tomb.
The eldest brother could have discussed it with her before taking action, instead of acting on his own and rushing to attack the tomb door.
This abrupt move seemed as if it were an attempt to cover something up.
Ye Wanxi instinctively felt that Feng Tianyu's actions were related to the "epitaph" left on the tomb door, but when she looked closely, her expression changed drastically.
"This is..." Ye Wanxi raised her hand to wipe the dust off the writing on the tomb door so she could see it more clearly, "Sect code?"
The so-called sect code language is the text used within a sect to transmit information, somewhat similar to a secret code that only members of the sect understand.
No wonder Xiao Jihui said that the senior scholars who discovered the inscriptions on the tomb door had a knowledge base far exceeding that of ordinary people, yet they were unable to decipher the inscriptions.
Even the discovery that these texts mentioned her was just an unexpected delight, found while casually flipping through an ancient book.
These words, which would be quite obscure and difficult for others to understand, were pieced together by Ye Wanxi after just one glance.
[In the tenth month of the Xin Chou year, my beloved disciple Ye Wanxi passed away, and I was deeply grieved. The following year, I used the sect's most precious treasure, the Ni Compass, to divine her fate and learned that she still had a sliver of hope and would soon enter reincarnation. Therefore, I have specially left a gift for my beloved disciple at the mausoleum of Emperor Jun Wuxie, the founding emperor of the Yong Dynasty. To prevent others from claiming it fraudulently, I have set up a bloodline barrier outside this gate. Anyone who enters without permission will die!]
Ye Wanxi's fingertips trembled slightly, and her eyes reddened slightly. The inscription on the tomb door was actually a reminder left to her by her master!
Come to think of it, generally speaking, epitaphs are usually engraved on the back of the tombstone. Who would have an epitaph engraved on the door of their own mausoleum?
The person who made the rubbings didn't know the meaning of the words, which is why they mistakenly took the text as an epitaph.
“How could Master…” Ye Wanxi stroked the words “great grief”, as if she could feel the shock and heartache that her death had brought to her master from those two words.
Before Jun Wuduan and his companion arrived, they had already guessed that this place was likely related to their master, but when they actually saw the inscription on the tombstone, they couldn't help but be somewhat surprised.
"I never expected that Master would actually leave something behind."
Feng Tianyu tensed up when he heard him say that. He stared at the words on the tomb door, unable to understand why his master would leave these things behind.
In his view, these things should have been completely sealed away thousands of years ago with the death of his junior sister, and everything related to what happened back then should be destroyed, so that some secrets would remain secrets forever.
Although Ye Wanxi's attention was focused on the tomb door, she didn't miss Jun Wuduan's mutterings. She suddenly turned her head and asked sharply, "What? You actually left something behind? You were hiding something from me!"
Jun suddenly choked and remained silent.
A sudden thought flashed through Ye Wanxi's mind, and her gaze fell once again on the lines of text on the tomb door: "Yong Dynasty? What Yong Dynasty did we have back then? And this ancestral emperor, does he mean the founding emperor? His surname was Jun?"
Ye Wanxi paused, and her gaze toward her third senior brother suddenly became somewhat subtle.
Didn't Third Senior Brother like Senior Sister Qi Yao? If this founding emperor really...
Thinking back to the coffins she had seen in the concubines' burial chamber, Ye Wanxi's heart skipped a beat.
If that's really the case, let alone in her past life, even in this life, Senior Sister Qi Yao probably wouldn't be able to accept Third Senior Brother.
As soon as Jun Wuduan received Ye Wanxi's gaze, he knew what she was thinking. His eyelids twitched, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It wasn't me. I have no interest in being the emperor."
"Not you?" Ye Wanxi couldn't tell if she was mostly relieved or disappointed. "Then the person in this tomb..."
Jun Wuduan coughed lightly, stopping the conversation: "Let's wait until we go inside to talk about it."
Ye Wanxi glanced at him suspiciously, then didn't press further: "Master set up a bloodline barrier around this tomb to prevent anyone from accidentally wandering in. Since that's the case..."
Ye Wanxi took out a dagger from her storage space and raised her hand to slash at her palm.
Feng Tianyu, who had been standing silently to the side, narrowed his eyes and subconsciously grabbed Ye Wanxi's wrist to stop her from making a move.
"Big Brother?"
Feng Tianyu stared at her for a long while, then said in a hoarse voice, "Don't draw."
(End of this chapter)
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