The last thing he wanted was for the items to fall into Yue Qi's hands. But before they could join forces with others to pressure him, Yue Qi cleverly distributed the good stuff first.
Others might not know, but he and Sun Gui knew very well that the reason this monk Yuanhui agreed to go down into the tomb with them was simply for a treasure from Famen Temple.
The Nine-Refined Jade Sky Pagoda is one of the ten supreme treasures of Buddhism, and the only one whose whereabouts are known. For Famen Temple, this is something they absolutely must obtain, which is why they sent the monk Yuanhui to help them.
Before setting off, he, on behalf of the Sun family, had made an agreement with Famen Temple that they must not touch the Nine-Refined Jade Cloud Pagoda. Therefore, Monk Yuanhui could provide them with appropriate assistance.
But how did Yue Qi find out about this? And whether it was intentional or not, he returned the Nine Refined Jade Cloud Pagoda to Monk Yuanhui?
Although Sun Qiang doesn't show anything on the surface, a magnitude 10 earthquake has been raging inside him.
That's right, Yue Qi deliberately returned the components of the Nine Refined Jade Cloud Tower to Monk Yuanhui. After all, at this point, it's always good to have one less enemy.
Moreover, this is a supreme treasure of Buddhism, and even he wouldn't have the ability to embezzle it. He didn't want to risk incurring the wrath of Famen Temple.
Yan Qing also saw clearly that what flew into Monk Yuanhui's body was a small, open pagoda. Although it was only a short section, its power could already be seen from the white jade skeleton.
The moment the yellow light disappeared, all the white jade skeletons shattered, scattering bones all over the ground.
Miraculously, all the scattered bones were pointing towards the spot where Yue Qi was standing, as if they were worshipping something.
Yue Qi sighed. He knew, of course, that these white jade skeletons, even after more than two thousand years of death, still tenaciously guarded that part of the body. Such loyalty moved him deeply.
Even at this point, Sun Qiang still didn't intend to explain the origin of the body parts to everyone, but instead went back to the tomb robber's tunnel.
Who is Wen Jiajia? She has more than a dozen contracted monsters here. So, with a command, two flying monsters immediately took the lead and flew into the cave.
"You—!!" Sun Qiang immediately wanted to explode, but for some reason, he held back in the end.
Things went a little too smoothly this time. Before long, the two strange flying creatures flew back up and approached Wen Jiajia, chattering wildly.
Wen Jiajia nodded repeatedly, her face showing a look of astonishment.
Then she turned to Yue Qi and said directly, "My strange theory is that there's a stone pillar down there that looks exactly like the one in the Fiery Hell, with a bunch of strange symbols written on it. However, it seems that the pillar was forcibly smashed many years ago, which they find very strange. But it's perfectly safe down there."
Since Wen Jiajia has said so, the formation below must have been broken many years ago.
So Yan Qing had no more worries and she pulled Yue Qi directly into the cave to take a look.
The moment she went down, for some reason, she felt a deep sadness. But she couldn't quite put her finger on why.
The space below looked a bit larger than she had imagined; there was enough room for several people to stand.
As Lingxi mentioned before, the place where those white jade skeletons knelt in a circle had that broken stone pillar right in the center.
The stone pillar was severely cracked; the upper part was completely reduced to rubble, with only the lower base remaining.
By examining the writing on the base, Yue Qi was absolutely certain that this was the extremely vicious "Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse".
"Ignite your body... suppress your soul... life after life... eternally condemned to Yama..."
Yue Qi recited a spell from the bottom of the stone pillar to her, but Yan Qing couldn't bear to listen to more than a few words.
"Who on earth has such a deep hatred for this person?"
As she walked along, this "Azure Dragon Carrying a Coffin" tomb gave her a very discordant feeling, just like this dark room.
What power did these women, who were buried alive with the deceased, possess that made them risk their lives to guard the suppressed and cursed body parts here?
Yan Qing couldn't understand it, but she was deeply shocked.
In the dark chamber, all the skeletons of the funerary victims were in a prostrate, worshipful posture, with their heads facing the stone pillar.
In addition, she noticed that the closer she got to the stone pillar, the darker the blood color in the soil became.
The soil beneath the kneeling white jade skeleton, which was arranged in a circle, had turned a deep, indistinguishable black.
"They used their own flesh and blood to draw the power of the curse upon themselves, bit by bit. In this way, the sacrifice of a total of 108 people finally shattered the stone pillar inscribed with the 'Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse'."
Yue Qi's voice rang out softly, tinged with sadness.
"The owner of that body part must have been very important to them."
Yan Qing did not answer her. She glanced one last time at the interior of the dark room, bowed silently, and left with Yue Qi.
After emerging from the cave, the entire group became much quieter.
Besides the two people, one was the excited and overjoyed monk Yuanhui, who had just successfully subdued a fragment of the "Nine Refinements Jade Cloud Tower," bringing him one step closer to fulfilling his master's entrustment.
The other one was Wen Jiajia, who looked very curious.
She didn't follow Sun Qiang this time, because even a fool could see that Sun Qiang was in a terrible mood.
She simply released four or five contract monsters, surrounded by a retinue, looking quite impressive.
After emerging from the cave, the tomb passage seemed to have disappeared, turning into a winding, man-made path that became increasingly narrow, eventually forcing one to stoop and turn sideways to barely pass through.
As Yan Qing walked, she sensed something was wrong. According to the map, they should be continuing west, but the guidebook in her hand showed they were heading north.
Isn't this going the long way around instead of the easy way?
Especially at several intersections they had just passed, where there were clearly tomb passage entrances made of bluestone, these people actually chose to continue digging into the earthen tunnels.
Despite these thoughts, Yan Qing obediently followed the Sun family. After all, they were the professionals, and she shouldn't provoke them.
Finally, after everyone had climbed through a narrow crevice, they were all so exhausted they could barely lift their legs. Only then did they hear Sun Qiang's voice from ahead.
“Next, we’ll split into two teams—” he said, pointing to the two tomb passage entrances ahead.
"We must enter the two tomb passages ahead at the same time, otherwise we will all perish here."
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