Once inside, Yan Qing realized that this place was different from the previous small hells.
The most obvious thing is that although a complete stone gate was built here, it was placed haphazardly at the entrance of the tomb passage, crooked and half of its body was even integrated into the soil and ice underground.
What's going on now? Yan Qing looked at Yue Qi with a suspicious expression.
"Does this kind of thing happen in tombs? Leaving the perfectly good gate unused and just throwing it on the ground?"
Yue Qi was currently examining the window lattice on the door frame, and the carvings on it gave him a very familiar feeling.
The carvings on the window frames were not auspicious creatures such as dragons and phoenixes commonly found in tombs, nor were they mythical beasts guarding the tomb and protecting the house. Instead, they were a bunch of strange talismans that were incomprehensible.
This talisman was extremely familiar not only to Yue Qi but also to Yan Qing. —For no other reason than that they had already seen it three times.
"The Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse!" Yue Qi said with absolute certainty. "However, this is the first time someone has inscribed the Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse on the door and window frames of a tomb. Yan Qing, go and take a look over there—"
He pointed to the massive stone gate lying not far away, "Take a look and see if there are the same talismans on it?"
Yan Qing went over to take a look, and Yue Qi guessed correctly. The inside of the door was covered with talismans that covered the entire door!
Judging from the handwriting, it is indeed the Nine Deaths Suppressing Soul Curse.
However, many of the talismans on the tomb door had been scratched off with sharp tools, and the writing on them was so faded and illegible that it could not be connected at all.
Upon closer inspection, although the tomb door appeared to be a single, intact structure, its interior was actually completely shattered. It was only thanks to the solid ice that it remained intact.
Yue Qi pondered for a moment, "That's strange. It seems that the tomb door, along with the entire tomb chamber, should be a huge suppression site, similar in function to the stone platform we saw. But I wonder why it was broken?"
As he spoke, his gaze was fixed on the direction of the Sun family.
Sun Qiang wasn't deaf; naturally, he had already heard it. He shrugged, feigning ignorance, and said innocently,
"Don't ask me! I really don't know! Judging from the damage to the writing, it's at least a thousand years old. I didn't even know where it was back then! But—"
He suddenly changed the subject and laughed, "Although I don't know who broke the curse of this Northern Cold Hell, the fact that they're sitting here has actually done us a great favor, hasn't it?"
He smiled and looked at everyone, "If that's the case, why should we bother to find out who broke it?"
Sun Qiang's words made perfect sense, and no one could find a way to object to them.
"Amitabha, since that's the case, then this humble monk will go in directly." Monk Yuanhui, eager for the sect's sacred artifact, uttered a Buddhist chant and went inside.
Wen Jiajia immediately followed her inside.
Watching the two figures disappear, Sun Qiang looked at Yan Qing and the other woman, and said with a smile,
"In that case, we'll go in first. Please make yourselves at home."
Yan Qing didn't move, quietly watching them walk in one after another. Mu Xiao, however, didn't go in either, but walked directly to the two of them.
"Gentlemen, what are your plans for the future?"
Yan Qing shook her head. "I don't know either, but we still have to go in eventually. By the way, Mu Xiao, why are you staying here too?"
Mu Xiao smiled weakly, almost making her dizzy. "I'm just a henchman, here for the Wood Essence Pill. I don't intend to risk my life for anyone else, so naturally, I'll do whatever's safest. Besides, my previous injuries were quite severe—cough cough cough—"
It seems that this Mu Xiao, who doesn't show off, is actually quite shrewd. Yan Qing now admires him a little.
That's true. In this post-apocalyptic world full of strange tales, survival is the top priority.
However, she had a vague premonition that the body parts wrapped in the cloud-grass cloth were very important to them, and that she should keep them in her own hands.
"Lingxi, go in and check for me." Yan Qing secretly transmitted her voice to Lingxi, instructing her to follow behind those people invisibly.
Lingxi obediently agreed and then disappeared.
Yan Qing turned to look at Yue Qi and found that he had somehow started talking quite animatedly with Mu Xiao. This puzzled her, since the two of them weren't familiar with each other.
Just to be on the safe side, she didn't interrupt their conversation.
Lingxi returned shortly after and reported to her, "Master, you should go in. There's no danger inside; everyone's digging for things."
"Digging for something?" What the heck is that?
Yue Qi had warned her before that the Northern Cold Hell was very dangerous, which was why they hadn't gone in yet.
But these people were just digging for something?
"Are you sure there's no danger inside? And what are they digging for?"
Lingxi nodded heavily. "I'm sure. Inside, besides a huge frozen lake, there are only bare mountain walls. I've seen it; there's definitely nothing there!"
"As for digging, everyone is digging for a kind of white crystal by the frozen lake. According to Monk Yuanhui, this thing is called a Spirit Pearl, which is automatically formed when the natural spiritual energy between heaven and earth is particularly concentrated. For people with superpowers, it is comparable to the Five Elements Yuan Dan!"
"A Spirit Pearl?!"
Upon seeing this, Mu Xiao's eyes widened in shock. He even forgot about chatting with Yue Qi.
"I'm sorry, the Spirit Pearl is indeed very important to me, so I'll go in first."
Watching Mu Xiao rush off, Yue Qi and Yan Qing exchanged a glance and sighed in unison.
"It seems we have no choice but to go."
When Yan Qing went in, the group had already been digging for quite a while, and it seemed that everyone had a good harvest.
The monk Yuanhui even waved to them, saying, "You two are really too slow, leaving such good things out without coming in. Your level of understanding is probably even lower than mine as a monk!"
Yue Qi also pulled her to the lakeside, where it was much warmer than outside, and the surrounding mountain walls were only covered with a thin layer of white.
Conversely, the closer one gets to the lakeshore, the more the temperature drops by more than ten degrees. As for the frozen lake itself, judging from the thick, bottomless layer of ice, the temperature is self-evident.
If a person falls down, it must be incredibly painful.
Yan Qing also approached the lakeside and saw Yue Qi staring intently at the white crystals in the lake. Curious, she pointed to one of the round, white crystals and asked,
"Is this the Spirit Pearl? It looks quite ordinary." Forgive her, but she really couldn't sense even a trace of spiritual energy. Why were people so confident?
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