Chapter 28: Two-Faced Ancients

Chapter 28: Two-Faced Ancients

TN Note: I made a boo boo last chapter. Ba Ye is still chillin at the top of the tower at the start of this chapter.

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Qi Tiezui looked at the valley in the distance. After examining the rolling land, he found that the valley had very good feng shui. There was a stream at the bottom of the valley, terraced fields on the mountains near the Dong village, and virgin forests far off in the distance.

To his surprise, there were irregular dirt mounds every ten miles in the flat parts of the valley. Although they werent very high, it looked very unnatural. People familiar with this kind of thing would immediately know that these mounds were used to cover up graves.

And if there really was an ancient tomb under these protruding mounds, then that meant there had to be a cluster of graves here.

There had been a lot of ethnic minority kingdoms here in Xiangxi in the past, and it had been said that the ancient kingdom of Yelang in the Han Dynasty was also nearby. The funeral habits of these minorities werent like the Hans in the Central Plains. In fact, it was illogical to have such a large-scale dense entombment.

If it really was a tomb, then who was buried under it? Most large-scale joint burials were usually found in the tombs of Han kings, or the family tombs of important imperial officials. Here, all the previous dynasties were led by a chief who ruled over the Western Yi lands. No matter how good the feng shui was, no one should have dared set up a graveyard here.

There was only one possibilitythis cluster of earth mounds was a group of empty graves meant to hide a really big tomb.

It was no wonder the Huo family held onto this territory with an iron fist. They had been operating here for a long time, and may have discovered these empty graves early on. They had probably been looking for the real location of the big tomb that these fake mounds were protecting.

He climbed back down the tower and talked it over with Zhang Qishan, who nodded and said: "Leaving aside this matter for the time being, whats going on with this major event thats not good? Dont mince your words, fortune teller. Ill really use my familys methods to get it out of you."New novel chapters are published on

Qi Tiezui grimly replied: "It's not bad, it's just that this major event isnt good." With that said, he picked up a small stone from the ground and started drawing the shape of the whole valley, along with the location of each dirt mound. He usually had an average memory, but when it came to feng shui, his memory was excellent. As a result, he was able to make an accurate depiction of the whole valley, and Zhang Qishan could already figure out what it was when he was only halfway through. This whole valley was shaped like a person.

That didnt prove anything, though. Maybe it just wasnt time for them to show up yet.

The group was full of doubts as they descended into the underground tomb at the bottom of the everlasting tower. This time, everyone took a torch to illuminate the whole tomb and Lieutenant commanded his men to hang lanterns everywhere.

It was only at this time that they finally got to see the whole underground tomb. There was more than one red thread leading down various grave robbers tunnels and into the lower level where they couldnt see before.

Lieutenant went down and ordered everyone to pull out their pistols.

Zhang Qishan waved his hand, and a group of people put on gloves and carefully sorted out a path around the corpse jars. He went up to one of the grave robbers tunnels and removed the corpse jar, revealing a straight tunnel. It had been drilled into the stone floor and messily chiseled away with a hammer.

"Doesnt look like it was done by someone experienced." Zhang Qishan stuck the torch down. "And it was dug from below."

Lieutenant touched the hammer marks with his hand. Sure enough, the person who dug this hole had come up from below.

On the other side, Qi Tiezui went over to the place where he had trampled the corpse jar before and found that the jar was really broken. But the debris had completely dried, making it obvious that it had been trampled a long time ago. The filthy black sludge in the jar had also dried up.

The one who stepped on it wasnt him, but someone a long time ago. He looked above his head. Could it be that what he saw and felt was the experts memory from that time? Was the expert the one who trampled this jar?

He looked around. There was nothing in the underground tomb, so the weasel spirit must have left.

Lieutenant took the lead and went down into the tunnel below, receiving the torches one by one. It was only at this point that they realized they were standing in a huge tomb passage. The tombs bricks were covered in mottled and moldy murals that were full of all kinds of ancient portraits. But the strange thing was, these ancient figures all had two faces.