The night was deep.
Gu Heng quietly traversed through the dense forest, delving deeper into the pitch-bck mountainside.
After walking a while, he stopped.
In the depths of the forest, there was a massive cave, surrounded by thick mist, with a faint light seeping out from within.
"Hmm? No wonder I felt something was off about this pce..."
Gu Heng raised an eyebrow, thinking about this solitary mountailed in the dense forest, with a mysterious mountain cave... Could this be the so-called "opportunity"?
He had heard tless stories of down-and-out cultivators jumping off cliffs to end their lives, only to find their opportunity at the bottom and soar to great heights. These stories were endless, but whether they were true or not, as a mere mortal, he had no way to verify.
But...
Did he just stumble upon one?
Could it be that he couldn't bee a cultivator because the "opportunity" hadn't arrived, and now it had?
Little Xi rubbed against him, standing beside him with her tail held high, her round little eyes fixed on the giant cave.
This pce eculiar.
Because Su Jinxi could clearly sehat outside the cave, there was aremely solid sword i, like an insurmountable high wall. Anyone who dared to pass would be sliced to pieces!
With her cultivation at the tenth level of the Tribution Crossing stage, fag that invisible yet tangible wall of sword i, she felt as insignifit as a thin veil. If she dared to touch it lightly, she would surely die!
Moreover, she noticed that the sword i seemed to have some damage, allowing a trace of spiritual energy to leak out from the cave. This bit of spiritual energy was not enough to affect the world, but it was enough to influehe tration of spiritual energy within a hueps of the cave!
No wohat Bck-scaled Earth Python, clearly just a frade beast, had strength equivalent to other sixth-grade beasts.
That creature must have lived his cave, being from its proximity.
But Su Jinxi couldn't bypass the obstru of the sword i and had to retreat to find Gu Heng.
Because the power dispyed on that wall of sword i far exceeded Su Jinxi's uanding. She was a great demon with thousands of years of age, yet now there ower here that even she had never witnessed?
This could only have bee a long time ago...
It might even be from some ultimate power from the a Great Void Era!
Gu Heng squatted doatted Little Xi, "I'm going in to explore. You stay here obediently, don't run around, uand?"
"Meow..."
Little Xi meowed relutly.
But she uood his meaning and just y there, her little paws pying with her face, seemingly not intending to move.
"Meow~"
A soft, tender meow.
Gu Heng was satisfied, then pced her on a rod turo step into the cave.
Su Jinxi watched as Gu Heng approached the cave step by step, getting closer and closer to the invisible barrier formed by the sword i...
"Hmm!?"
He just went in.
In Su Jinxi's eyes, there was a more profound and powerful hazy golden light on Gu Heng, which directly caused the wall of sword io rapidly retreat, creating a hole about his size. Subsequently, Gu Heng walked into the cave unharmed.
"... it really be like this?"
Su Jinxi's eyes widened.
He was even strong enough to make the sword i move around him!?
It seemed she had greatly uimated his strength.
Gu Heng walked deeper into the cave, and after desding a long staircase, he reached the bottom.
"There's a pace hidden in this mountain?"
Where he stood was ihe solitary mountain, which seemed to have a rge se hollowed out. Now, he stood ihis mountain pace, fag a dipidated a grand hall!
This grand hall looked thousands of years old, but even so, it couldn't hide its i grandeur and solemnity.
The pace cave was filled with ruins and moss, indig its once-glorious past.
And at the entrance of this grand hall stood a half-human tall bck stone mo, with inscriptions worn down by time to the point of near disappearance, but Gu Heng could still make out a few words.
"...Imperial Tomb?"
"May my lord rest in peace, until the day..."
He leaned closer to dis the words, barely making out the inscriptions.
Gu Heng frowned immediately.
An emperor's tomb? But the beginning of the first line was already worn away, making it unclear whose tomb this was.
This line seemed to be inscribed by a loyal minister of that emperor.
Gu Heng thought, looking up at the main door of the grand hall, the bronze door panels long corroded and rusted, with only gusts of eerie wind emanating from withiook a deep breath, ready to go in and iigate when suddenly, he paused.
He sensed an unusual fluctuation behind him.
Gu Heng's eyes narrowed, and he immediately turned around—
"Whoosh..."
The sound of wind and es!
A vague pale ghostly figure suddenly appeared in this aomb, its hollow eye sockets burning with ghostly blue fmes, lunging menagly at Gu Heng!
"What the hell is this!?"
Gu Heng was startled and frightened, quickly sidestepping to dodge the ghostly figure's attack, which missed and halted mid-air.
"This guy... actually dodged my attack?"
The ghostly figure was also somewhat surprised, thinking this guy had actally intruded into his master's tomb and was just a mere mortal with no aura.
But any mortal who intruded here was destio die.
In life, he was just an insignifit servant uhe feet of his honored master, but now, he was the tomb's sole guardian. Although his Great Assion stage cultivation might have diminished signifitly, dealing with a mortal should be more than enough!
So, the ghostly figure lunged again!
"Whoever you are, I won't let you disturb my master's peace!"
He thought, intending to tear the foolish mortal to shreds!
"Get lost, who are y to scare!"
After the initial fright, Gu Heng was no longer afraid, as this thing seemed to pose no threat at all, just a ghostly shadow. He had seen simir tricks in Greenwood City, where performers used small props made by cultivators to create a moving humanoid figure out of white smoke, looking eerie but actually... very fake.
It only fooled those who had never seen the world.
Although he hadn't seen much of the world either, such things wouldn't scare him.
So, Gu Heng threunch!
This mortal dared to resist.
The ghostly figure sneered inwardly, already envisioning the pleasure of tearing open the mortal's chest with his cws, but before that, he would shatter the fist this guy threw—
"Bang!"
Gu Heng's fist directly puhrough the ghostly mist, his arm swinging to pletely dispel the ghostly figure.
"Hmph, I've seen the world."
He blew on his knuckles, though he wondered why his fist felt cool.
"...Why?"
"Could it be, this guy isn't a mortal..."
This was the ghostly figure's st thought before dissipating.
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