Above all spirits

Chapter 263 Infiltrating the Imperial Tomb

Gu Li kept his head down as he recounted his experience. By the time Gu Yun and the other arrived, it was already nearing its end.

"Chief of the tomb, this is the message the boss asked me to bring you. What do we need to do?"

Gu Ling's gaze was as cold as a frozen pool, his silver-white beard fluttering in the wind, and a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes, clearly showing his dissatisfaction with the outsider's intervention.

Although he considered it an accidental contact—after all, everyone who knew about it had been instructed to guard various tombs and stars before the matter was accomplished, making it unlikely that the information would leak out—he couldn't rule out the possibility that it was someone's clansmen or descendants who had broken off relations and released the information. Gu Ling's tone clearly revealed an undisguised anger as he spoke.

"I told Gurs long ago to wait a few more years. The upper realm has already found a matching god, and all that's missing is a suitable chosen one in the lower realm. He didn't listen. Hmph, if something goes wrong this time, I'll see if he's capable of taking the blame when the upper god gets angry!"

Guli shuddered. Gus, whom Guling mentioned, was the current patriarch of the Titan race. Because the patriarch took great care of his family, or more precisely, because the Supreme God had left all those who knew about the Extreme Yang Pearl to guard the tomb area after realizing its special nature, the patriarch had taken good care of the families of all the Titans guarding the tomb. Despite the terrifying pressure from Guling's pseudo-innate power, Guli couldn't help but defend him.

"The tomb keeper... is the chief."

"The patriarch was also considering the interests of the entire Titan clan. In recent years, because of this matter, the Titan clan has had very little interaction with the outside world, and its resources have been consumed in great quantities. To the outside world, it was because of the invasion of the Corpse Refining Sect that the clan was temporarily closed off, but it has been too long, and some essential resources are severely scarce, which is why..."

Before she could finish speaking, Gu Ling suddenly raised her white eyebrows, her face contorted with intense anger, and she became like a mountain struck by lightning, her voice rising several decibels.

"shut up!"

"what do you know?!"

"Those who achieve great things do not stoop to trivial matters. Do you know what it means to add a pseudo-innate powerhouse with imperial will to the clan?"

"You were there when that person invaded our clan's royal tombs. How many of our clansmen sacrificed their lives because of such power?!"

Gu Ling paused, looked back at the interior of the imperial mausoleum, then turned back, his anger still lingering, but his tone softened as he continued.

"A human race so weak can possess such terrifying power after mastering the Emperor's Will. If someone from our race were to master it, our influence in the Eight Realms would rise dramatically. At that time, all resource exchanges would benefit us and our influence would increase. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"

"Do you know that in the entire Eight Realms, only my Titan clan has never produced a talent with the power of an emperor? In recent years, the Dragon Clan has produced two powerful individuals with the power of an emperor, whose combat strength is unparalleled and no one dares to contend with them. Although the Demon Clan does not mention it openly, even a fool can tell from their increasingly powerful demeanor that a monstrous talent must be born within their clan."

"Fairies and vampires are two humanoid races, needless to say. The Spirit Race is unique and ranks first in the Eight Realms. As for the Demon Race, although there can only be one Emperor, that one is still an Emperor!"

"Humans are naturally endowed with this power, not to mention that there are probably more than a dozen of them."

"In the end, only my Titan race has no usable individuals, no supreme warriors, and is also limited by territory. If it weren't for our brute strength that surpasses all other races, we would have been completely wiped out long ago!"

Gu Li lowered his head, trembling uncontrollably. He thought to himself, "Isn't this brute strength, surpassing all other races, also our race's advantage? When that emperor invaded our race, wasn't he trapped and killed within our own ranks? If we had learned from the dragons and transformed into human form, using a humanoid form to comprehend the imperial will, we wouldn't have failed to produce a single emperor..."

However, he dared not voice these grievances at this moment, for fear that he would die if he did.

The air remained silent for a long time.

Gu Ling's anger seemed to gradually subside. He let out a long sigh, and suddenly looked somewhat helpless.

"Go back now, I understand."

Gu Ling waved her hand, her tone becoming somewhat weary.

"I will strengthen security here and notify the clansmen guarding the tomb that no one is allowed to go to the imperial tomb for any reason in the near future."

"The formation and barrier do not recognize tokens. Any living being entering will trigger an alarm and activate the formation."

Then, Gu Ling gave Gu Li a deep look, her expression becoming more serious.

"Restore everything to normal after Gouls's scheme is over."

Gu Li lowered his head, responded, and silently left the imperial mausoleum.

After Gu Li walked away until his figure disappeared, Gu Ling's cold gaze swept around the outside of the imperial mausoleum. A slight glint flashed in her eyes, and the next moment her figure disappeared in front of the stone gate of the mausoleum.

"Boom!"

The massive stone gate then slowly descended.

Gu Yun and Xiao Li exchanged a glance, and in perfect unison, they hid in the shadows one after the other, quietly moving along the dark edge of the imperial mausoleum. Just a second before the stone gate slammed into the ground, they slipped into the mausoleum.

Compared to the Titans, the humans were already smaller in stature, and now they were hidden in the shadows, their presence completely absent, so the two Titan guardians at the peak of their Holy Body were completely unaware of them.

As for the process, there's not much to say. With Xiao Li's assistance and the mutual cooperation of the power assimilation, the journey was uneventful. The two explored the imperial mausoleum for a short time before arriving at an inner chamber deep within it.

The interior space was very large. Although the architecture of the Titans gave Gu Yun and Xiao Li the feeling that everything was very large, after all, the difference in their physical size was obvious, this interior space in the imperial mausoleum was much larger than others of the same level. It was as if they had gone from a small apartment of a little over 100 square meters to a large single-level apartment of several hundred square meters.

However, the air inside did not give people a refreshing feeling. On the contrary, it was more solemn than the previous stone chambers, and the heavy and oppressive feeling was stronger.

Moreover, unlike other damp and cold stone chambers filled with yin energy, this inner chamber was unusually warm, and at the same time extremely dry, which was very strange.

Dim light, like a thin veil, shone through the gaps in the ceiling, and a few weak beams of light pierced through the dust that had long permeated the area, illuminating the rows of ancient stone coffins, on which were engraved some runes and traces of formations.

At this point, the two realized that they had arrived at the deepest and most central part of the imperial mausoleum, a location that runs through the entire mausoleum.

Following the stone wall covered with moss and cracks, you can see the entrances to four passages, and Gu Yun and Xiao Li entered one of them.

If each entrance is set up the same way, then there is a Titan warrior at the half-step innate level guarding each of the four entrances.

The faint silver patterns flowing on the stone wall were likely some kind of reinforcement method.