Ye Qiu stood at the doorway, and when the stone door opened completely, the first thing he saw was an earthen grave.
Then, saw the second earthen grave, the third, the fourth, the fifth
There were a total of ninety-nine earthen tombs.
Each of them was three feet tall, bare, and in a state of disrepair, simply a cemetery that had fallen into disrepair over the years.
The most bizarre thing was that above each mound, there was also a long light.
It made people shudder.
Ye Qiu stood at the entrance, and before he even went in, he felt a cool air rising from his vest.
What kind of place was this?
How could there be so many graves?
Steeply, Ye Qiu thought of the Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation that he had encountered earlier, and couldn’t help but think of a legend.
Legend had it that during the Three Kingdoms period, after Zhuge Liang’s death, in order to prevent someone from robbing his tomb, he had purposely constructed ninety-nine clothing graves, of which, only one clothing grave was real.
Could it be that this was Zhuge Liang’s tomb?
Soon, Ye Qiu dismissed his guess.
According to the history books, in the spring of 234 A.D., Zhuge Liang personally led an army of 100,000 men in the fifth northern expedition against Sima Yi, and the two sides stood in a stalemate for three months, and due to day and night work and overthinking, he eventually fell ill.
Zhuge Liang had a premonition that the illness was fatal, so he wrote a letter to Liu Chan, the later lord, to report his condition and to ask for the aftermath. A few days later, Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan at the age of fifty-four.
Zhuge Liang’s death, the whole country of Shu a grief, after the Lord Liu Zen in accordance with Zhuge Liang’s will, he will be buried in Dingjun Mountain, posthumous title “Zhongwu Hou”.
Dingjun Mountain is located in Hanzhong, thousands of miles away from the Northwest Gobi.
It was impossible for Zhuge Liang to be buried here.
Then, Ye Qiu opened his Heavenly Eyes, and his sight instantly penetrated the first earthen grave, seeing a complete skeleton lying inside.
Strangely enough, the skeleton was black.
Then, his line of sight looked at the second earth grave, the third earth grave
Ye Qiu looked at all the ninety-nine earthen tombs with his Heavenly Eyes, and finally realised that there was a black skeleton in each of the earthen tombs.
This meant that the dead buried inside had all died from poisoning.
“There are skeletons inside all of these earthen graves, obviously, this is not Zhuge Liang’s clothing grave.”
“But what exactly is this place?”
“How could there be so many skeletons? And they all still died from poisoning?”
Ye Qiu thought about it, and at this moment, it seemed like he didn’t have a better choice but to move forward.
So, one step was taken in.
“Mute-”
Suddenly, a mournful cry rang out.
Ye Qiu immediately stopped his steps and then looked up, only to see a black shadow flying over his head and landing on a grave.
Only then did he see that the black shadow was a crow.
The crow stood on the grave and stared at Ye Qiu with pitch-black eyes without blinking, which added a bit of terror to the already eerie atmosphere.
At that moment, a “gurgling” sound came from Ye Qiu’s abdomen, he was very hungry.
He looked at the crow and clasped a golden needle in his palm.
“How about finishing off this beast and fill up my stomach first?”
Just as soon as the thought appeared in his heart, it disappeared again.
Crows liked to eat carrion, so in case this beast ate something unclean, wouldn’t it be disgusting to eat it yourself?
“No matter what this place is, I have to find a way to get out as soon as possible, if I starve to death here, it would be too unprofitable, after all, I’m not married yet.”
Ye Qiu didn’t hesitate and quickly passed through the middle of those earthen graves.
He was originally a doctor and had seen countless corpses of the dead, as well as the methods of corpse catchers, so these earthen tombs didn’t scare him at all.
If someone who was timid came here, they would only be scared to the point of wetting their trousers.
After Ye Qiu passed through the graves, another stone cave appeared in front of him.
The stone cave was only one metre high, and standing at the entrance of the cave, a heat wave hit his face, diametrically opposite to the eerie atmosphere of the burial mound.
Ye Qiu stood at the entrance of the cave and opened his Heavenly Eyes, glancing inside.
As far as his eyes could see, he still saw the stone cave.
The stone cave was very deep.
Ye Qiu took a step in, ten metres, twenty metres, thirty metres, forty metres
As Ye Qiu walked forward, the temperature got higher and higher, and by the time he had advanced ninety metres, his body was sweating hot, as if he was in a furnace.
Another few dozen metres in.
Ye Qiu stopped in his tracks.
He saw a deep pit, and inside the pit, there were all kinds of vines growing, and right in the centre of the vines, there was a red bead the size of an egg, radiating red light.
Ye Qiu was keenly aware that the heat wave was radiating from this bead.
“Huh, what is this thing?”
“How could it radiate such a scorching aura?”
“Could it be some kind of treasure?”
Ye Qiu quietly approached and walked to the side of the deep pit, only then did he clearly see that the red bead was actually a red fruit, and in addition to being able to dissipate the heat waves, it also emitted a strong fruit fragrance.
Ye Qiu took a deep breath of the fruit fragrance, and instantly, all the exhaustion was swept away.
Ye Qiu’s eyes lit up.
Baby!
This red fruit was definitely a treasure!
He stared at the fruit with both eyes and carefully looked at it without making any rash moves.
Because the place where a treasure grows is usually accompanied by great dangers, especially with a strange fruit like this one, it was hard to guarantee that there were no ferocious birds and beasts guarding it nearby.
Ye Qiu was very careful and glanced inside the deep pit, now this deep pit was particularly deep and he couldn’t see the bottom.
He then visually measured that the fruit was growing inside the deep pit, about three metres away from him.
Ye Qiu leapt into the deep pit and quickly grabbed a vine, while with his other hand, he went to pick the fruit.
As he watched, his hand was only ten centimetres away from the red fruit, when suddenly, a chill struck his entire body.
“Not good, there is danger.”Ye Qiu immediately retracted his hand, and his eyes looked below the deep pit.
Three seconds later, a sharp whistling sound rang out.
“Ow-”
The sound was a bit like a wolf howl, and a bit like an ape whistle, moving the heart.
Ye Qiu’s eyes narrowed.
After waiting for a few seconds, there was no more movement coming from below the deep pit, he quickly grabbed the red fruit in his hand.
At once, his palms were cold.
Strangely enough, the red fruit was clearly radiating a huge heat wave, but after grasping it in his hand, it was like grasping an ice cube, cold to the bone marrow.
Ye Qiu grabbed the fruit and prepared to return to the ground, just at this time, another sharp whistling sound came from below the deep pit.
“Ow-”
Immediately after, he saw a “snorting” sound coming from below the deep pit, and a fiery red figure quickly came in Ye Qiu’s direction, with a surprisingly fast speed.
Along with it, there was also a strong sense of danger.
Ye Qiu did not hesitate, and with a point of his toes, his body landed lightly on the ground, and when he looked back, the fiery red figure had already climbed out of the pit.
In a flash, Ye Qiu’s face became odd.
