Ye Qiu looked up at the front.
His face was full of shock.
Only thirty metres ahead was the end of the steps.
At the end of the steps, there was a water pool that was about as big as a basketball court.
The water was as black as ink, and was so deep that there was no bottom.
In the middle of the pool, there was an eight trigrams platform cast, and Ye Qiu’s gaze instantly fell on the middle of the platform.
Because there, a sarcophagus was parked.
Ye Qiu also noticed that in each of the eight directions of the high platform, there was a long bright lamp burning, as if it had never been extinguished for hundreds of years.
In an instant, Ye Qiu’s eyes became fiery.
“I think that should be the coffin of Nameless Senior, I wonder what the two heavy treasures stored inside are?”
Ye Qiu quickened his pace and quickly arrived at the end of the steps.
He observed that the distance from the end of the steps to the high platform was about twenty metres, and there was no place to land in the middle, so it was obviously impractical to try to fly over directly.
At least, with Ye Qiu’s current cultivation, it was still far from being able to do so.
Therefore, the simplest and most effective way right now was to swim through the pool of water.
Ye Qiu looked at the pool of water and was about to reach his foot in, when he suddenly withdrew his foot, not knowing why, a wave of uneasiness vaguely appeared in his heart.
“In order to prevent miscreants from robbing his tomb, the Nameless Realist deliberately set up the Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation, so it can be seen that he didn’t want others to enter his tomb.”
“Now that his coffin is right in front of us, and there are two heavy treasures hidden inside, with the mindset of the Nameless Realist, he shouldn’t let anyone easily open the coffin and get the heavy treasures.”
“In that case, it seems that this place must be dangerous.”
Ye Qiu looked around and finally, his eyes landed in the water pool and quietly opened his Heavenly Eyes.
In the next second, Ye Qiu’s face changed violently.
Only to see that there were actually three large crocodiles hiding in the water pool, less than a metre away from him, each staring at him with glaring eyes.
If Ye Qiu hadn’t realised the danger just now and put his feet in the water, then at this moment, he was afraid that he would have been torn apart by the three crocodiles.
“So close, just a little bit, I would have been eaten by these three beasts.”
Ye Qiu broke out in a cold sweat.
He didn’t notice the crocodiles at all before he opened his Heavenly Eyes, and that was because the pool water was black and blended with the crocodiles, and they hid their breath, making it difficult to detect them with the naked eye alone.
Moreover, these three crocodiles were very smart, hiding in the pool water, not moving at all, just waiting for Ye Qiu to go into the water.
Since Ye Qiu had already spotted them, he naturally wouldn’t be stupid enough to continue going into the water, so he had to find another way to the high platform.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally came up with a way-
Borrowing strength!
Only, there was nothing on the water pool that could be used as a borrowed force, Ye Qiu pondered for a while and finally came up with a brilliant solution.
Golden Needle!
He took out a seven-inch long golden needle and poured his power into it, then swung his right hand.
Swoosh!
The golden needle broke through the air and in the blink of an eye, it reached three metres away.
Ye Qiu rose up in the air and swept out like lightning, the tip of his foot precisely stepped on top of that golden needle, then using the golden needle to lend his strength, his body quickly leapt up again.
Almost simultaneously, Ye Qiu threw out a second golden needle.
Swoosh!
Ye Qiu’s toes stepped on top of the second golden needle again and used the force to leap forward four metres, then the third golden needle whistled out.
So on and so forth, a full six golden needles were used before Ye Qiu reached the bottom of the high platform.
The high platform was piled up with green stones, and the top was uneven.
“Dab!”
Ye Qiu kicked his foot on the green stone, and his body flew like a spirit monkey as he climbed towards the uppermost part of the high platform.
In just a blink of an eye, Ye Qiu stood smoothly above the high platform and let out a long breath.
“Finally coming here, it’s just a pity that another six golden needles were lost.”
Ye Qiu had a flesh pain, followed by his eyes fixed on the sarcophagus.
At this moment, the sarcophagus was less than two metres away from him.
Thinking that if he opened the sarcophagus, he would be able to see the two heavy treasures left behind by the Nameless Realist, Ye Qiu’s mood was a bit excited.
He came straight to the sarcophagus and carefully surveyed it.
The sarcophagus was about seven feet long and three feet wide, it was made of green stone, and there was a huge “Fu” word carved on it, full of heaviness.
Ye Qiu couldn’t contain his inner excitement and couldn’t wait to open the sarcophagus, even his right hand had already been placed on the lid of the coffin, however, just at this moment, a cold wind blew.
“Hoo-”
The long light in the southeast went out.
Ye Qiu couldn’t help but think of a phrase from Ghost Blowtorch: people light candles, ghosts blow out lamps, chickens crow and lamps go out without touching gold.
The meaning of this sentence was that after entering a tomb, the gold-mining officer (an ancient name for grave robbers) would light a candle on the southeast corner of the tomb before opening the coffin and touching the gold.
The officer must not damage the remains of the owner of the tomb when he is touching the gold, and must gently touch from head to toe. If the candle in the southeast corner of the tomb goes out when he is touching the gold, he must return all the treasures he touched to their original position, and then kowtow three times to the owner of the tomb or the coffin in a regular manner to withdraw from the tomb.
Otherwise, there would be trouble.
Although Ye Qiu was not a gold touching lieutenant, and the extinguished lamp was a long bright light not a candle, the extinguishing of this long bright light still put a layer of dark clouds in Ye Qiu’s heart.
Still want to open the coffin?
Ye Qiu hesitated.
However, after only a few seconds of hesitation, Ye Qiu made a decision.
Open the coffin!
There was no reason not to open the coffin when the heavy treasure was close at hand, not to mention, the Nameless Realist said in his last letter that the heavy treasure was reserved for the fated people of the future generations, which meant that the Nameless Realist still hoped that someone would be able to obtain the heavy treasure.
“Nameless Senior, since senior has come here and learnt the Grass Character Sword Technique that you left behind, it means that senior is the one with destiny as you said, I hope that you will have great mercy and let me take out the two heavy treasures in your coffin smoothly, please.”
Ye Qiu chanted at the sarcophagus for a while, then slammed his right hand hard.
“Boom!”
The lid of the coffin was lifted off on the spot.
Ye Qiu looked down and the first thing that came into his sight was a complete skeleton, then his gaze landed on the side of the skeleton where two rosewood wooden boxes were placed.
The wooden box on the left was a rectangle, about three feet long. The wooden box on the right was only half a foot long and quadrangular.
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Qiu took the lead and took out the rectangular rosewood box and quickly opened it.
Afterwards, an ancient long sword came into his eyes.
The long sword was about three feet long, and the top of the scabbard and hilt were decorated with seven-coloured beads and nine-coloured jade, which was not a mortal object at first glance.
Ye Qiu put down the wooden box, took the scabbard in his left hand, held the hilt with his right hand, and pulled it out with force.
“Clank–”
A clear sword chant sounded like a dragon’s roar.
Ye Qiu carefully examined it, and now the sword’s body had a cold light, and the blade was like frost and snow, which could reflect a person’s appearance.
Suddenly, he saw two seal characters on the top of the sword-
Red Sky!
