I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 132 Life and Death Doors_1

Chapter 132: Chapter 132 Life and Death Doors_1

Once the Magic Seal was activated, it was as if you had put on a pair of high-tech glasses that allowed you to clearly discern the structure of the environment around you, and the rock walls were divided into blocks. Soon, you discovered a stone on the rock wall emitting a faint green glow.

You walked over quickly, reached out to touch the stone, and heard a "click" as the Broken Dragon Stone slowly rose.

In such a state, the strain on your physical strength was immense, which is why the two Mysterious Seals quickly vanished.

Just to be cautious, you still activated your night vision ability.

Even though you possessed special abilities akin to game cheats, you were not complacent, for in a place like this, a single misstep could result in death, and these so-called cheats wouldn’t save your life then.

After the Broken Dragon Stone had slowly risen, Sun Lin spoke with a hint of excitement, "Look, an automatic door has opened here."

"I’ll go first; you follow me."

Entering the automatically opened door, you all proceeded with great care.

It was a spiral staircase that stretched downward, and as you walked, you counted the steps. When you reached the count of forty-nine, you suddenly stopped.

"Why have we stopped?" Du Xishan asked.

"We can’t go any further," you said calmly, "I mentioned before descending into the tomb that entering from the Death Gate is the most dangerous."

Sun Lin thought for a moment and said, "The most dangerous place is the safest; is that what you mean?"

"Something like that," you nodded, "The Innate Bagua Formation has both the Gate of Life and the Death Gate. Ordinary people would naturally choose the Gate of Life, which symbolizes the path to survival. However, for us, the Death Gate is more timely because, whether it is the Gate of Life or Death Gate, it’s just a gate. As long as we grasp some of its principles, we can avoid the traps and still reach the main tomb chamber. Besides... who said the Gate of Life is necessarily safe?"

"Shadow Two, duck!"

Shadow Six flipped his Tang Knife, charged forward rapidly, and with a slash that cut through the air, beheaded a walker that pounced towards him.

"Phew."

Only then did the Shadow Guards slowly exhale a breath of fouled air.

After entering the Gate of Life, they initially walked on smooth ground, but as they reached the midpoint, walkers suddenly emerged from underground and attacked them on sight.

If these were ordinary walkers, they would’ve been no match for the Shadow Guards, akin to slicing vegetables; but these walkers were extraordinary, some of them had been soldiers, tomb robbers, and even highly skilled martial artists. Their sudden appearance threw the Shadow Guards’ advance into disarray.

"Shadow One, are you sure we entered the Gate of Life and not the Death Gate?" Shadow Six asked.

Shadow One was also unsure, surveying the surroundings with vigilance, fearing that the walkers, more formidable than the living, might suddenly spring from the ground or leap from the walls.

At that moment, the Saintess, who had been watching from the sidelines, let out a cold chuckle, "It’s said that the Empress once personally trained a group of dead warriors. They were like Soul Reapers from the Underworld, moving without a trace, killing without form; they cleared the path for the Empress, even Empress Wu Zhao borrowed them several times from the Empress. But now..."

All six Shadow Guards turned to look at the Saintess, and as the leader, Shadow One spoke coldly, "Saintess, are you implying that we Shadow Guards have now become mere kittens in a cage?"

"Hmm, at least that seems to be the case right now," the Saintess retorted briskly.

Shadow Six added from the side, "Times have changed. We were trained from a young age to navigate through steel and concrete skyscrapers, to kill using high-tech weapons, not like now, using Tang Knives to chop at undead walkers."

Indeed, if all the dense crowds of walkers lying beside them were living people, it would have been much simpler, for a living person merely needs a single bullet to kill or incapacitate, unlike the undead, which require decapitation using a Tang Knife. Moreover, Shadow Six had just encountered one that didn’t lose its head even after being chopped twice.

"Hmph, I find it strange that our ancestor was so lenient toward Li Muyun," one said. "Had it not been for their entrance into the Death Gate and our subsequent entry through the Gate of Life, which immediately activated the whole Innate Bagua Formation, we would still be dealing with a clear distinction between the Gates of Life and Death. Now, the only thing we must do is to enter alive, find the main tomb chamber, and take away those two items as quickly as possible. I suddenly have a very bad feeling."

"I don’t know why," another admitted, "but I have a very bad feeling."

Meanwhile, you had descended to level ground, walking slowly along a corridor about a meter wide.

"Why do you say that?" Du Xishan asked.

"I can’t explain it; I just have a feeling that something in the darkness is watching us, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t find it."

At that moment, Sun Lin suddenly said, "Hey, how long have we been walking in this corridor?"

Sun Lin’s words made you realize something, and you stopped in your tracks.

"Professor Sun, are you suggesting that we’re walking in circles?"

"Yes, look here," Sun Lin said, pointing to the wall beside them. The light illuminated the wall, revealing a character, "Lin." "I carved this character to help us determine our direction."

However, Du Xishan countered skeptically, "Nonsense, it’s obvious you were just trying to write ’Sun was here’ but then you got scared and stopped halfway when you thought we’d find out."

Sun Lin cursed immediately, and the two professionals, whose combined ages were nearly a hundred, began to quarrel like village yokels.

"Enough," you intervened. "I know you’re trying to relieve stress, but the air here doesn’t have a lot of oxygen. Let’s save our energy."

You approached the "Lin" character, took a glance, and asked Sun Lin, "Professor Sun, do you remember whether you carved it on the left or the right side?"

Sun Lin thought for a moment: "The right side."

Yet what you saw now was on the wall to the left.

"Does that mean we’ve come full circle on our original path?"

"Mm-hmm," you nodded. "It seems that we are in a maze."

"A maze?"

"There’s actually a maze in the underground palace? Who could be buried here to warrant such a thing?"

Indeed, throughout the thousands of years of China’s history, there weren’t many who had mazes built into their tomb complexes.

"If this really is a maze, we’re in some trouble now," Du Xishan sighed as he pulled out his cell phone. He found that the electromagnetic interference inside the underground palace was severe. Forget making a call; even the phone’s screen was scrambled, rendering the device completely unusable.

You said nothing, but placed your hand on the restored wall and slowly closed your eyes.

Soon, the image of Sun Lin carving the character on the wall with his knife flashed through your mind, followed by a deathly, eerie silence.

As though you had found a way, you said to the others, "Let’s go. We’ll keep an eye out as we move."

Sun Lin and Du Xishan exchanged glances, then smiled. They knew that your supernatural ability was about to lead them out of this cursed maze.

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