I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 247: Sky Ladder_1

Chapter 247: Chapter 247: Sky Ladder_1

"Why does this bronze lion feel so sinister?"

Wu Qiyi looked up at the huge Tomb Guardian Beast in front of her, which stood about three meters tall, its head just touching the ceiling of the corridor and its massive body blocking your path.

"It should be one of Qian Ling Mausoleum’s Tomb Guardian Beasts, this thing might be alive."

Hearing you say this, Nong Xuele and Dong Fangxiao involuntarily took a step back, and Dong Fangxiao even aimed her gun at the Tomb Guardian Beast.

You reached out and pushed Dong Fangxiao’s gun down, smiling as you said, "This thing is of no use against it, if it really comes to life, we’ll become just like the gentleman underneath it in a matter of seconds."

The corridor was very dark, and without your exceptional night vision ability, Wu Qiyi and the other two women gasped when your Wolf’s eye flashlight illuminated the area beneath the Tomb Guardian Beast’s feet.

"I don’t want to end up like that, let’s hurry on."

Nong Xuele said nervously.

Indeed, anyone would feel naturally anxious in such a cramped space confronted with such a colossal creature, and you were no exception.

You glanced at the Tomb Guardian Beast with your Sen Luo Eye and then said to the three women, "For this thing to awaken, it probably requires certain conditions, and clearly, I’m not going to give it those conditions."

As you spoke, eight yellow cinnabar charms flew out of your pocket and whirled rapidly around the Tomb Guardian Beast before sticking to its four limbs and four directions of its body.

Then, you scanned the Tomb Guardian Beast with the Sen Luo Eye again and discovered that the faint aura emanating from the beast was now completely concealed by the charms.

"Let’s go."

Once you were certain the Tomb Guardian Beast wouldn’t awaken, you took the lead and walked past it.

Although the Tomb Guardian Beast was huge, there were still gaps between its body and the walls. All you had to do was to brush against the wall and slowly edge past it.

No sooner had you set foot on the ground behind the Tomb Guardian Beast than Wu Qiyi followed, and then Nong Xuele and Dong Fangxiao also safely made it past.

Turning around, what appeared before you now was a stone door.

Dong Fangxiao stepped forward with her Wolf’s eye flashlight to take a careful look, then turned to you and said, "This stone door seems to have no gap at all. I can’t even tell which way it opens."

You thought for a moment and said, "This stone door cannot be pushed open by human strength; it requires a very special method."

As you spoke, you bit your finger and squeezed out a drop of your own blood, letting it fall on the stone door.

"Ka! Ka!"

After two strange sounds, the stone door, which seemed to not have even the slightest gap, actually started to open automatically towards both sides!

At this moment, the three women beside you looked at you with eyes full of different expressions.

Nong Xuele hurriedly asked, "Senior, you just used your own blood to open this door, didn’t you?"

Seeing you nod your head, Nong Xuele continued to ask, "Could it be that you have some connection to Qian Ling Mausoleum?"

"I guess it did, in a way; this place changed my life."

As you spoke, you glanced at Wu Qiyi beside you and shone the Wolf’s Eye flashlight ahead into the pitch-dark space.

Behind the stone gate, a steep staircase sloping downward came into view, with a sharp angle of at least seventy degrees to the horizontal plane.

"Let’s go." You took the lead and started down, "The stairs are a bit shaky, be careful everyone, and take it slow on this path."

You all proceeded downwards, not knowing whether it was because you were moving slowly or because the stairs were exceptionally long, but you felt like you had been walking for quite a while.

There were no handrails on either side of the staircase, so each step had to be taken with great care, since the Wolf’s Eye flashlight only illuminated the steps below and no flat ground could be seen.

"Feels like we’ve been walking a really long time," Dong Fangxiao stopped and shone the light behind her, only to find that the passage they had come down was no longer in sight.

At that moment, you all suddenly felt as if you were climbing a stairway to heaven, as if the stairs led to another world.

"How much longer do we have to walk? My legs are turning to jelly," Nong Xuele complained as well.

You too stopped in your tracks, as the Sen Luo Eye couldn’t be activated constantly; after all, it drained too much of your vitality. Having already reverted to normal as you descended the stairs, Nong Xuele’s comment made you realize that your own legs were starting to feel weak. This staircase was truly difficult to navigate.

Activating the Sen Luo Eye once again, you looked down towards the bottom of the stairs and saw that there were less than a few dozen meters to flat ground. You breathed a sigh of relief and said to the three women following you, "Just hang on a little longer, there’s probably only seventy or eighty meters left."

People dread not having a measurable sense of progress. Once you gave them a number, it seemed to imbue them with extra energy to descend the remaining steps.

When you finally set foot on level ground, there was a surreal feeling as if you had entered another age.

"We’ve finally come down. Were those stairs excessively long or what?" Nong Xuele rubbed her sore thighs and began to observe her surroundings, "Hey, what’s that?"

Following where Nong Xuele pointed, you all turned to look and saw, to your astonishment, a city gate just a dozen meters ahead!

"Is that... a city gate?" Wu Qiyi seemed hardly able to trust her own eyes.

"Am I seeing things?" Dong Fangxiao rubbed her eyes. She shone the Wolf’s Eye flashlight up at the top of the gate, only to realize that indeed a city gate had appeared before you, flanked by city walls that reached up to twenty-some meters in height!

"This... this... this is terrifying!"

You too couldn’t help but swallow hard. Nobody expected to find an ancient city gate and walls buried hundreds of meters underground, possibly hiding an ancient city within!

"Look!"

Wu Qiyi shone the Wolf’s Eye flashlight onto the ceiling above you, and when the bright light reached about fifty meters away, you could see from that perspective that this was likely an underground cavern of sorts, except the cavern was vast. With the city gate as the center, it extended for about a hundred meters on each side!

You took a moment to catch your breath and noticed that the place still had ventilation, with a hint of air currents moving through the space.

"Let’s go over and check it out. If we can’t open the city gate, we’ll just have to climb over the wall." Dong Fangxiao, more interested in the ancient city than in tombs, immediately walked briskly towards it.

As Dong Fangxiao had said, the city gate wouldn’t budge. However, climbing over the wall was like second nature to her; her gear included a specialized grappling hook with a climbing rope, and in no time at all, she had gracefully ascended the twenty-some meters of the city wall.

After reaching the top of the city gate, Dong Fangxiao shone her Wolf’s Eye flashlight inside and exclaimed in amazement: "My goodness, to build such a massive structure in a place like this, how much time and effort must it have taken!"