Chapter 2712 — A World of Its Own
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Huh? The coffin's vanished again... that's all right, isn't it?" White Leader suddenly pointed in astonishment at the corner of the wall, where the coffin had originally rested.
"The coffin's gone back up on its own. It's fine," Yu Xiaoke said with a shake of her head. "There's a mechanism over here—we can bring the coffin down to fetch us whenever we like."
"Oh..." White Leader nodded. That made sense—otherwise, how would Yu Xiaoke have gotten back up afterward?
The three of them left the stone chamber together. Wei Zhao insisted on taking the lead, because his jade pendant had a warning function: if danger arose, he would know at once and could respond.
"Little Pig, you come with me. If there's danger, you deal with it ahead of time—you don't want me to die, do you?" Wei Zhao gave the Thunder Pig a kick. "Let me tell you something: I'm now at the peak of the mid Earth-rank, and reaching the Heaven-rank is only a matter of time. When that happens, I can raise you to a spirit beast at the peak of the late Earth-rank. If you don't want that power, then pretend I never said it!"
"Squeak, squeak..." At Wei Zhao's words, the Thunder Pig drooled and nodded again and again, signaling that it was all on him.
The Thunder Pig's attitude was satisfactory enough. So the man and the pig took the lead scouting the way, with Yu Xiaoke and White Leader following behind, and the three of them left the stone chamber together.
Beyond the stone chamber, a vast hall opened up before their eyes—spacious and empty. A hall it was called, but it more resembled a martial training ground. Along the sides were places to rest, and around the hall, apart from the stone chamber they had just emerged from, there were three more rooms.
"This place... is this all there is?" Wei Zhao said in astonishment, glancing at the empty hall, for what he saw exceeded his expectations entirely. The layout was completely different from the first level of the tomb—this place was more like an enlarged version of a four-room, one-hall dwelling!
"Yes, this is all there is," Yu Xiaoke said with a nod. "I went into the nearest room—it looked like a woman's chamber."
"Oh? A woman's chamber?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. "No way. Zhang Lifeng was quite the romantic, wasn't he? Living here in the ancient tomb with a beauty?"
"Ahem, ahem..." White Leader's old face flushed red as well; he felt it was hardly proper to slander their patriarch behind his back.
"Thunder Pig, what's going on here?" Wei Zhao turned to the Thunder Pig. "Who is this woman?"
Zhang Lifeng had said to let nature take its course, but now that Wei Zhao had discovered the problem, and the Thunder Pig, eager to level up, could not be bothered with such scruples, it eagerly recounted the story of this place as though offering up a treasure: "Zhang Lifeng had two wives in his lifetime—the Ice Fairy, mistress of the Ice Palace, and the Snow Fairy, mistress of Snow Valley. They were senior and junior disciples..."