Chapter 85: Jumping into the Black Well Part 1

If Huang Qi said that Ye Zi was here, it would perfectly match Wang Ya’s guess, allowing her to confirm that Ye Zi was truly lurking in the shadows to help her. If Huang Qi shook her head to indicate that Ye Zi was not here, it contradicted Wang Ya’s guess. Wang Ya could not deny her own guess just because of Huang Qi, nor could she confirm that Ye Zi was truly absent simply because Huang Qi said so. Thus, she retained her guess—neither believing Ye Zi was there nor that she was not. Regardless of whether Ye Zi was present or not, Ye Zi had not revealed herself, and Wang Ya had no need to delve deeper, after all, it did not affect anything at the moment, did it? Perhaps the Illusory City King did not make things difficult for her because of her connection to the Yellow Springs Other Shore Flower Demon, or maybe it was related to the Demonic Power circulating in her body and the Demonic Aura emanating from her.

Wang Ya intended to go to the Bardo Realm but had no plans to let the Illusory City King lead the way again. She had already been “tricked” by the Illusory City King once. Even with his power laid bare before her eyes, she would rather fight him to the death than trust him to lead her on the proper path to the Bardo Realm. Who knew where the Illusory City King would “take the initiative” to lead her next time? She said to Old Tang and the others, “We’re going to the Bardo Realm. Everyone, split up and find the way.” She glanced at Zhang Qingshui, then returned to the hall to search for the passage to the Bardo Realm, completely ignoring the Illusory City King’s phantom condensed from Yin Qi standing nearby.

The Illusory City King’s phantom vanished directly into the air.

Old Tang took the lead and followed behind Wang Ya into the hall. He said, “Wang Ya, something’s off! We’re barging in so brazenly, yet there’s no reaction from them at all?” As the master of this place, the “Illusory City King” actually allowed Wang Ya to be so rude? Even if Wang Ya possessed Demonic Power and formidable strength, she was no match for such a large Ghost Army. If the Illusory City King feared Wang Ya’s past life’s identity, that made even less sense—the Azure Scale Monster in the Myriad Coffins Azure Dragon Palace had dared to attack Wang Ya earlier, clearly not taking her past life’s identity too seriously.

Wang Ya said softly, “I suspect Ye Zi is helping us from the shadows.” She even suspected that Ye Zi had instructed the Illusory City King to lead her to that secret chamber with the Ink Jade Coffin earlier, and the gaze she felt from the corner when she left had also come from Ye Zi. In this place, only Ye Zi had the power to make the Illusory City King act that way.

Huang Qi stood in the hall and said, “In this hall, aside from the corridor Wang Ya took earlier, there’s only one other passage, behind the screen of the throne. There’s a door there leading straight to the Main Tomb Chamber. Beneath the main coffin in the tomb chamber is a hidden passage.” After speaking, she walked straight to the screen behind the throne and pushed a wall brick into the wall with force. Following that came a heavy “rumble,” and the wall behind the screen slowly sank down, revealing the Main Tomb Chamber. A finely crafted jade screen blocked everyone’s view.

When Old Tang saw the Tang-style screen before him, he was certain that shocking treasures lay inside—it was undoubtedly a royal mausoleum of imperial level.

Perhaps the tomb’s owner had not been an emperor in life, but the treatment in death far surpassed that of an emperor.

Old Tang, who had once been a tomb raider, knew he could not touch anything in this mausoleum, yet he could not help but feel excited. Just this screen alone could fetch a sky-high price outside, and who knew how many priceless treasures lay within.

The moment the wall sank and revealed the Main Tomb Chamber, Wang Ya saw thick black Yin Fiend Aura spilling out from the tomb chamber. This aura was even heavier than that from the Ink Jade Coffin in the Myriad Coffins Array, indicating that the deceased buried in the Main Tomb Chamber possessed strength far beyond what they could handle.

With her own strength, Wang Ya was no match for the Illusory City King nurtured in the Main Tomb Chamber and its burial attendants, yet she felt not the slightest fear. She strode straight into the Main Tomb Chamber before her, circled around the obstructing screen, and walked toward the interior. Her gaze swept past the burial items in the Main Tomb Chamber and the attendant coffins arranged in specific positions, heading directly for the largest Golden Crossing Coffin in the center. From the corner of her eye, she glimpsed that all the coffins here were shrouded in dense, churning Black Qi, making these coffins placed in the dimness appear even more eerie and terrifying. Judging by the aura emanating from these coffins, Wang Ya had no doubt that prying open any one of them and eliminating its occupant would yield the Ghost Pill that Zhang Qingshui and the others had sought so desperately.

Old Tang followed behind Wang Ya, clutching his Tang Dao. His left hand rubbed his chin, his eyes gleaming, but the intimidating aura from these coffins deterred him from making any move. Even with the Ghost Pill within reach, he dared not take it. Touching these coffins—not only might he fail to obtain the Ghost Pill, but whether he could leave alive was unknown!

Wang Ya stopped about four or five meters from the main coffin.

Before the main coffin stood a man dressed in bright yellow python robes, wearing a coronet on his head, a long sword at his waist, and standing tall and straight. Black Qi churned around his body, yet his manifested form was tangible and substantial, his presence overwhelming. A pair of sharp eyes fixed on the approaching group.

Wang Ya knew this was the Illusory City King’s true body. This true body was not the corpse—the corpse was still in the coffin. This was his Ghost Body, a fully cultivated Ghost Body.

A low, powerful voice rang out: “We lead our subjects in eternal slumber here. Why do you disturb us?”

Wang Ya softly uttered two words: “Passage!”

The Illusory City King said gravely, “What if We refuse?”