"This pattern is so strange. Look, these should be the patterns of the Four Sacred Beasts. Why is there a Qilin in the middle?"
Professor Chen was quickly drawn to the formation pattern Lin Tian had created.
What puzzled Professor Chen the most was the Qilin in the center. The Four Sacred Beasts of Xia Kingdom were the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise. Since when was the Qilin in the middle?
If something were in the middle, it should have been the Azure Dragon.
"This should be a formation. My grandfather mentioned it in his diary, but I don't know what kind of formation it is," Wu Tianzhen said.
"I think the Zhang Tian we're talking about might not be the same person."
Wu Tianzhen couldn't believe that the young Master Zhang could use formations, not even if he was beaten to death.
"Let's not worry about that for now. We should run quickly. That white-haired Hanba has been watching us."
A scholar was somewhat frightened.
Two people had already died since they entered.
This made the less important scholars tremble, fearing they would be next.
Meanwhile, Shirley Yang was already standing in front of a pile of bones.
Her brown hair was braided.
Her delicate face was serious, and her gaze was fixed on the skeleton before her.
"This should be the corpse of the monster in front of us. This monster probably smelled something, so it was afraid and didn't come over," Shirley Yang said. The others crowded around.
Professor Chen picked up a bone from the ground and put it in his backpack.
"I never thought they could even kill such monsters," Professor Chen thought, feeling even more admiration for Zhang Tian's team.
They not only took nothing from the tomb but even cleared the path for them.
How could Professor Chen not feel reverence?
"Stop talking. We need to go down quickly. That monster was looking at me, and my butt is starting to hurt," Fatty said, touching his behind uncomfortably. He regretted lighting the candles.
"Xiao Kang, go take a picture of that formation. We still need to study it later. Also, take a picture of this tomb, and then we'll leave quickly," Professor Chen instructed. A team member nodded and, with trembling hands, took a few photos.
After the photos were taken, everyone quickly slipped into the tomb passage beneath the stone tablet.
The white-haired Hanba, seeing them leave, hurried back.
The smell here made it afraid to come down.
As for Zhang Tian's group,
Zhang Tian was dumbfounded when he heard the explosion.
"Good heavens, I thought Wu Tianzhen in the novel was invincible, but it turns out the one here is even stronger. They've only been in the tomb for a short while, and they're already setting off explosives?"
Zhang Tian felt utterly miserable.
"Boss, why are they setting off firecrackers upstairs? Trying to scare away the Nian beast?" Fatty grumbled beside Zhang Tian.
Zhang Tian's mouth twitched. Was that really firecrackers?
"Old Hu, let's speed up. I'm afraid they'll blow up this tomb," Zhang Tian said anxiously.
He thought Wu Tianzhen would only cause trouble at the end, but he never expected it to happen so soon.
"Boss, according to the secret techniques of feng shui and the strategist's arts combined, I've found that the feng shui of this tomb chamber is very strange," Hu Bayi said.
"There's a tomb chamber that's like yin, like yang, like existent, like non-existent—a 'four-not-like' that's very difficult to locate."
Zhang Tian frowned slightly.
"Don't move. There's a mechanism ahead," Zhang Qilin suddenly stopped the group, who were walking, and looked at the long tomb passage before them.
The passage was long, with no end in sight, but it was rather damp.
Zhang Qilin plunged his hand into the wall, and a brick fell out. Beneath the brick, seawater began to gush in.
"Holy crap, second brother, are you crazy? You're going to drown us!" Fatty exclaimed in shock as seawater poured in.
Watching the seawater rush in, Zhang Tian seemed to recall something.
"Like soft, like fire, like sky, like earth..."
"The tomb chamber is in the sky!" Zhang Tian exclaimed. Hu Bayi's eyes suddenly lit up.
"So that means, in another independent space within the underwater tomb, there's a tomb that's floating in the water!" Hu Bayi said. Everyone gasped.
"Do we want to go?" Zhang Qilin looked at Zhang Tian.
Zhang Tian nodded.
"Yes, we want to go, but they shouldn't," Zhang Tian said. Zhang Qilin nodded slightly.
Then, he waved his hands twice on the wall, and a section of the wall collapsed, revealing a tomb passage on the other side.
"You knew about this before?" Zhang Tian asked, surprised by how smoothly Zhang Qilin split the tomb wall.
"The water flow. I heard water flowing on the other side," Zhang Qilin replied.
After the water on the other side drained, Zhang Tian and the others looked and indeed saw a tomb passage.
"Second brother, you're amazing. You split tomb walls with your bare hands. If you worked in construction, you'd be the foreman!" Fatty gave a thumbs-up.
Zhang Tian took a deep breath, wishing he could kick Fatty away.
"Let's go in and take a look. Fatty, remember to block the wall we just opened when we come out, so others don't find it," Zhang Tian instructed. Fatty nodded, and then they slipped into the passage while Fatty blocked the tomb wall.
The tomb passage was filled with water and was quite damp. Fortunately, they were wearing wetsuits and had oxygen tanks.
It wasn't a major problem.
The passage was as long as the previous one.
The only difference was that there seemed to be a foul smell, like rotten fish.
"Is this a latrine? It smells so bad," Fatty said, covering his nose with a disgusted expression.
"Be careful. I'm worried there's something disgusting in here," Zhang Tian said, shining his searchlight into the passage.
The passage wasn't only long but also had corners.
Clearly, this was another passage deviating from the main one.
"Boss, I think this smell is similar to the smell of the sea monster from before," Hu Bayi said quietly, his compass shaking slightly in his hand.
"Yes, it's highly likely. Fatty, are you going to fight?" Zhang Tian looked at Fatty.
"Fight? No way. Fatty is no match for the sea monster's strength," Fatty flatly refused. What a joke. Last time, a single sea demon was troublesome enough, and now, it was likely multiple sea demons.
Zhang Tian ignored Fatty and took out the Lu Shang King's sword.
This sword was perfect for slaying sea demons.
Xiao Ge also took out his Black Gold Ancient Saber, clearly sensing the danger ahead.
They moved slowly through the water.
In the beam of the searchlight, they could clearly see seaweed on the tomb walls.
Soon, after turning a corner, they saw a wall ahead, and it seemed like the passage ended. However, upon closer inspection, they saw that the water was flowing forward.
"There's an entrance going down ahead," Zhang Tian said. Hu Bayi held his compass.
"According to my deductions, the tomb chamber should be below. This tomb chamber was built using this passage as a suspended tomb," Hu Bayi explained.
"To enter, we have to go down and then follow the water flow upwards."
Hu Bayi finished. Zhang Tian nodded, pausing for a moment.
But after taking two steps, unpleasant noises could already be heard from the passage ahead.
At the same time, from the downward passage ahead, a green hand suddenly crawled out, followed by two, then three...
Under the watchful eyes of Zhang Tian and Zhang Qilin, a sea monster crawled out of the opening.
The next moment, five sea monsters crawled out from the hole one after another.
Seeing this, everyone gasped. What was hidden in the side tomb below, guarded by so many sea monsters?