Indestructible Body Of Vajra Of The Village Leader

Chapter 1317: Chapter 1016-1017: The Tomb! Twists and Secrets of the Past

The power of this ferocious slash nearly drained thirty percent of Jiang Dali’s True Qi.

Meanwhile, dozens of boulders were split open and exploded by the Saber Qi.

With Protective True Qi, they repelled the short swords that fell from above and quickly darted into the only open cave entrance carved with ”Bai Suzhen’s Tomb.”

After entering the cave, the mechanisms outside completely ceased their movements.

Jiang Dali and Hui En breathed a sigh of relief, then began to converse while examining the not too oppressively stuffy cave passage as they ventured further inside together.

The further they went in, the denser the hot steam became, the oppressive atmosphere growing increasingly uncomfortable.

”That mechanism just now, our Shaolin people encountered it on our last visit too, but we knew how to disable it, so it wasn’t triggered.”

”The method of disabling it is to fall within that circle?”

”Not exactly, that’s only the first step. Numerous mechanisms lie at the base of this tower, rumored to have been crafted by the Fa Hai monk of old who didn’t want anyone to recklessly tamper with the Divine Stone and bring calamity to the world, thus set many mechanisms here, teaching our Shaolin the way to disable them. This way...”

Accordingly, Jiang Dali followed suit, adjusting his Qi and observing his surroundings while communicating with Hui En, feeling the passage seemed to connect to other passages, almost like a labyrinth.

”Considering there are so many mechanisms at the tower’s base, why did you take out the Divine Stone back then, rather than leaving it inside where no one could remove it?”

”Master Jiang, you underestimate the heroes of the world. Not mentioning others, even your strength, the first threshold just now could eliminate ninety-nine percent of Martial World people, yet it was of no use to you. If you ventured into the tower’s base, given time, you still could take the Divine Stone.

Moreover, back then, our Shaolin indeed didn’t take the Divine Stone out of the base; it was left inside. But as our Shaolin had conflicts with several parties, an expert snuck into the base and seized the Divine Stone.

That expert must have been quite familiar with the mechanisms at the tower’s base, secretly observing how we disabled them, and their strength might not be any less than ours.”

Jiang Dali frowned, ”Someone whose strength isn’t less than ours, someone so familiar with the mechanisms at the base, someone who seized the Divine Stone at such a moment... Would you say that person might be from the Divine Sect of the God-searching Palace?”

Hui En paused at the corner, his footsteps halting, ”Master Jiang, your speculation is reasonable. We’ve considered this before too, but the God-searching Palace has been hidden from the Martial World for centuries. During these hundreds of years, nobody has discovered traces of its members, nor knows precisely where the Palace is, so this speculation remains conjecture, unverifiable, look.”

Hui En wiped away the sweat from his forehead, stepping aside.

Pointing to a sarcophagus placed amid the dense heat and steam ahead.

Jiang Dali fixed his gaze, immediately stepping forward a few paces, noticing in the dark corner ahead, there lay a stone sarcophagus.

On the stone sarcophagus, there were five strikingly carved characters: ”Bai Suzhen’s Tomb”!

Besides that, a skeletal figure draped in Kasaya lay listlessly beside the sarcophagus, appearing exceptionally eerie amid the rolling mist.

This corpse must be the remains of the daughter of the god, Bai Suzhen, who was buried here along with the Divine Stone by Monk Fa Hai.

”Amitabha Buddha!”

Master Hui En, staring at the corpse, lowered his eyelids, rolling the Prayer Beads in his hand while murmuring Buddha’s curse.

Jiang Dali gathered his energy to circulate Protective Essence Qi, dispelling the steam, advancing several steps, seeing a lengthy wall text unexpectedly written on the stone wall next to the corpse.

He flipped his cloak, waved his palm, blowing away a large area of mist, discovering the wall text possibly authored by Fa Hai.

The text narrated secrets regarding the Alms Bowl and Divine Stone, revealing the mysteries surrounding the death of the god’s daughter, Bai Suzhen.

For long, regarding the legend of the White Snake spread around West Lake, his initial understanding upon consulting ancient texts was that there was a Fierce Beast White Snake causing havoc under Leifeng Tower.

Back then, settled near West Lake, the god from the God-searching Palace dispatched a monk holding an Alms Bowl to annihilate the White Snake.

During the process, the monk couldn’t overwhelm the White Snake, thus leveraging a kind-hearted man named Xu to vanquish the White Snake with Bai Suzhen’s gratitude.

Later, after gathering extensive intelligence, he drew another possible truth: the so-called White Snake beneath Leifeng Tower wasn’t necessarily a Fierce Beast White Snake but a living person, the daughter of the god from the God-searching Palace.

Only from Hui En he learned the second version of the story: the god’s daughter fell in love with an ordinary young man named Xu, experiencing resistance from the god, leading to subsequent events.

The god of the God-searching Palace, to cover family shame and embellish the daughter’s death, fabricated a tragic myth portraying the inept Monk Fa Hai as the villain destroying lovers, echoed for centuries.

Yet now, seeing the text carved on the wall, he realized the third version of the truths and the origin of the Divine Stone, astonished and bewildered.

Furthermore, Master Hui En stepped forward browsing the text, his complexion shifting repeatedly, finally sighing.

”So, it turns out like this... It is like this... Alas, such pity, such sorrow, such regret.”

Jiang Dali collected his emotions, rising with a faint cold laugh, ”Truly, from ancient times, love leaves only regret; who expected, the daughter of the god desired to elope with that man named Xu, ultimately failing to escape the blows of power and profit, that man Xu using the Alms Bowl for a sneak attack, killing her.

Thus, the god’s daughter didn’t die at the hand of a monk but by the hand of the ordinary man she loved dearly.”

Master Hui En sighed, ”I didn’t anticipate the truth unfolding this way, yet it shows even the Fa Hai monk was quite caught off guard.

He handed the Alms Bowl to Master Xu, possibly to test Master Xu’s true affection towards Mr. Bai, never expecting Master Xu, fearing the god’s threat, to sneak attack the devoted Mr. Bai.”

Jiang Dali coolly remarked, ”With Bai Suzhen’s strength, even the god bestowed the Alms Bowl crafted from the Divine Stone to Fa Hai to perhaps clash with her, yet how could she be slain by a trivial ordinary person wielding the Alms Bowl? Hardly achieved unless her heart had died, her spirits completely shattered.”

In concluding, a cold arc lifted at Jiang Dali’s lips, ”Ultimately, the thing most incapable of withstanding trials in this world is the human heart, pitiful and laughable.”

As he spoke, his Spiritual Sense was fully alert, secretly inspecting every recess potentially harboring enemies around, especially within the stone sarcophagus preceding him.

He didn’t believe the god’s daughter truly perished; a prowess perhaps surpassing Xie Tiao, such a Demon God, wouldn’t succumb so easily.

Even Xie Tiao could resurrect his Primordial Spirit using persistent Devilish Thought through Di Ni, armed with Bai Suzhen fearing she wouldn’t end up dead.

Yet, upon thorough examination, silence ensued all around with no abnormalities.

As Jiang Dali slightly frowned, Hui En had already pushed open the sarcophagus lid with a ”thud.”

Immediately, a gust of heat surged forth, causing the temperature inside the stone cave to rise sharply, nearly akin to a furnace.

Hui En dispelled the mist, turning back to say, ”Master Jiang, inside this sarcophagus, apart from an entrance leading to the previous Alms Bowl’s location, there isn’t Mr. Bai’s remains.”

Jiang Dali approached for a look, perceiving only a three-foot-square entrance at the end of the sarcophagus, where large waves of scorching air streamed upward, hinting at the dreadful internal conditions making his mood utterly gloomy.

”Hole after hole, today I seem tailor-made for digging through tunnels. This three-foot entrance seems designed to be difficult for people.”

Jiang Dali cursed under his breath, carrying the Great Strength Fire Qilin Saber behind, exercising Bone Shrinking Skill, his body shrinking two times amidst popping sounds, barely entering the state suitable for fitting into the entrance below.

But suddenly realizing something, he glanced beside at Master Hui En resembling a meat mountain in the mist.

Hui En awkwardly joined hands with a solemn bow, ”Master Jiang, a miscalculation, a miscalculation. Upon reaching here, I, the monk, cannot accompany you further down; this flesh of mine cannot shrink an inch.

This... this is truly unforeseen...”

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(Additional update tonight)