Chapter 96: Dai Viet, Should It Be Destroyed? (8000)

The Eighth Prince knew very well that the key to this plan was the map.

But the map had been snatched away by the Thousand-Faced Fox, and Xu Bai and others came, which made him lose the opportunity to snatch the map back.

As a result, the original careful plan, due to various reasons, became a mess now.

Bad, really bad.

And all this was because of the man named Xu Bai.

If there was no Xu Bai, I'm afraid Yun Zihai would have been killed long ago. If there was no Xu Bai, even if Yun Zihai came here first, he might not have been able to pass the ghost sculptor. If there was no Xu Bai, he would have succeeded long ago.

Why should we start this second plan again?

The Eighth Prince always thought that he was an extremely cautious person, so he had been preparing a second plan.

But he really didn't want to use this second plan.

Feeling the blood flowing rapidly in his body and the pill in his mouth, the Eighth Prince smiled bitterly.

The pill was slowly melting, and he could clearly feel that the speed of melting was not sure whether it could last until the end.

Even a sixth-rank master would die if he lost too much blood.

The wound was healing slowly. In order to prevent the wound from completely healing, the Eighth Prince would wipe it from time to time to make the wound continue to deepen.

He was moving forward quickly while splattering blood.

The Eighth Prince was very fast. Fortunately, there was royal blood, and the surrounding mechanisms were not triggered.

But he knew very well that the wall would absorb blood very quickly.

This was a mechanism set by the emperor. If someone followed from behind, with the speed at which the wall absorbed blood, the people behind would face the mechanism again in a short time.

The Eighth Prince didn't know whether Xu Bai and others had got the map, but he thought that even if they got the map, the mechanism behind could at least stop the other party for a moment.

After all, he was walking recklessly, while the other party needed to look at the map while walking.

Thinking of this, the Eighth Prince walked faster.

There was still an airtight passage ahead. The surroundings looked ordinary, but the Eighth Prince knew in his heart that there were countless dangers.

The passage was dark, and the Eighth Prince was bleeding heavily as he walked.

As he ran fast, the passage ahead became narrower and narrower.

The narrower the passage, the more difficult it would be to move if something unexpected happened.

Obviously, the designer of this passage was well versed in this, and in the end, only one person could pass through.

When the Eighth Prince walked a distance, something abnormal suddenly appeared in front of him.

As the saying goes, there is always light after darkness. The narrow passage gradually became wider, and in the end, the Eighth Prince stopped in front of a door.

This door was extremely wide, about ten meters on both sides, and the space was incredibly large.

"According to the records in that book, this door is the last passage." The Eighth Prince was ecstatic: "If I can enter, I can get the treasure left by my uncle, and then I will no longer stop at the sixth rank!"

When he thought of this, the Eighth Prince became more and more excited.

What he wanted was the treasure left by King Shengyou after his death.

In fact, the truly valuable things were collected by his father into the royal treasury, and the things left in the tomb were what his father did not need.

Of course, even if the royal family did not need them, they were enough to cause bloodshed in the martial arts world.

The Eighth Prince was not interested in this.

The real treasures he needed were not these.

These were just incidental, what he needed were the things recorded in the book.

By chance, the Eighth Prince obtained a book in the royal library.

Most of the things in the royal library were what they could read, and they could only see them. The emperor was very strict with them.

This book was originally regarded as the autobiography of King Shengyou, and was placed in the corner of the bottom layer, with a thick layer of dust on it.

The Eighth Prince accidentally discovered it when he was in the royal treasury.

At that time, he had stopped at the sixth rank for a long time.

The skills given by the emperor were only considered to be of the middle level among the six ranks, and he did not dare to practice other skills. The punishment would be extremely terrible if he was discovered.

So, in a depressed mood, he wandered in the royal treasury, and just wandered to a corner, and saw this book covered with a layer of dust.

At that time, he was in a bad mood, and he was curious about King Shengyou, so the eighth prince opened the book.

Later, he discovered the mystery of this book.

The book tells the past of King Shengyou, and the author of this book is also King Shengyou.

Unconsciously, the eighth prince was fascinated at that time.

A book that writes about the magnificent life of King Shengyou.

This prince followed the emperor to fight in the south and the north, and he made great military achievements. His life is condensed in this book, which is amazing.

Just when the eighth prince was fascinated, he didn't expect that he would see the secret next.

The skills that King Shengyou practiced are in the momentum of the military formation, especially when he was in the army, it was unparalleled.

Even if all the soldiers are ordinary people, they can reverse the situation under the military formation of King Shengyou.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that King Shengyou died and was buried.

But in the end, the so-called tiger talisman was still not seen.

What is a tiger talisman?

The tiger talisman is a military talisman used by the emperor to mobilize troops. It is a token made of bronze or gold in the shape of a crouching tiger, split into two halves, the left half is given to the general, and the right half is kept by the emperor.

Only when two tiger talismans are used together at the same time, the holder of the talisman will obtain the right to mobilize troops.

But in the Great Chu Kingdom, King Shengyou holds a complete tiger talisman, because the emperor has enough trust in him, and because at that time, King Shengyou took the initiative to withdraw from the competition for the throne.

If the method of military formation is passed on after his death, it will be integrated into the things that he often controls and is closely related to when he is alive.

This means that the tiger talisman may be integrated into King Shengyou's military formation method.

As for why the eighth prince knew it, it came from the content that the eighth prince was in charge of.

The eighth prince was in charge of the entry and exit of the royal treasury.

Although he was in charge, he did not dare to move at all.

When King Shengyou died, the things that entered the royal treasury were related to King Shengyou, but there was no tiger talisman.

There are only two possibilities.

One is that the emperor kept it himself. After all, the importance of the tiger talisman is more valuable than most things in the royal treasury.

The second is that it was used as a burial object for King Shengyou.

According to what is written in this book, the eighth prince believes that the second possibility is very high.

In this book, King Shengyou said a sentence.

- The emperor only trusted one person in his life, that is King Shengyou.

Based on this analysis, the eighth prince believes that the tiger talisman may have become a burial object.

The reason is very simple.

First, the emperor himself does not know the method of military formation, even if he gets the tiger talisman, he cannot use it.

Secondly, the emperor only trusted King Shengyou, how could he give such an important thing to a second person?

King Shengyou without the military formation is very weak.

And why did King Shengyou go to Sheng County alone?

In this autobiography, the most important reason is recorded in detail, and it is at the end.

It said that he would take the tiger talisman and go to Sheng County alone.

That was all.

Apart from that, there was no other news, just this paragraph.

The most important thing for the Eighth Prince was also in this paragraph.

——Tiger talisman!

When King Shengyou left, he took the tiger talisman with him, but until now, he had not seen any news about the tiger talisman.

The royal treasury he was in charge of did not have it, and since he got the book, he had been investigating secretly.

In the end, he really found out a piece of news.

The people who buried King Shengyou and built the mausoleum for King Shengyou were originally executed secretly by the emperor, but one of them was still alive.

He went through a lot of hardships to escape from the siege of that year.

After escaping, he did not dare to have any strange thoughts, so he kept his name hidden until he was discovered by the Eighth Prince.

To be precise, he was not discovered by the Eighth Prince, but by the Thousand-Faced Fox.

After Qianmianhu brought this person to the Eighth Prince, he talked about many things with the Eighth Prince, and finally the Eighth Prince made up his mind to do it.

According to that person, the map of the mausoleum has been hidden in the royal treasury.

The Eighth Prince immediately reached a cooperation with Qianmianhu, and used his authority to steal the map secretly.

But in the end, he was discovered. He escaped by faking his death.

Then there are the things that happened later, until now.

The tiger talisman is really too important. If he has the tiger talisman, he will have the capital to oppose the emperor.

Thinking of the various strict constraints imposed on them by the emperor, especially thinking that they could not even break through the sixth rank, the Eighth Prince had long been dissatisfied.

Coupled with the huge benefits of the tiger talisman, the Eighth Prince could not get rid of it at all, and decided to take a risk.

Looking at the huge gate in front of him, the Eighth Prince was excited, slowly raised his hand and pressed it on the door.

There was still blood on the big hand. When the palm touched the door, the whole door made a rumbling sound, and then slowly opened a crack.

The crack gradually became larger and wider, and in a blink of an eye, the door opened automatically, revealing the space inside.

It was all dark inside and couldn't see clearly.

The Eighth Prince thought that he couldn't delay any longer. The effect of the medicine in his mouth was about to disappear, so he raised his foot and walked in.

When he stepped inside, the darkness in front of him was gradually disappearing.

It was not just the darkness that disappeared. The door behind him opened with a snap and closed tightly.

And the moment the door closed, the darkness inside appeared and became bright.

Torches were embedded on the wall, lighting up the surroundings.

As the torches illuminated the moment, the Eighth Prince saw the surrounding scene, and his hair stood up all over his body, and his pupils shrank slightly, as if he saw a terrifying monster.

The originally dark space became bright, and in a blink of an eye, he saw one terracotta warrior after another.

The square camp had each terracotta warrior less than half a meter apart, covering the entire room.

The wide and huge room, which accommodated tens of thousands of terracotta warriors, looked extremely solemn.

But in addition to the solemnity, the Eighth Prince felt an extremely cold and gloomy feeling, which made him tremble.

He felt that the group of terracotta warriors seemed to come alive, staring at him with an extremely cold look, which made him feel cold all over and unable to move.

This feeling came suddenly, without any signs, and did not even give him any buffer space.

His sight extended along the group of terracotta warriors, and in a blink of an eye it spread to the end.

At the end of the group of terracotta warriors, there was a dark stone coffin floating in the air.

On the stone coffin, there were layers of iron chains, and the ends of the iron chains were nailed to the wall. It was because they were nailed to the wall that they floated in the air.

"Something is wrong, this is definitely not right!" The Eighth Prince could no longer control himself, stretched out his trembling hands, pointed at the group of terracotta warriors in front of him, and made a fearful sound.

How could there be terracotta warriors here, and so many of them?

The most important thing is the sarcophagus, which is protected by the terracotta warriors. Looking at the posture of these terracotta warriors standing, it seems that they are guarding their king.

As the voice of fear was heard, the Eighth Prince suddenly stopped moving, like a wooden sculpture, standing in place, and the raised hand was slowly retracted.

In just a moment, a layer of grayish-white marks appeared on the Eighth Prince's body.

After the marks appeared, the color was getting darker as time went by, and in a blink of an eye, it changed from grayish-white to the yellow of mud.

In addition to the color getting darker, this earthy yellow color is also getting thicker, gradually spreading from the skin of the Eighth Prince, filling his whole body.

"Living terracotta warriors! I know! I know!" The Eighth Prince shouted again, but he stopped talking the next moment because the ochre-yellow mud filled his whole body.

Gradually, the Eighth Prince lost his breath of life, and just kept his original appearance, slowly raised his feet, and walked into the square formation of terracotta warriors.

"Pop!"

Accompanied by a slight sound, the torches around the wall went out, and everything returned to normal.

But this was just the restoration of darkness, and other changes occurred in the darkness.

A series of nightmare-like whispers echoed in the whole night.

The ground began to vibrate at a strange frequency, and the amplitude of the vibration became larger and larger, spreading to the entire mausoleum.

...

Something was wrong with the Eighth Prince. In the passage far away from the Eighth Prince, Xu Bai and his team were holding the map in their hands and moving slowly.

In Zhou Qing's words, this matter could not be rushed, because in a mausoleum like the Shengyou King, there would definitely be unimaginable traps. If you rush, it would be easy to cause a big accident.

They compared the position on the map. Although the speed was not fast, it was very safe.

From the approximate position on the map, you can see a relatively perfect outline.

And from this outline, the mausoleum should be closed and can only be entered and exited in one direction.

The Eighth Prince could not escape. If he wanted to escape, he could only escape from their direction.

So Xu Bai and his companions walked while being alert, guarding against the Eighth Prince who might come back to kill them.

Unexpectedly, the whole journey was very safe. It was not until halfway through that Xu Bai discovered something different.

"Do you see the wall?"

There were dark red bloodstains on the wall, which had already dried up.

"Is the Eighth Prince injured?" Yun Zihai was slightly stunned.

"Maybe, no one can say for sure about this matter." Xu Bai said, "But if we don't find his body, none of us can relax our vigilance."

Whether he was injured or had other intentions, it is still unknown at present.

And if you want to know the real answer, you have to keep walking.

Several people no longer hesitated, and Zhou Qing became more focused. Holding the map, he walked a little faster.

As they walked, everyone felt more and more strange. The reason was very simple. The blood on the wall was too evenly scattered, and it almost never stopped all the way.

The amount of bleeding was super large!

Who has so much blood to do this?

It has already dried up, and he can still survive?

"It's a hematopoietic pill, a pill from the royal treasury." Qing Xue suddenly said.

He was the Ninth Princess's personal maid, and seeing the bizarre scene in front of him, he naturally thought of that kind of pill.

"It seems that our Eighth Prince was not injured, but used this method to avoid the trap." Xu Bai touched his chin, thinking of everything he had seen before, and came to a conclusion.

"Hurry up." Yun Zihai urged Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing turned around and said helplessly: "It's already the fastest speed."

Dense sweat appeared on his forehead, obviously due to excessive concentration, this level is very harmful to the body.

After all, he was in the front, and once he made a mistake, dangers would come one after another, completely drowning them.

Xu Bai was about to speak.

But he never expected that the next moment, a strange change occurred.

The ground began to vibrate at a certain frequency, and the amplitude of the vibration was getting bigger and bigger, and people were almost unable to stand steadily.

"Not good!" Yun Zihai was on guard.

But at this time, the vibration began to gradually decrease, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared completely.

Everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened, but the feeling just now was too obvious to deceive everyone's eyes.

"What happened just now?" Qingxue asked in confusion.

The other people shook their heads in unison, saying that they didn't know.

This place was getting more and more weird, and everyone felt that they couldn't delay any longer, so they asked Zhou Qing to continue leading the way and walked into the passage.

The passage became narrower and narrower. After they walked a distance, they suddenly saw a huge door in front of them.

There were also exquisite reliefs on the door, which made people feel happy just by looking at it, and it matched the dark environment around them.

Xu Bai came closer, and in the darkness, he saw a bloody handprint on the door.

"Can it be opened?" Xu Bai turned his head and asked.

Since seeing this door, Zhou Qing has not spoken, as if he had seen something strange, and he lowered his head in thought.

After Xu Bai asked him, he finally reacted, and nodded repeatedly.

The map didn't say there was any danger on it, so it should be openable.

Xu Bai frowned: "What were you thinking about just now?"

Along with Xu Bai's voice, the others also looked over.

Zhou Qing smiled bitterly and said: "I just walked through this passage, and I always felt familiar, especially the passage changed from wide to narrow, and then from narrow to wide. It seems that I have seen it in a book in our family, but I didn't major in this aspect, so my memory is not very clear and I can't remember it."

Xu Bai pondered for a while.

It can't be seen, but it seems familiar. Zhou Qing is equivalent to saying nonsense.

"Everyone should get ready." Zhou Qing seemed to know that he said a useless thing, so he picked up the map in his hand and came to the location of the gate.

He looked up at the door with bloody handprints, and then looked down at the map in his hand. After about half an incense stick, he finally turned his head and looked at Xu Bai and others.

"The map doesn't say there's any way to open it. Why do I always feel that something is wrong here? This place was very narrow at first, but then it became extremely wide. I always feel that the memory in my mind is getting clearer and clearer. Wait for me." Zhou Qing knocked his head hard, as if he wanted to find the forgotten memory in his mind again.

It has come to this point, and no one is urging, waiting patiently.

About half an incense stick of time has passed.

Zhou Qing has been observing this door and the relief on the door, and his eyes have not moved away at all.

At this time, he finally let go and turned to look at Xu Bai and others. The shock in his eyes that could never be concealed had long been seen by Xu Bai and others.

"Let's go! It's a way to reverse life and death!" Zhou Qing just said this word simply, and was ready to return along the original route, without any sign of stopping.

"What's the situation? Explain it first." Xu Bai frowned, thinking that things were not so simple, and there must be a big guy hidden in it.

"This is definitely not something we can handle. Remember when we came in, it first became narrower and then became wider? Does it look like two opposing funnels?" Zhou Qing gestured with his hands, a bitter smile on his face, and described the terrain they had walked on before.

Xu Bai thought carefully for a moment, and it was really like this. The place they walked on was indeed distributed according to this terrain.

But the question is, what does the so-called reversal of life and death mean?

Not only Xu Bai, Yun Zihai and Qingxue didn't understand the tricks here, and all of them looked over, waiting for Zhou Qing to give them an answer.

Zhou Qing organized his words and knew that he had to make it clear at this time, otherwise he would be blamed.

"The so-called method of reversing life and death is to bring people back to life through a special formation. To put it simply, it is not a resurrection from the dead, because the person is not completely dead and buried underground. The dead air is used to bury the living air to prevent it from completely dissipating."

"And the funnel-shaped terrain we saw before, part of it is facing the outside, that is, the living air is poured into it from the outside, and after shrinking and compressing, it expands from another funnel, and the living air replaces the dead air."

"The living air replacing the dead air I mentioned here is just a pseudonym. The so-called living air refers to all people with the breath of living people, and we are that person, and the eighth prince is also that person."

Speaking of this, Zhou Qing roughly explained it.

He kept silent and waited for Xu Bai to make the next instruction. After all, here, Xu Bai is the one who can really make the decision.

Whether to fight or retreat, you have to give an explanation.

Xu Bai touched his chin with his hand, and after thinking over what Zhou Qing had just said, he got a shocking idea.

"King Shengyou is not completely dead, he wants to live again?"

Combined with what Zhou Qing said just now, the terrain here also fits what Zhou Qing said, plus the identity of the person buried here, Xu Bai quickly guessed this.

As soon as this bold idea came out, everyone present was stunned on the spot, and couldn't come back for a long time.

None of the people here are stupid, they are all smart people, and they think a lot of things very carefully.

When Xu Bai said this answer, they immediately thought of the possibility.

To be precise, the possibility is still very large.

"The prince... is not dead?" Qingxue's rosy lips opened wide, and a lot of things could be stuffed in.

If that's really the case, they really can't stay here.

Who is King Shengyou?

If he is still alive now, he can turn the whole Chu Kingdom upside down with a stomp of his feet.

Qingxue is a royal maid, of course, she knows more about the inside story than some laymen, especially the great achievements of King Shengyou.

That is a person who makes the entire hostile country tremble.

"I think we should go back first, and then I want to report to His Majesty and see how he handles it." Yun Zihai said with a serious face.

Although he has his own mission, the difficulties he is facing now are beyond his ability to handle, and he has no way to deal with them.

Moreover, he is not the kind of pedantic scholar. When encountering things, flexibility is the most important thing.

Xu Bai doesn't care. Anyway, he is just a helper this time. Since Yun Zihai doesn't want to participate, he can't wait to turn around and leave. Anyway, after turning around and leaving, his reward will not be less.

From knowing the situation to making up their minds to leave, it seems very slow, but in fact, this decision was made in just a moment.

They turned around and prepared to leave without any hesitation.

But the next moment, a strange situation appeared in this dark passage.

"Boom!"

A series of rumbling sounds sounded behind him.

When Xu Bai turned his head and saw the situation behind him, his brows were tightly locked together.

Behind them, the dark passage collapsed, blocking their retreat, and now they only had the door in front of them.

When the collapsed passage behind them appeared, the door in front of them also made a series of teeth-grinding sounds and was opening at an extremely slow speed.

Xu Bai: "..."

Does this mean that they have to go in?

As far as the situation in front of them is concerned, it really means that there is no way behind them, and there is darkness before life.

Zhou Qing's face was pale, and he muttered to himself: "Reverse the Yin and Yang of life and death, Yin and Yang cut off life and death, it's over, it's over, it's done, he's alive."

In his words, in addition to a trembling, there was more boundless fear.

What they are about to face is the King Shengyou who was once in the Great Chu Kingdom, but made the entire Great Yue Kingdom silent.

Yun Zihai thought about it, silently took a step forward, and walked in front of the crowd.

"Pop!"

Accompanied by a slight sound, the dark space behind the door was illuminated, and torches were inserted around the walls. When all the light sources gathered together, the whole space was like daylight.

Countless terracotta warriors and a stone coffin suspended at the back made this space lifeless and full of endless murderous intent.

Xu Bai frowned, feeling that something was wrong here.

The murderous aura was very strong. If it were an ordinary person here, they would be able to feel it clearly.

But Xu Bai and his companions were not ordinary people. They had experienced all kinds of bloody scenes. In terms of perception in this regard, they could detect the abnormality in the murderous intent.

This murderous aura was natural and was generated by each terracotta warrior himself. It was generated uncontrollably and was not directed at them.

In other words, when they walked into this huge space, there was no crisis for the time being.

"What is that?" At this moment, Qingxue suddenly raised her fair right hand and pointed to a location.

Everyone heard the voice and looked in the direction where Qingxue pointed, and found that the location was the huge stone coffin.

There was a faint shadow on the stone coffin, which was constantly shaking.

When the shadow appeared, an extremely domineering aura was constantly spreading, suppressing the murderous aura in the entire space by three points.

Domineering, powerful!

Full of the pressure of the superior, and a sense of iron and blood.

It was like a mountain that soared into the clouds. Standing in front of it, whether it was a huge elephant or a tiny ant, there would be a terrifying sense of oppression.

"Crack!"

As the shadow appeared, a terracotta warrior suddenly cracked on the ground, and then the soil on it broke and fell to the ground, revealing the true appearance inside.

Inside the terracotta warrior, a man in black stood expressionlessly, his hands drooped, his eyes closed, and his face was actually peaceful, as if he was asleep.

"Eighth Prince!" Yun Zihai's pupils shrank slightly.

He could no longer sense the breath of life from the Eighth Prince, and it was obvious that he was completely dead, but for some reason, he was still standing on the ground.

After Yun Zihai shouted this sentence, the Eighth Prince underwent a change.

He was like an ice cube, slowly melting and disappearing in front of everyone.

There was no trace of him on the ground, and he disappeared for no reason.

At this time, the breath in this space changed again.

The domineering aura became more intense after the Eighth Prince disappeared, and at the same time, in addition to the domineering aura, there was a hint of life.

As for why he could feel it, it was because the change of each aura was too strong, so strong that even ordinary people could detect it.

Xu Bai raised his head, looked at the shadow standing on the coffin, and said, "It's coming."

What?

It's coming?

Everyone was slightly stunned, and then, they looked over in the direction of Xu Bai's gaze, and immediately showed expressions of horror.

The shadow gradually solidified and turned into a person, and the person looked like the Eighth Prince at the beginning.

Although his face looked exactly like the Eighth Prince, everyone could feel that this person was not the Eighth Prince.

Just the domineering and strong aura alone was beyond the reach of the Eighth Prince.

"Resurrection from the dead, could it be..." Zhou Qing's face turned pale.

When this person who looked exactly like the Eighth Prince appeared, he waved his hand gently.

Then, the tens of thousands of terracotta warriors below actually cracked at the same time.

The sound of shattering was endless, and this scene made people feel magnificent.

The cracks on the terracotta warriors fell off, and living people walked out one after another.

They were all living people, without any dead breath.

When these living people walked out, they turned around and knelt down to the ground in front of the people on the coffin.

On the coffin, the "Eighth Prince" waved his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, straightened his back, and turned his eyes to Xu Bai and the others with boundless dominance.

"They are all good seedlings." The first sentence came out, as if praising them.

Then, the second sentence came out, but the momentum changed, becoming murderous.

"Dai Viet, will it be destroyed?"

You all know why the Eighth Prince got the book, right?()