Stranger Danger

“Hmm?”

Ye Qing was trying to scan the interior of the Kunlun Tomb with his demonic thought, but it was blocked as soon as it made contact with the walls.

“This is… made from Nether Bamboo Stone?”

Ye Qing could not help but exclaim in surprise when he walked up to the entrance and touched the stone door in front of him.

The stone door was tall, massive, and black as night. It was emitting a dark aura, and engravings of worship and deities decorated its surface. It looked both solemn and serene.

It wasn’t just the entrance. The entire Kunlun Tomb was created from this dark stone.

The stone was called the Nether Bamboo Stone. It was unbelievably rare and precious because it could only be found at least five thousand meters underground, and it took a thousand years of compression for the nether qi to turn into this stone.

The Nether Bamboo Stone was extremely heavy and resilient. It was immune to all elements and conventional weapons. It could also shackle astral qi and insulate spiritual energy, which was why no Magia or secret art could damage it in any way.

Because of this characteristic, the Nether Bamboo Stone was the natural choice when building a secret room, treasure box, and other important buildings.

Unfortunately, the Nether Bamboo Stone could only be found five thousand meters underground, and it took at least a thousand years to form. The Nether Bamboo Stone’s unique characteristic meant that it was impossible to move using force or spirit, and it was unbelievably heavy and resilient as well. The only way to excavate it was to brute force it bit by bit using pure physical strength.

As a result, only a small quantity of Nether Bamboo Stones existed in this world. Due to its immense rarity and value, it was far more common to mix powdered Nether Bamboo Stone into other materials instead of building something out of pure Nether Bamboo Stone. The latter was simply too luxurious an option even for some powerful sects or major clans. They usually only applied it to small objects as well.

This was why Ye Qing almost couldn’t believe that West Kunlun had built this massive tomb using pure Nether Bamboo Stone. As for the amount of manpower, wealth and resources it must have taken to undertake such a project… he simply could not imagine it.

It wasn’t until now that Ye Qing truly realized just how massive and powerful West Kunlun really was.

Despite his lamentations, Ye Qing wasted no time in doing what he came here to do. He sucked in a deep breath until his eyes shone a dark light, and it was as if the sun and the moon were rising and falling behind his eyes. At the same time, a dark yellow aura drifted around him and gave him a lofty, thick, and massive feeling.

“Earthly Sovereign True Body”

The next moment, Ye Qing stepped forward and pressed his hands against the massive door. Then, he pushed forward with all his might.

As the entire Kunlun Tomb was made from Nether Bamboo Stone, it was absolutely impossible to look inside the Kunlun Tomb or infiltrate it using any Magia or secret art. Therefore, the only way left for him was to open the stone door.

Of course, the method to open the door was very simple. All he needed to do was to push it.

Not only that, the Nether Bamboo Stone’s insulating qualities also meant that he did not need to worry about the tomb being booby-trapped by restrictions or arrays.

But as with most things in the world, it was easier said than done.

As the Nether Bamboo Stone was immune to all arts, he could only rely on pure physical strength to open the door. However, the Nether Bamboo Stone was also unbelievably heavy and dense. To give an example, a fist-sized Nether Bamboo Stone weighed around almost fifty kilograms give or take.

The stone door in front of him was unbelievably huge. Even if it was made out of ordinary stone, it would have weighed several thousand kilograms at least. The Nether Bamboo Stone? He was looking at a weight of a couple hundred thousand kilograms.

Forget an ordinary Great Trueman or Half Sage, even a Great Grandmaster or body-tempering Half Sage would be hardpressed to move such a weight.

That said, Ye Qing had many advantages that most people did not have. For starters, he was an extraordinary Great Grandmaster who cultivated the “Earthly Sovereign Scripture”, the martial art practiced by the ancient Earthly Sovereign himself. He had also reached the journeyman level of the martial art and created the most basic version of the Earthly Sovereign True Body. His body was tough enough to handle whatever exertion he placed on it, and his strength could easily move mountains. ꞦäΝőВĚṩ

On top of that, his stamina was theoretically infinite. He would never run out of energy so long as his feet were planted on the ground. Therefore, he of all people had the possibility of opening this door.

Of course, it was just a possibility. He would be lying if he said he was confident. The damn thing was made out of Nether Bamboo Stone after all.

Crack… crack… crack…

As Ye Qing pushed, the ground beneath his feet—which was paved using Nether Bamboo Stone as well—broke inch by inch. The spots where his hands were pushing had caved inward as well.

Rumble…

The stone door let out a deafening, creaky noise as it swung open slowly.

It’s working!

Ye Qing was relieved to see that his efforts weren’t futile. He sucked in a deep breath and continued to push the door.

“Hmm? Someone is pushing the tomb’s door?”

At Forgotten Peak, Elder Tomb Keeper was toying with another pair of black shirt intruders when suddenly, he sensed something and looked at the sea of clouds shrouding the peak.

“What a fool.”

He immediately broke into a sneer though. As the Elder Tomb Keeper, he knew exactly how heavy the door was. It weighed almost two hundred and fifty thousand kilograms, and no one except a Sage could open it singlehandedly.

Of course, West Kunlun had their own fixed method to open the tomb. After all, they couldn’t possibly trouble Jiang Yunlai or other Sages every time they needed to open the door, right?

To open the tomb door, West Kunlun had raised a Disaster-class Stranger known as Nine-headed Mountain-bearing Beast. Shaped like an elephant, it was as big as a hill and had a back that was as wide as a plain. It was unbelievably strong and could lift an entire mountain or an entire chunk of land without trouble. Hence the name.

That was why Elder Tomb Keeper’s first reaction after discovering that someone was trying to open the tomb door was scorn and disdain.

However, his smile stiffened the very next moment.

It was because he heard the sound of rumbling.

It wasn’t the rumbles of thunder or something. It was the sound of the tomb door opening.

“Impossible. This cannot be possible!”

Elder Tomb Keeper was flabbergasted. As much as he wished to say that he was hearing things, he was the Elder Tomb Keeper. He more than anyone was familiar with the sound of the door opening. That was why he could not deny the reality he was hearing.

He could still accept this outcome if more than one person was pushing the door, but his senses told him that there was only one pusher.

How could any one man possibly push open a door that weighed over two hundred and fifty thousand kilograms via brute strength?

Are they… a Sage?

He rejected the motion immediately. It was because he could tell that the pusher’s aura, while extremely potent, was dissimilar from the unfathomable, united aura of a Sage.

Plus, a Sage could probably have suppressed him and the rest of the Tomb Keepers with a single thought. They would not have bothered to lure him away from the tomb.

If the pusher wasn’t a Sage, then he must be a Great Grandmaster. There was no other answer.

After his shock had passed, Elder Tomb Keeper was gripped by a sudden flare of anger and killing intent, “Audacious thief! Cease your action this instant!”

As soon as he said this, countless red threads grew out of Elder Tomb Keeper’s body. They enveloped everything within a hundred meters of him in an instant and looked like a red sea from a distance.

The two black-shirt intruders he was toying with were crushed into paste in an instant.

The next moment, Elder Tomb Keeper raced toward the Kunlun Tomb.

However, he didn’t manage to go far before a dozen or so figures appeared all around him and charged toward him.

They were part of the group of black-shirt intruders who invaded Forgotten Peak earlier.

“Get out of my way!” Elder Tomb Keeper growled.

At first, the red threads gathered and withdrew unto themselves. Then, it abruptly spilled open like a flash flood and dyed anything and everything in front of Elder Tomb Keeper in red.

The black-shirt intruders at the forefront were instantly overwhelmed by the red sea and killed in both body and mind.

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