Yao Qinxue? Why is she here? Ye Qiu looked puzzled but hid himself well.
Since he began to suspect that the Ye Family might be hiding so secret, he had been avoiding the National Master Mansion’s spies and investigating every night. He didn’t expect to encounter Yao Qinxue in this Deserted Hall today. Could she have discovered sothing as well?
It’s not surprising for him to speculate like this. After all, in his past life, she was with Zhang Yuwen. Zhang Yuwen, though highly talented, had only just entered the threshold of cultivation, but no matter how hard he tried, it would be difficult for him to be a match for the thousand-year-old State Preceptor, right?
Yao Qinxue was a very cautious person, not even allowing her own palace maid to follow her out, telling her to stay outside instead.
This abandoned palace wasn’t large, equipped with a bed and a bookshelf. It seed to have been the residence of a concubine from the harem, though probably of low rank. However, it couldn’t be ruled out that this was a deliberate ruse to mislead others.
As for why Yao Qinxue discovered there was a secret chamber here, it was because one day while wandering around she noticed sothing off about the layout. Clearly, the wall appeared wide. Why was the space inside narrow? Hence, she deduced there might be sothing suspicious between the two rooms, but as the wall was sealed, she hadn’t found the chanism yet.
Ye Qiu also noticed so peculiarities. The walls of this palace were indeed different from other palaces. Could there really be a secret inside?
"Where exactly is it?" Yao Qinxue murmured. Unfortunately, she had tried every movable object, even knocking on all the floor tiles, but still hadn’t discovered the chanism’s location.
"Lady, it’s late. We should leave." The little palace maid nervously glanced around, whispering to the inside.
"I know." Yao Qinxue, having not found the chanism, was a bit impatient, but after a while, she still ca out and left. Before leaving, she gave an unwilling glance back, showing she was likely to return.
After they left, Ye Qiu erged from behind the pillar. After visually estimating the size of the hall, he went to the next room, then smiled at the thick wall. Closing his eyes, he let his spiritual power extend into the wall, then suddenly opened his eyes.
He quickly stepped back, and then the sound of the wall moving was heard. The walls on both sides began to lower rapidly, revealing a secret chamber in front of him.
No wonder Yao Qinxue didn’t open the secret chamber; because she was an ordinary person, this chamber required imnse spiritual power to open. It seed in his past life Zhang Yuwen had been here and obtained the treasures within.
Thinking of this, anger arose in Ye Qiu’s heart. Although everyone in his past life was grateful to Zhang Yuwen for removing the State Preceptor, had he ever ntioned the Ye Family? Had he ever said that it was by obtaining the Ye Family’s treasure that he beca so powerful?
Indeed, people have self-interest, no matter how extraordinary, noble, or open-hearted they may seem.
Ye Qiu walked inside and imdiately saw two skeletons, one wearing a crown with a sword thrust into the chest, the other blackened, a small arrow lying on the ground — apparently poisoned to death.
By observing the state of their deaths, it wasn’t hard to deduce the truth of the matter. The man wearing the crown should have been an ancestor of the Ye Family, tracked to this secret chamber and murdered by a thief, but before dying, he released a sleeve arrow from his cuff, causing the thief to also die of poison.
No wonder the Ye Family’s lineage was broken; the ancestor who knew the secret had long been dead, unable to pass it on to an heir.
Ye Qiu recalled that roughly fifteen hundred years ago, an ancestor of the Ye Family, an emperor, seed to have disappeared. Coincidentally, foreign forces invaded at that ti, and a prince was hastily selected to ascend, preventing major chaos.
Ye Qiu knelt and bowed to the skeletal ancestor of the Ye Family before starting to carefully inspect the secret chamber.
What first caught his attention was the sword lodged in his ancestor’s chest. Fifteen hundred years had passed, yet the sword remained as new, incomparably sharp. What intrigued him most were the gemstones on the sword, faintly glowing with a blue light even in the dark.
Ye Qiu recalled past events; indeed, this sword felt familiar because Zhang Yuwen used it in his battle with the State Preceptor in his past life.
The crown on his head was not ordinary either. The skeleton on the ground had a corrupt, carbonized aura, as if it would crumble at a touch, yet even after fifteen hundred years, his ancestor’s bones were white as jade, seemingly emitting a luminescent glow.
Ye Qiu held the crown in his hand and imdiately understood its function; it constantly absorbed the ambient energy from the air.
This item would be perfect for Ye Ying, he nodded to himself, then carefully put away the sword and crown before descending the stairs.
The lights along the stairs lit up in response. Who knew how this secret chamber was constructed — it wasn’t suffocating in the least, and the air circulated freely. After descending over twenty ters, he finally reached the destination, a vast dicine Pond. Unfortunately, the Spiritual dicine within had dried up, leaving only a layer of black residue.
Beside the dicine Pond, however, stood a huge rack filled with dicine bottles and boxes.
Ye Qiu casually opened a box; it likely once held a Spiritual dicine, but having aged too long, it had weathered into dust.
The bottles presumably contained Elixirs, similar to the Spiritual dicine, but they had long lost their Spiritual Energy due to the aging process.
The bookshelf contained books about identifying Spiritual dicine and Alchemy, revealing that the Ye Family’s ancestors were Alchemists. But why had they descended into the Mortal World?
After perusing all the books, he reached a conclusion. The Ye Family’s ancestors had been highly esteed in the Cultivation World, but had accidentally obtained an ancient alchemical collection in a secret realm, which allegedly contained recipes for an Elixir of Eternal Life and an Immortal Elixir for instant ascension.
This rumor was incredulously far-fetched, yet those whose cultivation hopes were shattered or were nearing the end of their lifespan believed it. Whether true or false, they felt they had to try, resulting in the Ye Family being hunted by many cultivators, eventually forcing them to flee to the Mortal World to temporarily escape the danger.
Moreover, the supposedly miraculous elixir recipes were exaggerated. In reality, there is no such thing as immortality; they rely extended life, and instant ascension only slightly accelerated cultivation speed.
Yet even so, the Ye Family knew that making it public would lead to chaos and bloodshed, so they secretly sought the spiritual dicines listed in the elixir recipes of the Cultivation World while maintaining their roles as emperors.
They must have been exposed, thus fated to be assassinated.
In addition to these, Ye Qiu also found many Spirit Stones and other items for cultivation, as well as so of the Ye Family’s ancient treasures — overall, it was quite a significant find.
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