Zhou Madman had a cunning look on his face, which made Liu Zixuan taken aback for a mont.
Whoever said this guy was just stingy and money-loving, this dude is quite smart!
Liu Zixuan felt that he had underestimated Zhou Madman before. Using that illogical front, he hid his true intentions, making it seem like his sches were even more abundant than Liu Zixuan's!
With a cunning look in his eyes, he said with a smile, "I can defeat the demon sound ghost doctor and kill the Witch Country ninja, but if I get these treasures, I can also kill you and bury you here! By then, the treasures and your daughter will all be mine!"
Zhou Madman heard this and slapped his thigh, laughing, "Kid, are you trying to scare ?"
"Do you think I don't have the capability to scare you?" Liu Zixuan said with a mischievous smile.
"I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice. I know your kind well enough, so don't use this thod. The water level is already dropping, if we keep debating, we won't be able to enter the Seven-Star Tomb!"
Liu Zixuan gave Zhou Madman a sideways look, growing more curious about what kind of person this guy really was!
Call him smart, and sotis his IQ seems questionable; call him a fool, yet he's extrely shrewd!
"All that salt didn't kill you?" Liu Zixuan muttered angrily, then asked, "How do we get in?"
"Close your eyes!" Zhou Madman jumped into the ditch and said.
"Why? Afraid I'll steal your grave-entering skills?"
"Family Secret Technique, not to be passed on!"
"Fine, fine!" Liu Zixuan slowly closed his eyes.
Don't forget, our handso Liu has X-ray Vision, so even though his eyes were closed, he could still see everything outside!
He saw Zhou Madman take a golden turtle shell out of his pocket, about the size of a palm, pour out so copper coins from it, and then toss them into the air!
Strangely, those copper coins hovered above the water instead of sinking. Then, Zhou Madman placed the turtle shell in the middle of the copper coins and began muttering sothing Liu Zixuan couldn't understand!
But Liu Zixuan could tell, this was geomancy involving Tai Chi Trigrams, similar to what tomb raiders in movies do, using the Eight Trigrams to deduce the location of the tomb.
It turns out Zhou Madman is quite the mysticism master!
But in the next mont, Liu Zixuan was even more shocked by the scene that unfolded!
A huge whirlpool appeared in the pit of water where they stood, and soon a whirlpool trench about two square ters opened beneath their feet. Below was not the trench's mud, but a concrete slab!
Zhou Madman bent down to collect the turtle shell and copper coins, then forcefully lifted the concrete slab.
"Let's go!" Zhou Madman said to Liu Zixuan.
Liu Zixuan opened his eyes and pretended to be amazed, "This is amazing! Zhou Boss, how did you do it?"
"Just a small trick!" Zhou Madman proudly said, "If my dead ancestors were here, they'd do it even easier than !"
"I am in awe!"
"So, take good care of my daughter, and before I head to the Western Heaven in the future, I might consider passing this Secret Technique on to you!" Zhou Madman said boastfully, and then pulled Liu Zixuan to jump down into the space below the concrete slab!
The pit was over two ters deep, and as they jumped down, the entrance cleverly closed on its own. Everything was pitch black in front of them, nothing to be seen!
Zhou Madman took out his phone and turned on the flashlight function, revealing what lay before them!
In front of them was a passage that seed to be a hundred ters long, different from the tomb passage in Lingxiu Village. However, Liu Zixuan felt that this place was even larger than the Seven-Star Tomb in Lingxiu Village.
Zhou Madman, with a look of excitent, shouted, "Wow, this ti I'm going to strike it rich!"
"An empty burial passage, what kind of fortune could there be?" Liu Zixuan asked speechlessly.
"You know nothing!"
Zhou Madman grinned and said, "Our ancestors said the Seven-Star Tomb is ford by capturing the essences of Heaven and Earth and aligns with the Big Dipper in the sky, yet it only has a burial chamber, not a passage. Now that there's a passage here, based on my years of tomb experience, this must be a tomb within a tomb!"
"A tomb within a tomb?" Liu Zixuan asked suspiciously.
"So-called tomb within a tomb is a thod used by ancient people, especially prominent ones, to prevent tomb robbers. They'd build another tomb on top of the burial site!"
Hearing Zhou Madman's explanation, Liu Zixuan asked puzzledly, "Didn't the ancients emphasize Feng Shui? Building another tomb over a burial site would ruin the Feng Shui, wouldn't it?"
"Kid, there's a lot you need to learn!"
Zhou Madman smiled mysteriously and posed as if giving a lesson to Liu Zixuan, "Feng Shui is about the Five Elents, which are inseparable from Yin and Yang, the two poles that form the Eight Trigrams. If there's a tomb within a tomb, then that's Yin and Yang in reverse."
"So the tomb within a tomb isn't above or beside the Seven-Star Tomb, it's like a cuckoo in a nest, right inside the Seven-Star Tomb. And I bet, to avoid ruining the Feng Shui, there's definitely an extraordinary treasure here to balance the Yin and Yang!"
"An extraordinary treasure?" Liu Zixuan beca interested. Last ti in the Seven-Star Tomb in Lingxiu Village, he only got a Luminous Pearl, a Silver Needle Array manual, and so Celestial Dew; the rest were taken by his beautiful master.!
"Hehe!" Zhou Madman didn't bother explaining further, directly striding forward, "This ti I'll be rich; an extraordinary treasure like this is worth a fortune. After this deal, I'll beco the richest man in Ghost Wood City, hahaha!"
Watching the extrely excited Zhou Madman, Liu Zixuan pinched his forehead. Damn it, if such a treasure really exists, I won't let you have it!
He said this as he walked inside.
But Zhou Madman had only taken about ten steps forwards when he suddenly stopped, his face changing drastically, showing fear, and then turning pale as a ghost.
He trembled as he muttered, "Liu… Liu Zixuan!"
"What's wrong?" Liu Zixuan looked around but saw nothing!
"Foot… underfoot! I've stepped on a trap!" Zhou Madman's legs were trembling, and sweat as big as soybeans was running down his forehead.
Liu Zixuan looked at his foot, and indeed, the stone under Zhou Madman's left foot had sunken in.
He folded his arms, grinning, "Weren't you just talking all about Secret Techniques and how amazing your ancestors were? Why so scared now?"
"I got too eager to find the treasure and didn't pay attention, alright?" Zhou Madman cursed, "Hurry up and help ."
"No way to help. If you step off that stone, the chanism will definitely activate," Liu Zixuan shrugged, "How about this: just wait here, I'll go find the treasure, and when I take it out, I'll save you on the way out!"
"Damn, you can't treat your old father-in-law like this!"
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