As everyone knows, digging up dirt reveals only a coffin, and that's called a grave.
But a tomb, the final resting place for those powerful figures, generals, ministers, kings, and dukes, is like the mansion or palace they lived in during their lives, extrely large inside.
Of course, in people's understanding, no matter how magnificent a tomb is, it's still a place for the dead; apart from empty space, so burial artifacts, and a lonely coffin, there's nothing else.
Yet as Liu Zixuan and Crazy Zhou looked through the doorway, they were stunned. The space inside defied their understanding.
"This... this is so unbelievable!" muttered Crazy Zhou, astonished. "I've been to no less than a thousand tombs, if not eight hundred, but I've never seen one as peculiar as this."
Liu Zixuan glanced ahead and saw a corridor behind the opened door. Ordinary tomb corridors are mostly made of stone bricks, appearing very secluded and almost empty.
But the corridor ahead seed like it was leading to another world.
The corridor wasn't very long, about a hundred ters or so, but the entire corridor was paved with green plants, and these were real plants, not decorations.
The lush green ford a passageway, and the buildings that were supposed to be walls were composed of grapevine-like trellises, looking extraordinarily beautiful.
Liu Zixuan paused for a mont: "Let's go in and take a look."
"Be cautious; I've never encountered a tomb like this," Crazy Zhou said, frowning.
As the words fell, they moved inside, walking from west to east, reaching the end of the corridor, a north-south narrow passage.
Liu Zixuan looked south, one side of the passage had approximately three or four houses, all made of wood,
the architectural style had the historical charm from over a thousand years ago, matching Crazy Zhou's description of Lanlou Ancient Country architecture.
To the north were structures similar to courtyards without houses, with the lower section about a ter high made of stones and the upper part constructed of wood.
The size of the buildings on both sides was more than three tis that of Ghost Wood City's Seven-Star Tomb!
This was rely the area they first saw.
Liu Zixuan murmured suspiciously: "As far as I know, whether in Star Sea or abroad, whether places for the living or burial sites for the dead, they are mostly oriented from east to start, west to end. Yet we walked from west to east coming in."
"Not only is this reversed, even the orientation of the houses is reversed; most of our residences are north-facing with doors inclined eastward."
Crazy Zhou pointed to the buildings on both sides and said, "Look here, it's entirely opposite, really bizarre."
"Indeed, this doesn't look like a tomb at all, but rather a place where people live!"
As Liu Zixuan said this, suddenly, for so unknown reason, he and Crazy Zhou involuntarily exchanged glances, and both felt goosebumps rising.
After a mont, Crazy Zhou spoke in surprise: "You... you don't think there might actually be... living people here, do you?"
Liu Zixuan took a deep breath: "The air here is ample; there should be large ventilation openings, or perhaps the other end connects to the outside. The possibility of living people isn't impossible."
"Then..." Crazy Zhou paused: "Can this still be called a tomb?"
"Why don't we just find out?" Liu Zixuan said dismissively, "You just claid to have been to hundreds of tombs; haven't you seen strange things before? What's there to be afraid of here? If there are people, that's much better than encountering ghosts."
Crazy Zhou pinched his clothes and quickly approached Liu Zixuan: "Our ancestors from Six Gates have dealt with tombs for generations, and have never encountered such peculiar existence, but I'm sure the architectural style and various layouts are all connected to Lanlou Ancient Country."
"This certainly isn't the lost relic of Lanlou Ancient Country, but it might have been built by soone who once left that ancient country. I recalled ntioning to you before, a 'mausoleum within a mausoleum' is highly unique and often involves strange occurrences."
The Seven-Star Tomb in Ghost Wood City was such a 'mausoleum within a mausoleum'!
Liu Zixuan had a vague illusion that Ghost Wood City's was a 'mausoleum within a mausoleum', and the one here in Celestial Capital was too. Could the so-called Seven-Star Tombs all be such?
He felt the need to take ti to return to Lingxiu Village to see if there were hidden Seven-Star Tombs around that grave.
Every instance of Seven-Star Tombs appearing with a 'mausoleum within a mausoleum' is definitely no coincidence.
The two first walked south, as the north consisted of courtyards, with nothing peculiar at first glance, but the small houses intrigued them greatly.
The houses were small, such that people below one and a half ters tall could live comfortably, but if taller, their heads would bump.
Upon arriving, Liu Zixuan truly saw that there were four houses, each separated by a stone wall over a ter high.
Each house's door had mysterious inscriptions, not the character Profound.
"What do these four characters an?" Liu Zixuan asked.
"Death to the Tomb Entrant!" Crazy Zhou's voice trembled, "This is Lanlou script; I've learned so, and those of us dealing with tombs recognize these four characters."
"Why do you seem so afraid?"
The words 'death to tomb entrants' or 'death to intruders' are common in tombs; logically, Crazy Zhou should be used to them, yet he spoke with a trembling voice!
Crazy Zhou shrank behind Liu Zixuan's back: "I just looked closely and felt as if there were eyes staring at us from the first room."
Liu Zixuan raised an eyebrow: "You can't be hallucinating from excessive tension, can you?"
"Do you think I'd be nervous after visiting so many tombs?" Crazy Zhou said seriously, "This tomb is truly bizarre; be incredibly cautious. If it's too much, we should retreat."
"Retreat? That's not happening," Liu Zixuan promptly rejected Crazy Zhou's suggestion. The Seven-Star Tombs were significant clues left by his beautiful master, and he had to find all seven Seven-Star Tombs.
First, the Seven-Star Tombs could make Liu Zixuan stronger, and secondly, his beautiful master had said that she would et Liu Zixuan in one of the Seven-Star Tombs.
Therefore, no matter how dangerous, Liu Zixuan must face it head-on.
Glancing at Crazy Zhou, he headed directly towards the first house, pushed the wooden door, and it creaked open.
Following Liu Zixuan, Crazy Zhou looked up suddenly, seeing the objects in the room, his scalp tingled, and the grown man scread aloud...
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