Gu Heng didn't really mind making a trip for nothing.

  The setbacks he had faced before were no less signifit thaurniy-handed. Although, strictly speaking, he did end up with a ghost as a... friend?

  At least it wasn't a pet.

  Carrying a ntern with Jian Xuan illuminating from within, the grand hall didn't seem particurly dark. He wandered around the hall a few times.

  Finally, he stopped, feeling a bit disappointed.

  There was definitely no opportunity here.

  This pce was the tomb of some emperor, but it had absolutely nothing to do with the Sunfre Empire. The imperial tombs of that dynasty weren't located here, and they certainly weren't pces a mortal could trespass. The reason there was a tomb in this mountain robably because the previous dynasty was destroyed, and the st emperor's tomb was only built in this remote wilderness.

  In the ter of the grand hall was a bronze coffin, its lid pried open!

  Seeing this miserable state, Gu Heng knew he was defioo te. Perhaps there had been opportunities before, but now there were certainly no.

  There wasn't much left here either. He could see some burial gold and silver, or very ordinary inferior white jade, but he wasn't ied ihings. Wealth was indispensable to him, but it wasn't that important. It was better to avoid the act of stealing s.

  The only truly impressive things were the twelve armored statues beside the coffin. In life, they might have been the emperor's stro warriors. Ih, their armor ced here to guard the coffin.

  But obviously, they didn't stop those who pried open the coffin.

  "Sigh... it seems the guy lying here is quite pitiful too."

  Gu Heng bowed twice to the coffin to show respect for the deceased. Then, out of curiosity, he gnced ihe coffin, wanting to see how luxurious the emperor's "bed" was after death.

  He looked and found no bones inside.

  But at the bottom, there was a silver-white jade pendant lying quietly, its luster smooth and bright. Even though the coffin seemed somewhat corroded, the jade pendant was not.

  "What is this?"

  Gu Heng picked it up and exami, but couldn't dis anything special. He finally pced it directly into the System Backpack.

  Suddenly, the twelve armored statues beside him started to move!

  "g!"

  A sound of metal g echoed as the armored statues raised their swords and swiftly attacked Gu Heng!

  "These things move!?"

  Jian Xuan excimed in shock. It seemed that some dormant souls were housed withiwelve armors, but now they were suddenly awakened, each possessing the strength of the tenth level of the Tribution Crossing stage.

  It seemed that the Tomb of the Nameless Emperor was indeed filled with da every step.

  Jian Xuan thought that even if he had passed the first two obstacles unscathed back then, he would likely have been killed upoering this grand hall.

  "Tsk, why is it always these little tricks, s."

  Gu Heng frowhinking that he hadn't seen any truly harmful traps in this tomb, only these tricks meant to fool people.

  He directly engaged, using his fists ao dismahe moving armored statues into a pile of parts.

  His "Body Refining" skill was also extraordinary, and it was indeed very useful. Although it couldn't make money, after Gu Heng trai to the highest level, he never suffered from those inor ailments again.

  He even onpeted with a two-hundred-pound mortal strongman in breaking stones on his chest.

  These things weren't scary at all.

  "Are you okay, Old Xuan?"

  Gu Heng shook the ntern in his hand.

  "I'm fine. Young Master Gu's strength is indeed formidable. This setup is truly useless against you."

  Jian Xuan watched as Gu Heng effortlessly dismahe twelve armored soul spirits. Even in life, he might not have been able to easily hawelve such powerful entities. He wondered just how strong this Young Master Gu's cultivation was.

  Speg ointless.

  He couldn't eve Gu Heng's aura; it was too well cealed.

  "Yeah, yeah, whatever you say."

  Gu Heng didn't want to pay him any more attention. After being a ghost, Jian Xuan's thinking wasn't very clear, and he might really think of him as some formidable figure.

  But what intrigued him was that as soon as he approached the bronze coffin, these armored statues moved... was it because he took that jade pendant?

  If that was the case, then this jade pendant might have some significe.

  But he certainly couldn't figure it out here, so Gu Heng decided to leave first and head into the city.

  He turned and walked out of the grand hall.

  Following the path he had e, he exited the cave and found himself outside. Gu Heng looked up and saw that the sky was already beginning thten.

  Unknowingly, the night had passed.

  Gu Heng didn't feel tired, perhaps because he had left the familiar pce of Greenwood City, making it hard to sleep in the wilderness.

  "Hmm, good boy."

  Gu Heng saw the little silver cat lying by the tree roots and khe little guy had obediently listeo him, not wandering off and patiently waiting for him to e out.

  Sensing the ripple in the wall of sword i, Su Jinxi immediately looked up. Gu Heng walked out with a ntern, and she squinted her cat eyes, notig that there seemed to be a powerful remnant soul iern!

  Did the master have a gain?

  "Oh... it's actually a Nine-Lives Demon Cat at the tenth level of the Tribution Crossing stage?"

  Jian Xuan also saw her and was momentarily stunned.

  "Who are you?"

  Su Jinxi unicated through thought, staring ily at the glowing white orb ihe ntern.

  "Purple Sword True Immortal, Jian Xuan."

  "Purple Sword True Immortal? The Ten Thousand Sword Immortal Sect's elder who mysteriously disappeared over two thousand years ago?"

  Su Jinxi was also taken aback. She certainly hadn't expected Gu Heng t out the former elder of the Ten Thousand Sword Immortal Sect, long presumed dead, from this hidden pow, he lived in the form of a remnant soul, over two thousand years having passed, with a new sect leader and elder.

  "I once had friends among the Nine-Lives Demon Cat . How is Su Fang now?"

  "Su Fang is now the leader of our ," Su Jinxi replied.

  Jian Xuahat time had indeed flown by.

  "It seems we now have a aster."

  Su Jinxi looked at the a mp housing Jian Xuan's soul, immediately reizing its extraordinary nature. It seemed Gu Heng had taken pity on the remnant soul and housed it, allowing it to nurture its soul in peace.

  Jian Xuan had iumbled upon good fortune.

  "However, why don't you reveal your true form?" Jian Xuan asked.

  "He likes me this robably thinks I look cuter like this."

  "Oh..."

  Jian Xuan uood. He had once kept a small demon cat, a demo, very small, and it felt o pet. Sihen, he had a particur fondness for cats.

  But pared to him, Gu Heng's pursuits were evidently more refined.

  He kept a demo, while Gu He a demon member, and a tenth-level Tribution Crossing stage demon member at that.

  "e back, we should head into the city."

  Gu Heng pced the a mp into the System Backpack. The System Backpack couldn't store living things, and the soul ihe mp was evidently not defined as a living being. He picked up Little Xi, pg her in his arms, and followed the path down the mountain.

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