Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2601 Footprints
Ying Baoyue woke up from the darkness and found herself lying in a cold corridor with her hands tightly hugging herself.

This is an instinctive reaction in severe pain.

This is what death feels like.

Ying Baoyue sat up quietly from the ground, feeling empty in his heart.

After her eyes adjusted to the darkness around her, she could gradually see some things clearly.

Ying Baoyue reached for her waist, fortunately the Red Lotus Sword was still beside her.

She lit the sword and illuminated her surroundings, only to see that above her head and on both sides were bluestone walls, not naturally formed stone walls.

Ying Baoyue calmed herself down and determined that she was probably in the tomb passage. Behind her was a pile of collapsed rubble, and her retreat was completely blocked.

She has come back.

The tomb where she was reborn.

It was silent all around, with nothing but the sound of water dripping from the cracks in the rocks.

There was no sound of any living creature, nor any sign of Li Ji, Ji Mo and others.

It seemed that she fell into the crack in the ground alone, and the entrance to the tomb opened, sucked her in, and then closed again. People outside couldn't find her for a while.

Is she alone again?

Ying Baoyue slowly got up from the ground and looked at the empty tomb passage in front of him.

It seemed that the owner of this mausoleum only welcomed her to enter.

Ying Baoyue used his sword as a torch and walked step by step inside along the tomb passage.

The sword fire illuminated her face, leaving a long shadow behind her.

The further she walked, the stronger the strange sense of familiarity became. She had never seen the scene before, but she had a strong feeling that she had been to this place before, and it didn't seem like she had walked this road for the first time.

Ying Baoyue understood that it was probably because she had walked this distance while being unconscious.

Soon, her guess was confirmed.

The tomb soon came to an end, and a huge stone door appeared in front of her.

The stone door was tightly closed, with two ferocious statues squatting on both sides.

One of them looks vaguely like a Teng Snake, and the other looks like a dragon but not a dragon.

But no matter which one it is, it is not the common image of the Eight Beast God, but an image that has been transformed into an evil one.

Ying Baoyue stared at the two statues in silence. She had also seen such evil statues in the underground palace beneath the Ganlu Hall in the Afang Palace.

She stepped forward and placed her palm on the stone door.

The stone gate remained motionless.

Ying Baoyue thought about it, then cut his palm with the sword, and blood gushed out.

She placed her palm on the stone door again. The surface of the stone door made a sizzling sound, and the blood on her palm was absorbed, followed by a huge vibration the next moment.

The door opened.

Sure enough.

Ying Baoyue took a deep breath. A year ago, the two coffin bearers had successfully reached the tomb chamber thanks to the bloodline of Ying Baoyue's body.

As the stone door suddenly opened, the pungent smell of mercury filled Ying Baoyue's nostrils.

She immediately mobilized her true energy for protection and then stepped into the stone gate.

A huge space appeared in front of her.

It was a place that was both familiar and strange to her. Mercury was the sea and the stars were the sky.

Ying Baoyue quietly gazed at this magnificent underground palace. Compared with the one under the Ganlu Palace, this underground palace was many times more luxurious.

When she walked out after her rebirth last year, she was unclear and weak, and had no time to pay attention to her surroundings. She only remembered that she held on to her last breath and walked out. She didn't remember how she got out, let alone take a close look at the place. She only vaguely remembered that there were many shiny things along the way.

Everything was the same as before, except this time she could see everything clearly.

Mercury is used to represent rivers and seas, and the machine is used to infuse them with astronomy above and geography below. Mermaid fat is used as candles, and they will not go out for a long time.

On the ceiling inlaid with countless gems, the twenty-eight constellations are dazzling, and when you lower your head, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge sea of ​​mercury.

There is a golden avenue in the center of the sea, surrounded by countless mermaid candles on both sides of the road, each of which is as thick as two people can hug together and more than two meters high.

In front of the Golden Avenue, there is a map of the Qin Empire laid out in obsidian. Under the reflection of the burning flames of the giant candles, it seems that the afterglow of the empire can still be seen.

Ying Baoyue looked up at the twenty-eight constellations in the sky and slowly walked to the obsidian map.

She looked down at the map on the ground, and suddenly her pupils shrank.

Unlike when she walked out, the original black map with white lines was now dotted with many rubies. Some of the rubies even crossed the territory of the Qin Dynasty and were placed outside the map, in the northernmost part.

Each ruby ​​was like a road sign and an arrow, starting from the current Lishan Mountain, to Guiyang, then passing through Yunmeng Lake and Lancang Sea, to Danyang in Southern Chu, then to the capital of Eastern Wu, then to Northern Wei, then to the Xiling Snow Mountain, then to Dingling in Western Rong, and then back to the White Wolf King’s Court…

Ying Baoyue felt cold all over as he looked at the rubies.

These are not gems, but every place she has been to in the past year, her footprints in the past year.

Someone was watching her.

Someone down there has been watching every step she has taken and every thing she has done over the past year.

This person even recorded the places where she went to Xirong and Dingling, where she traveled alone.

Ying Baoyue stared at the map that covered all her experiences in the past year, then looked up at the huge coffin in the center of the mercury sea.

The coffin was as big as a small house, and there was originally another smaller coffin next to it. That was where her body had rested for the past eight years.

The small coffin had turned to ashes a year ago, and only the huge coffin remained intact.

Ying Baoyue stared at the giant coffin for a long time, crossed the obsidian map, and set foot on the golden road leading to the giant coffin.

This is a path that only those who are not celestial-level practitioners can walk on.

The surging mercury carrying poisonous gases continued to surge onto the Golden Avenue, and Ying Baoyue seemed to see countless corroded corpses on the shore.

A year ago, she stumbled out of this avenue.

A year later, she was able to walk slowly on this avenue.

She didn't know how long she walked before she finally arrived in front of the huge coffin.

The giant coffin was placed on an isolated island in the middle of the Mercury Sea. Although it was called an isolated island, it was actually a high platform made of white jade.

Under the high platform, the golden avenue turned into a path of white jade.

By this time, Ying Baoyue's shoes had been completely corroded. She stepped barefoot onto the white jade steps and walked to the huge bronze coffin.

The giant coffin was engraved with dense patterns, all of which were spells and formations.

Ying Baoyue hesitated for a moment and placed his hand on the surface of the giant coffin.

The bronze was so cold that it seemed as if it had been sleeping in the abyss for a thousand years. The chill penetrated through the skin and went straight into Ying Baoyue's bones.

She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but she saw the patterns on the surface of the huge bronze coffin light up.

The next moment, she disappeared in front of the huge coffin.