Rewrite the myth and become the Taoist!

Chapter 333 Celestial Immortal, Evil-Suppressing Spiritual Weapon, Burying Immortals

[The faces of everyone in the painting are clearly discernible; you can even see the pistol at Wen Shengnan's waist. And the gloved woman standing at the very front...]

"This is me?" Gao Feixue's voice was so dry it sounded unlike her own. "Did people from five thousand years ago know we would come here? It's unbelievable..."

"A prophecy? An apocalypse?" Wen Shengnan sensed something unusual about the First Emperor's mausoleum.

Gao Feixue carefully studied the murals outside the hall, finding they matched the events recorded in the historical annals. One mural depicted strange celestial beings and a large white serpent descending from the heavens, all of whom were suppressed beneath a magnificent golden palace.

From this point onward, the people of the Xia dynasty in the murals begin to refer to that figure as—the First Emperor!

"The First Emperor collected all the gold in the land and used it to build the Chang Le Palace."

If Gao Feixue wasn't mistaken, this was indeed the mysterious Chang Le Palace.

"What's next?" Wen Shengnan knew that the First Emperor was the most outstanding figure in the history of the Xia dynasty, a tyrant who unified the world through personal military force.

The Xia peoples had neither silver nor gold; they revered bronze. It was the First Emperor who, after conquering the land, amassed all the gold and silver to build this palace.

[In the next mural, people from all corners of the world gather, and soldiers wielding strange weapons raise their banners high; the golden spears and iron horses in the mural seem about to burst forth from the wall.]

[The generals surged into Chang Le Palace, where a majestic green mountain rose from the ground, supporting the palace as it pierced the clouds!]

[Gao Feixue continued her interpretation, "They were responding to the First Emperor's call... to punish the celestial beings who came from beyond the heavens."]

"They defeated the gods and immortals from beyond the heavens? Did they succeed?" Wen Shengnan wondered.

"There are no records here, but..." Gao Feixue looked at the land plagued by natural disasters, and saw a king leading a million-strong army to topple the mountain that supported Chang Le Palace. "They probably won't be coming back."

"This king is Liu Jing, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty."

["The person who left the murals outside Chang Le Palace was not the First Emperor, nor is this the First Emperor's mausoleum, Chang Le Palace. Rather, it was an altar built by Liu Jing with the full resources of the nation."]

"An altar? Why?" Wen Shengnan asked in astonishment. Why did the Han emperor build the First Emperor's altar?

[Gao Feixue continued her interpretation: "This passage states that Liu Jing, bewitched by celestial beings, severed the connection between heaven and earth. Knowing he had committed a heinous crime, he regretted it too late. It expresses the hope that one day, future generations will be able to communicate with the First Emperor's Chang Le Palace through this altar before the arrival of the 'Great Fog,' thus preserving their clan."]

"It's gone after that; it was deliberately erased."

"Celestial beings? The fog must be very dangerous." Wen Shengnan conveyed this message through the murals. The ancient Chinese people feared the fog; did the First Emperor collect all the gold in the land to build the Chang Le Palace to suppress it? Are all beings from beyond the heavens enemies?

Wen Shengnan then thought of the "God of Revelation" that circulates worldwide. What is the connection between the two?

"The giant white serpent is also an outsider..."

At that very moment.

【"ah!!"】

A piercing scream suddenly erupted from outside the hall, echoing repeatedly in the confined underground palace. This was followed by chaotic running sounds, the clatter of equipment hitting the ground, and a sticky, chilling writhing sound.

Before Gao Feixue could react, Wen Shengnan pulled her behind her. A pistol was cocked, its dark muzzle pointed directly at the source of the sound—

A scholar covered in blood staggered in, shouting, "Monster! There's a monster outside!"

His white lab coat was stained dark red, and his right hand was tightly clutching his left shoulder. Even more horrifying, dense, bronze-colored lines were appearing on his exposed skin, as if something was wriggling beneath it.

【"what happened?"】

[Wen Shengnan's walkie-talkie suddenly crackled with static: "Report! A large number of unidentified individuals have appeared on the perimeter! They are Apocalyptic Ones! Ah!!"]

The communication abruptly ended, leaving only a deathly silence of a busy tone.

Gao Feixue suddenly discovered that her archaeological gloves had a hole in them, and tiny beads of blood were seeping from her fingertips. The blood droplets fell onto the bronze floor tiles, and as if drawn by some force, flowed deeper into the palace corridor.

"Back off!" Wen Shengnan suddenly fired, the bullet grazing Gao Feixue's ear before heading towards the palace roof.

A massive, bronze-scaled claw emerged from the mural, about to seize Gao Feixue's skull half a second before shattering upon impact. The mural crumbled, revealing a deep, dark passageway behind it.

"The man-eating beast suppressed by Chang Le Palace... has actually revived?" Wen Shengnan exclaimed in astonishment.

[A living being emerges from the mural? Is this plausible?]

[And this is precisely the characteristic of the Void Sea that allows the fake to become real! Fear spread among the crowd, and the man-eating beasts and demons depicted in the murals, slain by the soldiers of the Azure Kingdom, absorbed the "thoughts of fear" and began to revive one by one.]

【"roar--!!"】

A deafening roar erupted from the depths of the mural.

A thick fog suddenly rolled in!

A thick, gray mist billowed from every crack in the walls, instantly engulfing half the hall. Crunching sounds echoed from within the mist; several researchers who were closest to the entrance were bitten in half by gaping maws that suddenly emerged from the fog!

"Run! Run!"

The crowd erupted instantly; some were shoved and bumped into bronze pillars, blood gushing from their foreheads. Others, in their panic, rushed deeper into the passageway.

Then, his limbs were entangled by a dozen bronze tentacles emerging from the mist, and he was torn to pieces!

"A thick fog is coming!"

Wen Shengnan fired three shots, the bullets striking a massive creature in the fog, but only producing a few sparks. Her cries were drowned out by another beastly roar. The fog thickened, visibility dropping to less than three meters.

The thick fog surged like a tidal wave, swallowing all light and sound. Wen Shengnan clung tightly to Gao Feixue's wrist, and the two stumbled and fled across the bronze floor tiles, luckily avoiding the bronze beast lurking within the fog.

[Gao Feixue knew that she and Wen Shengnan, being mere mortals, couldn't escape the fog. Suddenly, she changed direction. As if guided by something, she navigated precisely through the near-zero visibility fog, arriving before a bronze coffin.]

Wen Shengnan braced her hands against the coffin lid and pushed hard. The bronze coffin slowly opened, but the divine weapon she had imagined did not appear.

A small, dull-colored kitten was curled up in the coffin.

It was so thin it was almost skin and bones, its fur dull and lifeless, as if worn down by the passage of time. Yet, the moment the coffin lid was fully opened, the kitten suddenly opened its eyes.

Those were a pair of amber-colored vertical pupils, with pale golden flames flickering deep within them.

"A cat?" Wen Shengnan asked disappointedly. "Professor Gao, can it really help us survive in the fog?"

【"I have no idea."】

Gao Feixue stared at a line of ancient seal script engraved inside the coffin.

"We, the hundred schools of thought, have exerted all our strength to exterminate the remnants of the evil gods, yet the four great evil gods could return with a mere thought. Before my death, I leave the spirit weapon Tiger Soul here to suppress the remnants of the evil gods for ten thousand years—Crouching Tiger, Imperial Guard Before the First Emperor's Palace."

"A spirit weapon, Tiger Soul?"

The kitten's ears twitched slightly as it weakly raised its head. When it caught the lingering scent of Gao Feixue, its dim eyes suddenly lit up—it was the scent it had waited for thousands of years.

"Awooo—!"

Its cry was so faint it was almost inaudible, yet it sent a shiver through the entire Chang Le Palace.

The roars of the strange beasts in the mist abruptly ceased, replaced by a fearful whimper. The guards before the Chang Le Palace all wielded halberds, forged specifically to resemble the "Invincible Under Heaven" halberd held by the First Emperor.

The kitten shakily stood up, its small body suddenly glowing with a pale golden light. It looked up at Gao Feixue, its eyes holding a strange, human-like resolve. "Spiritual weapon Tiger Soul, to suppress evil and vanquish demons—"

The kitten's body gradually blurred in the golden light, transforming into countless dazzling specks of light. These specks of light, like a reversed galaxy, gathered and solidified in Gao Feixue's palm.

A clear, resonant clang echoed throughout Chang Le Palace. The golden light faded, revealing a dark red bronze halberd!

"The Fangtian Halberd? Could this be the First Emperor's divine weapon of destiny?!" Wen Shengnan stared in shock at this scene.

She knew all too well what this meant—this legendary divine weapon, the very weapon recorded in historical annals as the one by which the First Emperor swept across the land!

[The moment Gao Feixue gripped the halberd shaft with both hands.]

A violent power surged through her body like a burst dam. Her hair moved without wind, a golden halo shimmered in her eyes, and the air around her distorted from the surging energy. Her mortal body, devoid of cultivation, now unleashed a terrifying power amplified by the divine weapon!

She seemed born with the aura of a queen, wielding the imperial guards' "superior spiritual weapons" with effortless ease.

Gao Feixue took a step forward, her halberd sweeping across, the blade drawing a crescent-shaped arc of blood-red light.

[“Crack!”]

The three attacking beasts were instantly severed at the waist, their bronze scales raining down. She moved with lightning speed, each swing of her halberd accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, obliterating all evil in her wake!

【Military Spirit!!】

Wen Shengnan, gun in hand, followed closely behind, staring in astonishment at her once frail friend.

Unbeknownst to her, even a direct descendant of a normal person could not wield a "superior spiritual weapon" with a mortal body. What was surging within Gao Feixue's body at that moment was the terrifying cultivation power transmitted across time and space by that "dream person"!

Gao Feixue leaped into the air, the halberd in her hand seemingly coming to life. A single slash shattered an entire palace wall; before the dust and debris had even settled, the two had already emerged from the mist.

Then they froze on the spot.

Hundreds of "Awakened Ones" stood silently amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, then turned their heads in unison, hundreds of gazes fixed on the two figures as if they were solid objects.

That look in his eyes—like a hungry wolf staring at its dying prey.

[The elderly man in the nearest Zhongshan suit unleashed a three-foot-tall, ghostly blue flame from his fingertips; the giant to his right writhed in his throat, spitting out a forked, scarlet tongue; and from behind came the sound of a blade being drawn.]

"Mr. Li?"

Cold sweat broke out on Wen Shengnan's back as her pistol's sights rapidly darted between several targets. Suddenly, she realized—

All the Awakened Ones' gazes were actually focused on the halberd in Gao Feixue's hand.

That gaze held a mixture of greed, fear, and a certain ancient awe.

"Hand over the First Emperor's demon-suppressing weapon."

Mr. Li, at the very front of the crowd, spoke up, his voice like the simultaneous roar of hundreds of people, "That's not something you should take!"

Mr. Li suppressed the urge to pounce. The Awakened Ones behind him unconsciously leaned forward, but then, as the halberd trembled slightly, they all took a half-step back in unison.

Gao Feixue suddenly smiled.

She recalled the account on the mural—the Crouching Tiger Guards, wielding demon-suppressing weapons, single-handedly hunted down the remnants of the evil god, leaving them with nowhere to run. Their ancestors had been pariahs for three hundred years, outliving the palace guard who hadn't consumed the "spiritual seed."

That person was merely one of the eight hundred imperial guards stationed in front of the Chang Le Palace.

The lineage of sorcerers passed down through Mr. Li's ancestors has almost completely died out, and the writings they left behind are filled with fear of the imperial guards and the evil-suppressing spirit soldiers.

They were naturally both greedy and terrified of this power that could allow them to roam the world unchallenged.

Gao Feixue simply pointed her halberd forward.

"Come and get it."

The moment those two words were uttered, the entire halberd erupted with a soaring crimson light! Dark red energy surged forth like a volcanic eruption!

The Awakened Ones in the front row instantly transformed into torches, their malevolent power becoming the perfect fuel.

A crimson torrent surged forward, felling Awakened Ones like stalks of wheat in its wake. Some attempted to resist with their supernatural abilities, but flames, frost, and lightning turned against their source the instant they touched the crimson light.

Within ten minutes, not a single Awakened remained standing on the battlefield. The few survivors had vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a trail of eerie, dissipating corpses.

"It's over?" Wen Shengnan stood frozen in place, her voice trembling slightly.

The hem of Gao Feixue's white coat fluttered in the strong wind, and blood-red weapon-like energy swirled in her hair. She simply stood there calmly, her halberd pointing diagonally at the ground, just like...

Like the black-armored general in the mural, surveying the vast wilderness with an air of superiority.

The next moment, Gao Feixue's vision went black.

……

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[Qingzhou Public Office Headquarters.]

Wen Shengnan reported to her superiors everything that had happened at the "Tomb of the First Emperor."

"Celestial beings from beyond the heavens, dense fog, demons resurrected, evil-suppressing spirit soldiers, one of the eight hundred imperial guards before the Chang Le Palace..."

[“The halberd in Professor Gao’s hand is not the genuine article; it is merely one of the replicas made by the Eight Hundred Imperial Guards of the First Emperor’s divine weapon of destiny. It has already been tested; evil-suppressing spiritual weapons choose their masters, and ordinary people cannot wield it.”]

[The scene shifts to a laboratory recording: three elite soldiers attempt to lift the halberd, but it remains completely still; even bringing in a crane cannot budge it.]

"Mr. Li has been confirmed to have defected."

The leader looked out the window towards the First Emperor's tomb, shrouded in thick fog, and faintly heard eerie roars of beasts. Knowing the gravity of the situation, he immediately gave an order.

"Dispatch the 7th Armored Division to seal off the First Emperor's tomb and ensure the extermination of all demons emerging from it."

"A thorough nationwide investigation into the Apocalypse Cult is underway. Anyone who believes in the Four Evil Gods..."

"Kill without mercy."

The temperature in the conference room plummeted as the last four words were uttered.

"Boss, something terrible has happened!" a technician suddenly screamed.

[Satellite monitoring footage switches; in the darkness of space, a bronze coffin covered in runes is slowly approaching the atmosphere.]

Even more terrifying, as the camera zoomed in, everyone could see that in the center of the coffin were two enormous ancient seal characters, seemingly written in blood.

【——Bury the Immortal! 】

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(End of this chapter)