Chapter 122 Tomb of the Golden Core Ancestor

Chapter 122 Tomb of the Golden Core Ancestor

Chapter 122 Tomb of the Golden Core Ancestor
For the next half month, Tian Lin stayed in the illusion.

He spent a lot of time eating water spirit rice at the 21st level. Even he himself couldn't remember how much water spirit rice he had eaten, but he could not feel the existence of sword intent.

Tian Lin had no choice but to temporarily give up the illusion on the 21st level and climb up the stairs to higher places.

While Tian Lin was climbing the mountain, the other outer disciples, including the menial disciples, were also busy.

Especially at Jianfeng, the talisman papers that were once ignored are now snapped up no matter how expensive they are.

Everyone was preparing for the next life and death stage, except Tian Lin who was still climbing the mountain.

"Master Huang, we have already arrived at Kun Lake. The foundation-building pond is about to be in our hands. Why don't you leave?"

In the illusion, Tian Lin was now at the edge of a lake.

The lake looked extremely ordinary. Apart from the cool breeze and the opportunity to fish, there was nothing special about it.

Tian Lin looked puzzledly at the old man in Taoist robe who was talking next to him, and then looked at the middle-aged man on the other side.

The old man in Taoist robe was fine. Although he was respectful to Tian Lin, he was not afraid of him.

But the middle-aged man seemed very humble. When Tian Lin looked at him, he bowed slightly.

Tian Lin glanced at the embroidery on the middle-aged man's lining and realized that he was a blood cultist. He thought he was one of his subordinates, so Tian Lin asked him bluntly:

"Master Zhou said there is a foundation-building pool here. Do you think Master Zhou is lying to me?"

The middle-aged man hurriedly said, "I think about it carefully, and Master Zhou's words are not false at all. Besides, Master Zhou and you have been friends for many years, so I think he is very reliable."

Tian Lin smiled and squinted his eyes at the old man in Taoist robes:

"Yes, if it weren't for you, Master Zhou, I wouldn't have been able to travel across the ocean from Yulong Continent to Cangzhou. Now that time has passed, how old was Master Zhou back then?"

After Tian Lin asked, the Taoist robed old man said: "I was less than 30 years old at that time. Time flies. I never thought that more than 40 years have passed in the blink of an eye."

Tian Lin nodded slightly. Only then could he confirm that the steps from the 99th stone step of the first section to the 30th stone step of the second section were the experiences of Patriarch Yao Yue in Cangzhou for the last forty years.

"Yes, after forty years, you will be half buried in the earth. And I am also over a hundred years old and will soon die."

"Because we all have little time left, we should go into Kun Lake to look for the foundation-building pool."

Tian Lin had seen the portrait in Zhong Wuji's travel notes and knew that he would be attacked by Master Zhou and another man on this trip.

According to Zhong Wuji's records, although Master Zhou had reached the twelfth level of Qi Refining, his magic was only at the mid-level minor success level.

As for that man, his cultivation was also quite high, but his magic was only at the mid-level level.

But Tian Lin's experience told him that other people's illusions were different from his own.

The people or things in other people's illusions are all fake, and their strength is greatly reduced.

However, it is often difficult to tell whether the people or things in one's illusion are real or fake. At least the strength of these people has not been discounted.

"In order to build the foundation pool, I will of course go down to Kun Lake - but even if I want to go down to Kun Lake, I have to be fully prepared before going down."

Tian Lin remembered that in the travel notes, Master Zhou and the man attacked Patriarch Yaoyue in the water.

He was sure that Kun Lake was a "bait" and a "trap", so of course he refused to go into the lake.

Upon seeing this, Master Zhou frowned and said:

"It seems that Master Huang still doesn't trust me. Well, since Master Huang doesn't trust me, why don't you lend me the Zhou family's wooden sign first? After I succeed in building my foundation, I will return the wooden sign to Master Huang."

Tian Lin frowned. Although he had some guesses in his mind, he pretended not to know: "What kind of wooden sign is the Zhou family?"

"Haha, of course it's the Zhou family's heirloom wooden plaque that only the Zhou family patriarch holds."

Immortal Zhou frowned, his smile tinged with anger: "Why, Hall Master Huang himself refused to enter Kun Lake, but he can't deny us entry to Kun Lake, right?"

Tian Lin heard this and touched his waist.

He was sure that there was a wooden sign in the storage bag, but he also had a wooden sign hanging around his waist.

"Painting the rivers and lakes with a pen, viewing the world in the palm of your hand - it turns out it means to control Kunhu Lake, I understand."

Tian Lin laughed. When Master Zhou reached out to take the token from him, Tian Lin suddenly pulled it away and asked Master Zhou, "How come you know the secret of the Zhou family's wooden token so clearly?"

Immortal Master Zhou looked at Tian Lin with more suspicion, but still answered: "You already knew that I was a disciple of the Zhou family, why did you ask me when you knew the answer?"

Although Master Zhou's surname was Zhou, Tian Lin never thought that he was a member of the Zhou family.

In fact, he met Master Zhou earlier than Zhou Qing.

If Master Zhou had not captured people and sold them to the Blood Cult, Patriarch Yaoyue would not have been able to reach Cangzhou.

Tian Lin's understanding of the Zhou family was limited to the ambush of Zhou Qing by Patriarch Yao Yue.

Because the time span of the illusion was large, although Tian Lin knew that the Zhou family was a well-known family in Pingyang County, the only member of the Zhou family he had actually met, besides Zhou Shoufan and his mother, was Zhou Qing.

"Since you are a member of the Zhou family, why do you tell an outsider like me the family secrets? Aren't you afraid that the ancestors of the Zhou family will come to find you, an unworthy descendant, in their dreams?"

Most people would be angry at what Tian Lin said, but after hearing it, Master Zhou dispelled his doubts about Tian Lin.

He smiled and said, "As expected, Hall Master Huang is still worried about me and thinks I want to avenge the Zhou family. In fact, there is no need to do so - although you destroyed the Zhou family, I don't hate you."

Immortal Master Zhou said, "Even if you, Hall Master Huang, don't kill all the Zhou family members, I will do it myself. Think about it. The Zhou family has been passed down for generations, and countless Shuiling rice has been planted. Has it ever benefited me? Although I am only a side branch, and my talent is not very good. But my heart to pursue the Tao is very strong, and it is no worse than that of the direct descendants. Why do they have spiritual rice to eat when they are born, but I have to rely on going out to sea to sell people to survive? How unfair is the heaven to me!"

Tian Lin nodded and said, "Yes, heaven is never fair to people."

After saying this, Tian Lin threw the token in his hand towards Master Zhou and said, "Okay, I'll lend you the token, and you go down alone. When you find the foundation-building pool, come back up to find us."

When he said 'we', it was obvious that he wanted the man next to him to stay on the shore.

Immortal Master Zhou looked a little unhappy, and said, "That is the graveyard of a powerful Jindan master. How dare I enter alone? Besides, Master Huang asked me to go down alone. Isn't he afraid that I will find the foundation-building pool and take away all the benefits?"

Tian Lin smiled and said, "This originally belonged to your Zhou family. If you can monopolize the foundation-building pool, then I have nothing to say."

After hearing this, Master Zhou first glanced at the man next to Tian Lin, and then said to Tian Lin: "Master Huang, look into my eyes."

As expected, Tian Lin looked at him.

But soon, Master Zhou's face changed, and he took two steps back and shouted, "Brother Jiao, hurry up!"

The man next to Tian Lin was stunned and swung the knife in his hand towards Tian Lin.

Tian Linfeng's magic instantly made him disappear from the spot, and he appeared behind Master Zhou in the next instant.

Master Zhou knew something was wrong, but when he turned around with his sword, it was too late.

Tian Lin's flying sword cut off Master Zhou's head, and then hung it between the man's eyebrows.

The man still held the knife in his hand, staring at the flying sword between his eyebrows, and he swallowed his saliva in fear.

"Tell me, what benefit did Lao Zhou give you that made you betray me?"

The man knelt on the ground, threw the knife aside, and begged for mercy:
"Please forgive me, Master. I was blinded by greed and was deceived by Zhou to covet the position of Master. I beg you to spare my life."

Tian Lin smiled when he heard this, walked up to the man, took the sword hanging between his eyebrows, and then put it on his neck.

"Tell me more, is there really a foundation-building pool under Kun Lake?"

The man felt the cold touch of the flying sword on his neck, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead.

He did not dare to stand up, and continued to kneel before the corpse of Master Zhou and said:

"As far as I know, this Kun Lake is indeed the ancestral property of the Zhou family. It's just that Kun Lake is ordinary on the surface, so no one has paid attention to it.

I have also been to the bottom of the lake with Mr. Zhou, and indeed saw a keyhole on a stone wall at the bottom of the lake. I just don’t know if there is really a tomb of treasure behind this keyhole.”

Tian Lin asked him again after hearing this: "The tomb is built under water. Even if you are a Qi-refining cultivator, how long can you hold your breath underwater?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Tian Lin, but Tian Lin scratched a bloody mark on his neck. He immediately stopped turning his head and said in a hoarse voice:
"Master, don't you have a breath-holding pill? With a breath-holding pill, not breathing for a day is nothing to worry about."

When Tian Lin entered the illusion, in addition to his own storage bag, he now also had Patriarch Yao Yue's storage bag.

But at this time he couldn't open the storage bag of Patriarch Yaoyue - according to Zhong Wuji, everything in the illusion was fake, so the storage bag could not be used by anyone.

But Tian Lin's situation was different. He didn't think that the things in the illusion were unusable in the illusion. He simply couldn't open the storage bag of Patriarch Yaoyue.

"Let me see your breath-holding pill."

After Tian Lin finished speaking, the man tremblingly took out a breath-holding pill from his storage bag.

Tian Lin frowned and took a look, only to see the prompt words:
[Disguise Pill, can change a person's appearance for twelve hours, edible]

The man knelt on the ground, unaware of the distress on Tian Lin's face. He only noticed that Tian Lin had not spoken for a long time, so he was shaking a little.

"Okay, you follow me to the bottom of the lake next time."

Without waiting for the man to speak, Tian Lin picked him up and dived to the bottom of the lake.

Ordinary lake water did not have any warning signs. Not only did Tian Lin feel suffocated, but the man also felt the coolness and uncomfortable feeling of suffocation in the water.

He stared at the breath-holding pill that Tian Lin had thrown away, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and dive to the bottom of the lake.

The two men dived about ten feet and after avoiding a group of fish and shrimps, the man brought Tian Lin to a place leaning against a stone wall.

The man pushed aside a piece of green algae on the stone wall, and soon a round hole as big as a bowl was exposed.

Tian Lin gave the wooden sign to the man, and the man took the sign and reached into the round hole.

Not long after, Tian Lin vaguely heard a "click" sound, and then the huge stone wall in front of the two of them shook violently, not only shaking off a pile of green algae attached to it, but also stirring up waves of mud and sand.

The turbid mud and sand blocked people's vision, but Tian Lin still saw the spacious space inside after the boulder was opened.

Seeing this, Tian Lin threw the man behind the stone gate while he was struggling.

As soon as the man got rid of Tian Lin's control, he tried to escape through the stone gate.

But as soon as he turned around and before he walked out of the stone gate, a large amount of blood gushed out from his back.

The bright red blood instantly dyed the water at the bottom of the lake red. Tian Lin only felt a blur in front of his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the Dao Mountain.

"Is this really the tomb of the Jindan Patriarch? But why is the key to the Jindan Patriarch's tomb in the hands of the Zhou family?"

(End of this chapter)