Can't a girl be a traitor like Cao Cao?

Each door looked dark and deep, as unsettling as a tomb passage.

Under the dim light, you can also see many constellation-like patterns painted on the ground.

At this moment, Chi Junlin was standing right at the very center of the entire space.

The surrounding stone gates form a circle, and the ground resembles a giant star disk, creating a unique shape.

Standing here, I feel as if I am in a huge maze of tombs.

Chapter 76 Bonus Stage

Chi Junlin stood in this maze located in the Emperor's Cave Mysterious Palace. Although the surrounding roads were dark and terrifying, she was not afraid at all.

Because she knew exactly what kind of place this was.

The astronomical chart she was standing on was the "Zi Wei Dou Shu" (Purple Star Astrology) chart.

All the black doors around are where the star palaces of different destinies are located.

If you go to the wrong place here and end up in the wrong zodiac sign, at best you'll just wander around in circles and lose your way. At worst, you'll fall into a trap and die on the spot.

It turns out that Ding Xia in the original story had no idea about the rules of the destiny chart after arriving at this point.

He just wandered aimlessly around the star palace.

Then, once his superpowers were activated, he found the exit and walked out.

Chi Junlin obviously couldn't get out this way, but she knew this would happen after she came down.

Therefore, I had studied the relevant knowledge of "Zi Wei Dou Shu" in advance.

After seeing the celestial chart on the ground, Chi Junlin pondered for a moment and quickly determined the directions indicated by the surrounding life palaces.

So she found the Palace of Destiny, which meant "Seven Killings," and went in without any hesitation.

Beyond the "Seven Kills" gate lies a pitch-black passage.

After passing through the Palace of Fate, Chi Junlin felt a sudden brightness before his eyes and found himself in a new space.

It is also the location of a natal chart, and in front of it are seven new natal palace gates.

Chi Junlin found the palace gate that meant "Po Jun" and continued forward.

Next came another palace of destiny, with twenty-eight gates densely packed inside, making it dazzling to behold.

Chi Junlin remained unhurried and found the palace gate that meant "Greedy Wolf".

The passage was extremely long; Chi Junlin felt it took about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before he finally arrived in a completely new space.

There are no more life palace gates or star charts here, which means that Chi Junlin has passed the many tests just now and arrived at the depths of the underground palace.

Surprisingly, upon arriving at this spacious stone chamber, one can see a young girl standing inside.

The girl was dressed in a black and white gauze dress, resembling the mourning garments depicted in ancient tomb murals. She had a pretty face and looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old.

She had black hair and her skin was snow-white and translucent, as beautiful and delicate as ice and snow, unlike any human being.

Perhaps because she rarely saw sunlight, the girl's face was pale and lacked color, making her look sickly.

But it still couldn't hide the girl's delicate and elegant beauty.

Such a petite girl, dressed in such clothes, stands in the underground palace of an ancient tomb.

It's hard not to suspect that she might be a ghost from the underground palace.

Ordinary people would not feel close to her, but rather find her strange and terrifying.

However, Chi Junlin was not afraid at this moment; instead, he showed a look of affection towards the girl.

Because she knew the other person's identity.

The tomb keeper who has been passed down to this day in this underground palace is named Beidou.

Before Chi Junlin could react, the girl bowed deeply to him.

“The guardian of the tomb, Beidou, respectfully welcomes our lord into the palace.”

The petite girl named Beidou showed almost no change in expression. Since there was no one around to talk to her, her speech was somewhat hesitant and she didn't say much.

However, although Beidou did not explain much to Chi Junlin, Chi Junlin, who was familiar with the background of this place, knew that she was the most recent successor of the Imperial Tomb Guardian.

In other words, she was the only living person left in the vast tomb.

According to the rules of the tomb keepers, if someone can pass all the tests of the imperial mausoleum and reach this place, then he/she is the master of the underground palace and the heir to all the imperial mausoleum's heritage.

According to the rules, there are three tests in total for the imperial mausoleum.

The first test was the six divine keys that Chi Junlin had previously obtained.

Those who can open the divine key, obtain the map inside, and find the exact location of the underground palace will have passed the test of "wisdom".

Next, the second test is whether the person who comes dares to cross the sheer cliff to the bottom.

If one has the courage to climb down the cliff and cross the dangerous stone steps to find the temple, then one has passed the test of "courage".

The final obstacle was the maze formed by the Ziwei Life Palace, which Chi Junlin had previously traversed.

Passing the first two tests means that the person is both intelligent and brave.

However, to determine whether the visitor can inherit the imperial tomb's legacy, it is necessary to see if he can pass through the three palace gates of "Seven Killings," "Broken Army," and "Greedy Wolf."

If so, it means that the person possesses the "Sha Po Lang" (煞破狼) destiny palace pattern.

They were the true owners of the imperial tombs, including the tomb keepers.

Let's not worry about whether this arrangement is reasonable or not; this is the process.

The only thing the generations of tomb keepers who guarded the imperial mausoleum sought was to wait for a true successor to the mausoleum.

This brings relief to the tomb keepers.

Chi Junlin saw Beidou, the current tomb keeper, kneeling before him with a cold and aloof demeanor, his face expressionless.

So he asked her, "Having passed the previous tests, are you now the master of this place?"

Beidou remained unmoved, simply stating, "The one who inherits the destiny of the Emperor Star is the master of Beidou."

Chi Junlin knew that Beidou didn't have any grudge against him; he had simply been picked up by the previous generation's tomb keeper when he was young and had grown up in the cold tomb.

Growing up in such an environment, it's easy to become expressionless and taciturn.

So Chi Junlin nodded and said to her, "Now that I am the owner of the tomb, why don't you show me around here?"

Beidou then got up from the ground and said expressionlessly to the passage behind him, "Please follow Beidou, Master."

Then he led Chi Junlin deeper into the tomb.

Although the tomb feels cold and oppressive when you're inside, once you walk through it, you'll find that it's much larger than you imagined.

Besides the main tomb chamber of the imperial mausoleum, Chi Junlin also saw a side tomb chamber filled with cold coffins, which had been sealed shut with coffin nails.

Beidou explains that this is the final resting place of the tomb keepers of past generations.

He also pointed to an open coffin and said that this was Beidou's bed.

Further on, there was a warehouse containing a lot of dried meat and mushrooms, as well as some usable vine roots and stems.

Chi Junlin guessed that the tomb keeper would go out hunting during the season to gather food and supplies in the valley.

According to the established lore, the tomb guardians of each generation were all extremely powerful, perhaps even capable of scaling walls and leaping across rooftops.

Later, there were storage rooms for bamboo slips and scriptures, and cellars for storing gold and silver.

These are the most valuable items in the imperial tomb.

The scriptures here are all ancient martial arts manuals, including the Xuanmen Wedding Dress Divine Skill.

The gold and silver in the cellar could easily be used to raise an iron cavalry.

However, what interests Red King is not these external things.

Because no matter how rich the people in the world are, they can never be richer than the General Who Guards the North, who controls the entire imperial city.

Now that we have the martial arts manual, there is no need to rush.

Chi Junlin's gaze remained fixed on Beidou's petite and adorable body.

It seems that, to her, this girl, as white as snow, was the most valuable existence in the entire imperial mausoleum.

Chapter 77 The Real Treasure

After Beidou led Chi Junlin on a tour of the imperial tomb, the two returned to the library.

Then, Beidou solemnly took a bamboo scroll from the bookshelf and handed it to Chi Junlin.

He looked directly into Chi Junlin's eyes and said, "Please cultivate, Master."

What is recorded on this bamboo slip, "Red Sovereign Reigns Over Nature"?

Upon inspection, it was indeed the first half of the Xuanmen Wedding Dress Divine Skill.

Since the name of this internal martial arts technique contains the words "wedding dress," it naturally means "to make a wedding dress for someone else."

This is because the internal energy cultivated by this martial art is fierce and extremely powerful.

The practice itself is extremely difficult, as if steel needles are being pierced through the body.

Once the energy circulates throughout the body and accumulates internal strength and true energy in the dantian, one will feel as if their body is being cooked in oil by a raging fire, suffering from its torment.

Moreover, the deeper one's inner strength, the greater the suffering one will endure.

The only way to alleviate this is to transfer one's own cultivated internal energy to others, just as one sews a wedding dress and then gives it to someone else to wear.

They spent a great deal of effort to practice this skill but gained nothing from it; the benefits went to others. This shows just how strange and bizarre this skill is.

Beidou then gave this technique to Chi Junlin and asked her to practice it, but did not explain the characteristics of the technique, as if he had no good intentions towards Chi Junlin.

But Chi Junlin didn't ask any further questions.

She glanced at Beidou and saw that the girl's eyes were clear and bright, her pupils as beautiful as jewels. She sighed with satisfaction, as if she had seen something she loved.

Then he picked up the manual of divine skills and began to read it carefully.

The manual didn't contain many words about the techniques, and she finished reading it in no time.

He even felt that the method of circulating energy was extremely simple, not much more complicated than the Chi family's secret mental cultivation method that he practiced.

However, the cultivation method practiced by Chi Junlin was only a method of circulating internal energy in conjunction with the "Emperor's Overlord Spear".

It originated from the military and was an internal martial arts technique that Chi Zhongxin created himself based on experience; it was not a world-shaking skill.

After Chi Junlin learned it, he could only be considered to have entered the realm of internal energy.

Even if one cultivates this method for another ten or twenty years, one will only reach the level of an ordinary martial arts master.

The outer spear technique of "Emperor's Domination Spear" has been honed on the battlefield, and its actual combat ability is rare in the martial arts world. Even Chi Junlin can hardly be considered a top-notch master in the world.

But no matter how good one's external skills are, their potential is capped.

To give an example, the Emperor's Domination Spear increases Chi Junlin's base stats. Because the skill itself has high stats, Chi Junlin appears very strong in the early game.

However, internal energy cultivation techniques increase upgrade stats.

If Chi Junlin doesn't develop a better internal cultivation method, his stats will become insignificant once everyone's levels increase.

A master like Yan Chunyu possesses very strong stats. However, due to a debuff, his level dropped to a beginner level, even lower than Chi Junlin's. This allowed Chi Junlin to easily defeat him by leveraging his superior stats.

Returning to the Wedding Dress Divine Skill that Chi Junlin was looking at, although the method of circulating the energy seemed extremely simple, it was actually not so easy to master.

After memorizing the energy cultivation method recorded on the bamboo slips, Chi Junlin sat cross-legged and tried to practice the method.

Sure enough, he soon felt as if needles were pricking his body, and the pain made Chi Junlin break out in a cold sweat.

Chi Junlin gritted his teeth and circulated his cultivation technique for a full cycle. Then he exhaled a breath of turbid air, opened his eyes, and looked at the Big Dipper.

Beidou asked, "Is Master familiar with the method of circulating energy?"

"I'm familiar with it now."

Chi Junlin replied.

"Then let's follow Beidou."

After Beidou finished speaking, he led Chi Junlin away from the library and headed towards another secret room.

Chi Junlin saw Beidou push open a stone door weighing over a hundred pounds by pushing against the wall with one hand.

Then, a pool of water was dug in the secret room.