Necropolis Immortal

rather than an image mounted on a wall.

To Pill Fairy Yuying.
From Wayfarer.

Lu Yun noted the dedication written in the corner of the painting.
Small seal script?

This was a style of calligraphy popular in the Qin and Han Dynasties.
As a tomb raider well versed in Chinese history, he could naturally read it.

So it turns out the written language in this world is the small seal script.
Though it was outside his scope of expectations, it put him at ease as this lowered his chances of exposing himself.

“Wayfarer? Pill Fairy Yuying?” He murmured the names on the painting.
“Is it possible that the lady in the painting is the one buried in this tomb?”

“Pill Fairy Yuying?” Wanfeng’s eyes widened with surprise.
“Why is it her?”

“Do you know her?”

“Yes!” The maid nodded.
“Pill Fairy Yuying was a famed personage from a thousand years ago.
She was the eighth governor of Dusk Province! Legends say that she possessed peerless grace and elegance and was unmatched in her generation.
She refined an immortal pill when she was still just a cultivator.
However, she was ambushed when undergoing her heavenly tribulation and didn’t make it through the trial.
Who would’ve thought that this would be her tomb!”

“Milord!” Wanfeng was so excited she almost jumped into the air.
“Since this is the tomb of the Pill Fairy, perhaps we can find the Aurum Openia Pill here, or even its recipe!”

“Really?” Lu Yun’s eyes lit up and his heart raced.
He’d be able to cultivate if he had the pill.
He would be able to do the things that Wanfeng could do!

He would even be able to continue as the master of Dusk Province! The province may be impoverished, but if he altered the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers layout in the governor’s manor, he’d change the province beyond recognition! What an invigorating idea!

Whoosh!

An ill wind rose at his back, as if something was pouncing at him.

“I’ve been waiting for you!” Wanfeng whirled around, drew an elegant shape with her longsword, and pierced an item in the darkness.

Pfft!

Something was punctured and splashed sticky liquid toward Lu Yun.
Teal light flared from his maid as she blocked it from reaching him.

Roll.

A head rolled to a stop by their feet.
It was rotted beyond recognition, so its species couldn ’t be identified.
Its eyeballs protruded from its sockets and a hole had been drilled through its forehead, like Ge Long’s.
However, its mouth still opened and closed, wanting to bite and tear at something.

“Wanfeng, chop this head in half!” Lu Yun hastily shuffled back in fear.

“Understood!” Wanfeng’s maturity had grown after this round of tempering in the tomb and she was more decisive when it came to killing.

Raising her sword high, light exploded from it and cut the head into several slices.
“How dare you copy me! How dare you!!” she cursed as she hacked with her sword.

Within the depths of the tomb, the burial chamber.

An enormous sarcophagus floated in the middle of the air, a green flame softly dancing beneath it.
It was elegant and spritely, like a fire elemental, and plainly different from the green flames that Lu Yun and Wanfeng had encountered.

Eight shapes clad in black stood chanting around the sarcophagus with raised hands.
They seemed to be conducting some sort of ritual.

Suddenly, one of their numbers started.
“My corpse puppet just died.
Someone else has entered the tomb.” A hoarse voice indicated long periods of lack of normal use.

“Perfect timing,” responded another.
“We can use them as sacrificial offerings.
We need to open Yuying’s sarcophagus as quickly as possible and obtain the Panorama of Clarity.
Our sect has plotted for a thousand years in order to get our hands on it.
Nothing can go wrong at this juncture!

”Damn that Wayfarer for burying Yuying’s body along with the treasure in this ancient tomb! He’s wasted our time for nothing.”

……

“It won’t come back to life this time, will it?”

Wanfeng looked at the fragments on the ground and pointed, her lips twisted in disgust.
The flame on her fingertip rushed down and reduced the pieces to ashes.
Plainly, Ge Long’s revival was too much of a shock and had scarred her.

”It definitely won’t.” Lu Yun shook his head after seeing his maid’s actions.
“But what was that? It confused my senses just now and almost ate me.
But since it can be killed, it shouldn’t be a malevolent ghost.
It’s an unknown entity, or maybe just another zombie.”

He heaved a long sigh of relief.
“The bedroom should be the antechamber.
If my guess serves me correctly, the burial chamber should be right after the antechamber.
Wanfeng, make the fire a bit bigger so the whole place is lit up.”

“Understood.” Wanfeng extended her fingers.

Whoosh!

The small flame in her hand jumped up lightly and inflated to the size of a human head, instantly illuminating the premises.

“It’s a girl’s room, alright!” Lu Yun took a close look around.
Though it’d lain quiet for a thousand years, there wasn’t a speck of dust anywhere.
The layout was refined and exquisite, a clear indication that the owner of the room was pure in heart and spirit.

However, there were four doors to the room, one for each cardinal direction.

“Another setup!” The sight sent the Dusk governor into deep thought.
“This is a layout of the four divisions.
We just came from the south, which is ruled by fire.
That’s why there were those green flames.
The millennia-old zombie could also break the wall just now because of the fire.

“Metal rules the west, and is a land of slaughter that brings death to all that enter.
Water rules the north, so a swamp should lie behind that door.

“The burial chamber must be in the east!” After a round of calculations, Lu Yun looked at the door to the east and rushed excitedly to it.

“Sir, wait for me!” Wanfeng exclaimed.

When Lu Yun reached the door, he softly pushed on it.
A ripple flashed across it and swallowed him whole.

“Milord?!” Stunned shock barreled into Wanfeng and she pushed the door with all her might, but it didn’t move at all.

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Ghost Hits Wall is the literal translation of the Chinese idiom for going in circles in an increasingly fragmented, disjointed manner.
I went for the rare literal flair this time because it’s also a name.

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