Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1212 - 1212 0701 Dangerous Safety_2

Chapter 1212: Chapter 0701 Dangerous Safety_2 Chapter 1212: Chapter 0701 Dangerous Safety_2 With the Spiritual Milk Liquid as a reward, nearly all Gold Core Realm experts were greatly invigorated, gaining the confidence to enter the Inner Underground Palace. For no other reason, even just for the rewards that Qi Tian had offered, it was worth taking the risk to venture into the Inner Underground Palace.

This time, the group of over fifty people, under the unified request of Qi Tian, changed their original exploration strategy. At the beginning, whether entering the Outer or Inner Underground Palaces, the first thing they did was send out a Vanguard Team to serve as the pathfinders. However, such an approach was no longer feasible. They only had so few people left and could ill afford any more casualties.

Of course, a Vanguard Team still had to be deployed, but following the Vanguard, ten Gold Core Realm experts were additionally sent. They followed at a certain distance behind the Vanguard Team, as both entered the Inner Underground Palace. After the second team entered, a third team followed suit. In this way, the group of over fifty people was divided into five small teams, maintaining a certain interval between them. Eventually, all entered the Inner Underground Palace, embarking on their exploration.

Everyone who entered the Inner Underground Palace was tense and cautious, fearing any mishaps. After all, the ten people from the Vanguard Team had inexplicably passed out inside the Inner Underground Palace, and nobody wanted to end up like them, confused and felled without warning.

However, to everyone’s surprise, even though all fifty-plus individuals had entered the Inner Underground Palace, there was still not a single response from within. Of course, it was very quiet; nobody made any unnecessary noise, and they could hear nothing apart from their own footsteps and breathing.

All of them were ready at a moment’s notice, using all kinds of detection methods to try to unearth any dangers before they struck. Yet, after everyone had circled the entire Inner Underground Palace, there remained no sign of activity—it was as though the master of the palace had given up resistance, leaving all the treasures for Qi Tian and his intruders to take as they wished.

If it were someone else encountering such a situation, they might have shouted in elation, wondering if they had become the favored children of heaven, as why else would things go so smoothly? However, none of the fifty-plus individuals with Qi Tian were naive. They dismissed such childish thoughts, feeling that the current silence was only temporary, a calm before the storm that could not last. In the time to come, perhaps a word spoken or an action taken by one of them could shatter the tranquility of the Inner Underground Palace, potentially unleashing a disaster that no one dared to predict.

Qi Tian and several Princes met again to discuss what to do next. It was Qi Tian’s first time entering the Saint’s Tomb, but Emperor Jianwu and the others had abundant experience with various extraordinary situations—although none had ever been as bizarre as this one. Their experience advised that now was definitely not the time for celebration; on the contrary, they needed to be more careful.

Several different choices now lay before Qi Tian and his companions.

The first choice was to disregard everything else, not consider any potential dangers, and just make a beeline for the central casket in the Saint’s Tomb’s Inner Underground Palace, trying every means to open it and see what exactly was inside. Generally speaking, apart from the remains of the tomb’s owner, the casket usually contained many burial items of great value—often the highest valued artifacts in the entire Saint’s Tomb. If they could acquire them, they would strike it rich, solving many impending real-world problems they faced, such as those of Manager Chen.

Manager Chen’s strength was formidable, but if they could find a weapon in the coffin that had been used by a Nascent Soul Master and held it in their hands as their weapon, then going into battle against Manager Chen, their chances of victory would be significantly increased, instead of the current situation where the mere mention of Manager Chen left them utterly devoid of confidence.

The second option was to thoroughly explore the Inner Underground Palace, employing all sorts of detection methods to uncover and resolve any possible dangers within the palace. Once they were certain the Inner Underground Palace was completely safe, they would then consider excavating the coffin. It wouldn’t be too late for that.

There were those who supported the first option and those who backed the second, but overall, the majority were in favor of the first. Those supporting the second option were fewer in number. However, among the five Princes, it was Emperor Bahuang—who was the strongest—who hoped to adopt this approach, and he was the only one who suggested that Qi Tian should use it.

Emperor Bahuang repeatedly advised Qi Tian, “Master Qi, based on my experience, I strongly advise you not to be the first to touch the coffin. That coffin may seem like any ordinary coffin, but is it really just a coffin? No, in my eyes, it is a talisman that could blow all of us to the heavens. I can assure you with my head that if we go right up to the coffin, attempting to open it without resolving the other hidden dangers in the Inner Underground Palace, it would be purely a death-seeking behavior and will lead to no good outcome.”

Emperor Yonghe said, “Emperor Bahuang, don’t you think you’re exaggerating a bit with such words? Do you believe you are the smartest among the five of us? That we cannot see the dangers within the Inner Underground Palace, or come to these conclusions ourselves? The reason we did not make a similar suggestion to Master Qi is that we believe we have already eliminated the dangers within the Inner Underground Palace. The entity that almost annihilated us all and could exert a psychic pressure should be the final guardian of the palace, and now it has been dealt with. We’ve been in the Inner Underground Palace for so long without any sign of it, which should be evidence enough.”

Emperor Bahuang replied, “We can’t speak so assuredly. I want to remind everyone about the multiple uncertainties we have already found. Who can explain the truth behind these uncertainties? If we cannot reveal them all and uncover the truth, then to rashly touch the coffin would definitely not be the right choice.”

While speaking, Emperor Bahuang pointed at the coffin not far away and said, “The coffin is right in front of us, but who can tell me? Is it indeed the coffin we are looking for? Are you certain it’s not a trap set by the owner of the Saint’s Tomb?”

The other Princes fell silent, not for lack of similar experiences or because they had lost their ability to make sound judgments, but rather because they had wandered around in the Inner Underground Palace for so long without finding anything, they couldn’t declare with certainty that they had eliminated all the dangers within.

It was like a doctor diagnosing a patient—all kinds of tests have been done, nothing found, could the doctor still tell the patient, “You are sick”?

That was the situation for Emperor Jianwu and the others at the moment—they had discovered nothing, so wasn’t the Inner Underground Palace safe already? Naturally, they shared some of Emperor Bahuang’s concerns but preferred to believe that the Inner Underground Palace was now secure.

The main reason behind such judgment was primarily due to the formidable strength exhibited by the black heart. For such an entity to exist was already an extremely remarkable matter, let alone the fact that before the black heart, there was a Nascent Soul Stage ghost face on the Outer Tomb Door, and they had conducted much cleaning throughout the Outer Palaces and other areas. There was no reason to believe that beyond these various hazards, there would still be greater hidden dangers.