Ding Zhen continued forward along the passage of the underground palace.
It seemed Ding Zhen knew quite a bit about this place.
Qin Xuan naturally followed slowly behind him.
Along the way, many exquisite stone carvings could be seen on both sides of the underground palace, and these carvings seemed to contain a certain Dao charm.
A flash of light flickered in Qin Xuan's eyes as he looked at them.
From the state of the underground palace, the former Qixia Sect must have been extremely powerful.
It was just unknown why it had gradually declined.
Following the passage of the underground palace, Qin Xuan trailed far behind Ding Zhen, all the way to the end of the passage.
At the end of the passage was a stone door.
Ding Zhen stopped and suddenly turned his head to look behind him.
Qin Xuan was startled.
Fortunately, he had hidden aside in advance, so he wasn't discovered.
Ding Zhen looked behind him suspiciously.
"That's strange, there's clearly no one here, yet I always feel like someone is following me."
Hearing this, Qin Xuan's heart also skipped a beat.
This Ding Zhen's spiritual perception was unexpectedly sharp.
Putting everything else aside, he could even detect an anomaly behind him from such a distance.
However, after repeatedly looking around and finding no anomalies, Ding Zhen no longer doubted and continued forward.
After a while, Ding Zhen pushed open the stone door and walked inside.
"Bang!"
The stone door closed, but Qin Xuan was not in a hurry to follow.
As his mastery of the Double Pupils deepened, Qin Xuan had also gained some new Eye Techniques from them.
Perspective, this was the new Eye Technique he now possessed.
Using the Perspective Eye Technique of the Double Pupils, he could see through the stone door.
At this moment, behind the stone door on the other side, Ding Zhen was guarding the entrance, his gaze burning.
Clearly, this person wanted to see if anyone was indeed following him.
Since Ding Zhen was still waiting there, Qin Xuan certainly wouldn't go up and walk into a trap.
After a while, Ding Zhen didn't wait for anyone, and only then did he hesitate, stand up, and continue forward.
Only after confirming that Ding Zhen had left did Qin Xuan cautiously walk to the stone door, carefully push it open, and step inside.
Ding Zhen clearly walked much faster next.
After all, after confirming there were no issues just now, he was obviously much more at ease.
Qin Xuan secretly followed behind.
After about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, Ding Zhen stopped.
Qin Xuan also stopped in the distance.
In front of them, there was a large red coffin.
"A red coffin, this should be the coffin of that Qixia Sect Master."
Qin Xuan pondered, hiding aside and observing secretly.
Here, the oil lamps on both sides of the entire passage were still burning.
It was unknown what kind of oil these everlasting lamps used, that they could burn until now.
"All the good treasures should be here!"
Ding Zhen rubbed his hands excitedly, then he strode forward, walked to the large red coffin, and lifted off the entire lid of the large red coffin.
"Whoosh!"
As the coffin lid was opened, a strange fragrance emanated from within.
Ding Zhen took a few steps back, pinching his nose to avoid the scent.
The fragrance wafted around and soon reached Qin Xuan.
Seeing Ding Zhen's reaction, Qin Xuan naturally dispelled the fragrance to the surroundings immediately.
After doing all this, Qin Xuan continued to look over there.
"There are really a lot of treasures, these few are Spiritual Artifacts, not bad, not bad."
Ding Zhen took out all these treasures, then stuffed them all into his sleeves in one go.
"Sleeve Universe?"
Qin Xuan raised an eyebrow.
Unlike Qin Xuan who used the qiankun ring to store things, this Ding Zhen seemed to be using the Sleeve Universe method.
After a while, Ding Zhen had already collected all the good things in the coffin.
But he kept rummaging through the coffin as if he was looking for something.
After a while, Ding Zhen stopped, somewhat annoyed.
"How can it not be here? Where did that thing go?"
Ding Zhen said in annoyance, dragging the corpse out of the coffin and throwing it aside. He continued to search through the coffin.
Qin Xuan looked at the corpse.
It was the corpse of an old man wearing a purple-gold crown. Despite the passage of unknown years, the old man's corpse was remarkably lifelike, showing no signs of decay.
On the other side, Ding Zhen was constantly fumbling in the coffin.
It seemed this Ding Zhen was different from him; he was specifically here to find something.
From how smoothly Ding Zhen had stolen the old ginseng from him earlier, this Ding Zhen should be a professional grave robber.
It seemed he must have scouted and confirmed this graveyard in advance before coming here specifically to dig up graves.
But what exactly was this Ding Zhen looking for, that he was so annoyed at not finding it now?
Qin Xuan pondered.
Seeing that he couldn't find it, Ding Zhen circled the coffin several times without stopping.
"That shouldn't be, the ancient texts clearly said it was here, how could we not have that thing!"
"Even if it's a fragment, I should be able to find it."
Rubbing his chin, Ding Zhen circled the coffin several times, showing no intention of stopping.
Qin Xuan also observed from the shadows.
Just as Qin Xuan was looking over, suddenly, Qin Xuan's breath hitched, and he almost cried out in surprise.
Just now, facing Qin Xuan's direction, the corpse lying on the ground suddenly opened its eyes.
Those eyes were hollow and empty, without a trace of white.
They were currently looking towards Qin Xuan.
If Qin Xuan hadn't been hiding behind a stone pillar at this moment, observing with his Eye Technique, he would have thought he was being stared at by this corpse.
But even so, Qin Xuan felt a chill run down his spine.
What was this situation? A dead person had actually opened its eyes.
However, Ding Zhen clearly didn't notice this. He kept tapping on the large red coffin, seemingly trying to find if there was a false bottom.
But after searching for a long time, he found nothing.
"Crack!"
With a series of cracking sounds, the corpse stood up in an extremely twisted posture.
Ding Zhen turned around in astonishment, looking at the corpse rising from the ground, and immediately frowned in dissatisfaction.
"How troublesome, why did it reanimate? Can't it rest in peace even after death?"
Saying that, before the corpse could move, Ding Zhen picked up a red cloth and directly covered the corpse's head, then tied its head up.
"Crack, crack!"
The corpse kept making cracking sounds, while Ding Zhen very skillfully tied up the corpse and then threw it aside.
Seeing the corpse being thrown aside without even reacting, Qin Xuan was also dumbfounded.
This Ding Zhen must have done too much grave robbing, to the point where his methods for dealing with reanimated corpses were incredibly proficient.
He actually solved the problem at hand with just a few moves.
"I don't believe I can't find it."
Ding Zhen became ruthless and directly dismantled the large red coffin.
As the coffin was dismantled, a dark hole appeared beneath the coffin.
"Heh, as expected, the underground palace above was just a cover-up; below is the true core of the underground palace."
