The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine-Chapter 843 - Entering the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin

Chapter 843: Chapter 843: Entering the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin!

Chapter 843 -843: Entering the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin!

At this moment, the situation suddenly changed…

The “Dr. Fang” was actually weeping bitterly, and he prostrated himself before Ying Aoshan.

Everyone present had yet to react!

Huang Xiaolong’s mind raced—’Aoshan’s wife is a descendant of the Ghost King Ying Kexin. Both her appearance and her aura bear some resemblance to Ying Kexin… Ying Kexin, back then, was the greatest swordsman of the Great Qin… Ah~~ Hahaha~~ This Dr. Fang, also known as Qiulian, who had consumed the elixir of immortality, was just a little maid serving Ying Kexin back in the day… Hahaha~~ Fate truly brings people together from thousands of miles away!’

With that thought, Huang Xiaolong said with a laugh, “Alright, stop kowtowing. My wife Aoshan is not some General Ying but rather, she is a descendant of General Ying.”

“This…” Upon hearing this, Dr. Fang raised his tearful eyes, gazed once more at Ying Aoshan, and then recognized his mistake, showing a face full of embarrassed apology, “I… I have been obsessed to the point of illness… mistaking you for General Ying… sorry, sorry…”

After a pause, Dr. Fang wiped away his tears and smiled, “If it weren’t for General Ying back then, I would have died in the chaos of war… Today, seeing a descendant of General Ying and offering a bow is only natural.”

Dr. Fang had once served Ying Kexin closely. Now, upon seeing Ying Aoshan, he naturally confirmed that Huang Xiaolong was not lying, and that Ying Aoshan was indeed a true descendant of Ying Kexin.

“Oh, so you mistook me for our ancient ancestor,” Ying Aoshan chuckled, “Stand up and talk. We have something to ask you.”

Dr. Fang stood up and glanced at the robust men in the teahouse who had practiced ancient martial arts, then hurriedly said, “They are our own people. They are descendants of General Ying!”

After speaking, Dr. Fang said to Huang Xiaolong, “Come with me.”

Thereupon, Dr. Fang led Huang Xiaolong and the others to a small house behind the teahouse.

The room was decorated very simply, resembling the settings in “Seeking Qin”. It also had a very high degree of similarity to the ancestral homes of the Ying Family.

Everyone sat down.

“Indeed… I have consumed the Immortal Pill,” Dr. Fang confessed voluntarily.

“Is your real name ‘Qiulian’?” Huang Xiaolong asked.

“Yes, my name is ‘Qiulian’, but I have no surname. I am an orphan from the times of war and was fortunate to be taken in by General Ying. In that era, most commoners didn’t have surnames. Later, General Ying granted me the surname ‘Ying’…” Dr. Fang’s eyes shimmered with gratitude and reminiscence.

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“So, we should call you ‘Ying Qiulian’ then,” Huang Xiaolong nodded slightly, “Are those in the teahouse who practiced ancient martial arts also Qin people who, like you, have consumed the Immortal Pill in the past?”

“No… they are the descendants of the tomb guardians,” Ying Qiulian said with a faint smile, “They are the progeny of the ‘Meng Clan’, a surname that was highly respected in our era.”

Huang Xiaolong and the others suddenly understood.

So it was a clan of tomb guardians!

“Back then, how many people, like you, had tested medicines for Emperor Qin and consumed the Immortal Pill?” Ma Chuxia suddenly asked.

“This… I’m not too clear about that…” Ying Qiulian hesitated, then murmured as if talking to herself, “All these matters… My lord, my husband, knows better than I do…”

Huang Xiaolong said, “Alright, we can chat idle later; right now, we must go through this secret passage in Xiachucun to enter the tomb chambers below. We must not delay.”

“This… that’s not possible!” Ying Qiulian shook her head, “Sorry, back then, under the king, we all swore a deadly oath that even in death, turned into ghosts, we absolutely couldn’t lead people into the king’s resting mausoleum! Miss Aoshan, even if you are a descendant of General Ying, I… we cannot make an exception.”

“Hahaha~~ How rigid. Pressing matters at hand and still putting on airs,” Huang Xiaolong scoffed, “I’ll tell you the truth. The descendants of Xu Fu are already approaching with big forces and have secretly penetrated the Qin Emperor’s mausoleum. There are many secret passages into the underground imperial city, and I believe that what Xu Fu’s descendants know is no less than what you know.”

“What? The descendants of Tutor Xu?” Ying Qiulian’s face paled.

As the counselor and teacher to the emperor, Xu Fu once held such a position. Histories didn’t mention this either.

After a pause, Ying Qiulian’s expression cleared, “It turns out that the Immortal Pill Tutor Xu presented to the king, he also kept some for himself, just like us, he consumed the Immortal Pill and achieved eternal life…”

Suddenly, Ying Qiulian’s expression sharply changed, showing anger, “That can’t be! Back then, Tutor Xu stole the dynasty’s national fortune with his incredibly deep schemes and is a treasonous villain! His return now is probably to destroy the king’s corpse, and to steal critical national treasures!”

“Of course,” Huang Xiaolong chuckled, “The twelve golden men are one of the main targets for Xu Fu’s descendants this time.”

“This… please follow me!” Ying Qiulian made her decision, “However, this still depends on my husband’s wishes…”

“Your husband?” Feng Hanyan frowned.

Right away, Ying Qiulian led Huang Xiaolong and the others to a garden behind the teahouse.

The garden was overgrown with wild grass and ancient trees; among them, some of the old trees were lush and sturdy, clearly having weathered thousands of years of wind and rain, yet still standing strong.

In the garden, there was a shrine with two large characters engraved on its exterior: “Meng Clan”, in an ancient and vigorous style, suggesting it had weathered countless years to achieve such a profound sense of time.

Ying Aoshan bowed slightly in the direction of the shrine.

“Please wait a moment.” Ying Qiulian walked over to a large tree, bent down, and felt around at its base.

Suddenly…

Boom boom boom~~ Boom boom boom~~~

A patch of grass beside the tree suddenly caved in!

“The secret passage entrance!” Ma Chuxia whispered excitedly to Huang Xiaolong. “Below must be the underground imperial city! It’s Emperor Qin’s tomb!”

Feng Hanyan and the others were all incredibly excited.

Huang Xiaolong’s expression remained calm as he smiled. “Don’t get excited. There is a special method to open this secret passage. If we get it wrong, this passage will be sealed off permanently.”

Just then, under the moonlight, they saw a figure with a straight back rising slowly from the sunken ground, like a javelin.

This person had a tall and majestic stature, around one meter eighty-five in height!

He wore ancient leather armor, adorned with small plates on the back and lower waist, adding up to several hundred tightly-fitted square pieces, held together with straps of leather and sinew. In addition, he wore shoulder guards made similar to leather.

He had an imposing presence without anger, radiating a massive fluctuation of True Qi and an invincible fighting spirit.

With just a glance, Huang Xiaolong knew that this man had condensed at least 600 or 700 channels of True Qi in his body, making him a top-tier expert comparable to the martial Crown Prince Xuanyuan Ba of the modern era.

“Oh… This is a Qin military officer, who also must have taken an Immortal Pill…” Huang Xiaolong nodded slightly.

Having Ying Qiulian, an ancient person who had consumed the Immortal Pill, as a precedent, the sight of a Qin military officer who had lived for more than 2000 years without aging did not cause Huang Xiaolong and the others too much shock or astonishment.

Ying Qiulian hurried over and whispered a few words to the Qin military officer’s ear.

Soon, the two approached Huang Xiaolong and the others.

Ying Qiulian introduced him. “Everyone, this is my husband.”

“I am ‘Meng Zhuang’, at your service!” The Qin military officer bowed deeply to Ying Aoshan with utmost respect as if a subordinate was meeting a superior.

“Uh~~~” Ying Aoshan was momentarily speechless and quickly made small talk. “Um… General Meng… Have you been living… living in this… this… underneath?”

“Miss Ying, for more than two thousand years, I have spent most of my time living inside the imperial tomb, though I have also gone out… Ah~~ times have changed, worlds have transformed… And the great king… after all… Ah~~~” Meng Zhuang appeared deeply vexed. “Miss Ying, everyone, the vastness of the imperial tomb is beyond your imagination. It was built over more than twenty years by over a million prisoners and forced laborers, magnificent and unparalleled! Unmatched in this world!”

“Look, can we stop the chatter and just go down?” Huang Xiaolong said, growing impatient. “If you keep spouting nonsense, those Onmyoji and Ninjas from Dongying will have already thoroughly searched Emperor Qin’s tomb!”

Having said this, Huang Xiaolong didn’t hesitate and walked towards the ancient tree Ying Qiulian had tampered with.

By now, the entrance that had collapsed near the old tree had already closed automatically, showing no sign of anything unusual.

Just like Ying Qiulian had done earlier, Huang Xiaolong squatted down and began fiddling at the base of the tree.

“No, no, you must not!” Meng Zhuang cried out in shock. “Triggering the secret passage mechanism carelessly will cause thousands of pounds of boulders to rise from below and block the passage!”

As soon as he finished speaking.

Boom boom boom~~ Boom boom boom~~~

The ground collapsed, revealing an entrance.

“You… How did you know how to open this secret passage?” Meng Zhuang’s eyes widened in horror, staring at Huang Xiaolong as if he had seen a ghost. “How could you know?”

“Hahaha~~ If I say Ying Kexin told me, would you believe me?” Huang Xiaolong chuckled, “Let’s go, we need to move quickly. I need to find what I’m looking for, and take care of those Dongying bastards once and for all! Hahaha! Let’s go down!”

Meng Zhuang sighed, shook his head, and said, “Since the descendant of the great magician Xu Fu has returned to sweep through the imperial tomb… then… let’s go down together, we must stop them.”

In the end, Meng Zhuang consented for Huang Xiaolong and the others to enter the underground chambers.

The group quickly entered the secret passage.

Upon entering, it appeared to be a circular tunnel, sloping downward, very smooth, with chains above for grasping; everyone slipped and slid down.

Booming~~~ Booming~~~~

The entrance above closed magically.

After sliding for a good twenty minutes, everyone finally landed smoothly.

It seemed like they had fallen into a massive stone chamber.

Huang Xiaolong took out several incense sticks, chanted the Fire Bell Incantation, and everything around them brightened substantially.

Meng Zhuang exclaimed in amazement, “Eh~~ I didn’t expect the gentleman to also be a magician!”

In the Qin Dynasty, magicians and alchemists held prestigious positions, and were highly esteemed in the military. Xu Fu, back then, was a powerful magician and alchemist, holding a position inferior only to the Emperor, with the power to overshadow everything.

Therefore, Meng Zhuang too changed his address, respectfully calling Huang Xiaolong ‘Sir’.

Huang Xiaolong looked around, the stone chamber was as large as half a standard soccer field, empty, and surrounded by stone walls.

“Ah! We’ve finally arrived inside Emperor Qin’s tomb! This is truly a wonder of the world!” Shirley White continuously crossed herself in front of her chest.

At that moment, everyone felt that there was no foul air in the underground tomb, the air could flow naturally, and breathing was unimpeded.

Huang Xiaolong didn’t ask further, surmising that when Emperor Qin’s tomb was constructed, engineers must have designed a ventilation system.

After entering the underground tomb chamber, the two black knives in Huang Xiaolong’s arms still showed no sign of fluctuations.

It seemed that the black knife buried with the Emperor’s tomb was still some distance away and would require some thorough exploration before it could be found.

“Follow me,” said Meng Zhuang as he quickly walked over to a stone wall, fiddled with it for a bit, and with a click, click sound, a secret door opened to the left and right.

“Let’s go,” Huang Xiaolong handed several incense candles to Ma Chuxia and others for illumination and then followed Meng Zhuang through the stone door.

Behind the stone door lay a labyrinth of passages, long or short, winding or straight, with many forks, akin to a vast maze. If it weren’t for someone experienced like Old Ma leading the way, even Huang Xiaolong would spend time and energy to avoid getting lost. Any ordinary person would definitely perish within.

The four walls of the passages were made of smoothly polished stones, adorned with lifelike carvings of warhorses, terracotta soldiers, flying birds, and so forth.

As they walked, to alleviate the boredom, Meng Zhuang also narrated the story about taking the Immortal Pills to Huang Xiaolong.

It turned out that Xu Fu was commissioned by Emperor Qin to seek the elixir of immortality from a mystical overseas mountain.

Xu Fu led several large ships, carrying thousands of men, women, and children, on a grand-scale voyage.

Years later, Xu Fu returned, allegedly having found the legendary Immortal Pills!

The Emperor was overjoyed!

At that time, Xu Fu brought back a total of 15 Immortal Pills.

Emperor Qin wanted to take them immediately to achieve immortality, but the powerful Zhao Gao stopped the Emperor from taking the medicine.

Zhao Gao reasoned that if the medicine wasn’t an Immortal Pill, but poison instead, it would be disastrous. Hence, it was necessary to have people test the medicine first.

Emperor Qin selected Meng Zhuang and seven other generals, granting each an Immortal Pill.

Meng Zhuang’s wife, Ying Qiulian, because she was Ying Kexin’s personal maidservant, was exceptionally given a pill as well, to share with her husband Meng Zhuang.

Immediately, nine people took the Immortal Pills in front of Emperor Qin and his ministers.

Unexpectedly, after ingesting the pills, the nine of them felt as if countless knives were twisting inside them, causing unbearable pain and screams that shook the heavens and earth.

According to Meng Zhuang and Ying Qiulian’s description, after half an hour of excruciating pain, their bodies finally lost all strength and they passed out.

When they woke up, they found themselves buried in the underground chambers as part of the tomb’s accompaniment.

Huang Xiaolong listened with great interest, while Feng Hanyan and others were utterly captivated.

Huang Xiaolong laughed, “I understand now, you tested the drug; after taking the Immortal Pills, you suffered torture and unbearable pain, and eventually, you feigned death. Emperor Qin and Zhao Gao and the others, of course, believed that what Xu Fu brought back was not a real medicine, but poison. Hence, Emperor Qin never took the Immortal Pills until his death… Xu Fu brought back 15 Immortal Pills, and you all took 9, so it’s highly possible that there are still 6 Immortal Pills within the Emperor’s tomb!”

There was a pause before Huang Xiaolong continued to speak. “Also, Xu Fu definitely found more than just fifteen Immortal Pills back then, he kept a part of them secret…”

Meng Zhuang gritted his teeth. “The nine of us, luckily granted long life, only to wake up and find through a secret passage, that the Qin Dynasty had fallen, and it is now the Eastern Han period in the realm.”

“You guys sure slept for quite a long time,” Huang Xiaolong said with a laugh.

“We also discovered that Emperor Qin wanted to execute Xu Fu, but he escaped and even stole the dynasty’s fate! Hmph! If not for Xu Fu, the Qin Dynasty would not have fallen! Xu Fu! A scourge to the country and the people!” Meng Zhuang’s voice was filled with an indescribable rage.

Afterward, Huang Xiaolong also learned more secrets about the Immortal Pills from Meng Zhuang.

For instance—1, after taking the Immortal Pill, one would fall into an irregular state of deep sleep. Sometimes you might sleep for decades, sometimes for over a hundred years. For example, Ying Qiulian’s longest sleep was from the Qing Dynasty straight through to the Republic of China era.

This sleeping state was like hibernating, it did not require sustenance or energy.

2, those who had taken the Immortal Pill could stay forever young but would lose their ability to reproduce.

After hearing this news, Ma Chuxia and the others just shook their heads, feeling somewhat disinterested.

Ying Aoshan said, “Can’t reproduce? I’d rather not have the Immortal Pill then.”

As they walked on, the group came upon a huge stone chamber.

As soon as they entered the chamber, a strong smell of blood hit them in the face!

They saw a man dressed just like Meng Zhuang lying dead on the ground in a pool of blood, his head chopped off, lying ten meters away from his body.

From the bloodstains, it appeared the man had died less than an hour ago.

“ROAR!!!!” Meng Zhuang let out a bestial roar, his eyes splitting with rage as he charged forward. “Brother Qiang! Brother Qiang! Who killed you? Who was it?”

Ying Qiulian also began to wail loudly.

Upon asking, Huang Xiaolong found out that the decapitated man was one of the eight Qin generals who had tested the drug with Meng Zhuang!

To think that he had died here!

Huang Xiaolong’s gaze swept across the room and noticed some cuts on the stone walls, the traces of True Qi impacts, and scorch marks. Stone chips were scattered all around.

Clearly, this Qin general had engaged in a fierce battle before his death.

And now, dead, his soul had dissipated like smoke!

“It is unexpected, this man had already taken the elixir of eternal life, and yet to be killed here,” Huang Xiaolong shook his head with a sense of regret.

At that moment, Ma Chuxia, Feng Hanyan, Yan Pianpian, and the others simultaneously looked toward Huang Xiaolong and spoke in unison, “Descendants of Xu Fu!”

“That’s right, those Dongying ninjas and onmyoji must have arrived at this stone chamber first and fought with this Qin general!” Huang Xiaolong nodded slightly, a flash of murderous intent in his eyes.

“Brother Qiang! I will definitely avenge you!” Meng Zhuang placed the body and the head together, directly embracing them, his gaze spilling with vengeance.

Meng Zhuang approached a stone wall to activate a hidden door mechanism.

However…

Click~~Click~~Click~~~

No hidden door appeared, but suddenly there were sounds of mechanisms working within the walls!

“Someone has tampered with the secret door mechanism!” Huang Xiaolong suddenly shouted.

Just then—

Whiz whiz~~whiz whiz whiz~~whiz whiz whiz~~~

Crossbow arrows burst out densely from the walls!

Each crossbow arrow glowed with a blue light, clearly coated with deadly poison!

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