Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 316 A Clue
The hall, or rather the tomb chamber, was empty. The shadow of the ancestor floated in three circles but found nothing.

The only thing that could be called a clue was a faint mark in the very center of the tomb.

Proof that something was placed there.

The mark was not big, only one foot square, so it couldn't be an object like a coffin.

At most it's an urn.

"That's impossible! How could it be gone? It's clearly right here."

Xiao Tang looked at the shadow of the ancestor spinning in circles, and had no idea what to do, so he could only watch from the side.

But as he was watching, he suddenly felt a chill on his back. Before he could react, his mouth and nose were covered tightly by a pair of experienced hands.

The hand was black and salty, and one could tell from the touch of it that it had not been washed for at least three days.

Xiao Tang felt that the smell was familiar. He turned his head slightly and saw that it was Lao Tang.
He and Hu Jiusan woke up at some point and found this place.

Old Tang nodded to Little Tang, made a hushing gesture, and then signaled Hu Jiusan beside him with his eyes to take action quickly.

Hu Jiusan nodded and took out a stack of thunder talismans from his arms.

Obviously, these two people mistook the shadow of the ancestor who was looking for something in the tomb as an evil spirit, thinking that he had invaded the ancestor's mausoleum and kidnapped Xiao Tang.

Xiao Tang wanted to explain, but it was too late.

Hu Jiusan has already used the thunder talismans that are as thick as a deck of playing cards. When those thunder talismans explode, it is still unknown whether the shadow of the ancestor will still be there, but the possible clues in the tomb will definitely be gone.

Xiao Tang had no choice but to bite Lao Tang and shouted without caring about Lao Tang's dirty hands.

"Don't!"

The shadow of the ancestor had already noticed Hu Jiusan's attack when he made it, and without him making any movement, all the thunder talismans were fixed in the air.

The same is true for the overflowing lightning.

The next moment, those thunder talismans and lightning were swallowed up by the tomb and thrown into the void outside the tomb.

"Xiao Hu, hold on for now. I'll take Xiao Tang away first, and then I'll get reinforcements to save you."

Hu Jiusan, “.”

Seeing that the sneak attack was useless, Old Tang immediately launched the second plan.

The shadow of the founder turned around and looked at Old Tang, wondering what was going on with Longhu Mountain this generation and why they chose such a leader.

However, Xiao Tang understood his grandfather's thoughts. Old Tang must have just said this, and he must be planning something big with his hands behind his back.

There was a 90% chance that Old Tang was planning to throw a powerful weapon that could blow up the tomb, in order to kill himself and the "evil spirit" together.

He quickly hugged Old Tang's waist and shouted, "Grandpa, don't be so angry, that's not an evil spirit, that's the ancestor!"

Old Tang, "Huh?"

Pushing Xiao Tang aside, Old Tang walked forward and circled around the shadow of the ancestor. Suddenly, he asked a question for no reason.

"Dog hole?"

"I dug it." The shadow of the ancestor replied.

After the two of them exchanged secret codes without any beginning or end, Old Tang said "oh" and immediately bowed deeply.

"Disciple Tang Ji, I pay my respects to the Grandmaster."

Confused, Xiao Tang tugged at Hu Jiusan's sleeve and asked, "What are they talking about?"

"I don't know. I guess it's a secret inheritance that only the head master can know. You will know it when you become the head master in the future." Hu Jiusan replied.

"Oh." Xiao Tang nodded.

……

Now that the facts were clarified and the conversation had been opened, Old Tang and Hu Jiusan began to help search the tomb.

And it is true that today's methods are much more sophisticated. Lao Tang and Hu Jiusan quickly found a clue.

Old Tang picked up a hair from the cracks in the bricks in the corner.

Of course, it could also be a hair.

Old Tang pinched the soft but firm hair and looked at Hu Jiusan. "Is it yours?"

Hu Jiusan plucked a strand of his own hair, pinched his fingers together, and a stream of clear air lifted up his hair, but when it got close to the strand in Old Tang's hand, it bounced away.

"It's not mine." As he said that, Hu Jiusan raised his hand and pulled out a strand of Old Tang's hair.

He experimented with this method, and Old Tang's hair was also bounced back.

Xiao Tang had been standing outside and had not entered the house at all, so he did not consider it.

Hu Jiusan turned his head to look at the shadow of the ancestor, and gave up for the time being after realizing that he could not pull the hair off the ancestor's head.

The shadow of the ancestor looked curious and asked, "What kind of magic is this? Is it used for criminal investigation?"

Old Tang and Hu Jiusan felt a little embarrassed when they heard this and wanted to laugh it off, but Little Tang said something else.

"Grandmaster is right. It is indeed used for criminal investigation. A while ago, hair kept appearing in the food in the outer disciples' cafeteria for some reason.

"No one admitted it no matter who I asked. Therefore, there were quarrels in the outer sect every day. Helplessly, the three Heavenly Masters stepped in and secluded themselves for half a month before they finally came up with this [Hair Identification Technique]."

"What happened next? Whose hair?" asked the shadow of the ancestor.

"It's a mess, no one is clean, everyone's hair is on it, so later we went to Qianji Town to find a bald man and asked the disciples to get their own food, so whoever eats first gets it."

The shadow of the ancestor was stunned by Xiao Tang's words. He turned to look at Lao Tang and Hu Jiusan, "Are you guys free now?"

Old Tang laughed and said, "The world is peaceful for now, haha, we have to find something to do, right?"

Hu Jiusan coughed lightly and brought the topic back to the topic, "So since it's not you and me, then whose hair is it?"

Old Tang pinched his beard and said, "There are only two possibilities. One is that what you, Grandmaster, left us is actually a person.

“After waking up, the man ran out of here on his own.

"Secondly, someone entered here before us and stole the things hidden in this tomb.

"But this place is cut off from the world. Whether entering or leaving, it's as difficult as ascending to heaven. Moreover, outside the tomb, there is also the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain guarding it. How is it possible?"

"Grandpa, didn't we just sneak in? Is it difficult to sneak out?" Xiao Tang asked.

"Otherwise, the reason we were able to come in so easily is because I, your grandfather, am the headmaster and am familiar with all the arrangements.

“And if there is a Tibetan in this ancestor’s tomb, then he must be someone from the past.

“How can people from the past know what will happen in the future?”

Old Tang shook his head, puzzled.

"Then he must have come from outside," said the shadowy figure of the Grandmaster. "After all, nothing in the world is perfect, and my method isn't foolproof either. Perhaps there's a flaw."

The shadow of the ancestor counted on his fingers and said, "It should be enough to use it once more."

After saying that, he reached out to the corner, sensing some changes.

After a while, he opened his eyes and waved his hand gently, and the tightly fitted tomb bricks at the corner where his hair was found quietly dissipated.
A big hole appeared in front of everyone.

In the void outside the tomb, there are countless broken magic arrays.

The shadow of the ancestor turned to look at Old Tang, "It's not that I'm forgetful, nor am I hiding someone in the tomb, but you weren't watching carefully, and someone broke through the wall."

The result was obvious. The thieves used other methods to enter the tomb, and their methods were so cruel that they were like demolition.

Old Tang stared at the previously covered-up hole in bewilderment. "Shouldn't it be like this? How could this happen?"

To use a metaphor, this tomb is a vault and the diary is the key.

The ancestor's divine consciousness in the wordless stele is a surveillance camera that only monitors the main gate, and the heavenly masters guarding outside are security guards.

But this thief didn't have the key, and he didn't go through the front door. In order to steal the treasure, he went through the back door and used the most violent means to break a hole out.

After stealing the things in the tomb, he built a perfect mezzanine to cover up the big hole he had made.

The Longhu Mountain Heavenly Masters, acting as security, were completely unaware of this. Xiao Tang quickly grasped the truth and concluded, "What the Grandmaster meant was, what are we doing? We can't even keep an eye on things. If they dare to violently dig graves today, they might plant bombs on Longhu Mountain tomorrow. Ouch."

Old Tang tapped Little Tang and said, "Go play somewhere else, kid, and don't make trouble."

After sending Xiao Tang away, Lao Tang and Hu Jiusan squatted beside the big cave and began to study.

Xiao Tang took a few steps back and stood aside obediently. Just when he was bored, he suddenly saw the shadow of the ancestor slowly fading.

The master shook his head at him, signaling Xiao Tang not to speak, and then stared at the big hole in silence, as if he was recalling something.

His expression changed several times, and finally he sighed silently.

Old Tang and Hu Jiusan did not notice anything unusual behind them and continued to discuss.

But this time, Hu Jiusan was quick-witted and thought of a possibility. "I do have a guess."

"Tell me about it." Old Tang said.

"The war that destroyed Zhongzhou at the end of the Eastern Qi Dynasty." Hu Jiusan said.

"Back then, half of the Heavenly Masters followed the Emperor into battle. The ones who stayed behind not only had to guard the mountain gate, but also had to inspect the various counties. The Ancestral Master's Mausoleum must have been left unguarded at the time."

"If there were any thieves, they would have most likely entered at that time."

"It's very likely." Old Tang thought it made sense and nodded.

But just as he was about to report to the shadow of the ancestor master, he turned around and found that the shadow of the clan master had disappeared at some point.

There was a pile of thunder talismans where he had stood before.

It was exactly the pile that Hu Jiusan had thrown out before.

The top one was turned over, and a few lines of small words were written on the back.

[My regrets have come to an end, so don’t worry about it.]

[But when I saw that thief's cave, I suddenly remembered something. You must remember it.]

[That is, what I hide is not mine, and I am also a thief.]

【This is absolutely true.】

[Therefore, even though it has been thousands of years, please return it to its original owner on my behalf.]

[Greedy thief, Zhong Wuming would like to thank you all here. ]

Zhong Wuming is the name of the founder.

Old Tang picked up the thunder talisman, looked at it several times, and then carefully put it away. He also put the hair, which was almost the only clue, into a brocade box.

He patted Xiao Tang's head. "Let's go back and help the Grandmaster."

Xiao Tang was stunned for a long time before he reacted, as if he had been thinking about something.

After the last trace of the ancestor's remaining thoughts in this world dissipated, the mystery in the tomb also dissipated. Now even Xiao Tang can see the way out clearly.

This large tomb, built by the founder himself, has no other burial objects except those that have been stolen.

Little Tang followed Old Tang in the tomb passage and suddenly asked, "Grandpa, what kind of magic weapon did the Grandmaster steal that could make him so greedy?"

Hu Jiusan turned around and scolded, "You kid, the Grandmaster is so detached, why do you say he is unbearable?"

Xiao Tang didn't look at Hu Jiusan, but continued with his head down, "When I came in, you and Grandpa were unconscious, and that's when I told Grandmaster the whole story of the diary.

"And the Grandmaster only told me to bring this item back to Longhu Mountain, and he pretended not to have heard anything about Senior Brother Zhang and Junior Sister Chen being the ones who deciphered the diary.

"Although I don't know the reason, whether it's to be returned to the original owner or given to someone with a predestined relationship, it should be handed over to these two. Why is the Grandmaster avoiding this issue?
“Furthermore, the ancestor could leave a diary as a guide and hide the treasure in the tomb, but he did not tell anyone what his regretful treasure was. He also trapped it in the wordless stele in the hall, isolating it from the treasure.

"Is it because he can't, or is it because the Grandmaster is afraid that his ghost will be reluctant to let go after knowing what the treasure is.

“And since this item was stolen by the ancestor, why didn’t he return it to its original owner while he was still alive, but instead took it to this tomb after his death?

"This great tomb is completely empty. Is it because our ancestor is indifferent to material things, or is it that in his eyes, the greatest treasures in the world are not even half as valuable as that object?"

Xiao Tang's call left Hu Jiusan speechless.

Hu Jiusan, "You kid, I..."

"Enough." Old Tang suddenly interrupted their argument.

Then, he looked at Xiao Tang and said, "Whether you are a corrupt thief or a master, you are all in the past. When a person dies, the bird flies to the sky. What else do you want?"

"I don't know, I just feel uncomfortable." Xiao Tang said with his head down.

"Hey, good boy." Old Tang patted Little Tang on the shoulder, "Now that things have come to this, just think of me as exonerating the Grandmaster.

"Whether the Grandmaster was a thief or not, or what he was thinking back then, it doesn't matter now. You only need to know one thing."

"Grandpa, please speak." Xiao Tang raised his head.

"That is, you and I must never become thieves from now on.

"We will retrieve the things for our ancestors and return them to their original owners. If it belongs to Zhang Ze's ancestors, we will return it to him. If not, we will continue to look for the owner until we find him. Do you understand?"

"Okay, I've got that in mind." Xiao Tang nodded happily.

After saying that, Old Tang turned around and looked at Hu Jiusan again, "And you, Xiao Hu, the same goes for you."

"Disciple will write it down as well." Hu Jiusan replied with a bow.

The three of them walked in silence for a while and soon reached the exit.

The inscriptionless monument is the exit.

However, just as the three of them stepped out of the inscriptionless monument, the entire roof of the Xiantang was blown open, and a large formation appeared out of thin air.

Surrounding them was a team of no less than ten Heavenly Masters, each holding a magical tool and talisman, ready for battle.

There are three layers there, and three layers outside, with circles of demon-slaying formations suppressing the enemy.

"How dare you, thief! You dare to invade the forbidden area of ​​Longhu Mountain? Today... Hey! Hey! Stop it right now! It's the Sect Master!"

Looking at the sun in the sky and the dissipating array patterns, Old Tang's forehead was covered with sweat.

Because he was just one pinch away from being beaten to death by his own people as a thief
In the Jade Book illusion.

Zhang Ze was reading a book when suddenly his ears moved as if he heard some sound. He frowned and immediately raised his hand to cast a spell to close all the doors and windows in the room.

However, it was still a step too slow.

That Lu Chen, the Great Sect Master Lu, entered the house first.

She sat on the table with her legs crossed, squinting at Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze laughed awkwardly, opened the door again, and asked, "Can we not eat today?"

"No, you have to eat today. You can't stop for a whole day. But..."

Lu Chen said, snapping his fingers and the door closed again, "I came here today for something else. I came to ask for your help."

Zhang Ze looked at the Tianshan Child-Grandma in front of him and leaned back in his chair. "Is this illegal?"

"It must be illegal." Lu Chen replied.

"Then I won't do it." Zhang Ze jumped out the window and tried to escape.

However, just after he took two steps, he was caught back by Lu Chen and pressed to the ground.

"You have to do it even if you don't want to. You are the only one who can do this. Otherwise, why would I feed you medicine for so many days?"

Lu Chen was a little excited, "Come with me tomorrow, and we'll go thieves and steal things!"

Zhang Ze, "I won't do it, you're going to kill me? Steal something? What did you steal?"

"Of course it's the Human Emperor Flag!"

Lu Chen said as a matter of course.

(End of this chapter)