All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

With the cooperation of several top feng shui masters, they cleared several key points of the formation.

To their surprise, the central array's core was the entrance to the true ancient tomb.

The entrance was found, and a group of people entered the ancient tomb. However, entering the ancient tomb was not so easy.

Ancient tombs contain all sorts of methods; mechanisms are commonplace, but the most formidable are some powerful mechanical beasts.

Ordinary weapons are ineffective against mechanical beasts, and heavy weapons risk damaging the ancient tomb. The only option is to use true energy to destroy their interior.

After dealing with the mechanical beasts, they entered the interior of the ancient tomb.

"Does anyone else think this ancient tomb is a bit strange?"

"That's true; there's not a single written record found in this ancient tomb."

"There's another door over there; presumably, there's information about the tomb's occupant there."

When they opened the main gate in the middle of the ancient tomb, two powerful ferocious beast corpse puppets appeared, and the two Grandmaster-level martial artists in front of them were slapped away by the corpse puppets.

The people behind them reacted and picked up their weapons to attack the corpse puppet.

The corpse puppets are impervious to swords and spears, making them even more powerful than the mechanical beasts outside.

After an hour or two, with the cooperation of many martial artists, the two corpse puppets were killed.

"What the hell is this thing? It's amazing."

"It looks a bit like the legendary corpse puppet, but I'm not entirely sure."

“I’ve read some ancient texts. Corpse puppets seem to be something that only evil cultivators would create. The formations here don’t look like they were set up by evil feng shui masters. How could such an evil thing appear?”

"Corpse puppets aren't necessarily only made by evil cultivators; righteous people can also make them. The corpse puppets here are made from ferocious beasts, so they must have been made by feng shui masters to guard the ancient tomb."

They chatted as they went inside, where the space was many times larger than the outside.

The layout here is somewhat reminiscent of the Ascension Pavilion.

Upon entering through the main gate, you first encounter a large plaza.

There are some statues in the square, and many palaces surround the square.

Each palace had a name on it. They looked around and saw that the palaces included the Martial Arts Hall, the Weapon Hall, the Elixir Hall, the Treasure Hall, and so on.

First, they entered the Treasure Hall.

When they entered the Treasure Hall, they were stunned by what was displayed there.

It's not that the items in the Treasure Hall are particularly valuable, but rather that many of them seem to be modern products.

Items like glass cups, stainless steel basins, and resin products of various colors, in addition to those resembling modern objects, also include some that appear to date back to the early Ming Dynasty.

After careful examination, it was discovered that many items in the Treasure Hall are indeed modern products.

Many items also have dates, simplified Chinese characters, etc.

"I was a little confused. Although there was not much information about the tomb owner, judging from the style of the tomb and some antiques in this treasure hall, this tomb was from the early Ming Dynasty."

This ancient tomb is protected by an array and has not been looted, so why are there modern items inside? That's something I don't understand.

"It's really hard to understand. Let's go and see the other palaces and see who is buried in this ancient tomb."

They opened the other palaces to take a look.

The Martial Arts Hall contains martial arts manuals, the Weapon Hall contains weapons, and the Pill Hall contains pills used for cultivation.

They opened the main hall of the ancient tomb, but no one was buried there. There was only a sentence inside.

Emperor Hongwu ordered Liu Bowen to build the tomb of the Marquis of Kong here.

The Tomb of the Empty Marquis?

Empty Marquis?

An empty tomb?

In other words, this ancient tomb did not bury anyone; it was an empty tomb.

Why did Zhu Yuanzhang order the construction of an empty tomb here?

And what does it mean that there are modern items in this tomb?

In addition to modern items, the ancient tomb also contained things related to martial arts, which were beyond their understanding of the Ming Dynasty.

The martial arts manuals in the martial arts hall of the ancient tomb record that martial arts are divided into six realms: Inner Qi Realm, Grandmaster Realm, Divine Intent Realm, Transformation Realm, Breaking Illusion Realm, and Returning to Truth Realm.

In modern martial arts traditions, the most complete lineages only extend to the realm of divine intent.

There are absolutely no records above the Transformation Realm.

They have now obtained the complete inheritance of the six realms of martial arts from this ancient tomb, and there are many inheritances as well.

Besides martial arts manuals, there are also elixirs and various weapons.

The opening of this ancient tomb has revealed many unsolved mysteries.

Why are there modern items in ancient tombs?

Martial arts during the Hongwu era were not as bad as historical records suggest.

Because the items in the ancient tomb were too important, the government deployed a special department to intervene.

Multiple departments have intervened to study the items in the ancient tomb, to see what the modern items in the tomb are all about.

After examination by relevant departments, the modern items in the ancient tomb were indeed found to be several hundred years old.

Relevant departments photographed the modern items in the ancient tomb and sent them to the manufacturer for verification.

They received the answer: the items were indeed produced by them, but they had no idea who bought them.

This has left many people even more confused about how modern items appeared during the Hongwu era.

Not long after, several more ancient tombs were discovered.

The ancient tombs date from both the Song and Sui dynasties.

Those ancient tombs were all empty tombs, and their specifications were similar to those of the empty tombs of marquises in the Ming Dynasty.

The tomb contained mostly modern items, all of which were produced in their time.

This makes it even harder for many people to understand why modern items are found in ancient tombs from various dynasties.

Some tombs contained not only modern items but also modern books.

Who exactly sold modern items to ancient times? The special departments of the Dragon Kingdom launched a frantic investigation, but no matter how they investigated, they couldn't find any information.

The special forces personnel of the Dragon Kingdom had never encountered such a bizarre situation before, which left them feeling deeply powerless.

It wasn't just people in special departments who felt things were strange; research departments felt the same way.

Historically, it is said that ancient martial arts declined, but the things they found in the recently opened ancient tombs show that ancient martial arts never declined, but rather flourished.

This made them doubt history. Although history is not very reliable to begin with, who could stand to overturn history and start over?

Inside the temple, Zhou Yongcheng watched as modern people opened the tombs of marquises from various dynasties, and the modern people were driven to mental breakdown by the things in the ancient tombs.

The special departments of the Dragon Kingdom were also driven to the brink of madness by the modern items found in the ancient tomb.

Zhou Yongcheng withdrew his gaze. This was just the beginning; the things that would shatter the world's mentality were yet to come.

Ignoring the confusion of modern people over history, Zhou Yongcheng turned his attention to the long river of time.

In the long river of time, the timelines of the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty have completely diverged, meaning that the Ming and Song Dynasties have become completely parallel worlds.

Any events that occur in the Ming and Song dynasties will not have any repercussions in later generations.

The timeline of the Great Zhou and Great Tang periods has also seen a slight surge. If they develop for a while longer, they will form parallel worlds, just like the Great Ming and Great Song.

Zhou Yongcheng then turned his attention to the Xin Dynasty. Thanks to Zhou's reminder and the fact that Wang Mang had a golden touch, he was not in such a hurry to carry out reforms.

No matter what you do, you can't rush it, because rushing will lead to mistakes.