"You... Brother Luo, are you two even human?" Bai Xiao'e's lips quivered, her voice trembling slightly.
It wasn't that she was faint-hearted; the current situation was just too bizarre.
Zhen Fu'er remained silent, her beautiful eyes constantly sizing up Luo Yu and Bai Xiao'e, seemingly deep in thought.
"I asked if you two are human, are you doubting me?"
Luo Yu's golden eyes swept over the two women. Under his golden gaze, he detected a strange red glow enveloping both women—an obvious abnormality.
"Brother Luo, didn't you see it?" Bai Xiao'e said. "Those tiny red characters—they were written with my name, predicting that you two are not human."
"What?" Luo Yu's eyes widened. Weren't these outright lies? Wasn't it his name, Luo Yu, that was written at the beginning?
"No, what I saw was that my name was written there," Zhen Fu'er spoke up, making the atmosphere even more oppressive.
"How is that possible?"
The three of them exclaimed in unison, none of them believing they could have read it wrong. They turned their heads to look at the space above the three coffins, only to find the tiny red characters had vanished without a trace at some point.
Luo Yu's expression grew grim.
"The situation is bizarre. We mustn't lose our composure now," Zhen Fu'er said. "Let's first talk about what each of us saw."
Bai Xiao'e and Luo Yu quickly shared their observations.
Everything was the same, except the names were different. Each had found that their two companions were not human after leaving the tomb.
"There's a problem. Could we have been hallucinating? Otherwise, why would the three of us see different things?" Bai Xiao'e's face was full of confusion, yet she maintained her distance from the other two.
Luo Yu was now carefully searching his memory to determine if there had ever been a time when he was completely separated from the two women.
There shouldn't have been, except for when he entered the side chamber of the White-Haired Goddess; to resist the cold, he was slightly distracted.
But during such a short period, nothing should have been able to swap the two women without making a sound.
Yet, what was with the red glow emanating from their bodies?
"The two of you listen to my commands now," Luo Yu said. "It's no use losing our composure at this time."
"If some monster could replace me without making a sound, the two of you would be dead by now."
"Alright," Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er nodded as if they had found a pillar of strength.
"Call forth the Ancient Spirits."
"Swoosh!"
The Ancient Beast Bai Ze was summoned.
Luo Yu's frown deepened; a monster couldn't possibly summon an Ancient Spirit like Bai Ze, so Bai Xiao'e definitely wasn't fake.
Similarly, Zhen Fu'er also demonstrated special abilities. Though Luo Yu had never seen them before, Bai Xiao'e believed in her identity.
After verifying the identities of the two women, their gazes unanimously turned towards Luo Yu.
"You two aren't suspecting me, are you?"
Luo Yu was speechless.
"Boom!"
"The Spirit of Emperor Qin Shi Huang appears."
"The Ancient Spirits of Five Emperors appear."
"..."
Over a dozen Ancient Spirits appeared all at once, leaving Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er agape. This was the first time they witnessed someone summoning Ancient Spirits continuously.
It was terrifying.
Aside from Luo Yu, who else in the world could possess such an ability?
"The two of you are emitting a strange red light. Can you explain to me what's going on?" Luo Yu now felt calmer.
Damn it, he stood with the lineage of the Great Xia behind him; he refused to believe he could fall in this minor Han Dynasty's Great Tomb.
Don't push me—if any ghost or monster dares to show up, I'll directly call upon the Buddha, the Eighteen Arhats, and the Three Pure Ones to deal with you.
Luo Yu was getting impatient now; he had never been so frightened in his life, and he wouldn't leave today until things were clear.
"Red light? What red light? I don't know," both women shook their heads in succession, indicating they didn't understand what Luo Yu was talking about.
"Swoosh!"
"You two, give me your hands."
Luo Yu decided to investigate personally and was secretly prepared for the possibility of a sudden attack from them.
"Okay, all right," Bai Xiao'e immediately nodded.
Zhen Fu'er's face turned abnormally rosy. "Luo Gongzi, no one has ever held my hand."
"What time is it now? There's no room for propriety," Luo Yu glared and imperiously took both women's small hands.
They were slickly smooth and frighteningly cold as ice.
"You two are too cold," he remarked.
"After being frozen like that and now being so scared, how could we not be cold?" Bai Xiao'e explained.
Luo Yu didn't respond but fully infused his spiritual power into the women to investigate.
The complexions of Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er quickly became flushed, feeling that power roving freely inside them.
"My lord, is it... is it done?" the woman in ancient attire gasped.
"I'm done," Luo Yu withdrew his hands.
Bai Xiao'e was surprised.
"You finished so quickly,
the investigation?"
Luo Yu nodded.
"Yes, you two are fine, but I have no idea what's causing this red shadow. It's strange."
Bai Xiao'e speculated with a hint of worry, "Could we have been subjected to some special method?"
Luo Yu shook his head: "I don't know."
"Let's go and check it out."
"Ah, aren't we leaving? You want to go in there?" Bai Xiao'e was somewhat hesitant; the tomb owner's methods were daunting to her.
"No matter what it takes, even if I have to use my trump card today, I want to see what is really behind this."
Luo Yu took the lead, crossing the tombstone and the three coffins, continuing forward with the two women.
He had thought he would encounter an overwhelming crisis. But instead, the way was unobstructed, leading straight to the main chamber's entrance, where he saw the huge stone door made of mysterious iron.
There were no traps, only two small pits the size of a palm at the bottom.
Luo Yu kicked it hard, exerting great force, but the stone door didn't budge and didn't react, even absorbing all the spiritual power he had released in his attack.
"Hmm?"
"What kind of material is this stone door made of? It's both hard and strange."
"Boom!"
Luo Yu threw a punch, formidable in his momentum, yet the stone door remained as unmovable as a mountain.
He grabbed the two small pits that were recessed at the bottom.
He exerted all his strength.
Eventually, the stone door began to tremble.
"Could it be that it really has to be lifted?"
Luo Yu summoned the Ancient Spirits, exerted his full strength, and the stone door shook, tiny droplets of dust falling down as he forcefully lifted it up.
The main chamber was revealed behind it.
"So we just come in like this?"
Luo Yu felt it was unusually smooth sailing. Apart from being initially thwarted by the terracotta warriors and alarmed by the prophecy, there wasn't any danger.
He propped up the stone door and looked inside the main chamber.
"Damn!"
"What's the matter?"
Bai Xiao'e and the other woman asked, "Brother Luo, what's wrong?"
"You look for yourselves," said Luo Yu.
The two women took a step forward, using the light projected from their cell phones to look inside the main chamber.
The main chamber was completely empty.
Not even a coffin, no treasures, nor anything eerie.
"This..."
"That's not right."
"How could the main chamber possibly have nothing?"
The two women were instantly puzzled and did not understand what went wrong.
"Let's go."
"Boom!"
Luo Yu let go of the stone door and led the women back, his expression grim.
"Logically, the main chamber should be more heavily guarded than the side chambers. How could we have gotten here so easily?"
"Exactly," Zhen Fu'er and the other woman agreed.
"Something's wrong," Luo Yu suddenly stopped, pondering in his mind, "There must be a problem."
"The material used to create those terracotta warriors is anything but ordinary. Could a tomb guarded with such high-level treasures be entirely empty?"
"Certainly not."
Bai Xiao'e, confused, said, "But when we went in just now, there really was nothing, and it didn't look like someone has been in and taken things."
"Let's go, back for another look," urged Luo Yu.
Luo Yu was still not satisfied; he stood in front of the great stone door once more.
"There's nothing special to see."
Both women shook their heads, but Luo Yu made his move.
"Come forth, Erlang Manifests the Sage True Monarch of Guanjiangkou."
"I summon thee, Great Sage Equal to Heaven of Mount Huaguo!"
A figure holding a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword, clad in silver armor, a three-eyed god appeared, and suddenly the dark tomb was illuminated with silver light.
Soon, a burst of golden light appeared.
A majestic Monkey God also materialized, wearing Cloud-stepping Boots, clad in Gold Chain Mail Armor, wielding the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
This scene left Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er utterly astonished.
"Heroic Spirits, possess me!"
"Boom, boom!"
The two great gods merged with Luo Yu. In an instant, his aura surged, and his eyes revealed a golden outline.
He brought his fingers together like a sword and swept them in front of his eyes.
"Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze, activate."
Inside his Eyes that Break Delusion, flames roared, divine light flourished, unleashing divine power.
But Luo Yu didn't stop there.
He pressed his sword finger to his brow.
"Heavenly Eye, activate!"
"Shwoosh!"
A silver light twinkled at his brow, and a third eye opened.
This action made the two beauties dizzy with astonishment.
"That's... That's intense."
Luo Yu's lips curled into a smirk brimming with dominance: "I refuse to believe that with the union of two Great Divine Powers, I can't see through the flaws of this ancient tomb."
"Boom!"
Luo Yu surveyed the surroundings, with Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze and Heavenly Eye both straining, piercing through the fog of confusion and illusion, and nothing could hide from their sight.
In his eyes,
The scenery around him suddenly changed, no longer the same as before...