Full-Time Magister: Super Mage

Chapter 390 The "Camera" from Two Years Ago

The eerie palace, the mysterious stone tomb, and the lifelike stone figures—even without thinking, it's obvious that those stone figures will come to life. As for how they come to life, it's probably similar to other tombs; they must require a special mechanism to trigger them.

"Brother Jiang, don't you think this stone statue looks a bit like the White Sand Demon Soldiers of the Sand River?" Zhang Xiaohou said.

"So you feel the same way. Actually, I felt a bit familiar when I first saw the stone statue, but I couldn't remember where I saw it. Now that you've reminded me, I realize that this stone statue does look a bit like the White Sand Demon Soldier."

"So it seems the history of the Sand River can be traced back to about two thousand years ago," Mo Fan said.

"No, don't you guys think this place is a bit creepy?" Fang Gu followed behind Jiang Han, quickening his pace considerably.

Suddenly, Jiang Han, who was walking in front, stopped in his tracks, almost causing Fang Gu to bump into him. Jiang Han looked at a strange bronze mirror hanging above the main entrance of the tomb and said with some doubt, "Why is there a bronze mirror hanging here? And from a distance, the overall layout looks like the tomb has a big single eye."

Mo Fan thought about it carefully and realized that, just as Jiang Han had said, there were indeed ten huge single eyes from the outside, which also gave him the feeling of being stared at the whole time, and he got goosebumps all over.

"It does look like an eye, but, Su Xiaoluo, don't you think that looking down from here, these white steps look a bit like our well water painting?" Fang Gu said earnestly to Su Xiaoluo, as if he had just thought of something.

"A painting of well water?" Zhang Xiaohou, Mo Fan, and Jiang Han all looked puzzled and turned to look at the stunned Su Xiaoluo.

Su Xiaoluo turned her head and looked down at the long white staircase from the main entrance. Gradually, the expression on her face changed from confusion to surprise. "You're right, it really is a well painting. I was wondering why I had a familiar feeling when climbing the white staircase!"

"Our Kun Well is very magical. At a certain time every night, you can see a lifelike painting."

"To be more precise, it's like the bottom of a well is transparent, allowing you to see into another world through the depths. One image that comes to mind is a stretch of white jade, forming a series of steps—aren't those the stone steps we just climbed up?"

Jiang Han exclaimed in disbelief, "Wow, so the Kun Well that the village of Weiju has guarded for generations is actually the map to this white tomb palace!"

"Then this bronze mirror is the Evil Eye Mirror, and the scene we saw through the Kun Well was perhaps reflected by this Evil Eye Mirror. Jiang Han, didn't you say it looked like an eye? I can tell you for sure now that it is an eye." Fang Gu pointed to the sinister bronze mirror above his head and said.

"So, those well water paintings we saw were all real, scenes from our ancestors' tombs," Su Xiaoluo said, suddenly realizing.

"This is a bit like a modern remote camera. Don't tell me cameras existed two thousand years ago," Jiang Han said.

"Forget about the cameras. Now that you've seen the painting in the Kun Well, how do we proceed?" Mo Fan said, pointing to the white tomb door in front of them.

Fang Gu took out an antique bronze mirror from his pocket and said, "Although I don't know if this thing will work, it's better to give it a try."

The bronze mirror that Fang Gu took out was only the size of a palm, and its shape was somewhat similar to the evil eye bronze mirror hanging at the main entrance of the tomb.

Fang Gu raised the bronze mirror in his hand and looked at it in the Evil Eye Bronze Mirror. Then the Evil Eye Bronze Mirror blinked, and the mirror reflected Jiang Han, Mo Fan, Fang Gu, Zhang Xiaohou, and Su Xiaoluo.

"Buzz~~~~!!"

With a humming sound, the white main gate of the tomb palace slowly opened, as if something had pulled the heavy stone door open. The moment the main gate opened, an incredibly terrifying gust of cold wind howled out from inside, almost blowing Jiang Han and his group of five directly down the steps.

"Hurry, those stone figures we just saw were alive!" Fang Gu shouted as soon as the tomb door opened.

Jiang Han glanced down and saw that Fang Gu hadn't lied to him. There were sounds coming from the steps, and the stone figures were waking up. Because they had been asleep for so long, they had even forgotten how to walk and looked like toddlers learning to walk.

"Damn? These newly resurrected stone terracotta warriors, judging from their auras, are all at least at the War General level." Mo Fan couldn't help but complain.

"Yes, they're very strong. If we can't open this door, they'll kill us instantly," Fang Gu said.

Jiang Han and the others climbed up the white steps, and they knew quite well how many stone golems there were—at least several hundred. If they all swarmed over like a swarm of undead creatures, Jiang Han wouldn't be confident of surviving without an undead creature clearing the way.

Faced with the surging stone figures, Jiang Han and the other four dared not delay and quickly stepped into the white tomb palace.

This time, Fang Gu, the village chief of Weiju Village, led the way, followed closely by Jiang Han, then Su Xiaoluo, and Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou brought up the rear.

Every now and then, Fang Gu would stop to reflect and ponder. Clearly, what they had guarded for generations was related to this white tomb palace. With the clues passed down through generations, they could successfully find the ancient king.

After entering through the main gate, Jiang Han and his group arrived at a long gallery, with stone carvings that appeared to be from the personal collection of the ancient King hanging on both sides.

"Remember, don't look at those paintings. There are mind traps inside. Once you fall into the trap of a particular painting, you'll become addicted to illusions or dreams and won't be able to escape," Fang Gu warned the group as soon as they entered the gallery.

Even with the Tranquil Heart Pendant, Jiang Han dared not be careless in the slightest. The mind traps here were very powerful. Even a super-level mage could not resist the mind traps in the painting. If one was not careful, one's soul would be sucked into the illusion.

Jiang Han and the others followed Fang Gu through the gallery for about ten minutes, but still couldn't see the end of the gallery, which made them realize that something was wrong.

"We've been walking for so long, why haven't we seen the end of the gallery yet?" Zhang Xiaohou voiced the doubts of the group.

"Village Chief, could this be the Endless Corridor?" Su Xiaoluo asked.

"Yes, you see, we're not actually far from the main gate now." Fang Gu nodded, then turned to look behind him.

They all turned to look at the main entrance, and just as Fang Gu had said, they were very close to the entrance, not at all like they had been walking in the gallery for more than ten minutes.

"This is spatial folding, somewhat similar to the Three-Step Tower in our academy, but also different," Jiang Han said thoughtfully.

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