Beastmaster of the Ages - Chapter 7262

Chapter 7176: A Decoy

“This one example alone isn’t enough to prove everything,” Li Tianming pondered.

Finally, Li Tianming left the tomb before him, restoring its environment as much as possible.

Then, he continued to ‘visit’ other tombs, mostly light-years in size, but after visiting several, he found the situation to be essentially the same.

In each tomb, the coffin contained the fossilized essence of the cosmic god.

After this process, Li Tianming was already considering heading directly deeper into the Illusionary Heavenly Emperor’s Tomb.

“They’re all like this. It seems they don’t have any special way to preserve the body. Could the resurrection of the ancestor be just a pretext, a real attempt to kill Little Li?” Sui Shenyao speculated.

“Judging from their initial reaction, that seems unlikely,” Aurora said.

“I think we still need to find the real culprit and investigate thoroughly before we can truly feel at ease,” Li Tianming said, gazing into the deepest part of the Illusionary Heaven Emperor’s Mausoleum. “My main purpose in examining these tombs is that if the Illusionary Heaven Emperor Clan generally possesses special methods to preserve their bodies, then the Illusionary Heaven Ancestor is naturally even more capable. Even if they are currently fine, it doesn’t guarantee that the Illusionary Heaven Ancestor is without problems.”

As Li Tianming gazed into the depths, he could already vaguely see a tomb far larger than the others.

It was located at the very center and deepest part of the entire Illusionary Heaven Emperor’s Mausoleum!

Li Tianming then proceeded at almost full speed through the void of the cosmic stars, a distance that couldn’t be covered in just a few steps.

After passing thousands of tombs of varying sizes, this colossal structure finally appeared completely before Li Tianming.

This was a tombstone, formed in the real universe from endless star seas, trillions of minerals, and other aggregates, stretching ten light-years!

In this cosmic space, vast clusters of shards and the boundless Milky Way together form this tomb. Dense Dao patterns flow within, carrying the brilliance of various cosmic substances, condensing into this spectacle of the deep universe.

“Ten light-years, even larger than the current Ling’er!” Sui Shenyao exclaimed in amazement.

Although Sui Shenyao had long heard of the immense size of the ancestor Huan Tian, the sheer divine power manifested through the tombstone still left her deeply shocked. What was

enormous before everyone’s eyes was not just the tombstone; the tomb itself was also enormous, exceeding ten light-years in size.

Even Li Tianming was somewhat astonished by such a colossal structure. Although

the person within was dead, the sheer scale and the countless Dao patterns inscribed within this high-status tomb still reflected their status and strength in life.

Li Tianming didn’t dwell on the matter; he directly began to observe the sealing Dao array of the entire tomb.

He first approached the ten-light-year-level tombstone, studying it for a while before discovering that the Dao array was indeed extraordinary; he couldn’t even discern its level.

“Something’s strange, it seems different from ordinary Dao formations.” Li Tianming frowned slightly, slowly understanding the ins and outs of this Dao formation with his Eye of Heaven. He slowly said, “The Dao formation is inscribed around the tombstone, covering the entire tomb… and this Dao formation has interlocking rings like a spider web, extending outwards…”

Finally, his gaze slowly followed the Dao formation’s structure, focusing on the ten huge pillars of different colors surrounding the tomb.

“There seems to be some mystery in these ten pillars,” Li Tianming thought to himself.

“Ah? I thought these things were just decorations,” Sui Shenyao said in surprise.

“I didn’t pay attention to them just now either,” Li Tianming said, his gaze slightly narrowing. “It seems that the entire Dao formation is also connected to these ten pillars.”

As he spoke, he stepped back slightly from the side of the tomb, coming to the side of the huge pillars to observe them carefully.

“These pillars are roughly compressed from small, even galaxy-less, spaces of space, including their matter. They seem somewhat similar to the Heavenly Emperor Pillars, though significantly smaller than the Heavenly Emperor Pillars, which were compressed from 999 level-nine galaxies…” Li Tianming pondered.

Upon closer inspection, to get a better view of their entirety, Li Tianming entered the Observation Realm.

He was astonished to discover that each pillar had a groove!

“This seems… to require something to activate,” Aurora said gravely.

“We can’t find that thing now; we can only try to force it open,” Li Tianming said helplessly.

This discovery was temporarily useless to Li Tianming.

He ignored the small pillars and went to the tombstone, beginning to use his Eye of Heaven to unravel the Dao array’s structure.

However, this Dao array of unknown rank seemed extremely strange to Li Tianming.

He repeatedly tried to decipher its structure with his Eye of Heaven, attempting to unravel the array, but failed each time.

After the fourth failure, Li Tianming was somewhat frustrated.

“This thing, I can clearly see most of the Dao patterns, but I’m still just a few steps away from completely solving it,” Li Tianming sighed helplessly.

The main reason Li Tianming was annoyed was that this Dao array seemed not so difficult, but the actual operation was completely different.

Otherwise, Li Tianming wouldn’t have persevered and tried several times.

However, after repeated failures, he also realized that this was not a Dao array that he could easily solve.

Aurora said gently, “Perhaps the actual level of this Dao array is still a bit too high. Maybe you can try again when your Eye of Heaven Steals to a higher level of Heavenly Fate Reincarnation?”

Li Tianming had stopped and frowned slightly, “I still care quite a bit about the matter of the Illusionary Ancestor. After all, it concerns my safety. If it’s not resolved, this matter will always bother me. As for improving Heavenly Fate Reincarnation… even with the Primordial Demon Ray and Xiaoxiao’s help, it’s not something that can be done overnight.”

“Then what can we do?” Sui Shenyao asked, puzzled.

After pondering for a while, Li Tianming suddenly relaxed his brows and smiled slightly, “I’ll go find Xiaoyu and search the relics of those powerful members of the Illusionary Heavenly Emperor Clan to see if there’s anything that can open the grooves on these small imperial pillars.”

“That’s right!” Sui Shenyao suddenly realized, “If they want to resurrect their ancestors, they must open this Dao array first. So, their Sumeru Rings probably contain what we want.”

Having made up his mind, Li Tianming left the tombstone and focused on circling the ten small imperial pillars around him, memorizing the shape of the grooves and their corresponding colors.

He even memorized the appearance of these small imperial pillars in the Guanzizai Realm and the real universe.

Even so, Li Tianming also had Xianxian record them on the leaves of the World Tree of Origin in his true form, adding an extra layer of insurance.

After doing all this, Li Tianming directly said, “Yin Chen, have Xiaoyu activate the World Planet.”

“Okay,” Yin Chen replied.