“How is that possible?” General Shao couldn’t believe his ears as he heard the fact that the imperial family was working with evil cultivators and their current crown prince was an evil cultivator.

Many couldn’t come to terms with that fact. Even the grandmasters on the imperial faction couldn’t believe and would have dismissed such a thing had it not been said by the crown prince himself.

But, some were quick to recover. Such as General Ming.

Clad in Qi, she began to walk in the direction of the crown prince, heavy rage and hatred in her eyes.

Wei Jun looked at her and moved to step between her and the crown prince.

“Move.” She said in an extremely low voice.

“No.” Wei Jun replied.

“Then you die with him.” General Ming said and moved forward to kill but Wei Jun managed to block her strike with his bare hands, although the amount of damage he received was a lot.

“Just listen to me.” Wei Jun said with great difficulty, but General Ming wasn’t holding back. Wei Jun knew she was stronger than him, and if she had already wanted him dead, without the use of Qi at his disposal, he would have been already dead.

That was her holding back.

In the end, General Shao had to come to his senses and come to Wei Jun’s rescue. He wasn’t blinded by anger or hatred like General Ming. He specifically remembered Wei Jun asking about some entrance into the temple and considering the temple he referred to was where they stood, the crown prince and his party was needed for that.

“Ming! Calm down!” General Shao put in his full Qi and Wei Jun had to step back, not just him, many other had to, even the three grandmasters with the imperial faction.

The clash of hot and cold Qi was unlike they had ever seen. That there was testimony enough that those two were the strongest there and no one could stand up to them. Even Wei Jun had to have second thoughts seeing the situation. At first, he thought he could have won against them with various tricks at his disposal but he was wrong.

He wouldn’t be able to win against them no matter how hard he tried.

Regardless, all he could do was hope that General Ming would calm down. His hopes were answered General Shao managed to calm her down about ten minutes of back and forth but once she was out of Qi and breath, General Shao sighed as well as he let go of her.

They both fell on their behinds and they took heavy and deep breaths. While they did so, General Ming said just one word, “Explain.”

Wei Jun took a deep breath to calm himself down and replied, “They have a method of entering this building. Without them, we need to kill those giant guys on the ground. I have a feeling none of us wants that.”

General Ming remained silent for a while before she raised her head to look at Wei Jun and Wei Jun had to take a step back out of instinct as she said, “You ever try to stop me again, and I won’t hold back.”

Shivers went down Wei Jun’s spine as he nodded involuntarily. General Ming lowered her head again and stood up. She pulled out a miasma core from her pocket and slowly began to replenish her Qi.

General Shao stood up and once he was sure his colleague wouldn’t do anything now, he took the command of the scene and said, “Alright everybody listen up. You have ten minutes to clean your heads and gather your belongings.”

Then he turned to Wei Jun and said, “Which means those guys have ten minutes to open this place up or I’ll kill them.”

Wei Jun wasn’t going to get on the bad side of those two for those imperial idiots so he simply nodded in return.

He then turned to the crown prince and said, “You heard him.”

“I did.” The crown prince replied in his usual smooth but arrogant tone before he said, “It is not easy to enter the temple. We need… sacrifices.”

“What?” Wei Jun asked.

[That’s one of the requirements]

[For each lock]

[One sacrifice]

[Three keys means three locks]

[That means you need three sacrifices]

“We nee–” The crown prince was about to explain when Wei Jun raised his hand and stopped him from speaking and said, “Just get ready to move.”

As planned, they began to walk in then minutes. They got off of the walls on the other side of the building. It was one of those olden era desert palaces. Only it was constructed like a temple.

“Where are we going?” Wei Jun asked.

“To the middle where the garden is,” Yuna replied.

“Why there?” General Ming asked her tone chill as frost.

“Because that’s where the entrance to the toms is.” The smirk man replied.

Wei Jun let them do the leading as he addressed the system and asked him to explain the system to that blood lock or whatever.

[A bloodline lock]

[It is a type of lock with a strict set of requirements to open]

[The restrictions are divided into three]

[One, you need to carry the bloodline of the one buried inside the tomb to open the lock]

[Two, you need to carry the bloodline of the one who locked the tomb]

[And three, you need a sacrifice to open the lock]

[Now that is in case there is only one lock]

[If there is more than one lock, then the requirement changes a little]

[Most of them remain the same]

[But in case of two or more locks, the keys have to be born on the same day, one minute apart bringing the maximum limit]

‘So they’re triplets?’ Wei Jun asked.

[No]

[I mean, in a sense they are]

[But they all belong to different parents]

[The mother and father of each of the keys have to be different]

‘Isn’t that a bit too tricky?’ Wei Jun asked.

After all, what were the odds that each of the bloodline member did all of that on the same day, sired children one minute apart, and created keys in that great coordination.

[Too great control is required for that, host

[And I’m willing to bet the process is anything but ethical]

Wei Jun didn’t care how that worked. What he was more concerned about was the fact that someone went through a lot of trouble to open that tomb and if someone did, then whoever was inside that tomb was worth the trouble.

Since the system was refusing to say anything in that regard, Wei Jun decided to worry about it on his own. While they were having the conversation, they arrived at the lush beautiful garden in the middle of the temple.

Unlike outside of it, the air inside the garden was cool and soothing. Almost as if the place inside the garden and outside of it were in different dimensions.

Wei Jun looked at the sole tree in the garden that had about ten peach colored fruits hanging on them.

[You should take those]

‘I thought you weren’t interfering.’

[Not in regards to the quest]

Wei Jun nodded his head and went for the fruits.

However, he wasn’t alone. Yuna was also heading for them but Wei Jun was one step faster and took all the fruits before she could even arrive before the tree.

He stored them all in his inventory so they disappeared from sight.

“Hey!” Yuna complained but Wei Jun ignored her and made his way back to the group.

“Come on! Give me one too.” Yuna complained as she followed Wei Jun but Wei Jun kept ignoring her but he didn’t miss the gaze of the crown prince on the ring of his finger.

They must have thought that Wei Jun stored the fruits in that ring.

‘Care to explain what that fruit is?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Food]

[It didn’t look that appetizing]

Wei Jun was certain the system wouldn’t have pointed out those fruits if they were just fruits. There was something else to it. Something the system wasn’t telling him but he had a hunch it wasn’t because the system was being cryptic. The system couldn’t say. At least not in clear terms.

[All I can say is that they have no effect in this garden]

[But if you were to pull them out in the tomb]

[Which is technically outside of this garden]

[Then who knows?]

[Maybe something interesting would happen]

The system went silent after those words and so did Wei Jun. He decided to be careful from that point forth because he would be in uncharted and unknown territory with a monster so strong he was getting tingles at the back of his neck ever since he entered the garden.

“It’s here.” The crown prince pointed at the pool in the middle of the garden.

“Underneath the pool?” Wei Jun asked.

“Ahan.” the crown prince replied before he slit his palm and let the blood flow in. The smirk man and Yuna did the same. And that was when Wei Jun noticed something else.

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