After a while, the whole tombstone exploded.
Large chunks of it rained down from the sky and fell into the depths of the cliff.
"Bang!"
After the dust had cleared, a huge hole appeared where the tombstone had been. Freezing air was wafting out of it and hitting Austin in the face. His nose wrinkled as the smell of death washed over him once more.
The old man jumped into the air, performed an elated dance, and dashed into the entrance of the cave.
Austin watched his figure disappear in the darkness. The place was eerie and from what the old man had told him, dangerous. He debated whether it was worth finding out what was at the end. After struggling for a while, Austin went into the cave too.
At the same time, miles away, a multitude of people were still gathered around a valley where a one-hundred-meter tomb stood.
Flashes and waves of vital energy and magic treasures swept towards the tomb. Each of the people moved in synchronization, trying to break the arrays which prevented them from entering the tomb.
The entire tomb shook dramatically as if earthquake had struck.
Smiles spread on the peoples' faces. The tomb was the only one out of eighty one that they hadn't managed to enter yet, and they were moments away from bursting it open.
The people around the gorge were the top cultivators from different sects and clans of the East Mainland. They joined hands and launched their best skills to break the arrays around it.
Deep cracks split the entrance of the tomb and a dark, cold aura seeped from the cracks. The sky above their heads began to turn a misty black color.
Gradually, sound began to come out of the depths of the tomb. As it grew closer and louder. They could make out the thunder of horses hooves and battle-shouts of soldiers.
"Attention, everyone! The tomb is going to explode and those hideous evil things inside it are coming out for us.
They are here to protect the tomb and the treasure inside. We need to work together to kill these evil things so we can get inside,"
one of the strong cultivators shouted.
"Boom!"
As soon as the words had left his mouth, the door of the tomb blew off.
There was now a gaping hole in the entrance of the tomb and every cultivator stared at it, waiting for the evil things to appear.
In the cultivator's silence, the noise of the evil things grew louder. The ground at their feet had begun trembling and roaring. .
A second later, hundreds of soldiers spilled out of the entrance and onto the ground in front of them. Some people reacted quick and leapt aside to avoid being trampled.
The soldiers were all dead and were also riding on top of huge, dead beasts. Each had a spear or trident in their hand and they were dressed in armor, covering their identities. The only part those cultivators could see were these dead riders' angry, red eyes.
"Oh, jesus! Why are there so many dead men and dead beasts? "
another cultivator exclaimed in shock. They had dealt with these horrible things before when they tried to break into the previous eighty tombs. However, never once had they thought that they would encounter so many more dead riders in the last one.
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