Chapter 132 The Prince Turned into a Tomb Raider

"Report...!"

"Your Majesty, the battle at the front has yielded results. This is an official letter from Baiyu City."

Emperor Wanyan Xi of the Jin Dynasty felt a sense of foreboding.

If the battle at the front is a great victory, or even a small one, reports of victory and letters will surely fly into the palace incessantly, and officials should be overjoyed wherever they go.

Instead of any news of victory, an official letter arrived.

You should know that only official documents issued by local government offices are considered official letters. But this time, he clearly invited his own younger brother, the great general Wang Wanyan Guihai, to personally lead 150,000 troops to deal with Liu Fu and the giant beast.

According to normal procedures, whether the 150,000 troops won or lost the battle, it should have been Wanyan Guihai, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, who came to report the battle. Why is it that Wanyan Guihai did not submit a single word of report, but instead the Baiyucheng government office reported the battle report on his behalf?

Wanyan Xi's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself, "It's over. Could it be that my younger brother, the Great General, has also met with misfortune?"

It shouldn't be like this, how could it be so fast?

Could it be that even if all 150,000 Jin soldiers were combined, they couldn't even handle a single Vajra?

It's not that they can't deal with it. No matter how powerful King Kong is, it would take a lot of time to kill 150,000 soldiers. There has to be a process. Even if the 150,000 soldiers just stood there and let King Kong kill them, it would still exhaust King Kong to death.

Wanyan Xi, sitting on the dragon throne, was restless and immediately ordered the report to be read aloud.

"Your Majesty, the General has died for his country!"

"What did you say?"

Wanyan Xi looked incredulous. He hadn't expected that, even though he had considered this possibility, the death of his younger brother was still something he couldn't accept.

"Report to us immediately how the Great General died."

"Your Majesty, last time Liu Fu brought a single behemoth, and this time we deployed our strategies entirely according to the plan for dealing with just one behemoth. However, Liu Fu brought four behemoths instead, three of which are those terrifying creatures called Vajras, so..."

"So, the Great General was defeated?"

Upon hearing this, Wanyan Xi was momentarily dazed and didn't know what to say.

"Your Majesty, not only did the Grand General Wang die for his country, but more than 20,000 of our 150,000 elite troops were killed in action, and even the Grand Tutor himself died at the hands of Liu Fu..."

When Wanyan Xi heard the news, he almost fainted.

At this time in Liaodong, no one knew what great things Liu Fu had accomplished during his trip to the Later Jin.

On the contrary, Wanyan Xi and the prefect of Baiyu City were both at a loss for what to do.

Wanyan Xi was in a slightly better situation. After learning the bad news, although he was grieved, he still had time to deploy troops to deal with Liu Fu.

However, Baiyu City was very close to Liu Fu at this time, and the recent defeat of the 150,000-strong army, with the death of the Grand General Wang and the Grand Tutor of the court, caused even more fear and shock among the Jin people.

What would happen if Liu Fu headed straight for Baiyu City at this moment?

Baiyu City Prefect Keyan has been sending out spies to investigate Liu Fu's actions for two days and two nights now, and he hasn't slept at all during this time due to the tension.

"Report!"

"Your Excellency, Liu Fu still hasn't made a move. The three giant beasts are resting and show no sign of leaving."

"What about Liu Fu?" Keyan immediately asked.

"Liu Fu was playing with a large python there. The python had a single horn on its head and looked quite terrifying. They seemed to intend to stay there and had no intention of going to Baiyu City."

Upon hearing the report, the Prefect of Baiyu City did not feel relieved at all; on the contrary, he became even more nervous.

What exactly is he trying to do?

Ke Yan couldn't understand it. Liu Fu had been in that desolate area for two days and two nights, but he had no intention of leaving.

What's going on?

He killed the Grand General Wang, killed the Grand Tutor, and inflicted a great defeat on 150,000 elite Jin troops, killing more than 20,000 Jin soldiers.

He achieved such a terrifying victory in the first battle, yet he showed no intention of continuing the offensive, but also did not retreat, which was truly baffling.

There was a reason why Liu Fu remained stationed at the place where he had fought the Jin soldiers that day.

That very night, when Liu Fu sent out the treasure-hunting rats to ambush the Later Jin generals, the rats unexpectedly discovered a treasure trove near this swamp. However, the treasure trove was located deep underground, making it rather difficult to excavate.

It wasn't for any other reason than that a large amount of poisonous gas had been discovered underground, so even the treasure-hunting rats dared not go in easily. For the past two days, Liu Fu had the grassland ground otters dig several large holes underground to ventilate the area.

Based on his intuition, Liu Fu felt that this place must be some kind of giant treasure cave or tomb.

But at the current rate, it will take at least another day of ventilation before we can go down deep underground to see what's inside.

Before we knew it, it was already the third day.

Seeing that the ventilation below was almost complete, Liu Fu personally went down into the tunnel and walked in with the prairie ground otter and the treasure-hunting rat.

As Liu Fu descended underground, he gradually discovered that this place was actually an imperial tomb, and also a treasure cave.

"No wonder. The entire tomb was filled with mercury. After the mercury evaporated, it formed a large amount of poisonous gas that permeated the underground space. This is what the treasure-hunting rats are afraid of."

However, that was before. Now, all the poisonous gas has been dispersed by Liu Fu, so there's no need to be afraid anymore.

With ease, the tomb door was destroyed. Liu Fu stepped inside and discovered that the imperial mausoleum contained the tomb of Wanyan Xi's grandfather, Ying.

The tombs of the Later Jin dynasty are different from those of other places.

Imperial tombs in the Central Plains region are characterized by their construction by carving into mountains, resulting in grand and imposing structures.

The imperial tombs in places like the Liao Dynasty were meticulously constructed without leaving any trace. They would find a grassland with no landmarks, build the tomb, bury the emperor inside, and then leave no decorations. Instead, they would kill a lamb directly above the tomb and sprinkle its blood on it.

It is said that in this way, even the descendants of the Liao emperors did not know where their ancestors were buried. If they wanted to find the imperial tomb to offer sacrifices, they had to bring the ewe that gave birth to the lamb to search for it. The ewe would find the location of the lamb's blood and thus find the location of the tomb. Once the ewe died, she would never go to the imperial tomb to offer sacrifices again. In this way, not only tomb robbers, but even the emperor's descendants did not know where their ancestors were buried.

Later, the Jin dynasty combined the practices of the Central Plains and the Liao dynasty, storing large amounts of gold and silver treasures in the tombs as burial goods, hoping that the deceased Jin emperors could also rule and dominate in the afterlife.

Using the same methods as the Liao Dynasty, the Later Jin imperial tombs were secretly buried, so that even their descendants did not know where the tombs were. In this way, tomb robbers could not find them, and the safety of the tombs could be completely protected.

But while others couldn't find it, Liu Fu's treasure-hunting rat did.

Unexpectedly, the gold and silver in this imperial tomb alone amounted to no less than a million taels, along with other rare jade and precious burial objects...

Let's talk about Baiyucheng.

Seeing that Liu Fu had remained stationed in the same place for three consecutive days, the Prefect of Baiyu City began to lose his composure.

"Liu Fu neither attacks Baiyu City nor withdraws his troops. Is he perhaps waiting for me to take the initiative to go there?"

"Since he won't come to me, then I shall go and pay him a visit myself."