Chapter 2335 - The Riddle of the Dragon-Shaped Stone Stele! (1/2)

Wang Chong had never imagined that the gray-robed elder would ultimately disappear into the mausoleum.

After a few moments of silence, Wang Chong began to make his way up the jade steps.

At the top of the steps, Wang Chong saw several large words written in cinnabar.

‘Forbidden Ground of the Imperial Household! Entry Prohibited!’

After a few moments of silence, Wang Chong walked past the sign.

Not only the capital, even the imperial household was in danger now. If he did not think of a way to resolve this crisis, even the Western Mausoleum would be in danger.

Buzz!

Wang Chong spread his enormous Psychic Energy over the Western Mausoleum.

The mausoleum was cold and empty, tinged with chill. It was like it had been completely forgotten.

But Wang Chong quickly made a discovery.

“Over there!”

Wang Chong’s body blinked away, and he instantly appeared within a side hall of the mausoleum. Close to the wall, Wang Chong saw a familiar figure: the gray-robed, thin elder with mysterious origins.

His eyes were shut and he was leaning against the wall like he was sleeping.

“This!”

Wang Chong was stunned by the sight of the elder.

After chasing this person with so much effort, almost losing him quite a few times, he had ended up finding this gray-robed elder so easily.

But for some reason, perhaps because it was so easy, Wang Chong found it strange. Something seemed different.

“This energy!”

In a flash of insight, Wang Chong suddenly understood.

Though the gray-robed elder had not possessed heaven-destroying pulses of energy, he had still possessed a very faint and gloomy energy.

But this gray-robed elder, though appearing identical, felt like another person.

Simply put, that energy had disappeared.

“Ah!”

As he was thinking, he heard a soft muttering. That sleeping gray-robed elder trembled and slowly opened his eyes as if he was waking from a dream.

The old man looked blankly at Wang Chong, as if he had never seen him before.

“This… Why am I here?!”

The old man muttered as he stretched his body. As if he had not seen Wang Chong, he walked around him and went elsewhere.

Wang Chong was left speechless on the spot.

He carefully examined the gray-robed elder from the moment he had woken up, not letting a single detail go, but in the end, he was disappointed.

Though it seemed absurd, in the final analysis, this gray-robed elder was probably just the man responsible for keeping the Western Mausoleum clean.

He truly did not recognize him.

“What is going on here?”

Wang Chong slowly raised his head up to the night sky, his brows furrowed.

He did not go after the gray-robed elder, nor was it necessary, as that man was not his target.

“Possession?”

Wang Chong’s mind was whirring with thoughts.

Wang Chong was no stranger to this sort of thing, where a body was possessed and walked the earth as an avatar of someone else.

Heaven had used such an ability on the steppe, Essence Supreme had countless avatars, and even Li Junxian was capable of this. Wang Chong was naturally capable of this feat as well. It simply required using one’s Psychic Energy to surmount the other party’s consciousness.

But the method used by this other party was different from any method that he knew. This method left no mark, and it did no damage to the body serving as the vessel.

But who was this person, and why had they chosen the caretaker of the Western Mausoleum?

And what was their objective?

This other party had been hiding in the capital for numerous years. Why had the tea leaves left by the Origin Immortal Lord been able to draw them out?

It was the middle of the night, and Wang Chong had followed this person as they randomly wandered the capital. All of the locations they had visited had seemed very ordinary. It all seemed very pointless, so why?

Wang Chong felt like he was in a sea of fog.

Regardless, Wang Chong was at least sure that what had happened on this night was no coincidence. This mysterious figure who had come out of nowhere was undoubtedly an important clue.

As for the Western Mausoleum… there had to be a reason this person had chosen to disappear in this place. So long as he could find the relationship, he would inevitably be able to find the answer.

This thought made Wang Chong’s eyes turn determined. He was sure that the key was the Western Mausoleum, so all he needed to do was to find ‘that person’.

Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy once more burst out, engulfing the Western Mausoleum as he tried to find out where that person was hiding.

But the entire mausoleum was empty. Wang Chong was not dejected by this outcome. Scanning his eyes over the entire region, he quickly turned his attention on something else.

This was a dragon-shaped stone stele, around one hundred feet tall.