The Emperor’s Daily Nitpicking

ad just been dug out of the ground by Ben.
When no one was around, those usual emotions disappeared from his face, appearing extraordinarily cold and emotionless.

The creepy road didn’t go straight to the end.
There were several identical-looking crossroads in between.

Kevin didn’t lift an eyelid whenever he came across a crossroad in the path.
With a turn of his feet, he walked straight into one of them, seemingly knowing his way around.

It didn’t take long for him to reach the end of the road.

Behind him were the devouring faces, their eyes still fixed on Kevin as they frantically licked the blood and mud from the ground, as if they couldn’t let him go but were too scared to stop him out of fear.

In front of Kevin was a hot, steaming mud swamp, which looked oddly black with a hint of dark red, boiling and gurgling, creating an indescribable discomfort.

Kevin stared at the swamp for a moment, his brow furrowing slightly, then slowly returning to indifference, even a little colder than before.
He lifted his left hand, barely recovered from the previous rotten state, and held it above the mud swamp.

Large drops of blood fell in cascades into the swamp, steamed by the heat and giving off an even more pungent smell of blood.

Kevin’s left hand, almost white as a bone, healed a little again, eventually becoming a slender, well-boned form again.

The moment he withdrew his hand, a huge creature suddenly leapt out of the blood-dripping swamp, its face unclear, only its mouth full of razor-sharp teeth visible.

Kevin took a step back in time.

The moment the creature landed on the swamp’s surface, he flipped over and jumped onto its back.
The creature turned its head and tried to bite, but Kevin squeezed its mouth in a deadly grip.
Kevin twisted it into an almost snapping position, leaned down to stare into its golden eyes, and asked in a very calm tone, “Going or not?”

The creature was forced to tilt its head back and roll its big white eyes at Kevin for a moment.
Not sure if it smelled his blood or saw what he looked like, but it instantly fell back onto the swamp in exuberance and fear, flicking its long tail and swimming towards the other side of the swamp with Kevin on its back.

The monster hit the shore with a breeze.
Kevin had leapt out of the way nimbly when it was still a short distance away, just in time to avoid the monster’s final reversal strike.

The creature used almost a ten out of ten power, the sharp teeth of its upper and lower jaws clashing together with a sound so crunchy that Kevin even suspected it was on the verge of breaking its teeth.
It fell back into the swamp after the failed blow, staring reluctantly at Kevin on the shore.

Kevin gave it a short laugh, waved his hand at it, and took off without a backward glance.

The creature sank back into the depths of the swamp with two strings of bubbles.

The journey looked horrific, but it was no problem for Kevin, who walked the whole way unfazed and stood on this side of the bank.

A high gate towered before him with four massive pillars supporting the sloping roof above each side.
The mountain flower1Mountain flower is an architectural term.
In traditional Chinese architecture, it is the the triangular wall formed on both sides of the Xieshan-style roof.
on the front of the sloping roof was carved with phoenix, witch serpents, and flying deer.
This door would have looked imposing and noble under the sun if it had been on top of a mountain.
Unfortunately, it was neither at the top of the mountain nor in the sunlight, and the eerie, dark surroundings made the structure stand out as lonely and shabby.

Kevin looked at the mountain flowers with a complicated expression before lifting his foot and stepping through the door.

The door was connected to a huge hall of columns, each carved with the same three animals as on the mountain flower.
In the history of gods, these were the symbols of the three main gods of the Old Gods, the phoenix symbolising Phae, the witch serpent symbolising Faesar, and the flying deer symbolising Thenez.

However, none of these three animals had a vine stem around them.

Kevin took one look at the huge pillars, lifted his feet, and walked inside without a second glance.

The pillars hall was so empty that his footsteps hit the stony walls and folded back, creating an overlapping echo……

The wounds on his body continued to repeat the process of festering and healing as if two invisible forces were pulling and tugging at his body, but he was unconcerned.

Although the hall of pillars was vast, he still managed to reach the end quickly.

He raised his hand and pushed open a massive stone door, and the main hall of the Tomb of the God Phae was revealed to him.

The walls on either side of the main hall were lined with giant birds of all shapes and sizes, their wings seemingly spreading out from the stone walls, but they were dragged and bound by vine stems as if they could never break free.
At the far end of the main hall, a huge god’s statue was directly in front of Kevin’s gaze.

The statue was slender and handsome, with a slightly downcast brow.
There was a sense of indescribability mixed in with the nobility and holiness……

Around the statue of the god was a truly insane bush of thorns like the one outside the tomb door, with long sharp thorns and intertwined branches, like a densely interwoven net that enclosed the statue of the god.

Kevin walked over to the stone goblet in front of the statue, held his arms and examined the statue from top to bottom.
Then, one corner of his mouth lifted, and he mumbled, “First time standing at this angle, this is really…… unlike me at all.”

1Mountain flower is an architectural term.
In traditional Chinese architecture, it is the the triangular wall formed on both sides of the Xieshan-style roof.