Category: Nine Rings

Chapter
Nine Rings C32
by MarineTL — Chapter 32: Qin-style Brazier We stumbled into a Side Chamber purely by accident. It had been pitch black while we were running for our lives, but judging by my sense of direction, the corridor we came through was a straight shot. We ran all the way to the end, and the chamber was right there. We held the stone door shut for a while. Once the sounds outside gradually faded into silence, Lu A'yao finally let go. He took the flashlight and began exploring the Side Chamber, while He Yu and I kept our hands…
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Nine Rings C31
by MarineTL — Chapter 31: Flee for Your Life He Yu asked, “Old Lu, we’ve come this far—don’t you think it’s time you shared what’s on your mind?” Lu A’yao scratched a mark into the stone with the little spade He Yu had handed him earlier and said, “The structure is strange. Based on what we’ve explored so far, I’ve divided it into two levels. The upper level consists of burial pits and empty chambers, completely sealed off from the lower level. If not for those man-made passageways, we’d have…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C30
by MarineTL — Chapter 30: Look Up and See All Beings He Yu sat down by the tomb wall, brushing dirt off his pants. “I told you this was pointless. If you’re going to leave a message, at least make it clear. Writing something cryptic like this is worse than writing nothing at all.” I was still mulling over the meaning of “Look up and see all beings.” The phrase itself wasn’t hard to translate, but using it in this context felt bizarre. I thought about it for a long time but couldn’t make sense of it, so I…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C29
by MarineTL — Chapter 29: Entering the Nine-Bend Corridor Ruins But even with Lu A’yao’s reassurance, my unease didn’t completely fade. Or rather, I’d found the layout of this place strange from the very beginning. By conventional standards, the passageways in a tomb are meant only to connect various tomb chambers. Once you enter a passage, it should lead directly to a chamber—whether it's a burial chamber or the main tomb. In other words, the passage exists to serve the chambers. So, I’ve never seen a…
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Nine Rings C28
by MarineTL — Chapter 28: The Right Decision Throughout history, inverted murals and decorations haven’t been all that rare. Sometimes, the ancients used reflections in lakes to create illusions that blended reality and fantasy—like using water to mirror the figures in a mural, crafting the illusion of an underwater city, a so-called “divine miracle.” He Yu was an authority on ancient paintings and artifact authentication. So when he said the image was “upside down,” I knew he wasn’t talking about…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C27
by MarineTL — Chapter 27: The Nine Murals He Yu blocked me in the crevice and tossed me a fruit knife. “Stay here!” With that, he dashed out to help. But once more people showed up, I wasn’t scared anymore. Orders like that don’t work on me in moments like this—both of them had gone out, how could I just sit here like a scared dog? I picked up the fruit knife and squeezed out of the crevice. What I saw was a giant centipede-like creature, several meters long, lying on the ground with its belly split open.…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C26
by MarineTL — Chapter 26: Bug Hunt The two of us huddled together and drank a little water. Worried that the Coffin and Outer Coffin behind us might have been pried open by those bugs, we crawled forward for another half an hour. The tunnel was narrow—whoever carved these passages must have been unusually short. I kept banging my head or scraping my back, making every inch of progress a struggle. The tunnel twisted and turned. Though there were no sheer drops or vertical climbs, a few steep slopes angled at nearly…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C25
by MarineTL — Chapter 25: A Twenty-Six-Year-Old Minor I smacked He Yu hard on the shoulder. “Don’t just stand there! Move!” The slap snapped him out of it. The two of us crouched low, eyes on the ceiling as we hurriedly backed toward the Coffin and Outer Coffin. We’d barely taken two steps when a beam of flashlight flickered—and in that brief flash, I saw it. A pale corpse clinging to the rock wall, gliding sideways like a spider. “Shit! Is that a Corpse Reanimation?” He Yu clearly saw it too. He…
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