I Can Recognize Everything, But the Information is Wrong

"Hall Master Huang, this is Kun Lake. The tomb of Nine-Life True Man, guarded by the Zhou Family for generations, lies at the bottom of this lake."

The voice of Immortal Master Zhou was full of seductive allure:

"Since ancient times, the tombs of Golden Core experts often have Five Elements Foundation Establishment Pools. Considering the Nine-Life True Man is no ordinary Golden Core expert, our chance to establish our Foundation is surely to be found within the tomb."

Tian Lin remained noncommittal, his fingers toying with the token given by Immortal Master Zhou, his thoughts drifting to a wooden plaque inside his Storage Bag.

"Hall Master Huang, what do you hesitate for? Let's descend into the lake!"

Urged by Immortal Master Zhou, Tian Lin glanced at him and smiled:

"You were the one who told me about the tomb of Nine-Life True Man. You must be extremely familiar with it, so please, Zhou friend, go ahead and lead the way into the lake."

Immortal Master Zhou seemed to have anticipated this move from Tian Lin and was not angered.

He took out a Breath Holding Pill and popped it into his mouth before diving into the water with a leap.

Tian Lin frowned slightly and looked back at the man behind him: "You are my subordinate; do I really need to scout the way for you?"

The man, clearly in deep fear of the ancestor inviting the moon, immediately took a Breath Holding Pill upon Tian Lin's glare and hurriedly followed by jumping into Kun Lake.

The three of them descended into the lake, one after the other.

Thinking that Kun Lake showed no leakage of Spiritual Energy and looked no different from other lakes, who would have imagined that a Golden Core expert was buried here?

Even if someone knew there was a treasure under the lake, how could they find the stone gate hidden beneath the green algae?

As all three had entered the water, they were unable to utter a sound for the time being.

Then they saw Immortal Master Zhou approaching a stone wall and lifting the algae to reveal a small round hole underneath.

Immortal Master Zhou reached out and extracted some unknown shellfish from the hole, then looked towards Tian Lin.

Tian Lin said nothing, simply inserting the token given by Immortal Master Zhou into the hole.

A 'click' sound followed as Tian Lin turned the key, and the stone wall that was originally tightly sealed shook suddenly, revealing a trace of the stone gate.

As the stone gate, sealed for who knows how long, was opened, a cloud of sediment stirred up at the bottom of the lake, obstructing the vision of the three.

Tian Lin still watched Immortal Master Zhou, signaling for him to enter first.

Immortal Master Zhou seemed quite at ease, puffing up his cheeks to take a flying sword out and striding into the stone cavern through the stone gate.

The stone cavern was devoid of light, giving it a rather dim appearance.

However, all three of them had the cultivation level of twelfth-tier Qi Refining, so they were not concerned about not being able to see.

Still, Immortal Master Zhou took out a pearl from his Storage Bag, which emitted treasure light in the stone cavern, instantly illuminating the interior.

"Zhou friend, why have you stopped?"

The stone cavern was densely filled with boulders, which on first glance seemed ordinary, but Tian Lin knew that these rocks actually formed an Array.

One wrong step, and it would be instant death.

He saw Immortal Master Zhou take a dozen or so steps, all in precisely the correct direction.

But at the corner of the stone cavern, Immortal Master Zhou suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Tian Lin spoke out suddenly, causing Immortal Master Zhou's heart to jump in shock.

He didn't realize that Tian Lin had cultivated the Breath Holding Technique and thought that Tian Lin had entered the water after consuming a Breath Holding Pill.

How could he know that Tian Lin could still speak without needing to breathe?

"Hall Master Huang, in my opinion, we should prepare more thoroughly before moving forward."

Initially startled by Tian Lin's speaking, this time Immortal Master Zhou's ventriloquism surprised Tian Lin.

"Each stone is inscribed with characters, the next five steps are Xun, Kun, Gen, Kan, Zhen— I'll instruct, and you walk."

Tian Lin had waited for more than just three months to enter this tomb; how could he agree to give up halfway?

On the other side, Immortal Master Zhou was skeptical but looked back at the man behind him.

This man was originally invited by Immortal Master Zhou to kill Tian Lin. Neither of them had intended to venture deep into the tomb.

Now seeing Immortal Master Zhou looking at him, he shook his head in a pleading manner.

When faced with the prospect of 'dead fellow Daoists, but not dead poor Daoists', Immortal Master Zhou didn't understand why Tian Lin's demeanor and conduct didn't resemble 'Old Huang', but he knew he was no match for 'Old Huang', so he naturally left the task of scouting to the man.

With no way to plead, the man had no choice but to step forward and walked on according to Tian Lin's instructions.

He initially approached with a sense of despair, but after walking a few steps, he realized that the dimly lit stone cavern posed no danger and thus, his courage greatly increased.

The three of them walked a hundred or so steps, and then three diverging paths appeared ahead.

Both the man and Immortal Master Zhou turned their heads to look at Tian Lin, only to see him pointing towards the rightmost path, and the man hesitated for a moment before delving into it.

The passageway was narrower than the previous stone cavern, but it lit up.

Embedded along the passageway were glowing pearls of various colors and sizes, shining brightly with a multitude of lights.

"It's Luminous Pearls!"

Immortal Master Zhou's ventriloquism sounded a bit excited, but he quickly calmed down.

On both sides of the passageway lay several corpses.

These corpses were clutching Luminous Pearls, apparently having tried to pick them from the stone wall before dying mysteriously.

"These Luminous Pearls are poisonous; if you don't wish to die, I hope you both won't entertain the idea of taking them."

Actually, Tian Lin did not know whether the Luminous Pearls were truly poisonous, as his words always turned harmful things into harmless 'food'.

These Luminous Pearls were not poisonous and even enhanced Spiritual Energy.

But what Tian Lin sought was not Spiritual Energy. He was more hopeful of finding something like thousand-year-old wood that could be taken out—

Although it was a naïve thought, after all, things from the illusion cannot be brought into reality.

But Tian Lin had already run out of options at this moment; he had not found the thousand-year-old wood on Dao Seeking Mountain.

Tian Lin pondered over it, and the only places on Dao Seeking Mountain he hadn't set foot on were the higher stone steps and slopes.

The only place related to Zhou Shoufan that he hadn't explored was this tomb.

"Hall Master Huang was right; they're just a few Luminous Pearls. As long as we find the main chamber of Nine-Life True Man's tomb, the treasures we'll find will surely far surpass these mere pearls. We must not lose sight of the bigger prize for something so trivial."

At this moment, Immortal Master Zhou had shifted from intending to 'kill' Tian Lin to exploring the tomb with him.

He didn't know how Tian Lin had come to learn about the Zhou Family's map.

But that was not important.

What was important, is that the tomb of Nine-Life True Man might indeed help him achieve Foundation Establishment.

The trio continued on their way, and in this forked path, the corpses they came across grew increasingly numerous.

"This tomb is so vast, to fully explore it would likely take three days and nights."

The deeper Immortal Master Zhou went, the more astonished he became.

Throughout their journey, they had seen many treasures, but all three greatly restrained their impulses and did not rashly attempt to take any.

Finally, a secret chamber appeared before their eyes.

The group emerged from another forked path, only to see a 'lake within a lake' appear at the bottom of the lake.

This so-called 'lake within a lake' was actually five huge pools separated by massive stone bricks—the stone bricks not only separated the pools but also formed five pathways leading to a stone bed in the center.

"These five pools—are the Five Elements Foundation Establishment Pools!"

Looking at the mist rising from the five pools, Immortal Master Zhou approached the shore and could not help but kneel down.

He had started his life by cheating and swindling from a young age and later made a living by trafficking Huahua Lang across the sea alone.

He had climbed step by step to this day, his hair already graying, all because he dreamed of achieving Foundation Establishment one day.

This time, his collusion with Tian Lin's subordinates to pit and kill 'Hall Master Huang' was merely because the other party had promised to use devotees of the Blood Sect to help him find a Foundation Establishment Pool.

But now, killing 'Hall Master Huang' was no longer important. What mattered was that he could really build his Foundation now.

"What fruit do those lotuses in the pools bear?"

Tian Lin walked up to Immortal Master Zhou, looking at the lotuses that filled the pools.

These lotuses had lotus pods and leaves, but the pods were bearing fruits that were completely different.

These fruits varied in size and color, looking very tantalizing but also exceedingly strange.

"This, is most likely the Dao Fruit of Nine-Life True Man."

Immortal Master Zhou said, "At the Golden Core Realm, once you have established your Foundation through the Five Elements and developed various Divine Skills. A single Dao Fruit represents one of the paths that Nine-Life True Man followed during his life."

After saying this, Immortal Master Zhou suddenly stood up, pointed at the Blood Sect Devotee, and said: "Below are the Five Elements Foundation Establishment Pools, and all the fruits they bear are Dao Fruits. Why don't you go down?"

The man wasn't foolish and quickly retorted, "I am a devotee of the Blood Sect, cultivating Blood True Qi. Although the Five Elements Foundation Establishment Pools are fine, they are of no use to me."

Hearing this, both Tian Lin and Immortal Master Zhou frowned.

The man was also startled and couldn't help but say, "How come I am able to speak?"

Immortal Master Zhou and the man both felt a brief panic, but at this point, they were absolutely reluctant to leave.

"You—get down there!"

Immortal Master Zhou's flying sword turned into a streak of light and stabbed towards the man. In haste, the man pulled out a piece of talisman paper to protect his body.

They fought against each other fiercely, but Tian Lin's gaze was surveying the surrounding stone walls and the Flying Boat in the water pools.

The Blood Sect Devotee was obviously not a match for Immortal Master Zhou; with a splash, he was struck by Immortal Master Zhou and fell into the pool.

Water splashed in the Water Spirit Foundation Establishment Pool, making the lotuses within sway.

The man closed his eyes in despair, waiting for death, but after a moment he exclaimed with surprise, "There's no poison in this pool; I'm not going to die."

Immortal Master Zhou was overjoyed and leaped into the Water Spirit Pool as well.

They were in a rush to grab the Dao Fruits, but Tian Lin was not in such a hurry. Instead, he pointed to a boat in the pool and said, "What kind of boat is that?"

Immortal Master Zhou said, "This boat is covered with runes; it must be a treasure boat."

Tian Lin frowned and said coldly, "Isn't this made of thousand-year-old wood?"

Immortal Master Zhou replied, "The boat's planks are made of thousand-year-old wood."

Tian Lin was overjoyed in his heart. With a wave of his hand, he found the treasure boat shrinking and eventually falling into his palm as if obeying his will.

He placed the palm-sized wooden boat into his Storage Bag and then turned his attention to the pool.

In the pool, hundreds of Dao Fruits had already been taken by Immortal Master Zhou and the man, close to half, but Tian Lin's gaze was instead drawn to the stone bed guarded by the five pools.

The stone bed was a stepped platform, and an unknown canopy covered it.

But Tian Lin saw ever since he entered the cave mansion, beside the stone bed, there was a tall stool, and on top of it, there was a dish covered in runes.

On the dish, there was a fruit that seemed crystal clear. Tian Lin didn't know what this fruit was, but according to the information shown by the keywords, this fruit was clearly worlds apart from those in the pools.

"Forget about the thousand-year-old wood boat, just this fruit alone makes the trip worthwhile."

Tian Lin released the Binding Immortal Rope from his hand, which coiled around the dish from afar and flew towards him.

Just as the dish was being pulled over by Tian Lin, the canopy on the stepped platform opened at that moment.

Tian Lin only saw a woman's corpse suddenly appearing on the empty bed.

The woman was lying flat and did not rise; although the opened canopy revealed her figure, Tian Lin couldn't see her face from his angle.

"Brother Yu, is that you coming to see me?"