Chapter 36 That is Divine Grace!

"They found the exit, yet they refuse to leave!"
"Talk about thieves never leaving empty-handed!"
"Just what on earth is this Third Master looking for?"
Lin Yue's eyes flickered.
Her palms were already slick with nervous sweat.
Now that it was certain the person who fired the shot was Third Master, it meant no outsiders had been allowed into the outer blockade zone!
As long as the blockade zone remained secure, the four tomb robbers would be captured the moment they tried to leave!
Yet who could have imagined that this Third Master would be so audacious as to stay behind!
"The situation is now like catching a turtle in a jar!"
"It doesn't matter. Since he doesn't want to leave and still wants to find the treasures in the ancient tomb, we might as well let them scout the path for the archaeological personnel!"
"That can be considered a good thing."
Hearing Fang Youcai's words, Lin Yue finally nodded.
Everyone had witnessed the earlier battle between the fox corpse and the uncanny infant!
Even though she had once been the most steadfast atheist, she was beginning to waver.
Half-human, half-beast, impervious to blades, covered in steel-needle-like long hair, with a gaping, hollow wound right through its chest.
If the delicate and frail archaeological team were to encounter such a creature, it would be a catastrophic disaster!
Though this train of thought was somewhat inhumane, what else could be done?
Fang Youcai added, "Director Yang just sent me a message. The search perimeter is closing in, and they expect to have results within three hours!"
Only then did Lin Yue let out a sigh of relief. "Alright..."

Inside the ancient tomb.
The atmosphere had grown extremely bizarre!
The three of them walked down the stone platform only to see Terry tapping and striking the vines before suddenly reacting as if he had discovered something.
He actually thrust his arm deep into the gaps between the vines and began forcefully prying!
Zhou Cheng and the tall, thin man were completely baffled.
Yet Zhou Zeyis eyes were shining brightly, seemingly filled with expectation.
"Click!"
Suddenly!
As if triggering some sort of mechanism!
The entire ground began to tremble!
Even the towering vine-tree was swaying.
As the shaking grew more and more violent,
a bronze coffin rumbled out from the wide roots of the vine-tree, sounding just like a train!
The three men were struck dumb with amazement!
Terry also seemed to be stripped of his abnormal, evil trance, standing there with wide eyes fixed upon the bronze coffin!
Zhou Cheng and the tall, thin man nearly had their eyeballs pop out in shock.
"What—what is going on?"
"How is there a coffin inside a tree?"
The tall, thin man's gaze was filled with shock and intense greed; his intuition told him this was the outer coffin of the Warring States tomb's master!
Of course!
Anyone would be able to tell that!

Zhou Cheng turned his head to look at Zhou Zeyis. "Third Uncle... is this what you've been looking for?"
To his surprise, however, Zhou Zeyis did not utter a word, and his attention didn't seem to be on the coffin at all, but rather on Terry.
He watched as Zhou Zeyis slowly walked forward and patted Terry on the shoulder. "How are you holding up?"
Terry snapped his head around. His gaze had regained its clarity, but it was now tinged with a fair bit of bewilderment and shock!
"Third Master?"
"You're not dead?"
Seeing that he had returned to normal, Zhou Zeyis said, "I'm fine."
"We'll talk about what happened here later."
He looked Terry up and down. "Do you remember what just happened?"
Terry was stunned for a moment, then tentatively pointed a finger at the bronze coffin. "Are you talking about that?"
Zhou Cheng and the tall, thin man, who were currently circling the bronze coffin, chimed in, "You're the one who dug that up, don't tell us you don't remember?"
Terry drew in a sharp breath, his gaze still bewildered.
He scratched his head hard and looked up toward the tree canopy. "It felt like someone was speaking inside my head just now..."
Zhou Zeyis's gaze suddenly brightened. "Really?"
"What did they say?"
Zhou Cheng and the tall, thin man also looked at Terry with puzzlement.
They watched as Terry scratched his head again, looking as though he were in great pain. "I can't remember clearly..."
"Anyway, there was just a voice constantly controlling me."
Zhou Cheng narrowed his eyes. "Auditory hallucinations?"
The tall, thin man said, "Looks like demonic possession to me!"
Zhou Zeyis, however, had a flickering gaze, as if he couldn't quite be certain.
Terry scratched his head. "What on earth is wrong with me?"
Yet no one spoke.
At that very moment, Zhang Xuan's voice came through from Zhou Cheng's hand-held device: "It is Heavenly Bestowal!"
His voice was not loud, but it rang out clearly in the ears of all present.
Zhou Cheng and the other two wore puzzled expressions, seeming unfamiliar with the term.
But Zhou Zeyis's pupils dilated violently, and blood rushed straight to his head. "Heavenly Bestowal..."
"Could it truly be Heavenly Bestowal?"

Inside the livestream chat room,
the viewers were once again rendered dumbfounded.
Zhang Xuan's sudden utterance made no sense to them whatsoever, yet it had received a response from Third Master!
Clearly,
the two of them shared knowledge of information unknown to anyone else!
"A bronze coffin hidden inside a tree is obviously the coffin of the ancient tomb's master, yet Third Master, the ringleader of the tomb robbers, doesn't even care about it. That's insane!"
"Streamer, are you guys speaking in code?"
"It feels like a major reveal is coming. Fantastic, simply fantastic!"
"The streamer seems to know Third Master's goal. It all depends on whether the streamer will make it public!"

Upon seeing the shocked expressions of the people in the camera feed, Zhang Xuan continued: "Three thousand zhang of yellow sand, thunder falls to the immortals' abode, ghost buddhas chant the burial sutra, Heavenly Bestowal brings the serpent-cypress rice!"
"What your brother experienced just now was the Heavenly Bestowal from these four lines of cryptic verse!"
"Third Master, congratulations!"
"You've finally found the answer you've been looking for!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the three people opposite him became even more bewildered!
Yet Third Master's body swayed, as though he had heard something of unimaginable significance.
The viewers in the livestream also seemed to realize something.
"Oh my god, aren't these the Yin-Yang seal ciphers from the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book rubbings?"
"Judging by Third Master's reaction, the code matches up!"
"Brother Xuan seems to have unraveled the cipher as well, and was just waiting here for Third Master!"
"Is the world really this small? We were just looking at the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book rubbings on the livestream link, and now we've found their origin?"

Inside the Office of the Director of the Museum,
Yang Yuming was pacing back and forth with his phone in hand.
"Yes!"
"The tomb robbers have already found the exit out of the ancient tomb. Based on the information that the North Star can be seen from the exit, it should face due north!"
"Moreover, the location of the exit should be a mountain ravine slope, surrounded by growing bushes."
"Right, it's best to use drones for the search!"
"Three hours is too long, the tomb robbers could leave at any moment."
"We must speed up; absolutely nothing can go wrong this time!"
He glanced at his phone. "Professor Shen just called me, give me a moment and I'll call you right back."
He hung up that call and connected with Professor Shen, but before he could even speak, he heard Professor Shen's anxious voice over the line: "Director Yang, are you watching the livestream?"
Yang Yuming glanced at his monitor. "I'm briefing the search and capture team on their mission!"
"What's wrong?"
Professor Shen: "Aiya, you need to watch the livestream right now!"
"Heavenly Bestowal has been found!"
Yang Yuming felt a buzzing sensation in his head. He hurriedly returned to his desk and turned up the volume.
"Where is Heavenly Bestowal?"
Professor Shen's voice rang out: "That streamer Zhang Xuan hasn't explained it in detail yet."
"Keep watching, he'll probably talk about it in a moment."
Yang Yuming was startled. "Zhang Xuan?"
"He decoded it?"
Professor Shen: "He should have!"
"Zhang Xuan said that the manic state the tomb robber was in when he opened the mechanism to produce the bronze coffin was Heavenly Bestowal!"
"That also matches my understanding of Heavenly Bestowal!"
"Director Yang, you'd better not leave the livestream!"
"Judging by that Third Master's reaction, it seems he didn't come to the Warring States tomb for antiques at all—he came specifically to find Heavenly Bestowal!"
Yang Yuming: "Ah?"