Ye Hao heard this, slapped his thigh, and exclaimed, "Right! How could I have forgotten about the Jade Seal?"

Ye Hao quickly took out the Jade Seal from the space and slowly lifted it to the edge of the Absolute Spirit Wall. At first, there was no reaction between the wall and the seal, but when Ye Hao aligned the base of the seal with the wall, the three large characters on the base emitted a faint glow, completely overshadowing the red cinnabar of the base. However, Ye Hao didn't look at the base, so he didn't notice.

"No reaction?" Ye Hao muttered with a frown.

Zheng Guang approached the edge of the Absolute Spirit Wall and suggested to Ye Hao, "Young master, why not try pressing the Jade Seal against this wall?"

Ye Hao nodded after hearing this and pressed the Jade Seal against the Absolute Spirit Wall.

Once the Jade Seal and the Absolute Spirit Wall touched, the base of the wall emitted a faint glow, but the only difference was that the corner of the Jade Seal's lower left didn't emit any glow and remained yellow like jade.

"Young master, there's a reaction!" Zheng Guang said excitedly upon seeing the glow.

Xue Zhaolong and several others, despite their physical pain, stood up to examine the Jade Seal Ye Hao held against the wall. When they noticed the seal's base glowing, they all felt a surge of excitement.

However, after a few minutes of excitement, they felt disappointed again because the Jade Seal merely emitted a glow without opening the Absolute Spirit Wall as hoped.

Ye Hao pondered quietly, wondering what was happening.

"Boss, looks like the Jade Seal is useless too!" Xue Zhaolong said in disappointment.

"Ah! What a letdown, this darn wall is not only hard but also reflects attacks. I've never heard of such a wall before, could it be magic?" Lu Yunsong complained.

Tao Feng and Flying Fish also sighed helplessly, thinking that even if there was a tomb for them to rob, they couldn't open the tomb door.

At this point, they envied those tomb raiders, as at least they had experience. Although this wall might be hard to break, it would eventually open under their hands.

Time passed quickly, and Ye Hao and his companions had been inside for a day and night. Outside, Lv Dong and others were a bit worried, but Ye Hao occasionally pressed his communication device, making it buzz slightly, which soothed them a bit.

"Why isn't the boss out yet?" Lv Dong asked anxiously while crouching in the grass.

He Hua patted Lv Dong on the shoulder reassuringly, "Don't worry! The boss isn't that easy to get rid of. Besides, he occasionally presses the communication device, and we can tell he's fine from his pressing. Although we can't talk, the boss is surely fine, trust the boss."

Yang Ya also comforted Lv Dong, "Yes! The boss is strong and lucky, he won't be trapped by a small tomb."

Lv Dong felt slightly relieved hearing He Hua and Yang Ya's words, but still worried that something might happen to Ye Hao.

...

On the other side of the valley, inside an underground passage, a middle-aged man in a fiery red outfit with a golden mask stood with his hands behind his back, watching people of National Martial Arts level one and two swiftly clearing dirt out. He looked at the overseer and asked, "How much longer until we can enter?"

"Reporting to the Guardian, about one kilometer left."

"How long to excavate?" the man with the gold mask asked calmly.

"Around two days and a night," the overseer, a National Martial Arts level five expert, replied.

"Try to speed up," the man with the gold mask said and left the passage.

After the gold-masked man left, the overseer quickly urged the people to dig down at an angle.

...

Ye Hao and Zheng Guang and others in the underground passage sat on the ground helplessly, wondering how to open this last door.

Ye Hao had been thinking for a day. Although Xue Zhaolong and others were anxious, they fell asleep at night as weariness overcame them.

Ye Hao kept hearing that imperial ambition phrase six times already. He wanted to try communicating with whoever said it, but the person didn't respond.

Ye Hao looked at the Jade Seal again and again, occasionally checking the ground, and again looked at the five dragons coiled above.

After a long while, Ye Hao, unwilling to give up, looked at the Jade Seal against the Absolute Spirit Wall again. This time, he leaned against the wall and raised the base of the seal in his hand to examine it.

When he saw the character "ming" on the seal's base not lit, he frowned, wondering if this Jade Seal wasn't from the Great Ming Dynasty but passed down from the Qin Kingdom?

And Zhu Yuanzhang obtained and transformed it into the Great Ming Dynasty seal, which originally should be the Great Qin Empire's seal?

Recalling the "ming" character on the seal's base in Peng City seemed like it was embedded, Ye Hao felt like he caught something.

Ye Hao took a small rubbing knife from the space and began scraping the red cinnabar near the "ming" character.

After scraping off the cinnabar, he clearly saw that the "ming" character wasn't the original font, but something adhered together uniquely.

Ye Hao poked the "ming" character with his hand and pressed hard. The right stroke of the "ming" character fell off, the single stroke beside knife slipped.

After it fell, Ye Hao looked at other parts, realizing other parts were assembled stroke by stroke, wondering if originally it was disassembled and reassembled into the "Qin" character?

Ye Hao continued removing other strokes of the "ming" character. When all strokes were removed, the section adhering the "ming" character was visibly different from the rest of the jade. He pressed hard to remove that section.

Once the section was removed, several small jade stones and a bamboo block fell out.

Ye Hao was overjoyed, realizing the Jade Seal contained secrets!

"Boss, what are you doing?" Xue Zhaolong and others saw Ye Hao working under a lighting lamp all night, curiously asking.

"Looking for a key to open the wall," Ye Hao replied with a smile.

"Have you found it?" Though curious, they didn't go over to see what Ye Hao was fiddling with.

"I think I'm close, give me a little more time!" Ye Hao picked up the fallen small bamboo block and slowly flipped it over.

Four large characters appeared on the right side of the bamboo block.

"Great Qin Empire"

Ye Hao understood after seeing these words, confirming the Jade Seal was indeed passed down from the Qin Dynasty.

Ye Hao continued reading.

"I ascended the throne at eighteen but was controlled by Empress Dowager Xuan, so I could only bide my time and remain low-key. After forty-one years on the throne, I followed Fan Ju's suggestion to seize power from the Empress, banish my uncle Wei Ran, appoint Fan Ju as Prime Minister and Bai Qi as General. With these two, I felt as if aided by gods, following Fan Ju's strategy of distant alliances and nearby attacks, sending Bai Qi to conquer in all directions."

Ye Hao saw this and looked towards Zheng Guang to inquire further...(To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to vote for recommendations or monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)

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