Chapter 13

Henry Dawson was a real historical figure. Since his tomb is in the western suburbs, could it be a fake tomb? Or perhaps the tomb in the western suburbs is actually the fake one, and the real tomb is here.

Evan Bennett suddenly thought of another headache-inducing problem.

Damn! This prince actually returned to Earth. Since that's the case, why not take the opportunity to sneak back to Huaxia?

Just thinking about this made Evan Bennett instantly excited, because he missed his comrades from Special Ops Team A. He didn't care about anything else, picked a direction, and started running at full speed. He ran for three or four miles in one go, but when he stopped, panting and ready to rest for a while, he suddenly let out a miserable scream.

Because he had somehow ended up back at the tomb entrance.

Could he have made a mistake?

Evan Bennett gritted his teeth, swallowed another Spirit Gathering Pill, picked a direction, and ran again, this time a bit slower.

Moreover, every hundred meters he left a stone as a marker. He lined up three marker stones to form a straight line and walked straight along it. This way, he shouldn't end up circling back again.

However, the next moment, Evan Bennett was so frustrated he plopped down on the ground. Because, once again, he had circled back to the starting point. He tried this ten times, and every time it was the same.

Is this some kind of ghostly maze? But it didn't quite seem like it.

It seemed that returning to Earth was impossible.

He scratched his head and thought for a while but still couldn't figure out what was going on.

Forget it, might as well dig up the tomb. As a grandmaster, Master Dawson must have been quite wealthy. Maybe he was buried with a lot of silver, gold, or something—just what he needed right now, so at least this trip wouldn't be for nothing.

Although the tomb door was about half a meter thick, with the help of the stacked Luoyang shovel, Evan Bennett's strength now equaled that of two oxen, weighing two thousand jin. So, with a hard charge and the help of powerful inertia, there was a crisp bang, sparks flew, and a hole was forcibly punched through the tomb door.

Sigh...

He peeked through the hole—empty. Not even a coffin, not a single bone fragment or scrap of cloth. Sure enough, it was a fake tomb.

However, as Evan Bennett's gaze lazily and somewhat disappointedly swept around the tomb chamber, he suddenly froze.

He discovered that the four walls of the tomb chamber were actually carved with many totemic characters.

He immediately became interested and crawled inside to take a closer look.

Chapter 8: Master Dawson's Unique Skills

Eight Palm Techniques Training Routine:

It uses the eight major stances as the basis for palm techniques, combines the eight major circling hand movements, and is supported by one to eight steps of swinging, hooking, and following footwork as the foundation. The twisting, turning, and coordination are complete, moving like a swimming dragon, turning like an eagle. The main hand techniques include: piercing, inserting, chopping, lifting, horizontal, bumping, hooking, turning, supporting...

"This is the legendary Baguazhang!" Evan Bennett exclaimed, committing it to memory.

Next, Henry Dawson's signature skill: Palm Sticking to the Millstone. Once mastered, this technique allows you to stick your palm to a millstone and make it move, turn, and tumble with you without falling off. This shows the palm's suction power is astonishing, and also that the palm's energy and the millstone are perfectly integrated.

The third unique skill: Wall Sticking.

The whole person uses internal energy suction to stick to the wall, or uses internal energy to directly stick tiles or stones to the wall without them falling off.

This shows that Master Dawson's use of internal energy had reached a level of perfection.

The final unique skill: Eight Steps in the Air.

Circling from the base of a tree to its tip in one go without falling.

On the stone wall, Master Dawson also recorded the person Samuel Howard.

Samuel Howard, this person had an evil mind, but his Iron Sand Palm skill was extremely high. Henry Dawson's disciple Matthew Harris sparred with him and was injured in the lower back by his hidden palm force. At the time, it seemed nothing, but three days later, he died of serious injuries.

Master Dawson remembered this incident deeply. Therefore, he also studied the Iron Sand Palm and hidden force techniques in depth.

Finally, there was even a postscript: "In the fifth year of Guangxu, I passed by this place and discovered 'a small dragon crossing the mountain.' I was very pleased and immediately decided to build a legacy tomb here, to be left for someone with fate."

So that's how it was. Evan Bennett finally understood the whole story.

The fifth year of Guangxu was 1880, and after making the decision, Master Dawson probably arranged for people to build this fake tomb. Master Dawson died in 1882, so this legacy tomb should have been completed before his death.

As for himself, he transmigrated to the Yan Kingdom in 2016, and had only been in the Yan Kingdom for a few months.

There was a 136-year gap between these two time periods. So, there was no way to go back. Because the time-space segments simply weren't on the same plane.

At this moment, the space-time shovel trembled and soon emitted a soft chime. Evan Bennett picked it up and saw a line of words appear on it—Spiritual power exhausted, space-time tunnel about to collapse, return immediately, or you will be destroyed by spatial turbulence!

For his first tomb excavation, the harvest was unexpectedly rich. Evan Bennett was quite satisfied as he crawled into the now-enlarged space-time shovel.

With a swoosh, that heart-wrenching pressure came again. His vision brightened, and he found himself back in the rear courtyard of the Yan royal residence.

At this moment, a message came from the space-time shovel: After breaking through to the second stage, you can directly enter the Tomb Emperor Space to cultivate. Then, you will know the function of the 'space-time shovel martial embryo' when it is first activated.

After a good sleep and a meal, he felt full of energy. So, Evan Bennett decided to practice the martial art created by Master Dawson—Baguazhang.