After 24 steps, Yang Xiao paused again in front of the screen, this time to the left.
Placing his only chance here was by no means a blind decision; they had discussed beforehand that the entire layout of Sleeping Gold Pavilion subsidiary was like a tomb, and this room was akin to the main burial chamber where the tomb's owner rested eternally.
The position he stood in now was at the southeastern corner of this "tomb chamber." There was an ancient adage: "Do not touch the gold when the cocks crow and the lamps go out," and the candle that determined whether they would leave empty-handed was positioned here, in the southeast direction, representing the wind gate in the Eight Diagrams, or the Xun Trigram, the place where the flow of vitality was strongest. Creatures like the Ancestor, born from the refinement of the world's essence, were all the more adept at this.
