The celadon ever-burning lantern saw the woman being deep in thought, as if she was struggling with which gold and silver treasure to take, and felt very interested in her heart.

A few days ago, this tomb that had not been visited for hundreds of years was visited by three thieves.

The three thieves broke the door lock and looted all the way from the first floor of the underground palace, to the second floor, and then to the third floor—where she was.

She hadn’t seen anyone for a long time, and she didn’t take action to deal with the three thieves. Instead, she watched with interest as they rummaged around happily.

Until they set their sights on the coffin. “Brother Zhang, it is said that the richest things are hidden with the body. Please pry open this coffin.”

Brother Zhang, who was obviously very experienced, slowly shook his head and cursed, “You can’t even take away all the stuff below, and you still want to dig into the big stuff up here? Don’t push yourself. Get something easy to sell first, and worry about the other stuff later. Leave it alone for now, since there’s only the three of us who have been here before, there is no need to rush.”

The celadon ever-burning lantern flickered into light, a burst of green smoke swirling up, suddenly illuminating the tomb chamber.

The three tomb robbers were so frightened that they immediately knelt on the ground and banged their heads on the floor.

“Ancestor, we just want to make some money for the family, please spare us!”

“I have an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old son, and I don’t want to die for gold.”

“We’ll leave right away. We won’t take anything.”

The three tomb robbers cried half-seriously, with tears streaming down their cheeks. Their pants were wet because they were so scared.

Seeing how pitiful they were, the celadon ever-burning lantern was moved. [Thou canst take away some treasure to help support thy family].

After the three tomb robbers repeatedly confirmed what she said, they dared to believe that ever-burning lantern could actually communicate with them and was willing to give them treasures.

One of the tomb robbers wiped his tears and chose the gems he thought was the most valuable. Another tomb robber picked up his pants and chose some gold that he liked best.

Who knew if it was because the ever-burning lantern seemed to be easy to talk to, but Brother Zhang gradually became bolder.

He rolled his eyes and pointed at the ever-burning lantern, “I want to take you away.”

As long as he could take away this lantern god, wouldn’t everything in the tomb belong to him?

Celadon ever-burning lantern: …

She didn’t expect that the man would turn his thoughts to her. After thinking about it, she said, [I am not a treasure, thou hast to choose once again].

Brother Zhang looked regretful. He was more discerning and chose the most expensive calligraphy and painting on the second floor, which might fetch hundreds of millions of yuan at auction.

Then, the three tomb robbers left.

But they didn’t just leave with the treasures granted to them. Who could see a treasure house worth hundreds of millions of yuan and be willing to take away only a few tens of millions from it?

What’s more, people who would make money from the dead were not good people in the first place, and their greedy character made them prone to take risks.

So they stuffed the soles of their shoes with treasure, hid them in their hair, put them inside their coats, pocketed them in their pants, and even hid gems up their chrysanthemum.

After leaving the tomb, they found that there was nothing wrong with their bodies and that the ever-burning lantern did not cause trouble for them. They felt more assured.

It seemed that the ever-burning lantern could only stay on the third floor, and it would be perfectly fine for them to take the treasures on the first and second floors.

So they came again quietly the next day and took away more gold, jade and porcelain.

What they didn’t expect was that the owner of the tomb didn’t want others to disturb his quiet life with his wife and had asked the masters to put a curse on all the gold and silver treasures. If a person took some treasure out without removing the curse first, the curse would absorb their life force.

The ever-burning lantern only lifted the curse for the treasures that they have made a wish for. As for the others…

People who are good and virtuous could still use their own and their ancestors’ accumulated luck to temporarily resist the curse—but how can they, these thieves and robbers, have any such luck??

They soon fell into coma and were now facing death.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

In the huge underground palace, green smoke rose in front of An Rugu, carrying an unpredictable meaning.

In the deathly silence, the ever-burning lantern felt a little excited when she saw An Ru opening her lips as if she was about to speak.

After more than a hundred years, the tomb finally welcomed a master of renown. What treasure would this person want?

Under her expectant gaze, An Rugu finally spoke, and her clear voice flowed in the quiet air like water.

“I want you.”

When the ever-burning lantern heard this, a trace of sadness flashed in her heart. This person looked like an immortal, but inside she was still the same as the tomb robber from before.

So very similar to him…

So she said exactly the same thing in response, [I am not a treasure, thou hast to choose once again].

An Rugu’s face was calm, and she stared straight at the ever-burning lamp, “I want you… to come out of the ever-burning lantern and get the freedom you deserve.”

Ever-burning lantern: “???”

As soon as An Rugu finished speaking, the misty green smoke suddenly paused for a moment, as if she didn’t expect that she would answer like this.[ILivestreamDivination] Chapter 45.1 — Prince Wei

How could anyone not want treasures? Instead, she wanted to let the djinn be freed?

She looked at An Rugu in shock, she… seemed different from others after all.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: It has always amazed me how a flower, so noble and elegant since ancient times—the Japanese monarchy, the longest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world, is called the Chrysanthemum Throne ffs—is now the euphemism for something so base for a niche group of online readers.