The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

"what?!"

Upon hearing Fang Yun's words, Hua exclaimed, "Tai Sui is a divine mushroom! Legend has it that as long as you eat a piece of thousand-year-old Tai Sui meat, you can ascend to immortality on the spot."

"But how could the Tai Sui grow to such a size!"

"Could it be that the water dragon nurtured the Tai Sui to such a large size?"

She is a master of pharmacology and knows a lot about herbs. Naturally, she also knows about the legendary medicinal herb, Tai Sui.

"It's the effect of the water dragon's halo, of course!"

Fang Yun nodded solemnly and explained:

"King Xian cleaned out the belly of this Tai Sui and used it as the main burial chamber, which means that the Tai Sui was dead when King Xian's tomb was built."

"But two thousand years have passed, and this Tai Sui has long since come back to life. The reason it has not revived is because King Xian used himself and his wife as plugs to block Tai Sui's eyes, causing Tai Sui to be unable to sense the life force."

"King Xian didn't get to eat the flesh of a live Tai Sui, so he sealed it up and used its corpse to absorb the earth's energy!"

"We've now broken one of the Tai Sui's eyes and entered its belly. The Tai Sui has sensed the life force and is already reviving. If we don't hurry... we won't be able to get out!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them tensed up, and their movements of digging out the flesh of the Tai Sui became even faster.

The Tai Sui awakened extremely quickly, and its flesh began to expand rapidly, causing the entire tomb chamber to shrink by a small portion.

The flesh of the Tai Sui is like mud; if you get trapped inside its belly, there's no way you can escape.

However, the revival of the Tai Sui meat also helped the four of them. The human-shaped coffin was first pushed up by the Tai Sui meat, and then dug out by the group, and soon appeared in front of them.

It was a human-shaped jade coffin, made entirely of red jade. The jade lid was crimson like blood, and a vortex was carved on its surface. Upon closer inspection, the vortex was an enlarged version of the Muchen Pearl, and somewhat resembled a phoenix undergoing rebirth.

On the corner of this red jade coffin, there are intertwined golden unicorn-shaped locks, but the locks are not locked properly, just like decorations.

This was the confidence of King Xian. He was confident that he could become an immortal. The main tomb chamber had no mechanisms, the coffin had no locks, and even a fragile jade coffin was used.

"Muchen Pearl!"

Upon seeing this, the three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his companions, exclaimed in unison.

The final main burial chamber, the priceless red jade coffin, the phoenix transforming into a pearl... this must be the coffin of King Xian!

"Don't just stand there, help!"

Seeing that the three were too excited and somewhat dazed, Fang Yun shouted coldly to wake them up.

Fang Yun's shout snapped the three of them back to their senses, and they began digging for the flesh of the Tai Sui even faster.

Under the pressure of the Tai Sui flesh and the digging of the four people, the human-shaped coffin quickly emerged completely from the Tai Sui flesh and lay in front of the four people.

At this point, the tomb chamber had shrunk considerably, and the four of them could touch the original ceiling simply by raising their hands.

Bang!

Seeing this, Fang Yun did not hesitate and kicked the lid of the jade coffin away with a powerful kick.

Inside the coffin lay a corpse, a burly figure with a golden crown on his head, a python robe on his body, and a purple-gold belt around his waist. It was none other than the King Xian in the painting of ascending to immortality.

"Is this even human?!" the old foreigner exclaimed in astonishment upon seeing the Prince of Xian.

The features of the King Xian's body were blurred and distorted. If it weren't for the faint traces of eyes, nose and mouth still visible on his face, it would be almost impossible to recognize that this was a human head. It looked like a piece of melted wax.

And the King's complexion really was like a wax color, the kind of vegetable oil wax used by tomb raiders, translucent and jade green all over.

This made him suspicious. Could it be that they had taken the wrong path again and entered the Void Tomb?

Fang Yun had long anticipated this would happen. The King of Xian put the Muchen Pearl in his mouth and was assimilated by its power, turning into half of a jade figure.

Without hesitation, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow raised and then fell, directly severing the head of the King of Xian and then grabbing it in its hand.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the hidden quest: Obtain the Muchen Pearl."

"Task rewards: Zhongyuan Qigong, Zhongyuan Danjue, Zhongyuan Seal, awaiting collection."

"Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the hidden mission. System upgrade. System upgrade time is 24 hours."

"Ding! The following will be available after the system upgrade: Achievement Shop and Supply Shop."

Just as Fang Yun picked up the head of the King of Xian, system notifications rang in his mind.

Upon hearing these notification sounds, Fang Yun was stunned for a moment, then a look of wild joy appeared on his face.

The joy of accident!

This is like a windfall, a windfall so big it could break your head!

Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Corpse Cave Forms, Aconite King!

"Cool!"

Looking at the head of the Prince of Xian in his hand, Fang Yun's smile widened.

It was just a task, how could I run into something so good?

Swah...

At the same time, a strange change occurred inside the coffin.

The King Xian, whose head had been chopped off by Fang Yun, suddenly stood up from the coffin and reached out with both hands towards Fang Yun, seemingly trying to snatch his head back.

As he reached out his hands, Fang Yun also saw a walnut and several black jade rings fall from his hands.

Those walnuts were just ordinary walnuts, symbolizing the peaches of immortality, while those black jade rings were the sixteen-character jade rings, the method to decipher the secrets of the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book.

However, there was no important information on the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book, so Fang Yun didn't really need it. It was something that had been clutched by a dead man for two thousand years and was practically worn out; just thinking about it made him nauseous.

"Go to hell!"

Seeing this, Fang Yun frowned and kicked the Prince of Xian in the waist, sending him flying back into the red jade coffin.

Bang!

A crisp sound rang out, and the red jade coffin was smashed to pieces by the King.

However, at that moment, a fleshy creature appeared beneath the base of the red jade coffin and swallowed the entire coffin whole.

The King tried to get up, but it was too late. He fell into the mouth of the Tai Sui along with his coffin.

Heh...heh...

As the fleshy mouth of the Tai Sui appeared, sounds rang out, followed by a dozen hands reaching out from the mouth and grabbing at Fang Yun.

Upon closer inspection, the fleshy walls of the opening were densely packed with corpses, all of which had risen up and were trying to crawl out.

These corpses were originally used by King Xian to keep the body warm and care for the old Tai Sui. Now they have long since become part of the old Tai Sui, the limbs inside its belly.

The Corpse Cave was formed in this way: a large number of corpses covered in blood and flesh were piled together. Over time, the dense corpse aura corroded the world and created a hole, which was filled with those corpses.

The Corpse Cave can condense chaotic and malevolent sand, absorbing everything it touches, leaving nothing untouched.

Fang Yun swept his Great Xia Dragon Sparrow around, severing the corpse hand that reached for him. At the same time, he tossed the King's head to Partridge Whistle and shouted:

"The Muchen Pearl is in the mouth of the King of Xian."

"Run! This old sage's eye is a hole in the corpse; the Chaotic Ferocious Sand is about to condense!"

Almost as soon as Fang Yun finished speaking, the old man's body began to tremble and contract violently, at a speed several times faster than before, as if he wanted to crush the four people on the spot.

Above the fleshy opening in front of everyone, a black sand grain the size of a soybean condensed and was gradually expanding. Wisps of black smoke began to rise from the air and swirled around the black sand grain.

Upon hearing Fang Yun's words, Partridge Whistle gripped the King's head tightly, overjoyed. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Fang Yun's second sentence.

"A corpse cave?!"

"Come on!"

After a gasp, Partridge Whistle's face showed horror. He grabbed the King's head and ran back frantically, with Hua and Old Foreigner in the middle and Fang Yun bringing up the rear.

If Shuilongyun is the legendary immortal cave and Muyu is the legendary medicine, then Shidong is the legendary gate to hell.

Compared to the Corpse Cave, the fierce ghosts and Corpse Kings that are usually most feared in the tomb are nothing, because the Corpse Cave is something that cannot be solved by human power.

Over thousands of years, the Corpse Cave has appeared only a handful of times, but each appearance has caused immense disaster. If no feng shui master intervenes, the Corpse Cave will grow larger and larger until it devours everything.

"Ten auspicious places... go outside the valley."

"Running away through the Corpse Cave... is too dangerous. Let's go to the Heavenly Palace instead. The Water Dragon's aura is definitely powerful enough to break through the Chaos Ferocious Sand..."

Fang Yun ran at the back of the group, thinking about how to break through the corpse hole as he ran.

This Corpse Cave is a malevolent entity carrying chaotic energy; it can also be called a walking malevolent cave. It has form but no substance, and cannot be breached by human power.

To break this corpse cave, the corpse cave and the chaotic, malevolent sand formed by it must be separated. Only by finding an auspicious location that can distinguish between clear and turbid, differentiate between yin and yang, and wipe away the malevolent sand, and guiding the corpse cave into the auspicious location, can the malevolent and auspicious forces clash and disintegrate the chaotic energy.

Along the way, he did see a few auspicious locations in the Insect Valley, but those locations were all too far away, and no one could say for sure if they would encounter any accidents on the way.

Therefore, he planned to lead the corpse cave to Lingyun Palace.

Lingyun Palace is the junction of the water dragon and the halo within the water dragon halo, where the elemental energies of Jintu gather and each guards its own position.

Moreover, behind the Lingyun Heavenly Palace lies a majestic and towering mountain peak, a highly auspicious place with the imposing presence of a screen and a galloping horse.

With the Water Dragon Halo and the Nine Noble Lands combined, wiping out a Chaotic Fiend Sandstorm shouldn't be a problem!

The four moved quickly and soon crawled out of the main tomb chamber through the humanoid entrance they had previously entered.

Before entering the funnel-shaped passage back to the three-coffin burial chamber, Fang Yun glanced back at the main burial chamber.

The main tomb chamber had completely shrunk into a lump of Tai Sui flesh, which looked bigger than two cows.