I am a ghost messenger, why do I need a long life?

In an instant, the fat Taoist priest's scalp almost exploded.

He cursed and ran away.

At a terrifying speed that neither Xu An nor Yang Wei could react to, his entire body whizzed into the crack.

Suddenly, outside the crack, the two real ghosts and the one with six hands, who were not sure what kind of ghost it was, were all stunned.

After a brief hesitation, before the strange thing attacked, Yang Wei reached out and pushed Xu An, stuffing his entire ghost into the crack, and at the same time, he slapped back with a palm.

In an instant, a bright sun seemed to light up in the space in front of the bronze palace.

A powerful stream of magic power suddenly blasted out and hit the unknown creature solidly.

The thing let out a scream, and its entire body retreated several steps, falling headfirst to the ground. Its six hands kept waving in the air, but it didn't die.

Just as Yang Wei was about to make the final move, he noticed that a large number of figures taller than him appeared around him.

They emerged from the lake in all directions, each with six arms, two legs, one eye and one mouth.

As if sensing that their companions were injured, the overwhelming cackling sounds filled the area.

Yang Wei turned around decisively and rushed into the bronze palace.

After squeezing through the crack, the next moment he found Xu An standing not far in front of him, and in front of him was the fat man.

The two of them were standing still under the brilliant light, with their heads raised blankly, looking up at the sky.

With a slight movement of his eyes, Yang Xu discovered that the top of this underground palace was dotted with three thousand stars in some unknown way.

Like water waves, the light and endless blue light seemed to sway at the top of the palace.

Those beings emitting a faint glow are like real stars in the night sky, flickering.

After Xu An looked at it for a short while, his thoughts were interrupted by a system message.

[Complete the prologue mission: Available life span +3000 days.]

[Epic Quest Act 8500: Search for clues to the palace owner's identity. Completion Reward: Lifespan + days.]

[Epic Quest Act 2: Preliminarily deduce the meaning of the starry sky map above. Completion Reward: Lifespan + Days.]

[Epic Quest Act 3: Find the tomb owner's coffin and open it to inspect the body. Completion Reward: Lifespan + Days.]

[Epic Quest Act 4: Take any important treasure from the tomb. Completion Reward: Usable Lifespan + Days.]

[Epic Quest Act 5: Explore the truth of the Three Realms back then, and draw a reasonable conclusion before leaving. Completion Reward: + Days of Usable Lifespan.]

[Epic Quest Act 6: Find the tomb owner's final inheritance and obtain it. Completion reward: Lifespan + days.]

[Epic Quest Finale: Leaving the Bronze Underground Palace and Returning to the Underworld. Completion Reward: +4000 Days of Lifetime.]

Looking at the series of information that appeared before his eyes, as if flooding the screen, Xu An's heart was pounding.

He only took a quick glance and felt the horror of this epic mission.

After completing the prologue, this mission actually split into six sub-missions, and there is also a final mission?

More importantly, the rewards given by these sub-tasks, when added up, are roughly equivalent to a lifespan of 120,000 days!

How much is this?

Calculations are racing in the mind.

The next moment, Xu An came to a conclusion.

Three hundred and twenty-six years?

Hiss, looking at it this way, there isn’t much.

According to the golden legend, the five-elephant wild ghost will live for three hundred years.

Not to mention the Huangting Sutra given by Mu Linjiang. To complete that thing, one needs 60,000 years of life.

Compared to this, the rewards from the epic quests are not even a fraction of what they deserve.

"..."

Unable to complain about this broken system, Xu An turned to look at the fat Taoist priest who was still in a daze and asked:

"Master Dao, you are very knowledgeable. Can you explain what this is?"

Upon hearing this, the fat Taoist priest was awakened from his slightly confused memories. He couldn't help but shudder, then said in a pretentious and profound manner:

"This must be a star map from ancient times, thousands of years ago. The powerful people at that time all had the magical ability to remotely sense the stars and absorb their power."

"This star map was obviously created by the tomb owner to demonstrate his extraordinary strength."

"Just imagine, you two have been practicing hard, but you can only sense the power of one star, while I, Dao Master, can sense the power of three thousand stars at once. Isn't that much, much, much more powerful than you?"

The fat Taoist priest raised his slightly fat face and looked smug. He couldn't help but continue to brag:

"Only I, a Taoist priest, a scholar with profound knowledge of all things past, present and future, can see through the wonderful use of this star map at a glance!"

"really?"

Xu An looked at the system and saw that he had not received even a fraction of the rewards initially estimated for the second act. He immediately became certain that this fat guy was unreliable.

I guess most of what he said was made up.

"These three thousand stars may appear to be a star map, but they hardly correspond to the stars in the sky today. Even if there are similarities, they are likely coincidences."

"What's strange is that I don't sense any secret restrictions or anything like that on it. Could it be that it's just for decoration?"

Next to him, Yang Wei also didn't believe what the fat Taoist said.

He glanced across the dimly illuminated bronze palace and pointed to the hallway deeper inside.

"Since this is determined to be a tomb, where is the coffin?"

Upon hearing this, Xu An couldn't help but look towards the temple with the fat Taoist priest.

According to funeral customs and the styles handed down from ancient times, the three burial pits in this mausoleum were so grand that it was beyond their imagination, so there must be good things in the hall.

But now, in this vast area, they could see everything except the star map.

That means that the good things are definitely in the coffin.

With this in mind, they stepped inside and headed towards the hallway.

As soon as they entered, Xu An and his companions discovered that on the walls surrounding the temple corridor, the bronze had many murals painted on it with a special power.

Xu An and his companions looked at the murals one by one and found that at the beginning, they depicted a vast territory.

There are thousands of sharp blades in the mountains and thousands of rushing rivers along the paths. There are a large number of rare birds and beasts flying in the sky and countless wild beasts running on the ground.

A scene full of vitality, with all things competing to flourish.

The person who painted this scene had extremely superb techniques and skills. Just one glance made the three of them feel as if they were there, back in ancient times, standing on the vast land.

"Is this the former underworld?"

Xu An couldn't help asking, but the man and the ghost beside him had no answer.

When they saw the second picture, their eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly.

Above this, the originally vast and floating earth seemed to have encountered a powerful enemy, and a huge gap was torn in the sky.

Countless tentacles stretched out from the dark abyss, and countless claws emerged. Among them, the figure depicted in the most detail occupied a large part of the picture.

Like a demon god, with scarlet eyes wide open, looking down at the world as if overlooking the abyss.

Afterwards, countless wild beasts fled in fear, the earth cracked, and the rivers seemed to be flooded, as if the whole world was in danger.