System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

Just when things were at their most critical, a dark figure suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

He wielded his broadsword swiftly, deflecting all the spears that were shot at him.

"Bro!"

Upon seeing the figure clearly, Wu Tianzhen exclaimed in surprise.

"Hey buddy, what brings you here?"

"Hey bro, how did you get here without your ancestral tablet?"

"Yeah, didn't they say you couldn't get here without the ancestral tablet?"

……

Zhang Qilin's appearance surprised and delighted everyone.

He ignored everyone else, simply shielding them behind him and continuously wielding the Black Gold Ancient Blade to fend off the burning spears.

After a series of clanging sounds, all the spears were blocked.

Zhang Qilin sheathed the Black Gold Ancient Sword, and then took a fist-sized bronze bell from his waist.

This bronze bell is very similar to the hexagonal bronze bell that was previously hanging on the coral tree in the underwater tomb, except that this one is larger and more exquisite, and has many more intricate patterns on it.

Zhang Qilin bit his finger, dripped his blood onto the bronze bell, and then shook the bell.

"Jingle Bell……"

As a strange bell rang, the human skin puppets all showed expressions of pain on their faces.

Then, as if time had stood still, all the human skin puppets remained motionless in place.

"boom……"

The bronze bell in Zhang Qilin's hand was still ringing, and as the bell rang continuously, the human skin puppets suddenly burst into flames one after another.

In no time, the human skin figurines in the passageway were burned to ashes, leaving behind a pile of burnt remains.

"vomit!"

Suddenly, a mouthful of blood spurted from Zhang Qilin's mouth.

Zhang Hao quickly reached out to support him: "Brother, are you alright?"

Zhang Qilin shook his head without saying a word. His face was deathly pale, like that of a dead man. It took him a while to slowly recover.

"Brother, how did you suddenly appear? And what's that bell on you? It looks a lot like the hexagonal bronze bell that can erase people's memories."

After Zhang Qilin recovered, Wu Tianzhen asked him curiously.

Zhang Qilin is usually a man of few words, but he only speaks more when Wu Tianzhen asks him questions.

Zhang Hao listened intently, also wanting to know why Zhang Qilin had suddenly appeared.

“These days I’ve thought about a lot of things. I’ve been here before, and I found this place based on my memories.”

And this is the Soul-Stabilizing Bell, a token of the Zhang family patriarch.

"So it's called the Soul-Stabilizing Bell!"

"The Zhang family patriarch's token, no wonder it's so powerful."

Zhang Hao was right next to Zhang Qilin, and he could hear what Zhang Qilin was saying clearly.

Even now, Zhang Qilin was still somewhat weak, and it was clear that he had expended a great deal of energy using the Soul-Stabilizing Bell.

He had also heard of the Soul-Stabilizing Bell; it was a token of the Zhang family patriarch.

Only by carrying the Soul-Stabilizing Bell can one evade the attack of the hexagonal bronze bell, avoid falling into an illusion and having one's memory erased, and thus enter the mysterious room in the Zhang Family Ancient Building to receive the patriarch's inheritance.

Unexpectedly, it has other functions besides these, including the ability to launch attacks and even eliminate the invisible consciousness.

From the moment Zhang Qilin took out the Soul-Stabilizing Bell, Zhang Hao became even more convinced of his guess.

The Zhang family must also be related to those gods who gain immortality by possessing other people's bodies.

However, compared to the Three Surnames Water Demon Clan, the Zhang Family of Northeast China gave Zhang Hao the feeling that they were a group of people trying to eliminate the gods.

Otherwise, how could the Zhang family patriarch's keepsake possess such special abilities?

Moreover, the room in the Zhang Family Ancient Building that only the clan leader can enter requires the use of a Soul-Stabilizing Bell.

Perhaps it was also a means to deal with the so-called god, with the aim of preventing such a person from taking control of the Zhang family.

Of course, these are just Zhang Hao's own guesses as an outsider, but they should be close to the truth.

After Zhang Qilin recovered, the group rested in the passageway for a while before continuing forward.

At the end of the passageway was a stone door, which was slightly ajar.

Zhang Qilin stepped forward and reached out to stroke the stone gate.

Suddenly he stopped in the lower right corner, staring blankly at the stone gate, as if he had thought of something.

The fat man curiously leaned forward to examine it: "Wow, I was surprised! People in ancient times knew English? What does S and A mean?"

"It's a mark I left behind."

Zhang Qilin said coldly, then got up, pushed open the stone door, and went inside.

Zhang Hao and his group followed Zhang Qilin inside.

Surprisingly, behind the stone gate was not a tomb chamber, but a cave.

The cave is very large, with a low center and high sides, and the surrounding area is like terraced fields, with each layer filled with human skin figurines.

There are far more human skin figurines than can be seen outside; there are at least tens of thousands of them.

"My God, so many human skin figurines! Could it be that the entire Khmer Empire was buried with the Khmer king?!"

"Before Christ, in Southeast Asia, even the most powerful empires had populations of only tens of thousands. It seems that this is the reason why the Khmer Empire suddenly disappeared."

"The Khmer king was too ruthless, actually making the entire country perish with him!"

……

Zhang Hao shook his head upon hearing this: "Not necessarily. Ancient emperors all hoped that their kingdoms could last for thousands of generations. I don't think any king would want his country to perish unless there was a compelling reason."

"My uncle is right, there must be some special reason."

Although Zhang Hao didn't know the specific reason, he had a vague feeling that the Khmer Empire's destruction was definitely related to the god who possessed other people's bodies and achieved immortality.

This should also be the answer to why Yi Sa came in to investigate the truth behind the mutation of the Three Surnames Water Demon.

Once the cause of the Khmer Empire's demise is determined, the truth behind the water demon's mutation will also be revealed.

Besides the awe-inspiring terracotta warriors made of skin numbering over ten thousand, the most eye-catching thing in the cave is the coffin in the center.

Zhang Hao roughly estimated that the coffin was at least four or five meters long and three or four meters wide.

Such a large coffin is as big as a small truck, which is very rare.

No matter how tall a person is, they can't possibly grow to look like that.

The fat man's eyes widened the moment he saw the coffin: "I haven't seen any burial goods along the way. It seems they're all in the coffin. Otherwise, they wouldn't have prepared such a big coffin."

"Where's the young man? Where did he go?"

Wu Tianzhen exclaimed in surprise.

Everyone clearly followed Zhang Qilin through the door; he went in first, and the others followed right after, but Zhang Qilin was nowhere to be seen.

"Over there, behind the coffin."

Zhang Hao pointed to the coffin below and said.

Zhang Qilin was behind the coffin, seemingly studying something. He had just poked his head out when Zhang Hao noticed him.

"Let's go see what he's doing."

After saying that, Zhang Hao walked up the steps toward the middle of the cave.

As soon as he approached the enormous coffin at the center, a system notification sounded in Zhang Hao's mind.

[Ding, special item detected: Nine-Headed Naga.]