System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

"Naive, what do you want to do with him?"

Lao Yang was Wu Tianzhen's childhood friend, and even though the person in front of him was a clone, Zhang Hao still asked for his opinion.

“Uncle, actually he didn’t really intend to kill you when he used me to threaten you. Although he was a clone, he has the same emotions as Lao Yang. Even though he wanted to hide his identity, he couldn’t bear to hurt me. Let him go for Lao Yang’s sake.”

"Okay, we'll do it your way."

Since Zhang Hao has asked for Wu Tianzhen's opinion, whatever decision he makes will be respected, but he will have to bear the consequences himself.

If it weren't for the fact that Wu Tianzhen was his childhood friend, he would have made him disappear from this world long ago, just like dealing with a monster.

Zhang Hao released Lao Yang abruptly: "I'll let you off this time because of your naivety, but don't let me see you again!"

Lao Yang never expected Zhang Hao to let him go. He plopped down on the ground, panting heavily.

It took him a while to come to his senses: "Thank you, Uncle, thank you, Tianzhen. I didn't expect you to let me go. I'm sorry. You came here to find the Divine Tree, right? A group of people went in before you. They were armed. Be careful."

After saying that, Lao Yang got up from the ground and left alone.

Wu Tianzhen watched Lao Yang's departing figure, then glanced at the white bones on the ground, and sighed helplessly.

"Having great abilities without a matching mindset will only harm yourself in the end."

He squatted down, dug a hole, buried the bones in it, and then stood up.

"Uncle, let's go."

Zhang Hao nodded and led everyone out of the cave.

They returned to the cave and then retraced their steps to continue searching the direction the ghostly soldiers had traveled.

The group crossed the cave and arrived at the other side, where there was an open stone door.

The fat man raised his powerful flashlight and shone it into the stone doorway, where a downward-facing passage disappeared into the darkness.

"It looks like a tomb passage!"

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, this tomb passage should lead to the Mausoleum of the She King."

Although thousands of years have passed, the Qinling Mountains have not changed much, and the records in Hemuji are not much different.

"Uncle, is the Ku state you just mentioned the mysteriously vanished Shang and Zhou civilization from the Shang and Zhou periods?"

"Yes, it's them."

The Kingdom of She never existed in history; there are only fragmentary accounts of them in unofficial historical records.

However, they are not unfamiliar to families that engage in underground business.

The She state was a powerful bronze civilization during the Shang and Zhou dynasties; they built a city entirely made of bronze.

Legend has it that the people of the She Kingdom were particularly skilled at smelting bronze.

One day, the King of Shang and Zhou approached the leader of the She state and asked them to forge a bronze tripod.

For reasons unknown, the people of She refused the demands of the Shang and Zhou kings.

So the Shang and Zhou kings sent troops to attack, and the people of She had no choice but to migrate deep into the Qinling Mountains to hide.

This is a record from unofficial historical accounts.

However, this record is full of errors and omissions, and it is necessary to carefully verify which parts are correct and which are embellished.

Of course, these things are not the most important. The most important thing right now is to find the Qinling Sacred Tree, search for clues to the truth behind the water demon's mutation, and learn more about the god behind it.

The tomb passage led downwards, and Zhang Hao and his group followed it all the way underground.

"It's been half an hour and we still can't see the end. Just how deep are these She people's tombs? Are they ground rats?"

"The royal tombs of the Ku people are at the base of the sacred tree. Old Ma only said that the sacred tree is over a hundred meters tall, but he wasn't sure. Based on the distance we've traveled and the angle of the tomb passage, we've already gone at least five hundred meters underground."

"What? Are you sure, Naïve?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Yudie exclaimed in surprise, "If we have already gone 500 meters underground, doesn't that mean the Bronze Divine Tree is over 500 meters tall?"

Zhang Hao was also startled. Based on the known information, the divine tree was at least a rare item.

To fuse rare items, the All Things Fusion System needs to be at least level 10.

The current All Things Fusion System is only at level 6, and rare items have not yet been unlocked, which means that fusion is not possible for the time being.

Zhang Hao originally thought that the bronze divine tree was about 100 meters tall, and that its size could be barely fit into the storage space.

However, if the bronze divine tree is over 500 meters tall, he has no way to store it in his storage space.

That would be troublesome.

Such large items require even more storage space.

We must find a way to further expand the storage space.

Zhang Hao and his group walked down the tomb passage into the underground, and another half hour passed.

At that moment, everyone heard the sound of rushing water.

"I can hear the sound of flowing water. Does that mean we've reached the bottom?"

"Well, it's almost there."

Zhang Hao had already used acoustic positioning to detect the situation below when he heard the sound of flowing water.

At the end of the tomb passage is a cliff, from which a torrent of water plunges down to form an underground river at the bottom.

The sound of flowing water comes from the underground waterfall.

After walking down the tomb passage for a hundred or two meters, the group saw a large underground waterfall in front of them.

"Look, what is that!"

Yi Sa suddenly pointed to the top of her head.

Zhang Hao looked in the direction he was pointing and saw that crisscrossing bronze chains were strung above the underground river.

Dozens of humanoid monsters resembling apes were seen using their forelimbs to grip bronze chains, swinging like monkeys as they approached them.

The monster moved very fast and arrived in front of Zhang Hao and his companions in the blink of an eye.

Only then did everyone get a clear look at them.

"What are those things? Why do they have human faces?"

"That half-smile is terrifying!"

As soon as Yi Sa finished speaking, a monster with a human face pounced on her.

After the monster got close, it raised its forelimb and scratched Yi Sa's face.

Yi Sa unleashed a "River-Turning Hand" strike while simultaneously retreating backward.

A phantom hand, about a meter tall, struck the monster.

With a "plop" sound, the monster's face split open.

Behind the human face was a monkey face.

"Damn it, Fatty was scared by a few masked monkeys! I'll slap them to death!"

As he spoke, the fat man picked up an entrenching tool and slapped it across the monkey's face.

This slap knocked the human face off the monkey's face, causing it to fall to the ground.

"Why do tentacles grow on this mask?"

After the monkey's mask fell to the ground, it became clear that a tentacle about the thickness of a thumb was attached to the surface of the mask.

The tentacles had broken off; one piece remained on the mask, while the other was still in the monkey's throat.

Green liquid is gurgling out of the broken surface.

"The mask on the monkey's face was actually alive!"

"Judging by their appearance, could they be aliens?"

"Fatty, stop joking, this is a Chi Gu."

"Uncle, what is a Chi Gu?"

"The Chi Gu is a type of Gu worm that enters a person's body through the mouth using its suckers. It controls a person's mind, making them manic, just like a rice dumpling."

The *chigu* (螭蛊) has an extremely strong vitality; even if its host dies, it will continue to live until a new host appears.

Upon hearing Zhang Hao's introduction to the Chi Gu, everyone suddenly realized a problem.

At this moment, dozens of monkeys parasitized by the Chi Gu came towards them. Could it be that the monkey that was the host had died?

Now several living people are here, while those monkeys are actually being controlled by the Chi Gu to find a new host.