System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

The group entered the cave and walked down the steps, where English signs appeared at intervals.

Zhang Hao and his group followed the markings inside the cave and continued down. They walked for an unknown amount of time before the narrow cave gradually widened.

When they reached the end, another canal appeared before them.

The group found the same English sign on one side of the canal and followed that direction downstream until they discovered a stone gate at the end of the canal.

Zhang Qilin stepped forward, extended two fingers and ran them over the stone door, quickly finding the mechanism to open it.

After the stone gate opened, everyone went inside.

Behind the stone gate is a tomb chamber of about 100 square meters. The first thing you see when you enter is the jars placed on the ground.

The jars weren't decorated much; they were the simplest kind, the kind used for making pickles. They were about half a person's height, and each jar was sealed with mud.

"Could these be urns containing ashes?"

The fat man pointed to the jar in the tomb and said something.

"In my opinion, it should be used to collect bones. How can one person's ashes be collected in such large quantities?"

Xie Xiaohua added a sentence.

"Huh, huh!"

Zhang Hao took two deep breaths. He could smell a faint aroma of wine from the jar. The aroma was so faint that even he needed a moment to detect it, let alone others.

He stepped forward and directly peeled off the mud seal of a jar.

Immediately, a rich aroma of wine wafted out, and within moments the entire tomb chamber was filled with the fragrance of wine.

"Holy crap, we were both wrong. It was filled with wine! This wine must be more expensive than gold!"

The fat man sighed and stepped forward, taking out the lid of the kettle to scoop the wine out of the jar.

Just then, a loud "bang" was heard, and the wine jar shattered, spilling its contents all over the ground.

"Brother Zhang Hao, what are you doing?"

The fat man looked puzzled. Why did Zhang Hao kick and smash the wine jar, wasting all the fine wine?

"Take a look at what's soaking in the wine before you speak!"

Upon hearing this, the fat man looked down at the ground and saw that there was a baby's corpse in the wine. Judging from its size, it must have been a newborn.

By this time, the baby's body had swelled up and begun to decompose, with a thick layer of yellow mucus covering its surface.

"vomit……"

The fat man almost vomited when he saw this: "This is so disgusting! I almost drank this lousy wine!"

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "Take another look!"

The fat man was puzzled, but he still looked at the ground. This time he looked very carefully and saw countless hair-sized nematodes swimming in the wine.

This wasn't the first time I'd seen those nematodes; I'd seen them before. These worms were none other than ancient bloodsucking worms.

He shuddered at the thought that he had almost swallowed an ancient bloodsucking worm.

"My god, I just escaped death. Luckily, Brother Zhang Hao intervened in time, otherwise I would have lost my life."

"If you don't change your habit of stuffing everything into your mouth sooner or later, you'll die a violent death one day!"

Zhang Hao clearly remembered that the fat man had once put the flesh of the mummified corpse and the water from the tomb into his mouth.

"Understood, Brother Zhang Hao."

The fat man responded and continued exploring the tomb.

The entire tomb chamber contained identical jars, each with the corpse of a newborn infant soaking inside. The black liquid contained the larvae of ancient bloodsucking worms.

"Are these people from Dongxia Kingdom crazy? What are they doing cultivating so many ancient bloodsucking worms?"

Panzi muttered to himself as he saw that each jar was filled with bloodsucking worms.

"There must be some special purpose behind it, otherwise they wouldn't have sacrificed so many babies to cultivate bloodsucking worms in ancient times when the population was sparse."

"Don't even mention it, let's get out of this tomb as soon as possible, it's disgusting."

The fat man said something and then quickly walked towards the other side of the tomb chamber, where there was an entrance leading to another tomb chamber.

Zhang Hao and his group passed through the tomb chamber and then through the tomb door into the inner tomb chamber.

"Naive, there are murals over here, come and take a look."

Upon entering the tomb, the first thing you see is a mural covering an entire wall.

Wu Tianzhen responded and walked over to Zhang Hao, studying the murals on the wall.

"These murals introduce the customs of the Dongxia people. The content is basically the same as that recorded on the Snake-Eyebrow Bronze Fish. It is said that the emperors of the Dongxia people all crawled up from underground. In addition to this, another feature is that there is no old man in the murals. They are all very young."

There are very few historical records about the Eastern Xia Kingdom, but we have previously analyzed the reason why their people are so young. It is highly likely that they have mastered the secret method of immortality.

The fact that Fourth Master had studied this place for decades and insisted on coming here before his death further confirms this point.

With no new discoveries made on the murals, the group continued onward.

They had only taken a few steps forward when suddenly several beams of golden light shone down, blinding everyone.

The fat man rubbed his eyes and saw mountains of gold and gems piled up before him.

His eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the mountain of gold before him. Suddenly, he put his arm in his mouth and bit it, screaming in pain.

"Wow, I'm not dreaming! This is the first time I've ever seen so many treasures. I have to take some back with me!"

"The Eastern Xia Kingdom is truly wealthy; the treasures in this tomb are absolutely astounding!"

"I've been to so many tombs, but this is the first time I've seen so many burial goods; they're piled up like mountains!"

……

Not only the fat man, but everyone else in the group was also amazed by the sheer number of treasures they had seen.

Everyone present was a worldly person, and they had seen plenty of burial objects in tombs, but they had never seen so many as in this tomb chamber before.

Gold, jade, and antiques were piled up haphazardly, forming mounds five or six meters high that almost touched the ceiling of the tomb chamber.

Who wouldn't be tempted by so many burial goods?

Fatty, Panzi, and the others couldn't resist rushing forward upon seeing so much wealth, cheering and jumping among the piles of treasures.

After a moment of excitement, the fat man quickly called out, "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and put the treasures in your bags!"

As he spoke, he stuffed gold, jade and other treasures into his backpack, and the others rushed forward to stuff their own things into their bags as well.

Zhang Hao smiled at this. How much could a backpack hold? Compared to the contents of the tomb, even if they filled all their bags, it wouldn't be more than one-thousandth or one-ten-thousandth of the contents.

After they finish loading and leave, I'll put the rest into my storage space.

"Oh no! Everyone stop right now and throw everything away!"

Just as everyone was cheering, the fat man's expression suddenly changed. He threw away all the treasures he was holding, and finally threw away his backpack.

Everyone was stunned that someone as greedy as him would do such a thing.

"Fatty, what happened?"

"Throw it away! Everyone, quickly throw away everything you're holding!"