System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

Suddenly, the sky seemed to be torn apart, and a deafening 'bang!' resounded through the heavens. The enormous white coffin, like a sleeping beast suddenly awakening, exploded into countless fragments. Amidst the rising dust and smoke, a black giant corpse clad in Jurchen battle armor stood majestically, its power shaking the heavens and the earth.

The corpse was over ten feet tall, resembling a mountain, with twelve arms arranged around its back, resembling the Thousand-Armed Guanyin in an ancient temple. However, its expression was ferocious, quite different from the compassion of Guanyin, and added a touch of the netherworld.

"Roar--!"

A deafening roar erupted from the giant corpse's throat, and its twelve hands instantly clasped together, accompanied by a crisp yet heavy 'clanging' sound, like the resonance of an ancient chime bell.

His hand moved, which in turn moved twelve bronze chains.

There were twelve bronze chains, nine of which were connected to the nine centipede kings beside the coffin, and the other three were connected to the huge bronze chains in the air, leading to who-knows-where.

After the bronze chains connecting the centipede king to the coffin were pulled, the centipede king, who was lying around the coffin, was awakened.

They crawled up from the ground, waving their countless feet. With each twitch, sand and stones flew everywhere, even slicing through rocks half a person's height.

"hiss……"

Everyone gasped in shock at the sight.

"Is this still the King Centipede? It's so much stronger than the one we encountered in the hot spring!"

The fat man exclaimed in surprise.

"I understand now, this isn't an ordinary centipede king, it's a volcanic centipede king!"

"Naive. They look exactly the same. Does adding the word 'volcano' make them that much more powerful?"

"Fatty, what time is it? Stop joking."

As they spoke, the corpse that emerged from the stone coffin, leading nine volcanic centipede kings, rapidly approached them.

Despite their enormous size, neither the corpses nor the volcanic centipede kings hindered their movement speed in the slightest.

In the blink of an eye, it arrived in front of everyone. Driven by the corpse, the Volcanic Centipede King raised its upper body and pounced towards Zhang Hao and the others, waving its countless legs.

"Does this rice dumpling have some kind of intelligence? How can it drive away the volcanic centipede king?"

"If they really have intelligence, that would be terrifying. We've been to so many tombs and seen so many zombies, but we've never seen one with intelligence, not even the White-haired Drought Demon."

"Doesn't that mean this rice dumpling is even more terrifying than the White-haired Drought Demon?"

……

When Zhang Hao encountered the White-haired Drought Demon in the underwater tomb, it took him a great deal of effort to kill it.

If a truly intelligent zongzi (rice dumpling) were to appear here now, that would be quite something.

Just then, the volcanic centipedes that had been aggressively driven over suddenly stopped.

It turned out that the bronze chains binding them were not long enough to reach Zhang Hao and the others.

"How is this going?"

"Could it be that the tomb owner is showing great mercy and will spare anyone who doesn't touch his coffin?"

Zhang Hao knew that things were definitely not that simple.

He looked toward the giant corpse behind the Volcano Centipede King and saw that it was being pulled back by three bronze chains, preventing it from moving forward.

The bronze chain in his hand held back the volcanic centipede king, bringing their attack to an abrupt halt.

Everyone was completely dumbfounded.

"Do you think the people who built this Heavenly Palace on the Clouds were stupid? Why did they have to use these bronze chains to restrict it? Wouldn't it be better if they were longer?"

"Yeah, that way, as long as we run a little further away, they won't be able to attack us."

"Now that giant corpse and the centipede king have become sitting ducks!"

……

As they spoke, the group raised their guns, aimed at the volcano centipede king, and prepared to fire.

"Rumble..."

Just then, a loud crash came from the bronze door, and the giant corpse took a few steps forward.

Zhang Hao looked behind the giant corpse and saw that the bronze door had been pulled open by bronze chains, opening a crack.

The bronze gate is magnificent, and its awe-inspiring power increases the closer you get to it.

It is over 30 meters high and at least twice as wide.

The bronze door was cast as a single piece, and its enormous size is estimated to weigh at least tens of thousands of tons, making it impossible for human beings to open easily.

After the giant corpse in the stone coffin was resurrected, it drove nine nearly twenty-meter-long volcanic centipede kings to pull open the bronze door.

Once Zhang Hao understood this, he immediately realized what was going on.

"Look behind you, everyone! This giant corpse and the volcanic centipede king aren't there to guard the tomb at all; they're there to open the bronze door!"

Everyone realized that the mechanism was designed to open the bronze door behind the giant corpse and the changes in the bronze door.

"not good!"

When Uncle Wu saw the bronze door open, his face turned extremely ugly.

"I don't know if you have carefully examined the murals in the tomb chamber before. They said that if the bronze door is opened at an inappropriate time, it will spew out karmic fire and burn everything in the world."

"Third Uncle, I've looked at the murals too, and there's no such line. Please don't scare us."

Wu Tianzhen clearly remembered that the murals in the Eastern Xia Kingdom did not depict anything like karmic fire, nor did they describe this bronze door.

Uncle Wu said that for some reason, probably to scare them away.

"Da da da……"

Suddenly, a sound came from inside the bronze door, the sound like footsteps.

At the same time, a cloud of white mist blew out from inside the bronze door.

The fog spread rapidly, enveloping the area around the bronze gate in just a few breaths, and continued to expand, soon covering Zhang Hao and his group as well.

"Woooo..."

After being enveloped in mist, a chilling wind blew, causing everyone to shiver.

"Brother Zhang Hao, doesn't this scene look familiar?"

"I remember now, it was just like this when I encountered the ghostly soldiers passing through the Qinling Mountains!"

Before Zhang Hao could speak, Wu Tianzhen answered first.

He's right, this scene is just like when the ghostly army passed through.

Soon, a figure emerged from the bronze door.

As they approached, it became clear that they were a group of ghost soldiers.

"They are wearing armor from the Shang Dynasty!"

"Look, isn't that the young man? When did he infiltrate the ghost soldiers' ranks?"

"The young man is right here beside us, how could he have run off into the ghost army!"

As Wu Tianzhen spoke, she turned her head and glanced at her side. The young man was standing there perfectly fine, but the appearance of the ghost soldier that the fat man had described was indeed exactly the same as Zhang Qilin's.

"It's them, it's them!"

Suddenly, Shunzi pointed at the ghost soldiers and started shouting.

"Shunzi, what's wrong?"

Uncle Wu asked.

"The archaeological team members, those who disappeared from the archaeological team, are all in the group!"

"Which ones?"

"He, he...and her!"

Following the direction of the ghost soldiers, seven people were pointed out from the ranks.

At this moment, Xie Xiaohua and Huo Xiuxiu were both shocked when they saw who Shunzi was pointing to.

Those people all looked exactly like the family's vanished elders.