Tomb raiding: The awesome life that started from Ganggangyingzi

"Croak... Human, I can sense your power, and you should know that's not what I meant."

"Okay! I was just joking, but I'm not going to release the toad I took away."

Ji Haobo shrugged, then said casually:

"If you're worried about those dead spirits, or the evil spirits suppressed underground, then there's absolutely no need to worry."

Because I want the entire Insect Valley, all the filth that King Xian created must be cleaned up, without exception.

"Wha...what? You want to wipe out the entire Insect Valley? Do you know..."

The golden toad was shocked by his words and was about to say something when he was interrupted.

"Whether it's the giant insect ahead or the hidden King Xian, I know about them, but I don't take them seriously."

As Ji Haobo finished speaking, he looked at the golden toad with great interest.

"As for you, you either submit, or... hehehe!"

"Uh…"

The golden toad was stunned, never expecting that things would suddenly involve him.

"You don't need to rush, I'll allow you to wait and decide."

Ji Haobo smiled and dispersed the vortex. He flashed back to the bamboo raft, grabbed Lao Hu and Wang Pangzi, and landed on the plank path on the cliff.

After a moment of stunned silence, the golden toad seemed to have made a decision. Its enormous body suddenly shrank, and it leaped onto the plank road like a golden ray of light.

As it left, a change suddenly occurred in the water, with a faint black mist visibly rising and spreading.

"Grandpa Toad, why did you jump on my head? This skinny guy next to me has a pretty big head too, maybe you could..."

Just a minute ago, Fatty Wang was walking on the rock face with trepidation when he suddenly felt a weight on his head, which almost scared him to death.

"Damn it, don't be ungrateful. That toad jumping on your head is a sign of respect and giving you face."

Seeing that he was being dragged into this mess, Lao Hu angrily retorted, then said righteously:

"Although I don't have the luck to win the favor of Grandpa Toad, I am still very happy for you, my good brother, to receive such an honor."

If you continue to say anything about being modest or distant, that means you're looking down on me, and we're breaking off our friendship!

Fatty Wang listened in a daze, and after a while he muttered to himself.

"Damn, you win. So what if you have a toad on your head? Do you have to spout all this nonsense?"

Just as they were chattering away, a large number of dead bodies began to appear on the water surface dozens of meters below.

Adding to the eeriness was the pervasive yin energy, causing the faint, flickering light to appear and disappear intermittently.

"Brother Bo, how come so many of these weird things have suddenly appeared?"

Looking down, Lao Hu felt a chill run down his spine, knowing that each glimmer of light represented a pregnant woman who had died tragically.

What we see here is probably no less than a thousand, but there are definitely more ahead.

"Didn't you notice anything strange when you came in?"

Ji Haobo didn't answer the question, but continued before they could ask:

"In a place like this, even if there weren't so many dead creatures in the water, there shouldn't be any yin energy or malevolent spirits at all, right?"

"So...so the original Yin energy was suppressed by the Golden Toad, and the current situation is because it has risen up?"

Old Hu understood immediately; after listening to Ji Haobo's words, he immediately grasped the key point.

"That's right, although these dead spirits have always been there, the Yin energy has been suppressed, so they won't do anything to you."

But it probably won't be long before they start hatching.

As soon as he finished speaking, a splash of water and a strange roar suddenly came from ahead.

"Wow... it hatched so quickly? And wasn't that a bit too loud?"

Ji Haobo ignored Wang Pangzi's mutterings and quickly turned a small bend in the rock wall. The space and water in front of him were much wider, stretching for at least two or three hundred meters horizontally.

There were countless dead spirits here, drifting away from a thick, swirling red mist as they rippled on the water.

"Damn, that red mist clearly indicates there's a monster inside, and judging from that scream just now, it's probably not small."

Although what Fatty Wang said was a bit far-fetched, Lao Hu thought it was quite possible.

"Brother Bo, could the red mist contain the bugs you mentioned?"

"As far as I know, it was indeed a worm, but I don't know what it actually looked like."

Ji Haobo nodded, took out a box of grenades, pulled the pin, and threw two into the red mist.

"Boom... Boom..."

Apart from two muffled explosions that echoed through the underground space, splashes of water, and some red mist that rolled and dispersed, there was no other sound.

Wang Pangzi and Lao Hu found it quite interesting, so they went over and picked up grenades to throw down.

"Rumble..."

Explosions rang out one after another, and waves churned in the water. Just as the group was wondering what was going on, the water suddenly exploded, and two grenades flew back.

At the same time, a huge thing rushed towards them.

This thing was as thick as a train, and its vortex-like mouth was no less than two meters long, with rings of sharp teeth constantly opening and closing inside, which was extremely terrifying.

Although we don’t know how long it is, it’s estimated that it would be no problem for the three people to bite from the water’s surface to the rock face, which is tens of meters high.

As the creature's mouthparts lunged at them, Fatty Wang and Old Hu nearly wet themselves in fright.

Fortunately, Ji Haobo casually threw out two grenades, which knocked the returning grenades back into his mouth.

"Boom... boom boom boom"

"Hoo...ho..."

Several muffled thuds followed, and the creature's mouthparts swelled to only twice their normal size as it hissed and spat out a cloud of blue smoke.

Aside from that, it doesn't seem to have suffered any damage; at most, it just fell back into the water.

"Holy crap, this is the bug you were talking about, Boss Bo? It's fucking terrifying!"

Fatty Wang leaned against the cliff face, his face pale, patting his chest repeatedly to calm his wildly beating heart.

"Croak... This big bug may not have intelligence, but it has an extremely strong regenerative ability and is not afraid of ordinary damage at all."

"If it weren't for the fact that part of its body was strangely embedded in the rock and couldn't be removed, I would have run away long ago."

The way Jin Chan justified his escape was truly impressive, making the others look at him with new respect.

"This is a prehistoric species called the Huo's Immortal Worm, which was likely modified by the Prince of Xian using the Gu technique."

Ji Haobo gave a brief introduction and then gave the two some instructions:

"You guys be careful, I'll go and get rid of those bugs first."

He didn't have time to chat like the two of them. The grenades that just exploded only interrupted the attack of the Huo Clan Undying Worms, and he would definitely face a violent retaliation soon.

Moreover, the water surface was filled with a strong yin energy at this time, and the floating corpses also underwent changes.

The faint glow that had been emanating disappeared, and the floating shells sank to the bottom of the water one by one.

In the blink of an eye, the water surface was empty, with only some ripples and no debris.

However, the moment Ji Haobo stepped into the air, the water surface suddenly exploded.

"Boom"

"Roar…"

Amidst the splashing water, the Huo Clan Immortal Worm roared and soared into the sky, its mouthparts lunging towards him.