Tomb raiding: The awesome life that started from Ganggangyingzi

Everyone was taken aback by what they heard. Ji Haobo was also confused, but then he realized something and turned to look at the outer perimeter of the Underworld Palace. Sure enough, he saw six lamps.

"Damn, you're really smart. I've heard of Ghost Blows Out the Light, but I've never heard of Ghost Lighting the Lamp."

Ji Haobo led the group over, cursing and swearing, and found a hideous, fish-tailed humanoid creature with flames flickering above its head.

"Oh my god! Is that a mermaid?"

Laura looked at that thing and immediately gasped in surprise.

"What? This is so ugly and you call her a mermaid? Are your foreigners' standards of beauty alien?"

Fatty Wang, standing next to Lao Hu, came out from behind him, shining a flashlight on the thing and examining it from head to toe, but he couldn't see anything beautiful about it.

"They foreigners call them mermaids, but we call them 'jiaoren,' which are deep-sea monsters that eat people and don't spit out the bones."

At this point, Lao Hu clicked his tongue in amazement and poked it with his hand; it was rock hard—a dried corpse.

"Legend has it that a single drop of this oil can burn for months, which is why royalty and nobility in ancient times loved to use it to make everlasting lamps."

"Old Hu is right. The creature is called a Black-Scaled Merman, and it comes from the Ruins of the South China Sea. We should try to catch some and raise them in the future."

Ji Haobo, without thinking twice, reached out and disassembled the mermen one by one and put them away.

Seeing that everyone was speechless, only Fatty Wang thought that this was how it should be done, and enthusiastically lent a helping hand from the side.

The others went to check the surroundings, and soon they heard Laura's angry cursing.

"Fuck...! There's even an oil lamp made by a child here."

After finishing with the six mermaid corpses, Ji Haobo turned and walked towards the gathered crowd.

Seeing that Laura and the others had already removed the bodies of the three children, he sighed and shook his head, saying:

"Take these three corpses outside and burn them; that will be a relief for them."

Fortunately, they didn't witness a large number of dead bodies floating around, otherwise they would have been even more furious.

Back in the Underworld Palace, Fatty Wang looked at the three coffins with a mixture of nervousness and excitement and asked:

"Brother Bo, which one do you think we should open first?"

"Open the stone coffin!"

After a moment's thought, Ji Haobo walked toward the stone coffin.

"The bronze outer coffin and the inner coffin are rumored to be used to suppress extremely evil people, to preserve corpses that have turned into zombies, or to store corpses infected with infectious diseases. But what is the significance of this stone coffin?"

As they spoke, the three of them circled the stone coffin. Fatty Wang scratched his head and looked at the other two.

"This stone coffin seems a bit short. Could there be a child inside?"

"impossible!"

Old Hu immediately shook his head, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, and said:

"The earliest legend says that to become an immortal, one must endure three lifetimes of suffering. So the people in these three coffins represent the three lifetimes of King Xian, and naturally they cannot be children."

But I've heard that in ancient times there was a practice called "part-piece burial," where parts were taken from several corpses and pieced together to create a new body.

This not only left Fatty Wang dumbfounded, but also the others who came in after burning the three children's mummified corpses found it utterly unbelievable.

"Is this...really? What does that mean?"

In response to their doubts, Ji Haobo nodded in affirmation:

"Old Hu is right. A part of the contents of these three coffins was taken and pieced together to form a new corpse, but it is not in the stone coffin."

It was in a dark chamber beneath the bronze coffin, because that represented hell in the three realms.

I don't know what other ancient people meant by piecing together corpses, but King Xian used that corpse as a shadow bone to represent his suffering in hell.

"Damn... King Xian's absurd actions—making others suffer all the pain and disaster while he comfortably ascends to immortality—I don't know what he was thinking."

Fatty Wang thought that King Xian was truly wise, and that he himself was far inferior to him!

"You all go and watch from the side, I'm going to open the coffin."

Ji Haobo waved to the crowd and removed several pins from the stone coffin. Immediately, a chilling aura wafted out from the loosened gaps.

Not knowing what was inside, Ji Haobo worried that the coffin lid might be blown away and damaged by the unknown object that exploded, so he quickly put it away.

Unexpectedly, nothing broke out of the coffin; instead, a cold aura lingered on a set of smooth, jade-like white bones.

"Holy crap, it won't melt!"

When Fatty Wang saw what was inside, he exclaimed in surprise, but then realized something was wrong because the bones didn't seem to explode.

"Master Bo, do you see anything strange about these skeletons?"

Upon hearing Lao Hu's question, Ji Haobo frowned and said uncertainly:

"A corpse demon! I think this thing resembles a corpse demon, but it's strange that it looks like an inanimate object."

Yang Xueli and the others were stunned upon hearing this. What was a Corpse Demon? They had never heard of it before.

But Lao Hu and Fatty Wang exchanged a glance, their mouths agape in disbelief.

"My goodness! There really is a White Bone Demon in this world? That's unbelievable!"

Hearing them say this, Yang Xueli and the other two finally understood what the so-called Corpse Demon was, and for a moment they stared blankly at the smooth, jade-like white bones.

Ji Haobo reached into the coffin and rummaged through the bones. He lifted the decaying clothes and saw an arm, as well as some bones that had been replaced with gold.

"It really was a limb-piece burial."

He then put away the stone coffin and went over to open the inner coffin, where there was still a skeleton inside;

Most of them were made of gold, with only a small portion being black bone, but they were permeated with a strong aura of death.

"This...it's the White Bone Demon again? No, it's the Black Bone Demon? Could they be the legendary Black and White Duo?"

Yang Xueli and the other two looked surprised and puzzled as they looked at Ji Haobo.

"This should be an incomplete form of uncorrupted bone."

Ji Haobo frowned. Although the Undying Bone in front of him was filled with the aura of death, it was still like a dead object.

"Brother Bo, is the Prince of Xian really that powerful?"

Upon hearing this, Old Hu, standing nearby, looked puzzled and asked:

"Since the Corpse Demon and the Undying Bone were captured and dismembered to be buried with the dead, they're probably on their way to immortality. Why would they need to build a tomb and go through all this trouble?"

The others couldn't help but nod in agreement; they didn't believe that the Prince of Xian was that powerful.

Of the people we know now, apart from Ji Haobo (who is not human), everyone else, whether we've met or heard of them, is within our comprehension range.

"I can't say for sure either. Either the Corpse Demon and the Undying Bone were formed later, or King Xian has some secret methods."

Ji Haobo had thought of this problem long ago, but he couldn't figure it out for the time being.

After putting away the inner coffin, the group gathered around the bronze coffin.

"Haobo, there must be zombies in here, otherwise there would be no need for a bronze mirror to suppress them."

Upon hearing Yang Xueli's words, everyone looked curiously at the bronze coffin. They saw a large bronze mirror with a gold rim, about the size of a large bowl, with ancient seal engravings on it.

"This is a bronze mirror from the pre-Qin period, attributed to the founder of the Legalist school. Legend has it that it was cast on Ziyang Mountain, embodying the righteous spirit of Legalism and being most effective in suppressing evil."