Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

Why go to such lengths to do greening?

This is something that only viewers with wildly imaginative minds could come up with.

Surrounded by wildly growing and intricate vines, Chen Yibai was about to continue his explanation when he suddenly heard rustling sounds around him.

Chen Yibai turned his head sharply in response to the sound and saw a black python, thicker than a water bucket, rushing straight toward him.

In an instant, Chen Yibai immediately held the crimson ancient sword in front of him.

*Thud!* The massive, thick body slammed into the sharp blade of the crimson ancient sword, and was cut in two with a single stroke, blood gushing from the cut.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be not a black python at all, but a bloodthirsty vine.

These bloodthirsty vines can actually move!

Not only can it move, but each of the bloodthirsty vines is covered with densely packed suckers that resemble octopus tentacles, and it can also produce paralyzing toxins to suck blood!

Once it's stuck to your body, it's even tighter than a leech bite; you can't pull it off.

Chen Yibai knew this so clearly because there was a related record in "The Tomb Raider's Notes".

This is also mentioned in a passage in "The Tomb Raider's Notes" about searching for the ruins of the 'Ancient Gu Kingdom'.

According to the "Tomb Raider's Notes", the legendary "Ancient Gu Kingdom" is the earliest origin of Gu magic. It is a multicultural country that gradually formed from a clan tribe called "Gu Clan" through war and annexation. The power center of the Ancient Gu Kingdom is the Gu Clan, and its territory is probably in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan area, but the exact location is unknown.

The timeline is roughly contemporaneous with the Xia and Shang dynasties.

This Gu tribe is not only skilled in evil Gu magic, but also very good at metallurgy, especially in refining gold and silver from ores.

It is said that this is also the origin of the Miao people's fondness for wearing silver ornaments, but the specifics are unknown.

However, it is precisely because of this that, according to legend, after the ancient Gu Kingdom was destroyed, it left behind a treasure comparable to a gold mine.

Due to the vast amount of time that has passed and the severe gap in civilization, no one knows the specific details about the ancient Gu Kingdom anymore. Even the reason for its demise remains unclear.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou and secretly dispatched many groups of tomb raiders to try to find the treasure left behind after the fall of the ancient Gu Kingdom, but in the end, they all returned empty-handed.

During this search, one of the tomb raiding teams encountered similar Gu monkeys and bloodthirsty vines, suspecting that they were related to the ancient Gu Kingdom. However, due to various reasons, they were unable to continue the search and only made a few notes in the "Tomb Raider Notes".

At first, Chen Yibai did not think that the tomb Tianxing would come here to find would be related to the ancient Gu Kingdom, but that was until he encountered the Gu monkey and these bloodthirsty vines.

To put it another way, even if the tomb that the Heavenly Path Society came here to find is not the ruins of the Ancient Gu Kingdom, it is definitely the same place that the Tomb Raiders were looking for back then!

However, Chen Yibai did not reveal these little-known facts during the live stream.

The viewers in the live stream only need to know what they are seeing. Feeding them too much strange knowledge might not be a good thing.

Wow…

Just as Chen Yibai took a few more steps forward, countless black vines suddenly stretched out from all directions, including overhead, like a net formed by tentacles.

These bloodthirsty vines carry 'life,' the power of resentment born from the long and extreme suffering of the corpses beneath their roots.

痋: means extreme pain!

Therefore, the true meaning of Gu technique is to obtain the power of resentment from extreme pain, and then use this power to deal with the enemy!

Faced with these tentacle-like bloodthirsty vines, Chen Yibai swiftly dodged and slashed with his sword, cutting through the tangled mess with a swift blade, forcing his way out of the crowd and rushing straight toward the gate of the ancient temple in front of him.

Previously, the Heavenly Path Society's hundred-person team had already cleared a path here, leading directly to the ancient temple gate, which was about five or six hundred meters away.

Furthermore, the two golden gates of the ancient temple have been opened.

Indeed, from a distance, the two large gates of the ancient temple, which were covered by vines, were golden yellow and probably three or four meters high!

This is quite consistent with the style of the ancient Gu Kingdom recorded in history.

However, Chen Yibai has absolutely no time to investigate whether these two doors are made of pure gold.

What puzzled Chen Yibai the most was that not all the vines here were Bloodthirsty Vines. Many of them were ordinary vines. The passage opened by the Heavenly Path Society had cut off all the ordinary vines, but deliberately preserved the Bloodthirsty Vines.

This strange phenomenon is just like the mongoose we encountered earlier.

It seems that the Heavenly Path Society not only knows this place inside and out, but is also immune to any of the Gu magic attacks here! It feels like returning to my own backyard!

Chen Yibai, on the other hand, was like an outsider who was subjected to a barrage of attacks.

No wonder the tomb raiders of the past failed to continue their exploration here. These bloodthirsty vines not only attack any living creatures they see, but they are also intricate and complex, like a net, and they can even twist and coil like pythons.

Anyone who comes would probably find it difficult to withstand.

Fortunately, Chen Yibai had a divine weapon in hand. Although these bloodthirsty vines seemed to have thick skin and tough flesh, they could not withstand the sharpness of the crimson ancient sword.

From the perspective of the live stream, all that could be seen was Chen Yibai frantically dodging and wildly slashing. Every sword strike splattered with bright red blood, and every second was breathtaking. The onlookers couldn't help but hold their breath in tension, their palms sweating as they held their phones.

Even the live stream chat stopped at this moment.

Only after watching Chen Yibai successfully fight his way out of the Bloodthirsty Vine's inescapable net and rush into the ancient temple did he finally exhale the breath he had been holding back.

The interior of the ancient temple was very spacious, with a depth of more than ten meters and a length of nearly thirty meters on both sides.

At the very top of the ancient temple is a uniquely shaped stone statue.

But following Chen Yibai's perspective, the first thing you see is not the stone statue, but the two double doors of the ancient temple.

Chen Yibai wanted to confirm whether the two doors were indeed made of pure gold.

If it is indeed made of pure gold, then it is highly likely that this is the ruins of the ancient Gu Kingdom recorded in "The Tomb Raider's Notes".

Chen Yibai wiped the bloodstains splattered on his face and squinted as he carefully examined the two golden temple doors in front of him.

Although thousands of years have passed, the two doors still shine as brightly as ever. I reached out and touched them.

As a tomb raider, his knowledge of gold goes without saying.

"This...this is fucking pure gold!"

Although Chen Yibai had a premonition, he was still extremely surprised and shocked when he was 100% certain!

What's astonishing is that this really is the ruins of the ancient Gu Kingdom!

What's truly astonishing is that, just as recorded in "The Tomb Raider's Notes," the mysterious ancient Gu Kingdom truly possessed the power to forge two temple gates, each two meters wide and three to four meters high, entirely from pure gold!