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

Inside the Corpse Tower.

Chen Yibai cautiously approached the southwest direction, where a spiral staircase led directly upstairs. This was because the interior of the Corpse Tower had been transformed before being exposed to the public.

If I had noticed this spiral staircase the first time I came in, I wouldn't have had to climb up it by following the vine roots.

However, this southwest direction corresponds to the Death Gate in Qimen Dunjia, which always made Chen Yibai feel that it was too much of a coincidence.

So, just to be on the safe side, Chen Yibai took out his Bagua compass and checked it again.

If this is indeed the Death Gate in Qimen Dunjia, then there must be danger. Moreover, since there is a Death Gate, there should also be a Life Gate.

However, the compass needle in the celestial pool is unusually calm, which indicates that there is no obvious yin energy or ominous sign.

"Could it be that I'm being too sensitive, and this is just a pure coincidence?" Chen Yibai muttered to himself, frowning.

Just then, Guan Yunlong and Wu Daoshan's urgent shouts came from above: "Captain Chen, stop looking! There's really no danger up there..."

"I swear on my honor, if I'm lying, I'll make sure your son is born without an anus..."

Because the tower was exceptionally silent, their urgent shouts from above were very clear.

Chen Yibai: "Neither of you has any personality whatsoever!"

Chen Yibai didn't even bother to look up at them, treating it as if they were just barking dogs.

After putting the compass away again, Chen Yibai cautiously walked up the spiral staircase.

The entire spiral staircase resembles a coiled snake winding upwards, and it is only a little over one meter wide, with a very steep staircase.

After circling the spiral staircase a few times, Chen Yibai successfully reached the second floor of the Corpse Tower.

Just as Guan Yunlong and Wu Daoshan said, the second floor was completely silent, without any movement.

Chen Yibai stood on the platform extending outwards from the second floor, using his night vision to survey his surroundings.

The entire second-floor corpse tower was piled with many things, arranged in a very orderly manner at the eight corners. There were various ceramic jars, some stone and bronze tools, as well as various weapons and crossbows. There were also many leather clothes, some of which had been severely rotten over time, but their exquisite craftsmanship could still be vaguely discerned.

This scene was all too familiar to a professional tomb raider like Captain Chen. These were all burial goods, arranged according to the eight corners of the tomb tower, including daily necessities and weapons.

However, judging from the quality and specifications of these burial objects, they are clearly not commensurate with the powerful Gu clan at that time. At least the outside of the burial tower was piled with gold, and the ancient temple on top was covered with gold and silver. How could they possibly use this kind of pottery?

Therefore, these funerary objects were likely plundered from other tribes by the Gu clan through war.

The reason it was placed here, to be precise, is not because it was intended as a burial offering, but more likely because it was seen as a symbol of glory in the war.

If we follow this logic, then the seventeen floors of this corpse tower should all contain spoils of war that the Gu clan plundered from those seventeen tribes through war.

Chen Yibai took a quick look at the piled-up burial objects. From these objects, it was clear that the tribe was very backward in its development, with most of its weapons being stone hammers and stone axes.

It's no wonder they were wiped out.

The weak will be beaten; the law of the jungle has been an unchanging rule for thousands of years.

However, Chen Yibai doesn't have time to think about these things right now.

Since the spiral staircase doesn't lead directly to the top floor, but ends there, it must be hidden somewhere else.

Therefore, Chen Yibai needs to find the stairs leading to the upper level as soon as possible.

Although Chen Yibai possessed night vision, the eight corners surrounding the Corpse Tower were too large to see all the details at a glance, so he could only circle around and search carefully.

It's not just Chen Yibai who's searching.

Guan Yunlong and Wu Daoshan, who were lying on top of the blood vine coffin, were anxiously waving their wolf-eye flashlights back and forth, trying to find the stairs to the top.

Two beams of light slanted downwards and circled back and forth several times without finding anything. Finally, they settled on the northeast corner of the octagon. Guan Yunlong shouted at the top of his lungs, "Captain Chen, that looks like a stone door..."

At this moment, Chen Yibai also saw the stone door that Guan Yunlong had mentioned.

However, Chen Yibai felt that it was more like a vertical stone coffin, more than two meters wide and more than four meters high, which was just right in the middle of the two layers, and it was tightly fitted.

It seems reasonable that the top of the sarcophagus and the third layer are connected.

However, the stone coffin was placed in the northeast position, which belongs to the Gen Palace and is the 'Life Gate' in Qimen Dunjia.

Could this also be a coincidence?

Chen Yibai immediately went around it.

There is a stone coffin here. If there is a corpse inside, it is most likely the chief of the conquered tribe.

If we refer to the funeral system of the Shang Dynasty thousands of years ago, then it was for people to be buried alive with the dead.

The conquered tribal chief was not taken away to practice Gu poison like ordinary tribesmen, but was buried here in a stone coffin, which seems to make sense.

Chen Yibai squinted and carefully examined the stone coffin in front of him.

The shape of this stone coffin is very ordinary, just a rectangle with a lid on top. However, the lid fits so perfectly that it is almost invisible unless you look closely. It is so well-made that not even a single hair can be inserted into it.

Furthermore, the material of this stone coffin looks very special. The surface is smooth, without any carvings or decorations, and the grayish-white base color has a reddish-brown hue that looks like it has been soaked in water.

If Chen Yibai hadn't been standing in front of me, I wouldn't have been able to clearly sense a familiar yin energy, and I wouldn't even have been sure that this was a stone coffin!

That's right!

Chen Yibai sensed it; the stone coffin in front of him was emanating a sinister yet familiar aura of yin energy.

The same kind of eerie energy you can feel from the tombs we raided before.

This was also the first time Chen Yibai had felt the presence of this yin energy since he descended into the tomb of the Gu King.

At the same time, Chen Yibai seemed to suddenly remember something, and once again took out the Bagua compass from his body. He looked down and his brows immediately furrowed.

The compass needle was trembling violently.

This is an ominous sign of interference from yin energy!

Weird!

This is absolutely bizarre!

There was no yin energy among all those mummified corpses outside.

Chen Yibai originally thought that these corpses, which had been refined by the Gu technique, were not strictly speaking zongzi (rice dumplings), so they did not have Yin energy.

But why is there a stone coffin in front of us?

This wasn't even the strangest thing for Chen Yibai.

What Chen Yibai found most strange was that this place was also the 'Life Gate' in Qimen Dunjia!

Just now, the magnetic needle on the Death Gate compass was as steady as a rock, completely still.

However, the area around the birth canal was trembling incessantly!