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

Chen Yibai turned around and walked to the black lacquered wooden coffin, first circling it once.

The coffin lid was nailed shut with seven nails, sealing it tightly. The lacquer on the coffin body was shiny and new, as if it had just been buried.

Because of the urgency of the situation and the fact that their main purpose was to smash the coffin, they didn't hesitate and immediately drew the crimson ancient sword from behind them, slashing it at the coffin.

The idea of ​​opening coffins and robbing corpses doesn't exist for Chen Yibai.

And judging from the condition of this tomb chamber, there probably isn't anything good inside the coffin.

Keng!

A crack was slashed open in the heavy coffin.

Chen Yibai then inserted the sword blade into the crack in the coffin lid and pried it upwards with a sudden movement.

The coffin lid, which was nailed shut with nails, was forcibly pried open, making a grating, screeching sound.

With a final burst of energy, the coffin lid was completely pried open.

Chen Yibai cautiously peered into the coffin.

Inside the coffin lay a corpse, a burly, robust man wearing a red vest, with a round belly. His body was not yet decayed. He was bald with a full beard, and looked to be in his forties. His face was full of menacing features, and even with his eyes closed, he looked fierce.

The lifelike face looks as if it was buried just yesterday.

Besides the corpse, there was nothing else inside the coffin, nor anything that could prove the identity of the person buried there.

However, for the well-informed Chen Yibai, there was no need for anything else. Just from the red vest worn by the corpse, he could tell that this was an ancient executioner, a professional beheader at the execution ground. The red clothes he wore were for warding off evil spirits.

Executioners were one of the four major professions in ancient times that "made a living off the dead." Most of them were butchers. Although they might be relatively wealthy, due to the special nature of their profession, their social status was not very high. There was also a saying that because their hands were stained with too much blood and they had accumulated too much bad karma, their lifespan was generally not long. Even if they lived to old age, their end was very tragic, and few of them were able to marry, have children, and die peacefully.

This is why it is a tomb built with diamond walls to prevent the extinction of any family line.

At the same time, Chen Yibai suddenly realized something.

The tomb's owner was an executioner in life, accumulating too much bad karma, making it difficult for him to be reborn after death. So, he secretly built the tomb here, hoping to steal someone else's luck to make up for the bad karma he had accumulated.

So that’s how it is. So that’s how it is…

To try and make up for one's own bad karma by taking it out on others is truly despicable.

At the same time, the moment the coffin was opened, the executioner's body seemed to oxidize upon contact with air, and began to decompose rapidly. Large amounts of black, viscous liquid, emitting a pungent stench, flowed from the seven orifices and overflowed from the bottom of the coffin.

Then Chen Yibai noticed that the executioner's brow seemed to twitch slightly.

It looks like it's about to come back to life.

Chen Yibai, a man accustomed to grand occasions, immediately made a decisive move. With murderous intent in his eyes, he raised his hand and slashed his sword down towards the executioner's neck.

The black lacquered wooden coffin was violently chopped in two.

Smash the coffin and dismember the body.

Before the executioner inside the coffin could even open his eyes and rise from the dead, his head and body were separated, and a large amount of black pus flowed out from the cross-section of his neck.

As for that bald head, it closed its eyes completely, and soon its skin completely decomposed into a pool of black, rotting flesh.

Just in case, Chen Yibai slashed the executioner's corpse a few more times, completely dismembering it into pieces of flesh, and smashed the coffin to pieces as well.

This is the real 'smashing the coffin and exposing the corpse', the most ruthless method used by tomb raiders.

Finally, Chen Yibai lit another stick of incense to send off the soul and burned some paper money.

That would pretty much conclude the matter.

Once the yin energy here dissipates and the earth's energy flows smoothly again, the Azure Dragon Peak above will still be a feng shui treasure land.

After the incense burned out and the paper money was burned, the executioner's body, which had been chopped into several pieces, completely decomposed into a pool of corpse fluid, leaving only some black bone fragments.

The tomb was filled with a nauseating, pungent stench of decay.

In addition, because the tomb mound was too deep and the tomb robbers' hole was relatively small, the air in the tomb chamber gradually became thinner, and breathing became increasingly difficult.

It's not safe to stay here any longer. Once you've finished your business, you can go up.

It's past 2 a.m. now, but I can still go back and catch up on some sleep.

But to be absolutely certain, Chen Yibai took out a feng shui compass from his bag to double-check.

But just looking at him like that, Chen Yibai's brows furrowed again instantly.

Inside the compass's celestial pool, the needle was spinning and trembling incessantly!

This means that the tomb is still filled with malevolent energy!

"It's not that simple?"

Chen Yibai stared at the compass needle, his brows furrowing in surprise, the frown deepening.

Logically speaking, the body of the tomb owner should have been dismembered and turned into corpse fluid. The coffin has been smashed, incense has been lit to send off the soul, and paper money has been burned. So why is the evil aura still so strong?

Chen Yibai squinted and carefully surveyed the surroundings of the tomb.

This indicates that there is something else inside the tomb.

But there was no oxygen left in the tomb, so Chen Yibai could only quickly climb up through the hole.

After taking a few deep breaths of fresh air up there, I went back down.

When they returned to the tomb, the executioner's body had decomposed into black liquid, even the bone fragments.

I took out the compass again and looked at it again. The needle was still trembling around Tianchi.

"There's something hidden in this tomb!"

"But it's hidden there?"

There must be hidden compartments in this tomb!

Chen Yibai examined the entire tomb chamber again, not missing a single detail.

Finally, their gaze settled on the bottom of the black lacquered wooden coffin.

After removing the bottom of the black lacquered wooden coffin, sure enough, there really was a 'golden well' underneath!

This 'golden well', also called the sky well, is located right in the center of the tomb chamber, below the coffin, at the waist level of the tomb owner. It is a place specifically for placing the most important things in the tomb owner's life.

When Empress Dowager Cixi was buried, a well more than a meter deep was specially dug under her coffin. Before her death, many of her favorite treasures were placed in the well.

Chen Yibai peeked out and looked into the well.

The golden well was about thirty centimeters wide and its depth was unfathomable. A chain, roughly the thickness of a thumb, was fixed to the edge of the well, and something that looked like it was wrapped in red cloth was suspended inside the well...

If nothing unexpected happens, the thing wrapped in red cloth beneath this golden well is the truly malevolent energy that affects the entire earth's veins!