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

Guixu signifies the end and the final destination.

"One begets two, two begets three, three begets all things, and all things return to nothingness."

This is a hexagram, but it is not among the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, because this hexagram only exists in myths and legends.

To put it simply, it's like the difference between official history and unofficial history.

This hexagram is not found in the official sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching.

But unofficial history can be hearsay, and it can be very "wild"!

Did gods really exist during the Shang Dynasty?

Is it really possible to appease the gods through sacrifices and ascend to immortality?

Has King Kang truly been granted a title by the mountain god?

Perhaps all these mysteries can be verified using this divination!

"Tai Chi divides into Yin and Yang, Qian and Kun reflect each other, Heaven and Earth give birth to all things, and the Eight Trigrams unite to form the Void!"

Chen Yibai frowned deeply, his expression solemn. He silently recited the incantation in his mind, stood on the mercury, and stretched out his hands again.

At this moment, the mercury had already submerged Chen Yibai's upper arm, and now this was the last chance left.

In addition, due to the excessive weight of mercury, the bronze yin-yang disc below was subjected to pressure, making it very difficult for the outer three rings to rotate!

"Click! Click! Click!"

Chen Yibai gritted his teeth and exerted all his strength, blindly operating with both hands, desperately spinning the outer ring below.

The atmosphere inside the stone chamber was deathly tense. No one dared to breathe, and their hearts pounded in their throats as they listened to the clicking sounds of the mechanisms below.

Time was passing by, second by second.

The mercury beneath their feet was rising higher and higher.

Finally, let us unite and return to nothingness!

"Damn it, open it!"

Chen Yibai completed the final step, and with a final 'click' sound, his heart pounded with tension.

Because it's a matter of life and death, and you only get this one chance!

result……

Still no movement?

The air was so still it seemed frozen; you could hear a pin drop.

Chen Yibai's face was extremely grim: "Even the Guixu hexagram is wrong?"

Just as Chen Yibai's brain was about to completely shut down, a series of 'click-clack' gears suddenly came from under his feet, accompanied by a huge tremor. The mercury under his feet also rippled. Several of Brother Chicken's henchmen, who were tied to a rope, lost their balance and fell flat on their faces, with half of their heads hitting the mercury. When they were pulled out, they screamed in pain.

"earthquake?"

"Is this place going to collapse?"

This sudden situation left everyone flustered and at a loss for what to do.

"The mechanism has been activated, and the mercury will flow down through the opening below. Everyone..."

Chen Yibai quickly shouted, trying to get everyone to take out the ropes and hold onto each other to avoid being swept away by the flowing mercury.

But he only said half of what he meant. With the sound of gears turning beneath his feet, the yin and yang fish inside the huge bronze yin-yang disc quickly merged, opening up a large semi-circular hole.

Mercury, half a meter high, began to flow back down through the open, semi-circular hole in the stone chamber.

Unlike ordinary water, mercury, although also a liquid, has a high density and heavy mass, so it flows down very quickly.

Almost instantly.

Chen Yibai was closest to the bronze Yin-Yang disc, so his words of warning were barely out of his mouth before he was swept into the mercury and plunged down with it.

Chen Yibai only felt weightlessness as he plummeted down with the mercury, and everything went black before his eyes, he couldn't see anything.

If it falls for a few seconds, wouldn't it be smashed to pieces?

"Captain Yan..."

"Professor Wang……"

Inside the stone chamber, Yan Wanlei and the others, who were a little further away, saw Chen Yibai being engulfed in mercury and swept away. Their first thought was to save themselves.

But the mercury flow was too fast, and there was nowhere nearby to control it. Everyone was swept away in a rush.

After falling for about three or four seconds, Chen Yibai suddenly saw a light in the darkness out of the corner of his eye—a bright red flame.

It was not a hallucination, nor a final burst of energy after death; I truly saw orange-yellow and crimson flames.

Before Chen Yibai could even turn his head to look at the firelight, his body, like a cannonball, crashed into the water with a 'bang!' as he plummeted downwards.

A bone-chilling cold sensation instantly swept over my entire body.

Luckily, there's an underground river below!

Otherwise, if you fall at high speed for three or four seconds, you'll be smashed into pieces here and there!

Bang!Bang!Bang!

Following closely behind Chen Yibai, the sounds of people falling into the water were like dumplings being dropped into boiling water.

Chen Yibai held his breath and quickly swam to the surface, then greedily inhaled the fresh air.

At the same time, looking around, the surrounding water reflected the bright red flames, rippling in layers.

Chen Yibai had just seen the bright red flames as well.

Where did this fire come from?

When Chen Yibai suddenly turned around, even the most seasoned tomb raider, the Tomb Raider Captain, who had seen many grand scenes, was so shocked that his pupils dilated and he was frozen in place for several seconds upon seeing the scene behind him.

This is a huge karst cave. Directly in front of it is a magnificent dragon palace carved into the mountain wall, which is nearly fifty or sixty meters high. Above the palace is a lifelike stone sculpture of a dragon with bared teeth and claws, which looks majestic and extremely shocking!

With the nation's full resources mobilized, and over forty years of work underway, it seems the real scale of the project lies here.

Even more impressive is that each floor of this dragon palace is equipped with enormous cauldrons, each burning with a raging fire, illuminating the entire palace.

This is an ancient tomb from the Shang Dynasty, four thousand years ago!

Each cauldron has been burning with raging flames for four thousand years.

The burning of flames represents the continuation of life.

Chen Yibai looked at the brightly lit dragon tower palace before him, as if it had always been 'alive'.

This is completely different from the lifeless atmosphere of all the ancient tombs Chen Yibai had previously looted.

Then, considering the hexagram 'Gui Xu', which signifies that King Kang was bestowed the title of Mountain God, this further suggests that King Kang was appointed as the Mountain God.

Is this the 'Mountain God Temple'?

When all speculations, including daydreams, can be perfectly connected, then that becomes the truth.

To be honest, although Chen Yibai was extremely shocked at this moment, he was also a little 'shaky'.

Because Chen Yibai is self-aware.

If the Guixu hexagram is true, then this is definitely not something an ordinary person can easily contend with.

But then again, now that we're here, there's no turning back.

"puff……"

At that moment, someone popped out of the water and spat out several mouthfuls of water.

Save lives first!

Now is not the time to study this!

"Get ashore! Get ashore quickly!"

Chen Yibai quickly shouted loudly, telling everyone to swim to the shore first.

There's no guarantee that there won't be any dangers lurking in the water, or even anywhere in the world.

Fortunately, the special operations team and several archaeological experts were all good swimmers, and no one fell behind. They all swam safely ashore, but their flashlights got wet and were ruined.

But it seems that flashlights are not needed here.

Standing on the shore, everyone looked up at the brightly lit Dragon Tower Palace and Mountain God Temple directly in front of them, their faces filled with shock, astonishment, excitement, and exhilaration...

Wang Haichuan even slapped himself hard, afraid that he was dreaming.

The magnificent Loulong Palace and Mountain God Temple, carved from the cliff face, are exquisitely crafted in every detail, a testament to the artistry of nature. Moreover, they were built during the Shang Dynasty four thousand years ago. If they were made public, they would undoubtedly be considered a world wonder. At the very least, they would elevate the brilliance of Chinese civilization to another level.

So it's no wonder that Wang Haichuan, an archaeology expert, was so excited.

His eyes were even red with excitement, and he kept muttering to himself, "A miracle, an ancient miracle! I am so fortunate to have witnessed it in my lifetime. Even if I were to die here right now, I would have no regrets..."

"Pah! If you want to die, die here yourself, don't drag us down with you! What bad luck!"

Chen Yibai glanced at Wang Haichuan.

"Captain Yan, are we short of men?"

Amidst everyone's shock, Xiao Hu suddenly looked at them and asked a question out of the blue.

Few people?

The whole team is here, no one's missing?

"Where are those tomb raiders?"

Chen Yibai frowned. Indeed, there were fewer people; Brother Chicken and his four henchmen were gone.

Looking back at the river, its surface glowing red from the firelight, there was no one in sight.

"Captain Yan, none of them fell?"

Chen Yibai looked at Yan Wanlei and asked.

Yan Wanlei shook his head and confirmed, "They fell down. They were tied together with a rope and fell down together."

That means it's sunk to the bottom and hasn't swum to the surface yet.

However, they were tied together on a rope, like several grasshoppers on the same rope. If any one of them fell behind or couldn't swim, they might all suffer.

Should we go down and rescue them?

Xiao Hu looked at Yan Wanlei, wanting to ask a question, but swallowed it back in the end.

Yan Wanlei was also frowning as he looked at the water, deep in thought.

If we don't save them, it's still five lives at stake.

But if we try to rescue them, we don't know how deep the river is, and the risks of rescuing people in the water are too great, especially since there are five people tied together.

Therefore, we definitely cannot take this risk!

They were just a few tomb raiders; let them die.

It's an honor for a tomb raider to die here.

"Mr. Chen, shall we... go straight in?"

After the team rested briefly on the spot, Wang Haichuan couldn't help but look at Chen Yibai and ask him in a low voice.

"Or else?"

Chen Yibai smiled and shrugged.

Compared to Wang Haichuan's curiosity, Chen Yibai was more curious about whether the people in this Dragon Tower Palace were humans, ghosts, or immortals!

Not long after the archaeological team left in the direction of the Dragon Tower Palace.

In an inconspicuous corner of the river, a long string of bubbles rose continuously.

A head quietly emerged from the water, and a dog's eyes gleamed with an eerie green light in the darkness, staring intently at the archaeological team's retreating figures.

A record broken! Thirteen minutes!

Chicken Bro never expected that the turtle breathing technique he learned from his master would one day actually save his life.

"Tomb raiders? You just wait, we'll all die here, and nobody will leave here alive!"