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

It's truly hard to imagine how hundreds of thousands of people across the country could be forced to commit suicide for an emperor!

Wouldn't these hundreds of thousands of people rise up in rebellion?

Or is it because of some kind of belief?

This is somewhat plausible, because in ancient times, people valued their faith more than their own lives! The real skill lies in inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to have a devout faith!

Anyone with even a slightly weaker mental fortitude would tremble and feel their legs go weak in this space shrouded in endless darkness, with corpses beneath their feet.

Yang Qingyun was in this state at that moment.

What's even more terrifying is that as you go further, the firelight illuminates the edge of darkness, and you have no idea how big this place is or whether it has an end.

Or perhaps, this really is the underworld or a hellish inferno.

While he was nervously thinking to himself, Chen Yibai, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped.

Everyone stared wide-eyed, turning to look directly ahead.

In the darkness illuminated by the firelight, a huge pillar stood out indistinctly, as if it were a pillar supporting the heavens and the earth. Many 'ropes' were stretched from all sides of this pillar, similar to the copper chains that had been used to pull the coffins, but they were hidden in the darkness and very blurry, making it impossible to see the details.

Even if you can't see the details clearly, just the outline is incredibly spectacular and breathtaking.

This is definitely not something that formed naturally.

"Captain Chen, that's..."

Wang Haichuan's eyes widened, and he was about to ask a question when his phone suddenly buzzed in his pocket.

Hearing his phone ring suddenly, Wang Haichuan was so focused on it that he forgot about the two-minute timer he had set earlier, which startled him greatly.

At the same time, Wang Haichuan began to feel his brain sink, his whole body go limp, and his eyelids droop heavily as if they were weighed down by lead.

It wasn't just Wang Haichuan; everyone felt this way.

Then Chen Yibai's shouts rang in their ears: "Quickly, turn back!"

Chen Yibai's shouts slightly lifted everyone's spirits. Not knowing what was going on, and without time to think, they quickly turned around and, despite their weak bodies, ran back.

Fortunately, we walked relatively slowly and were only a few dozen meters away from the cave entrance.

After turning back and retracing my steps, the feeling of weakness and dizziness suddenly dissipated.

"call……"

Wang Haichuan felt as if he had been lacking oxygen, so he immediately took a deep breath.

"Captain Chen, why did I just... feel weak all over?"

Yan Wanlei rubbed his forehead vigorously and looked at Chen Yibai in surprise, asking a question.

Without a doubt, Chen Yibai must have known this beforehand, which is why he had everyone use their phones to set a two-minute timer.

"Because of death energy!"

Chen Yibai narrowed his eyes slightly: "There's no air in this place, so if you stay here for too long, your brain will become oxygen-deprived! A normal person will feel dizzy after two minutes of the brain stopping oxygen supply, and will die within five minutes. Now you know how these hundreds of thousands of people died, right?"

"No breath? That's not right! I felt like I was breathing very easily just now!"

Hearing Chen Yibai's explanation, Yang Qingyun raised another question, frowning deeply as she asked him in return.

Chen Yibai nodded: "It's good to feel that your breathing is smooth, but the air you breathe is oxygen-free, otherwise why would it be called dead air?"

Qi gives birth to all things, and all things are born because of Qi.

This is a place of absolute death, devoid of life! Therefore, nothing can grow here; it is a forbidden zone for all living beings, or one could say it is a forbidden zone for all things!

This is why Chen Yibai said it's the most powerful anti-theft measure; if you go inside for two minutes, your brain will be oxygen-deprived and your whole body will go limp, making it impossible for tomb raiders to get in.

What's even more amazing is that because you can breathe easily when you go in, you won't notice anything at first. If you go too far, by the time you realize that your brain is suddenly lacking oxygen, it will be too late to go back.

Chen Yibai's explanation made everyone suddenly understand.

As expected of a tomb raider, he knows so much!

There's no oxygen in the air, it's death air! Although it sounds very mysterious, we've seen quite a few mysterious things along the way, so it's not surprising anymore.

"Captain Chen, did you see that huge pillar up ahead just now?"

Immediately afterward, Yan Wanlei looked at Chen Yibai and asked.

Chen Yibai nodded: "That's called a Dragon-Locking Pillar! It's the key to setting up this deadly place! It's roughly the same as severing the dragon vein. From a feng shui perspective, placing a Dragon-Locking Pillar at a point where the airflow is concentrated can block the airflow, turning the surrounding area into a dead zone!"

However, finding the node of the airflow and placing the dragon-locking pillar at an extremely precise location, with no deviation even slightly, is an extremely difficult task!

Therefore, the person who erected this dragon-locking pillar is extremely powerful! Their strength is very high, at least as tall as a three-story building…”

After speaking, Chen Yibai took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and took a deep drag, letting the nicotine soothe his mind.

Seeing Chen Yibai suddenly light a cigarette while speaking, Wang Haichuan quickly asked, "Captain Chen, since it's too oxygen-deprived to get in here, what do we do now?"

Wang Haichuan's question hit the nail on the head.

Chen Yibai was seen taking large puffs of cigarette smoke, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty.

Everyone was waiting for Chen Yibai to speak, but unexpectedly, Chen Yibai shook his head at the end: "It's not that there's no way to get in, you can bring an oxygen tank, or know the art of tortoise breathing! But even if you know the art of tortoise breathing, you can only hold your breath for half an hour at most, and it won't be of much use..."

Oxygen cylinder?

When the archaeological team came down, they didn't have any oxygen cylinders with them.

"Captain Chen, do you know the Turtle Breathing Technique?"

Wang Haichuan quickly asked again.

Chen Yibai shook his head, exhaling a cloud of smoke, and then decisively uttered two words: "No!"

will not?

So what I just said was all for nothing?

Yan Wanlei, who was standing next to him, also remembered what Chen Yibai had said before: in order to get out of this Kangwang Tomb, one must go all the way to the end.

But what stands in front of us now is a true 'dead end'.

"What do we do now?"

Yan Wanlei immediately followed up with a question.

Chen Yibai shook his head again and flicked the cigarette butt in his hand into the 'Deadly Land of Absolute Fiends' in front of him.

Chen Yibai couldn't think of any solution either.

To be precise, there is simply no way to deal with this 'Deadly Ground'.

That's why it's said to be the most powerful anti-theft system in the world.

Unless... you push down that dragon-locking pillar and break this 'deadly feng shui' formation.

But the dragon-locking pillar is at least tens of meters in diameter and its height is unknown. For the archaeological team, pushing it down is undoubtedly a pipe dream!

Seeing Chen Yibai shake his head and remain silent, seemingly not joking, everyone instantly felt a chill run down their spines.

Could it be that we've really reached this dead end?