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

"It's been towed back...it's been towed back..."

"He's still breathing...he's still breathing..."

"Xiaojing, hurry..."

"Perform CPR, artificial respiration..."

"Professor Wang, did you see the green light just now?"

"I saw it..."

"Did you see what that was?"

"I didn't see it..."

In his hazy state, Chen Yibai vaguely heard a jumble of noises around him. Then, his chest was repeatedly pressed, his nose was pinched, and his mouth was pried open. A soft, fragrant pair of lips pressed against his, carrying a breath that entered his lungs. The oxygen deprivation in his brain gradually subsided, and his hazy consciousness slowly began to awaken...

call!

Chen Yibai suddenly opened his eyes, sat up, and greedily gasped for breath, subconsciously wiping the corner of his mouth with his hand.

Looking around again, everyone was staring at him with wide, tense eyes; he had been safely dragged back.

"Captain Chen, how are you?"

"Captain Chen, did you see that green light on that pillar just now?"

"Captain Chen, did you hear that sound just now?"

As soon as everyone saw Chen Yibai wake up, they immediately surrounded him and started asking him all sorts of questions.

Only Qiu Jing kept her head down, her face flushed. Although artificial respiration was for saving lives, it was still her first kiss...

Chen Yibai did not immediately answer the barrage of questions, but instead abruptly turned his head to look at the Absolute Fiend Death Ground again.

The entire Deadly Land was still shrouded in endless darkness, as if everything I had heard and seen in my hazy state of consciousness was just a dream!

But Chen Yibai is absolutely certain that it is real!

"I saw it...I saw it...I saw it..."

Chen Yibai reconstructed the scene he had just witnessed in his mind, his breathing becoming rapid with excitement, and even his voice trembling slightly.

"Captain Chen, what did you just see?"

Wang Haichuan noticed that Chen Yibai, who had always been as calm as a rock and remained unfazed even in the face of a collapsing mountain, was now so excited. He figured he must have seen something extraordinary, which was why he was so agitated. So Wang Haichuan immediately asked.

"I saw it...I saw it..."

The scene he had just witnessed was frozen in Chen Yibai's mind: "It's Zhulong! Alive! On the Dragon-Locking Pillar, bound by four copper chains..."

The moment the green light appeared, Chen Yibai could see very clearly that the entire Dragon-Locking Pillar was fifty or sixty meters high, and a monster with a snake's tail and a human body that was nearly thirty meters long was bound to the Dragon-Locking Pillar by four iron chains.

The green light that suddenly appeared in the darkness emanated from one of the monster's open eyes.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Great Wilderness North, records: "North of the Red River is Mount Zhangwei, where there is a god with a human face and a snake's body, red in color. His body is a thousand miles long, with straight eyes and a straight posture. When he closes his eyes, it is dark; when he opens them, it is bright. He neither eats, nor sleeps, nor breathes... This is called Zhulong!"

Apart from being 'thousands of miles long', the monster on the Dragon-Locking Pillar is almost identical to the description of the Candle Dragon in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

With a human face and a snake's body, and red in color, meaning its entire body is reddish-brown.

"Straight-eyed" refers to someone with only one vertical eye on their face.

Especially the phrase "When one closes his eyes, it is darkness; when one opens them, it is light," which means that when one closes his eyes, it is darkness, and when one opens them, it is daytime.

The moment I opened my eyes, the green light in them almost illuminated the entire Deathly Shroud.

This further confirms that it is indeed Zhulong!

Even if it is not the mountain god of Zhangwei Mountain, which is thousands of miles long and recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it must have some bloodline connection with it!

Upon hearing Chen Yibai's description, the entire room fell silent instantly, everyone displaying an expression of disbelief.

The monsters recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas actually exist!

Everyone had just seen the copper chains on the dragon-locking pillar. Although they were not clearly visible, they were extremely thick, many times thicker than the copper chains on the hanging coffins they had encountered before.

So everyone's first thought was, how big must the Candle Dragon be, to be bound by such thick copper chains?

At this point, the crowd's curiosity had even outweighed their fear.

"Wait……"

Suddenly, Yang Qingyun seemed to notice something and frowned at Chen Yibai, saying, "Captain Chen, could it be that you hallucinated when you fainted just now? Didn't you say before that this place was a dead land where nothing could grow? So even if there is a Zhulong, how could it still be alive?"

Yang Qingyun's question made everyone realize what she meant, and they all nodded in agreement, as it did seem somewhat contradictory.

"And..."

Yang Qingyun seemed to have her mind opened, and continued, "As we've traveled this far, we've almost always seen the ancients treating the Candle Dragon as a deity and offering devout sacrifices! So why would they chain the Candle Dragon to the Dragon-Locking Pillar with copper chains?"

It must be said that women's thinking is indeed more meticulous.

On the surface, Yang Qingyun's two points of contention do indeed appear to have logical inconsistencies.

Chen Yibai had already considered these two points, and said, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that Zhulong neither eats, sleeps, nor breathes! Zhulong does not need to breathe, so it can survive in this oxygen-free dead land..."

"As for treating Zhulong as a deity and worshipping him devoutly..."

Chen Yibai paused mid-breath, then narrowed his eyes and said, "Judging from the current situation, there is only one explanation: 'borrowing a soul to return to the body, possessing a soul to seize another'!"

"what?"

"Captain Chen, I've heard of 'borrowing a corpse to return to life,' what does 'borrowing a soul to return to life' mean, and there's also 'soul-binding and possession'..."

Wang Haichuan's curiosity grew stronger, and he pricked up his ears, quickly looking at Chen Yibai and asking further questions.

"Possession is a religious term, meaning that the soul enters another person's body. In the art of incantation, there is said to be a soul-binding technique that can bind another person's soul to return one's body to its rightful owner!"

Chen Yibai looked in the direction of the Dragon-Locking Pillar and continued, "The Candle Dragon must be a spirit with a powerful essence. If I'm not mistaken, the real purpose of setting up this deadly place with the Dragon-Locking Pillar was not to prevent tomb raiders, but to specifically trap the Candle Dragon on the Dragon-Locking Pillar, using it as a vessel to seize the Candle Dragon's powerful essence through the Soul-Binding Technique, and to return the body of the Kang King!"

The story we saw before about King Kang being granted immortality by the mountain god was actually all a lie!

Even when an emperor ascends the throne, he must ensure that it is legitimate, otherwise he is going against the will of Heaven! Therefore, when King Kang built his tomb, he deliberately created the illusion that he had been granted the title of immortal and that he had sacrificed to the mountain god, in order to deceive the world. In reality, he was forcibly seizing the essence of Zhulong to return his body to its original state!

Otherwise, they couldn't very well carve details on the murals in the tomb about how to subdue the Zhulong and tie it to the dragon-locking pillar, could they?

At this point, Chen Yibai became even more certain that in the instant before his brain was deprived of oxygen and his eyes closed, in addition to seeing the true form of the Candle Dragon trapped on the Dragon-Locking Pillar, the other scene he vaguely and in a daze seemed to be no illusion.

Chen Yibai also saw a huge black shadow standing at the very top of the Dragon Locking Pillar.

It looks like a coffin!