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

Chen Yibai held his breath and focused intently on surveying the surroundings of the tomb chamber.

The entire tomb was in a mess, as if it had been looted not long ago.

This is consistent with the usual practices of modern tomb raiders, who basically leave no bricks or tiles behind wherever they go.

However, upon closer inspection, Chen Yibai noticed that there were many knife marks left on some of the collapsed stone pillars and walls of the tomb chamber. It didn't seem like the marks left by deliberate vandalism, but rather like a fierce battle had taken place here!

This was most likely done by the Southern School of Heavenly Path.

If it were Yan Wanlei, the marks left behind wouldn't be knife marks, but bullet holes.

In addition, Chen Yibai also saw that in the east of the tomb chamber, facing south, there was a half-meter-high lotus-shaped coffin base made of bluestone. The stone coffin on the base had been smashed to pieces and turned into a pile of rubble.

Chen Yibai strode over and was surprised to find a corpse lying next to the smashed stone coffin.

Strictly speaking, it is a preserved corpse, but it is not an ordinary preserved corpse.

This molten corpse was much more robust than the ones Yan Wanlei had seen in the video call. It was estimated to be two meters tall, with a dark reddish-black body, glaring eyes, a ferocious expression, and its body lying motionless on the ground in an extremely twisted position. Its flesh was slowly melting like wax, and it seemed to be 'dead'.

Chen Yibai looked at the dried corpse on the ground, his eyes narrowing slightly.

If I'm not mistaken, this should be a 'corpse king'.

The so-called 'King of Corpses' is actually a special kind of corpse-training prototype that has already achieved a certain level of success.

As for why this cadaver king 'died' here?

Chen Yibai, holding the ancient bronze sword in his hand, used it to flip the corpse king on the ground over.

Just as Chen Yibai had imagined!

There, a large gash was torn open in the chest of the corpse king, and its internal organs had all decomposed into black liquid, like rotten winter melons in a vegetable garden. With a turn of its body, the liquid gurgled out, and a pungent stench wafted up and quickly spread through the air.

Clearly, the Corpse King's 'Corpse Core' had been taken away!

Seeing this scene before him, a question that had been lingering in Chen Yibai's mind was finally answered.

The Southern School's Tianxing Society targeted this ancient tomb in the corpse-nurturing ground, but their real purpose wasn't to rob the tomb, nor was it that they dug in the wrong place; they were there to obtain the corpse pill!

Good heavens! What would the Heavenly Path Society, a tomb raiding organization, need a corpse pill for?

Could it be that he's given up tomb raiding and switched to cultivating immortality?

In addition, Chen Yibai took a closer look at the large gash torn open in the chest of the Corpse King. It looked as if it had been violently ripped open, with all the ribs in the chest cavity broken.

Chen Yibai frowned, increasingly finding it unbelievable.

How much power would it take to tear open the Corpse King's chest with sheer force?

It probably weighs more than a thousand catties, right?

Is this something a normal person would do?

He tore apart the Corpse King with his bare hands, not to rob the tomb, but to get the Corpse Pill!

Judging from this information alone, there are 'extraordinary people' in their Southern Heavenly Path Society!

Furthermore, this 'extraordinary person' is likely using corpse pills to cultivate some kind of evil art!

This is the only explanation that makes sense.

Could this 'extraordinary person' from the guild that day be Wu Daoshan, the Iron-Armed White Ape?

Chen Yibai scratched his head. Wu Daoshan was a descendant of the Faqiu sect, so he felt that the possibility was not very high.

But then again.

Whether or not this "extraordinary person" in the Heavenly Path Society is Wu Daoshan is of little concern to Chen Yibai, and is even completely irrelevant.

Chen Yibai's main purpose in coming to the Qinling Mountains was to find the secret characters of Zhuyou and the Taikang clan totem.

Chen Yibai only wanted to know what mysterious connection this corpse-raising site had with the Taikang clan and the tomb of King Kang.

However, looking at the corpse king in front of him, his face was twisted and ferocious, and there were no Zhu You secret characters or Tai Kang clan totems.

Immediately, Chen Yibai got up again and carefully searched the entire tomb chamber.

Similarly, no clues were found regarding the secret characters of Zhuyou or the Taikang clan totem.

On the surface, this appears to be an ancient tomb from the Yuan Dynasty. The tomb owner must have had a fairly high social status during his lifetime. However, the feng shui of the tomb was altered by a corpse-keeper, who then usurped its place and used it to store and raise corpses.

It has absolutely no connection to the Taikang clan or the tomb of King Kang.

That’s not right either!

Since they are completely unrelated, why did those corpses that chased Yan Wanlei last night have the Taikang clan's totem on their foreheads?

Chen Yibai scratched the back of his head, utterly perplexed, when a bold guess suddenly popped into his head: "What if this tomb really has absolutely no connection to the tombs of the Taikang clan and King Kang..."

"Could it be... that the mysterious connection between the Taikang clan and the Kang King's tomb actually lies with the Southern Heavenly Path Society?"

Yup!

Upon realizing this, Chen Yibai suddenly understood and felt enlightened.

At the same time, Chen Yibai inadvertently turned his head and was surprised to see a very familiar pattern in the mottled murals on the tomb wall.

Chen Yibai immediately strode over, frowned, and took a closer look.

It really is the Taikang clan totem!

The Taikang clan totem was hidden in the mottled murals on the walls of the tomb.

However, upon closer inspection, the Taikang clan totem is not part of the tomb murals, but was carved on later.

And judging from the engraving marks, it was only recently engraved!

It was just engraved!

Was it just engraved?

Doesn't this further confirm my earlier guess?

After all that, it turns out that the Taikang clan's connection wasn't this ancient tomb, but rather the Southern School of the Heavenly Path Society!

In other words, some members of the Southern School of the Heavenly Path Society possess the ability to perform the incantation and soul-driving technique!

They opened the tomb, first taking the corpse core of the king of the corpses, and then using the Zhuyou exorcism technique on the remaining corpses.

As a result, Yan Wanlei followed the clues to this place and almost got wiped out by the corpses controlled by the spirit-exorcising magic!

The Zhuyou exorcism technique is an ancient and mysterious form of exorcism, and it's unexpected that it can still be seen in the human world.

It's highly likely that the person who used the Zhuyou exorcism technique is the mysterious 'extraordinary person' in the Heavenly Path Society who tore apart the Corpse King.

Furthermore, this "extraordinary person" also has a certain connection with the tomb of King Kang. Otherwise, how could the Tai Kang clan totem be left on the forehead of the mummified corpse and in this tomb?

Could he be a descendant of the Taikang clan?

Didn't the entire Kang dynasty perish and its people perish?

If we're talking about the only one who might still be 'alive' now, it would probably be King Kang, who's nowhere to be found, neither alive nor dead...!

King Kang?