"I'm fine, Wuxie. Did you feel any discomfort after eating that?" Ling Xiao changed the subject and asked Wuxie.

Wu Xie shook his head and said, "Not yet, it just tasted a little bitter when I first ate it. Don't change the subject, what's wrong with you?"

"It might be an illusion created by the Blue-Eyed Fox Corpse," the young man said.

Upon hearing this, Wu Xie immediately signaled Pan Zi to kill the Blue-Eyed Fox Corpse.

A gunshot rang out, and the Blue-Eyed Fox Corpse was blown in the head, splattering Wu Xie's mouth and Ling Xiao's face. A foul stench wafted out, and the two of them quickly vomited.

After Wu Xie finished vomiting, he glanced at Ling Xiao, who was still dry heaving, and felt much better. It was good that someone was there to vomit with him.

Only Ling Xiao knew that he hadn't even looked at the blue-eyed fox corpse; he was truly intent on killing it...

"Third Uncle, where did you go? Why did you leave us behind!" Wu Xie questioned Wu Sansheng.

Wu Sansheng slapped Da Kui and cursed, "If this kid hadn't messed around, we wouldn't have fallen into the Western Zhou tomb!"

Wu Sansheng started recounting their bizarre experiences again, which Wu Xie couldn't bear to listen to any longer, so he quickly told him to stop making things up.

But Wu Sansheng was no pushover. He took out a box, shook it a couple of times, and the box transformed into a gun. However, because of its small size, the gun wasn't very stable. Wu Xie held it and looked at it for a long time, still marveling at the technology.

Ling Xiao tilted his head, scratched his head, looked at the Thousand Chance Umbrella in his hand, transformed it into a musket, and fired a shot to the side.

The shot hit a mechanism, and the altar emitted the sound of a mechanism activating. Then, the tree split open, revealing a huge bronze coffin inside.

The bronze coffin was still wrapped with several thick iron chains, which had grown together with the tree.

Wu Sansheng exclaimed in surprise, "So the real coffin is here!"

Da Kui was even more excited: "This trip was worthwhile, there must be a lot of treasures in this big coffin."

The group approached the coffin, which was covered in dense inscriptions. Wu Xie said to Wu Sansheng, "This coffin is strange; it looks like it was designed to be opened! If there's a monster inside, we need to find a way to escape."

Wu Sansheng said, "That's easy. Look at this tree." Wu Sansheng pointed to the tree, "This is called the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress. See those stones on the ground? That's Tianxin Rock. As long as we smear that ash on it, the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress won't attack us anymore. Then we can climb the tree and get out!"

The group decided to open the coffin. Da Kui and Wu Sansheng used a knife to scrape off the sealing wax at the seams, then used a pry bar to wedge it in. With a 'click', the bronze coffin was lifted up.

Everyone rushed forward to help push the bronze plate away. In the end, it was the young man who managed to push the 800-pound plate aside. Ling Xiao naturally wouldn't go forward to help. With so many people gathered together, if someone were to accidentally get hurt, and someone else touched his blood, it would be a loss for him.

Inside the coffin was a lacquered coffin inlaid with jade. Upon seeing it, Pan Zi covered his wound and laughed, "Damn, so much jade! I can walk sideways now!" He then reached out to grab it.

The fat man laughed when he saw it, "This thing is worthless if you sell it separately, it's only worth money if you sell the whole set!"

Panzi looked at everyone again and thought to himself that there weren't enough to go around for so many people, so he withdrew again.

Uncle carefully removed the jade coffin, folded it up, and then the true face of the coffin, now stripped of its clothes, was revealed. It was a wooden coffin with several paintings on it, in which skeletons appeared to be kneeling respectfully before it.

Da Kui, unable to contain his restlessness, wanted to open the wooden coffin, but Wu Sansheng slapped him away: "Damn it, are you out of your mind? You faint at the sight of ghosts and your eyes light up at the sight of money. There's only one floor down here, so don't be clumsy and be careful!"

Ling Xiao heard breathing sounds coming from inside the coffin and said to everyone, "The thing inside is alive! It's breathing."

Pan Zi chimed in, "Hey, Brother Ling, are you sure you didn't mishear? How could there possibly be any living creature in this coffin?"

The young man standing nearby said, "He didn't mishear; it's alive."

Everyone was shocked. Da Kui was so frightened that he stammered, "Could it be...could it be a living...living dead?"

Wu Sansheng slapped him on the head: "Don't talk nonsense! We've come this far, are you going to cover him up again? Open the coffin!"

After listening, the fat man said, "I know this mechanism, watch me!" As he spoke, he reached his hand between the bronze coffin and the wooden coffin and felt around. There was a 'click' sound.

"Step back!" the fat man shouted, and everyone hurriedly stepped back. They saw the person in black armor sitting up inside the coffin.

The fat man's eyes lit up when he saw the clothes: "Jade figurine, this is a real treasure! I've made a killing on this trip!"

Wu Xie said from the side, "You fatso, you're still looking at treasures! That person is really alive, still breathing!"

Wu Sansheng exclaimed from the side, "What a stroke of luck! I, Wu Laosan, have actually come across such a treasure! I've heard that wearing that jade figurine can make you young again. Look, it's true! The fact that the man didn't die is proof of that!"

The fat man next to Wu Sansheng asked, "Hey, what's-his-name, Third Master, do you know how to take this off?"

Wu Sansheng shook his head and said, "I don't know, but we can't exactly carry this guy out on our backs."

Wu Xie asked, "What will happen to him after he takes off the jade figurine?"

The fat man scratched his head and said, "I don't know, maybe it'll turn to ashes!"

Wu Xie then asked, "Wouldn't that be murder?"

Ling Xiao smiled and said, "It's not murder, it's risk avoidance."

Without saying a word, the young man stepped forward and strangled the man to death, saying, "You've lived long enough, it's time for you to die."

He then said to the crowd, "The people inside that jade vessel shed their skin every 500 years. The first blood corpse we killed was the previous owner of this jade terracotta figure. If we rashly remove this jade terracotta figure, it will surely rise from the dead!"

Wu Xie asked the young man, "Who exactly are you? What deep-seated grudge do you have against King Lu Shang?"

The young man looked at him and said, "What good will it do to know?"

The fat man said, "What kind of logic is that? We went through so much trouble to pry open the coffin, and you just killed the person without saying a word. Don't you have to give us an explanation?"

Seeing this, Ling Xiao smiled and said, "Why is there infighting here?"

The young man pointed to the box behind the coffin and said, "What you want is in that box."

Ling Xiao knew that his brother had changed the contents of the box earlier, so he didn't go up to look. He saw them open the box and take out the brocade book inside. Wu Xie read it aloud. It was about how King Lu Shang obtained the Ghost Seal and the jade figurine, and how the military strategist Tie Mian Sheng helped him get into the coffin.

Uncle San asked curiously, "What was the fate of Tie Miansheng? Did he also die a martyr?"

The young man said calmly, "Of course not, because in the end, the one lying inside wasn't King Lu Shang at all, but himself!"

Wu Xie asked, "How do you know? Did you experience it yourself?"

The young man shook his head and said, "No, I once went down into a tomb and found a Warring States period silk scroll inside. It contained the autobiography of Tie Miansheng. He helped King Lu Shang just to achieve immortality. King Lu Shang schemed his whole life, but ended up benefiting someone else."

"We need to get out of here quickly!" Ling Xiao reminded him. He knew that the Corpse King would appear later and Da Kui would die, but for some reason, he didn't want to see that scene.

"Fatty, I haven't found the Ghost Seal yet, what's the rush!" Fatty came here to see if he could find the legendary Ghost Seal. Now that he finally has a clue, how could he possibly give up!

[Host, you can't save him; this is his fate.]

'So you want me to kill blood zombies? You say it's his fate, but what about mine? Was coming into this world my fate too? There was never a story of mine here!'

The system stopped talking again.

Just then, a faint sound was heard, and something flew out from the jade figurine. Wu Sansheng shouted, "It's the Corpse Beetle King!"

The young man hurriedly said, "Hurry up, the Corpse Beetle King is here, I can't control these corpse beetles!"

The Corpse Beetle King flew towards the crowd, and the young man shouted, "It's poisonous! Touch it and you'll die! Get out of the way!"

Wu Sansheng quickly dodged, but Da Kui behind him didn't react in time and was stung on the arm by the Corpse Beetle King. His hand instantly turned blood red, and he screamed in pain on the ground.

The crimson blood was still slowly creeping up his hand. The fat man shouted, "He's been poisoned! Quickly, cut off his arm!"

Ling Xiao hurriedly transformed the Thousand Chance Umbrella into a katana, intending to cut off Da Kui's arm. However, as soon as he took a step, the system's punishment was activated. This electric shock was more painful than before, and Ling Xiao could not withstand it, collapsing to the ground.

But he kept crawling toward Da Kui, shouting, "Brother, hurry, save him!" As if trying to stop him, the electric current surged even stronger after he said that, causing him to vomit blood.

In a few seconds, Da Kui's whole body turned red. Ling Xiao looked at him, lying on the ground, and smiled helplessly.

The fat man wanted to step forward to help, but the young man quickly pulled him back, saying, "Don't touch him, or you'll die!"

Da Kui got up and rushed into the crowd, seemingly shouting, "Save me!" Everyone avoided him. Unexpectedly, Ling Xiao grabbed Da Kui's ankle, and Da Kui rushed towards Ling Xiao as if he had seen a savior.

Wu Xie shouted, "No!" Xiao Ge also looked like he was about to rush forward, and Pan Zi even pretended to fire a gun. Just then, Da Kui, who was rushing over, was caught by Ling Xiao. Ling Xiao smiled at Da Kui, touched the blood on the ground with his hand, and said to Da Kui, "I'm sorry."

Ling Xiao covered Da Kui's eyes with his blood-stained hand, and Da Kui's body instantly turned from red to black. The Corpse Beetle King also crawled out of Da Kui's body and was grabbed by Ling Xiao and held in his blood-free hand.

Ling Xiao shouted, "Run!"

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