Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World

Regardless of Director Wang's intentions, after this ordeal, Li Cu, who had just suffered a claustrophobic attack, felt much better.

Just as everyone composed themselves and prepared to continue their journey, several corpses among the soldiers' bodies behind them suddenly collapsed for some unknown reason.

It's not scary for a corpse to suddenly move; what's scary is when the corpse falls and sends up a large number of spores that scatter everywhere.

Su Nan was startled and shouted, "Run!"

In a panic, everyone instinctively fled haphazardly. Ling Yue, standing at the very back, seemed to catch a glimpse of something black out of the corner of his eye.

She was very concerned that the thing might be a long-haired black snake that had come out of the secret passage in the stone chamber. After a slight hesitation, she pushed Li Cu towards Wu Xie: "You go with him, I'll come find you soon!"

Before Li Cu could react, Ling Yue turned and ran back.

Li Cu was startled and only managed to shout, "Ling Yue!"

Wu Xie pulled him into the dark tunnel, yelling, "Stop shouting! She's stronger than both of us combined! Run!"

The spores are too light. As long as you get close, if the person runs and a little wind is stirred up, the spores will stick to the person with the airflow. Even Wuxie dares not be careless.

As for Ling Yue, Wu Xie's mind was in turmoil.

He didn't know why she wanted to go back, but given her personality, she must have discovered some clue that she cared about.

Even if this journey means death, dying for the goal he pursued, Wu Xie didn't feel it was anything to regret.

However, because of Ling Yue's push, Wu Xie completely forgot about the plan to send Li Cu out for training alone and held on tightly to him the whole way.

With Wu Xie by her side, Li Cu was no longer so afraid when she encountered dark tunnels, ship coffins with corpses, and deadly spores all over the ground.

Having separated from the main force and returned alone, Ling Yue dared not be careless when facing the spores that seemed to be everywhere.

Previously, one of Su Nan's subordinates died quickly because spores got into his eyes.

Knowing that other measures were not safe enough, Ling Yue immediately released his internal energy to create an invisible protective shield.

The spores that were drifting toward her were immediately blocked by an invisible force, keeping them several centimeters away from Ling Yue.

Even with his profound internal energy, Ling Yue needed time to meditate and recover from excessive internal energy depletion. He didn't have much time, so after getting out of sight of others, he used his lightness skill to rush into the pile of corpses.

He drew the bamboo staff, twirled it in his hand, and flicked both ends, sending several sections of the staff flying out.

The short stick instantly transformed into a long stick.

Ling Yue used a long stick to pry open the fallen corpse.

No response?

After taking two steps, he tossed another corpse into the air...

Just as Ling Yue was prying open the fourth corpse, a dark shadow suddenly shot towards Ling Yue's face.

Having anticipated this, Ling Yue swung his staff and slapped a familiar long-haired black snake, sending it flying against the stone wall beside him. The snake's head was smashed to pieces, and it was dead beyond any doubt.

Subsequently, Ling Yue encountered two long-haired black snakes in the cotton-like spore pile on the ground, both of which she swatted away.

Only after confirming that there were no other snakes did Ling Yue have time to observe his surroundings, trying to find out where these snakes had come from.

Finally, she found some fine white sand in the open mouth of a beast's head, with a hole inside.

I poked it in with the stick and touched a small iron ring.

Ling Yue put on the ice silk gloves, reached in with his left hand (whose fingers were completely wrapped inside the gloves), grabbed the iron ring, and pulled.

A stone door slowly opened in the stone wall beside them!

After hesitating for only three seconds, Ling Yue decided to go in.

As for Li Cu, Wu Xie is quite reliable; he wouldn't abandon the kid now.

After Ling Yue stepped through the stone gate, the gate quickly closed behind her again.

With no way out, Ling Yue could only continue forward.

After passing through the stone gate and walking through a passageway, the palace that came into view was the same as the one with the soldiers' corpses. However, the one with the corpses was a group of stone statues.

As Ling Yue stepped on a paving stone, which sank slightly and made a triggering sound, all the stone statues came to life and rushed towards Ling Yue.

Ling Yue kicked a stone statue and shattered it, but unexpectedly, in addition to a large amount of white sand gushing out, a black snake that was more than twice as thick as the long-haired black snake she had encountered before flew out!

Fortunately, Ling Yue was not letting his guard down. As the white sand surged in, he immediately tapped another stone statue with his toes and flew back.

After dodging the onrushing white sand, Ling Yue leaned back, raised his stick, and slammed it down with precise accuracy onto the snake's head.

The black snake's head was smashed open, and its thick, long body twitched and twisted for a while before gradually becoming still.

Looking at the remaining dozens or hundreds of stone statues, Ling Yue dared not break any more. He could only use his lightness skill to leap over them, stepping on their heads.

He then explored the animal head statues that were identical to those on both sides of the palace, but found no further mechanisms inside. Ling Yue then exited through the only door.

Having seen the palace, Ling Yue recalled the underground palace map that Wu Xie had drawn earlier and realized that the underground palace must have been built according to a mirror structure.

The so-called mirror structure means that the two sides are symmetrical; if there is a palace on one side, there should also be one on the other side.

In that case, the way out that Wu Xie and the others are looking for should be in another Qingliang Palace, which is the counterpart to the Qingliang Palace that collapsed yesterday.

I went out alone, but all I found were snakes and sand; I didn't find anything useful.

Ling Yue felt that his luck was getting worse and worse after he entered this new world, so he could only head towards Qingliang Palace for the time being to meet up with Li Cu and the others.

Because there were only some tree roots in the passageway, just like before, nothing special, Ling Yue didn't pay much attention, only thinking about finding someone as quickly as possible.

Unexpectedly, this oversight caused her to instinctively pull back her leg and take another big step forward when she suddenly missed a step.

However, this mechanism was truly treacherous, because her big step triggered an even larger mechanism.

The entire floor tile flipped over, causing Ling Yue, who was in the middle with nowhere to land, to fall down instantly.

As the saying goes, even a horse can stumble, but it can't stumble twice in a row. After realizing that he couldn't avoid the trap, Ling Yue immediately activated his bracelet and fired out the snow silk hook claw.

The arrow pierced through the floor tiles, leaving Ling Yue hanging about a meter above them.

Looking down, it was pitch black, and you couldn't see the bottom.

I tried to push the floor tile upwards, but it didn't budge.

The intention is to use an attack to shatter it, and at the same time it breaks, Snow Silk will lose its leverage.

At that time, she will be neither in the sky nor on the ground, and even light-footed skills will not be able to make her fly up.

After all, she practiced a light-body skill that required leveraging, not a magical art of riding the wind and clouds.

It seems the only way out is to continue searching downwards.

Ling Yue let out a breath, and couldn't help but mutter to himself again, "What kind of summer palace is this? Why are there so many messy mechanisms here!"

What kind of good person would set up all sorts of traps and hidden weapons in their own home, like snake pits, invisible monster statues hiding snakes? Don't they find it disgusting?

Even within the imperial palace, at most, secret passages and mechanisms are set up in some confidential locations.

"It's become more like a tomb security system that kills intruders without mercy," Ling Yue muttered to himself, utterly puzzled.

In the end, we can only conclude that it's because people from two different worlds have different ideas and perspectives.

It's also possible that this so-called 28th city lord of Gutongjing was a loner by nature, and never welcomed others to enjoy the summer palace he built, not even his wives, concubines, and children.

The floor tiles are directly above the roof of the next floor.

Ling Yue slid down for more than thirty meters before his feet finally landed back on the ground.

After putting away the snow silk, Ling Yue noticed a bronze lady holding a flower lantern next to him, covered with a thick layer of cobwebs and dust. He took out a lighter from his pocket, lit it, and brought it closer. Sure enough, there was still lamp oil and a wick inside.

After lighting them, Ling Yue discovered that there were similar palace lanterns near the wall.

Since she didn't have a flashlight, she thought of lighting all the lamps she could.

However, Ling Yue, who had no experience in tomb raiding, did not know that sometimes, the lamps lit in a tomb are far more dangerous than the darkness itself!

After lighting seven or eight palace lanterns nearby, the main hall was finally illuminated.

Ling Yue also saw the layout of the place clearly.

This palace is not large; when compared to the other two palaces, it is located about thirty meters down from the middle of the two symmetrical Qingliang Palaces.

It is located at the angle directly below the center of a symmetrical figure.

The palace was not large, but its furnishings were much more luxurious than those of the Qingliang Palace.

At the foot of the wall is a circle of bronze ladies holding flower lamps, and on the wall is a mural that, though faded, is still clear.

All four walls were sealed off, and there was no trace of a door.

After looking around and finding no mechanism, Ling Yue turned his attention to something in the middle of the hall that resembled a coffin.

The coffin was quite large, and its exterior appeared to be made of stone, with various totems carved on it.

Ling Yue looked closer and saw snakes, insects, spiders, fire, water, and beasts on it.

Occupying the central position is a somewhat strange totem.

Ling Yue squatted there and stared for a long time before he could make out the silhouette of a conjoined twin with two heads from the overly abstract totem, and their faces toward a bare tree wrapped in an unknown white mist that was kneeling in devout worship.

What does it mean?

Just as Ling Yue was hesitating about whether to open the coffin and temporarily engage in tomb raiding, the one lying inside couldn't wait any longer and started pushing the coffin lid open with a series of clicks.

Ling Yue was startled!

Could this be the legendary "zombie comeback"?

If the person lying inside is indeed the owner of the underground palace, the legendary Lord of Gutongjing who, after possessing the gem, became all-powerful, Ling Yue really wanted to see if it actually had eight arms and eight legs.