Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

His sacrifice for the little Qilin was truly immense.

Su Xingze still chose to step into the tomb chamber. He had been under close surveillance by the world's consciousness recently, and the risk of secretly tampering with things was too great, so he actually stepped on the corpse fluid.

Feeling the disgusting sensation under his feet, Su Xingze's face turned green.

He silently made a mental note of Zhang Fukong's name and continued walking forward.

As he entered the tomb and stepped into the illusion array, the corpse beetles and ticks that were active in the tomb seemed to only then sense his presence. They immediately swarmed towards him excitedly, waving their barbed claws, and the vines on the walls also began to stir restlessly.

It's unknown how many corpse beetles have been bred here. Faced with the surging tide of corpse beetles and ticks, Su Xingze's face turned ugly, and he couldn't help but release his eerie aura.

"roll!"

The corpse worms in the tomb were startled by the terrifying aura, and the next second all of them retreated at an even faster speed.

Without the threat of corpse worms, Su Xingze's complexion improved somewhat. As he continued forward, a strange power fluctuation spread out from within the stone gate, like ripples spreading across water.

This was a power that Su Xingze had never felt before. Light, seemingly nonexistent waves were constructing a real illusion, and if he wasn't careful, he would be silently pulled into the illusion.

"Ding-a-ling~"

"Ring ring~"

A faint, ethereal bell sound rang out from Su Xingze's hands. The two strings of bells that would normally remain silent no matter how they were shaken were now moving without any wind.

The gleaming golden bronze bell swayed slightly, emitting a sound as if it came from another world.

The invisible sound waves collided with the waves emanating from within the stone gate. The two different waves merged, assimilated, and shattered, and the illusory world that had not yet taken shape also disappeared.

Without any obstacles, Su Xingze walked with great ease and soon reached the stone gate.

Seeing this, Zhang Fukong's face flashed with joy. Seeing that he was standing motionless in front of the door, he quickly called out to remind him.

"Open the mechanism, the mechanism is on the door!"

Su Xingze knew, of course, that the mechanism was on the door. Having taken classes with Zhang Shenglin for several years, he was quite familiar with the common mechanisms found in tombs.

After glancing at the uneven carvings on the stone door, he quickly determined that pressing the correct stone carving would open the door.

If you press the wrong stone carving, you will face countless traps.

In addition to the common sun, moon, stars, exotic flowers and plants, the stone gate is carved with phoenixes, deer, snakes, insects and other creatures.

Su Xingze pondered for a moment, then raised his hand and pressed down on the phoenix's eyes.

The clicking of the mechanisms rang out, the stone door shook, and debris and dust fell continuously.

Su Xingze squinted, raised his hand to brush away the dust in front of him, and saw the tall stone door slowly open.

A stale, dry air rushed out of the main tomb chamber, which was shrouded in darkness. Su Xingze waited for a while before picking up the kerosene lamp that Zhang Fukong had given him and stepping into the main tomb chamber.

The kerosene lamp was dim, illuminating only a small area, but Su Xingze was unaffected by the darkness.

The main burial chamber is larger than the outer chambers. Inside, various exquisite bronze and jade artifacts are displayed. In the center of the chamber is a giant coffin, and above the coffin hangs a phoenix sculpture that appears to be rising from the ashes.

Below the statue, around the coffin, are giant models of the sun, moon, and stars made of jade, gold, silver, bronze, and other materials, using inlay, carving, and casting techniques, which enclose the coffin.

In the very center of the model, above the coffin, floats a silver-white bead, which is the source of the strange fluctuations that are constantly emanating from it.

Or he could call that fluctuation of power a mirage.

This is what Zhang Fukong wanted him to take out.

Su Xingze did not step forward to try to take the Mirage Pearl. He was unsure whether Chu Wu had left any other deadly moves besides the illusion array centered around the Mirage Pearl.

Power flowed through his fingertips, and a wisp of smoke-like, eerie force flicked onto the mirage pearl.

As soon as that strange power landed on the mirage pearl, it quickly began to transform its power structure, shifting towards a direction similar to the mirage pearl. The strange power changed several times, each time becoming closer to the power of the mirage pearl than the last, and soon even its fluctuations became exactly the same as the mirage pearl.

Clearly, even the Mirage Pearl couldn't discern whether this strange power—or mirage energy—belonged to it. When the strange power attempted to enter the pearl, the Mirage Pearl accepted the strange power disguised as mirage energy without any resistance.

Su Xingze controlled the strange power to circle around the mirage bead, quickly analyzing its composition and the way power flowed.

During this process, his understanding of the power form of the mirage and how the mirage energy constructs illusions deepened, and his own illusion skills also improved. At the same time, the strange forces that entered the mirage pearl were constantly devouring and assimilating the power of the mirage pearl.

He did promise Zhang Fukong to retrieve the mirage pearl for him, but he didn't promise to give it to him intact.

All the strange creatures are greedy, but Su Xingze still had principles. He didn't take too much and left one-third of the power for the Mirage Pearl.

When the strange power within the mirage pearl emerged, it grew considerably larger. This plump power carried the mirage pearl's energy back into Su Xingze's body. Conversely, the mirage pearl, which had originally radiated a soft glow, became much dimmer.

This mirage pearl has been here for an unknown amount of time, and the power it contained had already been somewhat depleted. After Su Xingze swallowed two-thirds of it, the remaining power was probably only enough for Zhang Fukong to use two or three times. Once the power was exhausted, the mirage pearl would weather away and dissipate.

The power of the mirage pearl was of good quality. After absorbing this power, Su Xingze's cheeks became rosy, his body was full of power, and even his height seemed to have increased by one centimeter, as if he had eaten some kind of perfect tonic.

The illusion array's power weakened due to the mirage pearl's power, creating a flaw. Su Xingze no longer cared about the array and raised his hand to take the mirage pearl.

Outside the main tomb, the illusion that enveloped the entire tomb chamber dissipated the moment he took down the mirage pearl. Realizing that the illusion array had been broken, Zhang Fukong immediately led his men into the main tomb chamber.

Su Xingze admired the mirage pearl for a while, then tossed it to Zhang Fukong, who had just entered, without any hesitation.

He has figured out the structure of this thing, and he can reconstruct it by expending his power whenever he wants. Of course, this will consume a lot of his power. With his current ability, reconstructing a mirage pearl would probably hollow him out.

"Remember to keep your promise."

Zhang Fukong caught the mirage pearl accurately, obtaining the item they had been searching for for over a decade. Even if they gained nothing else on this trip, it wouldn't matter at all.

"Don't worry, after you're released this time, you can go wherever you want. We won't force you to do anything for the Zhang family anymore."

Su Xingze looked at him quietly: "I hope you will keep your promise."

It doesn't matter if he doesn't keep his promise; he will only compromise this once.

Having achieved his main objective, Zhang Fukong now had the leisure to pay attention to other things in the tomb.

"As I promised you before, you can choose three items from here to take with you. As for where you go afterward, I won't ask you."

While they were talking, other members of the Zhang family had already begun opening the coffin. They were all experienced, and the process went smoothly without any unexpected incidents.

Inside the coffin lay a man dressed in fine clothes. His face was covered with a jade mask, obscuring the appearance of the coffin's occupant. However, judging from the skin on his hands, the man showed no signs of decay, and his skin even appeared elastic.

Su Xingze didn't pay attention to this strange detail, nor did the other members of the Zhang family, who were well-versed in the ways of the world. They had been to many tombs and seen all sorts of ancient corpses, so it wasn't unusual for them to remain intact for thousands of years.

Su Xingze's attention was drawn to the jade mask. The material of the jade mask was a bit strange, and he felt that it was faintly radiating a kind of eerie power.

He knew what he should choose as his first item.