Tomb Raiding: All Things Merge, Starting with 400x Strength

"What did I just see?"

"Am I seeing things? Someone can actually break vines with brute force?"

"Zhang Hao's power is terrifying!"

……

When Wu Tianzhen and the others saw Zhang Hao break the vines and escape, they were all stunned.

They couldn't even believe what they were seeing.

The vines of the Hydra Cypress are as thick as telephone poles and extremely tough. They are not easy to break even with a divine weapon, let alone with brute force.

But Zhang Hao managed to break it even while he was bound.

Is this terrifying power even something a human could possess?!

Zhang Hao snapped the vine and instantly burst into his fastest speed to escape down the tree.

He had only run a dozen meters under the tree when dozens of vines chased after him, and even more vines were rapidly approaching.

Looking at the vines covering the sky, Zhang Hao understood that if he couldn't escape in one go, he would be entangled by even more vines, and then escaping wouldn't be so easy.

He desperately tried to escape down the tree. He could only manage to get out of the predicament if he went down a few dozen meters, as the vines around the Heavenly Star Stone dared not get too close.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters...

Zhang Hao noticed that the vines behind him were getting closer and closer, but they were still more than ten meters away from the effective range of the Heavenly Heart Stone.

He seized the opportunity and jumped straight down, his body plummeting rapidly.

When he was still more than 20 meters away from the bottom of the tree, the vines behind him suddenly stopped.

Zhang Hao understood that they had already entered the range of the Heavenly Heart Stone's effects.

He grabbed a branch and climbed back up the trunk, then climbed down to the base of the tree.

Just like what we found using sonic positioning before, this place is an altar.

In the middle is a jade bed with a male and a female corpse on it.

Both bodies were extremely well preserved, as if they were asleep, with no signs of decay on their skin.

The corpses were not preserved so well for no reason; it was all because of the jade bed beneath them.

That is a thousand-year-old cold jade, which can preserve a corpse from decay for ten thousand years.

Zhang Hao had no time to worry about anything else; his goal was to find the Celestial Stone, as only then could he save the others and continue exploring the ancient tomb.

Legend has it that Tianxing Stone is an extraterrestrial stone that is harder than diamond.

The only stone nearby that fits this description is the one that shimmers with white light, which is embedded in the stone bead in the center of the altar.

Zhang Hao rushed forward and punched the stone pillar.

With a loud crash, a stone pillar more than two meters tall and over one meter in diameter shattered.

The palm-sized, shimmering white stone embedded in it was perfectly intact.

Zhang Hao knew his guess was probably correct; it was indeed the nemesis of the Nine-Headed Hydra Cypress, the Heavenly Star Stone.

He picked up the Heavenly Heart Stone and rushed towards the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress.

As he climbed up, he discovered that every time he went a certain distance, the menacing vines would shrink back a certain distance.

This also proves that the glowing stone on his body is the Celestial Star Stone.

Once he was sure, Zhang Hao climbed even faster, returning to the treetop a dozen seconds later.

"Brother Zhang Hao, what are you doing back here!"

"Yeah, Xiao Hao, we're dead, so what are you doing coming back?"

"Uncle, don't worry about us, let's run for our lives!"

……

Everyone shouted anxiously when they saw Zhang Hao return to the treetops.

Wu Tianzhen and the others are now bound by vines and could lose their lives at any moment.

At this moment, instead of begging for help, they urged him to run.

Zhang Hao understood that these people hadn't been saved in vain; none of them were ungrateful.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. If you don't believe me, look at all those vines around here."

Only then did everyone notice that with each step Zhang Hao took forward, the surrounding vines retreated a step.

"How could this be? Why do they seem so afraid of Brother Zhang Hao?"

"Xiao Hao, what's wrong with those vines?"

"I see!"

At this moment, Wu Tianzhen exclaimed, "Tianxing Stone, it must be Tianxing Stone!"

What is a Celestial Stone?

Everyone looked puzzled upon hearing this.

"The Heavenly Heart Stone is the nemesis of the Hydra. As long as it is there, the Hydra Cypress will not dare to do anything to us."

"So that's how it is. No wonder those vines didn't dare to get close to Brother Zhang Hao."

……

Zhang Hao smiled. Although Wu Tianzhen was naive, she was also quite knowledgeable.

I learned a lot from the notebook left by the old man of the Wu family, even knowing that the Tianxing Stone was the planet of the Hydra Berkeley, a fact that few people knew.

When Zhang Hao reached the vicinity of the tree hole, the vines binding Wu Tianzhen and the others suddenly loosened, and they all fell from mid-air into the tree hole.

For a moment, the sound of "clicking" continued.

The pile of bones inside the tree hollow was crushed, exposing the corpse beetles hidden beneath, which frightened everyone into hastily crawling out.

"Uncle, run! If we're any later, those corpse beetles will be chasing us out!"

"Don't worry, it's okay."

Zhang Hao noticed that in addition to bones, there was also corpse fluid in the tree hole. When Wu Tianzhen and the others fell in, they were covered in a lot of corpse fluid. At this time, the corpse beetles would not attack them.

As for myself, I have even less to worry about. With a body as hard as diamond, how could I be afraid of tiny corpse beetles?

If you stand still and let them gnaw at you for ten thousand years, your skin won't even break.

After Zhang Hao reminded them, Wu Tianzhen, Fatty, Panzi, and Da Kui realized that the corpse beetles were indeed treating them as if they didn't exist, and didn't react at all.

Seeing this, everyone was relieved.

"call……"

"This really scared Fatty to death. You know what, I was really prepared to die just now."

"Who says otherwise? Even someone as powerful as Xiao Hao was captured by the Hydra Cypress. We have no chance of escaping on our own."

"Why talk about those things now? Facts have proven that my uncle is the most capable person in the world. He has a way to deal with any danger."

"Yes, that's right, Brother Zhang Hao is the most amazing person I've ever met."

At this moment, Wu Tianzhen suddenly remembered something; she didn't see Zhang Qilin in the crowd.

"What happened to the young man? I haven't seen him."

“He’s fine. I’ll give him a signal and he’ll come over.”

Zhang Hao led everyone to the outer edge of the tree canopy, cleared away the branches and leaves that were blocking their view, and then gestured to Zhang Qilin in the passage opposite.

Seeing Zhang Hao's gesture, Zhang Qilin knew he had succeeded, so he jumped down from the cave entrance.

The moment he fell, he was caught by a vine and pulled into the tree canopy.

Zhang Hao moved a few steps to the path where the vines had retracted.

As the vines passed by him, he reacted as if he had seen a ghost, jerking away to avoid them. Zhang Qilin, who had been caught in the vines, also fell down.

"Look, there's Third Master over there!"

Pan Zi suddenly pointed at the cave wall and exclaimed in surprise.

Not far below the passage they came out of, there was another similar passage entrance.

Uncle Wu was walking out of the passage.

Zhang Hao frowned upon seeing this.

To reach this cave, one must traverse a maze that is virtually impossible to escape.

If that's the case, then how did Uncle Wu manage to get out all by himself?