Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

Countless people with boils continued to surge over.

Their bloodthirsty nature is fully exposed; they have no sense of pain and remain ferocious even when their limbs are severed.

Fortunately, Su Chen's side had enough firepower to continuously suppress these afflicted people.

It took almost an hour for these people with ulcers to gradually disperse.

Battalion Commander Liu rubbed his arm. "Master Su, if another wave of these things comes, we won't have enough ammunition."

"Let's go down into the tomb first!"

Su Chen gave the instructions.

These people with lichen should not attack the crowd again for some time.

We've already arrived at the gate of the tomb of King Xian; how can we not go down into the tomb?

The group returned to the Heavenly Palace and searched every corner, but still could not find the passage from the Ming Tomb to the Dark Tomb.

"It seems the real tomb of the King Xian is still down there!"

Su Chen looked down at the bottom of the mountain.

Then, Su Chen led everyone down the mountain again and arrived at the bottom of the cliff.

The undercurrents eventually converged on a pool of water.

The passage to the tomb of King Xian is located in this pool of water.

Su Chen was the first to go into the water and soon found an underwater passage.

After passing through the underwater passage, Su Chen arrived at another underground river, where the water was shallower.

On the distant shore stood a large group of ancient and lifeless buildings.

The rest of the people came here through the underwater passage.

"Commander Liu... Battalion Commander Liu is missing!"

Someone in the group shouted.

Su Chen looked back and saw that Battalion Commander Liu was indeed nowhere to be seen.

"I gonna go see!"

Partridge Whistle wanted to return to find Battalion Commander Liu.

Just as he finished speaking, a person floated up from underwater.

Who else could that be but Battalion Commander Liu?

Several engineers worked together to pull Battalion Commander Liu out of the water. Just as they were about to wake him up, Battalion Commander Liu suddenly opened his eyes, opened his mouth, and bit one of the engineers.

The sapper, unable to dodge in time, let out a piercing scream.

"what's the situation?"

This was the first time Zhang Hulu had encountered something like this.

Logically speaking, everyone was acting together just now, so how come everyone else is fine except for Battalion Commander Liu?

Black-backed Lao Liu rushed forward and knocked Battalion Commander Liu down with the back of his knife.

Unexpectedly, Battalion Commander Liu, who was lying on the ground, had bloodshot eyes and his strength increased several times over. He actually charged straight at Su Chen.

"boom!"

Su Chen unleashed a punch, sending Battalion Commander Liu flying once again.

Even though Battalion Commander Liu's strength was several times greater, he was no match for Su Chen.

During the backward flight of Battalion Commander Liu, a piece of jade fell off his body.

Partridge Whistle stepped forward and restrained Battalion Commander Liu to prevent him from harming anyone else.

Zhang Hulu stepped forward and picked up the jade stone. "Strange, where did this jade stone come from?"

"He must have found it in the heavenly palace at the top of the mountain."

Su Chen accepted the jade.

This jade stone was hidden inside the body of the wooden puppet in the Heavenly Palace, just as the people outside were trying to stop the man with the lizard.

This Battalion Commander Liu obtained the jade stone from the Heavenly Palace, intending to keep it for himself.

Unexpectedly, this jade stone had also been afflicted with a venomous substance, leaving a thin layer of powder on its surface.

Unbeknownst to him, Battalion Commander Liu fell into the trap and is now in a hallucination.

"Knock him out!"

Su Chen gave the instructions.

With a single chop to the neck, Partridge Whistle knocked Battalion Commander Liu unconscious.

"Who's still a virgin? Let me piss on him."

Su Chen asked.

Children's urine is believed to have the power to ward off evil spirits and also has a certain irritant effect, which is perfect for treating ailments on jade.

The people in the group looked at each other in bewilderment.

Even the engineers under Battalion Commander Liu shook their heads.

Partridge Whistle stepped forward and urinated on Battalion Commander Liu's face.

Before long, Battalion Commander Liu slowly woke up, looked at the scene before him, and then looked at the jade in Su Chen's hand.

Battalion Commander Liu remained silent, not daring to speak.

"Just keep on your way."

Su Chen led the group forward.

A moment later, they arrived at an open space filled with corpses.

Moreover, these corpses all emitted a foul stench.

There were also many trenches on the ground, which contained many unknown liquids.

Su Chen took out a flint and ignited the liquid, and instantly a flame spread along the groove into the distance.

The entire hall instantly became bright.

Amidst the flickering flames, the main hall was filled with corpses, numbering at least tens of thousands.

Even as a junior officer, Battalion Commander Liu had never seen so many corpses.

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

“After the corpses decompose, they will ooze corpse oil. The trench we just saw contained the corpse oil that oozed from these corpses. It is flammable,” Su Chen said slowly. “With so many corpses, it is clear that the tomb owner was of extremely high status.”

"This should be the hidden tomb of King Xian!"

With the construction of both the Heavenly Palace and the Underground Palace, Su Chen gained a deeper understanding of the King Xian's cruelty.

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Inside the main hall, Zhang Hulu found a passageway.

The group descended the steps and arrived at an ancient stone gate.

Above the stone gate are the two characters "Heavenly Gate".

There are also many wonderful patterns on the stone gate, as if this was the path to immortality that King Xian built for himself back then.

"This is what King Xian used to achieve immortality through corpse liberation!" Zhang Hulu explained. "It's a technique where those who attain enlightenment abandon their corpses in the world and ascend to immortality on their own."

"On the surface, the person is dead, leaving behind his body, but this body is actually some kind of token of his identity."

"Just like a cicada shedding its skin, it represents the ultimate sublimation."

Su Chen did not approve of the practice of ascending to immortality through corpse liberation.

But for someone like King Xian who was obsessed with immortality, it might be worth a try.

After opening the stone door, there was no immediate danger inside.

One by one, the group passed through the stone gate and arrived at a simple wooden bridge.

Legend has it that this bridge symbolizes the three reincarnations of King Xian, and every step taken on the bridge represents an echo of past events.

This wooden bridge is also not dangerous.

After crossing the wooden bridge, three coffins came into view.

At the very front is the coffin with the inscription "印子" (yinzi).

The so-called "Yinzi wood," also known as "Yinzi wood," grows in the deep valleys of the mountains and forests, where it is rarely exposed to sunlight, and its trunk is charcoal-colored.

Ordinary trees grow one annual ring in a year, while the *Symplocos edulis* tree grows one ring every several decades or even hundreds of years.

This tree is ten times more valuable than gold.

The coffin in front of us is made of at least ten-thousand-year-old wood.

This coffin alone is a priceless treasure.

"This is a true treasure of nature."

Zhang Hulu sighed, "Even the Empress Dowager probably wouldn't need such a treasure. It's said that the coffin wood disappeared as early as the Han Dynasty. If we can get this coffin out of the country, selling it for hundreds of thousands of silver dollars shouldn't be a problem."

Of course, transporting such a large coffin out of the country is not an easy task.

Putting aside the fact that the coffin was so large that it was difficult to pass through the narrow passage, even the surviving parasitic people were not easy to deal with.

Taking such a large coffin out is practically tantamount to courting death.