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

A sudden realization dawned on Su Chen, and he finally remembered why the statue of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden in front of him looked so familiar.

Wu Tianzhen, a later generation, also encountered such a statue.

"Don't move, or we'll all die."

Su Chen stepped forward and pulled Wu Laogou down, his face serious.

Wu Laogou paused for a moment upon hearing this, scratched his head, and asked, "Brother Su, is there something wrong with this gemstone?"

Su Chen glanced at the statue of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and explained softly.

"These aren't gems at all, they're insect eggs!"

Insect eggs?

Wu Jizong and his two sons looked at each other, all of them seeing surprise in each other's eyes.

Su Chen asked everyone to step back a bit, away from the bronze statue of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady that was more than half a person tall on the alcove.

“Look carefully.”

He took a torch from the black-backed old man and gently shone it over the four insect eggs.

The next moment, the four insect eggs began to throb, as if their hearts were beating.

Old Wu exclaimed in surprise, instinctively saying, "Alive?!"

"Not only is it alive, but it's also a deadly poisonous insect."

Su Chen took a deep breath and continued to explain the science to everyone.

"If I'm not mistaken, these should be the eggs of the Corpse Beetle King. Ordinary corpse beetles are about the size of cockroaches, but the Corpse Beetle King is much smaller."

"These four insect eggs are usually in a dormant state, but they will hatch immediately if someone touches them."

However, upon hearing about the Corpse Beetle King, Wu Jizong immediately asked:

"Brother Su, I've seen corpse beetles before. I even got bitten by one when I went into a tomb. A bite from one of these things can hurt for days. Can the Corpse Beetle King really kill a person?"

“These are not ordinary corpse beetles, but corpse beetle kings cultivated using special methods. If you are bitten by one…” Su Chen shook his head and continued, “the skin on your body will instantly rot and fall off. The most terrifying thing is that this process will also cause you to become a zombie, until you completely turn into a blood zombie and lose your human sanity.”

If the skin on the whole body collapses and peels off, will it even turn into a blood zombie?

The thought of this scene sent a chill down Wu Laogou's spine.

He quickly took a few steps back, not daring to touch the statue of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady on the alcove.

At this point, Su Chen finally understood why all members of the Wu family, except for Wu Laogou, had died in the Blood Corpse Tomb.

When setting up the cooking pot at Biaozi Ridge, Wu Laogou stayed up to provide support, while his second brother and father went down first.

Then something bad happened at the bottom of the tomb. In the end, Wu Laogou only managed to pull up a severed arm and a Warring States period silk scroll.

Old Wu risked his life to block the exit of the tomb, allowing Old Wu the Dog to escape.

But Wu Laogou didn't run for long before he was caught up by the blood corpse.

He thought he was going to die, but the blood corpse ultimately spared him.

For decades afterward, Wu Laogou remained deeply troubled by this matter and wrote down a note about it.

But, as it stands now.

Old Wu is probably mistaken; there is no blood corpse in this general's tomb at all!

That blood corpse was none other than Wu Laogou's second brother, who had been accidentally bitten by the Corpse Beetle King and turned into a corpse.

When it was Wu Laogou's turn, his second brother must have barely regained some of his senses before letting Wu Laogou go.

That makes sense now.

The Queen Mother of the West researched immortality and devised several methods.

For example, the centipede symbiosis of the King of Wannu, the symbiosis after ingesting the corpse-eating pill, and the jade figurine given to King Mu of Zhou...

All of these methods of achieving immortality have flaws and can be considered imperfect forms of immortality.

Later, King Lu Shang robbed the tomb of King Mu of Zhou, and it is believed that he found jade figurines and corpse beetle eggs inside.

He hesitated between the two methods of achieving immortality, but ultimately chose the jade figurine.

The four corpse beetle king eggs were sealed in the general's tomb at Biaozi Ridge.

In addition, there are thousands of fox-transformed soldiers from the Fox Camp.

King Lu Shang's idea might be to wait until he sheds his skin nine times inside the jade terracotta warrior and achieves perfect immortality.

Go back to Biaozi Ridge, awaken the Fox Camp soldiers, and then unify the world.

But unexpectedly, before he could realize his dream, he was tricked by the strategist Tie Miansheng.

The Wu family members were all a little nervous. Wu Jizong frowned and said, "Brother, let's hurry up and open the coffin, take the treasures and leave. I feel uneasy staying any longer!"

The Wu family had heard about how terrifying blood corpses were since they were children.

The thought of turning into such a grotesque, inhuman creature made Wu Jizong rather give up the treasures from the tomb...

Su Chen nodded and led the black-backed Lao Liu to the coffin in the center of the tomb.

This is a bronze coffin, but there is no outer coffin!

Like the north wall of the tomb, the coffin is decorated with reliefs depicting the life of the tomb owner.

Su Chen and Black-backed Old Six stood on either side of the bronze coffin.

This style of bronze coffin is not common. At the head of the coffin, two bronze white tiger beasts were cast.

Both figures have their heads facing the tomb entrance, suggesting they are guarding the main tomb.

Below the white tiger bronze beast is a bronze beast-patterned mirror, inlaid on the coffin body.

Su Chen tried pushing it and found that the coffin lid seemed to be able to be pushed open, and that molten iron had not been poured in to completely weld it shut.

"Old Dao, when we open the coffin, if there's anything inside, chop off its head immediately."

After saying this, Su Chen handed the last bit of black dog blood to Wu Jizong.

"Brother, if there really are rice dumplings, just go ahead and splash dog blood on them!"

Su Chen prepared black dog blood, along with Blackback Old Six's Guanshan knife.

Even if there were real blood corpses, they would be beaten unconscious for a while.

When the time comes, we can just run away. Anyway, the blood corpses aren't powerful enough to leave the tomb in broad daylight.

Having made up his mind, Su Chen and Black-backed Old Six slowly lifted the coffin lid, one in front and one behind.

Wu Jizong held a torch in one hand and a small gourd containing black dog blood in the other, his face extremely tense.

but……

He only breathed a sigh of relief after the coffin lid was fully opened and he could see what was inside.

Inside the bronze coffin were some scattered burial treasures. The tomb's occupant was reduced to a skeleton, with no blood or flesh remaining.

"As expected, there were no blood corpses!"

Su Chen nodded slightly, thinking to himself.

at the same time.

The moment he opened the coffin lid, a system notification sounded in his mind.

[Congratulations, host, on completing the Bronze quest. The reward chest has been credited to your system space. Please check your account.]

Su Chen ignored the system notification for the time being and instead focused his attention on the burial items inside the coffin.

These burial objects were all ancient jade artifacts, but in the northeast corner of the coffin, a dark box caught everyone's attention.

Su Chen gestured, and Wu Laogou nimbly climbed onto the coffin, bent down, and retrieved the black box.

Upon taking it out, everyone realized that it was a wooden box, the material of which was unknown, but it was extremely heavy in their hands, no less than that of bronze or iron.

The wooden box is surrounded by silver-wrapped corners, with cloud patterns, birds and beasts carved in relief on them.

However, this wooden box has no latches on any of its parts; it is a single, seamless piece, as if it were made by nature itself.