Tomb Robber: I, Chen Yulou, am dedicated to cultivating immortality!

Stone bridge, underground river, and sluice gate.

See these.

Chen Yulou already had a basic idea in his mind.

Going further, you will reach the real Queen’s Palace and the Ghost Cave.

The great terror has only just begun to reveal the tip of the iceberg.

Both the Pure Vision Agama and the Snake Mother are just appetizers.

"The shopkeeper's."

"Always in charge."

I saw two people walking out from the darkness behind me.

The people by the dark river looked at each other sideways. Chen Yulou waved his hand casually and walked straight to Partridge Whistle and the others.

Una followed closely behind.

Calm has now been restored.

With the darkness of night hanging over her and the black scarf on her face, no one noticed anything was wrong with her.

"What's the current situation?"

See this.

Chen Yulou nodded secretly.

Then he raised his hand and pointed at a few floating lights on the stone bridge in the distance, and asked thoughtfully.

Those were not will-o'-the-wisp.

Not even the giant black snake pupil.

Instead, he was the one who took the risk and went ahead to explore the way.

There were about three or four people, connected front and back, with guns loaded and swords drawn, fully demonstrating the caution and experience of old hands.

“These are all I have seen so far.”

Partridge Whistle shook his head.

They had only been there a few minutes.

The surging underground river and the ancient buildings in the cliffs were completely beyond their expectations and they were still in extreme shock.

Plus check for danger.

After confirming it is correct.

Only then can we find time to send people to explore the way.

Having said that, Partridge Whistle suddenly thought of something and added.

"By the way, Brother Chen, we just found several stone palaces deep in the tunnel, on both sides."

Hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed across Chen Yulou's eyes.

"Stone Palace?"

"Yes."

Partridge Whistle nodded.

"To be precise, it should be a stone prison... or a burial pit."

"There are four in total, built deep in the cracks on both sides of the cliff. We went in and saw bones all over the ground. There were wounds on the bodies from knives and axes, and the hands and feet showed signs of being tied up."

"I think they are either criminals, slaves or prisoners of war."

"Any other discoveries?"

Hearing his description.

Chen Yulou understood immediately.

That was clearly the blood food used to sacrifice to the snake god.

This is what they saw in the murals on the ceiling brick corridor.

Kill prisoners and offer sacrifice to the gods.

The bones in the stone hall of the palace were the slaves who were killed in advance.

However, the disaster came too suddenly. The ancient Jingjue Kingdom collapsed overnight and was covered by endless yellow sand. The slaves imprisoned there were left unattended and were trapped to death.

He always felt like he was missing something.

Now I finally understand.

It was the four disappeared stone prisons.

Unexpectedly, they discovered it in advance.

"Besides that there are some scattered weapons and ancient texts from the Ghost Cave."

It was almost the same as what Chen Yulou had expected.

He didn't ask any more questions.

"Manager Chen, this should be the Zidu Dark River, right?"

Seeing the two of them finish their chat, Yang Fang on the side finally had the opportunity to ask, and pointed at the turbulent river in front of him and asked.

"Can't be wrong."

"With a population of 100,000 people in the ancient city of Jingjue, if it weren't for this underground river, it would be difficult for them to even survive, let alone raise armies every year."

Chen Yulou nodded.

The water level of the river here is many times greater than that of the ancient well in Gumo Prefecture.

Gumo was known as the most important town in the Qiuci Protectorate.

It is conceivable how stunning the ancient city of Jingjue was when it was at its most prosperous.

"arrive……"

While talking.

The old foreigner suddenly gave a reminder.

"What's coming?"

"Bridge mate."

Hearing this, they said no more and turned around to look into the distance.

Across the Zidu Dark River, the cave shrouded in darkness fell into deathly silence, especially the mist floating on the river surface, which seemed as if it could be scooped up with just a stretch of the hand.

The lights had already crossed the stone bridge.

Arrived under the heavy gate.

Several people stood in the distance, seemingly studying something.

"The more I look at it, the more it looks like a city gate."

"It's almost as far as the main gate of Jiayuguan."

Jiayuguan is the pass separating the Northwest and the Western Regions.

For a long time in history, it was hailed as the most important pass in the world.

That gate made countless soldiers hear the roar of swords and armor even when they were sleeping in the middle of the night. It also haunted countless poets in later generations, who looked at their swords by lamplight while drunk and wrote thousands of poems with their pens.

That day, they rode horses across the vast yellow sand of the Gobi Desert.

The moment I saw the ancient city rising from the horizon.

No matter how many words are used to describe the shock it brings, they will still feel pale and powerless.

Later, after entering the Western Regions, no matter Kunmo, Dihua, Shule, Xiya or Gumo, none of them can compare to one percent of the grandeur of Jiayuguan.

Therefore, the group never thought about it again.

There will be no other ancient city that can surpass Jiayuguan.

But now... looking at the stone door that was several feet high, towering against the sky and shaped like a cliff, their inner determination began to waver for the first time.

"Damn it, this is the only place the emperor lives in, right?"

"It's fucking terrifying. I even wonder if there's a palace of the underworld or Hades behind this door?"

"Don't they say that the ghost cave people are monsters that crawled out from underground? Could they have come out from behind this door?"

"Hey, you know what, it's not impossible."

"Stop talking. It's getting more and more creepy."

There is light shining.

The stone gate embedded in the cliff became clearer and clearer.

The people by the river couldn't help but exclaim.

Especially when the few people standing under the stone gate were made to look like ants, the contrast was even stronger.

"Brother, there is no real truth behind this door..."

The old foreigner pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked in a low voice.

He remained silent all the way until this moment, when the pent-up emotions in his heart could no longer be suppressed.

Although only half of the words were said.

But as his senior brother, how could Partridge Whistle not understand what he meant?

A ghost cave?

He was actually asking himself this question.

As members of the Zagrama lineage, they have known one thing since they can remember.

The source of all suffering.

It is that ghost cave that cannot be described.

Now, after half a lifetime and going through untold hardships, are we finally going to face it like our ancestors did thousands of years ago?

But before anything is decided.

Even he didn't dare to confirm it.

After a slight hesitation, Partridge Whistle turned around and looked at the old foreigner's anxious, nervous, uneasy and complicated eyes in the darkness, and finally shook his head.

"Don't worry."

"After the door is opened, everything will naturally settle down..."

Soothingly.

But the sentence was not finished yet.

A shrill scream suddenly came to my ears.

Partridge Whistle's heart sank suddenly. Without caring about anything else, he quickly turned around and looked up.

Opposite the underground river, under the stone gate.

The fire that was originally floating in one place has now spread out in all directions.

One of them even fell to the ground.

Glass covers were scattered all over the floor. In the scattered firelight, a man was half-kneeling on the floor, his hands tightly covering his neck, his eyes bulging, veins running through his forehead, his face full of pain.

Not far in front of him.

A black snake, at least two or three feet long, was hovering among the cliffs with its head held high.

The pair of tumor-like eyes on top of his head emitted a cold light.

It was clearly a bite from a black snake.

"broken."

"Weren't they all killed? Why is that ghost thing still around?"

"It seems to be Lao Qi. He got bitten."

"How could that be? I clearly applied realgar and took disinfectant pills before going there."

In just the blink of an eye.

The fellow named Lao Qi had turbid black blood oozing out of all his facial features.

Like a clay statue that has been soaked through.

Yellow muddy water keeps flowing.

He was kneeling on the ground, enduring inhuman pain, his face distorted, his body struggling, and a wave of wailing and screaming that was not like that of a normal human came from his throat.

It echoed around the deathly silent cave.

Everyone by the river was horrified.

"There are some here too."

"Don't follow me, snakes, they're all snakes."

"Go back!"

Before everyone could react, the few people who were scattered around seemed to have encountered the group of snakes, and they kept waving the lights in their hands, trying to force them back.

And under the stone gate on the other side.

Old Seven was kneeling on the ground, his whole body was festering. Wherever the smelly blood passed, his flesh and blood melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It happened in almost a split second.

The wailing sounds were even still echoing around.

The other person had already turned into a pool of blood.

"Old foreigner brother, give me the bow."

Chen Yulou frowned.

Although we knew that this journey was full of dangers, we had already anticipated that someone would die.

But when he actually saw those figures who had accompanied him for many years dying in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a surge of rage and murderous intent.

Damn!

Even the mother snake had been strangled.

Why are there black snakes hiding in the snake cave?

"it is good!"

Hear the words.

The old foreigner didn't even think twice before he thrust the dragon-shooting bow forward.

Taking it in his hand, Chen Yulou leaped forward and landed on the stone pier at the bridge head in an instant like chasing the stars and the moon.

hum!

Put your fingers on the string and pull lightly.

He hardly seemed to be exerting any effort.

The Jiaoshe bow, which weighed dozens of stones, made a loud humming sound, and the bowstring was like a full moon.

"This……"

This was the first time the old foreigner saw him use a bow.

The pupils suddenly dilated.

There was shock between his brows.

He knew the strength of this bow better than anyone else. Even someone as strong as Kunlun would not be able to pull it to the full moon so easily.

however.

next moment.

A scene that amazed him even more appeared.

Chen Yulou was seen holding a large bow and suddenly letting go. A wisp of invisible energy shot out from the empty bow and condensed into flames in the sky while still in mid-air.

"Spiritual energy turns into fire."

Partridge Whistle's heart moved.

When he was attaining enlightenment outside the giant coffin at Pingshan that day, he entered the illusion and saw the Qingchi Immortal perform this secret method.

At the snap of your fingers.

The spiritual energy changes at will, reversing yin and yang and deriving the five elements.

Unexpectedly, he now witnessed the same situation on Chen Yulou.

"Golden Core Realm."

"Can't be wrong."

At this moment, it seemed as if there were a series of voices calling out in his ears.

There may have been doubts before.

But after seeing this scene, Partridge Whistle no longer had any doubts.

It is absolutely impossible to achieve this step just by relying on the Foundation Establishment Stage.

wow-

An arrow shot out.

The dark cave was instantly illuminated by the rain of fire.

boom!

A wisp of spiritual fire fell and landed on the eerie and terrifying black snake with its head raised. The aura exploded, and the terrifying spiritual energy contained in the rain of fire instantly blew it into a pile of debris.

at the same time.

Such scenes happened repeatedly in various places in the cave.

A loud rumbling sound rang out.

Black snakes are born with a fear of the sun, and even ordinary flames are enough to burn them to death.

What's more...

It’s Dan Fire!

The method of cultivating immortals is slightly different from the Taoist method.

That's where the difference lies.

Gather the essence of the sun and the moon to refine Qi, cast a furnace and cauldron to refine the furnace fire, and then condense the golden elixir in the third stage.

The elixir fire is generated by itself.

Gather energy to smelt the golden elixir.

Although it is not as powerful as Luofu's Phoenix Fire, it is easy to kill a few black snakes.

What's more, thunder and fire are the most powerful things in the world that can restrain evil spirits.

Wherever the rain of fire passed, the black snake was almost instantly melted or even vaporized.

A few guys also noticed something.

Looking back, they realized that those strange snakes that were fatal to them and could take their lives at will were now unable to even fight back.

One after another, they were buried in the rain of fire.

"It's the boss!"

"The shopkeeper has taken action!"

Half a minute ago, they were all still in shock, but now their faces were full of surprise.

The feeling of walking through the gates of hell.

I really don't want to experience it a second time.

"It's a pity for Old Seven..."

Someone looked in the direction of the stone gate.

Lao Qi, who came with them, had completely disappeared, leaving only a pool of blood.

"Now is not the time to be sentimental."

"Ignite... clear the way!"

As the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy and silent, a firm voice suddenly rang out.

It was Xiao Shiqian who had been the first to climb the Tianzhuan Corridor. With his previous experience, he was now much calmer than the others.

Take a deep breath.

He took off the backpack behind him, took out the torches, lit them one by one, and inserted them into the cracks in the surrounding stone walls.

He thought very clearly.

Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk.

What's more, once you enter the tomb-robbing business, your life and death are no longer in your control. These days, life is worthless. It's worth it if you can risk your life to have a rich and prosperous future.

"Do it!"

See this.

The remaining few reacted one after another.

Without caring about being sentimental, he took down the torches and lit them along the way.

Soon the dark cave was illuminated by the fire and became as bright as day.

On the steep cliff, everything around was completely revealed. There were obvious signs of human drilling around the stone gate, and two giant stone statues were guarding it, one on the left and one on the right.

Countless engraved reliefs can be vaguely seen on the stone gate.

It's nothing more than the sun, moon, stars, black mountains, dark rivers, and all kinds of eyes.

As for the iron chain outside the gate, several people tried to push it, but unfortunately, the iron chain had been rigid over thousands of years, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not budge it at all.

The stone door fits tightly together.

There is absolutely no way to enter.

"I guess it will still fall on those two armored beasts..."

Xiao Qian pondered it for a while.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his backhand, stood up and prepared to invite the chief.

But as soon as he turned around.

Then they saw a figure that had appeared behind them at some point, looking at the stone gate thoughtfully.

"Mr....Mr. Head?"

Xiao Shiqian was startled and quickly clasped his fists to greet him.

Upon seeing this, the others also came to their senses.

"well done."

"When you get out, I'll have the kidnapper give you credit."

Chen Yulou shook his head and looked at the people in front of him with appreciation. When they were crossing the bridge just now, everyone's actions were all caught in his sight.

Between life and death, I can do this.

It is already very difficult.

"Thank you, boss!"

Hearing this, everyone felt their hearts pounding and their eyes were filled with joy.

Chen Yulou didn't care either.

He just turned and walked towards the stone statue on the cliff beside the door.

exactly.

It is in the shadow behind the statue.

"Go and see."

Nodding towards the stone statue, Chen Yulou gave the order calmly.

When he glanced at it just now, he vaguely sensed something strange.

Now that I look closer, that feeling becomes even stronger.

Among the few people, Xiao Qian was the best in martial arts and had just received a promise from the boss. He was very excited and had no time to hesitate. He took a deep breath, took a few steps back, and then rushed forward.

Stepping on the cliff, the whole person jumped up.

In the blink of an eye, it fell into the crack behind the stone statue.

Holding up the lantern, he shone it down.

"The shopkeeper is a dead man!"