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

"This, this is it?!"

Looking at the dark and gloomy cave entrance that appeared out of nowhere, several people were filled with disbelief.

Even a ghost wall can deceive people's minds and make them fall into a vicious circle.

What’s more, these are extremely strange stone steps.

Although they had never heard of the Hanging Soul Ladder, from their experiences just now, they could understand the horror of the Ghost Tomb.

After all, from beginning to end, they didn't even realize when they were tricked.

If I hadn't been able to get out.

Perhaps until now, the old foreigners would not feel anything strange.

You know, if you pick any one of them out at random, they would be such powerful figures in the tomb-robbing world that just a stomp of their feet could cause an earthquake.

Collect all three skills: tomb raiding, mountain moving and mountain unloading.

Yang Fang, who has been in the industry for the youngest, has already been in it for six or seven years.

Even they are like this.

Not to mention ordinary people.

I thought that the criss-crossing, deep and strange mazes at the foot of Longling Mountain were terrifying enough, but compared with the Ghost Tomb, they were nothing.

"if not?"

Seeing his surprised expression, Chen Yulou smiled faintly.

"no……"

"Manager Chen, I still don't understand. Ghost Tomb Ghost Tomb, no matter how mysterious it is, shouldn't it be a dead thing? It can't be transformed into a demon, right?"

The old foreigner felt his mind was in a mess.

He could understand an old ape becoming a spirit, a turtle turning into a monster, an angry sky turning into a phoenix, a snake turning into a dragon, and even an ancient tree or a bunch of weeds. After all, living creatures of the bloodline, like humans, swallow the essence of the sun and the moon, and thus become monsters.

But how could an ancient tomb become a ghost?

Chen Yulou spread his hands, "Then why don't you just treat it as a ghost?"

“Is this also comparable?”

It is even more difficult for old foreigners to understand.

I always feel like something is not right.

But when asked to explain in detail, he couldn't explain it clearly at the moment.

I just subconsciously feel that the Hanging Soul Ladder is definitely not that simple.

"The ghost tomb is elusive and hard to find. If you have time to think about it, you might as well go there early. Otherwise... it will be difficult to open the door once it disappears."

He seemed to be thinking about something.

Chen Yulou did not dare to delay. After giving a reminder, he quickly went down the stone steps. In just a moment, he arrived outside the stone door.

He held the lamp in his hand forward.

The firelight broke through the darkness.

Behind the door was another tunnel.

It is long, narrow, deep, winding and tortuous, and you can't see the bottom at a glance.

"This...could it still be a ghost tomb?"

While he was concentrating on observing, Partridge Whistle and his companions caught up with him.

"will not."

Chen Yulou withdrew his gaze, his eyes were deep and clear, revealing a hint of confidence.

Just in a short moment.

He seemed to be doing nothing.

In fact, his spiritual sense had already scanned the tunnel, and it was not the dead loop it was in now. After passing through it, he found that it was an extremely magnificent and amazing underground cave.

"Walk."

A wave of his hand.

Chen Yulou entered first.

After walking along the tunnel for about three to five minutes, he felt a draft of air coming towards him, mixed with an indescribable stale smell.

Go around a bend.

The view ahead suddenly became clear.

An underground cave as big as a lake appeared before everyone.

Although I have been to many places before, such as the Underworld Palace above my head, there is still a world of difference compared to what I see now.

In the flickering firelight, it was impossible to see the end of the surroundings even at a glance.

The entire cave was shrouded in black fog, and it was difficult to see one's hand.

But as the firelight gradually broke through the darkness.

An extremely huge face suddenly appeared in the sight of the group.

Wooden, weird, and indescribably strange.

"Be careful, is it a human-faced spider?!"

The moment he saw it, the old foreigner's face instantly turned ugly. That face was so similar to the black turtle before, almost like they were carved from the same mold.

It was hard for him not to think so.

The bloody smell from the demon spider's lair still seemed to be lingering in my nose.

"There is no demonic energy."

"Old foreigner brother, don't panic."

Seeing him holding the mirror umbrella tightly to protect himself, Chen Yulou observed it carefully. Although the cave in front of him was large, there was no evil aura. He patted his shoulder, shook his head and smiled.

"So... what is this?"

The old foreigner frowned, somewhat incredulous.

That ghost face is so real, how could it be fake?

"Remember the temple that appears in the mural?"

Chen Yulou let out a breath and gently loosened his hand that was holding the lantern. However, the lantern did not fall to the ground and shatter into pieces as expected because it lost the support.

Instead, it floated slowly and steadily towards that face.

It was as if there was an invisible hand holding it up in the darkness.

See this scene.

No matter the old foreigner, or Kunlun, Yang Fang and Partridge Whistle who were following closely behind, all of them stared with wide eyes, following the lights with their gazes, holding their breath, and even subconsciously slowing down their breathing, as if they were afraid of disturbing something.

As the wind lantern approaches.

The face became clearer and clearer.

Compared to the human face behind the black turtle, this one is indeed more rough and abstract, just like... an ancient stone carving left on the cliff of Black Mountain.

gradually.

The light reflects a heavy texture.

The old foreigner's eyes twitched suddenly, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

"how come?"

"It's actually a bronze tripod?"

That's right.

With the help of the flickering firelight, everyone could clearly see the entire appearance of a huge bronze tripod, with three legs and two ears. There were not many complicated patterns on the tripod, only a ghost face cast on it.

This discovery was completely beyond his expectations.

but……

Combined with the content of the previous murals, it seems that everything has a traceable path.

"Go, have a look."

He couldn't hold back his curiosity any longer and looked down at his body.

The tunnel ends abruptly ahead.

And where they were now was clearly halfway up a cliff, with the wind blowing past them from bottom to top, and further down was a deep cave shrouded in darkness.

This height is too ordinary for several people.

There is almost no need to use tools such as piercing wires.

Each of them used their light body skills, and in the blink of an eye, the five of them landed one after the other.

The flint was lightly brushed against the flint.

Not long after.

One light after another lit up.

The ground is paved with large slabs of bluestone, and the surrounding area is an ancient building built with neatly cut stones and wooden beams.

"This is the temple?"

His eyes swept over.

The ancient buildings quickly overlapped with the temples seen in the murals.

Yang Fang was amazed and found it a little unbelievable. According to the clues revealed in the murals, it was not difficult to guess that the temple should have been built in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Now three thousand years have passed.

There are surprisingly not many signs of corruption in the entire temple.

Even the wooden beams supporting the dome were intact.

You can even see some stone paint that has not completely fallen off.

I think it is due to the dry environment of Longling and the well that never dries up all year round, which hides the edge and gathers water, making the inside and outside seamlessly integrated.

Several people holding lanterns walked towards the huge tripod not far away.

but……

Just walked a few steps.

The old foreigner who was leading the group stopped and looked around in horror.

I saw that the ground of the temple was covered with corpses.

The blood had been sucked out of each body, leaving only dry bones. The bodies were wrapped in countless spider webs, and through the spider webs one could see twisted, hideous, and painful faces. It was obvious that they were slowly tortured to death.

Even though I have seen scenes of human sacrifice on murals.

But it was really amazing to see so many skeletons.

The miserable state of being tortured.

It seemed as if they could all imagine that countless years ago, they were tied up with their hands and limbs, pushed down from a great height, and watched helplessly as those human-faced spiders sucked all their blood.

Even those who came from the tomb-robbing business felt their scalps tingling.

The old foreigner was stunned.

How could Partridge Whistle not guess what was in his mind.

As they passed each other, she reached out and gently patted his shoulder.

It's not that he was as hard as stone, but he had seen so much that he gradually became numb, just like how countless lives were lost in the sea of ​​clouds under the stone bridge at Zulong Peak in Kunlun Mountain that day.

Even in such blessed places as paradise on earth, there is no escape from human sacrifice.

What’s more, there is such a huge treasure hidden in the deep mountains?

The old foreigner nodded, forced his gaze away from the miserable corpses, and caught up with his senior brother.

Wait till he passes by.

A group of people have gathered around the bronze tripod to study it.

The tripod is two or three meters high, and the three legs alone are half a person's height. As soon as you get close to it, you can feel a heavy, ancient atmosphere blowing towards you.

By firelight.

The old foreigner was exactly level with the ghost face cast on the tripod.

Eyes facing each other.

There is an indescribable sense of weirdness.

"Such a big tripod."

"Just for sacrifice?"

They tried to lean over and look inside, but the bronze tripod was too amazing. Among them, only Kunlun could barely see a little bit of what was inside the tripod by standing on tiptoe.

"Kunlun, come and see what's inside?"

Gently bumping his shoulder, the old foreigner couldn't help but feel curious.

The latter nodded.

He grabbed the edge of the tripod with both hands and exerted force suddenly. The bronze tripod weighing several thousand pounds actually tilted outward a little bit under his brute force.

Because the center of gravity shifted, it was difficult for the three legs to maintain balance.

Under the terrifying force.

The bluestone supporting the tripod could no longer bear the weight and broke with a snap.

"No, I just wanted you to take a look. I didn't want you to do anything so big."

The old foreigner was dumbfounded by this scene.

I knew that Kunlun was strong enough to lift a tripod, but when this scene really appeared before my eyes, the shock it brought could not be described in a few words.

"and many more……"

It seemed that Kunlun was about to put the bronze tripod back in place.

His eyes swept over Chen Yulou, and he seemed to have discovered something, and his eyes lit up.

"The shopkeeper?"

"There's something hidden in the tripod."

There was no time to explain too much, Chen Yulou just gave a quick reminder.

Hearing this, Kunlun would definitely understand.

The thing in the tripod must be of great origin to attract so much attention from the shopkeeper.

He subconsciously took a deep breath and the strength in his whole body exploded. In an instant, the muscles on his arms bulged inch by inch, almost bursting open the cotton robe on his body.

The bronze tripod, which had been shaky at first, suddenly became extremely stable.

Wait until the mouth of the tripod is almost at the level of their eyes.

The old foreigner looked over immediately and saw a stone man about half a foot long standing deep inside the dusty cauldron.

The jade used is Lantian black jade, which is particularly common in northern Shaanxi.

In the firelight, it reflected a color that was almost a mixture of blue and green, which looked very mysterious.

However, the carving technique of the stone man is quite strange.

He has a round face, silky eyebrows, a big nose and a wide mouth, and his head has four sides. Each face looks dull, as if it has no charm. Looking at the marks made by the carving knife, it is vigorous and ancient, but not smooth enough.

"Why does this stone man have four faces?"

The old foreigner had never seen such strange stone carvings.

For a moment, his expression was full of surprise and confusion.

"You don't understand, right? This is called the Four Faces of the Yellow Emperor, a special portrait style from the Western Zhou Dynasty."

Seeing him blurt out, Yang Fang raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Although the old foreigner grew up in the Han area and had mostly come into contact with Han ancient tombs during his many years of tomb-robbing career, he was ultimately of a foreign ethnicity and his attainments in this area were far less profound than Yang Fang's.

"It is indeed the four sides of the Yellow Emperor."

"It only existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty and disappeared after that."

Chen Yulou nodded.

The human face carving and casting technology has existed since the Shang Dynasty, but it was only in the Western Zhou Dynasty that this strange asexual shape suddenly appeared, and then the style returned again.

It was as if someone had a sudden idea.

"But didn't you notice what the stone man was holding?"

Taking the lantern from Yang Fang's hand, Chen Yulou reached into the tripod. Reflected by the inner wall of the bronze tripod, the light suddenly became more transparent.

The few people who were originally immersed in the rumors about Huangdi subconsciously looked in the direction of his finger.

All I saw was thick sand.

Buried there was a black scale as big as a palm.

It seems to be a scale taken from an animal such as an alligator turtle or a pangolin. It has a completely different color from the black jade and is obviously darker.

Apart from that.

You can faintly see some strangely shaped words on the scales.

"This... this is the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book!"

Partridge Whistle felt as if he had been electrocuted. His entire body felt numb and he could no longer suppress his emotions and almost cried out in surprise.

He didn't know how many times he had read the heavenly book he brought out from Zhalong Mountain.

At this moment, I am confident that I will never be wrong.

Whether it is the scale style or the text form, they are almost exactly the same.

Seeing that he recognized him, Chen Yulou was not surprised. After all, the people in the world who knew the Dragon Bone Book best were him, Partridge Whistle and Elder Lechen.

"That's it!"

He reached out his hand and took out the stone man from the ashes.

Shake gently.

Dust was scattered all over the ground.

The full appearance of the black jade stone man also appeared in everyone's sight.

I saw that its hands were in the posture of embracing the moon, and the dragon bone was just right in the palms.

A cursory sweep.

There are a total of 103 characters on the dragon bone, which is almost the same as the previous one.

Handing the lantern to Yang Fang, Kunlun took the opportunity to put the bronze tripod back in place.

By firelight.

Chen Yulou did not dare to delay at all, and started trying to solve the problem according to the deciphering method taught by Elder Liaochen in Wuku Temple that day.

The whole article has 103 words.

It was too difficult to decipher them in a short period of time, so he only chose the first few.

Several people around him also knew what he was doing.

No need to remind.

Kunlun, Yang Fang and the old foreigner spread out and guarded the four sides to prevent those strange human-faced spiders from taking advantage of the opportunity to attack and kill them.

The lights flickered.

It reflects Chen Yulou's serious and solemn face.

but……

gradually.

His tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

When Partridge Whistle, who had been guarding outside the place all the time, saw this situation, his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

"Brother Chen...what is it?"

Even he himself didn't notice that there was a tremor in the simple words he said.

Hear this.

Chen Yulou slowly raised his head, exhaled, a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes, and then he spoke softly word by word.

"Phoenix Ming Qishan!"