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

Seeing such an amazing scene.

Even though Chen Yulou was calm, his heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

An obscure word emerged in my mind.

A rare species.

It is definitely a rare spiritual species in the world.

You know, things become smart as they age, and all things have spirits.

There are different kinds of monsters, and there are strange kinds of Qingmu.

For example, the Pingshan White Ape and the Angry Chicken are both natural spiritual creatures.

The former is very human, except that he has not refined his horizontal bone, he is almost no different from a human, and is even more cunning and evil. As for the latter, he has the blood of the Phoenix. Once the ancestral blood is awakened, he will break free from the shackles and fetters, and even a small world cannot contain him.

Corresponding to this are all the plants in the world.

To put it simply, there are great medicinal herbs and magical medicines in the mountains, such as the Nine Ghosts Plate and old mountain ginseng on the wall of a bottle of yam.

If they are big, there are Taoist tea from Qingcheng Mountain, red beard tree, thousand-year-old Tai Sui from Zhalong Mountain, sacred tree from Kunlun Mountain, and even ancient tree of life.

They are all rare species between heaven and earth.

Bathing in the essence of the sun and the moon, absorbing and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is not impossible to transform into a demon.

The green bamboo in front of me.

From the moment he appeared, Chen Yulou sensed a majestic aura.

If that were all, it could at best be considered a Nine Ghosts Plate.

But unfortunately...

Within the jade-green bamboo rhizome, there were streaks of lightning and fire slowly moving.

But he immediately felt how complicated it was.

It should be known that all things in the world are interdependent and mutually restraining.

Fire overcomes wood.

Just like water conquers fire.

How could thunder, fire and green wood exist in one body at the same time?

What was most difficult for him to understand was that the green bamboo in front of him was full of vitality and showed no signs of being killed by thunder and fire. It was surrounded by rich spiritual energy.

The roots and rhizomes are coiled like a crouching dragon, with thunder and fire flowing endlessly among them.

It looks like a beard of fire.

It's amazing.

No wonder Luo Laowai behaved so cautiously along the way. To him, this thing was more than just a hot potato.

It's simply a ticking time bomb.

"How long have you been digging it out?"

Take a deep breath.

Chen Yulou suppressed the shock in his heart and asked calmly.

"It's been almost half a year."

Old Luo hunched his body, not daring to sit down. He stood aside with his hands hanging down, his face full of fear.

It seems like he has suffered a great loss from it.

When he heard Manager Chen asking this, he suddenly woke up and quickly responded.

At that time, Song Laowu of Hubi Village and Peng Laizi of Huodong Temple died.

The two stones pressing on my chest were removed.

Luo Laowai finally no longer has to worry about his sleep and appetite.

However, Manager Chen's series of actions, including cleaning out the opium addicts in Changsheng Mountain, ordering the destruction of opium, and closing down opium dens, were undoubtedly a warning to the enemy.

How could he dare to get into trouble at this time?

Selling cigarettes and opening a gambling business makes money quickly.

But you have to be alive to spend it.

After all, he was just a dog raised by the Chen family. In the past, if Manager Chen hadn't said anything, he could still rely on his master's power. But now the knife is hanging on his neck. If he still doesn't know what to do, his death will be in vain.

But I have a bunch of people to support.

In troubled times, that group of people was the foundation of his survival.

How could Luo Laowai be willing to throw it away?

So after much thought, he decided to set his sights on the local products business. The Chen family had been a thief for three generations and had made a fortune by robbing tombs.

All the green forest troops in the sixteen provinces in the north and south obey the Chen family.

The power is enormous.

It would be a lie if Luo Laowai said he wasn't jealous.

However, before, relying on their brotherly status, he dared to do some sneaky things right under his nose, and Chen Yulou pretended not to see anything.

After they gradually became estranged, he no longer dared to act recklessly.

He took the people from the engineering battalion and turned his attention to the Shiwanda Mountains in western Hunan.

That area of ​​deep mountains and old forests has been known as a country within a country since ancient times. The Tusi Mansion does not obey the king's orders and does not respect teachings. In addition, the cave dwellers of all generations have lived in seclusion in the mountains, and the number of tombs there is far more than imagined.

Even if it is not as good as the 800-li Qinling Mountains, it is still a first-class Feng Shui treasure land.

And across two thousand years of history.

The most attractive one is naturally the Tomb of King Yelang.

Since ancient times, the mountain people in that area have circulated the legend of the dragon defeating the tiger and the Heavenly King's Palace at the foot of Tongguan Mountain.

However, countless people went into the mountains to search for treasure, and ended up dying suddenly or violently.

Tongguan Mountain is remote and consists entirely of primitive deep mountains with few people. It is filled with miasma and wild beasts are rampant. If you rashly enter it, you will basically be in danger of death.

But Luo Laowai was determined to make a fortune.

Buy a bunch of fucking guns and cannons.

Arm your troops to the teeth.

Only in this way can we be qualified to talk to Changshengshan and Chenjiazhuang.

According to his idea, living under someone else's roof and being inferior to others is not a long-term solution. He has to go out and explore the world. The world is about to fall into chaos.

The storyteller said it all.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was born a beggar and had only a broken bowl, but he was able to conquer the world.

He, Luo Laowai, is not much worse.

Why is it that beggars in this world can sit here, but he, the corpse carrier, can’t?

A group of people wandered in the mountains for more than half a month.

I don't know if he was lucky or just a blind cat catching a dead mouse, but he actually found a way.

It took about ten days to dig.

Dozens of people died.

Anyway, for Luo Laowai, in troubled times, the least valuable thing is human life.

One crop after another, it is impossible to finish harvesting them.

As long as there is food to eat, countless people will be willing to serve.

They dug Tongguan Mountain upside down and finally entered the underground palace.

pity……

The tomb had been cleared away by someone long ago, and the holes had been filtered out several times, leaving only a few coffin boards and some broken stone pillars.

Luo Laowai was so angry that he almost died.

After spending so much effort and not even finding a penny, how could he be willing to just go home like this?

He also ordered people to continue panning for sand and digging in the mountains.

As a result, there was a different world under the big bowl.

Connected by tunnel.

There is another tomb hidden dozens of meters underground.

No one knows who is buried there. There is a huge bronze coffin and a body covered with jade clothes. The only strange thing is that there are not many burial objects. Apart from that, there is a emerald green bamboo planted dozens of meters underground.

He swept away all the funerary objects.

Luo Laowai is also an old hand. He has never heard of bamboo surviving in such a dark underground.

It's definitely not ordinary.

Someone immediately dug it out with its roots and soil.

but……

After returning to Etou Mountain.

He also asked some people to look at it openly and secretly.

But no one could recognize what it was.

Moreover, as the bamboo was brought out from deep underground and saw the light, it seemed to have mutated. It was clearly a bamboo, but lightning and fire actually grew out of its roots.

He didn't even dare to touch it.

As soon as it got a little closer, thunder, fire and lightning almost killed it.

In a fit of rage, Luo Laowai didn't care about anything else and drew his sword to chop it to pieces.

result.

The bamboo looked like it was cast in molten iron.

It cannot be cut by a knife, melted by fire, or killed by water.

After all, he was a living devil who was feared by both humans and ghosts in Xiangyin, and had killed countless people. He never expected that he would suffer such a big setback because of a bamboo.

I thought it was not going to work.

Just dig a hole in the mountain and bury it again.

However, this matter was stopped by the adjutant.

What he said was that this thing was so strange and absolutely rare in the world. Since he couldn't hold it, he might as well send it to the Chen family. It was said that the Chen family had countless rare treasures, but this was definitely the first one.

By then, General Luo, not only will you be able to show off your reputation in front of Shopkeeper Chen and leave a good impression, but he might even be so happy that he would reward you with hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of silver coins. Wouldn't that be a huge profit?

When Luo Laowai heard this, he thought that this might actually work.

Bamboo is worthless in his hands, and even prickly like a hedgehog. But Shopkeeper Chen is different. He can fly into the sky and cut down a swamp with a sword. He is not much different from the legendary Taoist masters.

You can't say for sure what you like.

You can actually get a reward.

The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to him, so he immediately rushed to Chen's house. Unfortunately, when he arrived, he found out that Chen Yulou had already taken his people on a long journey.

He didn't know how many times he had visited in the past six months.

As a result, without exception, they were all turned away.

Until this morning, the adjutant woke him up from his sleep and said that Manager Chen had sent someone to invite him. How could he dare to hesitate and immediately rushed over with Zhuzi.

to be frank.

If you never come back.

Luo Laowai is about to be driven crazy.

With this thing next to me, I can't sleep at night. I can only turn a blind eye to it even in my dreams, for I'm afraid it will burn down the cottage at any time.

"Are you sure it's the royal tomb?"

Chen Yulou frowned slightly.

Logically speaking, this rare species in front of us is full of vitality and does not look like it has been dug out for so long.

and……

So far.

He had also only seen a few species of plants that could survive in the underground palace.

The first is the corpse laurel plant under the Dan Well in Pingshan.

Born from the corpse's qi.

The air was filled with deathly aura and the trees looked like ghosts, almost like evil spirits.

The second is the Wannian Tai Sui that was made into a coffin by King Xian, but the Tai Sui itself is hidden deep underground and feeds on the energy of the earth's veins.

The third word.

Of course it was the corpse-scented konjac on the coffin of the Queen of Jingjue.

Also born in a dark underground palace.

But these three types are all yin in the Five Elements, so it is reasonable for them to survive underground.

But the green thunder bamboo in front of him was different.

Both thunder and fire are the most yang and strong things in the world, and are best at restraining evil spirits. The two are incompatible and cannot possibly survive in the underground palace.

That's why he had this question.

Furthermore, based on his understanding of Luo Laowai, this guy is a talkative person and always talks nonsense.

"Can't be wrong."

"Shopkeeper Chen, I promise you."

Hearing the doubt in his tone, Luo Laowai was so frightened that his whole body turned cold and he immediately explained.

"If you don't believe me, the adjutant is outside the city. I can call him over for a face-to-face confrontation."

"Every word Lao Luo says is absolutely true, otherwise there will be thunder from the sky..."

Seeing him swearing and threatening to be struck by lightning, Chen Yulou couldn't help but frown, and a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, there's no need to say these words."

After being interrupted by him, Luo Laowai immediately shut up and dared not speak nonsense anymore.

However, he seemed to have thought of something, took out an object from his pocket, walked forward carefully, and placed it on the table.

"Manager Chen, take a look at this. It was also brought out from the underground palace by Lao Luo."

Chen Yulou subconsciously looked over there intently.

I saw that it was a piece of jade the size of a fingernail.

It seems to have been disassembled from a funerary object such as a burial robe or a crown.

Just grab it.

In an instant.

The jade piece flew up by itself and landed accurately in his palm.

Seeing this, Luo Laowai's pupils couldn't help but shudder.

My heart was pounding in my chest.

this means.

It is indeed not something that ordinary people can have.

After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly remembered that this was not his Etou Mountain, but the Guanyun Tower in Chenjiazhuang.

On the territory of Shopkeeper Chen.

Luo Laowai quickly lowered his head, took several deep breaths, suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind, and dared not to think about them anymore.

the other side.

As soon as the jade piece entered his palm, Chen Yulou rubbed it gently with his fingers for a while.

I recognized it immediately.

Indeed, as he guessed, the jade piece belonged to the top of the crown and was embedded in front of the hat brim, so it was called the hat brim, also known as the hat mark, and people called it a piece of jade.

However, except for the emperor's Nine-Dragon Crown, the Tongtian Crown or the Tassel Crown, ordinary people are not qualified to wear them.

Once worn, it is regarded as an act of usurpation or even rebellion.

In addition, this hat is extremely old, at least more than two thousand years old.

It coincides with the existence time of the legendary Yelang Kingdom.

The most important thing is.

There is a bamboo pattern engraved on the jade piece on the center of the hat.

The Yelang Kingdom revered bamboo the most and used bamboo as its totem. In the few historical records, the word bamboo appears very frequently.

even.

For more than two thousand years.

Yelang’s worship of bamboo had a profound cultural influence.

The Miao, Yi, Gelao and other ethnic groups still retain the ceremony of worshiping the Bamboo King.

So, if we speculate from these aspects.

The underground palace that Luo Laowai accidentally stumbled into might actually be the tomb of a royal ruler of the Yelang Kingdom.

and.

Look at it this way.

The thunder bamboo in front of him might be the totem of the Yelang Kingdom.

After all, according to legend, the first King of Yelang was born in a bamboo, so it doesn't seem surprising that bamboo was planted in the underground palace of the royal tomb after his death.

Chen Yulou was still pondering secretly.

But Luo Laowai, who was sitting across the table, felt as if he was falling into an icy cave.

He remained silent for a long time.

He just felt the atmosphere was heavy and oppressive, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.

Unconsciously, a layer of fine cold sweat seeped out of the forehead that had just been wiped clean.

"Master Luo, what are you standing there for?"

"Sit down and drink your tea. The water will get cold soon."

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yulou had a rough idea in his mind. He held the jade piece and flicked it with his fingers. It drew an arc in front of him and fell back to its original place accurately.

He glanced at Luo Laowai out of the corner of his eye.

Seeing him standing there uncomfortably with a worried look on his face, Chen Yulou couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

"Oh... yes, thank you, Shopkeeper Chen."

Although I can't tell whether he is happy or angry.

But at least he spoke.

For a moment, Luo Laowai looked like he had walked back and forth between the palace of the King of Hell. He secretly wiped away the cold sweat from his forehead, then sat down carefully.

“This thing is really interesting.”

"However, Chen has always been fair in his actions and will not rob or occupy anything by force."

"Just speak up, Coach Luo. What do you want that you're willing to give up?"

He picked up the tea and took a sip.

Chen Yulou said slowly.

At this point, he actually knew very well that this Green Thunder Bamboo was priceless.

It can't even be measured simply with the words silver and money.

He must get this rare species today.

There are still three Taoist tea trees left in Qingcheng Mountain. If you miss this one, you may never find a second one in the world.

"This……"

"Manager Chen, you are too kind to me. I am loyal to you and have no second thoughts. I just want to offer it to you with both hands and have never thought about any compensation."

Upon hearing this.

Old Luo stood up suddenly, patted his chest and spoke righteously.

It looks like that.

However, Chen Yulou knew him very well and he was a person who would not act until he saw the rabbit. Moreover, his acting skills were so poor that anyone with a discerning eye could see it.

"Coach Luo has made up his mind."

"Chen doesn't have the time to listen to your loyalty."

"You only have one chance. If you miss it, there will be no regrets once you walk out this door today."