Tomb Raider: The Fox's Ways to Seducing the Kirin

The young man leaned in Zhang Qiling's arms, squinting his eyes and enjoying the god's touch on his head, while carefully sensing every corner of the newly opened cave.

Hard work pays off. In a very hidden corner, there was an unknown soul hiding there, huddled together, too frightened by the loud noise here to dare to poke its head out.

The young man came out of Zhang Qiling's arms, lowered his head and took Zhang Qiling's hand, and put it on top, interlocking their fingers, and whispered in his ear: "Brother, there is something going on over there, do you want to go and take a look?"

Zhang Qiling held the boy with one hand and pulled out the knife behind his back with the other hand to prevent him from being unable to take care of any accidents after entering the cave. It was only the first time that the boy got hurt in front of him, and he didn't want it to happen again.

There is a world of difference between the cave and the shoddy construction outside. The tomb passage is beautifully built, and even the pillars beside the passage are carved with exquisite reliefs. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, no one would have thought that such craftsmanship came from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Zhang Qiling passed by a tomb lamp and reached out to light it. A few moths with flames flew out of the lamp oil and flew from one end of the tomb passage to the other in a few breaths, lighting up all the tomb lamps along the way. In an instant, the tomb passage, which was originally dark, was brightly lit.

Then Zhang Qiling looked around, his eyes suddenly fixed, and he pulled the boy back who was about to walk away, and said cautiously: "These pillars cannot be touched, they are all inlaid with corpse pills, once they fall to the ground, the consequences will be disastrous."

Hearing this, the young man became more serious. He was afraid that it was not as simple as falling down to attract corpse-eating insects. Given the character of the Queen Mother of the West, the placement of these corpse-eating pills must have a certain pattern. Once disrupted, it would inevitably attract more trouble.

The young man frowned, raised his hand and pointed to a corner and said, "Brother, the soul is over there. Unless he comes out by himself, we can't catch him. When I just sensed him, he was out of my control. I don't know why."

Zhang Qiling knew about the boy's ability to control corpses and spirits, and he had basically never failed. But now in this underground palace, the boy was repeatedly defeated five times. It should be a very tricky situation.

"Is there no other way? If we can't call it out, we will just ignore it and go directly into the next tomb chamber." Zhang Qiling said.

The young man glanced at the man hesitantly, his lips moved again and again, but he still didn't dare to say what was on his lips.

Seeing the young man hesitate to speak, Zhang Qiling didn't even need to think about it and directly replied: "No."

"But there is no other way. We can only use talismans to control him to come out." The young man tried to block the key point and discuss with Zhang Qiling.

But after being fooled by the boy so many times, even the most obtuse person would instantly understand what the boy wanted to do. Zhang Qiling's expression did not change, and he refused simply: "No."

At the moment, the boy's body had not fully recovered yet, so there was no way he would let him bleed and draw talismans again.

"Okay." The young man withdrew the idea in disappointment.

The two had no choice but to continue walking towards the next tomb chamber. Just when they were about to reach the stone gate, something unexpected happened!

The soul that was originally huddled in the corner seemed to smell something, and rushed out of the corner and knelt in front of the young man.

"Little Lord!"

The young man stopped and raised his eyebrows when he saw this. What the hell?

Seeing that the young man didn't reply for a long time, the soul said anxiously: "Young Master, don't you remember me? When there was something strange happening here, everyone thought it was a new opportunity. You advised me that it was dangerous here, but I still didn't listen to you and insisted on coming. As a result, I fell into the trap of the Queen Mother of the West and she drained my blood. My soul has been trapped here for thousands of years and has never had a chance to get out."

The soul spilled the beans like a bamboo tube, but Cheng Ji didn't understand a word. He stopped talking dizzily and said, "Wait, I don't remember anything you said. How about this, I ask you questions and you answer them, okay?"

The soul nodded upon hearing this.

"First of all, who are you?"

"I am Cheng Dixian, the son of the fifth elder of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Clan."

The boy asked again: "Then who am I?"

"You are the second son of the clan leader and the one with the highest blood concentration in the clan, Cheng Ji."

The young man asked again: "You said there is an opportunity here, what's going on?"

The soul seemed to be lost in memories, and slowly said: "Thousands of years ago, only our clan had the ability to live forever, but later because of the appearance of meteorite jade, various methods of longevity were put into practice by people, and gradually some new longevity families emerged. The first to appear were Queen Mother of the West and the Zhang family."

"However, there is a big difference between the two families in the art of longevity. Queen Mother Xi herself is of mortal blood, so she can only study some symbiotic methods to seek longevity."

"The Zhang family was originally the bloodline of an ancient auspicious beast, but due to some reasons, the complete bloodline was not passed down. By that time, they were no different from ordinary people. But it happened that the meteorite jade came into the world and activated the remaining bloodline in the Zhang family, giving the Zhang family the ability to live forever again."

"At that time, because my blood concentration was not high, I always wanted to improve my blood through some opportunities. It happened that two flower fields suddenly appeared here, one red and one blue. The tribe members speculated whether it was some new opportunity that led to such an intention, so everyone was eager to move and wanted to get a piece of the pie. But who knew that I fell into the trap of the Queen Mother of the West. She killed all the Nine-Tailed Clan members who came here for her reputation, drained all the blood in her body, and tried to replace her own blood! I couldn't escape, and was trapped here after being killed."

The young man frowned as he listened to everything and began to think about it in his mind.

What this person said was right. There was indeed an opportunity here, and that was why he wanted to bring Zhang Qiling here. But how could a woman as smart as the Queen Mother of the West not discover this thing? This didn't make sense.

Zhang Qiling saw the young man lost in thought and found the problem in the soul's words. He said, "You said he was the young master. Now that thousands of years have passed, no one who is immortal will survive. How did you know that he was the person you knew?"

The soul shook his head and explained, "Not to mention that they look exactly the same, even the sword is the young master's former sword. Spiritual swords recognize their masters, so if he is not the young master, he would not be able to use this sword at all. You should have seen him use it."

Zhang Qiling nodded.

When Cheng Ji heard the soul's explanation, his thoughts became even more confused.

If the Xuan-Yuan Sword was the young master's sword, how could he use it?

There are no two identical leaves in the world, so is it really just a coincidence that he and this young master have exactly the same face?

The young master from thousands of years ago, an ordinary person before traveling through the book, Qi Yu who was deeply trapped in the Nine Gates Chess Game in later lives, and him now.

So, who is he, anyway?