Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

"I'm fine. You just flew too fast and I couldn't adapt to it for a while. I just need to rest for a while."

Zhang Qiling sat down holding the railing beside the pavilion. He looked at her worried expression and wanted to say something to comfort her. But before he could open his mouth, a small round meatball with a cool taste was fed into his mouth.

The taste was exactly the same as the candy pill she had given him at the Yunding Palace in Changbai Mountain.

"Qingxin Pill, you will feel better after taking it. I'm sorry, little brother, I was too excited just now and didn't consider your feelings.

Don't worry, I promise I won't do it again, seriously! I swear!"

Zhang Hanyan said this while holding up three fingers of her right hand. Her confident look made Zhang Qiling at a loss for words.

She could only sigh helplessly as he took her hand and gently pulled her into his arms.

He hugged her from behind, holding her tightly in his arms, his face pressed against hers, his warm breath moving around her neck.

"This... is just compensation..."

He held her tightly, ignoring her delicate struggles, without saying a word, just wanting to quietly enjoy this rare and beautiful moment.

"Hey...young man, wait here for a while. I'll go and ask where this is."

She struggled hard to break free from his arms and hurried out of the pavilion.

Zhang Qiling looked at her fleeing back, his lips curved into a smile, his eyebrows curved, gentle as water.

His eyes followed her figure, and never moved an inch from beginning to end.

"Brother, I've asked, you'll never guess where this is! This is - Golmud, Qinghai!

It turns out that the other exit behind the bronze door actually leads directly to Golmud, Qinghai!"

"Golmud, Qinghai...what's so special about it?"

Zhang Qiling asked, he looked towards the cave exit hidden in the middle of the mountain wall. There were a lot of dense vegetation at the exit, which perfectly concealed the exit.

Zhang Hanyan took out a yellowed dragon vein map from the space. There were many place names written around the winding dragon veins.

"Brother, this picture was taken out by us together in the Zhang family's patriarch's courtyard. Look, the location behind the Changbai Mountain Bronze Gate is the Tamutuoxi Queen Mother Palace.

And in Golmud, Qinghai, there are clues to find the way to the Tamutuoxi Queen Mother Palace."

Zhang Qiling carefully studied the yellowed drawing. The names of some tombs were written on the positions of the dragon head, body, claws and tail.

Qixing Lu Palace, Xisha Undersea Tomb, Changbai Mountain Bronze Gate, Tamutuo Xiwangmu Palace, Guangxi Zhangjia Ancient Building...

It turns out that the reason why Han Yan knew all the tombs we visited was because the Zhang family was involved in all of them.

After Zhang Qiling looked at it, he folded the drawing and handed it to her.

"Now, are we going to look for that clue?"

Zhang Hanyan shook her head. "No hurry. Let's find a place to rest first. It won't be long before someone comes to find us."

Zhang Qiling nodded. He did not ask her why she did this. For some reason, subconsciously, he felt that he could not ask.

Time passed day by day, and after returning to Hangzhou, Wu Xie sat in his shop bored every day, watching the people coming and going in front of the door.

"Boss, Pan Zi called just now and said that the Third Master has woken up."

"My Third Uncle is awake? No, I have to go check it out quickly, lest he disappears again!"

Wu Xie picked up the coat on the sofa and left, disappearing from Wang Meng's sight in a short while.

In the busy hospital, Wu Xie pushed open the door of Wu Sansheng's ward and saw him lying motionless on the bed with his eyes closed, an infusion bottle hanging on his hand.

Wu Xie looked at Pan Zi who was guarding the bedside. The moment their eyes met, he immediately understood what Pan Zi wanted to express.

He pulled out a chair beside the bed and sat down slowly, folding his arms across his chest, looking at Wu Sansheng calmly.

"Stop pretending, Third Uncle! I know you are awake. I just met Second Uncle at the hospital entrance, and he asked me to keep an eye on you!"

Wu Sanxing, who had been discovered, simply stopped pretending and simply turned over and sat up. His movements were so agile that it was impossible to tell that he was a man who had just woken up from a coma.

"Tell me about your second uncle. He really is too nosy! He wants to control everything! It's so annoying!"

After Wu Sansheng finished speaking, he glanced at the silent Wu Xie calmly and continued speaking resignedly.

"Tell me what you want to know."

Seeing how sensible he was, Wu Xie's prepared words were immediately useless, and for a moment, he almost couldn't react.

"Since you are so frank, Uncle San, I will also talk to you straight to the point. Tell me, why did you do all this?"

Wu Sansheng looked at Wu Xie's determined eyes, chuckled, and turned to look out the window.

"This story begins fifty years ago...

Fifty years ago, your grandfather brought back a scroll of silk book from the Warring States Period from an ancient tomb, but your great-grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-grandfather who went with him all died there.

Later, I went to the tomb again and found that the bloody corpse in the dark room of the ancient tomb was the corpse of your great-grandfather.

Moreover, I found the bodies of your great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather next to a coffin.

I speculate that when your great-grandfather went down to the tomb to get the silk book, something unexpected happened and he was trapped in a secret room and turned into a bloody corpse.

When your great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather went to rescue your great-grandfather, they also died in the tomb, so only your grandfather came back on this trip to capture the lama.

And I brought something out of that tomb."

Wu Sansheng took out a box from his backpack and handed it to Wu Xie. Wu Xie opened the box doubtfully, and inside the box was a black, ugly pebble.

"Isn't this just an ordinary stone? There's nothing special about it. Are you trying to fool me again?"

"You know nothing, you little brat! This stone is very dangerous! Don't touch it with your hands!"

Wu Sansheng roared softly, successfully stopping Wu Xie from reaching out to grab the stone.

"This stone contains a red corpse beetle, the same corpse beetle king we saw in the Seven Star Lu Palace. It is extremely poisonous and can kill instantly when it comes into contact with blood.

I took the pebble out of the tomb and left it there, untouched, until someone told me that it was… a medicine—a medicine that could make people immortal.”

Wu Xie listened to Wu Sanxing's story and looked at the small box in his hand in disbelief.

The pebbles in the box looked ordinary, and contained a corpse beetle king. But now he was told that these pebbles were actually elixirs that could make people immortal?

"Uncle San, are you kidding me? We have all seen how powerful the Corpse Beetle King is. If someone really eats this thing, wouldn't they die immediately?"

"I don't know the details. The person who told me this was a Taoist priest. He didn't tell me the details."

Wu Sanxing paused for a moment and continued to tell the previous events. In his recollections, Wu Xie learned that the boss of Aning Company was Qiu Dekao, who had cheated the Warring States silk book from his grandfather.

Qiu Dekao successfully deciphered what was recorded on the silk book from the Warring States Period. When Wu Sanxing was about to tell Wu Xie what those things were, he was interrupted by a knock on the door.