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"You can open it and take a look!"
"Just watch!"
Fatty Wang raised his hand, ready to lift the lid.
Hu Bayi pulled him aside and looked at Li Yang with a questioning gaze.
Li Yang shook his head. "Don't worry, there's nothing dangerous inside!"
Is there no major danger?
That means there's a slight danger!
Considering that Li Yang is no ordinary person, the small danger he speaks of may be a great danger to others.
Even though Fatty Wang was somewhat impulsive, he had to be a little more careful at this moment.
After several people worked together to open the lid.
The coffin was filled with a crimson liquid, just like blood!
However, these crimson liquids did not smell of blood; instead, they had the fragrance of herbs and plants!
These crimson liquids, upon contact with air, began to boil violently.
Soon, a rice dumpling that looked like a priest floated up from the liquid.
Only the upper body!
Wang Pangzi had a sharp eye and immediately spotted the two most precious things on the zongzi.
One of them is a gold mask!
The other item is a short staff made of dragon and tiger!
Shirley Yang looked at the golden mask and suddenly exclaimed, "Everyone, look! The pattern on that mask looks like the red-eyed curse mark on my shoulder!"
This proves that the tomb of King Xian is indeed related to the Muchen Pearl.
Unable to contain his curiosity, Fatty Wang reached out his lucky little hand to remove the golden mask from the priest's face.
Sudden.
A crimson fleshy line emerged from the dark red liquid, coiling around Fatty Wang's right hand like a venomous snake.
Li Yang had warned them of the danger beforehand, so they remained cautious while observing the jade coffin.
Upon seeing the fleshy line, Hu Bayi immediately drew the pistol from his waist.
boom!
The bullet hit the flesh line squarely, cutting it in two.
The severed piece of flesh, like an earthworm, struggled on the ground for a few moments before quickly dehydrating and drying out.
at this time.
Suddenly, the guide, Ada, exclaimed, "Everyone, look! There are lines of flesh like these all around us!"
Everyone hurriedly looked towards the outside.
The entire camp was surrounded by red fleshy threads, which formed a net woven around the jade coffin.
Li Yang and his group were the prey caught in the net!
"Hmph, how dare this mere evil creature scheme against me!"
Hu Yifei snorted coldly, and dozens of sword energies burst forth from her fingertips, easily severing the fleshy lines spreading around her.
But fleshy threads keep emerging from the ground, like the root system of some kind of extremely resilient plant, constantly climbing on the ground, impossible to eradicate!
Li Yang reminded her, "Yifei, smash the jade coffin!"
"The source of these shredded meat is inside the jade coffin; that crimson liquid is the energy source for the meat threads!"
Hu Yifei slashed at the jade coffin with her sword.
boom!
The jade coffin, worth millions, shattered with a crash, causing Professor Chen's face to twitch with heartache.
But he didn't say anything, since it fell under the category of emergency avoidance and was within the scope of the law.
The crimson liquid inside the jade coffin spilled onto the ground.
The high priest's body fell to the ground, and only then did everyone realize why only his upper body had floated to the surface, while his lower body remained submerged in the crimson liquid.
Because the high priest's lower body was wrapped around a giant python that had been skinned!
The part where the python's corpse and the human corpse met had become one, and could no longer be separated!
The skinless python carcass was covered with countless red fleshy lines, which seemed to be alive and would twitch slightly from time to time!
Meanwhile, those fleshy threads were burrowing into the ground, moving rhythmically!
Li Yang explained, "The skinned python corpse in the jade coffin was a giant python, or perhaps a monstrous one, that had been killed by a monster!"
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"Just now, the trunk of the banyan tree collapsed, startling the spirit in the jade coffin. [The spirit then...]"
A spirit sword appeared in Hu Yifei's hand, her phoenix eyes flashing with a cold killing intent.
"Let me kill it!"
Li Yang shook his head. "Physical attacks alone cannot completely kill this giant snake."
As he spoke, Li Yang reached out again, palm facing Hu Yifei, asking her to strike him with her sword once more.
This time, Hu Yifei didn't strike directly with her sword. Instead, she carefully used the tip of her sword to pierce the skin of Li Yang's palm, ensuring that only a few drops of blood would flow and that there wouldn't be a large wound.
As Li Yang's blood dripped onto the skinless python, it was like strong sulfuric acid falling on raw meat, corroding a bloody hole!
The vines wrapped around the high priest trembled.
The fleshy tendrils around the banyan tree began to twist irregularly, their originally bright red color turning dry, and then they lay motionless on the ground like dehydrated jerky.
even.
And a continuous stream of fleshy threads emerges from the ground, struggles a few times, and then dehydrates and dries up!
When everyone looked around with their searchlights, they were shocked to discover that the area covered by the fleshy lines was enormous.
The area within a radius of several hundred meters is a nest of these bizarre fleshy lines!
At last.
These meat threads simply turned to ashes!
A golden line of fire quietly appeared.
Crimson flames roared, engulfing the bright red mirror and the yellowing embers.
Only the high priest's golden mask and dragon-tiger staff remained intact.
Even after being burned by flames, the gold shines even brighter and becomes more beautiful!
After all the evil things turned to ashes, the flames dissipated on their own without anyone extinguishing them!
Once again, everyone witnessed the powerful exorcising effect contained in Li Yang's blood.
[Happiness percentage +1%]
[Happiness percentage +1%]
[Happiness percentage +1%]
……
Li Yang was pleasantly surprised to find that the system's happiness percentage had once again reached 90%!
You only need the last 10% to get a reward!
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It would be dangerous to live under the tree any longer.
But by then it was already late at night, and it was not convenient to find another campsite, so Hu Yifei simply cut the banyan tree in half with her sword, causing it to fall to the other side away from the campsite.
They also provided plenty of firewood for the camp!
As everyone cleared away the rubble at the base of the banyan tree, another item was discovered.
A stone tablet carried by the mythical beast Jiao Tu!
The inscription on the stone tablet is the register of the guardian deities of the Prince Xian's tomb!
Chapter Twenty-Two: Li Yang Bestows Blessings, All Taboos Are Removed!
The stone tablet was covered in mud. Under Professor Chen's guidance, his students carefully cleaned the tablet, revealing the true appearance of the Zhenling Genealogy.
The searchlights illuminated the stone tablet, making the carved text and patterns on it clearly visible.
Professor Chen, a leading figure in the field of archaeology, readily explained the contents recorded in the tomb catalog to everyone.
"The first thing the stone tablet says is that the ancient Dian Kingdom consisted of three prefectures established by Qin Shi Huang. During the turmoil at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the common leader of these three prefectures declared himself king and closed off all communication with the north by adopting a policy of isolationism."
"Later, the Han Dynasty pacified the world, but the Han Dynasty was constantly at war with the Xiongnu in the north and could not pay attention to this small country in the southwest."
"Until Emperor Wu of Han emerged, the Xiongnu no longer posed a significant threat. The Han Dynasty began to pacify the surrounding small states, with the ancient Dian Kingdom being the first to be targeted!"
"Emperor Wu of Han demanded the ancient artifact Muchen Pearl from the King of Dian, causing fierce disagreements within the ancient Dian Kingdom!"
"Later, King Xian took the Muchen Pearl and left the ancient Dian Kingdom, arriving at the Zhelong Mountain area to establish himself as king. Left with no other choice, the Dian king could only present a 'Shadow Pearl' as a substitute for the Muchen Pearl to Emperor Wu of Han!"
Having read this far, Professor Chen looked at Li Yang with astonishment.
"This history is exactly the same as the story that Comrade Li told in the bar before!"
For a while.
Li Yang's identity became even more mysterious in the minds of Professor Chen and Hu Bayi.
The friends at Love Apartment, however, didn't take it seriously; they had long known that Li Yang was no ordinary man.
After all, he's the only man in Love Apartment who can beat Hu Yifei!
Also.
The tomb's genealogy also records the origin of the Muchen Pearl.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the kings believed that the Muchen Pearl was a phoenix transformed from the Earth Mother, and that one could cultivate to become an immortal through this divine artifact. However, it could only exert its power in a special location!
King Wen of Zhou recorded these contents in detail in the Heavenly Book.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Muchen Pearl ended up in southern Yunnan. King Xian secretly took the Muchen Pearl away and chose a feng shui master's grotto, intending to use the Muchen Pearl to cultivate himself into an immortal!
However, everyone present had already heard Li Yang say that the true origin of the Muchen Pearl was that it was formed from the eye of the Chaos Serpent God, and contained the soul of the serpent god. It was not actually some kind of rare and precious treasure.
Professor Chen continued, "It also records that the construction of the Prince Xian's tomb took a total of twenty-seven years, and the manpower required remained at around 100,000 throughout the entire process. It was almost the entire nation's resources that were used to build this mausoleum!"
"Besides slaves, many local barbarians also participated in the construction of the mausoleum..."
One hundred thousand people!
Upon hearing this enormous number, everyone was speechless with astonishment.
Shirley Yang shook her head. "King Xian never intended for the Xian Kingdom he established to continue existing after his death. Or rather, he established the Xian Kingdom simply to serve the purpose of building his tomb!"
Professor Chen has been doing archaeology for so many years and has seen countless documents about the tombs of kings, nobles and generals, but he has never seen such a crazy existence as King Xian.
According to historical records, at its peak, Qin Shi Huang used 72 prisoners to build his mausoleum!
"That was the peak of Qin's power, and it had just unified the six states, so there was a steady stream of war criminals from the six states that could be used!"
"But the Xian Kingdom, a mere kingdom that broke away from the ancient Dian Kingdom, a tiny and insignificant state, mobilized 100,000 people to build the Xian King's tomb. This shows how tyrannical and cruel the Xian King was during his lifetime!"
The ancient Dian Kingdom had a territory of at least three prefectures, which is equivalent to the area of three cities in modern times.
The entire Xianguo was equivalent to a county, and a small one at that!
The fact that a local tyrant in a small county town could mobilize 100,000 people to build his own mausoleum shows just how crazy King Xian was!
then.
Professor Chen looked at the last part of the tomb genealogy and his eyes lit up.