Chapter 44: Snake Mountain (Part 2)

  Wen Baiyu hadn't finished thinking when there was a "thud" sound, as if something had been smashed, but instead of the pain of falling, he felt himself swaying back and forth, as if on a swing.

  Wen Baiyu opened his eyes to find Wan Jingshou hugging his back, with one hand grasping a dark object, as they swayed back and forth in mid-air.

  Wen Baiyu fixed her eyes on it and couldn't help but exclaim "Oh no!" She said: "How...how are these coffins hanging in the sky?!"

  The surroundings were pitch-black caves, they hung in mid-air, and the distance below their feet was unknown. The bottom was too dark to see clearly. Everyone's flashlight had fallen off in an instant, and now it was completely pitch black.

  Wen Baiyu could only barely make out that they themselves were suspended in mid-air, and what Wan Kuang Jinghou was holding onto was a coffin floating in the air. Next to it were many other coffins also floating in the air, each with a skull hanging beside it, which had already turned into white bones. They were being blown about by the wind, and at first glance, they looked so terrifying that one's soul would leave their body.

  "Wen Baiyu!" someone shouted beside him, seemingly Yu Ruiyang, "Wen Baiyu? Are you okay?"

  Wen Baiyu responded with a sound, and soon there was another timely voice. Everyone answered in the dark, and it turned out that only Dr. Wang was unlucky and really fell down. The remaining people were quick-handed and sharp-eyed, hanging on the coffin suspended in mid-air.

  Wen Baiyu looked up and said to Wan Kuang Jinghou, "These coffins are too mysterious, they can actually hang in mid-air."

  Wan Xi Jing Hou tightened his grip on the edge of the coffin and said: "There's something hanging above, it should be snakeskin."

  "Snake skin?!"

  At this time, Shi Xu smiled wryly and said, "Don't mention it, what can we do now? My arm is numb."

  The sound of gluttony suddenly rose and said: "Hey, you idiot, what do you mean! You say I sank?!"

  "Come on, come on," Shi Xu's voice hurriedly said with a laugh.

  Wen Baiyu was sandwiched by Wan Kuang Jinghou, who had his waist wrapped around him. He stretched out his hand from the pocket and took out a fluorescent stick, shook it once, and the fluorescent stick lit up instantly. Wen Baiyu threw it to the ground with one hand.

  The glow stick rolled into the darkness, but soon bounced a few times, as if it had fallen to the ground, and didn't seem to be too deep.

  Wen Baiyu said: "Not too deep."

  Wan Xi Jing Hou said: "Hold me tight."

  Wen Baiyu hastily responded with an "uh-huh", and then saw Wan Jingshou suddenly relax his grip. Wen Baiyu couldn't help but wrap his arms tightly around Wan's waist, wanting to shout loudly, but the feeling of weightlessness made his throat hoarse. Wan Jingshou fell to the ground, rolling over in the process, with Wen Baiyu still in his arms, not suffering any injuries at all.

  Wen Baiyu and others landed on the ground. The place was bumpy, but it was still quite solid, so they let everyone else jump down too.

  Everyone jumped down and fell heavily, but Wen Baiyu found that Xi Yu was not jumping down, but was carrying a backpack, as if he had slid down slowly.

  At this point, Wen Baiyu finally saw clearly that on Shi Xu's back of the hand was a three-clawed hook. He had never seen such a hook before, but it looked very powerful and could easily hook into the hard stone wall.

  Wen Baiyu looked curiously and then raised his head to say, "What's with all these coffins on top of the brain, what are they used for? Are they meant to scare people?"

  Yu Wei Yang said: "Such a strange arrangement, with many white bones beside it, should be used for human sacrifice, right?"

  Wen Baiyu shuddered and suddenly exclaimed: "Where's Yaoguai? Where did Yaoguai go?"

  The word "beast" itself is small, and when the white feathers fall down, there is no feeling at all, I don't know if the beast has been thrown out or not.

  Yu Wei Yang said: "If it fell down, it should be around here, hurry up and look for it."

  They quickly took out the spare flashlight from their backpack to illuminate, this place was still a cave, with potholes on the ground, and after walking not far, there were several fork roads like cave entrances, which looked really like countless eyes in the dark.

  Wen Baiyu shone the flashlight on the ground, carefully searching with her head down, but didn't see even a rabbit hair. The place was quite big, so everyone started to search separately, thinking while searching, not only did they not see any beast, but also couldn't find Dr. Wang who was as big as a person.

  Just as Wen Baiyu was acting strangely, he suddenly let out a "huh".

  Yu Wei Yang heard Wen Bai Yu's voice and asked, "What's wrong? Any discovery?"

  He asked, but didn't hear Wen Baiyu's response, so he quickly turned his head around, swept the area with his flashlight once, opened his eyes wide and scanned again, saying: "Not good, Wen Baiyu is gone!"

  Wen Baiyu saw a hole on the ground. Although there were holes everywhere, they were all at half-body height and none of them opened to the ground.

  Wen Baiyu shone his flashlight and found that there were actually signs of struggle and dragging around the cave, which made him even more suspicious. Could it be that this place had a strange creature that dragged away both Dr. Wang and the beast?

  Wen Baiyu was just about to call for someone when a hand suddenly stretched out from the hole.

  Wen Baiyu was so frightened that his shout was still stuck in his throat, and the hand had already grabbed his ankle and pulled him into the hole in an instant.

  His hand had an extremely strong grip, tightly grasping his ankle, fingernails almost digging into his flesh, pulling him down relentlessly. Wen Baiyu felt like he was on a rollercoaster again, the narrow cave only allowing one adult to crawl through at a time. He was pulled down continuously, and the uneven cave surface made it worse, with large and small rocks scraping against his butt until it was almost numb!

  "Ah..."

  Wen Baiyu let out a loud shout, and suddenly rushed out of the hole. After being dragged down from above, a large pit appeared, just like a drainage pipe. Wen Baiyu was flushed into the big pit in an instant.

  Wen Baiyu's buttocks hurt from the fall, but there was no time to cry out in pain. Looking down, he saw that it was actually Dr. Wang pulling on his ankle!

  Dr. Wang's ankle was being pulled by a withered hand.

  Dr. Wang yelled "Ah" loudly as he fell to the ground, desperately pulling at Wen Baiyu's clothes and shouting: "Save me! Save me!"

  Wen Baiyu was also startled, and as she looked up along her withered hand, she saw a withered arm, then a withered body, and a withered face...

  That face had almost turned into a skull, with the skin shrunk and stuck to it, and even the eyeballs had shrunk, leaving only two large cavities that stared at Wen Baiyu in an extremely frightening manner.

  Dr. Wang couldn't escape and was tightly grasping Wen Baiyu's hand, Wen Baiyu wanted to save him but was being dragged by him and couldn't get up at all.

  The mummy saw Wen Baiyu and seemed to lose interest in Dr. Wang, letting go of his leg and walking towards Wen Baiyu instead.

  Wen Baiyu cursed and reached into his sleeve, pulling out a phoenix bone dagger. The dry corpse let out a loud "Keng" sound and pounced on him. Wen Baiyu quickly leaned back, and just as the corpse was about to attack, it suddenly let out a sharp "Keke" cry.

  Wen Baiyu let out a loud "thud" as he fell to the ground, his head throbbing with pain. The dry corpse was thrown off his body, and then there was a "slap" sound. One of the withered arms was actually cut off by Feng Gu's dagger, falling to the ground, where the dry fingers still twitched.

  Wen Baiyu was so frightened that he quickly scrambled to his feet, fearing another attack. Just then, something jumped onto his back, giving him a fright. He turned around and saw a pair of round, red eyes staring at him.

  "Where did you run off to!"

  The beast said with great grievance: "My fingernails broke off, falling from such a high place, I rolled directly into the hole!"

  Wen Baiyu thought for a moment and realized that the beast's body was too small, it directly fell into the hole, and indeed, that was correct...

  "Run quickly, run quickly, the zombie has risen!"

  Wen Baiyu looked around, this was a huge pit, there was no place to run, only the drain pipe-like place could be climbed up, but when coming down, the steepness was at least 45 degrees to 60 degrees slope, how could one climb up like that!？

  Wen Baiyu had no choice, gritted his teeth and rushed forward like a madman, but after only two steps, he felt a sudden cramp in his calf, let out an "ah" of pain, and fell to the ground with a thud.

  "Knock, knock!"

  The beast was flung out by him, rolled on the ground for several rounds, and got dizzy with stars in his eyes, sitting on the ground and shaking his head.

  The beast shook its head and was about to say that Wen Baiyu was too stupid, but when it looked up, it suddenly shouted: "There's a hand!"

  Wen Baiyu of course knew there was a hand, and that hand was even grasping his own ankle. He turned his head to look, and good grief, one desiccated corpse wasn't enough, yet another one emerged from underground!

  Wen Baiyu took a closer look and found that there was actually a hole on the ground. The dry corpse crawled out of the hole and grabbed Wen Baiyu's leg.

  Wen Baiyu kicked his legs desperately, but to no avail. The beast had already charged over and bitten down on the dry corpse's arm with a loud growl. Wen Baiyu cursed, "You're not afraid of poisoning?!"

  However, it was still useful. The mummy let out a loud screech as its hand loosened after being bitten, and Wen Baiyu quickly scrambled forward two steps before jumping up from the ground.

  They were already two dry corpses. Wen Baiyu tightened her hand, and suddenly found that the Phoenix Bone Dagger was gone. It must have been thrown out when she fell down just now.

  Wen Baiyu was panicked, and there were no weapons on her body. Seeing the corpse about to crawl out of the hole, Wen Baiyu looked around and suddenly rushed up.

  The monster grabbed his shoulder and shouted: "Hey! What are you doing? Run quickly, don't rush forward!"

  Just then, Outer Warm White Feather ran over and suddenly picked up a piece of broken stone from the ground, and with a "thud" she slapped it against the entrance of the cave.

  The corpse had just emerged from the cave when it suddenly stumbled and seemed to be dazed, then fell back into the cave.

  Wen Baiyu was so frightened that his hands and feet turned cold, but in an instant he felt a little proud, he had stunned the corpse!

  The beast was also frightened out of its wits, took two deep breaths, and patted its own chest with its hand, saying: "I didn't expect you to be so violent!"

  Wen Baiyu triumphantly waved the stone slab, and to her surprise, there were some stains on it, but they weren't blood. "My god," Wen Baiyu said, "did I just knock out a mummy's brains?"

  The beast took one look and said with great disgust: "You're really disgusting."

  He said, suddenly feeling a bit off, "This thing, no matter how you look at it, doesn't seem like brain pulp, and yet it has a metallic luster?"

  He exclaimed, suddenly shouting: "Mercury! Mercury! Get rid of it quickly, it's poisonous!"

  Wen Baiyu was shocked and quickly threw away the stone in his hand, saying: "How can it be mercury!? Aren't they zongzi? How did they pour mercury into the head of zongzi?"

  He said, the beast shouted: "Behind! The zongzi behind is coming!"

  Wen Baiyu turned around, and indeed the previous zongzi was covering his broken arm, stumbling over, two black holes staring at him, and a "heh heh heh" angry roar came from his mouth.

  Wen Baiyu took a few steps back, swallowed his saliva and said: "How... what to do? Aren't you the Ancient Spirit Beast?"

  The ancient spirit beast with a long ear said: "I am an ancient spirit beast that can tell lies, not a fierce beast."

  Wen Baiyu thought to herself, "Even if the ferocious beast is as fierce as a starving wolf, it's still useless!"

  Just then, the beast let out a loud roar and shouted: "Behind! Behind!"

  "What's going on behind us?!"

  He said, turning his head to look back, and suddenly wanted to shout "mother", only to see that from the hole just now, several dumplings had crawled out, still crawling out one after another, among which one of them was dripping with water, and its head was shining with a metallic luster, it must be the dumpling that was knocked out of the mercury earlier!

  Wen Baiyu quickly covered her nose, mercury is toxic, if she inhaled it and got poisoned, it would be terrible.

  "What...what should we do?"

  The beast said: "You ask me, I don't know either, and I'm not that tyrant..."

  Zongzi crawled out of the ground one after another, surrounding Wen Baihe and others in an instant. At this time, Dr. Wang also crawled over, shivering all over, looking like he was about to be scared to death.

  Zongzi came from all sides, surrounding everyone, leaving no gaps. For a moment, the pit was filled with "Kakaka...". Wen Baiyu felt a stench of rot coming from these zongzi, and he didn't know if it was corpse poison or not.

  Just then, a rustling sound was heard, and all the zongzi suddenly froze, then stiffly turned their heads.

  In the dark pit, a strange person suddenly appeared, as if out of thin air.

  He stood in the darkness, unable to see what he looked like, but he was definitely a man, very tall and large in build. His lower body was a bit strange, as if he were kneeling on the ground.

  Wen Baiyu was startled and the strange beast suddenly let out a loud cry: "It's a snake!"

  "Snake?!"

  Wen Bai Yu looked back in astonishment, only to see a man walking out of the shadows. His upper body was human-like, while his lower body was serpentine in shape, with wings on his back and a pair of emerald green eyes that seemed exceptionally terrifying, and astonishingly identical to the snake statue above!

  The beast was suddenly frightened and its teeth chattered, its upper and lower teeth clicked together, making a trembling sound, and it shrank behind Wen Baiyu's back.

  Wen Baiyu looked at him and whispered: "This... this snake, is it very fierce?"

  The beast trembled and said: "Dark...the dark energy is too heavy, he must have eaten rotten meat."

  Wen Baiyu was also frightened by his words, and saw that the snake had moved forward a considerable distance.

  The zongzi seemed to be extremely afraid of the snake, if it was a carrion-eater, then the zongzi would be its food. Only saw those zongzi scattered with a "whoosh", the snake's emerald green eyes scanned them, and immediately those zongzi were frightened and ran into the hole one after another, and then they all crawled in from the hole.

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  Wen Baiyu thought to himself, when can he cultivate such an aura? Just now, a brick had smashed the brains out of Zongzi, and he was still proud for half a day. But with just one glance from those eyes, all the Zongzi were scared away.

  The snake scared away the zongzi, but instead of leaving immediately, it looked down at Wen Baiyu and the others who were sitting on the ground.

  His eyes were very sharp and seemed to have a magnetic force, anyone who glanced at him would involuntarily stare at his dark green eyes.

  Wen Baiyu just glanced at it, and his eyes widened instantly. The beast pounced on his back, scaring him so much that he chattered his teeth. Seeing Wen Baiyu's eyes widen, he quickly stretched out his hand to cover Wen Baiyu's eyes. Looking at him still being stunned, fortunately, he opened his mouth and bit down on Wen Baiyu's shoulder.

  "Ah——"

  Wen Baiyu let out a miserable cry, the rabbit's teeth of the beast were not to be trifled with, Wen Baiyu almost got bitten and saw blood, staring at the beast said: "What are you doing! You just bit a dry corpse, what if there is cross-infection!"

  "......"

  The monster poked him and said in a low voice: "Don't look into the Basilisk's eyes, or you'll turn to stone..."

  Wen Baiyu felt a sudden chill run down her spine and only then did she realize why she had been so entranced by him earlier, her eyes almost being sucked in.

  The snake suddenly let out a cold laugh, and the warmth of White Feather's feathers made his bones tremble. He lowered his head, looking at White Feather as if sizing something up, but White Feather had no idea what he was looking at, just like they were familiar with each other!

  At this moment, the snake's eyes suddenly flickered, and Wen Baiyu saw Dr. Wang slowly standing up behind the snake, then stretching out his hand to push forward.

  Wen Baiyu's eyes widened, and a "be careful" was still stuck in her throat.

  Then there was a "hiss" sound, followed by the snake's low hum, a crisp "crack" sound, and one of the snake's scales actually fell to the ground. Next came the sound of "pitter patter" as a string of blood dripped down into the uneven earth.

  Wen Baiyu's abilities are somewhat unbelievable, and yet Doctor Wang, who is so inept, was actually able to hurt the transformed snake. Although this transformed snake did not behave in a friendly manner, it can be confirmed that he did not have any malicious intentions, and just now he had even rescued them from Zhu Zi's hands.

  In the snake's eyes, a hint of incredulity flashed by, and he immediately turned around. Wen Baiyu saw that where his scales had fallen off, it was bloody and bright red, then slowly, scales actually started growing out again, but the blood was still flowing...

  The snake's eyes were filled with coldness and ferocity, staring at Dr. Wang, looking at the thing in his hand, and couldn't help but sneer: "Fenggu? It seems I underestimated you."

  Wen Baiyu was startled by his words and suddenly saw the phoenix bone dagger in Dr. Wang's hand, her eyes widening as she realized that she had unknowingly dropped it earlier, only to have Dr. Wang pick it up.

  The snake looked at him, and Dr. Wang was so frightened that his soul left his body, and he fell to the ground with a thud. The snake's tail swept across, and there was a loud "bang" sound. Dr. Wang instantly flew out horizontally and crashed into the wall of the pit, letting out a loud cry before fainting dead away.

  Wen Baiyu was so frightened that she couldn't help but tremble. The snake's ferocious appearance was extremely terrifying, its scales standing on end, a bright red tongue darting in and out of its mouth, and green light flashing from its eyes.

  Dr. Wang suddenly didn't know whether he was alive or dead, his head hit the pit and a piece of blood flowed out, the bloody smell seemed to trigger the snake's fury, his eyes narrowed into a slit, breathing very heavily.

  The beast grabbed Wen Baiyu's shoulder and said, "No... it's not good! They say that the snake's temper is violent and cruel. Now that he has blood on him, let's run quickly!"

  Just as the beast finished speaking, the long tail of the snake swept over, and with a swish, Wen Baiyu felt his cheek scratched and painful. He quickly fell to the ground, but even so, his cheek was still cut open, and fresh blood flowed out instantly.

  The beast's bones rolled off from Wen Baiyu's shoulders and coincidentally rolled to the side of Huashe.

  Wen Baiyu shouted, but it was too late. The snake suddenly coiled around the beast, its sharp tail spike piercing in, and the beast was instantly suffocated, unable to even struggle, and went still in an instant.

  Wen Baiyu was startled, wanting to rush over, but the snake's movement was too fast. Its tail wrapped around the beast and suddenly disappeared into a pit in the ground. Wen Baiyu only blinked once, and in less than a second, the only ones left in the pit were herself and Dr. Wang, whose life or death was unknown.

  Wen Baiyu got up from the ground and ran to where the snake had disappeared, stretched out her hand and slapped it hard on the wall of the pit, thinking that there must be a mechanism.

  The snake's tail was coiled around the unconscious beast, dragging it into the cave. It didn't know how long it had been when the beast came to, still feeling suffocated, and found itself being dragged deeper into the cave by the snake.

  The beast was completely unable to move, and could only be dragged into the cave by the snake. The snake's movements were extremely violent and rough, and after entering a cave, it suddenly threw the beast to the ground. With its hooked tail, it made a "whooshing" sound as it swept across, followed by a loud "boom". The snake's tail struck the wall, instantly creating a large hole, and countless rocks fell down, almost burying the beast alive.

  The beast let out a low growl, rising from the ground. The snake's eyes still shone with green light as it swept its gaze over him, coldly smiling and saying: "Awake, no longer pretending to be dead?"

  The beast stared at him, not daring to move lightly, and the snake seemed to be restraining its own fury, calming down bit by bit.

  The beast thought to itself, indeed the temper of a snake that has transformed is not good, once it sees blood it's like its life depends on it.

  The snake calmed its breathing and gazed coldly at the beast, saying: "What is the name of the person who is with you?"

  The beast's eyes sparkled and turned around, saying: "I don't know either."

  The snake demon sneered and said: "I think you're courting death."

  The beast smiled and lay on the ground, grooming its white fur, saying: "If you want to kill me, just do it earlier. Why bother controlling your emotions for half a day? By the way, this kind of violent temper is a disease. Go see a doctor after you go out, the doctor will prescribe some tranquilizer or something."

  The snake didn't understand what he was saying, but felt that the beast's flattering smile must be hiding something bad. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and the beast, intimidated by this, shuddered and shook its ears, letting out a low hum.

  The snake's tone was cold and hard, saying: "Get out of here."

  The beast twitched its small nose and said: "I won't, I'm all injured, can't roll."

  He said, his erect ears twitched again, as if he heard the sound of someone, Huashe also heard it, looked at the entrance of the cave, and then moved his body. In a twinkling, Huashe had already gone deep into the cave, hiding in the darkness, and could not be seen.

  Wen Baiyu felt around the four walls in the pit, wanting to find a mechanism. At this moment, the drainage hole behind her made a faint sound, and Wen Baiyu's hair stood on end. She quickly picked up the phoenix bone dagger from the ground and watched the entrance of the hole vigilantly.

  With a "whoosh" sound, someone slid out from inside, and then with a "thud" sound, landed steadily on the ground.

  Wen Baiyu took a look and it was Wan Kuangyinghou!

  After Wan Qi Jing Hou came down, he looked into the cave and heard a loud noise. Immediately afterwards, another loud noise was heard, and all the people above followed closely behind and came down as well.

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou examined Wen Bai Yu and asked: "Are you injured?"

  Wen Baiyu hastily shook his head and said: "The beast was caught by Huashe and disappeared in an instant."

  Tang Zichen said strangely: "Turn into a snake? It's so big, how did it get in?"

  Wen Baiyu said: "It's not that big, it's exactly the same as the carving above, with a human upper body and a snake lower body, and it also has wings. After transforming into a snake, it disappeared, this place must have a mechanism."

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou took a look at the four walls of the pit, suddenly squatted down, looking at the ground, and saw that there was a piece of soil on the ground that had been turned over. He stretched out his hand to press it and said: "This is a trapdoor."

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou said, pressed a button, and suddenly saw a square board on the ground, with a lot of soil on it, which could be turned over to allow one person to pass through.

  Wen Baiyu said: "Hurry and chase after it, that snake has seen blood, I'm afraid it will eat the Ling Beast."

  Wan Qi Jing Hou took the lead, being the first to drill into the flip board, Wen Bai Yu followed behind him, and the rest of the people also followed suit.

  Wen Baiyu suddenly remembered something and said: "That Dr. Wang is still up there, we've all come down, what's he going to do?"

  Shi Xu laughed and said, "Sister-in-law, you're too kind-hearted. This won't do."

  Wen Baiyu didn't have time to hesitate and could only continue walking forward, after entering the plank road, it was another cave, which looked no different from the one above.

  "What kind of person would turn a grave into a cave? It's so intricate and complex, is it the work of people from underground?"

  They continued walking in, when Wen Baiyu suddenly said: "Blood!"

  Wen Baiyu said, squatting down, but Wan Qi Jinghou stopped him, saying: "The blood of the transformed snake is poisonous, and..."

  He trailed off, and Wen Baiyu felt like scratching her heart out. What was he talking about? He didn't make it clear, but Tangzi just smiled and seemed to understand perfectly, with an enigmatic glint in his eye.

  Wen Baiyu was very curious, and felt that the blood of the transformed snake, although it had a fishy smell, also had a faint fragrance, like the scent of flowers. This didn't match the appearance of the transformed snake at all.

  Tangzi smiled and said: "Look at this snake blood, it's been brewed for thousands of years, what a great thing."

  Wen Baiyu was even more curious, but Wan Jijinghou didn't say anything.

  "Let's hurry up and go."

  They walked along the snake's blood, and that fragrance had a refreshing effect on their hearts. Wen Baiyu suddenly felt warm all over, as if his circulation had accelerated, and he was slightly dizzy.

  Wen Baiyu flashed out, and Wan Kuang Jinghou stretched out a hand to catch him, saying: "Hold your breath."

  Wen Bai's face was very bad, her head was dizzy, and she said: "I... I'm poisoned!"

  Tang Zi couldn't help but laugh out loud. Yu Wei Yang saw Wen Bai Yu's face burning with fever, seemingly having a high fever, and said: "How can you still laugh?"

  Tang Zai whispered a few words to Yu Wei Yang, who blushed slightly. Tang Zai said: "Let's go ahead and take a look first, you guys catch up after you're done."

  The warm white light was dizzying, and I couldn't understand what they were saying at all. I just felt that this cave was so complicated, why did we have to walk separately? What if we got lost?

  Wan Jie Jing Hou did not stop him, and everyone else had walked far away. Wen Bai Yu struggled to get up, but Wan Jie Jing Hou said: "Snakes are lustful, snake blood is cold, but it's a dry and hot thing. Plus your body has plenty of yang energy, so your body temperature is very high right now. Don't move."

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  Wen Baiyu's mind was now filled with the sound of a meteor crashing into the earth, and he felt utterly humiliated. At first, he didn't think much of it, just feeling his body temperature rise, but after being spoken to by Wan Qi Jinghou, he suddenly felt his mouth dry up and his lower body began to move uncontrollably.

  Wen Baiyu reluctantly said: "Isn't Tang Ziyang's energy even stronger?"

  Wan Qi Jing Hou glanced at him lightly and said, "His willpower is stronger than yours."

  His old face turned bright red as he suddenly felt that his previous question was humiliating!

  Wen Baiyu leaned against the stone cave, feeling like she wanted to die from embarrassment. She couldn't bear to lose face again, and wondered how she would face Tangzi in the future. Moreover, what had Tangzi said to Yu Wei Yang? The deep gaze Yu Wei Yang gave her before leaving made Wen Baiyu's back feel numb.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou stroked Wen Bai Yu's arm and said, "Your body temperature is very high."

  Wen Baiyu was almost tortured to death, feeling Wan Jingshou's icy body temperature, and immediately reached out to tightly hug him, saying "Quick...quick help me..."

  Wen Baiyu finished speaking, stunned for a moment, and almost bit her own tongue off. Wan Kuang Jinghou had already laughed and covered Wen Baiyu's lips with his own, gently kissing her, his voice husky as he said: "Baiyu... Baiyu..."

  Wen Baiyu only felt a sudden jolt in her body, and then she heard the voice of Wan Jingshou. Her body was numb all over, as if she had been electrocuted. She stretched out her hand and tightly grasped Wan Jingshou's neck.

  The crowd walked a long way forward and arrived at the fork in the road, where they sat down to wait for Wen Baiyu and Wan Qi Jinghou who were behind.

  About half an hour later, Wen Baiyu and Wan Jinhao caught up with them.

  Gluttony didn't know what had happened and casually said: "Hey, it's so fast."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Zi and Yu Wei Yang both burst out laughing.

  Wen Baiyu still felt weak in her legs and turned pale when he mentioned it, staring at him with wide eyes.

  Manchu didn't know how he had offended Wen Baiyu either.

  Because they were in a cave, no one knew when they could get out. Wan Jie Jing Hou naturally wouldn't really fight with swords and guns. Wen Bai Yu was poisoned by snake blood, his attitude was very enthusiastic, and he tightly hugged Wan Jie Jing Hou all the time. Wan Jie Jing Hou helped him release three times. Perhaps it was because of the snake blood, Wen Bai Yu was too sensitive, and the three times almost took his life away. His legs were soft, his hands were soft, and he became a legendary quick draw...

  Wen Baiyu's heart is already crying...

  "Can you walk? I'll carry you on my back."

  Wen Baiyu glared at him with a bad temper, but his legs were really weak, and he said, "Just...just hold me up."

  The crowd continued to move forward, and suddenly the front opened up. Wen Baiyu's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw a fluffy lump on the ground.

  Wen Baiyu said: "Is it a beast?"

  He said, and the crowd ran over, only to see the beast lying on the ground, its ears drooping, with bloodstains all over its white fur, but fortunately the wound was not deep, and it didn't look life-threatening.

  The beast lay on the ground as if it were asleep. When everyone made a noise, it slowly opened its eyes, looked at them and said: "You've come too late."

  He said, looking at Wen Baiyu and saying: "Huh, you weren't here for a moment, how come you have a lustful look on your face?"

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  Wen Baiyu thought to herself, what kind of eyes do you have, how can you see so accurately? But she herself had a lustful expression, and it wasn't because something unexpected happened on the way to rescue him!

  All of this is because of the deceitful beast, thought Wen Baiyu...

  "What brings you here?"

  The beast sat up, tidied its fur and said: "That snake spirit threw me here."

  Wen Baiyu said strangely: "What does he mean? One moment he saves us, the next moment he attacks us."

  The monster said: "I don't know either, that guy is moody, but it's certain he doesn't have malicious intentions towards us, otherwise I would've been swallowed by him long ago."

  Wen Baiyu said: "Could it be that you're too small and even if I swallowed you, I'd still spit out your fur?"

  "......"

  The beast was almost suffocated by him when suddenly Shi Xu said: "Look."

  As he spoke, he pointed forward and saw that in front of him was no longer a cave, but a large gate.

  Wen Baiyu said: "We're finally going into the tomb!?"

  He said, and then said: "Let's open the door quickly."

  Wan Qi Jing Hou walked over, felt around the tomb door, and furrowed his brow, seemingly sensing something was off. Wen Bai Yu saw his expression and suddenly felt very curious, but looking at him like that, she had a faint feeling that something wasn't right.

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou stretched out his hand and inserted it into the gap between the tomb doors, then suddenly exerted force, and with one hand, he pulled open the tomb door. "Rumble..." The crowd was stunned.

  "Wen Baiyu said: "Whoa, you've become a giant spirit!"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou shook his head and said, "This door is not solid."

  Wen Baiyu said in surprise: "Could it be that the craftsmen were shoddy and reduced materials when building the tomb?"

  He said that, and suddenly Wan Kuang Jing Hou went "Huh?", Wen Bai Yu leaned forward to take a look, good guy, after the tomb door opened, behind it was actually a solid wall, there was no way at all!

  Wen Baiyu said: "Fake!?"

  Yu Wei Yang also found it strange and said: "Could this tomb have come to an end? Or is it just a suspicious mound?"

  "Didn't that fool come here before?"

  Shi Xu stared at the stone wall behind the tomb gate in shock, seemingly also finding it unbelievable, saying: "This is impossible."

  Wen Baiyu felt even more strange, as Shi Xu said he had been in before and saw many treasures. This time, with Guan Ye and the others, it was clear that they came to retrieve the treasure. According to Shi Xu's experience as a seasoned tomb raider, there were so many caves here, all looking exactly the same, yet on the way, he didn't leave any marks for the second trip into the grave, which seemed very strange indeed.

  Another strange thing is that Shi Xu has already entered the tomb, but there is no sign of the outer seal stone being opened, and even the tomb door here has not been opened. Could it be that after Shi Xu left, someone poured a layer of wall here?

  But looking at the wall, it has been many years old, and the casting method is very old. It is a block of square stones piled up, and then iron water is poured in the middle.

  Shi Xu's eyes were extremely shocked, and suddenly revealed some fear. Looking at Wen Baiyu, the back of his neck felt numb, and he couldn't figure out what was going on at all.

  "Impossible, I...I clearly went in before, how could a wall suddenly appear here?"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou suddenly spoke up at this time, saying: "Have you been in? Then I'll ask you, after climbing the snowy mountain, did you enter from the snake carving's cave entrance or make a thief hole and enter the pit from the thief hole?"

  Shi Xu nodded slightly, seemingly deep in thought, but couldn't think of anything.

  "I don't remember very clearly..."

  Wan Ji Jing Hou stared at him with both eyes and said: "I'll ask you again, why do you want to team up with Guan Ye Wang Doctor Lao Xu?"

  As soon as he mentioned it, his eyes narrowed suddenly, and that was not the look of recalling a partner, even if most partners were just pretending to get along, but absolutely not with such an enemy-meeting gaze.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou continued, "There's one more thing, I remember when you used to go down to the arena, you said that your family only had a younger sister left, and every time you went down, you would bring her photo with you. You said that in the most desperate of times, it gave you hope. Where is the photo?"

  Shi Xu immediately reached out to touch his backpack and rummaged through it, but judging from his expression, he didn't find anything.

  Wan Xi Jinghou suddenly rummaged through his backpack and pulled out a leather wallet, opening it to reveal a photo of a young girl with a yellow complexion and poor spirits, yet with a smile that bore some resemblance to Shi Xiang.

  Shi Xu stared at Wan Gui Jing Hou in shock and said: "How... how is it with you?"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou's face was expressionless as he said, "Let me remind you of one thing..."

  He said, Wen Baiyu only felt a chill on his back, and then heard Wan Qi Jinghou continue to speak in a toneless voice: "In the snowy slope, there is a man who has been frozen stiff on the ground, this leather wallet was found by me from his luggage."

  At this time, his face had already turned pale, with an incredulous expression, his hands slightly trembling, and a flash in his eyes, as if recalling something.

  Wen Baiyu was so frightened that she stared at Shi Xu in front of her and said: "That...that person in the snow is Shi Xu?!"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou nodded slightly.

  "Who is he then?" said Wen Baiyu.

  Shi Xu suddenly sat down on the ground and said: "I don't know... I don't know... I can't remember."

  As he spoke, he suddenly lifted his head and said: "I really went in, I saw the things inside, there was a bronze box, and...and something that could save my sister..."

  He said, and stood up again, stretched out his hand and slammed it against the stone wall, saying: "There really is a tomb behind this, not an empty grave."

  Wen Baiyu saw that he was somewhat dazed and poked Wan Jingshou, saying: "Is there really something behind this?"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou nodded and said, "There should be."

  Wen Baiyu curiously said: "You say there's a grave behind? Did he ever go in or not?"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou said: "If I'm not mistaken, the current Shi Xu is just a remnant of his spirit, it's the last bit of his lingering yin energy, but because his obsession was too deep, it hasn't dissipated yet."

  Wen Baiyu shivered with cold.

  At that time, Shu Xue had an iron claw with three hooks hanging on the back of his hand, and he began to dismantle the bricks of the stone wall with sharp claws. His movements were very fast, and he was fierce, as if he was about to go crazy.

  Gluttony couldn't help but say, "Anyway, we've already come this far, let's just open the stone wall and see if there's anything behind it."

  He said, using his sharp fingernails to draw a circle along the stone brick, and actually dug out a seam in the stone brick. Then he stretched out his hand, and his sharp fingernails sank into the stone brick. With a loud "rumble", the entire stone brick was pulled out by him.

  As soon as a stone brick was removed, a dark cave-like room appeared inside. Although it couldn't be seen clearly, it was definitely a tomb chamber, no longer a cave.

  He exclaimed excitedly: "It's a tomb!"

  Everyone started digging at the wall, removing brick after brick and making a hole, then crawling through it.

  The stone room was very dark, and Wen Baiyu turned on his flashlight. This stone room was extremely large, at least as big as two basketball courts.

  Wen Baiyu turned on the flashlight and was startled by a loud "ah". The stone room was also hanging with many skulls. At this time, the wind blew from the hole in the stone wall, and it was very strong. Suddenly, there was a "whooshing" sound, and the white bones hanging from the ceiling shook with a rattling sound.

  Wen Baiyu grabbed Wang Ju's arm and shivered, saying: "This is the most terrifying wind chime I've ever seen!"

  The ferocious beast was also frightened and stuttered: "How can there be wind? How can a gust of wind suddenly blow in such a long cave?"

  Tangzi smiled and said: "In the underground palace, there is often a gust of inexplicable cold wind, which is called 'ghost breathing'."

  The white feathers on his back were numb.

  Those skulls were floating in the air, and on each of their necks was tied a black, rubber-band-like thing. Wan Xizong had just said that it was snakeskin.

  This tomb looks incredibly eerie, the cave is built like a snake den, coffins and skulls are hung with snakeskin, this tomb owner must have loved snakes so much.

  He raised his flashlight and shone it on the walls around him, saying: "These murals, I've seen them before, I'm sure I've seen them before..."

  He said, and Wen Baiyu also used his flashlight to shine on it, and saw that the four walls were carved with bright murals, which were narrative murals.

  The beast looked at the mural and suddenly exclaimed, "Ah! The bronze box! It's really here."

  Looking at the mural that Wen Baiyu told him about, there was indeed a bronze box, which looked very similar to the one held by Wan Kuanghou. However, judging from the appearance of this mural, this bronze box had been buried with the tomb owner.

  Wen Baiyu subconsciously glanced back at the main coffin on the coffin platform, which was intact and had not been opened from the outside. The bronze box must be inside the coffin according to the murals. However, the coffin did not show any signs of being opened before... Shi Xu just said he saw the bronze box...

  Wen Baiyu couldn't help but shudder again, looking like she was really scared.

  Tang Zi looked at the mural and said, "It seems that the tomb owner was an official of the Ming Dynasty. No, it's not quite right to say 'official thief'."

  Yu Wei Yang said: "What's going on after all?"

  Tang Zǐ said: "Look at these murals, the tomb owner is obviously an official, but not an ordinary official. He's responsible for flattering the emperor and searching for rare treasures for him. This kind of official has a lot of benefits, but it also has some difficulties. After all, how many things in the world are there that the emperor hasn't seen? Besides openly robbing, they would also put their thoughts on the dead."

  Yu Wei Yang said in surprise: "Inverted Dipper?"

  Tang Zhi nodded and said, "In ancient times, people viewed death as life, always bringing the best things into the tomb. Especially during the Han Dynasty, lavish burials were all the rage, and because of this, even rare treasures became popular. It's hard to find strange and precious things that won't be discovered in a tomb. The owner of this tomb should have been one of them."

  He said, Wen Baiyu "hmm" and said: "Since the scriptures of Changling recorded this bronze box, it means that this bronze box is very precious. Did the tomb owner privately swallow the treasure?"

  Tang Zai nodded and said, "It should be like this."

  He said, pointing to another mural. The mural depicted a man in official attire holding a sharp sword and fighting a giant winged snake, finally obtaining the bronze box.

  Wen Baiyu said: "This giant snake, is it a transformed snake? It looks like one. So he was guarding the bronze box?"

  "The beast muttered to itself: 'I knew it. This bronze box belongs to my master and shouldn't be in this tomb. It was stolen by him.'"

  Wen Baiyu said: "The mural behind is quite strange."

  Wan Xi Jing Hou took out his flashlight and shone it on the man who had obtained the bronze box. The man's expression was very excited, just as he was about to open the bronze box, scales suddenly grew on his face, and finally his face turned into a snake head!

  Wen Baiyu said: "Is it cursed?"

  The last mural is a picture of the tomb owner being buried, and the bronze box was used as a burial object and was buried underground.

  "Stop looking, you know the ancients always brought their best with them when they were buried. That bronze box is a priceless treasure, let's open the coffin and it must be inside!"

  Wan Qi Jing Hou nodded in agreement.

  Everyone studied the coffin for a while. The first layer was made of a whole piece of jade carving, with a card head in the middle, which could be disassembled without any damage.

  The first layer opened, and inside was bronze, with snake-shaped patterns carved on it. It looked like the coffin was covered in snakes, many of which were coiled together, overlapping each other, looking really disgusting.

  After prying open the bronze coffin, there is the last layer inside, a wooden coffin, which looks very luxurious.

  Wen Baiyu couldn't help but knock on the coffin lid and said, "Hey, this is even better than the emperor's coffin!"

  He knocked once and suddenly heard a "hiss" sound coming from inside, startling him and causing him to quickly withdraw his hand.

  Wen Baiyu said: "Inside... there's a voice inside..."

  Yu Wei Yang said: "Is that the sound of a snake? Could it be that the tomb owner hasn't died yet? Didn't he turn into a snake head in the end? Or has the tomb owner turned into a zongzi?"

  Wen Baiyu gulped and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her back chilled with fear.

  Wan Qi Jinghou said: "Pry open a corner and take a look."

  Wan Qi Jinghou Tang Zihao and others, three people holding a crowbar, drew a circle on the coffin lid, then found a point, and suddenly pried it open.

  "Bang!"

  The coffin lid was pried up at one corner, and Wen Baiyu's nerves tightened, then the "hiss" sound grew louder, and a snake actually burst out of the gap.

  "Watch out!" shouted Wen Baiyu loudly.

  The snake opened its bloody big mouth and was about to bite Wang Jinghou's arm.

  "Hiss——"

  Another voice of Tusi's, but this time it didn't come from inside the coffin, but from behind them.

  Wen Baiyu's back suddenly tensed up, and when she turned her head to look, it was actually the human-sized snake they had seen earlier!

  The beast's fur stood on end, hiding in Wen Baiyu's arms, rubbing against Wen Baiyu's chest one by one, until only a fluffy little tail was exposed outside, shaking and trembling, looking very frightened, saying: "Snake... snake is coming! This one is even bigger!"

  Everyone was shocked, and the snake had silently appeared behind them. A pair of eyes emitted a green glow, a man's face with sharp features, looking extremely cold and cruel.

  The snake stood behind them, but did not attack immediately, instead opening its mouth, revealing sharp fangs, and spitting out information.

  The snakes in the coffin heard the voice of Huashe spitting out the letter, as if they had been frightened, and suddenly crawled out of the coffin one after another.

  One, two, three...

  There are at least twenty or thirty of them, and a whole coffin is probably full of snakes!

  Those snakes crawled out and seemed to be extremely afraid of Huashe, they all surrounded Huashe and escaped towards the outside of the tomb.

  "Hiss——"

  The snake spat out Xinzhi again, but still stood behind them motionless, without any intention of attacking them.

  Wen Baiyu glanced at it, and suddenly saw a scar on the left eye of the snake, and was stunned. Could it be that the one chasing them in the snowy mountain was also this snake?

  The snake looked at them and suddenly said: "There is snake venom in the coffin, don't touch it with your hands."

  As soon as he finished speaking, everyone was stunned. This transformed snake obviously really helped them, but there was no reason for it to do so, and this transformed snake wasn't a tomb guardian, so why would it let them open the coffin?

  Wan Xi Jing Hou did not speak, but instead pulled out a pair of gloves from his backpack and put them on. Then he flipped open the coffin lid, revealing a monstrous creature with a snake's head and human body lying inside!

  That monster lay quietly in the coffin, vaguely visible as a human face, but his face was covered with green scales like a snake, and his head was very pointed, just like a snake. His hands and body, where they protruded from the coffin, were also covered with green scales, as if he had some kind of strange disease. His body was very twisted, as if it had no bones, or its bones had softened, just like a snake.

  Wen Baiyu was startled and took a step back, but thinking of the snake behind her, she stepped forward again, secretly holding onto Wan Qi Jing Hou's hand.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou patted him and then inserted his gloved hand, rummaged around and found a bronze box.

  Wen Baiyu also saw it and said, "It's strange, this bronze box is so big, how can it be placed behind the tomb owner's back? This tomb owner is also very strange, doesn't he feel uncomfortable, even in death?"

  As he spoke, Wan Kuang Jing Hou's hand had already picked up the bronze box, and Wen Bai Yu's heart suddenly thumped twice, as if feeling a wave of discomfort rising up.

  Just as a "pa" sound was heard, Wen Baiyu's reaction was faster than his brain. He suddenly rushed up and knocked open Wan Jingshou.

  At the same time, the bronze box rolled onto the ground, and a hand suddenly stretched out from inside the coffin, grabbing Wen Baiyu's arm.

  "Sizzle..." seemed like the sound of skin being seared.

  "Ah..."

  Wen Baiyu let out a low growl, cold sweat pouring down his face. The hand that stretched out from the coffin was incredibly strong, and it grabbed Wen Baiyu's back tightly, pulling him towards the coffin with an eerie yellowish pale hand.

  Wen Baiyu was shocked and lost his color, if he really flipped into the coffin, wouldn't that be close contact with the snake-headed monster? Moreover, there's poison in that coffin!

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou was knocked open by Wen Bai Yu, and then rushed back, but Shi Xu, who was standing next to Wen Bai Yu, reacted faster. After all, he was the closest. The three hooks on his wrist suddenly moved, and a "whoosh" sound was heard.

  Wen Baiyu's hand was suddenly cut with a large gash, and purple-black blood flowed out, emitting a strong stench. A woman's shrill scream came from the coffin, and then the hand quickly withdrew.

  Shi Xu was stunned for a moment and said: "The tomb owner is a woman?"

  As soon as Wen Baiyu's strength loosened, he fell backward, and Wan Jingshou grabbed him, holding him in his arms. Wen Baiyu sat there, panting heavily.

  Wen Baiyu's arm was scratched, with a ring of dark green and black marks that looked like burns, looking very frightening.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou grasped his hand, the ugly-looking servant said: "Does it hurt? Why did you push me away? My wound can heal itself, don't bother me next time."

  Wen Bai's face turned red with rage, his eyes bulging and his lips curled up. He was so angry that he glared at Wan Kuang Jing Hou and said, "I don't care who you manage, but you'd better not manage me."

  Wan Xi Jing Hou was taken aback for a moment and said: "Sorry, I know you care about me."

  Wen Baiyu hummed and the beast jumped over, saying: "Stop flirting! That monster actually has a long arm on its back!"

  Wen Baiyu was suddenly reminded of something and said: "Right, right! So the corpse is going to rise, and there are a pair of hands on its back!"

  Tang Zi looked again and returned to the calm coffin, saying: "It's not a long-handed back, there is another person on his back."

  Wen Baiyu was startled, and Tangzi said: "There is a zongzi under him, it's a female zongzi with very strong yin energy. Just now, she was scratched by Shi Xu's claw and didn't dare to come out temporarily."

  Wen Baiyu said: "Wasn't that bronze box also placed under the body by that female corpse, not by the tomb owner himself?"

  Wen Baiyu felt that this explanation was correct. Who would casually put a hard box under their waist for no reason? Wouldn't that be uncomfortable to death?

  "Be careful."

  The sound of a snake suddenly came from behind, and the coffin shook slightly before making a "click" sound.

  The monster with a snake head suddenly moved, its body seemed to have no bones, the whole body began to squirm, and then flipped over, and was actually turned over. From behind the monster's back, a real woman sat up.

  Wen Baiyu exclaimed "Ah!" This woman's appearance was too familiar...

  The woman's face was waxen yellow, her skin stretched taut over her bones, her cheeks sunken, and her eye sockets protruding. A gash on the back of her hand had been stitched up, with dark purple blood already congealed. Her pair of rolled-back eyeballs stared at them without a hint of expression.

  "Wen Baiyu stuttered and said: 'Th...th...'"

  He said, looking at Shi Xu, who was also shocked and took a step back in surprise.

  This girl looks exactly like the sister in the old photos.

  Wen Baiyu said: "The coffin is intact, even if she turned into a rice dumpling, how could she get in?"

  Wan Xi Jing Hou shook his head and said, "She is not Zongzi."

  Wen Baiyu was even more surprised and said: "Isn't it zongzi?"

  Wan Qi Jing Hou said: "It's also a ghost."

  Wen Baiyu heard this and didn't care whether it was Zongzi or Bo, it all meant that Shi Xu's sister had also died.

  At this moment, Shixu's breathing suddenly became urgent, he stood still on the spot, while Shixu's sister rushed over as if she didn't recognize him at all, stretched out her hand and grabbed Shixu.

  Shi Xu didn't move, he just stared at her with his eyes wide open.

  In the blink of an eye, the glutton suddenly pounced out and knocked Shi Xu to the ground. The two rolled around on the spot and rolled far away. The glutton raised his head and said: "Are you stupid? You should be hiding!"

  At this time, Shi Xu was still in a daze, just when he was thinking about whether to give him a punch or whether Shi Xu was possessed by a ghost, Shi Xu suddenly muttered: "I remember..."

  He didn't have time to listen to him say what he remembered, that ghost seemed extremely furious, and reached out to grab the bronze box.

  Wen Baiyu quickly ran over, picked up the bronze box on the ground, and hugged it in her arms, saying "Hurry, hurry."

  Everyone wanted to run towards the stone wall and get out of there, but at this moment, Huashe suddenly said: "Follow me."

  Everyone exchanged a glance, Huashe walked quickly, after all, he didn't need legs, and continued to walk deep into the tomb. Then, he lightly knocked on the wall several times, seemingly very familiar with this tomb. Suddenly, a stone gate appeared on the wall, and everyone quickly hid inside. Huashe then closed the stone gate again.

  The moment the stone gate fell, the soul had already caught up, and with a "bang" it crashed into the stone gate. The stone gate was shaken by the impact, and the noise was too great, as if the stone gate would shatter after a few more crashes.

  The spirit behind the stone gate lost its bronze box, seemingly extremely furious, it anxiously panted, pacing back and forth behind the stone gate, then started violently crashing into the stone gate.

  Wen Baiyu said: "This... isn't a solution, is it?"

  The boa constrictor said: "I know another way out of the tomb, I can send you out."

  Tang Zi showed a suspicious expression, but Huashe didn't look at him and just said: "He has done me a favor, I am repaying it, you don't need to suspect me."

  He said, and everyone clearly saw the snake turn towards Wan Gui Jing Hou.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou narrowed his eyes, seemingly unable to recall recognizing the transformed snake. In his memory, it was also the first time he had seen a transformed snake, and he didn't remember giving any favors to the transformed snake.

  "Go ahead, I won't go."

  "Are you not leaving? Are you crazy? This door will be broken through with another crash. Are you waiting for death?"

  "Didn't I die a long time ago?"

  His heart skipped a beat, and he didn't know what was going on, but somehow his heart felt very uncomfortable.

  Shi Xue said: "I finally remembered what happened... it's all my fault... I can't leave."

  Wen Baiyu said: "What's going on here? Why is your sister lying under the coffin? And even if she became a ghost, you're still normal, but your sister is like crazy, she doesn't recognize us, shouldn't she remember you?"

  Shi Xu shook his head and said: "I remember..."

  Shi Xu is a famous antique dealer in Beijing, and someone like him would have made a name for himself early on. He's also skilled in the antiques world, not extremely wealthy, but at least he doesn't have to worry about food and drink. However, Shi Xu is different.

  Shi Xu was a poor man, no matter how many fights he had been in, he was always broke. Someone asked him to be his partner, no matter how dangerous the fight was, he would go down because he needed money.

  Shi Xu's sister was a three-yin pulse, born with only yin energy and no yang energy, and she was also a girl, so the yin energy was even heavier. The two of them had been dependent on each other since childhood, and his sister was very sensible and obedient, never asking for anything. The more this was the case, the more Shi Xu felt that he should let his sister have a better life.

  Shi Xu obtained an ancient prescription for treating the three yin meridians from an ancient tomb, which required many guiding herbs. The Lingjiao of the ancient divine beast was only one of them, and many other extremely yang substances recorded only in Shan Hai Jing or Zhi Guai were needed as guiding herbs. Shi Xu searched tirelessly but found nothing, with no gains to show for it.

  At that time, Shi heard that there was a Dou near Jinhua, and the Dou had the horn of a spiritual beast. In the Dou, he coincidentally met Wen Baiyu and Wan Qi Jinghou, but unfortunately, there was nothing in the Dou that he needed, so it was another wasted trip.

  When Shi Xu returned home, his sister was nowhere to be found. He frantically inquired everywhere and a neighbor said that his sister had been taken away by relatives of their family.

  At that time, Shi Xu had no relatives, and he relied on his sister for survival. The fact that he was a descendant of the defeated general made it even more impossible for him to have any offspring, and even distant relatives were unwilling to associate with him.

  When Shi Xue heard about this matter, he felt that something was not right. Later, he found his sister, but by then she had already been dead for many days and her body had started to rot.

  His sister did not die of three-yin pulse disease, but was taken away by Dr. Wang and died in an experiment.

  Wen Baiyu was shocked, unable to speak. Shi Xu laughed and seemed a bit overwhelmed, sitting on the ground, listening to the crashing sounds, slowly saying: "Finally know why I teamed up with those people? The one who did the experiment was that Wang guy, the one who caught people was Old Hua, the one who provided funds was Guan Ye..."

  At that time, he thought he was crazy, but he didn't want to bury his sister like that, she was his only relative, and she was so obedient and sensible.

  He brought his sister's body to Snake Mountain, a paradise recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. This kind of inverted warrior had once seen a mythological legend in a tomb, which said that at some point, a god had left something behind, something comparable to phoenix blood, which could bring people back from the dead. This thing was later passed down to the country of Youmu, but whether or not Youmu actually existed is still unverifiable to this day.

  People thought that the sacred object was powerful, but it was an ominous thing, so they buried it and recorded it. The records were divided into three fragments and given to the three ministers of the Kingdom of Mu.

  That thing disappeared from then on, but things didn't stop there. Later, fragments of the divine object appeared, and Xiang Wang found two at the same time, only one more was needed to excavate the divine object. However, this last fragment was never found, and the other two were buried with Xiang Wang's early death. There are so many tombs of Xiang Wang, first because everyone is looking for the buried swan goose, and secondly also looking for treasures, but no one has ever found them.

  At that time, Shi Xu knew it was a treasure and wanted to find it. He started frantically searching through books and finally found the Snake Mountain.

  At the time, Shu Yu carried his sister to Snake Mountain, where half of it was hot and half cold. The surrounding water grass was also poisonous. When Shu Yu arrived on the island, he had already been poisoned. After entering the forest, because his sister's body had begun to rot, many insects were attracted. By the time they entered Snow Mountain, a vast expanse of white snow stretched out before them. Shu Yu was already exhausted, and as he rolled down the snowy slope, he watched as his sister's body fell into the snow and disappeared from view. Shu Yu also rolled down the snowy slope, finally becoming trapped in the snow, unable to move at all.

  He laughed again, his eyes were red, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Later... later I fainted for a long time. When I woke up, someone was calling me. You don't know... it was my sister who was calling me. She was shaking me on one side and calling me on the other, looking very anxious, asking me why I fell asleep. At that time, I was so happy that my sister hadn't died. But later, I felt something was wrong. We were walking in the snowy ground, but I wasn't afraid of the cold... I didn't even know how I entered the tomb chamber, so at that time, I was also very surprised why there was a stone wall. When I came in, there was no obstacle at all..."

  When Shi Xue saw the tomb, he even easily saw the thing in the coffin, a snake-headed monster holding a bronze box.

  At that time, Shixu thought his sister was saved, but his sister held the bronze box and lay down in the coffin. Shixu was frightened at the time, he had never seen his sister's expression before. No matter how Shixu called her, she wouldn't come out, just holding the bronze box, when Shixu called her, she would lose her mind and attack Shixu.

  At this point, Shi Xu felt his heart racing for the first time. He had fought so many battles before, but never felt so anxious. He knew that he couldn't complete this fight on his own.

  At that time, Shi Xu came out to fight and borrowed the name of his partner to find Gu Ye San. In fact, Shi Xu just wanted to avenge himself, lure Gu Ye San to She Shan, bury them alive in the heavy snow, or let them die in the forest.

  But doing so would mean his sister would still be buried, and at this time he could only think of Wan Jie Jing Hou. Apart from Wan Jie Jing Hou, there was no one else who could help him.

  "Sorry, I...I think I've been possessed. If it wasn't for me bringing my sister to this place...I also led you all in. You can leave, anyway I'm already dead. This is a ready-made grave, and it doesn't count as exposing corpses in the wilderness."

  "Bang!"

  "Bang!"

  "Bang! Bang bang!"

  The stone gate was shaking violently, "Ka La" a loud noise, the stone gate was actually hit with a crack, followed by another impact sound, something was about to rush in.

  The snake's eyes were calm and said, "It's coming."

  He suddenly stood up and said: "I'm not leaving."

  Shi Xu looked at him and said, "I don't know what's inside the bronze box, but it's obviously something evil. Your sister has passed away, she should be laid to rest, her spirit is wandering outside, you won't be able to rest easy either."

  Wen Baiyu listened to him say this, looked down at the bronze box in his arms, and felt that nothing was wrong with it. He didn't feel any bad aura either. Previously, Wan Qi Jinghou had also touched the same bronze box, except for being distracted all the time, he didn't think there was anything strange about it.

  Wen Baiyu thought so too, and stood up, saying: "Then I won't go either, let's walk together in a while."

  As he spoke, a loud crash was heard, and the stone gate was shattered. The stones fell one after another, and with a loud rumble, they were almost buried under them.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou protected Wen Bai Yu's head and said, "Be careful."

  The crowd dodged the boulder, and Bai stood behind the stone gate, her face a sickly yellow with a hint of dark green, rolling her white eyes, staring fiercely at them, scanning each one, she didn't even recognize Shi Xu, her eyes fixed tightly on Wen Baiyu's body, revealing a mouthful of teeth, panting heavily, and letting out an eerie howl.

  Wan Qi Jing Hou said: "He's here."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Ba suddenly pounced out, and in that instant, the snake tail of Huashe's transformation shot out, "slapping" against Ba's ankle, lifting her entire body into mid-air.

  The ghost's unrelenting struggle, its hands like claws, "slapped" and actually scratched off a scale from the snake's body. The scale fell to the ground with a "thud", seemingly still carrying flesh and blood on it.

  A drop of blood splashed out and landed right on Wen Baiyu's neck, causing him to turn pale with fright. Earlier, he had only sniffed the snake's blood, but this time he got a whole streak on his neck - wasn't that just asking for trouble? At such a critical moment, did he really want to make a fool of himself in public?!

  Wen Baiyu's desperate hands touched his neck, only to find it was dry, nothing was there. He touched again, still nothing. It was simply strange, he clearly saw a splash of blood coming over.

  At this time, the beast jumped down from his shoulder, a white rabbit had turned into a red rabbit, its whole body covered in snake blood, jumping and saying: "My fur! My fur!"

  Wen Baiyu fixed her eyes on it and saw that not a single drop was wasted, all of it had splashed onto the Xiang Beast's body.

  Wen Baiyu let out a breath of relief. The beast was a spiritual beast, and its endurance should be stronger than his own. Moreover, it was jumping around energetically, without any signs of poisoning.

  He was thinking, the snake saw blood and had already started raging, but he restrained himself with great effort, and a loud, heavy breathing sound came out of his nostrils.

  The snake tail was swung out with great force, "thud" hitting the rock wall, the transformed snake's tail was extremely powerful.

  The snake is a divine creature of several thousand years, and also an ancient sacred beast. The soul was only bewildered by the bronze box, to say that it didn't have much Taoist practice, and its age wasn't enough either. The soul was thrown out, let out a shrill cry, and instantly fainted.

  Time flashed by quickly as he ran past, his body lying on the ground, his eyes closed, and the twisted expression from earlier was gone, replaced by a quiet stillness.

  His trembling hands picked her up, his throat slid quickly, and his eyes were red, saying: "It's okay... it's okay..."

  He said, suddenly turning his head and looking at Wen Baiyu, who was still holding the bronze box in her arms.

  Wen Baiyu suddenly felt that his eyes were very off.

  Wen Baiyu shook her feathers and slowly hid behind General Wan Jingshou.

  She whispered: "I feel like Shi Xu's eyes... are a bit off."

  Wan Xi Jing Hou's face was gloomy and he said: "He still wants to revive his sister, you be careful."

  Wen Baiyu actually understood the feeling of Shi Xu, after all, his younger uncle had also passed away. When he learned that his younger uncle had been dead for over twenty years, the feeling was almost one of despair.

  It's just that this bronze box doesn't seem like anything good, and it's locked. If living like this turns you into a monster like Tsuyu's sister when she hugged the box, then there really is no point in continuing to live.

  Tiao saw Shi Yu's eyes and knew something was off. He said to Wen Baiyu, "Lend me your dagger for a moment."

  Wen Baiyu immediately rummaged through his bag and didn't know what Jiao Yu wanted to do with it, but still handed over the Fenggu dagger.

  Who would have thought that Piao Yu took out a dagger, and suddenly heard a "ka" sound, Wen Baiyu was already stunned, saying: "You... what are you doing?!"

  Gluttony's action was swift, and with one slash, he cut off a horn on his own head. As soon as the horn broke off, fresh blood gushed out from inside, flowing down Gluttony's forehead, instantly dyeing his cheek red, and dripping down his neck.

  Shi Xu was also shocked and staring at him.

  Gourdy grasped the horn, his five fingers spread out, and suddenly his fingertips trembled, and a blue flame emerged, which instantly ignited the horn.

  The corpse's arm was moved, and by the faint light of the burning arm, Shixu opened his eyes wide. Behind the flames, his sister's face was waxen yellow, completely devoid of vitality, her entire body had rotted away, with large and small festering wounds all over her body. Those scars and festers were things that Shixu hadn't seen since he woke up, yet they were just an illusion.

  Wen Baiyu whispered: "What is Tianyi doing?"

  Wan Qi Jing Hou said, "The ancients had a saying that rhinoceros horn can illuminate the spirit, burning it allows one to see things that cannot be seen with the naked eye and penetrate all false appearances. The horn of a gluttonous beast is naturally even more effective at gathering spirits than a rhinoceros horn."

  Shi Xu stared at the flames, his throat moving rapidly, his eyes slightly red, as if he was suppressing something.

  "Look closely, this is your sister. Even if you want to save her, you shouldn't use underhanded methods."

  As he spoke, Shi Xu's lips trembled slightly. At this moment, the motionless corpse suddenly sprang up, pinning Hei Xiong to the ground with one swift motion. It opened a pair of blood-red eyes and reached out to grab his throat, sinking its teeth in.

  "Ah..."

  Gluttony was completely unguarded, the burning horn in his hand fell to the ground, the flame made a "puff" sound, but it didn't go out. The wounded horn knocked against the ground, and he was so painful that he broke out in a cold sweat.

  At the moment when the soul was about to be bitten, it suddenly let out a shrill scream, then stared wide-eyed, and immediately wilted like a withered thing. The soul's body turned black in an instant, shrinking bit by bit, and "whoosh" turned into black powder, disappearing without a trace.

  At that moment, Shi Xun held his breath, and in his hand was a horn with a sharp end still wrapped in a thread of dark purple blood. Although the spirit had disappeared, the dark purple blood slowly turned into black powder and vanished.

  Wen Baiyu's eyes widened, the movement just now was too fast, and everyone was shocked when they reacted. The corner of the gluttony was also a spiritual object that drove away evil spirits, and the soul was injured by the corner, and it disappeared in an instant.

  Gourmand slowly got up from the ground, looking at Shi Xu who was still holding onto his horn. His palm had already turned black, as if it was disappearing bit by bit just like his spirit earlier.

  "Throw it away! Throw it away! Don't touch anything that's burning!"

  At that time, however, he didn't drop the horn in his hand, but carefully stroked it, looking at the glutton through the flames of fire, and chuckled softly, saying: "Thank you, I teased you in the tomb before, I didn't expect the ancient fierce beast not only didn't hold a grudge, but also helped me..."

  He said, his palms were already completely black, but he continued to rub that horn and said: "Your horns are very beautiful, you are also very beautiful..."

  Wen Bai's eyes stung, and he turned his head away. Wan Qi Jing Hou looked at him, patted his back to comfort him, then suddenly walked over, the dragon-scale dagger spinning in his palm. With a "whoosh" sound, a hole opened up in his palm, and blood flowed out.

  Xiang Yu knocked away the burning horn from Shi Xie's hand, and Shi Xie dripped his own blood onto Xiang Yu's palm. The charred hand slowly recovered.

  Wen Baiyu opened her big eyes and thought that Wan Jie Jing Hou was so fierce. Tang Zi said: "The soul only has yin, no yang, and no physical body. When it encounters something with yang, it will naturally disappear into thin air. Wan Jie Jing Hou's blood should be the most yin thing I've ever seen."

  Wen Baiyu said in surprise: "Is it even more gloomy than the ghost pulse of Yuwang?"

  Tang Tze shrugged and didn't say another word.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou lowered his head and looked at Shi Xu, saying: "Ordinarily, a ghost would turn into a pile of ashes with just a blink under the burning horn, consider yourself lucky, you didn't know what you touched before."

  At this point, Shi Xue was still dazed, and the Glutton had already slapped him with a loud slap, causing Shi Xue to stumble. The Glutton then regained his usual arrogant demeanor and scolded him, saying: "Fool! Are you sick or something? What's wrong with your brain? You're so stupid, how dare you touch my Flame Horn? Why didn't I burn you to death immediately and turn you into a piece of coal?! I..."

  He said, suddenly pressing his shoulder, and Shu Yu actually leaned forward, wrapped around Xiao Man's waist, and pressed his lips down, kissing Xiao Man's lips...

  His words got stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down, his face turned bright red, his eyes wide with panic, extremely flustered and stiff all over.

  It was just a pure kiss, not deep, but the gluttonous expression had already scared him silly. He then vigorously wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and said: "Stupid... stupid... suddenly... is this some kind of illness? Hurry up, go dig your sister's body out of the snow to give her a proper burial..."

  Gluttony said, and stood still again, touching his own broken horn, saying: "Burning horns can communicate with spirits, if you miss her, in fact, you can see her at any time, anyway... my horn, it takes a thousand years to grow once, and one horn can burn for a thousand years, if you want... I, I can give it to you, it's not impossible..."

  He said, glaring at Shi Xu with a fierce gaze.

  Wen Baiyu couldn't help it anymore and burst out laughing, "Pfft". Although his mouth was as hard as iron, his heart was actually soft.

  Wen Baiyu put the bronze box in her bag, then took out a piece of gauze to bandage Wang Ju's wounded palm, saying: "I found that your blood is simply a sharp weapon, it's a good medicine for home and travel!"

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou smiled lightly and said: "Actually I have something else that is more formidable than blood."

  "Really?!" said Wen Bai Yu in surprise.

  Wan Qi Jing Hou nodded, Wen Bai Yu was curious to death and asked: "What thing?"

  Wan Kuang Jing Hou's smile was profound and unpredictable, but he didn't say a word. Wen Bai Yu's heart was itchy with curiosity, she couldn't help but scratch her ears and cheeks as she followed the crowd outside, but Wan Kuang Jing Hou still didn't speak.

  Wen Baiyu didn't ask Wan Qi Jinghou anymore, and poked Tang Zi, saying: "Do you know what it is?"

  Tang Zǐ laughed and said: "This question, I'd rather not discuss with you."

  Wen Baiyu was even more curious, so curious that he could die from it. He was the kind of person who would say half a sentence and then stop, leaving Wen Baiyu to suffocate from curiosity.

  The snake led the way in front, a red rabbit lay on Wen Baiyu's shoulder, looking up at Wang Qishan with a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, and still gentle in his eyes, couldn't help but shudder, perhaps it was because he had been in the tomb for too long, and rarely saw Wang Qishan with such a gentle expression.

  Wen Baiyu was still very curious and kept asking Wan Jijinghou, but no matter how she asked, Wan Jijinghou only said: "Go home and I'll show you."

  The beast could no longer bear Wen Baiyu, covered his eyes with his hand and said: "You were sold by others and still gave them money, you're really too stupid."

  "What does it mean? Do you know?"

  The beast sneered and said: "Of course, just look at the tyrant's face with a sly uncle expression, it can be guessed even with ears."

  "What's going on!?"

  "Essence... liquid..."

  Wen Baiyu let out a "pfft" sound and it came out, instantly his old face turned bright red, finally knowing why everyone had an inscrutable expression, while Wan Qi Jinghou just said to go home and tell him again.

  Yu Wei Yang also has a thin skin type and said: "You guys stop teasing Wen Bai Yu."

  Tang Zi smiled and said: "Actually, this is not false, and it's not considered a heretical or unconventional way either."

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  Wen Baiyu was so angry he almost smashed his head against the wall of the cave.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou then pulled on his hand, his fingers still hooked in his palm, causing Wen Bai Yu to glare at him fiercely and shake off his hand.

  Wan Xi Jing Hou then let out a "hiss" sound and covered his own bandaged hand.

  Wen Baiyu's attitude softened immediately, saying: "Hurt, hurt?"

  Wan Qi Jing Hou nodded and said bluntly: "It hurts."

  He finished speaking and went to pull Wen Baiyu's hand, this time Wen Baiyu was helpless and didn't dare to shake his hand off, so he had no choice but to let him hold it, while in his heart he was resentful and gritting his teeth.

  As they walked, Wen Baiyu felt his shoulder getting hotter and hotter, as if there was a fireball burning on it. He couldn't help but turn his head to the side, and suddenly saw a red furball lying on his shoulder - wasn't that a fox?!

  Wen Baiyu's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the beast, which seemed to be in a somewhat unnatural state, with quite a bit of snake blood on its fur...

  "Wen Baiyu said: 'That... you're not feeling too well, are you?'"

  The sloth lazily lay on Wen Bai's shoulder and said, "How did you know? Never mind, I just feel a bit hot..."

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  No way!

  Wen Baiyu was about to speak when he heard a "plop" sound, and the beast's hands and feet went limp. It lost its grip on Wen Baiyu's shoulders and slid down from his body.

  Just as it was about to fall to the ground, the snake tail of the transformed snake coiled around the beast and wrapped it up, saying faintly: "It should be my snake blood."

  It shouldn't be like this, we all know it's because of your snake blood!

  Wen Baiyu muttered in her heart and said: "Let's hurry up, once we get out of the cave, outside is icy and snowy..."

  He hadn't finished speaking when there was a "plop" sound, and the rabbit suddenly transformed into a human shape, its whole body smooth and shiny, with a pair of red eyes full of confusion. It shook its long rabbit ears and round rabbit tail, and wrapped its arms and legs around the snake's tail, rubbing against it several times, saying: "So cool, so comfortable..."

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  Only two words were left in Wen Baiyu's heart: "go die"…