[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n":3,"chapter-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-60":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, The Tomb-Raiding Storyteller: Exposing the Old Nine Gates from the Start",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2162640,3627,"Chapter 60","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-60",60,"\u003Cp>\"Xi Qi's words—one wen short, and it could have been realized, but Heaven just didn't give him this chance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Therefore, at this moment, Chen Pi became more and more firm in a thought.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Most people have no need to live; if there is a chance to die, they should just go and die obediently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi thought of many people he had killed before; why was there so much unwillingness in their eyes before they died?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If they didn't die, what could they do in this world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi turned and left coldly. After walking a few steps, he suddenly realized something and turned back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He came to Chun Shen's corpse and looked at Chun Shen's hand; his left hand was clutching something tightly, clenched into a fist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi used a lot of strength to pry his left hand open.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this very moment, a copper coin fell from Chun Shen's hand, landed on the bloody soil below, bounced, and rolled toward the river.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi stepped forward quickly, stepped on the coin before it rolled into the river, and then picked it up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The moment he saw it was one wen, Chen Pi was stunned, then a burst of ecstasy rushed into his heart, and he began to laugh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At first it was just laughter, but then, his laughter became heart-wrenching.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this time, the sunset had completely fallen. Chen Pi raised his head and shouted at the sky like a madman: 'Xi Qi, you son of a bitch, look! I'm going to be rich!'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi placed Chun Shen in the shrine of the ruined temple, and then strung that blood-stained copper coin together with the previous ninety-nine wen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By Chen Pi's side were two things: a knife with a nearly ninety-degree sharp hook at the tip, specially used for peeling pineapples.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And a nine-pronged hook with a tendon rope, which he used specially on the beach to catch crabs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi put all these things into the pouch at his waist, and then unfolded the Exemption Flag.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally, he found a bamboo pole, hoisted the Exemption Flag, and walked toward the market, waving it in the wind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi dragged his wooden board sign, hung a string of copper coins around his neck, and held up an Exemption Flag, swaggering through the market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His image was ridiculous, and passersby pointed and laughed, thinking it was funny, but Chen Pi himself was completely unaware; he even had a sense of incomparable pride.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He found a noodle stall, slapped the flag on the table, and sat down to eat noodles as if no one else was there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There were many people at the pier, and many people saw his flag with curious expressions, but nothing more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi stuffed his mouth with noodles while observing carefully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until he saw a person whose eyes flickered when he saw this flag!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yin Nanfeng had always been attracted by this story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past events by the Yangtze River were a world she had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But hearing this, she asked Zhang Yueshan with confusion: \"What is Chen Pi doing? Why doesn't he go find that Cannon Head, but instead sits here eating noodles?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan had lived a long time; when he followed the Great Buddha Zhang to fight the Japanese, he often went to the Hubei and Hunan areas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he was not only familiar with the Gelao Society by the Jinsha River but also with the water bandits on the Yangtze River!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he explained: \"Chen Pi is looking for someone, because this flag belongs to the Huang Kui Gang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Huang Kui Gang's Exemption Flags, as far as I know, numbered seventy or eighty at their peak!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi's rule is one hundred wen to kill one person, so he must find the owner of this flag.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The pier is crowded with people, making it the easiest place to find information.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan had lived a long time, so naturally, he knew more about those years than others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Chen Pi A-si, who was now over ninety years old, couldn't compare to this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Zhang Yueshan say that Chen Pi A-si was looking for someone, Yin Yin Nanfeng couldn't help but ask for the detailed process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan said: \"In those years, the water bandits in the Hubei and Hunan regions were also called 'water locusts', meaning they were like locusts—coming and going without a trace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Most of the Yangtze River water locusts came from the various lakes in the tributaries of the Yangtze River.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When a war broke out, armed water bandits fled into the Yangtze River; there were many people and few boats, and they often killed each other for fights.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These Huang Kui water locusts were quite famous in the Yangtze River generation, originally coming from Dongting Lake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard that the person in charge was originally a Daoist priest who stayed at the Huang Kui Temple.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So after this group of Daoist priests came out to be water bandits, they called themselves Huang Kui.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yin Nanfeng nodded; she didn't expect a water bandit to have so many tricks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that the Xia Kingdom in that era was just like that, always producing many stories around rivers and lakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such places were naturally suitable for the emergence of some grassroots figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan seemed to have his thoughts pulled back to that era by Yin Yin Nanfeng's question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued: \"The water locusts on the Yangtze River are generally divided into two types: one is the boat bandit—besides robbing merchant ships on weekdays, their main income comes from smuggling and salt trafficking, occasionally robbing merchant ships.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The other is the land bandit, who boards from the shore, robs crew members and passengers, and then is met by others in the river.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The former organization is huge and the rules are strict; the latter is cruel and cunning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This Huang Kui Gang slowly became the largest gang in Hanchang in this cruel struggle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And that Huang Kui ancestor is said to have some skills.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because there were many people under his command, there were seventy-eight exemptions at the most. It is indeed difficult to distinguish whose flag this is!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi A-si wants to find the Cannon Head who killed people through this flag.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yin Nanfeng understood; although Chen Pi was young.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after all, he had survived by killing people slowly; if he didn't have some wits, he would have died eight hundred times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the Cannon Head's act of 'picking flower drums', Zhang Lin did not explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yin Nanfeng asked curiously: \"What is 'picking flower drums' for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan said: \"Have you heard of 'passing the flower drum'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a tradition of the Huang Kui Gang. When the drum sounds, they start; when the drum stops, the number of heads of the boat dwellers is counted. The one with the most counts can hold the position of Cannon Head.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yin Nanfeng raised her eyebrows upon hearing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the situation was not quite right; when the Cannon Head was picking flower drums, he was already a Cannon Head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that he was not picking flower drums this time to compete for the position of Cannon Head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But someone was challenging him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, for a large gang like the Huang Kui Gang, the position of Cannon Head is difficult to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So although the tradition of picking flower drums exists, it will never be easily enabled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that the Cannon Head was forced to pick flower drums once, it only meant that the gang leader had an opinion about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for the leader's support, which subordinate would dare to challenge the Cannon Head?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan and Yin Yin Nanfeng were both people of the Jianghu; just from the 'picking flower drums', they saw the problem of the Huang Kui Gang's lack of unity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Zhang Lin had already told how Chen Pi found a suspicious person at the pier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Pi followed this person all the way to a stall selling 'hutang' noodles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Pi saw that person sitting at the stall asking for a bowl of hutang noodles, not wanting to alert the enemy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So he took off his clothes and jumped into the river, wanting to approach the stall slowly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After listening for a long time, Chen Pi A-si finally confirmed that this was a member of the Huang Kui Gang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That night, he killed ten people, but not one told him whose flag it was!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When Chen Pi A-si was washing the blood off his body by the river, he fell into anger again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He kept muttering: 'A loss, a loss; to kill one person, I killed ten people in vain. This is a bad business.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From this time on, it also started Chen Pi A-si's road of 'Four Slaughters of Huang Kui'!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The listeners who heard about the 'Four Slaughters of Huang Kui' all cheered up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They sighed one after another, Chen Pi A-si really had guts!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chun Shen only asked him to kill one, but because he had to find the right Cannon Head, he had no choice but to kill one member of the Huang Kui Gang after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, there was even a 'Four Slaughters of Huang Kui'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If things go wrong, because of Chen Pi's 'one hundred wen to kill one person', the water locusts on the Yangtze River might fall into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was looking forward to seeing what kind of mess Chen Pi A-si's reckless personality could make of the Huang Kui Gang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Zhang Lin continued: \"When Chen Pi A-si was washing his clothes, the people of the Huang Kui Gang also gathered together because of his killing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The leader of the Huang Kui Gang, and the strategist—everyone called the strategist 'Mr. Ban Tuo'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard that this person's intelligence is monstrous, a character even more powerful than the Huang Kui leader.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at the ten corpses neatly arranged by the river, the Huang Kui leader directly asked the Cannon Head what was going on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Cannon Head felt guilty and immediately said it had nothing to do with him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1705,"2026-06-16T21:55:26.381Z","2026-06-16T22:03:03.495Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e8b4874a9522eb2abc0ce2d44224a51f82a15b4fe2be010fd0c3141450742ecb","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-61","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-59",577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--cover.jpg"]