Chapter 833: Treating money like dirt

"More importantly, your face has been noted by the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Your identity as the Cult Leader is no longer a secret. Brother Zhang, oh Brother Zhang, even if you obtain the opportunity and become a Grandmaster, the road ahead is still fraught with danger!"

Chen Guanlou was clearly gloating.

He just loved seeing the other party suffer; it was very pleasing to his mood.

Zhang Daohe looked indifferent. "As long as I can obtain the opportunity and step into the Grandmaster realm, what is a mere pursuit? Our White Lotus Sect has many mediocre aspects, but when it comes to hiding one's identity, we are second to none in the world. As long as I hide well enough, the Embroidered Uniform Guard won't be able to find me in ten or eight years. As for the fellow travelers in the Jianghu, they are just a mob, not worth worrying about. However, Brother Chen, rest assured, as long as you have a need, I will definitely arrive in the capital in time to lend you a hand."

"Aren't you afraid I'll team up with the Embroidered Uniform Guard to take you out?" Chen Guanlou asked.

Zhang Daohe laughed heartily. "If it really comes to that, we'll each rely on our own abilities. Anyway, no matter what, I definitely won't hold a grudge against you, just for the fact that you've saved my life three times."

Three times!

He had already saved his life three times.

On the road ahead, he didn't know how many more times he would need to be saved.

"Brother Zhang, your swelling has gone down! The antidote is really effective." Chen Guanlou pointed at the other party's face, which had clearly subsided.

Zhang Daohe stretched out his hands to look, laughing excitedly.

The laughter echoed in the stone chamber, startling the poisonous insects on the walls, which rolled down to the ground, yet all avoided the two of them. Knowing they were poison barrels, they dared not approach.

"These bugs aren't low in intelligence!"

Chen Guanlou was very surprised.

"Bugs have a keen sense of smell; they probably smelled the poison on me."

That made sense.

They rested while eating some food to replenish their energy.

After resting, they continued forward.

They opened the middle stone door.

One of the rules they had mastered was that all the stone doors were not difficult to open; once the mechanism was found, they could be opened.

There were also no poisoned hidden weapons.

However, they often fell into traps without realizing it, completely unable to defend against them. Its eeriness far exceeded those ancient tombs hidden with various lethal mechanisms and hidden weapons.

If it weren't for their profound Wu Gong cultivation, plus the fact that he had the Longevity Dao Fruit on him which could always keep him a sliver of clarity at critical moments, they would have already died from killing each other back at the golden statue.

Even if they escaped the golden statue, they couldn't escape the 'Immortal Board'. That move by the female immortal was truly powerful, impossible to guard against! Desire is human nature, present from birth. As long as the desire in one's heart is stirred, even a Grandmaster would likely suffer greatly!

Learning from the lesson, the stone door opened, but the two did not rush in, nor did they dare to look around wantonly at the entrance.

Covering their mouths and noses, wrapping their eyes with cloth strips, and tying up their sleeves and trousers tightly. They placed the antidote pills within reach, and once everything was prepared, the two nodded at each other before tentatively sticking their heads out to look into the stone door.

Gold and silver jewelry!

Countless gold and silver jewelry were piled into small hills.

"Could it be another illusion?" Zhang Daohe asked.

"Doesn't look like it!" Chen Guanlou took a few more looks. "There is a stone coffin, but the size is a bit off."

"How is it off?"

"Not big enough!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Daohe stuck his head out to look. "A child! Is the owner of this ancient tomb a child?"

That couldn't be!

Such a large-scale underground palace was definitely an imperial tomb. Only imperial clansmen had the qualifications to build an underground palace of this scale.

But how could it be a child?

Children were not enfeoffed and had no power; how could they enjoy an over-specification underground palace?

"The tomb owner is definitely not the child in the stone coffin. The regulations are wrong." Chen Guanlou gave only one reason to reject Zhang Daohe's speculation.

"Makes sense! The real tomb owner's tomb chamber definitely wouldn't look like this. It should be at least several times larger."

"Have you noticed that we've walked through so many stone chambers, yet we haven't seen any stone carvings or murals? On the contrary, the initial tunnels we walked through all had stone carvings."

"Is Brother Chen trying to say that this stone chamber isn't important and we can rush through?"

"Let me take another look!"

Observing the condition of the stone chamber in the 'Epiphany' state, Chen Guanlou frowned slightly.

Returning to reality, he told Zhang Daohe, "It's a bit troublesome."

"How so?"

"There's no stone door inside. To pass through this stone chamber, it seems we can only push open the stone coffin and pass from underneath it."

"Did we fall into a trap?" Zhang Daohe couldn't help but suspect if it was another illusion.

Chen Guanlou shook his head, then nodded. "No matter what, we have to rush through. Let's go in. Even if it's a mountain of blades and a sea of fire, we have to walk through it."

"Well said."

Zhang Daohe followed him to rush in.

Passing through the stone door and walking into the stone chamber, the two didn't even spare a glance at the mountains of gold and silver jewelry, too lazy to even give them a proper look. Gems the size of fists were right by their feet, and Chen Guanlou kicked them away, completely uninterested. In his eyes, at this moment, the piles of gold and silver jewelry seemed like a bunch of redundant rotten stones hindering his walking.

Zhang Daohe had the same attitude. He kicked a golden Buddha statue directly against the wall, where it crashed heavily. Night-luminescent pearls were within reach, yet he wasn't willing to look at them more.

Finally passing through the piles of jewelry, the two arrived before the stone coffin.

"How do we do this? Smash it directly, or use clever force?"

"Try not to damage the stone coffin. I have a premonition that if we dare to damage the stone coffin and disturb the dead inside, something bad will definitely happen. Very bad!"

Chen Guanlou firmly believed in his intuition; his intuition had saved his life several times.

The lethal trigger point of this stone chamber was very likely the stone coffin before them.

Seeing Zhang Daohe about to make a move,

he hurriedly stopped him!

"Kowtow!"

"What?" Zhang Daohe thought he had misheard.

Chen Guanlou impatiently said it a second time. "Kowtow! Since there's no incense or candles worth money, just kowtow three times to the owner of the stone coffin. Don't look so shocked. Do you want to pass through this stone chamber safely? We've already fallen into traps three times, each time hovering on the edge of life and death. Whether we can pass through safely and smoothly this time depends on whether we are pious enough. Those jewels should be the first test; fortunately, neither of us is greedy. This stone coffin before us is, without surprise, the second test. Don't look at how calm this stone chamber is; I dare say that once triggered, it will be ten times more dangerous than the poisonous insect stone chamber before."

"Really?"

"Trust me, you won't be wrong."

"If you say kowtow, then we kowtow. We must be pious, right!"

"Right! Don't let your mind wander."

The two stood before the stone coffin, did some psychological preparation, and after clearing all distracting thoughts, they knelt down and kowtowed together.

"Senior, we two have intruded here by mistake, with absolutely no malice, only seeking to pass through. We ask Senior to grant us this!"

After speaking, they kowtowed three times!

No movement!

They waited for a moment!

Still no movement!

Could it be wrong?

The two looked at each other.

Just as Zhang Daohe was about to open his mouth to complain, a rumbling sound, deafening within the stone chamber... the mechanism operated.

This stone chamber had a mechanism.

The two hurriedly stepped back, watching as the stone coffin slid. A moment later, a hole appeared, enough for one person to pass through.

"Brother Chen, you're divine!" ===== CHAPTER 834 =====