Chapter 24: Great Terror

Shang Zhongtian said in a low voice: "I tiptoed and walked in the cold and dry tunnel. The night pearls the size of fists on both sides didn't know how many years they had been shining. The faint blue light could only illuminate the figure, and even the facial features could not be seen clearly. I always felt that someone was watching me, watching me sweat, but when I looked back, I found nothing. At that time, I thought it was an illusion."

"I walked along the light through the rugged passage and came to the core main tomb."

"The specifications of the main tomb were staggering. For a moment, I forgot that this was a dark and terrifying tomb."

Shang Zhongtian closed his eyes and paused, as if recalling every detail of the scene he saw at that time. After the recall, he spoke slowly: "I have never seen such a large-scale tomb. The top of the cave is like the sky. Under the sky, terracotta warriors holding sharp bronze spears loyally guard their masters. The dazzling burial objects are all arranged in an Eight Trigrams array, which fits the order of the Heavenly Dao."

"The ancient corpse had been dead for hundreds of years, and the terrifying fluctuations transmitted through the coffin still made me palpitate, as if the Nascent Soul old monster had not died, but was just sleeping, and could wake up at any time."

"Hesitation is not my character. I made a decisive decision and rolled away half of the burial objects. Just when I wanted to leave, footsteps came from not far away. The footsteps echoed in the empty tomb, making people shudder."

"Next, I encountered a terrifying situation that I had never encountered in so many years in the industry."

Speaking of this, Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye couldn't help but lean forward, wanting to hear the follow-up.

Shang Zhongtian showed an extremely painful expression, his voice trembling: "I met the descendants of that Nascent Soul period coming to worship their ancestors!"

"What?" Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye heard clearly, but didn't react.

"Those people brought sacrifices and magic treasures, worshipped their ancestors, prayed for the family to last forever, geniuses to emerge, pass the imperial examination, and on the way to worship, they noticed me stealing in the tomb, so they swarmed up and captured me. It was too terrible at the time. I still sweat on my forehead when I think about it."

"I think their reaction is quite normal." Lu Yang said the truth. It is good cultivation that the family members didn't kill you on the spot.

"Is this the great terror you mentioned?" Tao Yaoye asked.

Shang Zhongtian scratched his head, not understanding the reaction of the two: "Yes, digging a tomb and meeting the descendants of the tomb owner, is there anything more terrifying than this?"

"And then?"

"Then I was beaten up, my realm fell from the peak of Qi Refining to the middle stage of Qi Refining, and I was sent to prison. The government asked me to pay for everything I stole before, and I was locked up for ten years. After being released from prison, I decided to wash my hands in a golden basin, be a new person, and no longer touch these rights and wrongs."

"Tell the truth."

"I have no face to see my peers."

"..."

Shang Zhongtian was so sincere that both of them didn't know what to say.

After Shang Zhongtian personally buried Steward Zhang's skinless corpse, he invited Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye to stay for one night before leaving, which was rejected by Tao Yaoye.

If it weren't for inducing the Painted Skin Ghost to take action, Tao Yaoye would not have chosen to stay overnight. Traveling at night was no difficulty for two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Before leaving, Lu Yang found Shang Yuan again and touched the parrot's head.

If Taiping Township hadn't mistaken the parrot for a demon beast, there would be no chance to come to the Shang family to solve the Painted Skin Ghost.

"This parrot is good, maybe it is really a demon beast, cultivate it well."

Shang Yuan was startled and hurriedly asked for the reason.

"The strength of demon beasts is very vague in the early stage, and it is not easy to distinguish from wild beasts. I can't tell the difference."

"However, Xiao Lu left your house but didn't fly far away, but kept flying in Taiping Township, and also knew that your house was in danger, and didn't approach your house. Maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe it's a sign of enlightenment, it's hard to say."

Lu Yang smiled and didn't say anything more.

Shang Zhongtian felt that the hospitality was not good. The two saved the lives of the twelve members of the Shang family, and he could only tell the story of his retirement.

"This is my tomb raiding experience. If the two don't dislike it, why not accept it? Maybe it will be useful sometime." Shang Zhongtian took out a blue thread-bound book from his arms and gave it to the two.

Lu Yang accepted it politely, and then the two waved goodbye.

On the way back, Lu Yang asked: "Do you want this tomb raiding experience?"

Tao Yaoye shook her head. She doesn't raid tombs, so what does she want this for?

Lu Yang also felt it was useless, but still put it away.

"Why didn't you tell me in advance when you put poison in my room?" Tao Yaoye was brooding about this.

Fortunately, as a Feathering Immortal Body, she has a high resistance to all poisons, otherwise wouldn't she have athlete's foot like Steward Zhang?

Is it appropriate for a beautiful girl to have athlete's foot?

Lu Yang shrugged. He naturally put poison knowing that the poison was harmless to Tao Yaoye: "I told you."

"When?"

"When eating, using eyes."

"So you weren't unable to reach the dish, letting me pass you the plate?"

"I'm not such a superficial person."

The two successfully returned to the Seeking Dao Sect. Coincidentally, Meng Jingzhou also just completed the mission and was complaining to the senior brother who issued the mission.

"Junior Brother Meng Jingzhou, your mission is quite simple, why did the fox demon complain, saying that your attitude is problematic and you refused to cooperate with her." This senior brother was a bit strange. Providing a dual cultivation technique, what attitude problem could there be?

"Senior brother, you have to check that fox demon, there must be a problem. You said I just went over to provide dual cultivation techniques, and she actually asked to verify the goods, and wanted to practice dual cultivation with me to see if it was true or false."

Meng Jingzhou said angrily: "If I couldn't break the Pure Yang Body, I would have practiced with her!"

I don't know if he was angry that he was a Pure Yang Body, missing an encounter, or angry that the fox demon looked down on his heart of seeking Dao.

Seeing that the senior brother who issued the mission was also helpless, Lu Yang stepped forward to relieve the siege: "Senior brother, we two completed the mission of dealing with demon beasts."

Lu Yang explained in detail how the people of Taiping Township mistook a parrot for a talking demon beast, and how he and Tao Yaoye showed flaws, induced the Painted Skin Ghost to take action, and then solved it.

Speaking to the end, Lu Yang handed the ashes of the Painted Skin Ghost to the senior brother.

"It's excellent to complete the mission so well for the first time. You are very good." The senior brother looked at Lu Yang with admiration. When he issued this mission, he thought it was very simple, but didn't expect that there were other hidden feelings behind it.

When hearing that Lu Yang poisoned the symptoms and quickly solved the battle, he was even more impressed. If there was no poisoning, it would take some effort to subdue the Painted Skin Ghost, and it might even escape.

Most importantly, this junior brother carries poison that causes athlete's foot. Thinking of this, the senior brother quietly sat a little further away.

"You two exceeded the mission, your original contribution points are quadrupled, get 120 contribution points, Junior Sister Tao Yaoye, you played an auxiliary role in this mission, get 90 contribution points."

Tao Yaoye had no objection. In this mission, Lu Yang played a crucial role, and she was just a bait. ===== CHAPTER 25 =====