Chapter 24: Great Terror

Shang Zhongtian said in a low voice: "I tiptoed, walking in the cold and dry tunnel. On both sides were night pearls the size of fists. I don't know how many years they had been shining. The faint blue light could only illuminate the figure, not even the facial features. I always felt that someone was watching me, watching me until my hair stood on end, but when I looked back, I found nothing. At that time, I only 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 jaw-dropping. For a moment, I forgot that this was a dark and terrifying tomb chamber."

Shang Zhongtian closed his eyes and paused, as if recalling the details of the scene he saw at that time. After the recall, he spoke slowly: "I have never seen such a large-scale tomb chamber. The height of the cave roof was like the sky. Under the sky, terracotta warriors holding sharp bronze spears loyally guarded their masters. The dazzling array of burial goods were all arranged in an Eight Trigrams formation, secretly conforming to the order of the Heavenly Dao."

"The ancient corpse had been dead for hundreds of years, but the terrifying fluctuations emitted through the coffin still made my heart palpitate, as if that Nascent Soul old monster hadn't 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 goods. Just when I wanted to leave, footsteps came from not far away. The footsteps echoed in the empty tomb chamber, making people shudder."

"Next, I actually 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 stage coming to worship the ancestor!"

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

"Those people brought sacrifices and magic treasures, worshiping the ancestor, praying for the family to last forever, for geniuses to emerge, to pass the imperial examination. On the way to worship, they noticed me stealing in the tomb chamber, so they swarmed up and captured me. It was too terrible at that time. Even now, I still break out in a cold sweat when I think about it."

"..." Lu Yang said the truth: "I think their reaction is quite normal." It is good cultivation that the family members didn't chop you to death 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 cultivation realm fell from the peak of Qi Condensation to the mid-stage of Qi Condensation, and I was sent to prison. The government made me pay for everything I stole before, and I was locked up for ten years. After I was released from prison, I decided to wash my hands of it, 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 Butler Zhang's skinless corpse, he invited Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye to stay for one night before leaving, but 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 not difficult 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, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to come to the Shang family to solve the Painted Skin Ghost.

"This parrot is not bad. 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 difficult to distinguish them from wild beasts. I can't distinguish them either."

"However, the parrot left your house but didn't fly far away, but kept flying in Taiping Township. It also knew that your house was in danger and didn't approach your house. Maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe it's a precursor to opening its spiritual wisdom. 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 twelve people in the Shang family, and he could only tell the story of his retirement.

"This is the tomb-raiding experience I wrote. If the two don't dislike it, why not accept it? Maybe it will be useful someday." 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 didn't raid tombs, so what did 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 over this.

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

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

Lu Yang shrugged. He naturally put poison in the situation where he knew the poison was harmless to Tao Yaoye: "I told you."

"When?"

"When eating, with my eyes."

"So you weren't unable to reach the dish and asked me to pass the plate to you?"

"I am not such a superficial person."

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

"Junior Brother Meng Jingzhou, this mission of yours is quite simple. Why did the fox demon complain, saying that your attitude was 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. I just went over to provide dual cultivation techniques, and she actually asked to verify the goods, wanting to practice dual cultivation techniques with me to see if it was true or false."

Meng Jingzhou said angrily: "If I hadn't been unable to break my Pure Yang body, I would have practiced with her!"

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

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

Lu Yang explained in detail how the people of Taiping Township mistook a parrot for a demon bird that could speak, and how he and Tao Yaoye showed flaws, inducing the Painted Skin Ghost to take action and then being solved.

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

"Completing the mission so excellently 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 there to be hidden secrets behind it.

When he heard that Lu Yang poisoned him symptomatically and quickly ended the battle, he was even more impressed. If he hadn't been poisoned, it would have taken a lot of effort to subdue the Painted Skin Ghost, and he might have escaped.

Most importantly, this junior brother carried poison that infected athlete's foot with him. Thinking of this, the senior brother sat a little further away quietly.

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

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