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Chapter 289: Serial Killings, Bloodshed in the Tomb [Subscription Request]

A soft light rose in the dark corridor.

A piece of "sunstone" was floating quietly beside Zhou Mingde, moving with him.

As he scanned the sides, he could easily take in the murals on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor.

The mural starts at the main entrance and tells the story of an ordinary mortal child who is discovered to have spiritual roots and then grows through cultivation.

What surprised and excited Zhou Mingde was that there were images of various evil insects and monsters on the murals. It seemed that the tomb owner was driving these evil insects and monsters to fight the enemy during his lifetime.

From this perspective, the tomb owner seemed to be proficient in the art of taming beasts and expelling insects.

This information was undoubtedly very exciting for Zhou Mingde.

The Zhou family is famous for their beast taming skills. If they can inherit the beast taming and insect repelling skills left by the tomb owner, the Zhou family's beast taming skills will definitely become more powerful, and at the same time, they can also add another insect repelling skill inheritance to the family.

Especially this insect repellent technique, it might have a restraining effect on the insect plague that is now ravaging the Yang and Rong states.

Obviously, Zhou Mingde was not the only one who thought of this.

Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang also realized this when they were looking at the murals on both sides of the corridor.

There was a hint of anticipation in the eyes of the two.

However, the corridor does not go straight forward, but has a right-angle turn, so the murals cannot be seen in their entirety at a glance.

The mural stuck at the bend seems to depict the time when the tomb owner's cultivation level remained in the late Purple Mansion realm.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde could only walk slowly towards the bend despite the layers of protection.

Not long after, Zhou Mingde, who was moving forward, suddenly felt nervous, as if he had sensed something. He hurriedly shook the yellow jade Ruyi magic weapon in his hand, releasing a strong yellow light to protect himself.

Just when he finished doing all this, the stone walls on both sides of him suddenly cracked, and red rays of light shot out from them, filling the place where he was in the blink of an eye.

Looking closely, the red light was not a magic weapon, but red flying mosquitoes the size of a fingernail.

These fly flies are red all over, except for their eyes which are black.

The aura on them does not seem to be strong, about the same as that of a first-level demon insect.

But when Zhou Mingde was submerged and wrapped by them, he quickly discovered how terrifying they were.

The flying mosquitoes surrounded Zhou Mingde, as if red flames were burning on his body.

However, the various defenses arranged by Zhou Mingde began to quickly decline and retreat under their absorption.

Yes, absorb!
The mouthparts of these red flying mosquitoes are stuck on the shield, absorbing the spiritual power of the shield like mosquitoes sucking blood.

Even though the spiritual power absorbed by a single flying mosquito is insignificant, if thousands or tens of thousands of flying mosquitoes absorb it together, even a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator like Zhou Mingde would not be able to handle it.

After discovering this, Zhou Mingde hurriedly ordered the Fire God Jackal to spit out evil fire to burn those flying mosquitoes.

But what he didn't expect was that the Fire God Jackal's demonic fire, which could melt even second-level magic weapons, had no effect at all on those flying mosquitoes!
These flying mosquitoes seemed to have the ability to be immune to burning by fire. No matter how hard the evil fire burned them, they did not show any discomfort.

Zhou Mingde was extremely shocked by this situation.

He immediately stopped caring about his face and shouted to Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang: "Please lend me a helping hand, fellow Taoists!"

At this time, Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang did not let down their guard.

They all knew that since they hadn't even seen the treasure yet, it was necessary to continue the cooperation among the three of them.

Besides, Zhou Mingde might not really have no other options. He might be testing them.

Therefore, when Zhou Mingde called for help, the two of them immediately came to his aid.

Both of them had seen the actions of the Fire God Jackal before.

When they attacked at this time, the two did not use those fire magic powers, but chose spells of other attributes.

But Shen Borong made some hand gestures and a blue-white water column shot towards the red light.

Ruan Hongzhuang waved her sleeves and summoned a dark green gourd magic weapon. Under the activation of the magic formula, a dark green poisonous mist gushed out from the gourd and rolled towards the flying mosquitoes.

Sure enough, the red flying mosquito only has strong resistance to fire attacks, but has little resistance to other means of attack.

The water column driven by Shen Borong easily washed them to the ground, and then the dark green poisonous mist rushed in, easily corroding them into poisonous water.

Regardless of whether it was the water column or the dark green poisonous fog, the attack power was less than level three, and had no effect on Zhou Mingde and the Vulcan Jackal.

"Thank you two fellow Taoists for your help."

After escaping, Zhou Mingde immediately bowed to Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang to express his gratitude.

Then he looked at the cracked stone walls on both sides, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.

The situation just now was indeed very dangerous. Fortunately, he was not alone here, otherwise he might have been hurt by those flying mosquitoes.

At this moment, he looked towards the cracked stone wall, and saw a small stone chamber inside. There were two open fiery red sarcophagi in the stone chambers, as if the red flying mosquitoes had been dormant in the sarcophagi before.

"I don't know what kind of monster these red flying flies are. How could they be able to hibernate in this mausoleum for so many years without eating or drinking!"

Shen Borong also saw the situation in the stone chamber, and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement after seeing this situation.

Zhou Mingde didn't say anything.

The Zhou family has passed down the art of taming beasts. Although he did not recognize the origin of those red flying mosquitoes, he knew about some magical insects that could hibernate for thousands of years in special environments.

The red flying mosquito should also be that kind of evil insect, and the fiery red sarcophagus is undoubtedly a special object prepared for its hibernation.

After looking at the two fiery red sarcophagi for a while, he whispered, "The sarcophagi seem to be made of Fire Essence Source Stone. The tomb owner is really willing to spend money to build two such large pieces of Fire Essence Source Stone!"

The Fire Essence Source Stone he mentioned is a kind of stone that has remained unchanged for thousands of years in the magma of the earth's fire.

This kind of stone has extremely strong fire resistance and also contains rich and pure earth fire spiritual power. When those big forces build the earth fire chamber, they use this kind of stone to pave and seal the area near the fire outlet, so it is very valuable.

Hearing his words, Shen Borong was also eager to try and said, "It seems that these two sarcophagi can still be used. Should we collect them first?"

"There's no rush. We haven't reached the main tomb yet. It's best not to move these things to avoid triggering any traps."

Zhou Mingde shook his head slightly and rejected Shen Borong's somewhat rash proposal.

Ruan Hongzhuang quickly nodded in agreement and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou is right. They are just two Fire Essence Origin Stone coffins. Even if they have some value, they are not worth the risk for us."

After hearing what they both said, Shen Borong had no choice but to give up the idea.

So after a short rest, Zhou Mingde continued to explore the way forward.

This time he walked around the right-angle turn and soon saw the end of the corridor several dozen feet away.

At the end of the corridor was a heavy stone door, with intricate and mysterious formation patterns carved on it. Judging from the distance from the bend to the stone door, it should be less than fifty feet.

If one were to fly, this distance would be reached in a flash.

Zhou Mingde could even use his magic weapon to attack the stone door now.

But he knew in his heart that things were definitely not that simple.

If we really attack the stone gate now, who knows what unexpected consequences may occur.

So after a moment's hesitation, he decided to move forward slowly, step by step.

This time, he had just walked less than ten feet when the familiar scene appeared again.

But the stone walls on both sides of the corridor suddenly cracked, and countless blue-black moths flew out and pounced on Zhou Mingde in an instant.

Those blue-black moths are huge in size, like sparrows.

Unlike the red flying ants he had seen before, Zhou Mingde recognized the origins of these blue-black moths at a glance.

If he was not mistaken, this was a highly poisonous insect called the "Corruption Moth", which was generally only active in places with strong yin and corpse qi.

This kind of poisonous insect has a strong corpse poison. Not only can they spit out poisonous smoke to form poisonous fog to attack the enemy, but they can also self-explode to hurt the enemy.

And now these "Corrupt Moths" have undoubtedly chosen the fastest way to hurt the enemy through self-destruction.

As soon as they approached Zhou Mingde, they exploded immediately.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Mingde was submerged in the blue-black venom formed by the self-explosion of these poisonous insects.

Fortunately, the Vulcan Jackal managed to help this time.

It spewed out magic fire from its mouth, burning many of the "Corrupted Yin Moths" that did not have time to self-destruct into ashes, and even burned the venom that corroded Zhou Mingde's defenses into green smoke.

With the cooperation between master and servant, although a little embarrassed, they still managed to survive this round of attack.

After all the poisonous moths were killed, Zhou Mingde stuffed two Huiyuan Pills into his mouth and then looked towards the stone chamber from which the poisonous moths came out.

Like the stone chamber in front, the stone chambers on both sides of the corridor are also arranged to create an environment suitable for the hibernation of the "corrupted Yin moth", and these poisonous moths are sealed in coffins made of Yin wood with rich Yin energy.

Compared to the Fire Essence Source Stone which is quite useful to immortal cultivators, this Yin wood coffin is of little use, and no one is interested in it.

Next, while Zhou Mingde was exploring the way forward, he was attacked by two kinds of alien insects in succession. Fortunately, with the help of the Fire God Jackal and Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang, he was able to resolve the danger safely in the end.

Until he reached the stone gate at the end of the corridor, he did not encounter any new attacks.

Looking at the stone door at the end of the corridor, Shen Borong was inexplicably angry and couldn't help but exhale and say, "This tomb owner is really weird. Since he arranged so many tests, why didn't he reveal any information at all?"

"He's playing with us juniors like this. Isn't he afraid that I will take his remains to vent my anger when I leave?"

At this time, the three of them had already finished looking at the murals on both sides of the corridor, so they knew clearly that this was indeed the tomb of a Jindan stage cultivator.

But as Shen Borong said, since this tomb has a door and a corridor, it means that the owner of the tomb should be mentally prepared for the tomb to be discovered.

In this case, even if it is to allow the intruder to respect his remains, he should leave some introduction information, at least to explain how many tests will follow.

But now, apart from the information left on the murals on both sides of the corridor, Zhou Mingde and his team know nothing about this tomb, and they don’t even know the name of the tomb owner.

No wonder Shen Borong is a little angry now.

Zhou Mingde waved his hand and said, "Fellow Daoist Shen, don't be angry. Now that we are all here, it doesn't matter whether the tomb owner left any information or not."

Then he said in a deep voice: "Let's follow the old rules and break down this stone door together!"

Shen Borong and the others naturally had no objection to his proposal.

So the three men and the monster attacked at the same time and launched a fierce attack on the stone door.

However, what the three men did not expect was that as soon as they attacked the stone gate, the stone walls on both sides of the corridor they had walked through began to crack one after another, and countless light golden alien insects flew out from them.

They were all familiar with that kind of pale golden alien insects. In the murals they had seen before, the tomb owner had driven this kind of pale golden alien insects to kill enemies many times. He was still driving this kind of alien insects even after the Jindan stage.

This strange insect looks a bit like a longhorn beetle, with hard armor on its body and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

They are not big in size, about the same size as the fist of a three or four-year-old child, and have an extremely fast flying speed.

The only way this insect attacks seems to be biting with its mouth full of sharp teeth.

But don't think that they are weak.

Because they have a single means of attack, but have extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Even the evil fire spewed by the Fire God Jackal could not burn them to death and melt them in an instant.

Their seemingly small teeth can easily bite through the fur of third-level monsters like the Vulcan Jackal.

At that time, facing the attack of tens of thousands of alien insects, Zhou Mingde and the other two were caught off guard.

No one expected that the tomb owner would leave behind such a killer move!
But now even if they wanted to escape, they had nowhere to escape because all the ways out were blocked by those alien insects!

There was no other way, the three persons and one demon could only use all their means to desperately resist the attack of the swarm of insects.

Finally, after a brutal battle, the Zerg was finally destroyed by the three men.

But after this battle, all three of them suffered serious injuries.

Zhou Mingde himself had more than a dozen pieces of flesh bitten off his body, and two holes appeared on his face.

Shen Borong was even more miserable, as most of his right arm was bitten off, forcing him to amputate his own arm!
Ruan Hongzhuang, such a charming and beautiful woman, had her face covered in blood and her chest was bitten in several places.

Even the Fire God Jackal, a third-rank medium-grade monster with thick skin and flesh, was bitten so hard that its body was covered with wounds and bleeding profusely!
"Damn it! It's really damned!"

Looking at the corpses of alien insects all over the ground, Shen Borong, who only had one arm left, shouted angrily, "Shen swears that after I enter the main tomb, I will grind the remains of that fellow into ashes, only in this way can I relieve the hatred in my heart!"

"It would be too easy for him to just grind his bones and scatter his ashes! I will soak his remains in manure and let him be stinking for eternity!"

Ruan Hongzhuang also gritted her teeth, and her voice was as shrill as the wailing of a ghost.

Zhou Mingde didn't say anything harsh, but his rage was just as great as the other two.

He looked at the stone door at the end of the corridor and said in a deep voice: "Everyone go back and heal your wounds first, and we can talk about the rest later!"

The injuries on their bodies now cannot be recovered by simple treatment, and it is not known whether there are other dangers inside.

So to be on the safe side, we can only retreat back to the base to heal our wounds and recover, and then come back to continue exploring.

(End of this chapter)