Tomb Raider: Evolution of the Red Dragon, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

"Okay, if something is calling you, let's go check it out. This is your chance after all!"

Jiang Hua and Hou Tu held hands and slowly walked towards the gate. At this time, a magical thing happened. The group of statues were slowly rotating as if they were watching Hou Tu and Jiang Hua walk into the gate.

Jiang Hua observed for a while and found that no mechanism had been triggered, so the two of them continued to walk towards the inverted door.

Jiang Hua walked to the door and tried to push it open, but no matter how hard Jiang Hua tried, he couldn't shake the door!

"what?"

Jiang Hua looked at the door curiously, very confused. Hou Tu also walked over and touched the door in confusion, but just when Hou Tu put her hand on it, something magical happened. The door actually opened slowly in a flash of light.

Jiang Hua looked at Hou Tu in surprise, and Hou Tu also looked at Jiang Hua in surprise. Both of them were confused.

"It seems that the opportunity you have here is correct. I wish you a smooth journey." Jiang Hua said sourly to Hou Tu.

Then the three of them walked in and found that the inner hall was very huge, and there was a huge statue placed in the center of the inner hall.

Jiang Hua walked to the bottom of the statue curiously, and suddenly he found that the statue looked familiar. He turned around to look at Hou Tu and then at the statue, and found that Hou Tu and the statue were 99% similar.

Hou Tu also looked at the statue in surprise. She didn't know why there was a statue of her here.

"You came!"

Suddenly, a disembodied voice appeared in the inner hall.

"Who?"

Jiang Hua looked around very vigilantly, but the voice didn't speak again after that sentence.

Hou Tu suddenly walked slowly to the front of the statue as if being guided, and enchanted the statue with her hands.

For a moment, the statue emitted brilliant light, directly covering Jiang Hua and Hou Tu.

"You finally came!"

When Hou Tu opened her eyes, all that was left was herself and the statue in front of her.

"who are you?"

"Haha, I am you and you are me, but we were separated for some reason back then, and now it's time for us to become one."

The ethereal voice fell, and a ray of light fell from the statue and entered Hou Tu's brows.

At once, a large amount of memories flooded into Hou Tu's mind.

"One of the twelve ancient witches, the ancient witch of earth?"

"You finally remembered! My mission should be over, and it's time for you to accept your inheritance."

Then a soft light lifted Hou Tu up and stopped in front of the statue's chest.

“Is this Hou Tu’s chance?”

Jiang Hua looked at Hou Tu, who was wrapped in a force, with great interest and spoke to himself.

Outside the palace
Chi You was very surprised to see the two people walk in. He really wanted to ask Jiang Hua and Hou Tu, but given the current situation, Chi You had no way of getting away.

"Damn it, after so many years, the Yellow Emperor has become so powerful that I can't even resist this simple spirit!"

Chi You struggled to hold up the dark sky. He could not retreat because the last hope of his Jiuli people was below.

"Give up, you are no longer the demon god Chi You. As long as you commit suicide voluntarily, I will let go of the Jiuli people behind you." The spirit of the Yellow Emperor saw that Chi You was at the end of his rope, and he sneered.

"Humph, a mere spirit beast actually wants me to commit suicide. Even if the Yellow Emperor came in person, he would not dare to say this to me."

"Humph, do you still think you are the Chi You of the past? You are really living in a dream. Since you are stubborn and refuse to change, I will give you a ride!"

"Kowloon!"

As the golden figure finished speaking, the Xuanyuan Sword split into nine golden dragons, roaring and flying towards Chi You.

When Chi You saw that Huangdi's spirit was exerting all his strength, the solemn look in his eyes became even more intense.

"It seems that we still have to use that trick."

Chi You bit his tongue and a stream of blood spurted out. Chi You used the blood to draw a symbol in the void.

"Dark world!"

As the symbol of Chi You was drawn, the black figure behind Chi You became more solid. The giant black figure raised the knife in his hand and swept directly towards the nine giant dragons flying out of the sky.

"boom--"

With Chi You's sword strike, the giant dragon released by Huangdi's spirit disappeared, and Chi You also fell down because his spiritual energy stagnated due to the forced release of the forbidden technique.

"It seems that you have already used your strongest attack. Now you can also be angry!"

"go with!"

The spirit of Emperor Huangdi stabbed Chiyou with the Xuanyuan Sword in his hand.

Chi You looked at the Xuanyuan Sword that was growing bigger and bigger in his eyes, and a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"Haha, it looks like I've been defeated, but I'm so unwilling to accept this. I have been guarding something for so long, but now I have to watch it being annihilated."

But just as Xuan was about to stab Chi You, a beam of light suddenly appeared in the palace.

"Humph, when will it be your turn to execute the people of my Wu clan?"

A cold voice resounded through the heavens and the earth, and then a beautiful figure walked out of the palace. The momentum of her movement seemed to be able to make the heavens and the earth submit. This figure with unparalleled momentum turned out to be Hou Tu!!!
Time goes back to when Jiang Hua and Hou Tu accepted the inheritance.

Jiang Hua looked at Hou Tu floating in the sky, and out of boredom he looked around the statue to see if there was any useful information.

Jiang Hua walked behind the statue and found a scroll. Jiang Hua picked up the scroll curiously. After opening it, Jiang Hua discovered that the scroll was actually an introduction to the statue.

“When the heaven and earth were first created, all things were in chaos. A giant holding a giant axe created the heaven and earth, evolving a whole new world. But the giant fell down after creating the heaven and earth, and his spirit split into the Three Pure Ones, and his bloodline turned into the Twelve Ancestral Witches…” According to the records on the scroll, the statue in front of Jiang Hua is one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Earth Ancestor Witch—Hou Tu!
Back then, Hou Tu fell into a deep sleep due to a serious injury. When she woke up again, the world was no longer what she remembered.

Hou Tu walked on the earth in confusion. She followed the feeling in her heart and moved forward, and finally arrived at the Jiuli tribe.

Here he met the young Chi You, because Jiuli was the last witch tribe at that time.
Therefore, Hou Tu, feeling grateful for the decline of the Wu clan, gave Chi You power to lead the Jiuli to glory. Afterwards, she built a palace and created an avatar of herself in it to travel outside, while her real body fell into a deep sleep.

After Jiang Hua finished reading the records on the scroll, he looked at the statue in front of him and Hou Tu floating in the air with complicated eyes.

"So you are the famous Queen Mother Hou Tu, one of the twelve witch ancestors in mythology! Now that you have accepted the inheritance, you should have recovered your previous memories. How should I face you now!"

At this moment, the statue slowly shattered and finally turned into a beautiful spirit.

Hou Tu slowly floated towards the spirit and finally merged into one with the spirit.

Slowly the spirit became solid, and suddenly the entire palace began to tremble violently.

"what happened?"

Jiang Hua felt the trembling palace and felt that something might have happened to Chi You outside.

"Humph! How dare the little human race provoke my witch tribe!"

The spirit that merged with Hou Tu turned into an extremely beautiful appearance. After feeling the trembling of the palace, it opened its mouth and spoke coldly, without a trace of emotion in its tone.

Hou Tu slowly stood up and was about to fly out but was stopped by Jiang Hua.

"Hou Tu You"

"Humph! How dare you address me by my name, you rude fellow!"

Hou Tu looked at Jiang Hua coldly without a trace of emotion in her eyes. She was no longer the Hou Tu that Jiang Hua had seen before.

"Considering that you have helped my clone, I will spare your life. If you do it again, you will be killed!"

Hou Tu then broke through the roof of the palace and flew out. She just happened to see the Xuanyuan Sword stabbing towards the palace. She waved her hand lightly, and a beam of light hit the Xuanyuan Sword.

"When will it be your turn to execute the people of my Wu clan?" Hou Tu's cold voice resounded throughout the world.

"you are?"

"You are!"

The spirit of Huangdi and Chiyou looked at this beautiful figure and asked in confusion.

Suddenly, Chi You's forgotten memories came back to life, "You, you are the Queen Mother of the Earth?"

Chi You looked at the figure in front of him excitedly. He finally waited for Hou Tu to come back. At that time, Hou Tu gave him power for a long time and then said that she would go to the palace for seclusion.

Chi You has always regarded this palace as the temple of his Jiuli, for the sake of the person in front of him who changed his life. Now that Hou Tu has finally come out of seclusion, how can he not be excited.

"I never thought that the missing Queen Hou Tu was actually in the lower world. Xuanyuan goes to pay her a visit to Queen Hou Tu." The spirit of Emperor Huang in the sky obviously also recognized Hou Tu.

"Hmph, I say the same thing again. When will it be your turn to execute the people of my Wu clan?" Hou Tu asked in a cold tone, not bothering to pay attention to the spirit of Huangdi.

"You don't know, Hou Tu Niangniang, that Chi You led the Jiuli tribe to fight east and west, causing the entire world to suffer and the people to live in misery. Emperor Yan and I had no choice but to resist Chi You and finally killed him. Now he has resurrected and wants to revive the Jiuli tribe, so I have no choice but to kill him!"

"Is he serious?" Hou Tu looked at Chi You and asked.

"Back then, my Jiuli tribe was located in a remote area and most of the people in the tribe were hungry. I had no choice but to invade other tribes."

"Well, there are reasons for everything. It's not your fault. Besides, my witch clan was born to fight."

Hou Tu looked at the naturally golden figure, and the coldness in her eyes became even more severe.

"I asked you a question and I hope you answer it truthfully!"

"What does the Queen Mother Hou Tu want to know?"

"Do you know where my brothers are?"

"So you are asking about other Ancestral Witches. They are now in seclusion in the Ancestral Witch Hall!"

"Okay, you can leave now!"

"This……"

"What's your problem?"

"It is my mission to suppress Chi You. I must kill Chi You today!"

"Do you want to die?" Hou Tu asked coldly when she heard that Huangdi's spirit actually wanted to kill Chi You.

"Sorry, this is my mission and I must complete it."

When Hou Tu saw the attitude of Huangdi's spirit, she became furious.

"If you want to die, I will make it happen for you!"

Hou Tu waved her hand and took the Xuanyuan Sword from the hand of Huangdi's spirit.

"how come!"

Huangdi's spirit looked at Houtu in horror. He had thought that he was no match for Houtu, but now he didn't even have the strength to fight back.

"Hey, Queen Mother Hou Tu, why are you doing this?"

A man in a dragon robe appeared in front of the golden spirit.

"Xuanyuan!"

When Chi You saw the figure in the sky, his eyes were filled with anger. (End of this chapter)