Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 531 The Longevity Scheme
“No.” Gao Dongxu looked at the mummified corpse with explosives hidden inside its abdomen and said with certainty.

How could someone as extraordinary as Wang Zanghai allow himself to die here like this?

Yes, after constantly sorting out and reflecting on all the plots of The Lost Tomb, Wang Zanghai has become a true god in Gao Dongxu's heart!

This tomb was merely Wang Zanghai's experimentation site for immortality. The forbidden woman, the sea monkey, and the twelve-armed female corpse were all failed products of Wang Zanghai's immortality experiments.

In fact, if you connect the stories of the entire Tomb Raider series, it is not hard to find that Wang Zanghai is the mastermind behind the entire Tomb Raider world. Even though he has been dead for hundreds of years, whether it is the Wang family, the Zhang family, or the people of the Nine Gates, they are all in the immortality scheme he set up.

Back then, after being forced to return to the capital of the Eastern Xia Kingdom by the fourteenth king to build the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top, Wang Zanghai discovered the bronze door and the secret of immortality.

This discovery undoubtedly shocked Wang Zanghai. He witnessed firsthand that some people could actually live for hundreds or even thousands of years. This made the elderly Wang Zanghai extremely envious. Who wouldn't want to live for hundreds of years longer, even if it meant becoming neither human nor ghost? It would be good to live longer.

Knowing this secret, Wang Zanghai could no longer be content with the status quo. He knew that once the mausoleum for an emperor was completed and the emperor was buried, the craftsmen who built it would almost certainly die; there was virtually no other possibility.

So, while constructing the imperial mausoleum, Wang Zanghai secretly forged three bronze fish with snake-shaped eyebrows. He used secret techniques to inscribe all his observations and speculations from the construction of the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds into the bronze fish, hoping that even if he couldn't escape, one day a descendant would discover this secret and be able to solve it.

Surprisingly, Wang Zanghai actually managed to escape. After successfully escaping from the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds, he found the ruler at the time, Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

He told Zhu Di about his extraordinary adventures in the Eastern Xia Kingdom and the secret of immortality. Zhu Di then sent him to secretly investigate the matter, granting him special authority and allowing him to take the plunge.

So, with the help of the state, he secretly began recruiting extraordinary individuals and tomb-raiding families from all over the country. He assembled a massive army of tomb raiders who secretly traversed various ancient tombs, searching for clues about bronze and immortality.

Finally, they discovered two special ancient tombs: the Qixing Lu Palace in Shandong Province and the Jing'er Palace in Guangxi Province (the origin of the snake-browed bronze fish in Chen Pi Asi's hands).

In the Lu King's Palace, they discovered the Ghost Seal and the Corpse Beetle, as well as the secret of King Mu of Zhou's western expedition to the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom. In the Mirror Palace, they discovered the secrets of meteorite jade and bronze, learned the secret of the bronze gate, and discovered the existence of the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom's laboratory at Tamutuo.

Wang Zanghai learned that to achieve immortality, he had to obtain the recipe for the Queen Mother of the West's elixir from Tamutuo, and he also needed to acquire a certain substance that would allow him to coexist with animals.

So Wang Zanghai organized an expedition to the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West. After traversing thousands of mountains and rivers, Wang Zanghai successfully reached the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West and obtained the formula for the Corpse Beetle Elixir. However, Wang Zanghai only obtained the general secret technique.

Such secret techniques were not enough for him to be reborn. However, while he was pursuing the secret of immortality, Wang Zanghai discovered that a force was secretly hindering and sabotaging their actions. Several groups of people even disappeared mysteriously during their tomb exploration.

As archaeological activities intensified, the conflict between Wang Zanghai's forces and this mysterious power grew increasingly fierce. All these signs ultimately pointed to the Zhang family, one of the most enigmatic groups in the thousands of years of Chinese history.

After discovering that the Zhang family possessed a more advanced method of achieving immortality than he had, Wang Zanghai made two preparations.

He single-handedly established the Wang family specifically to deal with the Zhang family, thereby obtaining from them the art of immortality and the ultimate secret behind the Bronze Gate.

His other preparation was to establish an underwater longevity laboratory. At the same time, he used pheromones to make multiple corpse beetle pills from his memories and placed them in various ancient tombs. He also had his subordinates modify some ancient tombs related to the secrets of longevity. He put three snake-browed bronze fish into different ancient tombs, hoping that one day someone would be able to obtain this information and go to the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top to help him achieve his final rebirth.

Gao Dongxu guessed that Wang Zanghai had left himself with countless hopes of resurrection. Whether it was the corpse beetle pill mixed with his memories in the underwater tomb in Xisha, or the corpse of the Wan Nu King in the Cloud Palace, or even the jade figurine in the Lu King's Palace that was killed by Zhang Qiling, Gao Dongxu was now beginning to doubt whether it was Wang Zanghai's true form.

"What's wrong?" Ah Ning frowned slightly, looking at Gao Dongxu who had suddenly fallen silent while staring at the mummified corpse, and asked carefully and softly.

"It's nothing." Gao Dongxu thought of Qiu Dekao, Chen Pi Asi, Chen Wenjin, and Huo Ling, who had all consumed the Corpse Beetle Pill, and realized that they might all be Wang Zanghai's backup plan of possessing corpses to return to life. He couldn't help but sigh.

"Buzzing—"

Just then, the sound of a chainsaw sawing wood echoed throughout the space. Gao Dongxu and A Ning couldn't help but turn around and look at Jiang Zisuan, who was hanging from the dome, working high up with a chainsaw. A Ning couldn't help but smile slightly, and then looked at Gao Dongxu's handsome profile with tenderness, feeling in her heart that her unruly little brother had actually been tamed by him.

“Let’s begin—” Gao Dongxu glanced at Wu Xie, who was prying up the floor tiles with a pickaxe, and said to A Ning with a smile.

“Hmm.” A Ning nodded with a smile. Gao Dongxu reached out and touched the mummified corpse, then put it into his spatial storage. Undoubtedly, this mummified corpse was a rare treasure. In the original story, the sea monkey that was killed was able to use this mummified corpse to regain its soul, which meant that this mummified corpse contained unknown power. Perhaps, it was just a clean vessel.

Since pheromones can be used to store and retrieve memories, it is quite normal for Wang Zanghai to prepare a clean physical vessel for his soul.

So, later on, Wu Xie used the ability of the Qilin blood in his body to resist snake venom, frantically reading the pheromones in the snake venom, reading various memories hidden in the snake venom, and obtaining a large amount of inheritance from Wang Zanghai. This is probably an important reason why Wu Xie transformed from the innocent Wu Xie into the Evil Emperor.

From this perspective, his interception of Wu Xie's Qilin Rest, in another sense, still saved Wu Xie, at least ensuring that Wu Xie's personality wouldn't drastically change. Thinking deeper, after absorbing a large amount of pheromones, it's probably difficult to distinguish whether Wu Xie is still Wu Xie or Wang Zanghai...

buzzing-

bang bang bang-

Accompanied by the deafening roar of chainsaws and the rhythmic clanging of pickaxes, Gao Dongxu, under the intense gaze of A Ning's beautiful eyes, collected the golden palace complex of the Cloud Palace into his spatial storage, one palace after another.

Platforms, plazas, artificial hills, stone bridges, and statues made of mutton-fat jade and jadeite... were all incorporated into the space.

It didn't take long to collect the entire golden model of the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds. Gao Dongxu and A Ning had just finished collecting it, leaving only a huge, empty stone slab, when Fatty Wang shouted, "Young Master Gao, the first pillar has been basically sawed open. What's next?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Dongxu immediately led A Ning to the golden nanmu pillar that required three people to encircle it, and looking at the part at the bottom that was about to be sawed off, he said, "Saw it open—"

"Once it's cut open, there will be no support point, and it will fall down..." Fatty Wang warned.

"Alright, do as I say—" Gao Dongxu said calmly.

"Okay—" Fatty Wang didn't say anything more. He pulled the chainsaw hard, and it started running again, cutting the last part.

"Alright—" After sawing it open, Fatty Wang looked up with some concern at the golden nanmu pillar that was not tilting or about to fall.

Gao Dongxu reached out and placed his hand on the pillar, and the pillar disappeared the next moment.

"Tsk tsk..." Fatty Wang, watching this scene, couldn't help but exclaim again with deep emotion, "Truly divine skill!"

"Alright, go and saw off the next one," Gao Dongxu said calmly.

"Alright—" Fatty Wang immediately ran to Jiang Zisuan, who was already hanging above the second pillar, and started pulling the chainsaw.

"Young Master Gao, it's really hard to earn that hundred gold bricks of yours..." Wu Xie walked over with a wry smile and complained.

"Is it hard to make money?" Gao Dongxu teased Wu Xie, "It's definitely easier than making money from your antique shop."

"Ahem..." Wu Xie chuckled and coughed lightly. Indeed, business at his antique shop was really not good.

"You're making money and you're still whining," A Ning said calmly to Wu Xie.

"..." Wu Xie smiled wryly, watching Zhang Qiling climb down the rope, and asked, "Brother, how much did you pry off this time?"

“11…” Zhang Qiling took off his backpack, walked up to the three of them, and looked at Gao Dongxu, saying, “One of them is a luminous pearl, and the rest are all fish-eye stones.”

“That’s more like it. I was wondering before, no matter how powerful Wang Zanghai was, it was impossible for him to install so many luminous pearls on a single treasure. The entire Manchu royal family could only accumulate about ten pearls over hundreds of years…” Wu Xie clapped his hands and said upon hearing Zhang Qiling’s words.

(End of this chapter)