Goddess Atlas, Starting from the Queen

Chapter 120 Blood Lotus
Seeing that Lu Ming was determined to go in, Su Wanyun's face was filled with worry.

Just then, Xiao Qingyun, who was next to Su Wanyun, said, "I'll go in with you."

Upon hearing this, Su Wanyun was slightly taken aback.

Xiao Qingyun continued, "I can hold my breath for half an hour. As long as I can come out within half an hour, I won't inhale the black gas."

Hearing this, Lu Ming thought for a moment, then said, "Okay."

Seeing that Xiao Qingyun was about to go in with Lu Ming, Su Wanyun quickly said, "Lu Ming, I'll go in with you too."

Lu Ming said, "Sister Yun, you only recently broke through to the first rank, so you can't hold your breath for too long."

Hearing Lu Ming's words, Su Wanyun hesitated. She knew that her strength was not very good, and if she went into the tomb with Lu Ming and the others, she might become a burden to Lu Ming.

Thinking of this, Su Wanyun felt extremely disappointed. When Lu Ming needed her, she couldn't help him at all and could only watch.

Lu Ming said, "Alright, Sister Xiao and I will go in first. If we encounter any danger, I will come out immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Ming stepped into the tomb chamber.

Su Wanyun clenched her fists, looking at Lu Ming's back with a worried expression, praying in her heart that Lu Ming would come out safely.

After Lu Ming stepped through the stone gate and entered the tomb passage, he immediately activated the Demon Suppression Sutra. He wanted to see if the black energy could be considered an evil force. If it was an evil force, the Demon Suppression Sutra could suppress the black energy, and he wouldn't need to keep using the Rejuvenation Technique to heal it.

Just as Lu Ming had guessed, as soon as he circulated the Demon-Suppressing Heart Sutra, the black energy that was about to enter his body instantly dissipated.

Lu Ming was overjoyed; he hadn't expected it to actually work.

In this way, he only needs to pay attention to the mechanisms in the tomb.

Once inside the tomb, he released his divine sense, and even without a craftsman to guide him, he was able to easily detect where there were mechanisms.

Lu Ming now regrets it. If he had known that the Zhenling Guards were useless, he shouldn't have sent them.

After making such a big fuss, in the end I still had to do it myself. The Zhenling Guards aren't very professional, are they?

However, even though the Zhenling Guards didn't do anything, if he hadn't reported it to them, he probably wouldn't have been able to find the two beauty portraits of Mu Yunyan and Xuan Yingzhen anytime soon.

Especially Xuan Yingzhen. As the Imperial Preceptor, Xuan Yingzhen has always been cultivating in the palace. Even if he is the Prince of Xiaoyao, it is not easy for him to see Xuan Yingzhen.

After entering the tomb, led by Lu Ming, the two quickly arrived at the main burial chamber where Lu Xiaoyao's body was located.

At this moment, even though Xiao Qingyun wasn't breathing, her body was still being eroded by the black energy. Her fair skin was gradually turning black, a feeling of dizziness came over her, and she seemed to hear the wails of countless people.

A gust of cold wind blew in, and a layer of frost formed on the coffin in the middle of the tomb. Xiao Qingyun's body swayed, as if she was about to collapse.

Lu Ming noticed Xiao Qingyun's unusual behavior at this moment. "Sister Xiao, are you alright?"

"I..." Before Xiao Qingyun could finish speaking, she fell backward. Fortunately, Lu Ming reacted quickly and came to her side, catching her before she fell to the ground.

Lu Ming used the Rejuvenation Technique to check Xiao Qingyun's body. Although Xiao Qingyun was not breathing, the black mist in the tomb was so thick that it was visible to the naked eye. Even though she wasn't breathing, the black mist seeped into her body through the sweat glands on her skin.

Without hesitation, Lu Ming used his Rejuvenation Technique to dispel the black energy within Xiao Qingyun's body. However, the black energy inside the tomb was extremely dense. As soon as he helped Xiao Qingyun dispel the black energy, her white skin visibly turned black. Lu Ming said, "Sister Xiao, wait here. I'll go open the coffin and take a look."

After Lu Ming circulated the Demon-Suppressing Heart Sutra, he could clearly feel that the black energy was coming from inside the coffin, and the source of the black energy was most likely inside the coffin.

Although his father was inside the coffin, in order to completely remove the evil energy, he had no choice but to act as an unfilial son and open the coffin himself.

After Xiao Qingyun recovered somewhat, Lu Ming stopped supporting her and walked directly towards the coffin.

Upon reaching the stone coffin, Lu Ming knelt down and kowtowed several times before it, then said, "Father, I apologize."

After kowtowing, Lu Ming stood up and forcefully pushed open the lid of the stone coffin.

The moment the coffin lid was opened, even more black smoke billowed out, and a stench of blood wafted into Lu Ming's nostrils.

Inside the coffin lay a mummified corpse, and growing from the heart of the corpse was a flower emitting a red glow.

The black aura emanated from these flowers.

This……

Lu Ming was stunned when he saw the flower.

His father's corpse actually blossomed?

This flower is clearly not an ordinary flower; I wonder who planted it.

Or perhaps his father ingested the flower's seed before his death, and the flower, nourished by his father's corpse, slowly took root and sprouted inside the coffin, growing into what it is today?
Seeing that the flower was still emitting black energy, Lu Ming did not hesitate and reached out to pull the flower out. Unexpectedly, he easily uprooted the flower.

When the blood lotus touched his palm, the spiritual energy emanating from his body completely purified the black energy emanating from the blood lotus. The next moment, the blood lotus no longer emitted black energy, but blood-red spiritual energy.

When the crimson spiritual energy entered Lu Ming's body, he immediately felt his blood and qi become much more abundant, and his cultivation level was also rapidly improving. In less than a moment, his cultivation level showed faint signs of a breakthrough.

Lu Ming was overjoyed. The spiritual energy of this flower could actually increase a person's cultivation level. If he planted it in his own yard, his cultivation speed would definitely increase significantly in the future.

only……

The thought that this flower had originally grown on his father's corpse made him feel somewhat disgusted.

At this moment, Lu Ming suddenly thought of something. According to the records in "The Law of Plants and Trees", there is a spiritual plant called Blood Lotus that requires the corpse of a cultivator or a spirit beast to be used in the cultivation stage.

When a blood lotus is planted on a corpse containing spiritual energy, the blood lotus will absorb the spiritual energy and blood energy of the corpse, thus continuously growing.

However, once the blood lotus grows up, it must be moved to soil rich in spiritual energy for cultivation; otherwise, the blood lotus will absorb the corpse energy from the corpse and transform it into yin energy.

Lu Ming looked at the flower in his hand. This must be the Blood Lotus, right? So, that black aura was Yin Sha Qi?
It's just unknown who placed the blood lotus seeds on their father's corpse.

Lu Ming thought for a moment, then without further consideration, put the blood lotus into his wide sleeve.

Now that the source of the black energy has grown, we need to hurry up and replant the blood lotus in a different place.

(End of this chapter)