Tomb Raiding: The Bloodline of Dragons and Snakes, Starting from the Kunlun Divine Palace

Wang Yueban felt a rush of blood to his head; he didn't want Kong Zhengye to have an accident because of opening the coffin in the main burial chamber!

Seeing that no amount of scolding had any effect, Wang Yueban gritted her teeth:

"Old Kong! I'm going all out, you can't open this bronze coffin!"

Wang Yueban shouted, but his speed was not slow. He shook off his fat and was about to chase after the front when a black shadow flashed by.

A man in a black suit, with a straight back, stood motionless in place!

Wang Yueban stared in astonishment at the man in the black suit before her:

"Duan Tao, what are you doing? Get out of the way! Can't you see that Old Kong has already lost his mind? If he opens the bronze coffin, I can't speak for other things, but just considering all these powerful traps and mechanisms in the main tomb chamber, who knows what might happen to him!"

No matter how anxiously Wang Yueban tried to explain, Duan Tao remained expressionless. His facial features were resolute, his knuckles clenched tightly under his suit, and his eyes stared straight ahead. He stood motionless like a gatekeeper!

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"Duan Tao, if you don't move aside, don't blame me for being impolite! Others may be afraid of you, but I, this tomb raider, have some skills too!"

A fierce glint also flashed in Wang Yueban's eyes. He had been to so many tombs, but he had never seen anyone so blind as to make trouble for him!

Duan Tao's expression was solemn. He knew in his heart that the fat man in front of him was no ordinary person and might actually have some skills. However, he himself was not someone who could be bullied at will!

Thinking of this, Duan Tao turned around, his body in a half-squatting position, his left foot on the ground and his right foot forward, his elbow raised, his five fingers clenched into a fist, his eyes fixed on Wang Yueban in front of him!

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"Looks like you're planning to fight me to the death!"

Wang Yueban knew that the other party was determined to oppose him, but he couldn't let Kong Zhengye have an accident!

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But just then, Ah Ning, with a cold and pretty face, spoke up and stopped the tense atmosphere from escalating:

"Stop fighting amongst yourselves! Things aren't as simple as they seem!"

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"Huh!? What did you say?"

Fatty Wang didn't react for a moment, but when he saw that A Ning's gaze was fixed on the bronze coffin, he also turned his gaze towards it!

Taking advantage of the time Duan Tao had bought for him, Kong Zhengye strode over to Wu Tianjiao's side. However, he paid no attention to the other man, instead slowly reaching out to stroke the surface of the bronze coffin, murmuring softly:

“Fatty Wang, you’re a tomb raider, you have your rules, but I, Kong, also have things I have to do, just like I said before!”

"More than twenty people have perished along the way. They also had wives, children, relatives, and families. Most of them were the pillars of their families, living a life of constant danger!"

“I’m not like you. What I, Kong Zhengye, can’t bear to see is my brothers being torn apart by accidents, their families torn apart. Yes! You’re all high-minded! You value your lives! But I, Kong Zhengye, am different. Between life and money, I choose money! Only money can save the families of my dead brothers!”

"This ancient bronze coffin in front of us may not only contain 'mutton fat jade,' but also many unknown burial objects. If we can take just one or two of these things out, we'll be rich, and it will also allow our brothers who were buried in the main burial chamber to rest in peace!"

Wang Yueban stared fixedly ahead, feeling conflicted. To be honest, if it weren't for Kong Zhengye and his twenty-odd brothers probing the traps in the tomb passage during the previous operation, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape from the tomb of the Qin Empire!

After Kong Zhengye finished speaking, he did not give everyone time to explain. He focused his attention on the bronze coffin in front of him and reached into his pants pocket to pull out a dagger.

The bronze coffin was quite large, about two meters long and one meter wide. Its surface was covered with a dense network of hook-and-toothed vines and wild kudzu vines!

Although Wu Tianjiao had unlocked the bronze fish lock in the upper right corner, the vines and vegetation above the coffin still firmly bound the entire body of the coffin!

At this moment, Kong Zhengye held his breath. He didn't want to think about whether using a dagger to cut the wild kudzu vines would trigger poisonous miasma or something similar. He just wanted to break free of the vines as quickly as possible so he could open the coffin and take away some of the items from before!

Kong Zhengye's technique was swift. The wild kudzu vines on the bronze coffin were not as tough as he had imagined. They were easily cut off by the blade with a gentle squeeze!

Upon seeing this scene, Wu Tianjiao narrowed his eyes slightly. He was on high alert, and his intuition told him that things were not so simple!

If coffins could be opened so easily, all the skilled craftsmen of the Qin Dynasty could go out of business!

"call!"

Kong Zhengye let out a long breath, his expression somewhat unnatural. Although exhausted, he had managed to remove all the wild vines and gourds from the bronze coffin!

"Clap!"

A crisp sound!

The last wild kudzu vine fell to the ground, and at the same time, everything around suddenly felt a little strange!

"Chichi!"

A series of strange sounds, like the air being scorched, rang out!

In the next instant, clusters of eerie green flames spread outwards from the bottom of the bronze coffin!

A spiderweb-like network of flames formed!

Chapter 250: Heaven Covering Formation, Earth Bearing Formation, Wind Rising Formation, Cloud Hanging Formation

The flames moved forward at lightning speed, reaching their destination in the blink of an eye following their fixed trajectory!

It was at this moment that the color scheme of the entire main burial chamber gradually changed, and the visibility around it became bright again.

The most prominent feature is the eight directions!

Wu Tianjiao glanced around and subconsciously matched the description he had heard from Kong Zhengye in his mind!

Those are the eight flags of Qimen Dunjia!

The Heaven Covering Formation, Earth Bearing Formation, Wind Rising Formation, Cloud Hanging Formation, Dragon Flying Formation, Tiger Wing Formation, Bird Soaring Formation, and Serpent Coiling Formation!

At this moment, a ghostly green flame burned at the top of each flag, plunging the entire main burial chamber into an eerie environment!

Immediately following was a series of metallic scraping vibrations coming from the bluestone slab beneath the square stone platform!

However, no one paid attention to this unexpected situation, because the lid of the bronze coffin in front of them was trembling slightly.

The expressions of everyone in the main tomb chamber of the Qin Empire changed simultaneously; none of them had anticipated such a scene.

At the center of the inverted bucket-shaped stone platform, beneath the bronze coffin, eight eerie green flames extend!

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"What...what's going on? Could it be that Kong Zhengye triggered some new tomb mechanism?"

The tall young man, Jiang Jiaxu, stammered as he tried his best to control the urge to cry out, for the scene before him was simply too unbelievable.

Without saying a word, Wang Yueban, standing in the crowd, reached out and pushed Duan Tao aside, her face grave.

Duan Tao didn't stop them. After all, Wang Yueban, one of the group, was a "tomb raider." In such a strange situation, with the entire tomb burning with eerie green flames, it was necessary for the relevant people to handle it!

"Kong Zhengye, I told you long ago to be careful! Don't be careless! Now look what's happened, you've actually triggered the mechanism formation in the Corpse Fiend Eight Trigrams Formation!"

Wang Yueban stretched out his hand and gestured in the air for a while:

"The Corpse Fiend Eight Formations ultimately originates from the art of Qimen Dunjia. The Tiger Wing Formation within it is yang in nature and has the meaning of fire! The current situation in the main tomb chamber matches this perfectly! If it were in a confined space!"

"The Tiger Wing Formation, possessing the properties of blazing sunlight, will continuously burn the oxygen in the air, causing tomb raiders or other intruders entering the main burial chamber to gradually lose oxygen and eventually suffocate to death!"

Wang Yueban spoke with such conviction that it felt as if a huge rock was pressing on everyone's hearts! But his next sentence took everyone by surprise.

"Hey! You don't need to worry too much. This Corpse Fiend Eight Formation and Tiger Wing Formation are useless against me, Fatty, a tomb raider. See that? The tunnel we dug to our right connects to the air outside the mountainside! I'm standing here with nothing to lose. No matter how much it burns, it can't possibly deplete the oxygen from the outside world!"

Wang Yueban's voice was somewhat smug. He didn't intend to continue watching from the sidelines. Since Kong Zhengye had already gone this far, he, as his brother, couldn't just let the other party be in danger. He might as well lend a hand as soon as possible and open the lid of the bronze coffin!

"Click! Click!"

"Click! Click! Click! Click!"

The abnormal sound of metal rubbing gradually changed, from being barely perceptible at first to being clearly audible now!

"Old Kong! Didn't I tell you before? In special circumstances, the most important thing is to calm your mind and stabilize your emotions. Opening a coffin requires strong mental fortitude..."

"Hey...did you even hear me? Stop shaking the coffin lid! If you damage the burial goods inside, we'll definitely lose everything!"

Wang Yueban stared wide-eyed at Kong Zhengye, who seemed to be suffering from polio or epilepsy, his arm trembling as he pressed against the bronze coffin!

"No...it wasn't me...it was this coffin that was moving by itself...I...I can feel something inside!"

Kong Zhengye's voice trembled slightly. At this moment, he only wanted to remove his hands from the bronze coffin, but for some reason, ever since his skin touched the surface of the bronze coffin, his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably!

Upon hearing this, Wang Yueban was immediately startled. He stopped joking and realized the seriousness and urgency of the situation. His professional demeanor as a tomb raider kicked in; he crouched down, reached into the bundle on his back, and grabbed a handful of "glutinous rice" in one hand and a "black donkey hoof" in the other. His expression was unusually serious.

"Old Kong! You better get ready, I'll count to three! Two! One! and then I'll scatter a handful of 'glutinous rice' on you and then beat your body with 'black donkey hooves'!"

Listening to Wang Yueban's explanation, Kong Zhengye felt his heart tremble uncontrollably:

"You fatso, are you kidding me? Instead of trying to solve this 'bizarre' situation with the bronze coffin, why are you hitting me!"

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Kong Zhengye felt like he was about to cry. He had never realized that Wang Yueban was so "unreliable". If he had the chance, he felt that he would swear to God that he never wanted to have any contact with him again in this life!

With a "whoosh!" sound, glutinous rice spilled out, landing entirely on Kong Zhengye's body. Immediately afterward, a huge black donkey hoof stabbed Kong Zhengye in the waist and abdomen from the side!

Kong Zhengye instinctively cried out in pain, and his arm lifted off the surface of the bronze coffin. However, before he could rejoice, he saw Wang Yueban exclaim in surprise!

"careful!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Wang Yueban grabbed Kong Zhengye and rolled him to the ground!

"Whoosh!" The sound of air being cut rang out again!

A steel knife flew from not far away!

The steel blade gleamed with a sharp, cold light, moving with lightning speed, narrowly missing Kong Zhengye's back by the smallest of margins!

With a "ding!" sound, it pierced deeply into the surface of the bronze coffin!