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

A dilapidated, earth-yellow building, matching the color of its surroundings, came into view.

It has stood there for thousands of years.

Even from a distance, it gives off a slightly eerie feeling.

"We've arrived." Wu Yutian stopped the car at the foot of a mountain.

After getting off the bus, everyone noticed that the building was hundreds of meters above the ground.

The building with a rather unique shape, but whose structure can be roughly seen, is the Samsara Temple.

However, the car could no longer pass, so we had to get out and walk.

A gust of wind and sand blew by, and Uncle Ming immediately felt unwell.

"Xianming, are you alright?" Han Shuna asked, somewhat flustered.

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Uncle Ming took out a motion sickness pill, swallowed it, and then took a sip of water. "I was just a little carsick from the bumpy ride."

After leaving the highway, although the Gobi Desert looks flat, the ground is still full of gravel and potholes, causing vehicles to experience significant bumps.

In addition, this is a high-altitude area, which makes people who already have difficulty breathing more prone to motion sickness.

Even the fat man felt a bit weak.

Wu Yutian led the group up the mountain path.

More than ten minutes later, everyone finally arrived at the temple gate.

"May the Bodhisattva protect us, and please don't let anything go wrong." Fatty Wang led the way, clasped his hands together in prayer, and then pushed open the half-closed, dilapidated wooden door.

The exterior of the entire Samsara Temple has been severely eroded by wind and sand.

However, upon entering, it was discovered that the main hall inside had not suffered significant damage.

Judging from its current scale, the temple must have been quite magnificent when it was intact.

Wu Yutian led the group into the temple, which was filled with sand.

One of the roof beams had collapsed, and the large stones at the bottom had been eroded into sand and gravel.

"In this godforsaken place, even evil spirits would starve to death." Fatty Wang suddenly felt his stomach growling again.

After walking around and searching the surroundings, I found that the place was extremely poor, with hardly anything of value.

“Look, what’s this?” Shirley Yang called out in front of a Buddha statue.

Everyone gathered around at the sound.

"Goodness!" the fat man exclaimed. "This Buddha statue looks quite strange. Its features are different from any we've seen before. It looks more like the face of an Ouzhou person, and those three eyes look rather eerie."

Fatty Wang rubbed his hands together, wanting to touch it but not daring to.

Because I used to trigger quite a few traps because of my careless hands.

If it weren't for Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang's timely response, I would have died several times over.

"Amitabha." The Iron Staff Lama bowed to the Buddha statue and then explained to the crowd.

"This is a three-eyed silver-eyed Buddha statue. Their missionary work disappeared a thousand years ago. It was at its peak during the Guge Kingdom period."

“There’s writing here.” Shirley Yang examined it carefully and found a line of small inscriptions next to the base of the Buddha statue. “Does anyone recognize it?”

Hu Bayi also went over, but shook his head helplessly.

Wu Yutian shrugged, admitting that he didn't know much about minority languages, let alone ancient ones.

“I recognize this. It’s written in ancient Tibetan,” the Iron Rod Lama Ak read out, word by word. “It roughly means ‘Don’t move, or you will open the gates of hell.’”

"Oh dear, luckily I had the foresight to not touch it." The fat man quickly put his hands behind his back, making sure he wouldn't make a mistake this time because of his impulsive hands.

Meanwhile, Uncle Ming, who remained calm on the side, had a glint of greed in his eyes.

As everyone turned to other places, he gave his henchman, Ah Dong, a wink.

Ah Dong understood perfectly; the boss meant he should secretly install the Buddha statue.

Uncle Ming could tell that this bronze artifact was only about one meter tall, and it wouldn't be difficult for A Dong, with his size, to pack it up in a bag and move it away.

"Look up, everyone." Following Wu Yutian's guidance, everyone looked up and saw a dimly lit mural.

And there is an image on this mural that looks like a strange eye, which is the Guge Silver Eye!

"In this light, the 'silver eyes of Guge' does not refer to the eyes of the three-eyed Buddha statue, but more likely to this mural."

"Look, doesn't the curve of this eye pattern resemble a picture of undulating mountains?"

Upon hearing Wu Yutian's words, Shirley Yang quickly took out a map from her backpack and began searching for it.

"Ah! I understand!" After a while, Shirley Yang suddenly beamed with joy, pointing to the upper right corner of the map and saying, "This is it!"

"The location indicated by the silver eyes of Guge is the Dragonspine Tarramir Pass!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was overjoyed, as it seemed that finding clues was not difficult.

Chapter 47: Spending the Night in the Watchtower, Ah Dong Steals the Golden Buddha in the Middle of the Night

The Iron Rod Lama also looked at the murals and gave his analysis to everyone.

"According to the 'World-Defeating Jewel King's Martial Merit Poem,' the four patterns in the center of this picture are the four guardian gods of the Demon Kingdom, and these four guardian gods represent four high mountains, protecting Phoenix Mountain."

“In Tantric feng shui, Kunlun has always been called the Phoenix Mountain,” Wu Yutian continued to analyze. “There is only one place on Kunlun that is surrounded by four snow-capped mountains, and that is the Talamir Pass.”

"Once we find the tomb of one of the Reincarnation Sect's tomb owners, we can determine the location of the Nine-Story Demon Tower based on its placement and the direction its head and feet face."

Hearing Wu Yutian's explanation, Hu Bayi felt enlightened and couldn't help but admire him.

"As expected of the agent of the Heavenly Official of the Tomb Raiders, you have such mastery of the Dragon Seeking Technique. I will have to learn more from you in the future." Although he was much older than Wu Yutian, he was truly convinced by this address of "Brother Tian".

"It's getting late. Let's retreat to the lower watchtower for the night and contact the rest of the crew at dawn," Wu Yufeng instructed.

This location is far beyond the communication range of the backpack walkie-talkie and the people in Shiquanhe Town, and there is no longer any mobile phone signal here, so the only way to contact Long Jiwen is to drive back to a place closer to Shiquanhe Town.

"Sigh." Uncle Ming glanced at the Buddha statue again with reluctance, wondering whether it was gilded or pure gold. If it was pure gold, how could he let go of this opportunity to make a fortune?

Even if it's gilded, it's still quite valuable.

Everyone went back to the car, took out their sleeping bags for the night, and rested in the watchtower.

Currently, Wu Yutian and Shirley Yang are still in a group of six.

Uncle Ming and four others formed a group, and Haitang continued to stay with their group.

Fortunately, there were two old stone houses inside the watchtower, which made it convenient for everyone to rest.

In the middle of the night.

Outside, the moonlight was as bright as day, its silvery rays spilling across the earth, painting a deep, dark night.

Just as everyone was almost asleep, a figure appeared.

Following the moonlight, they tiptoed toward the Temple of Reincarnation.

Fatty Wang, still half asleep, got up to find a place to urinate, and happened to see this scene.

"Holy crap!" Fatty Wang was startled, but he didn't want to alert the enemy. He quickly returned to his residence to report to Wu Yutian, Hu Bayi, and the others.

Just then, Wu Yutian woke up Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang.

Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang still looked puzzled, while Wu Yutian looked at Fatty Wang with a smile.

"What's with that expression?" Wu Yutian said with a smile. "Do you want to be a thief, or did you see a thief?"

At this moment, the fat man's stealthy movements made him look like a thief with a guilty conscience.

"Who am I, Fatty? Would I be a thief? Of course, I mean I wouldn't steal from my own people." The fat man had barely finished denying it when he remembered he was just a tomb raider. "I saw a thief! A thief who's on the same path as us but not on our side!"

As the fat man spoke, he glanced in the direction of Uncle Ming and the others' stone chamber.

"It looks like Uncle Ming's henchman, Ah Dong. He sneaked off towards the Temple of Reincarnation without even using a flashlight. Luckily, the moon is exceptionally bright tonight, or I wouldn't have been able to see him. He's definitely up to no good!"

"Human nature is insatiable, like a snake trying to swallow an elephant," Wu Yutian said calmly. "I deliberately said I was resting here during the day to test whether Uncle Ming and his group would follow our agreement."

"Then do you think Haitang knew they were doing this?" Shirley Yang wasn't sure about Haitang's stance. "Adong, Axiang, and Han Shuna definitely have a close relationship with Uncle Ming. I didn't let Haitang come over because I hoped she could stay by Uncle Ming's side and have some mutual supervision."

"Sigh, I'm afraid Haitang will also conspire with them." Wu Yutian shook his head regretfully. "The best way for Haitang to ensure that Uncle Ming can repay the high-interest loans from the Donghu Gang is to help Uncle Ming steal more treasures."

"That Iron Rod Lama said this afternoon that the small words on the Buddha statue say 'Don't move it, or you will open the gates of hell.' Is that true, or did you all make it up to fool us into not daring to touch it?" Fatty Wang was getting anxious. He thought that if it was a golden Buddha that he could take away, he couldn't let it go.

“That statement is absolutely true.” The Iron Staff Lama, who was also awake, sat up and said with a serious expression, “Adong will probably suffer a bloody disaster.”

"In that case, let's go see what Uncle Ming's men are capable of." It turned out that Wu Yutian also wanted to test A Dong's strength.

At the same time, he left several elderly, weak, women and children to rest in the watchtower, so that he would have fewer worries if a major battle broke out.

"Ake, please stay here. The rest of us will go and check it out." After giving these instructions, Wu Yutian walked out with the young man who had been waiting for a long time.

The trio of Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Shirley Yang is naturally no less impressive.

What they didn't expect was that Wu Yutian and Xiao Ge moved with incredible speed, disappearing as soon as they left the watchtower.

"Hey, what the heck? Where are the captain and that mysterious guy?" the fat guy complained halfway there.

"They've already reached the mountainside and entered the Samsara Temple." Shirley Yang is from the Mountain Moving Taoist lineage, and her agility is higher than Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang, but she still can't keep up with Wu Yutian and Xiao Ge's speed.

However, I can still tell where Wu Yutian and Xiao Ge went by with my own eyesight.

"Then we're basically wrapping up Ah Dong like dumplings!" Fatty Wang thought to himself with delight.