A comprehensive overview of tombs: starting with the Yellow Weasel's Tomb

Take the ability to summon white worms for example. The white worms that White Skin summoned to deal with the desert army ants were probably larger and heavier than everyone present combined.

How did Baipi manage to collect so many tiny white worms into his body?

That doesn't make sense either.

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

It seemed that Bai Jing's words had broadened everyone's perspective. Hu Bayi suddenly spoke up, "In that case, can we assume that the Queen of Jingjue can open a special space and then use her abilities to pull enemies into that space?"

Upon hearing this, Professor Chen pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "I think what Xiao Hu said is very likely. Xiao Hu, tell me, what do you think?"

Hu Bayi smiled and said, "Haha, I only thought of that after hearing what Lao Bai said earlier. Under normal circumstances, Bai Pi would definitely not be able to put so many little white insects into his body. But, could his Crimson Pill be a kind of method similar to the legendary Buddhist concept of containing Mount Sumeru in a mustard seed or a universe within a sleeve?"

Therefore, I wondered, if the white-skinned Crimson Pill really is such a thing, could it be that the Queen of Jingjue also possesses a similar treasure, or perhaps she directly controls a special space?

Professor Chen's eyes lit up at that moment, and he said excitedly, "Xiao Hu, continue."

Hu Bayi thought for a moment and continued, "We can call it the imaginary space!"

Upon hearing this term, most of the people present were highly educated and naturally understood what imaginary space was.

The so-called imaginary space is actually a concept relative to the real space we live in. It can be regarded as an imagined space that is independent of the real space.

In this space, some conventional physical laws, such as time continuity, may no longer apply.

Hu Bayi's naming of this potentially existing space controlled by the Queen of Jingjue as the Imaginary Space was undoubtedly brilliant.

P.S.: I went shopping for New Year's goods this afternoon, and I've been writing ever since I got back. I haven't had dinner yet, so I'm going to eat now. The last chapter will be updated later.

Chapter 162 Reminder

However, speculation is just speculation and needs to be proven.

Then, everyone looked at the murals on the wall. Professor Hao looked at the exquisite murals and exclaimed, "What exquisite murals these are! They are truly a treasure of our national culture."

Upon hearing this, the fat man blurted out, "Priceless!"

Upon hearing the fat man use money to measure these things, Professor Hao was immediately displeased and turned to the fat man, saying, "These are priceless treasures!"

Professor Hao became even more excited.

"This belongs to the nation, to the people, and to all of humanity!"

To be honest, the fat man wasn't that enlightened. Hearing Professor Hao say that, he couldn't help but retort, "Is it really necessary to make such a big deal out of it?"

Seeing this, Bai Jing shook his head with amusement. Professor Hao's remarks were not unfounded. As he had mentioned before, Bai Jing had visited many ancient tombs, but murals that were so well preserved were rare.

To put it bluntly, if all of these murals could be removed, they would be enough to be the crown jewel of the provincial museum in the Western Regions.

That's why Professor Hao reacted that way. But this kind of thing isn't suitable for personal collection, so it's actually a bit of a waste for someone like Fatty.

As a result, their conversation felt like they were talking past each other.

Bai Jing immediately shook his head and said, "Alright everyone, let's go out. This tomb is right next to the well. If we leave it open for too long, the murals and coffins here might get damp."

Professor Hao and Professor Chen immediately understood Bai Jing's suggestion and said they would go out right away.

The fat man wasn't interested in the murals, but he was interested in the coffin. Hearing that everyone was about to leave, he immediately said, "Right, right, stop looking at it. Why don't we open the coffin? We can lend a hand while we're all here."

Upon hearing this, Professor Chen immediately waved his hands excitedly and said, "This is absolutely unacceptable. The Prince of Gumo and his wife are buried together in this coffin, and such a joint burial of husband and wife in the same coffin is extremely rare. This is a national treasure."

However, we do not currently have the necessary conditions to open the coffin. Forcibly opening it would damage the originally sealed coffin, potentially harming the burial goods inside.

The fat man was a little confused by this, but he still continued, "Isn't this just something I did on the spur of the moment?"

Upon hearing the fat man's words, Professor Chen immediately replied excitedly, "Of course not!"

Professor Hao quickly added, "Absolutely not!"

Seeing this, Bai Jing also said, "Definitely not!"

Seeing that all three professors present spoke in this style, especially Bai Jing, Hu Bayi wanted to quickly say something to help the fat man, but after a long pause, he didn't know what to say.

But Hu Bayi immediately turned his head and scolded the fat man: "Comrade Xiao Wang, what kind of awareness do you have? How can you open cultural relics of this level so easily? I think your thinking is very dangerous."

He then gave the fat man a meaningful look and continued, "Now..."

With so many experts here, let's listen to their opinions.

The fat man realized what was happening and saw Bai Jing giving him a meaningful look. He immediately knew that this was a sensitive topic and sincerely apologized.

At that moment, Professor Chen suddenly looked at one of the murals, seemingly noticing a detail he had missed before, and said, "Shirley, the notebook!"

Everyone was drawn over upon hearing Professor Chen's voice.

When Bai Jing and the others looked over, they saw that the mural had countless eyes, as well as many collapsed houses and other things, and at the top was a black mountain range that was split in two.

Then, Professor Chen excitedly pointed to his notebook and said, "The desert swallowed up the city and the army. Zaglama Valley, this is the ancient city of Jingjue!"

Bai Jing looked at the notebook and then at the mural, before saying, "It seems we're not far from our goal."

It's normal for Professor Chen to have such feelings. In ancient times, without modern technology, the Gu Mo Kingdom wouldn't have been too far from the Jing Jue Kingdom, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to complete the annual tribute alone.

Upon hearing that they were close to their target, everyone became excited.

However, not everyone went up immediately; instead, Hu Bayi, Fatty, and Shirley Yang went up first.

The rest of the people stayed downstairs, while Chu Jian was called down from above. Everyone was to start making rubbings of the murals and to take photos of the items and furnishings in the tomb.

After a while, Chu Jian came down.

This can be considered a rare learning session.

Soon, under the repeated instruction of Bai Jing and Professor Hao, Sa Dipeng, Chu Jian, and Ye Yixin gained an understanding of many techniques and skills, and became more and more adept at using them.

Seeing how well everyone was cooperating, Bai Jing used the excuse of needing to use the restroom to leave first.

When Bai Jing went up, he saw Hu Bayi and Fatty talking about something.

Bai Jing checked the time; they had been down there for about an hour.

Then it was noticed that Shirley Yang had gone to the camels and was talking to Anliman about something.

When Hu Bayi and Fatty saw Bai Jing come out, they quickly grabbed him.

Then the fat man pulled Bai Jing aside and asked, "Hey, Lao Bai, what's the deal with your teacher and your senior brother? We're not going to get anything from this trip?"

Bai Jing chuckled and said, "Didn't that foreign girl give you each ten thousand US dollars? How can you say you won't get anything? Besides, we're about to find the Jingjue Ancient City. Once we find it, you two will each get twenty thousand US dollars, which is quite a lot. And I still have mine, don't I?"

Hearing Bai Jing say this, the fat man still stubbornly said, "Even if it's 20,000 US dollars, then this trip is a waste. Didn't you hear what that foreign girl said? The ancient city of Jingjue is full of gold and silver treasures, but we can't take any of them. If you ask me, let's just turn around and leave right now, and each of us can just take 10,000 US dollars and leave."

Bai Jing lowered his voice and said seriously, "Let me tell you in advance, you really can't touch anything in the Jingjue Ancient City. There are unpredictable beings there. Whoever takes the treasures there will never be able to leave. Don't say I didn't care about you."

After saying that, Bai Jing laughed again: "Fatty, you've got guts now. You don't even care about 20,000 US dollars anymore. Now, even if you don't go to the black market, you can easily exchange it with someone. That's 100,000 yuan. How much is the salary in Beijing these days? Have you forgotten how you used to deal with cassette tapes?"

Chapter 163 Curse? Blessing?

The fat man stopped talking after hearing Bai Jing's words.

Actually, this was because the fat guy had made a little money before and looked down on those petty squabbles.

The fat man then said perfunctorily, "Okay, I know, I won't move, I won't move!"

Seeing the fat man's nonchalant attitude, Bai Jing immediately turned his head and said, "Fatty, I'm not joking. You can ask Lao Hu. The Mountain Moving Taoists are also known as the Zaglama tribe. They are a tribe from the Zaglama Mountain where this Jingjue Ancient City is located."

People in this tribe don't live past forty, and their descendants are the same. That's why they're still searching for a way to break the curse, Fatty. Do you know how their curse came about?

The fat man was startled by Bai Jing's words and looked at Hu Bayi.

Hu Bayi finally realized what was going on. He had heard his grandfather say that the Mountain Moving Taoists also called themselves the Zaglama people. Could it be that they also originated from the Zaglama Mountain where the Jingjue Ancient City is located?

Immediately, Hu Bayi nodded and said, "The Mountain Moving Taoist lineage is one of the four major tomb raiding schools, on par with the Grave Robbers, the Gold Raiders, and the Ridge Unloading Sect. Moreover, this lineage enters the tomb not for treasure, but to find the legendary Phoenix Gallbladder - the Muchen Pearl!"

Legend has it that they searched for the Muchen Pearl to break a curse that prevents the descendants of the Mountain Moving Taoists from living past forty. Could it be that the source of this curse is…?

Seeing that Hu Bayi cooperated well, Bai Jing continued to deceive the fat man, saying, "That's right. The reason why the original Mountain Moving Taoists were cursed was because they unintentionally took away the treasures of the Jingjue Ancient City, and afterwards their entire clan was cursed."

It was from this point onward that these Mountain-Moving Taoists established a rule: they would enter tombs not for treasure, but to find the Muchen Pearl, because the price they had paid for taking treasure before was far too high!

Upon hearing this, the fat man was terrified and immediately promised that he would never touch even a single piece of treasure in the ancient city of Jingjue.

Bai Jing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his deception had succeeded.

There was no other way; the trip to Jingjue Ancient City was far too important, and we absolutely couldn't allow any accidents to happen because of Fatty's situation.

At the same time, Bai Jing had another purpose in wanting to go to the Jingjue Ancient City: he wanted to see if the Snake God's methods would be effective against him.

After consuming three fruits of the Treasure Flower, Bai Jing noticed that he was no longer afraid of any illusions, and he also had extremely high resistance to various poisons. Most importantly, Bai Jing discovered that although ten years had passed since he ate the fruits of the Treasure Flower, he did not show much sign of aging.

Similar to Bai Jing are his elder brother Bai Qi and Fatty Li.

It's just that these two aren't as obvious as I am.

Bai Jing deliberately acted rather weathered, and combined with his mature demeanor, he didn't appear young to others.

Otherwise, anyone who meets Bai Jing for the first time would definitely think that he is only in his twenties, not a thirty-year-old uncle.

Bai Qi and Fatty Li are in somewhat similar situations.

However, even though they are already in their thirties, they look like they are only four or five years old.

In other words, Bai Jing felt that his physical growth or aging rate had slowed down by about three times, while Bai Qi and Fatty Li's had slowed down by two times.

If this had only happened to Bai Jing alone, he wouldn't have thought much of it. But since it happened to three people, Bai Jing had to think about it more carefully.