The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

King Lu Shang was very tempted by these conditions, and he himself was well aware of this.

To put it bluntly, I'm just a tomb raider.

So the giant serpent foolishly told King Lu Shang how to open the Purple Gold Treasure Box and also taught him how to use the treasures inside.

After hearing this, King Lu Shang worried that the giant snake would tell others, so he killed the giant snake.

King Lu Shang then regained consciousness and tried the method the giant serpent used, and sure enough, he opened the box.

King Lu Shang was suspicious by nature, and he felt that it was safest for him to know this secret alone.

So he killed all his guards and all the livestock within a ten-mile radius.

From then on, King Lu Shang was an unstoppable force on the battlefield, achieving numerous feats and enjoying great glory.

However, in his later years, he contracted cadaver poisoning due to frequent contact with corpses.

He developed many incurable ailments.

The emperor of Lu felt that King Shang of Lu was too old and no longer of any use.

So they transferred all of his elite troops away.

Let him go back to his old ways of tomb raiding.

This move greatly displeased King Lu Shang.

But there was nothing he could do. That night, he dreamed again that King Lu Shang encountered the white-haired old man.

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The white-haired old man pointed behind him and told him that those were the people he had killed indiscriminately.

They will wait for him in the underworld on the day he dies.

King Lu Shang was immediately awakened and hurriedly went to ask the strategist.

His strategist was an expert in fortune telling and feng shui.

The Iron-Faced Man said to King Lu Shang, "In ancient times, there was a legend of a jade figurine."

Wearing this jade figurine can grant immortality and reverse aging.

Unfortunately, it has long since disappeared from the world. If you want to find such a divine artifact, you must go to an ancient tomb to search for it.

King Lu Shang was at his wit's end and had no choice but to follow his strategist's orders.

King Lu Shang studied ancient books all night long.

Finally, as the saying goes, heaven rewards those who persevere, and King Lu Shang finally found an ancient tomb that might contain jade figurines in a book.

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He then mobilized thousands of people and spent a full year carving out the mountain.

At the time, King Lu Shang estimated that he had found a royal tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was extremely rare.

Moreover, the ancient tomb utilizes the principles of the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, making it extremely complex.

Fortunately, King Lu Shang was proficient in Qimen Dunjia (a form of divination and strategy).

I went in anyway.

Inside the main tomb, he saw a colossal tree, the Nine-Headed Hydra Cypress.

There was also a corpse dressed in a black jade burial suit, sitting cross-legged under a jade bed in a large tree.

Mr. Iron Face followed along and witnessed this situation.

He then gave King Lu Shang another suggestion.

Mr. Iron Mask restrained the blood corpse, then took the corpse out of the jade figurine and sealed it in the coffin in the secondary burial chamber.

Then King Lu Shang followed the advice of the Iron-Faced Man and faked his death to deceive the emperor.

The emperor was also a superstitious person, so of course he was afraid of these things, thinking that King Lu Shang could really travel between the yin and yang realms.

Therefore, he was treated better than ordinary feudal lords and given a grand funeral.

King Lu Shang's confidants, under the pretext of excavating a tomb, built another tomb on top of the Western Zhou imperial mausoleum.

They fooled the emperor using this method.

King Lu Shang, being a tomb raider, also set up a seven-star decoy in the tomb.

King Lu Shang himself, being a tomb raider, was very clear about such methods.

One of the seven suspected coffins must be genuine.

King Lu Shang then had all seven coffins made to look fake.

To prevent their graves from being robbed!

Chapter 245 Who is lying?

"If we really have to put it that way, then King Lu Shang's strategist is very suspicious. Putting aside how he knows how to restrain the blood corpses, and ignoring the legends he heard, why would a strategist tell King Lu Shang this information? Such a secret would be a shocking secret, whether in that era or now."

"If the records here are true, that strategist is definitely not an ordinary person. After King Lu Shang died, he must have made everyone who knew about this matter be buried with him. How could someone with such insight and great ability be blindly loyal to King Lu Shang? This is not logical."

Uncle Wu shook his head and said.

“He would never do something so foolish, because in the end, the one lying in the jade terracotta warrior was no longer King Lu Shang, but the strategist himself.”

Zhang Qi made a surprising statement.

　“593” “Do you mean that the strategist switched King Lu Shang’s corpse with his own and hid in this jade terracotta warrior in an attempt to achieve immortality?”

Wu Xie's light flashed briefly.

Zhang Qi nodded, sighed, and said, "When this strategist first came into contact with King Lu Shang, he had already laid out a grand plan. King Lu Shang was just a pawn in his hands. There are some things that he cannot accomplish by himself alone, such as entering the Western Zhou tomb. Therefore, he must rely on the power of King Lu Shang to achieve his goal of immortality."

"Why do you know so much about this history? It's as if you've witnessed it firsthand. How is that possible?"

Wu Xie quickly asked.

Zhang Qi shook his head and said, "A few years ago when I was tomb raiding, I entered an ancient tomb from the Song Dynasty and found a complete set of Warring States period silk manuscripts. The manuscripts contained the autobiography of that Iron-Faced Man. After he laid out everything, he set fire to his entire family and burned them to death. No one survived."

"He then threw a beggar's corpse into the fire, burning it to ashes to avoid being seen by King Lu Shang's spies. Although King Lu Shang had some suspicions that his strategist's sudden death at this critical moment must be suspicious, he no longer had much time. King Lu Shang's chronic illness would fully erupt in three days at most."

"When the appointed time came, King Lu Shang would only meet a sudden death. This Iron-Faced Man had been waiting, and after King Lu Shang was buried, he easily entered the tomb. At this time, King Lu Shang was already terminally ill and powerless to resist. He removed the jade figurine from King Lu Shang's body and lay down in it himself. King Lu Shang never imagined that all the hard work he had done would eventually become someone else's dowry."

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After Zhang Qi finished recounting the whole story, Wu Xie was still very puzzled, as something seemed off about what he was saying.

However, Wu Xie himself didn't know what the problem was for a moment. Wu Xie glanced at his third uncle.

Looking at the expression on Wu Sanshu's face, Wu Xie knew that his third uncle was also skeptical of Zhang Qi's words.

However, since Zhang Qi has already explained the reason, even if it's false, there's no point in exposing it now.

Moreover, they had no evidence whatsoever.

From the moment they found the silk paper until Uncle Wu deciphered it, and then to the legendary tomb of King Lu Shang.

It all seems to be guided by someone behind the scenes, and it all seems so reasonable.

However, it can now be said that everything is over.

Despite having a hundred doubts in his heart, Wu Xie found that this eerie ancient tomb was not a good place to solve his problems.

After all, this trip to the ancient tomb has come to an end. If we want to delve deeper, we'll have to wait until we get out of this eerie tomb.

There's no point in wasting any more breath here.

On the contrary, it will only increase some unknown dangers.

Only Fang Yun looked at Zhang Qi with a meaningful expression.

Fang Yun sensed that this matter was not going to end so easily.

Zhang Qi is definitely hiding something from me.

However, Fang Yun wasn't curious about Zhang Qi's secret; he wasn't in such a position that he absolutely had to know.

Fang Yun only had one thing in this ancient tomb: the Corpse Beetle King.

Fang Yun had seen the legendary Corpse Beetle King in ancient books.

Ancient books only contain a few brief descriptions of the appearance of the Corpse Beetle King.

"A blood-red skin, the size of a fingernail, capable of controlling swarms of corpse beetles!"

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"I haven't found the Ghost Seal yet, how can I leave so easily? Besides, there are so many funerary objects in this coffin; even just taking a couple would be priceless..."

The fat man said with dissatisfaction.

Zhang Qi glanced coldly at the fat man, which startled the fat man so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Fine, fine, let's just say I came here for nothing, okay? But we have to take this jade figurine with us. It's a legendary item, maybe the only one of its kind in the world. If we don't take it with us, this trip will really be a waste."

The fat man said quickly.

"So what are you waiting for, kid? Are you waiting for me to put this jade figurine in your backpack? Hurry up and get out of this hellhole as soon as possible. Who knows what other dangers might be lurking in this eerie ancient tomb?"

Uncle Wu quickly said.