As Jiang Han strolled leisurely through the ruins, he addressed the camera, delivering a lecture on "stealing the Dao to ascend to immortality" to the entire internet with the knowledge recently instilled by the system, in a tone that suggested "I saw through it all along."

"The so-called Corpse-Dissolving Immortals are nothing but a group of pathetic worms who have gone astray."

His voice wasn't loud, yet it carried clearly throughout the world.

"They attempt to exchange the decay of their physical bodies for so-called spiritual eternity. They steal the rules of heaven and earth, seal themselves in coffins, and undergo a distorted 'ascension'."

"What we just took away was one of the failed 'defective products'."

In the 749 Bureau Command Center, Long Guozhu and a group of white-haired folk custom experts were all dumbfounded as they listened to Jiang Han's "popular science" explanation.

They frantically searched through the ancient books in their hands, but could not find any record of "stealing the Dao and ascending to immortality".

Holy crap! Jiang Shen even knows this? Just who is he? Is he a living encyclopedia?

"Stealing the Dao to Ascend to Immortality...that sounds really sinister!"

So that fairy Bai Ningbing from earlier was just an illusion created by a defective product? What a waste of your excitement...

The comments section was flooded with messages, and some people were asking questions.

[Has Jiang Shen already taken down the BOSS? Is this how we cleared the forbidden zone?]

Jiang Han saw this comment and sneered.

The cold laugh was so penetrating that it immediately silenced the noisy live stream.

"Cleared the game? You guys think I managed to outmaneuver the boss?"

He shook his head, his tone tinged with mockery.

"No, we haven't even had our appetizers yet."

"Everything here is like a cheap collage. The whole village is like a culinary disaster cobbled together with bread, barbecue, and butter, with a jarring and incongruous feel to it."

This vivid yet absurd metaphor left all the viewers stunned.

They thought about it carefully, from the king who grew out of the ground, to the ruins where the inside and outside worlds were completely different, and then to the coffin that was both leaking blood and emitting divine light...

Indeed, there is a strange sense of "pieced together" everywhere.

Jiang Han stopped explaining and continued walking forward.

He came to a huge but long-dead osmanthus tree, looked up, and raised an eyebrow.

A coffin was clearly wedged in the middle of a thick tree branch.

The coffin was ridiculously small; judging by its size, it could only hold a child as young as three or four.

Coffins hanging from trees.

This scene intensified the atmosphere of Chinese horror.

"Why call it Fengxian Village? Let's just call it the Coffin Wholesale Market."

Jiang Han muttered a complaint, then leaped up and easily took the small coffin down from the tree.

He placed the coffin on the ground and slowly opened it.

Inside the coffin lay the exquisitely beautiful body of a young boy.

The boy had white hair but a youthful face, with a rosy complexion; he looked like he was just asleep.

The moment the coffin lid was fully opened, the boy's corpse suddenly opened his eyes!

He had no pupils; his eye sockets held two eerie, ghostly flames.

A voice so aged it was frightening came from his young throat, triggering the uncanny valley effect to its fullest extent.

"Fellow Daoist, why do you want to ruin my plan to become an immortal?"

The boy's corpse slowly sat up, adopting the air of a wise and experienced man.

"Although you can see through appearances, you don't realize that this is also part of the cultivation process. Disturbing others' enlightenment is a major taboo."

The viewers in the live stream were terrified by the sudden scene.

[The corpse...the corpse has turned into a zombie!!!]

Holy crap! Is there an old man living inside this kid's body?!

Here we go again! Another verbal trap! Don't fall for it, Jiang Shen!

Jiang Han watched his pretentious performance and didn't even bother to reply.

He just frowned in disdain.

"Playing tricks."

Then, a thought struck him.

"Containment".

The knowing, confident expression on the boy's corpse turned into a comical look of astonishment the moment it was taken into custody.

The person and the coffin vanished into thin air once again.

"Done, next."

Jiang Han clapped his hands and started the assembly line operation mode.

He pushed open the door of a dilapidated house next door.

In the very center of the room, a coffin was enshrined.

Containment.

Push open the door to the second room.

On the bed inside the room lay a coffin.

Containment.

In the third room, a coffin hangs from the roof beam.

In the fourth room, a coffin sits on the kitchen stove.

The fifth one...

Jiang Han's expression gradually changed from indifference to numbness.

Towards the end, he even showed a hint of impatience.

His actions became increasingly casual. At first, he would at least glance at the door, but later he would simply kick it open, take a look, and wave.

"Containment, next!"

The emotions of the viewers in the live stream also went on a rollercoaster ride with Jiang Han.

From initial surprise, to subsequent numbness, and finally to a state of bewilderment and disbelief.

[Hahaha, I'm laughing so hard I can't live anymore! Jiang Shen has really stirred up a hornet's nest!]

[The feast has begun? No, it's like they've opened a coffin until they're sick of it!]

[I declare this the most boring yet funniest mystery livestream I've ever seen! The streamer did only one thing from beginning to end: collect coffins!]

[I feel sorry for Jiang Shen for a second; he seems so annoyed. ╮(╯-╰)╭]

After collecting the 131st coffin and pushing open the broken door of the last room, Jiang Han finally stopped.

He leaned against the mottled door frame, a rare look of weariness and contemplation on his face.

He has turned the entire village upside down.

Apart from these coffins, nothing else was found.

More importantly, his task progress remains stuck at 16%, completely unchanged.

This proves that they went down the wrong path of collecting coffins.

"System, where exactly is the 'ancient tomb' in this village?"

Jiang Han asked in his heart.

"You can't expect me to pack up and take the whole village with me, can you?"

A system notification sounded.

[Hint: The ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal is neither in the heavens nor underground, but in the village.]

"nonsense."

Jiang Han pursed her lips.

However, this tip is not entirely useless.

It is neither in the heavens nor on the ground.

The source is located on the surface of this village.

He closed his eyes.

With the Qilin bloodline within him operating at full power, his powerful senses spread out, sensing the chaotic energy flow within the village.

These energies contain yin energy, death energy, resentment energy, and a small amount of faint celestial energy.

They were like countless chaotic streams, wandering aimlessly through the ruins.

In Jiang Han's perceived world, these seemingly chaotic energies eventually converged into the same destination, like rivers flowing into the sea.

A few seconds later, he opened his eyes!

His gaze, like a drawn sword, pierced through the dim light in the room, past the last coffin, and locked firmly on the dusty altar behind it.

There stood an inconspicuous, palm-sized black wooden shrine.

There was no statue of a god on the shrine, only a lonely memorial tablet.

The moment Jiang Han locked onto it, everything around seemed to fade in color.

All the energy, no matter how chaotic, eventually flowed quietly into that shrine.

That's the real "core".

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