I, a cultivator, have ended up in the world of tomb raiding.

Upon hearing Chen Yulou's question, Li Yue nodded and placed the bamboo basket containing the Angry-Eyed Chicken on the ground.

Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai both looked at the bamboo basket with anticipation, as if it contained some kind of magical creation.

But when the girl in red lifted the lid of the basket, the two of them looked closely and...

Inside was just a large rooster with colorful feathers. They were all stunned, and a look of disappointment appeared on their faces.

Luo Laowai's face immediately darkened. He covered his injured eye and spoke in a somewhat impolite tone:

"Brother Li, are you making fun of me? What good is this rooster?"

"If you can't find anything to counteract the poison, just say so. Why try to fool people by buying a random chicken from a mountain villager's house?"

Chen Yulou also frowned slightly, his heart filled with doubt.

He believed he had a good eye for people and knew that neither Li Yue nor Partridge Whistle were frivolous or deceitful individuals.

The colorful rooster in front of me looks strange, but I can't tell what abilities it has.

But then I thought about it again, and there's a folk saying about chickens pecking at poisonous insects, so perhaps there's another hidden meaning. So I smoothed things over by saying:

"Commander Luo, please calm down. Roosters are inherently yang in nature and can overcome centipedes, snakes, and scorpions. Perhaps this is no ordinary local chicken."

"No matter how unusual it is, it's still just a chicken. In that underground palace, let alone one chicken, even ten wouldn't be of much use!"

Luo Laowai lost an eye and almost lost his life under the barbican, and his temper was more irritable than usual.

He glanced at the angry-looking rooster in the bamboo basket again, and muttered under his breath, "Damn it, it's not even enough for a blood oath."

Chen Yulou had never seen the chicken's true abilities before, and was speechless for a moment.

They could only turn their attention to Li Yue and Partridge Whistle, waiting for their explanation.

Partridge Whistle stepped forward and said to the two men, "Chief Chen and Commander Luo, you may not know this, but this chicken is no ordinary creature. It is a rare 'Angry-Eyed Chicken' from western Hunan."

Its bloodline is unique, possessing extremely strong yang energy, specifically designed to dispel yin and poisonous creatures. The poisonous insects and demons of Ping Mountain dare not act recklessly before it. With it present, the poisonous creatures in the tomb are no longer a threat.

Luo Laowai looked on in disbelief, thinking it was just made-up nonsense.

He held the pistol close to the bamboo basket and gently poked the chicken's head with the barrel, trying to see what was so special about the chicken.

The angry-eyed rooster, having just taken a short rest in its basket after a bumpy journey along the mountain road, was disturbed in this way and felt a little annoyed.

Suddenly, it opened its eyes wide, its pupils like gold, its gaze fierce.

Its multicolored feathered crown exploded instantly, and a chilling, fierce aura subtly pressed down on people, making it hard to breathe.

Before Luo Laowai could react, the Angry Sun Chicken flapped its wings and swooped down, its iron claws sweeping fiercely across his arm holding the gun.

Several high-pitched "cluck cluck cluck" phoenix cries echoed throughout the room.

Using the force of its kick, the rooster soared like an arrow, flying straight up to the roof beam, standing tall and looking down disdainfully at the people inside.

Everyone was taken aback.

As the saying goes, you'll know whether it's a mule or a horse once you take it out for a spin.

Looking at Luo Laowai's arm now, his sleeves had been torn into several pieces by chicken claws. If the claws had struck any harder, the skin and flesh would have been torn open.

The room was completely silent.

Li Yue spoke up calmly from the side: "The claws of this Angry Sun Chicken are as sharp as iron, and its beak is as sharp as a blade. If it had really exerted its strength just now, it could have directly ripped off a piece of flesh."

Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai exchanged a glance, their disdain vanishing and replaced by shock and admiration.

Looking at the majestic rooster perched on the roof beam, Chen Yulou then turned to Li Yue and said:

"Brother Li, this...this rooster is truly extraordinary; we were blind to its greatness. But it's perched on the beam; how can we get it down?"

Li Yue looked up at the Angry Rooster, lightly patted the bamboo basket with one hand, and called out:

"Come down, eat something later before you go to sleep."

As soon as he finished speaking, the angry rooster on the roof beam spread its wings and swooped down from the height like a streak of colorful light.

It landed steadily and accurately, straight into the bamboo basket, its feathers slightly folded, and it returned to its quiet state.

It was as if that terrifying and ferocious aura had never existed.

Luo Laowai stared wide-eyed, clutching his injured eye, speechless for a long time.

Chen Yulou nodded repeatedly, his gaze towards Li Yue now filled with genuine admiration, and exclaimed:

"Today I've truly seen something amazing; it really is a spirit bird! With this divine rooster around, our chances of winning on our third attempt to enter Ping Mountain have finally increased!"

Then he struggled to get up, and Hua Ma Guai, who was beside him, slowly helped him sit up from the bed.

Having accomplished one important task, Chen Yulou said in a deep voice:

"The Laoxiongling area is rich in cinnabar medicinal materials. When the mountain people collect herbs, they often encounter the Xiangxi Corpse King. Just as the Li Yue brothers said, this mountain is full of poisonous miasma and evil spirits. There must be evil spirits deep in the tomb."

Nowadays, the Angry Sun Chicken can counteract poisons, but the century-old zombie is exceptionally ferocious and must be guarded against.

Zombies are things that die but do not decompose. If they happen to die in an unlucky year, month, day, or hour, they can absorb yin energy and appear on moonlit nights to feed on human brains.

This time, we will not only retrieve the treasures from the tomb, but also eliminate this Corpse King and spread our fame as the Mountain Moving and Ridge Unloading Masters.

"Xiangxi is a mountainous region with deep forests, isolated from the outside world. The legend of the Corpse King has been passed down for hundreds of years. Many mountain people claim to have seen it with their own eyes. The brains of the dead were eaten, and the deaths were bizarre." Partridge Whistle nodded, his face full of agreement.

He said, "I don't believe in ghosts and gods, but this story is told in great detail that it's hard to tell the truth without checking it out for myself."

Li Yue remained noncommittal, knowing that there was indeed a Corpse King inside the Yuan Tomb at Ping Mountain.

This time, upon re-entering Ping Mountain, I will inevitably have to meet with that Yuan Dynasty general.

A zombie that dies but does not decay, and after absorbing yin energy for a long time, cultivates into the body of a zombie king, its body must be full of deathly energy.

Moreover, the Corpse King also possessed a Yin Pill, and consuming it would bring him some benefit.

At this moment, the people around them started talking about methods for dealing with zombies:

The tomb raiders have their tomb-raiding seals and black donkey hooves; the mountain movers have Kui Xing kicking the Dipper; and the ridge unloaders have corpse-binding nets and corpse-carrying poles...

If they were to encounter the Corpse King, with the combined strength of all of them, they might be able to subdue and burn him.

When it came to burning the Corpse King to ashes, Luo Laowai was even more enthusiastic than Partridge Whistle and Chen Yulou.

He stood on a chair and kept cursing, showing how deeply he resented the fall of the city walls.

After everyone had discussed and decided on the plan inside the room, Chen Yulou gave the order.

They dispatched a large number of people to buy up live chickens from surrounding villages, only buying roosters and not hens.

Now that things have come to this, Luo Laowai's army's tomb raiding under the guise of military exercises has been exposed.

The group decided to stop hiding their intentions and openly declared that the Pingshan ancient tomb was already Changshengshan's for the taking.

Anyone who dares to get involved should think twice before trying.

A few days later, Chen Yulou chose an auspicious day.

They set up an altar at the mortuary, enshrined the ancestral master's tablet, and laid out the heads of three kinds of sacrificial animals, swearing a blood oath with the Mountain Moving Sect to steal Bottle Mountain together.

When bandits form an alliance, they swear an oath of brotherhood using only chicken blood, not human blood.

The officiant, carrying a rooster, loudly chants the order to kill the rooster, praising its miraculous nature and explaining the reason for its slaughter.

After the ceremony, a chicken was chopped up and wine was poured over it, and everyone made a vow and swore an oath.

After drinking the blood wine and burning the yellow paper, the ceremony was considered complete, and the two forces officially joined forces.

Li Yue had no interest in these worldly customs of bandits, and was even less willing to swear oaths for such mundane matters.

In this world, it is inevitable that husbands and wives will turn against each other and brothers will fight each other, let alone these bandits and rabble.

It's just a matter of gathering in the morning and dispersing in the evening.

Those who cultivate immortality value oaths; once an oath is made, it is not a trivial matter and must be taken with utmost sincerity.

The world of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" also has its own destiny and fate.

If you swear an oath to these people on the basis of your spiritual path, you will be entangled in karma.

He did not intend to have much involvement with these bandits and engineers. Once the matter of Ping Mountain was settled, he should leave Xiangyin and seek out another dangerous and perilous place.

Seeing the scene growing increasingly noisy, he said calmly to Chen Yulou:

"I go down into tombs only to help the people, not for wealth, so I will not participate in these rituals."

These words matched Chen Yulou's earlier claim of "stealing silver to help the people." Chen Yulou couldn't tell whether he was sincere or not, and since he couldn't persuade him to stay, he had no choice but to let him go.