Ghost Immortal

But the woman with the pearl was not so optimistic.

As soon as she entered the tomb, the yin-detecting bead at her waist began to buzz.

The dozen or so beads vibrated together, emitting a rapid buzzing sound.

Her face changed drastically. She covered the bead and said nervously to the one-eyed old man, "The spirit-detecting bead has made a sound! We can't touch anything in the coffin. Quickly grab some valuables and leave!"

The one-eyed old man's expression was uncertain, and he subconsciously turned to look at Li Feng.

They discovered that the young watchman was standing at the entrance of the tomb chamber, with his back against the stone door, looking ready to retreat at any moment.

Just kidding, Li Feng has no intention of going to their deaths with them. If there is any danger, he will immediately protect them in front of him.

The one-eyed old man grinned: "Watchman, you're quite clever. You know to stand at the door and run if things go wrong. You're starting to look like a tomb raider."

Li Feng didn't pretend and said frankly, "I'm still young and naturally cherish my life. The aura emanating from the thing in this coffin makes me feel cold all over. If I were to open the coffin, who knows what might jump out?"

The shovel spat disdainfully: "Coward, you think you can get rich with your cowardice? Without guts, how can you produce anything?"

The one-eyed old man didn't laugh at him. Instead, he nodded approvingly: "Good for you to be a coward. In the tomb raiding business, the cowardly you are, the longer you live. In that case, you can stand guard at the door and keep watch for us. When it's time to divide the spoils, you'll definitely get a share."

He turned around and walked toward the coffin.

A shovel, a bronze seal, and beads followed closely behind. The four men surrounded the coffin, carefully examining their surroundings.

Li Feng stood at the entrance of the tomb chamber, his back against the cold stone door.

His right hand was tucked into his sleeve, his fingertips already gripping a lightning talisman, ready to unleash its full power at any moment.

His gaze wasn't fixed on the coffin, but rather on the talismans on the wall.

The more I look at it, the more alarmed I become.

He had seen similar runes on the talisman paper on a page of a tattered book.

The above describes the Corpse-Suppressing Talisman Array, which is specifically designed to counter corpse transformation and is used to suppress the most resentful and fierce corpses. If the Corpse-Suppressing Talisman Array fails, the fierce corpse will be born, and the surrounding area will become a dead zone.

The area within a hundred miles has become a dead zone; this is no child's play!

A chill ran down Li Feng's spine, and he was already thinking of making a quick getaway.

Meanwhile, the four people started opening the coffin.

There's no skill involved, it's all about brute force.

He swung the large shovel and smashed it hard against the bluestone base beneath the coffin.

The earthen-yellow magic power adhered to the shovel blade, and the suppression rune array on the platform shattered in response, the dark red filler turning into dust and falling down in a flurry.

"Namo Amitabha Night..."

The copper seal raised the Corpse-Suppressing Seal, chanting incoherent incantations, and the runes on the seal surface glowed with a dark golden light.

He pressed the Corpse-Suppressing Seal onto the cloud and thunder patterns on the side of the coffin. The light of the seal seeped into the patterns, and the cloud and thunder patterns seemed to be activated, rippling with dark golden light.

The woman with the pearl took out a handful of glutinous rice from her bosom and sprinkled it evenly around the coffin several times.

The glutinous rice turned grayish-black immediately after hitting the ground, but she didn't stop. Sweating profusely, she continued to sprinkle another circle of glutinous rice around the outside of the circle, creating a double barrier.

The one-eyed old man took out a yin-probing needle and probed along the cracks in the coffin inch by inch, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

After examining the seam between the coffin lid and the coffin body, his brow suddenly furrowed.

"The coffin lid wasn't nailed shut; he was alive!"

The man with the shovel stopped shoveling and asked in astonishment, "What do you mean? You mean this coffin can open by itself?"

The one-eyed old man said with a solemn expression, "The person who sealed the coffin never intended to nail the lid shut. The purpose of these chains and talismans is not to prevent people outside from opening the coffin, but to prevent the things inside from coming out."

"In other words, what's inside is so ferocious that even the people sealing the coffin didn't believe the lid could hold it in; they could only lock it from the outside with chains and talismans."

Upon hearing this, the shovel, the copper seal, and the beads all froze on the spot, unsure whether to continue.

In the end, greed overcame fear, and the shovel suddenly let out a heavy groan.

"Hmph! Who cares what's inside? Since it's been sealed for hundreds of years, even a great demon would be too weak to be anything more. We won't touch it, we'll just take the burial goods and leave."

Before he finished speaking, he took the initiative to act.

They swung shovels and pried open the stone slabs on the bluestone base beneath the coffin.

The moment the stone slab was lifted, a shimmering white light emerged from beneath it, illuminating half of the tomb chamber.

This is the spiritual light emanating from the spirit stones, a whole trough full of spirit stones!

The interlayer of the bluestone base was filled with spirit stones, each about the size of a thumb, with a milky white halo on the surface, full of spiritual energy, and of better quality than the ten stones that Li Feng had scavenged from Zhang Gengtou.

There are no fewer than a hundred spirit stones in this stone trough alone!

Tiechao grinned, his face trembling with laughter, and reached into the stone trough to scoop something out.

Copper seals and beads were also found in hidden compartments and secret compartments around the coffin, filled with various magical artifacts, elixirs, talismans, and unknown animal bones.

Tong Yin pulled out a bronze short sword from the hidden compartment. The sword was covered with runes and was well-preserved. The blade gleamed coldly under the dark blue light. It was still sharp after so many years and was at least a grade-1 spiritual weapon!

Zhu Zi then pulled out several jade slips and a booklet wrapped in animal hide.

The text on the booklet cover is blurred, but the words "suppress evil spirits" can still be vaguely made out.

The four men were overjoyed to find so much good stuff as soon as they opened the coffin, and they hurriedly stuffed the burial goods into the bundle.

They seemed to be overwhelmed by the wealth that was coming their way, completely forgetting what the one-eyed old man had said earlier.

The things imprisoned under triple suppression are absolutely not something they can touch.

Only the one-eyed old man was cautious. Although he also stuffed spirit stones into his pocket, he would occasionally look up at the coffin and the talismans on the wall.

He's the fastest to run if there's any unusual movement.

But he only looked up at it; his hands didn't stop moving at all.

Standing at the door, Li Feng looked at the stone trough full of spirit stones and various magical artifacts. Instead of feeling any greed, he felt a strong sense of vigilance.

The more abundant the burial goods, the more noble the status of the tomb owner, the more rigorous the suppression methods, and the more dangerous the contents of the coffin.

He quietly took another half step back, his toes already touching the threshold of the stone gate.

Just then, the shovel suddenly stopped moving.

He was reaching into the last hidden compartment directly beneath the coffin when he touched something.

It turned out to be a gold hairpin.

The entire piece is made of pure gold, and the hairpin head is a phoenix with outstretched wings, holding a gold chain as thin as a hair in its beak. At the end of the gold chain hang three blood-red gemstones.

Under the dark blue glow, the gemstones shimmered with an eerie light, like three drops of congealed blood.

The phoenix's eyes are made of two rubies, and its wing feathers are engraved with tiny runes, making it extremely exquisite.

"This is something from the tomb owner's head, what a treasure!"

Even the woman with the pearl-like hair ornaments had a greedy look in her eyes.

The craftsmanship and materials of this gold hairpin are far beyond what ordinary cultivators can possess; it is at least a low-grade spiritual artifact.

If you put it up for auction, it would be worth at least two hundred low-grade spirit stones.

The one-eyed old man shouted sternly, "Whatever you do, don't touch it! You can't touch the tomb owner's personal belongings. I told you this rule before we entered the tomb!"

Iron Shovel grinned nonchalantly: "Rules are rules, but we've gone to so much trouble to pry open the foundation, we can't just leave empty-handed, can we? Besides, this thing wasn't taken from the coffin, it was pulled out from under the coffin, and it's not even considered a personal item of the tomb owner."

As he spoke, he casually stuffed the gold hairpin into his pocket.

Tong Yin glanced at the shovel once and continued searching for other hidden compartments.

The one-eyed old man's face was gloomy, but he knew that there was no point in saying anything now.

He quickly stuffed the spirit stones in front of him into his bundle, urging, "Take enough and leave, don't look through anything else!"

"What's the rush? We've come all this way, how can we leave empty-handed?" The shovel had already scavenged most of the spirit stones under the coffin, but his gaze then fell on the coffin itself.

"The coffin hasn't been opened yet. There must be even better things inside. Maybe the gold hairpin is just the worst one; the tomb owner probably had other jewelry and magical artifacts on him. We haven't seen the real treasures yet!"