Wang Fatty and Hu Ba Yi took turns wielding the entrenching tool, furiously hacking at the wall.
Within a short while, they had carved out a human-shaped passageway in the wall.
The four of them immediately entered.
Inside was a tomb chamber, about a hundred square feet in size, with walls adorned with sculpted, painted patterns.
At the center of the tomb chamber stood a square bronze tripod, covered in dust.
And in the north, a coffin lay motionless, undisturbed for thousands of years.
Upon seeing the tripod, Wang Fatty couldn't contain his excitement. He immediately rushed over and carefully examined it, assessing its worth.
After all, in ancient times, the tripod was held in the highest regard. Such a large tripod, if it could be sold, would likely fetch a fortune.
Moreover, the older the tripod, the more valuable it was.
When Wang Fatty finally reached the bronze tripod, he noticed several headless corpses inside, along with some seemingly ancient gold, silver, and jade objects.
Wang Fatty was startled and immediately asked Lin Changsheng, "Old Man Lin, how come there are headless corpses in the tripod?"
Lin Changsheng walked over, glanced at the tripod, and said, "This tripod was used for sacrificial offerings. The headless corpses inside are likely war prisoners. As for their heads, remember the pit of skulls we encountered before we came here?"
Wang Fatty shuddered, "You mean, all the skulls in that pit came from here?"
He couldn't imagine how many skulls this tomb chamber had yielded.
Just how cruel was the owner of this tomb to have so many people beheaded and buried with him?
While lamenting this, the sharp-eyed Wang Fatty was already eyeing the gold, silver, and jade objects on the headless corpses.
As Wang Fatty's hand reached out to touch the bronze tripod, Lin Changsheng's eyes narrowed, fixing on the coffin in the north. He barked out a warning, "Fatty, stop!"
Wang Fatty was confused. The contents of the tripod were open, anyone would take them! It was right there, in front of him, how could Wang Fatty not be tempted?
Lin Changsheng's gaze remained fixed on the coffin, "This tripod belongs to him. The corpses inside are his war prisoners. You're challenging his authority by touching it now."
Wang Fatty noticed Lin Changsheng's unwavering gaze towards the coffin and said, "Old Man Lin, haven't we opened the coffin? How could it still wake him?"
"I remember you saying that the main reason those big zombies revived was because tomb robbers opened their coffins and exposed them to yang energy, which resurrected them!"
"Exactly!"
Lin Changsheng nodded, pleased that Wang Fatty had taken his words to heart, "But those were sleeping and undisturbed. They also had coffin nails hammered into them. What if the coffin in front of us has already awakened?"
As soon as Lin Changsheng finished speaking, even the usually composed Zhang Hai Xing couldn't help but show a nervous expression.
Wang Fatty nearly tumbled to the ground in fear.
Hu Ba Yi stood at the ready, clutching his entrenching tool.
He looked at the seven-star coffin, recalling the bloody soil during the excavation. According to ancient texts, this could be a blood corpse.
A blood corpse was a powerful type of zombie. It was a corpse that had turned a deep purple due to undergoing a transformation on a prime feng shui site.
Blood corpses were extremely dangerous, highly aggressive, and incredibly strong. With a single arm, they could tear a man apart.
Moreover, their teeth and claws were laced with a deadly poison. Any living creature that came into contact with them would die.
His heart pounded wildly, his breath growing increasingly ragged.
"Old Man Lin, is it alive?"
He asked cautiously.
Lin Changsheng frowned and nodded, because he could sense an intense and concentrated evil energy.
The evil energy here was several times stronger than the red ghoul in the general's tomb.
Ten red ghouls would likely be no match for a single blood corpse.
Seeing this, Zhang Hai Xing tightened her grip on her sword. Even she felt a threat to her life.
It had been a long time since she felt this way.
Wang Fatty, observing this, crouched on the ground, his legs trembling. He saw black mist pouring out of the coffin.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Large amounts of black, sinister energy emanated from the coffin. The only sound in the tomb chamber was the violent thumping from within the coffin.
The violent commotion of the coffin unnerved Wang Fatty.
"Old Man Lin, who's actually inside that coffin? It feels like some kind of ultimate evil!"
Lin Changsheng calmly replied, "Look at the construction of this tomb chamber. It's from the Western Zhou dynasty, meaning the owner of this coffin has been alive for two thousand years!"
"If I'm not mistaken, the owner of this coffin is Zhou Muwang!"
"Zhou Muwang?"
"The Mu Tianzi?"
The group gasped in horror upon hearing Lin Changsheng's words.
Could the four of them handle a two thousand year old zombie?
And it was a mutated blood corpse zombie.
A two thousand year old zombie would be tough enough, but this one was mutated.
As for how the Mu Tianzi became a blood corpse, there was a love story associated with it.
Back then, the Mu Tianzi traveled west and reached the Western Queen Mother's tribe, the people of Tamudho. He fell in love with the Western Queen Mother, and they began a relationship. To ensure their love would last forever,
The Western Queen Mother gifted the Mu Tianzi three things.
The first was a corpse-worm pill that caused the Mu Tianzi to become a blood corpse. The corpse-worm pill allowed a person's body to remain eternally vibrant.
However, the corpse-worm poison was extremely potent. If a living person consumed it, they would gradually transform into a mindless jīn pó. To suppress the poison, the Western Queen Mother provided the second item, a jade figurine made from a fragment of a fallen star.
The third item was a ghost seal that could open the bronze gate.
Once they woke up with these three items, they could walk the path to immortality.
Unfortunately, fate had other plans. Their plan was thwarted, resulting in the Mu Tianzi becoming a mindless blood corpse.
“Bang!”
With a loud clang, the coffin lid flew off.
The surging black evil energy was overwhelming, forcing anyone standing nearby to their knees in submission.
The coffin seemed to roar in anger, saying,
"You have seen the Son of Heaven, why do you not kneel?!"
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