Chapter 263: The Chen Family’s Ancestral Rule: Light the Lamp Before Opening the Coffin
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Damn it! Damned thieves, there’s a path to heaven but you refused to take it. There’s no door to hell but you barged in. How dare you come and dig my grave? You must simply be tired of living! If it wasn’t for the fact that my true spirit has been entrusted to the temple God, 1 would have killed you all with my own hands and turned your bones into ashes!”
Wu Qiong’s furious roar rang out from the statue.
He felt extremely humiliated when he saw someone digging his grave.
However, his true spirit was now entrusted to the Thunder God Statue, so he couldn’t kill Chen Changqing and the others himself.
That being said, Wu Qiong was a ruthless man who had left the Tushan family and established the Leishan tribe eighty-thousand years ago. He had his methods and preparations, of course.
“Fortunately, I made preparations for this in the past. There is a powerful corpse demon hiding in the tomb under the temple. Otherwise, I’m afraid that these thieves would’ve succeeded in digging up my tomb today. Hmph, since you dare to dig the grave of my tomb, you must have the awareness of death,” Wu Qiong sneered coldly.
The trump card he left behind 80,000 years ago was finally about to be put to use.
Chen Changqing and the others had no clue about all this.
At this moment, under Chen Changqing’s Secret Technique of Mountain Opening, a dark passage leading to the temple’s tomb appeared before everyone’s eyes, emitting an ancient and decaying aura.
“Ninth Uncle, you can determine good or bad luck, and you have the most experience. Please go down to the tomb to check if there are any dangerous traps or the like. If there’s anything unusual, send a signal in time.”
Chen Changqing stared at the passage for a few seconds before saying to Chen Jiuheng beside him.
“Alright. You guys wait up there. I’ll go down and take a look.”
After saying that, Chen Jiuheng immediately flashed and disappeared. He nimbly disappeared into the underground passage like a burrowing mouse.
Soon, one long and two short rhythmic sounds came from inside.
Hearing this, Chen Changqing and the others were greatly invigorated.
The signal Chen Jiuheng had sent with his voice was a special communication method used by the Southern Region’s grave robber aristocratic family. It meant that he had not discovered any danger and that the situation was normal.
If there was danger or a great calamity, the signal would become “three long and two short”.
Different situations had different signals. These were all precious treasures passed down from the ancestors of the grave-robbing world.
It was not only the grave robber aristocratic family of the Southern Region that had such signals. The grave-robber aristocratic families of the Northern Mystic Region and the Qi family of the Central Sky Region each had their methods of communication and grave-robbing techniques.
Every faction had a different focus. Ultimately, it was all for grave robbing.
“Let’s enter the tomb. Everyone, keep your eyes open. We re doing a business that puts our lives on the line. If we are not careful, we will die without a burial place. Remember one thing, we can’t be greedy, we can’t be greedy, and we can’t be greedy! We should only take what we should. We definitely can’t take what we shouldn’t,” Chen Changqing warned in a deep voice.
In response, everyone present nodded in agreement. They were rubbing their fists, their eyes filled with excitement. Obviously, they were ready to go all out.
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The tomb under the temple was decayed and dark.
When Chen Changqing and the others went down to the tomb, they saw that Chen Jiuheng had already taken out a few mysterious crystals and thrown them into various corners of the tomb.
Whoosh!
With that, bright light bloomed like a small sun rising slowly, illuminating the entire tomb.
In an instant, the scene in the tomb was reflected in everyone’s eyes.
The entire tomb was extremely spacious, with a radius of about a hundred feet. There were neatly cultivated spiritual fields on the ground, and one could vaguely see traces of planting.
However, due to the erosion of time, the spiritual energy in the spiritual fields had all been lost. Even the various spiritual herbs in the spiritual fields had all decayed.
“To think such good spiritual fields have been abandoned.”
Chen Jiuheng’s eyes were filled with regret.
“Looking at the signs of decay on the spiritual herbs, they seem to have been corroded or contaminated by some evil substance. Everyone, be careful. I feel that this tomb is not simple,” Chen Changqing reminded the others.
They used crystals to open a path. After passing through the spiritual fields and pushing open an ancient bronze door, they arrived at the second level of the tomb.
There were many stone shelves here that were lined with various ancient books.
Due to the protection of an array, although it had been over 80,000 years, there were no traces of decay, and the books were still relatively well preserved.
After reading through some of the books, everyone was extremely excited.
Although most of the books on the stone shelves recorded strange stories of the Tushan family and the Mountain Mausoleum Area, many others contained powerful secret techniques and divine powers.
Even Chen Changqing was shocked by the knowledge and dharma techniques contained in the book. He felt as if his knowledge had been subverted.
“These are all treasures! If we take all these things out, our Chen family’s foundation and strength will increase by another level. With them, this tomb has been worth it already.”
Chen Changqing’s eyes were bright.
With a command, they carefully put all the books on the stone shelf into their spirit rings.
“Changqing, there’s another bronze door over there. I took a look. The space inside isn’t very big, and there’s only a huge stone coffin. This should be the last level of the tomb.”
Chen Jiuheng said as he walked over.
“Let’s go and take a look. This tomb belonged to Wu Qiong of the Tushan family eighty thousand years ago. According to our family’s calculation, Wu Qiong was at least in the tenth divine minor realm, the Extreme Divine realm. It’s even possible that he’s a Demigod. The burial items in his coffin should be extraordinary,” Chen Changqing clenched his fists and said enthusiastically.
Soon after, the group followed Chen Jiuheng to the third level of the tomb.
The space here was only 100 feet wide.
Looking up, in the middle of the tomb was an ancient and huge black stone coffin. It was unknown what material it was made of, but it gave off a powerful and majestic aura.
After arriving at the third level Chen Changqing immediately scanned the area with his Tomb’s Eye and did not find anything unusual.
At the same time, Chen Jiuheng and the others were also prepared to open the coffin.
“Same old rules, we have to light the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp first.”
Under everyone’s gaze, Chen Changqing took out a black longevity lamp that was about three feet tall and had an ancient design. There were seven stars embellished on it, and it looked extremely extraordinary.
“Our Chen family has an ancestral rule. Light the lamp before opening the coffin. Gou’zi, you’ll be in charge of the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp. Place it ten feet in front of the coffin. As long as the lamp doesn’t go out, it means there’s no danger and we can open the coffin. Once the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp goes out, everyone must retreat immediately,” Chen Changqing said solemnly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he used a secret technique to light the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp and handed it to a lean man beside him, ordering the latter to stand ten feet in front of the coffin.
After waiting for a moment, they found nothing unusual about the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp. This made Chen Changqing and the others immediately heave a sigh of relief.
“Ninth Uncle, open the coffin.”
“Alright!” Chen Jiuheng replied excitedly.
With that, he and the other three people took out their tools and came to the huge stone coffin. After looking at each other, the four of them immediately used their tools to forcefully pry open the stone coffin.
Rumble!
Under their brute force, the lid of the stone coffin began to move bit by bit.
In the meantime, Chen Changqing observed the stone coffin with the Tomb’s Eye while paying attention to the movement of the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp from the corner of his eye. After seeing that there was nothing unusual, he relaxed a lot.
However, what he did not know was that Wu Qiong’s true spirit was watching everything.
Seeing that Chen Jiuheng and the others were about to pry open his coffin, Wu Qiong’s eyes turned extremely cold.
“Damned thieves, I will send you to your deaths next.”
Boom!
Under Wu Qiong’s control, a deep and terrifying sound suddenly came from the stone coffin.
It instantly caused the hair of Chen Jiuheng and the others to stand on end.
At the same time, the Seven Stars Longevity Lamp that Gou’zi was holding suddenly extinguished.
Seeing this, Chen Changqing was shocked.
“Not good! There is a great terror in the coffin! Leave quickly!” He shouted.
As he spoke, he was prepared to pull Chen Jiuheng and the others.
Bang!
However, at this moment, a terrifying black hand suddenly stretched out from the stone coffin and punched the bodies of two tribesmen.
Boom!
Immediately after, the lid of the stone coffin was blown away by a huge force, and a terrifying monster nearly ten feet tall rushed out crazily..
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