Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

It's worth mentioning that these nine centipede dragons are not stone sculptures, but living creatures!
It is a living being that has survived since the death of the last King of Dongxia Wannu!
"You may place the coffin of the King of Ten Thousand Slaves as you see fit. There is still some time before the door is opened. According to the Zhang family's ancient records, the real King of Ten Thousand Slaves has already died. This is just the remains of his last incarnation."

"But be careful, don't let your guard down. That corpse has been here for quite some time, and it's likely undergone some kind of mutation. As for Yue..."

The young man unusually spoke at length to one person.

However, as he spoke, the young man glanced into the darkness deep underground.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. When have you ever seen me act recklessly?"

Hu Ming nodded, glancing at the dark depths of the earth with a half-smile.

Kind words are hard to persuade a damned devil; great compassion cannot save someone who has chosen to die.

The moment Hu Ming stepped onto the stone steps, he felt an immense, unseen malice.

There were animals and humans.

The nine centipedes that looked like stone carvings had already quietly opened their eyes.

His dim, yellowish eyes, filled with absolute brutality and malice, turned towards Hu Ming and his companion.

This stone coffin is the final resting place of the Wan Nu King's last incarnation; how could it possibly be without any defensive measures whatsoever?
The flock of human-faced birds that inhabit this place is one defensive measure, while the nine-headed centipede is the last defensive measure.

If someone actually thinks this thing is a sculpture and carelessly steps onto the stone platform, then...
This day next year will be the anniversary of his death.

Even with Xiao Ge's skill, he would be quite overwhelmed when facing nine enormous centipedes at the same time.

But upon seeing this, Hu Ming suddenly laughed and said, "Let's try this move again!"

A pair of golden eyes appeared.

The next instant, boundless white mist surged from the ground beneath Hu Ming's feet.

In the blink of an eye, a thick white fog enveloped the space around Hu Ming.

Several eerie snake hisses emanated from the mist.

"Does it possess the same power as the Boundless Demon Eye?"

The young man looked at this astonishing phenomenon and murmured to himself.

Even in the instant the black mist filled the air, a mysterious resonance seemed to occur.

A faint blue mist began to emerge from the crevices in the surrounding cliff walls.

Meanwhile, in the distant depths, shadowy figures flickered faintly, accompanied by the melodious sound of stag horns.

Even the bronze door, sealed with animal hides, showed faint signs of opening.

"Is this bloodline eye technique related to the ultimate truth behind the bronze gate?"

Upon seeing this, the young man frowned slightly; this was something he hadn't anticipated.

only.
"The time hasn't come yet; it's not time for the ghostly soldiers to clear the way and the bronze gate to open wide."

Shaking his head, the young man stopped paying attention to these things.

Sure enough, the next moment, as if some ancient mechanism had been triggered, the commotion at the bronze door subsided.

The deep blue mist vanished completely, and even the strange phenomena around us seemed like illusions.

"Those eyes are definitely something... Is it because snakes are also scaly creatures?"

Hu Ming also noticed these astonishing phenomena, and rubbed his eyes while muttering to himself.

However, the connection between them certainly cannot be determined by mere speculation.

To find out the connection and secrets behind it, we probably have to go behind the bronze door.

He shook his head, no longer thinking about it. At this moment, due to the strange movement of the bronze gate, the nine-headed, hundred-legged dragon had already fully revived.

Its massive body, tens of meters long, hovered and roared at Hu Ming.

Even inside the stone coffin, there were unusual movements, and the creature inside seemed to be showing signs of awakening.

The white mist surrounding Hu Ming dissipated the next moment.

Around Hu Ming, nine enormous Pure Vision Agamas, resembling the size of a centipede dragon, appeared out of nowhere, but these Pure Vision Agamas had two bumps on their heads.

For a moment, this place seemed to have transformed into a battleground for colossal beasts from ancient times.

The tail of the nine-headed, hundred-legged dragon was confined to the bottom of the coffin by a bronze chain as thick as a bowl, preventing it from moving freely.

Immediately, the Ninefold Pure Mirror Agama let out a cold cry and moved like lightning along the stone steps.

Their creator has given them the order—to annihilate all nine centipedes!
The battle was short-lived; in less than a quarter of an hour, the nine swaggering centipedes had lost all life.

The dead can no longer die.

The color of the carapace had turned into an eerie bluish-black.

The Pure Vision Agama is a poisonous snake, extremely venomous!
The devil's messenger—that title isn't just cool to sound.

"All done, job done, time to open the coffin!"

With a clap of his hands, Hu Ming's eyes returned to normal, and he leisurely stepped over the nine centipede dragon corpses.

at this time
Bang!!!
The coffin lid of the enormous white stone coffin suddenly flew out like a cannonball!
On the stone platform, apart from the nine centipede dragon corpses, there were no other creatures that could be described as living.

"So, the corpse has indeed undergone a strange transformation?"

Seeing this, the young man frowned slightly and quickly moved to Hu Ming's side.

He had already drawn the dragon-patterned cloud-swirling blade from his hand and was looking warily into the stone coffin.

There, inside the stone coffin, a figure was slowly rising.

It was a purplish-blue corpse. A corpse with twelve arms.

The male corpse was wearing faded and rotten Jurchen armor, and its twelve hands were arranged in a ring around its body, which was instinctively twisted.

This thing looks
It...it does look quite like the Thousand-Hand Guanyin.

This is the last incarnation of the King of Ten Thousand Slaves. The King of Ten Thousand Slaves' method of immortality is the most primitive, a rudimentary form of human-animal symbiosis.

The reason why the Eastern Xia Dynasty regarded centipedes as centipedes was that the symbiotic creature chosen by King Wannu was a centipede with an unusually long lifespan.

In this method of achieving longevity, a person's lifespan depends on the lifespan of the symbiotic organisms within their body.

Moreover, this method of achieving immortality will cause some strange changes in the human body, resulting in the appearance of characteristics of symbiotic organisms within the body.

For example, the failed attempt at creating a human-headed, snake-bodied object that Hu Ming saw in the ancient city of Jingjue, and the twelve arms of the corpse of the King of Ten Thousand Slaves.

But that's not all; this method of achieving immortality has a huge drawback.

That means you need to constantly change your body.

He needs to have a completely new body every now and then.

By transferring past memories into a completely new body through symbiotic centipedes, one can achieve a shortcut to immortality.

Inside this stone coffin is the body of the last incarnation of the King of Ten Thousand Slaves.

Just then, a sharp whistling sound suddenly rang out from the darkness, its target being Hu Ming's temple!