Tomb Raider: Evolution of the Red Dragon, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

Yin Nanfeng nodded, found a mechanism near the head of the bed, turned the mechanism, and then the bed split apart, revealing a stone wall. The stone wall also split apart, revealing a cabinet inside.

After Jiang Hua followed Yin Nanfeng into the cabinet, he found that the cabinet was actually an elevator. After Yin Nanfeng pressed the mechanism, the cabinet sank, and soon they reached the underground.

Unexpectedly, this Crescent Hotel has such a different world. There is actually a huge space underneath the hotel!

Jiang Hua followed Yin Nanfeng and saw a huge ancient building in this underground world!
There is a different world downstairs of the Crescent Hotel, a huge air-raid shelter, which must have been built during wartime.

As Yin Nanfeng led Jiang Hua towards the ancient building, he said, "The Crescent Hotel used to build a huge air-raid shelter under this building. Later, my grandfather found that the air-raid shelter was not useful, so he thought about it and spent a lot of effort to move our Crescent Hotel's ancient building here. Since then, the ancient building that has been passed down in our Crescent Hotel has been buried here and has not seen the light of day for decades."

Jiang Hua nodded, secretly surprised at Grandpa Yin Nanfeng's courage.

Even though Jiang Hua was far away from the ancient building, he could see that it was very large. It was quite a feat to move the ancient building underground without anyone noticing.

This is the capital after all.

Soon, Jiang Hua and the other person arrived in front of the ancient building, and Jiang Hua saw the true face of the ancient building.

This ancient building has only four floors and looks like a tower, getting smaller as it goes up.

Although there are only four floors, each floor is very high, with each floor being about seven meters high.

Jiang Hua said: "This ancient building must have been passed down from the Song Dynasty, right?"

Yin Nanfeng nodded: "Yes, I heard from my grandfather that this ancient building was built in the second year of the Song Dynasty. It has been repaired many times over the years, otherwise it would not have been preserved until now."

Jiang Hua said "hmm".

Yin Nanfeng brought Jiang Hua to the gate of the ancient building. She took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Hua: "Jiang Hua, promise me that after you go in, no matter what other things you encounter, don't take them. You only need to take the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal!"

Jiang Hua said: "Don't worry, I will never touch anything else."

After a pause, Jiang Hua asked, "Aren't you going in?"

Yin Nanfeng said: "According to the rules of our ancestors, only men can enter, and girls cannot enter."

Jiang Hua frowned. Since there was such a rule, he didn't say anything more. He nodded, pushed open the door of the ancient building and walked straight in.

"Squeak~"

After Jiang Hua entered the ancient building, the door was closed.

Jiang Hua took out a match, found a nearby candle, lit it, and then began to look around.

The first floor is very large, but not empty. Various things are placed inside.

Moreover, the layout of this floor is staggered and orderly.

It is roughly divided into three areas.

Various treasure chests were placed in one area. Although the treasure chests were tightly closed, Jiang Hua could tell that there must be a large amount of treasure, or other various treasures, inside.

The second area is a row of bookshelves, and the shelves are full of ancient books. The books are covered with dust, and it is obvious that no one has touched them for a long time.

As for the third area, it was relatively eerie, and was filled with jars.

There were yellow talismans pasted on those jars, with names written on them.

Jiang Hua learned from Yin Nanfeng that these jars contained the ashes of all the female members of the Yin family over the years!

Yes, all of them are the ashes of female members of the tribe.

Jiang Hua learned from Yin Nanfeng that all female members of the tribe only have one chance to enter the ancient building in their lifetime, which is after death, when their bodies are burned and turned into ashes, which are then put in a jar and placed on the first floor.
This is the only chance.

Apart from this, it is not possible for female members of the tribe to enter the ancient building.

The upstairs was used to store the bodies of male members of the Yin family!
Moreover, they all have coffins, which are very heavy when they are buried, unlike the female tribesmen, who can only be put in a jar and quietly placed in the first layer.

This shows how serious the male chauvinism is in the Yin family!
Fortunately, in modern times, traditional feudal ideas have been impacted, so by the generation of Yin Xingyue's father, that is, Yin Nanfeng's grandfather, there was no such idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, and they respected equality between men and women.

However, they still could not break the ancestral rule regarding entering the ancient building: women from the Yin family were not allowed to enter the ancient building.

Therefore, Yin Nanfeng still doesn't dare to enter the ancient building.

Jiang Hua sighed softly, looked at the jars with some pity, and then went upstairs.

Yin Nanfeng had told Jiang Hua before that the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal was brought back by her grandfather from the man’s Qulou, and he also told Yin Nanfeng that it was on the top floor, so Jiang Hua now just needed to go directly to the top floor.

Jiang Hua walked up the stairs and soon reached the second floor.

As expected.

Starting from the second floor is the Yin family’s mausoleum. All male members of the clan will be buried here after their death.

Jiang Hua had no interest in this place and was too lazy to even light a candle. He continued to go upstairs, passing the second and third floors and arriving at the fourth floor!

The fourth floor is where the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal is stored! The fourth floor is relatively simple, with only six coffins in total. These coffins are quite old, and the inside is very peaceful without any corpse qi.

He looked around and found many magical instruments hanging everywhere, all of which were used to exorcise evil spirits.

Obviously, the Yin family has put in a lot of effort to prevent the corpse from turning into a corpse.

After all, not everyone wants to turn into a corpse or a zombie.

In other words, basically no one wants to turn into a dumpling or a zombie.

For ordinary people, if the body can remain peaceful after burial, even if it eventually rots, it is a very auspicious existence.

If a corpse turns into a zombie, it would be an ominous sign and would not be good for future generations.

This is why anyone with some financial resources and ability will choose a good feng shui location for burial.

The functions of a Feng Shui site are nothing more than two points. One is to bring good fortune, and the other is to prevent the body from turning into a corpse. Some Feng Shui sites can even preserve the body and prevent it from rotting.

As for some places that are not Feng Shui treasures, some people will go to Taoist temples or Buddhist temples to ask for some magical instruments to suppress the tombs, so as to prevent evil spirits from invading.

And now this fourth layer is like this.

Obviously, this place is definitely not a good feng shui site, so the Yin family can only use this method to prevent the invasion of evil spirits.

Jiang Hua searched carefully.

He wanted to find the coffin of Yin Nanfeng's grandfather, because the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal was buried with Yin Nanfeng's grandfather, and could be said to be a burial object of Yin Nanfeng's grandfather.

The coffin of Yin Nanfeng’s grandfather is easy to find. There are six coffins here, and the newest one must be the coffin of Yin Nanfeng’s grandfather!

Soon, Jiang Hua found the newest coffin at the edge of the sixth floor.

Jiang Hua bowed to the coffin and said, "Old Master, I have come to this treasure land to search for the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal. Please forgive me if I have disturbed you. I am sorry!"

After saying that, Jiang Hua raised his hand and pressed on the coffin. The coffin was immediately pushed open by Jiang Hua, revealing the corpse inside which was already somewhat rotten.

The environment of this place is somewhat special, which can slow down the decomposition of human corpses. So even though Yin Nanfeng's grandfather has been dead for some time, his body has not completely decayed.

Jiang Hua looked inside carefully and soon saw a jade seal placed on the chest of the corpse.

The seal is golden in color, with a golden dragon coiled on the jade, looking lifelike, as if it were coming alive!
This is the Yang Seal in the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal!
The founding seal of the Qing Dynasty!
Jiang Hua took a deep breath and finally got this thing!
Jiang Hua reached out and took out the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal. Soon, the system's voice rang out.

[Obtain the Yin Yang Jade Dragon Seal and the Yang Seal! Look for the Yin Seal to synthesize the real Yin Yang Jade Dragon Seal and obtain the Yin Yang Jade! ]

Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal·Yang Seal: The founding jade seal of the Qing Dynasty. It is said to be carved with Yin-Yang jade and has two pieces, Yin and Yang. The Yang Seal is a token of the Qing emperor, while the Yin Seal was buried with Huang Taiji!

After reading the introduction about the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal, Jiang Hua was overjoyed!

Unexpectedly, the Yin Seal was buried with Huang Taiji!

In other words, the Yin Seal must be in Huang Taiji's tomb?
This is equivalent to finding a direction for Jiang Hua, which is... to find the tomb of Huang Taiji!

As long as we find Huang Taiji’s tomb, we will be able to find the Yin Seal.

By then, with the Yin-Yang Seals in hand, you will be able to synthesize the Yin-Yang Jade.

In this way, Jiang Hua was left with only the last bit of Xitu.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hua couldn't help but look at the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal in his hand with some excitement.
Unexpectedly, the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal was easier to obtain than he had imagined.

Now that he has the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal in his hands, Jiang Hua is ready to turn around and leave.

Although there are many rare treasures here, since he promised Yin Nanfeng not to touch other things inside, he will not touch them.

So Jiang Hua put away the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal and prepared to leave.

However, at this moment, a voice sounded: "Leave the Yin-Yang Jade Dragon Seal behind."

It was a woman's voice.

Jiang Hua was stunned for a moment. A woman actually came into this ancient building?

Jiang Hua turned around and saw a woman walking up the stairs slowly, staring at him with a bad look on her face.

“Yin Xingyue!”

Seeing the woman's appearance, Jiang Hua exclaimed.

Even Jiang Hua didn't expect that the woman walking up from downstairs was Yin Xingyue who had been missing from the Crescent Hotel for a long time!
This surprised Jiang Hua very much.

Yin Xingyue has actually been staying in this ancient building. (End of this chapter)