Under One Person: Starting from the Inheritance of Gods

Chapter 427 The Four Corpse Ancestors: Never Reliable

Chen Yulou was not annoyed by this. Instead, he grinned and revealed a few yellowed teeth: "Young brother is right. This old blind man is indeed penniless now."

"However... everyone, please take a look!"

He suddenly slammed his bamboo cane on the ground, and a short sword slid out of his sleeve. The sword was exquisitely designed, resembling an eight-sided Han sword, with unique patterns formed by folding and forging on its surface.

Made entirely of high-quality steel, with a flat handle and ebony wood, the blade is forged using a pattern-refined steel process. This type of steel has a different carbon content, and through repeated folding and forging, the blade has extremely high hardness and sharpness.

Big Gold Tooth's eyes immediately lit up, and he exclaimed, "Little Divine Striker?!"

Chen Yulou turned to look at him and said smugly, "That's right, exactly!"

As a hidden sword, the Little Divine Blade is very easy to carry and can have a surprise effect when used. It is not only Chen Yulou's weapon, but also a symbol of the status and position of the Unloading Ridge Sect.

However, the fact that Chen Yulou brought out the Little Divine Sword only proves that he is indeed penniless. It is truly lamentable that the dignified leader of the Unloading Ridge Sect has fallen to such a state!
Fatty Wang craned his neck and asked, "What is that? It's not even as big as a fruit knife!"

Chen Yulou's withered fingers traced the blade: "You truly have eyes but cannot recognize a treasure. This is the treasure of the Unloading Ridge lineage, a divine weapon that can cut iron like mud."

He suddenly threw the knife to the ground, and the tip easily stuck into the bluestone slab. "After I went blind, I relied on it to fight my way out of the tomb of the King of Xian."

Unexpectedly, Li Chunfeng showed no interest whatsoever and continued to sip his tea at a leisurely pace.

Ordinary things no longer catch his eye.

Chen Yulou waited anxiously for Li Chunfeng's reply. Just when he thought the matter was hopeless, Li Chunfeng suddenly spoke.

"It's not difficult to help you retrieve the remains of Jin Suanpan, but I'm not interested in this little sharpshooter."

Chen Yulou immediately cupped his hands in greeting: "May I ask what you seek, sir?"

"Simple!"

"Just sign a contract."

Li Chunfeng swept his hand across the air, and a string of tadpole-shaped characters resembling dragon and phoenix seal script appeared in the void, which no one could recognize.

Li Chunfeng said, "The Xieling people are either scattered all over the world or gathered in the mountains. They worship Guan Yu and regard the Hegemon of Western Chu as their ancestor. Whenever they find an ancient tomb or a huge mound, they swarm up and excavate it with all their might. They destroy the corpses and level the hills, and loot the treasures, leaving nothing behind. They are imitating the actions of the Red Eyebrows rebels of the past."

"Among the four schools of tomb raiding, their techniques are nothing more than the four principles of observation, listening, questioning, and palpation. These four words are divided into eight methods, each with two levels. For example, the upper method of observation involves observing the stars in the sky and examining the earth's veins; the lower method involves observing mud marks and distinguishing the color of grass."

"Although the skill levels of these individuals are vastly different, they all possess a certain level of skill and are incomparable to ordinary arts and crafts."

"As the leader of the Unloading Ridge faction, you have signed this contract. From now on, you will be under the command of our Observatory and will serve as the Geographic Star."

"Geographical Star?"

Chen Yulou asked with a puzzled look, "Is it the position of Tao Zongwang, the nine-tailed turtle in the Water Margin?"

"Exactly!"

Big Gold Tooth thought for a moment, then recited: "Short stature, dark face, daring to dig the foundation of Mount Tai with a shovel. Tao Zongwang, a farmer from Guang Prefecture, is known as the Nine-Tailed Turtle by strange people."

"Sigh, it seems to coincide with the same idea as the Unloading Ridge Sect. I just don't know what the Imperial Observatory is?"

Everyone turned their gaze to Li Chunfeng, but he showed no intention of explaining. Big Gold Tooth immediately stopped talking and dared not ask any further questions.

At this moment, the elder sister tugged at Hou Qing and whispered, "Brother, I remember there was a man named Wen Tao in the Imperial Observatory. Why would he recruit grave thieves?"

Hou Qing said, "It seems that Yuan Jianzheng of Tianjie Star was complaining that he didn't have enough men under his command and that he couldn't manage everything by himself. And the person in charge of the Earthly Fiends Stars right now is my master, so that's why..."

"Oh, I see. This is like attracting cattle and horses, isn't it?"

Hearing their conversation, Li Chunfeng couldn't help but twitch his lips. Could you please not be so blunt?

Chen Yulou pondered for a moment, his withered fingers stroking the tip of the bamboo cane, and suddenly laughed: "Since you know the background of my Unloading Ridge, you must also know the rules of our profession. We only recognize funerary objects, not government ones."

Li Chunfeng lightly tapped the teacup with his fingertips, and the tea in the cup suddenly rippled with strange waves, reflecting a sky full of stars. Then, Li Chunfeng flicked the tea off his fingertips, which landed right on Chen Yulou's eyes.

Chen Yulou felt his eyes suddenly become clear.

"The Astronomical Bureau's observation of stars and surveying of the earth is not something that belongs to ordinary government offices. Just look!"

The star map in the ripples suddenly changed, revealing the shape of the Yellow River's nine bends and the surrounding mountain ranges. In a cave somewhere, a bloody light suddenly appeared, and a skeleton could be vaguely seen holding a golden abacus and wearing a talisman around its neck.

"The Golden Abacus!"

Chen Yulou's gray eyes trembled violently, staring intently at the water as if he were about to regain his sight. With a crack, the bamboo cane in his hand split open.

Fatty Wang leaned over and muttered, "This radar is pretty advanced, huh?"

Hu Bayi shook his head and said, "This technique is more like a circular light spell!"

With a flick of his sleeve, Li Chunfeng sent the star map into the contract, which transformed into tiny fireflies: "The geography of the stars harmonizes with the mountains and rivers, and the energy of the earth is arranged. Someone as knowledgeable about the earth's veins as you is perfectly suited for this position. As for making a living by tomb raiding, that will also be possible."

He suddenly gave a meaningful smile, "The tombs that the Imperial Observatory will be excavating in the future will not be ordinary tombs."

Chen Yulou's Adam's apple bobbed, and suddenly he pressed the small divine blade onto the contract. The blade cut his palm, and the blood was absorbed by the tadpole-like characters.

Then, the dragon and phoenix seals suddenly shattered and turned into hundreds of streams of light that entered Chen Yulou's seven orifices. His hunched body suddenly made a popping sound like popping beans.

To everyone's astonishment, his full head of white hair turned black at a visible speed, and his wrinkles receded like a tide.

"This……"

The cigarette dangling from Big Gold Tooth's mouth fell to the ground with a thud. He pointed at Chen Yulou's face and stammered, "Master Hu?"

Fatty Wang jumped back three steps, rubbing his eyes and yelling, "What the hell! Old Hu, when did you get a twin brother?"

Hu Bayi himself was stunned, touching his chin. Standing in the moonlight was a young man who looked very much like him, but with a more scholarly air about him.

Chen Yulou looked down at his fair hands, then rubbed his eyes in disbelief. At this moment, Chen Yulou's eyes had become no different from those of an ordinary person.

"I can see now!?"

"And my hands..."

Chen Yulou quickly looked at his reflection in the teacup under the lamplight. He was suddenly young again, looking only about twenty years old.

At the same time, he also saw Hu Bayi.

"you……"

"Here……"

Chen Yulou scratched his head: "I don't think I made any mistakes when I was young, did I?"

The two are so similar, they're like they were made from the same mold.

Hu Bayi's lips twitched: "Advisor Li, you can't joke like that!"

Although Li Chunfeng's methods of making people young again are amazing, he can't just make them look like himself!
Chen Yulou rolled his eyes at Hu Bayi and said, "I looked like this when I was young!"

Hu Bayi: "Huh?!"

"Then what's going on here?" Li Chunfeng asked thoughtfully, pointing to the sky.

Chen Yulou could be considered to have some destiny, but his destiny was not strong enough, far less so than Hu Bayi's.

As for the two looking alike, it's probably because Heaven was too lazy to customize their faces, so it just used the appearance of a chosen one, which led to the current situation.

Seeing everyone's astonishment, Li Chunfeng chuckled and said, "This is a secret of heaven, and cannot be fully revealed. Since Chen Yulou has signed the contract, he is now the geomancer of our Bureau of Astronomy and Geography. From now on, he should perform his duties diligently and harmonize the mountains and rivers."

Chen Yulou stretched his limbs, feeling the surging vitality within him, when suddenly he remembered something and hurriedly asked, "Sir, what about the remains of the Golden Abacus?"

"You can come with us tomorrow."

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The next morning, everyone packed their things and headed to the Fishbone Temple.

"This looks like it's made from the bones of the Iron-Headed Dragon King!"

Hu Bayi ran his hand over the texture of the door frame, which resembled a fish's mouth, and found it quite strange.

"Since it's a fishbone temple, it must naturally have fish bones as beams and pillars, and the tomb of Li Chunfeng that we're looking for is right beneath this fishbone temple."

Fatty Wang immediately tossed the package aside: "Then what are we waiting for? Dig!"

Li Chunfeng shook his head: "No need."

Then, Li Chunfeng stepped on the ground, and the Qimen formation unfolded.

In an instant, the ground within a radius of several miles seemed to be surging with water, constantly rising and falling, before being leveled and turned into a flat area.

In front of everyone, earth and stones were piled up to form steps, transforming into a passage leading directly to the underground.

This isn't tomb raiding; it's more like coming home.

"Let's go!"

Li Chunfeng interrupted the crowd's wide-eyed expressions, then stepped forward, and the crowd quickly followed behind him.

As expected, they encountered those people with dark, monstrous faces. They were enormous, with eight legs covered in hair, their bodies pitch black, and white patterns on their backs forming clear human faces, the patterns being as large as a washbasin.

When moving, it can drag an adult, and can also bind its prey by spraying large amounts of silk, injecting toxins to stiffen muscles while retaining consciousness, and secreting digestive juices to dissolve the prey's tissues for consumption.

However, its spider silk is extremely fragile and flammable.

Faced with these disgusting things, Li Chunfeng originally wanted to burn them all, but his elder sister stopped him.

"These spiders are so beautiful! They remind me of my little blue spider!" The older sister looked at the spiders with great joy.

Hou Qing sighed, "I should have thought of that sooner!"

Hu Bayi: "?!"

Fatty Wang: "Sister, are you blind?"

Big Gold Tooth complimented her in a roundabout way: "Your taste is truly unique!"

Chen Yulou: "By the way, who is Xiao Lan?"

The older sister, with a dramatic air, said pitifully, "Little Blue is my family. It really likes Little Red. We were originally a loving family."

"But, both it and Little Red were killed by my brother. My little Blue died so tragically, he didn't even leave me with a complete corpse!"

Hou Qing's face darkened, and he said, "Little Blue is a spider, and Little Red is a mosquito. They buzz around all day long. Even if I don't kill your Little Red, Little Blue will eat it."

"I don't care, I just want my little blue and little red!"

Seeing that his older sister's eyes were getting redder and redder, and she looked like she was about to lose her temper, Li Chunfeng had no choice but to flick her forehead: "Quiet!"

"These spiders are for you; you can take them with you."

The older sister immediately nodded happily, then looked at the men with dark and sullen faces: "You all behave yourselves and let me take you away. I'll make sure you live a life of luxury from now on!"

As she spoke, the elder sister put down the large bundle behind her and took out a purple-gold gourd from it.

Li Chunfeng didn't notice at first, but when he took a closer look, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and say, "A divine weapon, a purple-gold red gourd, where did you get it?"

The older sister wiped her nose: "Before leaving, I rummaged through Ma Xianhong's treasure trove. Don't worry, they don't know!"

Li Chunfeng's lips twitched, but now he knew!

The elder sister opened the gourd and shouted at the dark-faced, grimacing men, "If I call your name, do you dare to answer?"

The wind blows.

Half a minute passed, and nothing happened.

The older sister shook the gourd vigorously, asking suspiciously, "Is it broken?"

Hou Qing suggested, "Could it be that these spiders simply can't talk?"

Sister: "..."

"What should we do? This broken gourd is so hard to use!"

Hou Qing sighed. His sister had never been reliable. Did she not even take the instructions when she stole other people's things?
He snatched the gourd from his sister's hand, then twisted the tai chi pattern on the upper half of the gourd to switch the response and collection mode to automatic collection mode, and then called out softly to the dark-faced men.

"Why aren't you coming?!"

Before Hou Qing could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred!
The seemingly ordinary purple-gold gourd mouth suddenly erupted with an irresistible and terrifying suction force. This force was not directed at the sound, but directly acted on the target itself, and was extremely domineering!

Buzz!
A dull rumble filled the air, as if the entire cave had been instantly evacuated into a vacuum. The pebbles on the ground, the scattered spider silk, and even the pervasive dust, as if seized by an invisible giant hand, swirled and surged wildly toward the small gourd opening.

"Oh my god!"

Fatty Wang was the first to suffer; his sturdy body was sucked off the ground and flew towards the gourd's mouth like a leaf.

"Fat!"

Hu Bayi reacted swiftly, leaping forward to grab Wang Pangzi's waist tightly, his feet firmly planted on the ground, leaving white marks on the bluestone pavement.

Even so, the two were dragged along by the overwhelming suction force, plowing two shallow furrows in the ground as they slid little by little toward the gourd.

Big Gold Tooth was utterly terrified, sliding along the ground, his hands flailing wildly as he tried to grab something, all that was left of his mouth was a broken scream: "Mommy! Help! Uncle Hu! Fatty! Help me out!!"

Chen Yulou reacted extremely quickly, and with a clang, his Little Divine Sword was drawn and plunged into the hard rock wall beside him.

He gripped the sword hilt tightly with one hand, while his other hand flashed out and precisely grabbed Big Gold Tooth by the back of his collar.

Even though he had become much stronger after rejuvenating, the sudden suction made him stagger, and the sword scraped a trail of sparks off the rock.

(End of this chapter)