Immortal Dao Fruits, Cards to Help Me

Chapter 114 It's too late to beg for mercy now!
A coffin, still a damn coffin.

Since entering this ancient tomb of the Eastern Xia Kingdom, we have already encountered two coffins.

It was the false emperor's men who separated the original owners of the tomb from each other, living... no, dead.

They were a loving couple in life—look at the faded murals on the wall, many of which are about the female owner of the tomb, showing that the two were very much in love.

They shared the same bed in life and will share the same grave in death.

They insisted on taking it apart and using it as a security guard for you.

Furthermore, the female owner is sealed behind her back. As long as the male owner is killed, the female owner will be driven by instinct to release the evil centipede within her body to revive the male owner, who has also become a half-centipede and half-zombie.

And they even took advantage of someone else's love?!

How should I put it? This is truly a brilliant idea. Absolutely ingenious.

But aren't you fucking inhuman?

Add to that the centipede parasites and tanned corpses of the soldiers, and the centipede symbiotic organism... the person who buried the pseudo-emperor's treasure here must have carefully studied the secret techniques of the Eastern Xia Kingdom.

They also used innocent people for numerous experiments.

The tomb's occupants, both men and women, were all treated with utmost care and deference, yet even in death they could not find peace.

What a jerk!
And then, another coffin appeared before them.

This coffin is quite special; it's much larger than a three-person bed. Although it's not the traditional Central Plains style with an outer coffin and inner inner coffin, the wood still shines brightly after hundreds of years, showing no signs of decay.

The various patterns and designs carved on it are extremely intricate, including both intaglio and relief carving.

Figures, flowers, animals, and many giant centipede-like totem patterns...

This thing must be the coffin where the male and female owners of the original tomb were lying, right?

If the original owner of the body is dragged out, then who is inside?

It's definitely not a false emperor; the false emperor died long ago.

The two dukes of Ning and Rong led tens of thousands of troops into Liaodong to hunt him down. How could they return without killing the false emperor?
The head is now said to be suppressed in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

Chen Xiuxian waved his hand, signaling Wang Yuan, Wu Shixian, and the others to step back and stop staring at the pile of gold and silver jewelry.

Then Lao Niu and Dou Zhongde stood beside Chen Xiuxian in perfect unison, while Cao Bianjiao and Li Rusong were also ready to make their move at any moment.

Chen Xiuxian instructed the dog-headed clay figurine on one side to pry open the coffin lid.

This dog-headed clay figurine looks a bit rustic, appearing blank and lacking any autonomy, with somewhat stiff movements. However, it has one advantage: its stats are quite good!

Strength is 30, Constitution is x (not displayed for non-flesh-and-blood characters), and Agility is 18 (reflected in swift attacks, not fluid movements)...

So this thing is very powerful. It inserts a large blade into the seam of the coffin and starts to pry open the coffin lid by force!

It wasn't as difficult as I had imagined. Although the coffin lid was very thick, no nails were driven into it.

Generally speaking, emperors and generals had a bit of a dream of immortality and also believed in treating death as life. Therefore, they did not nail coffins.

People were even hoping that their corpses wouldn't decompose, so they could be reborn or even become immortals.

What do you mean by nailing the coffin lid shut? Are you cursing me to die a long time from now?
The coffins in the Eastern Xia Kingdom are the same; they have no coffin nails.

With a sudden pry, the dog-headed clay figurine lifted a corner and then pushed open the heavy coffin lid!
With a loud "boom," the coffin lid slammed to the ground, and a beam of black light shot out from the coffin, instantly severing the dog's head from the clay figurine.

Then the headless clay figurine fell backward, crashing to the ground with a "crack," shattering into pieces. The remains quickly seemed to "sublimate," shrinking smaller and smaller until they gradually dissipated.

Lao Niu and Cao Bianjiao had already stood in front of Chen Xiuxian, while Dou Zhongde shielded his own lord.

However, there was only that brief moment inside the coffin, and then there was no more movement.

Chen Xiuxian, however, ignored everything else and instead opened the system card library to check his follower card, [Dog-headed Knife-wielding Earthenware (Green)].

The card is still there, but the entire design has been changed to gray, just like the dungeon, with a hint of brightness. It's now in a cooldown period.

Phew, not bad. If a minion card dies after being summoned, you don't completely lose the card. You just need to wait.

Chen Xiuxian: Those toad gold are so useful!
At that moment, the little fairies, including Toad Gold, who were still inside the card, suddenly felt a chill run down their spines.
……

Li Rusong and Cao Bianjiao were the first to approach the huge coffin and peer inside.

The large coffin was very spacious, but only "one person" was lying inside.

Calling it a person is a bit inaccurate.

Because this thing looks like a human-shaped jade figurine.

But it is definitely not a jade figurine; it looks more like a corpse wrapped in a layer of jade.

The corpse inside didn't really look human either, because although it still looked humanoid, it had been severely worm-like.

It looks like a large centipede, growing and developing inside a pupa made of human skin. Once it's fully grown, it will break free of the pupa and become... an adult!

With a wave of his hand, Li Rusong sent a leather scroll and several books flying into his hand from the coffin.

Chen Xiuxian glanced at it and saw a huge centipede drawn on the opened, yellowed scroll. This centipede was quite unusual, with many ancient dragon totem-like features on its body.

A group of simple stick figures, only one-fifth the size of it, knelt in front of it, as if in worship.

Once fully unrolled, the scroll is over a meter long, and there are many other images behind it, making it somewhat like a spell illustration.

For example, how to cultivate and refine centipede eggs in a large pit, how to implant these things into the body to obtain superpowers such as limb regeneration, and how to cast spells to seal the coffin after death so that one can be resurrected as a half-human, half-centipede monster.

Unfortunately, most of the text on it is in the script of the Eastern Xia Kingdom.

This country didn't exist for very long to begin with, and it was a small country ruled by a different ethnic group and inhabited by various ethnic groups.

Therefore, very few of these texts have survived, and they are now on the verge of being lost.

At least none of the people present knew him.

Only Wang Yuan recognized a few characters. "These characters seem to be 'Chulong Shen'! My father's tomb-raiding notes mention seeing similar characters and patterns outside the White Head Mountain Heavenly Palace Tomb of the Wan Nu King. The notes say these characters mean 'Chulong Shen'!"

Touch Dragon God?
What is this "Touch Dragon God"? Never heard of it!

Although Li Rusong has only recently become a ghost or deity in the underworld, he is, after all, a genuine ghost or deity of the underworld.

Even the Taoist priests of Shangqing Palace on Jiuding Iron Temple and the Buddhist priests of Yufo Temple on Qianshan Mountain have to give them some face.

But he had never heard of such a thing in Liaodong.

I've heard that the boar people worship and offer sacrifices to many "gods".

But I've never heard of such a number.

Looking at the pattern on the scroll, could this dragon god be a giant centipede transformed from a dragon?
At this moment, Wu Shixian stepped forward. "I recognize these two characters. They mean 'rebirth.' My family received some artifacts from the Eastern Xia Kingdom in our early years. One of them, a bronze ewer, had an inscription that, when deciphered, read 'Xiuyu Tuisheng Yi'..."

Chen Xiuxian waved his hand, "Forget it, we're not here for archaeology!"
Why do you care so much?
However, in another book, one could find a confession left by the person inside the jade figurine who had transformed into a pupa and was about to grow into a giant centipede.

More than 300 words:

I was originally a Taoist priest and advisor to Emperor Hongguang, hoping to inherit his imperial aura through my role in his ascension to the throne, and thus advance my Taoist foundation and merge with the Heavenly Dipper before my death. However, Emperor Hongguang's will was not firm, and his fate was unkind; my efforts ultimately failed…

Fortunately, he obtained the "Secret Technique of Dragon's Metamorphosis," which allowed him to take a desperate gamble. He then faked his death and fled the world, hiding in the ancient tomb of the Eastern Xia Dynasty in search of transformation…

If future gentlemen see this writing, they must have strayed from the proper path and humbly request that it be buried in the earth. In return, they may take the treasures hidden here.

——Zou Yanhong, written in the spring of the 13th year of Jianshun.

Besides the autobiographical notes left at the end, there were also several books that resembled cultivation techniques and spells.

It seems this is the scoundrel Zou Yanhong, who left behind even his last possession?

Did they intend for the people who later opened the coffin to see his rebirth, and instead bury him?
They even said the treasure here would be their reward?
I'll go to your legs!

(End of this chapter)