A comprehensive overview of tombs: starting with the Yellow Weasel's Tomb

The white-skinned little white worms have no consciousness and are entirely controlled by the white skin. Naturally, since the little white worms have no consciousness, they will not be affected by the peony flower.

To be honest, it's only because the technology isn't very advanced right now. If it were 30 or 40 years from now, Bai Jing could use drones or something similar to find the location of the Treasure Flower.

No matter how powerful the peony flower is, it can't possibly affect a technological creation like a drone.

Think no more.

Small white insects crawled around and quickly disappeared from Bai Jing and the others' side.

Bai Jing wasn't sure if this method would work, but he had no choice but to give it a try.

Time flew by, and an hour passed quickly. Suddenly, the white-skinned man who had been manipulating the little white worm with his eyes closed opened them and looked in one direction.

"Squeak!"

Upon hearing this voice, Bai Jing and the other two were startled.

found it.

Bai Jing immediately said, "Bai Pi, take us there!"

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, Bai Pi immediately ran in one direction.

Bai Jing and the other two quickly followed.

After walking for about half an hour, Bai Jing and his companions saw a stone wall. As soon as they arrived at the stone wall, they noticed that there were many murals arranged in an orderly manner around the stone wall, and in the very center was a stone door.

The murals and reliefs on the stone wall are layered and have a very peculiar style. People and objects are arranged in a straight line, and their status is distinguished by distance and size. Although it looks very simple, it is superior in that the composition is orderly and the layers are distinct, which is completely different from the paintings of various dynasties that Bai Jing knows.

Bai Jing's heart skipped a beat. He knew that this must be a mural carved by the ancient people with vertical eyes who lived here.

The people with protruding eyes existed even earlier than the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. They were related to the Fuxi culture, and their common ancestor was about 6800 years ago.

Of course, Bai Jing only knew that the true owner of the Treasure Flower was the King with the Vertical Eyes when he read The Tomb Raider in his previous life. He didn't know much else, since the book wasn't finished when he read The Tomb Raider.

However, Bai Jing noticed that each of the figures in the mural had an eye on its head, just like the figures in the mural they had seen in the tomb of the Liao Empress Dowager.

Upon seeing the mural, the fat man stared wide-eyed, muttering to himself, "What's in this mural? Three adults with dozens of children? Could those three adults be referring to the three of us?"

Bai Jing was also somewhat unsure at this moment.

Bai Jing then looked at the other murals.

Then he said, "This is not about us. You see, the people in this mural all have a vertical eye on their heads. I have heard that there used to be a group of ancestors who lived on this land. They had an eye on their heads and were called the Vertical-Eyed People."

Hearing Bai Jing's words, the fat man stroked his chin and said, "As long as it's not us, it's fine. But what are these murals saying?"

Bai Jing looked at the remaining murals and said, "Look, the King with the Vertical Eyes is the true master of the Lotus Flower. The King with the Vertical Eyes lives in a large hall at the root of the Lotus Flower. You can see in the murals that many people come in and offer rare treasures to the King with the Vertical Eyes."

Then Bai Jing seemed to realize something, looked up and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the Treasure Flower is right above us, and we are in the main hall where the King of the Vertical Eyes resides."

Chapter 111 The World of Infinite Light

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, both Bai Qi and the fat man were startled.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them involuntarily looked upwards.

It was pitch black above.

Bai Jing and the other two did not speak, but instead went to the location of the stone gate.

The stone door was a double door, but when Bai Jing and the other two tried to push it, they found that even with their considerable strength, the stone door did not budge.

The three immediately raised torches and shone them toward the stone door, trying to see if it was locked somewhere.

Suddenly, the fat man shouted, "Look, there's a dent on it!"

Upon hearing this, both Bai Qi and Bai Jing looked toward the dent.

Sure enough, there was a dent on each side of the top of the stone gate, both shaped like hooks.

Bai Qi and Bai Jing looked at the dent and it seemed familiar, but they couldn't remember where they had seen it before.

The fat man seemed to have thought of something and looked at Bai Qi, saying, "Hey, Bai Qi, don't you think this dent looks a lot like the jade your grandfather passed down to you?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Qi and Bai Jing were both taken aback, as they naturally knew what the fat man meant by jade.

'Mojinjue'.

Thinking of this, Bai Qi took out the family heirloom "Mojin Jue" from his pocket, then held it up and compared it with the dent. Sure enough, he found that the "Mojin Jue" fit perfectly with the dent.

Seeing this, Bai Qi gritted his teeth and directly stuffed the Mojin Jue into the indentation on the left.

As Bai Qi placed the Mojin Jue (a type of jade pendant) into the indentation, the stone door began to make a clicking sound, which lasted for more than a minute before stopping.

After the sound stopped, Bai Jing and the other two tried to push the door open, but found that they still couldn't move it.

Now, the three of them were at a loss.

Moreover, Bai Qi discovered to his despair that his previous tomb-raiding jade pendant seemed to be embedded in the indentation after it entered it, and he couldn't pry it off no matter what he tried.

Now, even the white flag was somewhat at a loss.

This was something passed down from their grandfather; how were they going to explain it to him when they got home?

At that moment, Bai Jing remembered something and immediately said, "Brother, don't worry, it might not be that bad."

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, Bai Qi and the fat man were stunned for a moment, and then both looked at Bai Jing.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Jing also reached into his robes.

Then, a hook-shaped crystal appeared in Bai Jing's hand.

The moment they saw the crystal, Bai Qi and Fatty seemed to realize something, and their eyes lit up as if they were about to burst into light.

That's right, this is what they found on the body of the tomb raider who had died earlier when they entered the tomb of the Liao Dynasty Empress Dowager.

Along with this item were several coffin nails and some copper coins from the puppet state of Manchukuo.

Bai Jing smiled at their reactions and then placed the hook-shaped crystal into the indentation on the other side.

The moment the hook-shaped crystal was placed in the indentation, the previously stopped clicking sound of the mechanism started again.

Moreover, this time the noise was noticeably louder.

The sound lasted for about a minute this time, until the clicking of the mechanism stopped.

Instantly, the portal opened from the middle to both sides.

Seeing this, all three of them showed joy.

What they didn't expect was that they would be so lucky and directly obtain two keys to open the mechanism.

I don't know if there are only two keys or if there are many keys and only two are needed to open it.

Regardless, they were very lucky.

Moreover, this time, after the door was opened, it could be seen that the two hook-shaped crystals and jade on the door were pushed out, and Bai Jing and Bai Qi respectively took them out.

This time, there was no sign of the portal being closed.

Bai Jing and the other two exchanged glances. Just in case, Bai Jing found some stones and placed them in the middle of the entrance. Even if the door were to close automatically later, it would be blocked by the stones.

In this way, if there is no escape route inside the portal, they can also escape from here.

After Bai Jing and his two companions finished doing all this, they carried torches and entered the gate.

This is a slowly ascending passage. After walking a few steps, you will see stairs. Each step of these stairs is not very high, only about ten centimeters.

As Bai Jing walked, he counted the number of steps. When he reached the end of this section of steps, he noted down the number 108.

At the end of these steps is a platform about two meters long and wide, followed by a 90-degree left turn, and then more steps.

The three exchanged a glance and continued walking uphill.

As expected, there were 108 steps again.

Then there's another platform, followed by 108 steps leading left.

After climbing the seventh set of steps, they could faintly see light ahead.

Thinking of the legend of the peony flower, they all realized that they were probably about to see the peony flower.

As they climbed higher, they found the light ahead to be increasingly bright.

After thinking for a moment, the three of them took out goggles from their backpacks and put them on.

These goggles are issued to the military corps to protect against nuclear flash.

Before they arrived, they thought the light emitted by the lotus flower might be particularly strong, so they specially wore goggles just in case.

As the saying goes, it's always better to be prepared.

The group continued upwards.

Soon, everyone had climbed the tenth step.

After turning around the platform, they discovered that the steps in front of them should be the last step.

Because the steps were very long, and because of the light, they could see that at the end of the steps in the distance seemed to be an open doorway.

Bai Jing calculated that, excluding the remaining step, there were a total of ten steps with 108 steps in total.

Bai Jing didn't believe that the number of the builder of this ruin was just randomly chosen; there might be some special meaning behind it.

Without thinking too much about it, the three of them continued walking upwards with some caution.