Tomb Raider: The man is in the Nine Gates, but the system insists it's the Primordial Era.

The members of the Unloading Ridge Clan, along with the soldiers that Luo Laowai brought with him, all seemed unfazed by the sight.

Luo Laowai extended his hand: "Brother Chen, please."

Chen Yulou took off his hat and bowed: "Brother Luo, please wait a moment."

Chen Yulou led his men through the door and into the silent mortuary.

Outside.

Looking at his silent subordinates, Luo Laowai grinned and said, "Damn it, why are you all mute now?"

The soldiers hesitated and stammered, ultimately daring not to say anything more to Chen Yulou.

The vanguard member of the Unloading Ridge sect next to Su Mu nudged his arm: "Our leader is a scholar too, but since you appeared, we've found him increasingly unpleasant to look at."

Su Mu smiled but did not answer.

"What are you muttering about?"

"Who is this person?"

A woman with a dark blue cloak over her shoulders, a maroon short-sleeved top with a narrow waist and fitted sleeves, and long, jet-black hair braided into a thick plait walked over, exuding a heroic air.

"Sister Hong." The disciple of the Unloading Ridge Sect cupped his hands, avoiding the other party's sharp gaze.

Hong Gu walked up to Su Mu, looked him up and down, and said, "How come there's a pretty boy in the team? He's quite capable, managing to get this far."

Hua Maguai's men walked up to Hong Gu and whispered a few words in her ear.

Hong Gu raised her eyebrows: "Is it that amazing?"

Su Mu walked to the gate of the mortuary and quickly glanced at the many yellow talismans pasted on the side of the mortuary.

"It's still no use. It seems this system is determined to make me go into tombs frequently in the future," Su Mu said with a self-deprecating laugh.

The system determines that items with mysterious effects are mostly antiques.

And all of them require an extremely strong "obsession".

From the Qin Dynasty to the present day, emperors of successive dynasties have been eager to refine elixirs, hoping to gain immortality and a foundation for ascension to heaven after consuming them.

Talismans are created by countless suffering people to fulfill their hopes for the world. In years of severe drought, when the common people and officials of the dynasty could not get rain, they would set up altars, burn talismans, and kowtow to the heavens to pray for favorable weather and a good harvest.

When disasters and epidemics strike, people cannot afford expensive medicines. They resort to drawing talismans on cheap yellow paper, burning them, and swallowing them with water to seek peace of mind.

For thousands of years, alchemy has never achieved its intended effect.

The same applies to the art of talismans.

The function of the system on Su Mu is to allow these things, which people have hoped for for thousands of years, to demonstrate their true value.

"Watch your head!"

"Something's happened! Everyone, come in!"

Suddenly, shouts rang out from Chen Yulou's two assistants who had entered the mortuary.

boom!

The members of the Unloading Ridge gang burst through the door, brandishing their knives, each looking fierce and menacing.

From a room in the backyard, intermittent sounds came again:

"Oh, it was a false alarm. It was just a corpse, nothing serious. Don't be afraid..."

"Afraid? What have I, Chen Yulou, ever been afraid of?"

"How did this fat rat manage to carry away the corpse's ears?"

"Boss! Stop chasing! Boss!"

"..."

He kicked open the window paper, and Chen Yulou, his face pale with anger and fury, grabbed the dagger in his hand and went to find the fat mountain rat that had suddenly popped its head out and startled him.

This fat mountain rat actually made him lose face in front of all the Unloading Ridge subordinates!

Unbeknownst to everyone, just as Chen Yulou, in a fit of rage at losing face, stormed out of the door, a pungent odor had already been inhaled by most of those present.

Clang!

Starting with the first person whose body suddenly stiffened and whose long sword fell to the ground, similar stiff postures began to spread rapidly towards the crowd.

Only those on the outskirts who had not yet entered the mortuary were unaffected.

"Tanuki Spirit's Illusory Urine"

On his way down the mountain, Su Mu had already reviewed his past life's memories and memorized the plot of the changes that would occur in this place.

At this moment, after seeing the blank expressions and limp, strange postures of everyone in the mortuary, he already knew the answer.

Call ~

Of those who entered the mortuary together, only Su Mu was unaffected.

Su Mu exhaled a breath of stale air, which unconsciously sprayed onto the stiff-bodied bearded man in front of him.

The bearded man shivered and groggily woke up.

"Get out of the way."

Seeing this, Su Mu immediately began to devise a plan.

"What's wrong with them? Why are they all acting like they're possessed?"

"Step back! Something's fishy about this mortuary!"

"What about the people inside? Are we just going to leave them like this?"

"Wait until we get our heads back! Don't make any rash moves!"

"What is that boy doing? How come he's not affected?"

"..."

Outside the open gates of the mortuary, someone, alert to the strange changes occurring within, finally noticed a young man strolling leisurely in the courtyard with one hand behind his back.

The boy walked among the people who had been poisoned by hallucinogenic toxins, one hand behind his back and the other hand seemingly forming a Taoist hand seal in mid-air.

The boy first held one palm upright in front of his chest, then nodded slightly, changed the single palm in front of his chest into a finger-picking gesture, and then made some kind of Taoist or Buddhist mudra, which was imprinted on the face of the hallucinogen.

Next, everyone outside witnessed the 'miracle'.

One by one, the people who had been trapped in the illusion by Su Mu's handprint on their faces woke up.

"This isn't just a minor deity, this is a real deity!"

The vanguard of the Unloading Ridge Warriors outside the door stared wide-eyed at the scene before them.

On the way, Su Mu displayed fragments of "miracles," summoning wind and rain.

But that might just be a coincidence. So, what about now?

Just then, mountain mist rose again, silently spreading into the mortuary.

Therefore, Su Mu's "immortal" demeanor was made even more mysterious and enigmatic.

"General."

His soldiers helped Luo Laowai up, who was about to kneel down and kowtow.

Although the others had not yet knelt down and kowtowed to proclaim that a banished immortal had descended to earth, they all felt an unprecedented sense of the materialization of immortals and gods.

The companions who had entered the mortuary earlier were clearly possessed by the evil spirits within, as they all remained in a dazed, confused, and stiff state.

It was Su Mu, who formed a mudra with his hands, who pulled them out of their suffering.

In fact, if Su Mu hadn't breathed the scent of withered trees blooming and dry grass blossoming into these people's breath, they would have been doomed when the fox spirit returned.

"Little Fairy".

Thump! Inside the mortuary, someone was awakened and couldn't help but kneel down and kowtow.

Su Mu appeared expressionless on the surface, but was secretly overjoyed.

This is exactly the result he wanted.

His next step is to recruit people to open his own branch. The Xieling group is extremely capable and formidable in individual combat. If he can win them over, that would be ideal.

"Is everyone alright?"

Chen Yulou, looking embarrassed, rushed back, his clean clothes stained with blood, though it was unclear whether it was his or the fox spirit's.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.

Watching Chen Yulou, who had rushed into the wilderness in a disheveled state simply because he was angry at losing face and disregarded the safety of those around him, I saw him return in a sorry state.

Everyone subconsciously glanced again at the young man in the mortuary courtyard, who stood with his hands behind his back like an immortal descended to earth, and all subconsciously shook their heads.