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

Partridge Whistle looked at Su Mu with a weary expression.

Yes.

They met by chance, so why should Su Mu risk his life for them and handle the remaining matters of lifting the curse after their deaths, just because they are friends?

Su Mu chuckled: "Don't be too sad. Meeting me means you've met your benefactor, haven't you? I know the location of the Muchen Pearl that you've been searching for all your lives, but I don't have any experience in tomb raiding right now, so I don't want to go."

"Where do you live? Then my fellow disciples and I will stay with you." Partridge Whistle asked earnestly.

Su Mu shrugged: "I haven't earned my first pot of gold yet, I have no money."

Partridge Whistle glanced at Chen Yulou, who was still drinking with Luo Laowai, and said, "It's a small problem. For this operation, we can discuss it with the Unloading Ridge group. We can split the spoils 50/50 or 70/30."

When discussing their professional skills, the three siblings, Partridge Whistle and his brother, appeared exceptionally confident.

He believes he is in no way inferior to the thousands of Unloading Ridge Warriors currently in existence.

Su Mu recalled his memories of his past life and found that things seemed to be just as they were.

A visit to the General's Tomb at Ping'er Mountain.

Aside from initially misidentifying the tomb entrance, working together to blow up the tomb door, falling into a quicksand trap, and using their lives to clear a path for Chen Yulou, the unloading warriors that Chen Yulou brought along seemed to play no role in other situations.

It was Partridge Whistle who found the dragon.

The Angry-Sun Chicken was also found by Partridge Whistle.

Most of the time, Partridge Whistle was fighting the Corpse King alone.

The Angry Rooster!

"I almost forgot something..."

Su Mu whispered to Partridge Whistle about searching for the Angry Sun Chicken that existed in the Miao village.

Partridge Whistle nodded: "I've heard a little about this. I saw some records in a tomb's underground palace before, saying that there's a place called 'Phoenix County' in western Hunan, where a phoenix-type divine chicken is bred every once in a while..."

Su Mu frowned: "Is that so? I thought it was just a random appearance of the Angry-Eyed Chicken."

Partridge Whistle shook his head: "It's not a coincidence, but there's a pattern to it. The things recorded in the tomb are fragmented and don't explain things clearly. It only says that the phoenix perches on the parasol tree, the parasol tree is in the south, the phoenix lives in the south, and when it lands, it becomes a chicken."

Su Mu seemed to have grasped a certain point: "Wait a minute, let me sort this out. You mean that the ancient tomb you found by chance recorded that Phoenix County, every once in a while, would give birth to a divine phoenix chicken?"

Partridge Whistle nodded in confusion.

It is not a mutated phoenix born from an ordinary chicken eating mountain herbs.

Could it be that an ancient mythical beast, the phoenix, is still hidden within these millions of mountains?

Is that angry-looking rooster a descendant of it?

Or perhaps there is something here that can continuously grant phoenix blood to those phoenixes that are "infected" by it?

"Forget it, we should know by tomorrow. Let's leave the group tomorrow, find the Angry Sun Chicken, and then go to Old Bear Ridge and Ping'er Mountain."

"Miss Taoist nun, you should know the location of acupoints on the human body, right? I need your help with something."

"..."

The mystery of the Angry Rooster will only be solved when Su Mu arrives at the Miao village tomorrow and sees it for himself.

But at this moment, he had something else, even more important, to do.

That is to begin cultivating the [Shangqing Great Cave True Scripture].

"By the way, did you bring any tools for drawing talismans? Like cinnabar, wolf hair brushes, or yellow paper?"

"Who carries that thing?"

"Ahem, we are not actually Taoists, please forgive us, young man. My junior brother is not a bad person, he just has a foul mouth."

"..."

Su Mu remained silent.

After obtaining the [Rain Master's Edict] talisman, Su Mu wanted to test its true power at all times.

However, not a single person in the entire team carried any talisman-making tools.

Even the three Taoist priests dressed as mountain movers in front of them were not there.

The Miao village I'm going to tomorrow will most likely not have yellow paper or similar items there.

After all, the people in the Miao village don't seem to believe in these things.

"You still believe in these things?" Partridge Whistle shook his head.

"If you like it, after you help us find the Muchen Pearl, my two siblings and I will search all over the country for it. However, elixirs and talismans are ultimately just external things and cannot be truly trusted."

Partridge Whistle, who already considered Su Mu one of his own, earnestly tried to persuade him.

Su Mu remained silent, and simply turned around to continue asking the Daoist nun Hua Ling about the acupoints in the human body.

Hua Ling sat cross-legged on the ground, facing Su Mu, and gently touched Su Mu's abdomen with her fair finger: "This is the Huangting you asked about, the middle dantian, the Mingmen between the two kidneys in the lower back, and the Baihui on the top of the head..."

Su Mu silently recited it once, memorizing it in his mind, and at the same time began to practice the basic chapters of the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing".

This true scripture is different from the cultivation novels Su Mu encountered in his previous life.

The Shangqing Great Cave True Scripture does not lead to the formation of the Golden Elixir, nor does it follow the path of the Yang Spirit.

Instead, one should guide the Qi of the twenty-four stars from the Baihui point into the body every day, allowing it to settle in the Huangting point, refine the five internal organs, and nourish the Mingmen point.

According to the true scriptures, those who cultivate to the end can directly ascend to immortality.

Climb to immortality.

Su Mu, who had just begun his cultivation, suddenly stopped meditating and began to hesitate.

He asked the three siblings, Partridge Whistle and his brother, and learned about a matter of cultivation that ordinary people rarely know.

Partridge Whistle said that there may really be a path to immortality in the world, but whether one follows the Golden Elixir Path or the Corpse Liberation Ascension Method, one will eventually leave the present world completely.

Head to the Immortal Gate.

In Su Mu's understanding, the immortal sect that Partridge Whistle mentioned was probably another dimension world that was higher than the current world dimension.

Those who can cultivate immortality in this world have almost all gone to that other world.

It can no longer interfere with the normal course of the human world.

"Since we already have talismans available, let's postpone our cultivation for now. We've already laid the foundation for ascension; what if we accidentally ascend directly to immortality?"

"It seems that the foundation of the witch is better? It won't ascend to heaven on the spot, but will only continuously improve its physical strength, and eventually give birth to the witch clan's divine powers."

"It's decided! Forget about cultivating that damn immortal path, I'll walk the path of witchcraft!"

After trying out the cultivation methods in the scripture, Su Mu resolutely chose to abandon them.

Even if one cultivates this immortal cultivation scripture to the very end, it will not give rise to any supernatural powers; it will only allow mortals to ascend to heaven and become immortals.

Su Mu has a rather Buddhist personality, but he is not a person without desires.

At least for now, he hasn't experienced what is called a rich and colorful life.

Lost in thought, Su Mu didn't know when she fell asleep.

All he remembered was a constant buzzing noise and the sound of drinking.

When he woke up, Partridge Whistle and the others had already started practicing a certain set of boxing techniques in the courtyard.

In contrast, Chen Yulou lay in the corner with his mouth full of grease, snoring loudly.

After waking up.

Su Mu instructed Uncle Beard and the rest of the group from Changsha not to rashly clear the way for Chen Yulou and his group, but to slow down and wait for Su Mu and Partridge Whistle to return together.

The bearded man and the others nodded in agreement, but they didn't really have much confidence in making a genuine promise to Su Mu.

Su Mu was allowed to leave because he revealed his identity as one of the Nine Gates.

Partridge Whistle can leave because he belongs to the Mountain Moving Taoist lineage.

But none of those who received the money for unloading the mountain could leave; they had to continue with the next task.