From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The roosters and hens that had been brought in earlier were pecking at the centipedes incessantly, like people sucking on noodles, eating one at a time with great relish.

"Giggle!"

At this moment, Jiang Liu, carrying the angry-looking rooster in the bamboo cage on his back, also crowed twice.

"They must be hungry too."

Jiang Liu didn't put down the chicken coop. Instead, he reached behind his back and opened the lid on top of the bamboo cage.

"Ah-"

With a loud crow, the rooster spread its wings and leaped out of its cage, landing on one leg, startling all the roosters in the underground palace into stopping their pecking.

The hens gathered around the Angry-Eyed Chicken, like concubines vying for the "King of Chickens'" favor.

But the Angry-Eyed Chicken seemed to look down on these unassuming hens, pushing them aside and focusing on pecking at the immobile centipedes on the ground.

"Hey! This chicken looks really impressive!"

The old foreigner stared in amazement, praising the chicken. He then leaned closer to Partridge Whistle, whispered in his ear, "Senior brother, your skills in the art of beast mastery are focused on birds. This chicken is perfect for you."

"They won't sell it."

Partridge Whistle took a liking to the Angry-Eyed Rooster at first sight, but he also knew that Jiang Liu's attitude towards the rooster made it impossible for him to buy it with money.

"Senior brother, how do you know he won't sell if you haven't even asked?"

The old foreigner was a straightforward man; after saying that, he went straight to ask Jiang Liu.

"Not for sale."

Jiang Liu, holding the innate talisman and relying on the method of understanding all things and his enhanced hearing, naturally overheard the two's whispered conversation. He was surprised that Partridge Whistle was focused on birds in the path of beast mastery, but he would not sell this future "Pleiades Chicken".

Although he doesn't know the methods of a beast master, he can gradually figure out some tricks by communicating with the Angry Rooster using Qi.

The old foreigner secretly regretted it, and said to Partridge Whistle, "Senior brother, you guessed right."

Partridge Whistle remained silent.

Red Girl took the lead and walked deeper into the underground palace, saying to the others behind her, "Hurry up and follow, let's go inside and take a look!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Liu and Partridge Whistle followed together.

"Are you going to ignore the Pleiades chicken?"

Li Muxuan asked.

“It has already accepted me and won’t run far, so let it eat its fill here.”

Jiang Liu wasn't worried that the Angry Sun Chicken would run away. "The centipede's poison is ineffective against it, and it even seems to enhance its Qi. Perhaps this bottle of poisonous insects from the mountain is the opportunity for its further growth."

"So, after we kill the Earth Dragon King, the Black Serpent, and the Ink Pipa, we can feed their corpses to the Angry Sun Chicken so it can grow faster?"

Lu Jin suggested.

"I do have that thought too."

Before this, the Angry Sun Chicken was fed with fine grains by the old man of Golden Phoenix Village, but how could a creature that has obtained Qi be satisfied with ordinary rice and grains?

The centipedes in this area are the best food for the Angry Sun Chicken to grow!

"who?"

The girl in red, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and shouted loudly.

Looking out over the river—

To the left of the Red Girl is a cave entrance leading to a secret chamber, where a figure can be vaguely seen sitting or standing.

"It's probably a skeleton."

Partridge Whistle guessed, then extended his torch into the recessed area of ​​the wall, igniting the fuel inside and illuminating the stone chamber…

# Chapter 150 Tomb Raiding and Immortal Cultivation?

"There really is someone!"

Hua Ling exclaimed in surprise.

The man sat on a stone bed carved out of the edge of the stone chamber wall. He wore a black hat and black clothes. He was completely lifeless and looked no different from a living person. His skin seemed to have a layer of oil, which made his face shine in the firelight, which was quite strange.

"Could this not be a Yuan Dynasty tomb?"

Seeing the man's attire, Partridge Whistle knew he was not a Yuan dynasty person and guessed that the tomb they had found was not the tomb of the Yuan dynasty general that Chen Yulou wanted to explore.

"Only actors and performers in troupes would dress like that."

Red Girl, however, calmed down and pointed at the corpse dressed in a black robe, boots, and hat, saying, "This is clearly a ghost from a play!"

"Black Impermanence, one of the Black and White Impermanence?"

Li Muxuan chuckled and said, "Isn't that a bit too fat?"

It's no wonder Li Muxuan said that, because this "Death Hook Ghost" was indeed rather bloated, resembling a water vat or a roly-poly toy.

Partridge Whistle went straight forward, looked it over, and was about to pry open the corpse's mouth when he found himself being held back by an invisible force and unable to move.

"Don't be impatient. This corpse hasn't decomposed for many years, which is probably related to the layer of oil on its body. Touching it rashly might cause poisoning," Jiang Liu advised.

Once Partridge Whistle realized he could move again, how could he not know that the situation where his body seemed to be frozen in place and he was unable to move was Jiang Liu's doing?

While being shocked by his abilities, she calmly said, "My lineage of Mountain Moving Taoists has taken various herbs since childhood, so our bodies are different from ordinary people, and we have extremely strong resistance to corpse poison."

Even so, Partridge Whistle still thanked Jiang Liu for the reminder afterward.

Then, he reached out and pinched the corpse's cheeks to make it open its mouth, but he did not see any pills or anything like that. He frowned and looked down, and saw a gold plaque hanging around the corpse's neck with the words "Guanshan Taibao" written on it.

"They're from the same industry!"

Upon seeing the four characters on the gold medal, Partridge Whistle was surprised. He moved away from the corpse, wiped the grease off his hands, took out a small gourd from his pocket, uncorked it, poured a mouthful of medicine into his mouth, and exhaled.

"A fellow practitioner of the Mountain Moving Clan?"

Jiang Liu inquired.

"No."

Partridge Whistle denied it outright, saying, "The lineage of the Mountain Moving Taoists now consists of only me, Old Foreigner, and Hua Ling. As for the others who dare to call themselves Mountain Moving Taoists, you can consider them as swindlers who use the name of the Mountain Moving Taoists to commit tomb raiding and theft."

The Guanshan Taibao are a different lineage from the Mojin Xiaowei, Faqiu Tianguan, Xieling Lishi, and Banshan Daoren. Their methods of tomb raiding are unknown, but their purpose is said to be to obtain ancient scrolls and books in order to acquire various ancient cultivation methods and achieve immortality…

During the Ming Dynasty, the entire families of tomb raiders and tomb raiders were even exterminated!

I never expected to find the body of a Guanshan Taibao who had perished here.

"Tsk."

Jiang Liu chuckled softly, having gained an understanding of the four main branches and one major lineage of the tomb raiding world:

The tomb raiders, including the Mojin, Faqiu, and Xieling, all chose to rob tombs for the sake of wealth, regardless of their reasons. The Banshan Daoren, on the other hand, robbed tombs to find the Muchen Pearl, also known as the "Phoenix Gallbladder," for a specific purpose.

The Guanshan Taibao lineage's choice to engage in tomb raiding is unique; they pursue ancient scrolls and texts, hoping to cultivate immortality... They have this perseverance, yet they choose not to join a righteous sect.

Jiang Liu speculated that Jiang Liu was probably not qualified enough and wanted to seek out ancient methods to find a new path.

This is absolutely a dead end!

Although there were people with extraordinary abilities in ancient times, the methods of cultivation are not necessarily stronger the older they are, but rather more perfect the closer they are to the modern era.

The methods of various sects are all the result of the personal practice, summarization, and conclusion of talented people and people of ambition throughout the ages, and then passed on to future generations!

If later generations are incapable, they can simply follow the experience of their ancestors in their practice; if they are capable, they can find the mistakes in the practice of their ancestors, improve upon them, and then personally pass on the improved version to the next generation.

and so--

The cultivation techniques will definitely become stronger and stronger as time goes by and civilization develops!

No cultivation method in any normal civilization will ever become stronger the older it is. At most, the cultivation methods practiced by the ancients are very different from those of modern people, and their cultivation directions are also very different. They can only provide some new ideas for some innovative people among us today!

The phenomenon of civilizations becoming stronger the older they are can only occur if the civilization suffered an irresistible blow during its development, resulting in a break in its lineage.

However, this is just one of Jiang Liu's guesses about the Guanshan Taibao lineage's choice of "tomb raiding and immortal cultivation." Perhaps this lineage simply enjoys tomb raiding?

After leaving the stone chamber, the group continued forward and arrived at a corridor leading upwards. The corridor was shrouded in mist, deep and winding, making it difficult to fathom.

Just as the girl in red was about to go in, Jiang Liu grabbed her and said, "Wait, let us show you how to do it first!"

Jiang Liu's sharp eyes had already spotted the thin threads hanging down the corridor! These threads, composed of mucus, were thinner than a hair, and even a superhuman would have difficulty noticing them if they weren't paying attention!

Beneath the fine threads are tiny, sticky beads, smaller than sesame seeds, with long, transparent, wriggling threads inside – these are centipede larvae!

If you rashly venture in and get your skin smeared with the slime droplets, allowing centipede larvae to burrow into your body and devour your internal organs, you'll be in serious trouble.

His relic, the exquisite inner elixir, can be used to regulate the five internal organs to achieve the effect of detoxification. However, if the five internal organs are eaten away, there is no way to rely on it to quickly repair them!

After all, Red Girl, Partridge Whistle, Old Foreigner, Flower Spirit and others cannot reverse the threefold rebirth, and cannot use the Qi Transformation Technique to repair their damaged bodies.

"Watch me!"

Reminded by Jiang Liu, Li Muxuan looked closely and indeed saw the hanging threads. He chuckled, swung his right arm, and spread his five fingers, unleashing a transparent force field that swept into the corridor. It gathered the hanging threads, slime beads, and hazy mist into a fist-sized ball, which he then flung into the flock of chickens behind him.

"Amazing! What kind of ability is this?" Hua Ling asked.

"You don't recognize me? If you've ever traveled the martial arts world, this move of mine should be quite common, right?" Li Muxuan became curious when asked this question.

Lu Jin was also puzzled as to why Hua Ling didn't know.

The skill of "reversing the eight directions" was indeed only mastered by Ghost Hand King in the past, but there are quite a few freelancers who can perform magic tricks and make a living by using magnetic techniques. Has Hua Ling never seen it before?

"I hope the four of you know that we Mountain Moving Taoists spend most of our time exploring ancient tombs in the mountains and forests. Even when we go to town to purchase supplies, we go in directions where there are few people."

Partridge Whistle explained somewhat awkwardly, "Although we tomb raiders only seek the Muchen Pearl, it is still tomb raiding after all. If we go to crowded places, the probability of being recognized is high. Therefore, we will not go to crowded and conspicuous places unless necessary."

"Afraid of being talked about? I understand."

Li Muxuan used to play pranks, but he couldn't stand people talking behind his back. In this respect, he could understand the difficulties that Partridge Whistle and the others had. "My move is called Reversing the Eight Directions. Apart from Red Girl, the other two can also do it."

# Chapter 151 The Strange-Colored Iris

Upon hearing about the technique of "turning things upside down," Partridge Whistle had a vague recollection of it, knowing that it was a skill used by street performers. However, he had never heard of such an exquisite technique as that displayed by Li Muxuan.