Tomb raiding: The awesome life that started from Ganggangyingzi

Chapter 198 Soul Suspended Ladder

When Lao Hu fired a few flares and they flew out, illuminating the area ahead with their dazzling light, all three of them, except for Ji Haobo, gasped in astonishment.

The pit, larger than a football field, was filled with spider webs, and countless large creatures were crawling around inside.

There are also many passages on the rock face tens of meters high, with many people coming and going. The passage they were in was one of them.

No one could imagine such an exaggerated number and enormous size, nor did they know what they ate to survive.

Their arrival and the flash of the flares instantly startled the giant spiders.

"Swish..."

Countless spiders, with their long legs, quickly crawled towards the passage where the group was located.

Ji Haobo's long sword immediately exploded into a ball of blue light that danced around him.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

Countless piercing sounds rang out in rapid succession, followed by flashes of blue flames. The spiders struck by the fragments were instantly reduced to ashes.

To Ji Haobo's surprise, however, fist-sized objects were falling out of the ashes.

When he picked one up and examined it in his hand, he discovered that it was actually spider silk, which was not only crystal clear but also extremely elastic.

Ji Haobo had been using his sword energy to kill the Black Dragonflies from a distance all the way, but he never expected that the Boundless Karmic Fire could refine spider silk.

With this discovery, we can no longer let these spiders go. We immediately stepped into the air above the pit and controlled the fragments to fly around in a wide area.

Blue, boundless karmic flames bloomed one after another in the underground space, many of them extremely dazzling, but also marking the demise of the giant spider's life.

The sheer scale of the attack caused most of the black serpents to die, and the remaining ones fled into the passageway in the rock wall and disappeared.

"Old Ji, your knife is truly amazing!"

Big Gold Tooth and Old Hu were practically drooling over it. The Demon Blade Flowing Fire Thousand Blades was not only exaggerated like a magic weapon, but more importantly, it was incredibly cool!

A knife that exudes an aura of pretentiousness is irresistible to any man.

"Don't be envious, you couldn't lift it even if you had your skinny arms and legs."

Ji Haobo didn't want to argue with them, lest the guys be unwilling to give up and try his knife.

"Hurry up and come down to help collect the spider silk!"

They had just had a great time killing monsters, but now picking up the dropped materials was a headache. The four of them spent more than half an hour at the bottom of the pit, circling around twice and collecting two or three hundred bundles.

"Master Bo, this large pit shows signs of excavation, and it was probably created by ancient people quarrying stone."

I also discovered a fairly large passage over there, which was probably used to transport stones into the tomb.”

"Okay! Let's go! Let's go take a look first."

Ji Haobo led the way, and the grooves left by wheel tracks on the ground of the passage were very conspicuous, confirming that Lao Hu's guess was correct.

If you walk straight along these marks for about a hundred meters, you will find two sealed stone doors that can only be opened from the other side.

"Damn, is this stone gate meant to keep an eye on those spiders? Did the ancients keep pets?"

Fatty Wang went up and knocked on it. It felt very thick and heavy, and he didn't think he could open it.

However, under the sharpness of the Demon Blade Thousand Blades, it was cut open like tofu.

Passing through the stone gate, opposite is a huge underworld palace, with a several-meter-tall armillary sphere in the center and a white jade coffin in a side room.

The group looked around inside and found nothing unusual.

"Old Ji, the style here is typical of Tang Dynasty tombs. Li Chunfeng should be inside the coffin, right?"

Big Gold Tooth looked around excitedly and walked into the side room, staring at the white jade coffin with shining eyes.

"Master Bo, shall we open this coffin?"

Old Hu hesitated and asked, reluctant to open the coffin. After all, Li Chunfeng had a good reputation in history, and opening his coffin would be somewhat offensive.

"Does this need to be said?"

Fatty Wang quickly chimed in:

"We're not here for tourism; there's no reason for us to let a coffin go unnoticed."

"It will definitely be opened, but not this one."

Ji Haobo waved his hand, indicating that they didn't need to argue, and turned to walk outside.

"That coffin is fake, or even has a deadly trap. Li Chunfeng shouldn't be here."

Don't forget that besides the Tang Dynasty tomb, there is also Ji Chang's Western Zhou Dynasty tomb underneath.

When Lao Hu and the others saw him walk down to examine the armillary sphere, they immediately understood what he meant.

"So the secret door leading to the next level is on this celestial globe?"

"Hmm! See the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches above? That thing must be some kind of code. It's giving me a headache. Lao Hu, you and Lao Jin go and study it."

Ji Haobo wasn't interested in those basic terms like A, B, C, D, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao. Like Fatty Wang, he was a complete novice. He could recognize the characters, but when put together, he was completely baffled.

Old Hu and Big Gold Tooth were greatly encouraged upon hearing this. Finally, there was something to give Master Bo a headache. They excitedly stepped forward to check.

After the two whispered and discussed it for a while, Lao Hu started to look at the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches on the armillary sphere.

"Boom..."

As they fiddled with it, a hidden door suddenly opened somewhere in the Underworld Palace, revealing nothing but a dark stone staircase.

Even when Ji Haobo stuck his head in, he couldn't see clearly. This Suspended Soul Staircase must have used some kind of strange method, which not only disrupted perception but also distorted vision with special materials.

"Old Ji, it's pitch black inside, do we really want to go in?"

Big Gold Tooth paced back and forth timidly at the entrance, while Old Hu and Fatty Wang were also feeling uneasy.

The inside looked really strange. After exchanging glances, they fired a few flares inside.

The result was even more alarming: the flare's brilliant light disappeared mid-flight.

It's worth noting that these flares have a range of over 100 meters, and the light can be seen from a kilometer away.

"My God! It's like a black hole inside. Should we look for another passage?"

Fatty Wang wasn't afraid of anything else, but the stone steps seemed to be suspended in mid-air, with no idea how high they were above or how deep they were below, and he was terrified of heights.

"Stop dawdling, let's go inside and talk first."

Ji Haobo ignored Wang Pangzi's mutterings and stepped inside. He didn't believe that he could be trapped inside.

Seeing this, the other three could only hurry to follow, but after taking a few steps, Big Gold Tooth looked back and exclaimed in shock, his face turning pale.

"Holy crap, Lao Ji, look behind us! The entrance we came in through is gone!"

Old Hu and the others turned around in surprise upon hearing this, but Ji Haobo continued walking forward without looking back.

He didn't care that the entrance had disappeared. Instead, he took out his dragon claw and swung it toward the darkness outside the stone steps as he walked.

After a series of tests, it was found that there were no obstacles in most places, even for hundreds of meters.

However, in some places, the sound of dragon claws colliding could be heard from more than ten meters away from the stone steps.

"You two hold the rope, I'll go check over there."

Ji Haobo handed one end of the dragon claw to Lao Hu, mainly because he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to see it once he left the stone steps, and those three guys would definitely be confused.