The Progress in the Tomb

Ning Zheng taught these puffed-up blacksmiths another lesson and docked a round of their wages, successfully making their wallets ache.

Only then did they start wailing loudly, swearing they would never act recklessly again.

Ning Zheng could understand why they had done something so utterly pointless.

Why did murderers like to revisit the scene of their crimes?

Because they enjoyed watching those detectives wear baffled expressions, helplessly unable to see through the magnificent masterpieces of their crimes!

But if you walked by the riverside often enough, how could your shoes never get wet?

This bad habit could not be tolerated. It had to be corrected. It had to be changed!

Stop teasing Xin Xichen and the others for no reason. The answer was literally right there in the question—were their skins itching? Just wait and see whether he would beat them or not, and that would settle it.

After teaching them a lesson, Ning Zheng turned his attention to the Imperial Mausoleum Adventure Town and the Longevity Dynasty dungeon.

He did indeed intend to conquer this tomb in the short term.

Dragging things out was not a good idea.

And these veteran Tomb Raiders were somewhat capable too. They dug and dug like mad, like locusts in a natural disaster, as though they intended to carry away every valuable thing.

"But the counterattack should be coming soon, right?"

Ning Zheng muttered thoughtfully.

This was a matter of shutting the door to beat the dog. The other side could not escape; they were locked inside this tomb. No matter how astonishingly talented they had been in life, everything would still come to an end!

If Ning Zheng had been in their position—as an Earthbound Spirit locked inside a tomb—he truly would not have known how to escape.

No matter how powerful