"Bones as smooth as jade—this is the legendary Immortal Bone!"
Engineer Hu gazed at the skeleton for a long while before murmuring.
"Oh? Engineer Hu, you've heard of it?" Professor Xiang's eyes lit up.
"I heard it from my grandfather, who heard it from his grandfather..." Engineer Hu gave a bitter smile. "My family has been archaeologists for generations. Supposedly, one of our ancestors was also a cultivator and once encountered a fortuitous immortal opportunity... Later, one of our ancestors took the silk manuscript left behind by the family founder and excavated a large tomb. He actually unearthed Immortal Bone like this..."
"And then?"
Sun Yuan pressed him, his voice trembling slightly.
"Then my ancestor... encountered... a true, living immortal!"
Engineer Hu's voice grew distant. "That immortal claimed to come from the Gourd Grotto-heaven and said he had a karmic connection with the jade bones my ancestor had excavated..."
Gulp!
Engineer Jin's throat bobbed. "Then the immortal took your ancestor as his disciple and passed down some silk manuscripts and immortal pills?"
"No!"
Engineer Hu let out a bitter laugh. "Then the immortal was struck dead by lightning! The jade bones and the tomb were all destroyed beneath Heavenly Might. Only my ancestor managed to escape by sheer luck. After hurriedly making arrangements for his funeral, he also passed away... Supposedly, there are heavenly laws in the human world forbidding immortals from appearing. Otherwise, Heaven itself will strike them with five thunderbolts!"
"Bah, isn't that just a made-up story?" Engineer Jin found it incredibly boring.
"I only ever listened to it as a story, but after seeing these jade bones, I'm starting to believe it a little," Engineer Hu said.
"All right. This may simply be a bone disease that Huang Danzi suffered from while alive. Then, after he became