Burial Tomb

"Well, well, with a setup like this, did I wander into someone's tomb?" Chen Xu's expression was somewhat strange. The great treasure Meatball had discovered was inside an ancient tomb, which was rather unexpected.

Still, that was fairly normal. Tombs had plenty of treasures.

Spreading out his senses, Chen Xu slowly approached the stone doors engraved with mountains and rivers. He gently pressed a palm against them, and Essence surged forth.

The two stone doors were blasted open, revealing a pitch-black, bottomless passage within.

Ancient Bats hung upside down from the ceiling of the passage, their exposed fangs hideously vicious. At the sight of a living person, they swooped down, intending to tear a chunk of flesh from Chen Xu.

Steam rose as the muscles in Chen Xu's right arm bulged. He threw a violent punch down the passage.

A white shockwave shredded countless Ancient Bats. Blood splattered across the stone walls, and the nearly hundred-meter-long passage was instantly cleared of all living creatures.

Even as he slaughtered the monsters, Chen Xu had not damaged a single stone wall in the passage. His control had long since reached perfection.

Past the passage, the space suddenly opened up. White jade pillars rose from the ground around the plaza, and a battle formation composed of over a thousand stone figurines stood solemnly still. Looking slightly upward, he saw an altar shrouded in gauze curtains.

At the center of the several-dozen-meter-high altar stood a crystal coffin. Below it, five blood-red coffins were plastered with all kinds of talismans, without a single gap left exposed.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Crisp footsteps sounded from another passage, mixed with deliberately hushed yet uncontrollable excited chatter.

Following the sound, several flashlight beams shone out from the passage as more than a dozen people in various outfits emerged one