Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen helped open the Stone Door and entered the vast underground cave beneath Panshan Mountain with the Banshan Sect and Wu Dali's men. After the group found gold and jade near the entrance, Lin Chen stopped Wu Dali's men from taking it and urged them to press deeper into the Tomb of King Li.

• Lin Chen used his X-ray vision to locate the Stone Door's switch and opened it while evading the scorpions.
• The system assigned Lin Chen quests to find three medicinal ingredients, continue searching for the main burial chamber, and kill the Crown Spider King.
• Zhang Xiaofei led eight Banshan Sect men into the cave with shields and a box of Pangolin Beasts, followed by the rest of the group.
• The group found gold and jade decorating the cave's pillars, and Wu Dali ordered his men to remove them.
• Lin Chen stopped Wu Dali's men, saying better treasures lay deeper inside.

Lin Chen and the others advanced through King Li’s tomb, overcoming a deadly sulfuric-acid trap before discovering a room called the Treasure Burial Pavilion. Zhegu Yang and Lin Chen warned Wu Dali’s men not to enter, and the group continued searching for the main burial chamber.

• Wu Dali led the group onward after Third Brother accidentally shut the entrance door behind them.
• A trap sprayed concentrated sulfuric acid on two of Wu Dali’s men, killing them, before Zhang Xiaofei disabled the mechanism under the Mountaineers’ shields.
• The group crossed the acid-covered passage and entered a tomb chamber filled with jade.
• Lin Chen read the inscription above a room as “Treasure Burial Pavilion,” exciting Wu Dali and his men.
• Zhegu Yang warned that the pavilion’s name suggested danger, and Lin Chen urged everyone to leave it alone and search for the main burial chamber.

Wu Dali’s men entered the Treasure Burial Pavilion and began looting its riches, only to be attacked by deadly Crown Spiders. After eight men died, Wu Dali regretted ignoring the Tomb Raider’s warning but ordered the survivors to continue deeper into the tomb.

• Wu Dali ordered his men to open the Treasure Burial Pavilion, and Zhang Xiaofei picked the Golden Lion Lock while Zhegu Yang’s group waited outside.
• Wu Dali and his men found the room piled with treasure and began filling sacks with valuables.
• Mutated Crown Spiders attacked the looters, killing several men and forcing Wu Dali’s group to retreat.
• Fifth Brother went back for a sack, was bitten by a Crown Spider, and detonated a grenade that collapsed part of the pavilion and killed him.
• Wu Dali mourned the eight dead men, accepted Third Brother’s counsel, and ordered the Tomb Raider and Mountain Mover Daoist to lead the survivors onward.

Lin Chen and the group entered a network of rough, interconnected tunnels and discovered a pit filled with spiderwebs. After they killed a giant spider, a swarm of enormous Crown Giant Spiders appeared, forcing everyone to flee.

• Lin Chen persuaded Wu Dali's group to keep moving, and Zhegu Yang led them through the strange tunnels toward a cave opening across a large pit.
• The group found spiderwebs and Spider Kings in the pit, where one man jabbed a black object and awakened a person-sized giant spider.
• Wu Dali ordered the group to shoot, and the giant spider killed one man before an M60 gunner brought it down.
• Zhang Xiaofei and Third Brother nearly drew weapons on each other, but Wu Dali made Third Brother lower his gun after Zhegu Yang threatened to leave.
• Lin Chen and Zhegu Yang warned that more spiders would come, then the group spotted a swarm of Crown Giant Spiders and Lin Chen shouted for everyone to run.

Lin Chen fought the Crown Giant Spiders and drew the Crown Spider King away from Zhegu Yang’s group so they could escape the swarm. He reached the Treasure Burial Pavilion with the Spider King in pursuit.

• Lin Chen and the others fought off the first Crown Giant Spiders while Zhegu Yang’s team formed a shield wall and helped people retreat.
• Wu Dali and his men drove back the smaller spiders with M60s, but a Crown Spider King attacked and killed several of them.
• Lin Chen and Zhegu Yang rescued the surviving gunman, then sheltered with the others beneath linked Tortoise Shell Shields as the spiders attacked.
• Lin Chen volunteered to lure away the Crown Spider King, and Zhegu Yang gave him the Thousand Machine Vajra Umbrella.
• Lin Chen rushed out, fired at the spiders, and led the pursuing Spider King away from the group before reaching the Treasure Burial Pavilion.

Lin Chen battled the Crown Spider King, using the King Kong Umbrella and a flask of liquor to prepare a trap. He lured the enraged spider toward the burning Treasure Burial Pavilion, and the creature finally pounced after him.

• Lin Chen dodged the Crown Spider King's webbing and severed one of its legs with the King Kong Umbrella before it entered a berserk state and hardened its body.
• Lin Chen searched beneath the spider for its vulnerable death gate but found nothing, then kicked aside an iron liquor flask and came up with a plan.
• Lin Chen poured the liquor over the Crown Spider King while dodging its attacks, then fired his M60 at its head and ran toward Treasure Burial Pavilion.
• Lin Chen taunted the Crown Spider King from beside the flames until it roared and pounced at him.

Lin Chen killed the Crown Spider King by discovering the yellow weak spot at the center of its crown, then gained immunity to almost all poisons from the system. He rejoined Zhegu Yang and the others, and the survivors continued onward after thirteen of Wu Dali’s men had died.

• Lin Chen lured the Crown Spider King into flames, but it survived and attacked him with faster spider silk.
• The spider silk pulled Lin Chen into the air, where he spotted a yellow weak point at the center of the spider’s crown.
• Lin Chen used the cave wall to reach the spider’s head and shot its weak point with his M60, killing it.
• The system rewarded Lin Chen with immunity to all poisons, except for certain rare and unusual poisons.
• Lin Chen returned to Zhegu Yang and the others, told them he had killed the Spider King, and urged them to leave before the spiders returned.
• Wu Dali remained quiet after losing thirteen of his thirty men, including the fifth of the five brothers, and the group continued onward.

Wu Dali’s group continued deeper into the tomb despite Lin Chen’s warning, and the explorers reached a middle burial chamber where Second Brother secretly removed a dagger from a statue. The chamber sealed its entrance and began flooding, leaving everyone trapped as water poured from the walls.

• Wu Dali’s men refused to leave the tomb, and Wu Dali declined to give the Moving Mountain brothers weapons despite Zhang Xiaofei’s complaint.
• The group moved through winding tunnels and entered a large middle burial chamber, which Lin Chen identified as part of a Han Dynasty tomb within the Tomb of King Li.
• Zhegu Yang ordered everyone to search for mechanisms, while Lin Chen concealed that he already knew where the secret passage was.
• Second Brother secretly pulled a short dagger from a statue after Third Brother warned him not to touch it.
• The dagger triggered a mechanism that sealed the entrance, and Wu Dali blamed Second Brother and Third Brother.
• Drainage pipes opened along the chamber walls and began flooding the trapped group.

Lin Chen led the group out of a chamber flooding with concentrated sulfuric acid by guiding them to a hidden passage, and they reached a circular tomb chamber containing eight ordinary coffins. Zhegu Yang judged it was not King Li’s main tomb, while Lin Chen sensed the new chamber was a trap and Wu Dali ordered the coffins opened.

• Wu Dali’s men were burned by concentrated sulfuric acid flooding the chamber, and Lin Chen identified the substance.
• Lin Chen directed Zhegu Yang and the others to dig a robbery tunnel through a stone wall with the pangolin, while the group shielded it from the acid.
• After the pangolin broke through, the group escaped through the tunnel, and Wu Dali collapsed its entrance with a grenade to block the acid.
• Lin Chen led everyone through a hidden passage to a circular chamber containing eight evenly spaced coffins.
• Zhegu Yang said the ordinary, identical coffins showed the chamber was not King Li’s main tomb, while Lin Chen sensed they were in danger.
• Wu Dali ordered his men to open all eight coffins.

Lin Chen and the others triggered a tomb mechanism that sealed the entrance and filled the chamber with concealed weapons. Lin Chen destroyed the mechanism’s power source, survived the explosion with the King Kong Umbrella, and left the chamber’s fate unresolved.

• Wu Dali’s men opened the coffins and triggered a mechanism that sealed the entrance and fired concealed weapons from the walls.
• The second-in-command was killed by venomous scorpions, while Zhegu Yang and the Banshan Sect brothers sheltered beneath their Tortoise Shell Shield.
• Lin Chen used his X-ray vision to locate the mechanism’s core bearing, powered by an underground river.
• Zhegu Yang gave Lin Chen explosives, and Lin Chen planted one on the bearing to stop the mechanism.
• The explosion blasted Lin Chen from the stone wall, but his King Kong Umbrella expanded and helped him land without serious injury.

Lin Chen and the survivors escaped the collapsing tomb and reached King Li’s main burial chamber, where the Moving Mountain men revealed they had been using Wu Dali’s crew as cannon fodder. Wu Dali and Fourth Brother confronted them, but Zhegu Yang urged everyone to cooperate because the way back was blocked.

• After the hidden-weapon barrage ended, Wu Dali found that Second Brother and most of his men had died or been injured.
• Third Brother twisted a golden wine cup, opening a secret exit just as the tomb began collapsing.
• Third Brother and two of Wu Dali’s men stayed behind to loot, but falling rocks blocked their path; the survivors fled through a tunnel and escaped the collapse.
• Lin Chen and the others entered a dark burial chamber, and Zhang Xiaofei lit a cauldron overhead with a flaming arrow, revealing King Li’s golden coffin.
• Zhang Xiaofei aimed his gun at Wu Dali, while Fourth Brother revealed TNT and a grenade; Wu Dali accused the Moving Mountain men of using his crew as cannon fodder.
• Lin Chen countered that both sides had used each other, and Zhegu Yang urged them to stop arguing because the routes behind them were blocked.

Lin Chen and Zhegu Yang realized the chamber was not the main burial chamber, but Wu Dali’s men opened the Golden Coffin anyway. A Golden Giant Scorpion emerged and attacked, leaving everyone scrambling to escape.

• Wu Dali agreed to divide any treasure among himself, Zhegu Yang, and Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen noticed his quest to find the main burial chamber remained unfinished and suspected the chamber was not the right one.
• Wu Dali insisted on opening the Golden Coffin despite Zhegu Yang’s warning, and Guan Xiao lit a candle in the southeast corner.
• The candle went out as Wu Dali’s men opened the coffin and found a golden mass instead of a corpse.
• A lackey struck the mass with a shovel, and a Golden Giant Scorpion burst out and sent him flying.
• Zhegu Yang recognized the creature and shouted for everyone to run.

The Golden Giant Scorpion slaughtered Wu Dali’s men, and Lin Chen stayed behind to shield Wu Dali and Fourth Brother while they fled. A system quest forced Lin Chen to kill the scorpion, and as he struggled against its attacks, Zhegu Yang and Zhang Xiaofei returned with weapons.

• The Golden Giant Scorpion released poison and killed several of Wu Dali’s men despite their machine-gun fire.
• Lin Chen knocked the scorpion aside and urged Wu Dali and Fourth Brother to escape with Zhegu Yang’s group.
• The system gave Lin Chen a quest to kill the Golden Giant Scorpion, preventing him from simply fleeing.
• The scorpion battered Lin Chen with its pincers and tail, sending him and the King Kong Umbrella flying.
• Zhegu Yang and Zhang Xiaofei rushed back toward Lin Chen while he faced the scorpion.

Lin Chen gambled on injuring the Golden Giant Scorpion by throwing a grenade into its mouth, hoping to force it to use its Inner Core to heal. The blast wounded the scorpion and knocked Lin Chen unconscious, but Zhegu Yang found him alive as the scorpion retreated to recover.

• Zhegu Yang explained that the Golden Giant Scorpion might use its Inner Core to heal an injury, exposing the core to attack.
• Zhegu Yang, Zhang Xiaofei, and Lin Chen split up and fired at the scorpion to distract it.
• Lin Chen rushed the scorpion while Zhegu Yang and Zhang Xiaofei covered him, then slid past its pincers.
• Lin Chen threw an M39 Egg Grenade into the scorpion's open mouth, and the blast wounded it and sent him flying.
• The scorpion screamed and fled toward a corner to heal, while Zhegu Yang feared Lin Chen was dead.
• Zhegu Yang found Lin Chen's pulse and breathing, and Lin Chen soon woke up with only pain throughout his body.

Lin Chen and the others killed the Golden Giant Scorpion and searched for a mechanism in the tomb. The chapter ended when they found a grid-like Bagua Diagram inside the Golden Coffin.

• Lin Chen found the injured Golden Giant Scorpion behind a stone platform and knocked its Inner Core out, then stored it away.
• Zhegu Yang and Zhang Xiaofei joined Lin Chen, and their gunfire and grenades helped bring down the scorpion.
• Lin Chen fired at the fallen Golden Giant Scorpion until it died, completing his mission.
• After the group found no mechanisms, Lin Chen suggested searching the Golden Coffin because it had concealed the scorpion.
• Zhang Xiaofei and the others looked inside the Golden Coffin and found a grid-like Bagua Diagram.

Lin Chen deciphered the Bagua mechanism and led the group into King Li’s main burial chamber, where he read a mural revealing the tomb’s history, the Revival Pills, and the origin of Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste. The group had reached the chamber, but Lin Chen still needed to find three medicinal ingredients.

• Lin Chen identified the Gate of Life and pressed the button for the Hexagram of Oppression, opening the hidden passage.
• The group entered the main burial chamber, and the system announced that Lin Chen had completed the two-day Main Quest.
• Lin Chen found a Terran Script mural and explained that King Li had taken over an earlier Han Dynasty burial chamber and had it remodeled with the help of eighteen Terrans.
• Lin Chen read that the Terrans used meteorites to cultivate giant creatures and had created three Revival Pills, but King Li had been dead too long for them to work.
• Lin Chen discovered that the mural credited Hua Tianyou, a descendant of Hua Tuo, with devising Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste for severe spinal cord injuries.

Lin Chen and Zhegu Yang opened the crystal coffin and found the Revival Pills and the three medicinal ingredients Lin Chen sought. As the group searched for an exit, Fourth Brother pried open the Golden Coffin, and an eerie gust extinguished the southeast candle.

• Lin Chen read that Hua Tianyou had buried three medicinal ingredients and a prescription with King Li, then joined Zhegu Yang in opening the crystal coffin.
• Zhegu Yang found the Revival Pills, while Lin Chen discovered Five-Edged Head, Long-Mouthed Fox Skin, and Six-Yellow Wuru in an ancient medicine chest and completed his main quest.
• Zhegu Yang proposed that the group search for a hidden passage, and Wu Dali’s men filled large bags with treasure despite Lin Chen warning them not to be greedy.
• After the group failed to find an exit, Fourth Brother and two of Wu Dali’s men pried open the Golden Coffin, and an eerie gust blew out the candle.

Lin Chen and the others defeated the corpse monster, opened the exit, and escaped the Tomb of King Li. Wu Dali was buried in a rockslide after refusing to abandon his stolen treasures, while Lin Chen took a meteorite and gave Lei Zi one million as compensation.

• Lin Chen teamed up with Zhegu Yang and Zhang Xiaofei to decapitate the corpse monster, then opened the floor passage by pressing the Bagua Diagram.
• Lin Chen found a meteorite in the corpse monster’s clothes and stored it before following the group out of the tomb.
• The cave began to collapse outside, and a falling boulder crushed Wu Dali’s last subordinate along with his treasures.
• Wu Dali refused to discard his heavy sacks and was buried in the rockslide while Lei Zi escaped and mourned him.
• Lin Chen transferred one million to Lei Zi as compensation for helping him find the tomb.

After returning to Donghai City, Lin Chen received an enhanced sense of smell and mastered the Miraculous Disguise Technique. He reunited with Ru Mei, Ru Ying, and Jue Wei, then said he would go meet his girlfriend.

• Zhegu Yang gave Lin Chen one of the Revival Pills before their group parted ways.
• Lin Chen returned to his villa using the Teleportation Gate and claimed the system's quest rewards.
• The system enhanced Lin Chen's nose to a top-tier police dog nose, and Lin Chen tested it before switching it off.
• Lin Chen opened the mysterious gift pack and mastered the Miraculous Disguise Technique.
• Lin Chen returned to the living room, where Ru Mei and Ru Ying welcomed him and massaged him.
• Jue Wei greeted Lin Chen and offered to cook, but he said he was going to meet his girlfriend.

Lin Chen visited his father with Qin Xueqing and discovered an intruder beside Lin Huai’s hospital bed, though the man escaped by jumping from the sixth floor. Lin Chen told his father he had found three more ingredients for the healing paste, leaving seven to find.

• Ru Mei asked Lin Chen to come home early, but Qin Xueqing called and invited him over.
• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing brought fruit to visit Lin Huai at the hospital.
• Lin Chen saw a black-clad man beside Lin Huai through the ward door, and the man escaped through a window.
• Lin Chen kicked open the door and found the nurse and Lin Huai asleep; he suspected someone had deliberately caused them to fall asleep.
• Lin Chen told Lin Huai that he had found three more ingredients for the Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste and that seven remained.