Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen killed the men who attacked him, then took Tang Wanqing back to the city and received rewards for completing his system tasks. The chapter ended with him gaining Weakness Perception, adding a Bentley Azure to his Mobile Garage, and checking his attributes.

• Lin Chen captured Zhen Yi, learned the Sihai Gang had sent the attackers, and killed him and the fat man before storing the corpses and keeping their silver daggers.
• Lin Chen released Tang Wanqing and told her that the attackers had fled and that his storage space was experimental technology.
• Lin Chen carried Tang Wanqing back toward the city, completing his system task when they reached the mall entrance.
• Lin Chen returned to the Tang residence with Tang Wanqing and opened his rewards, gaining Weakness Perception and a Bentley Azure.
• Lin Chen checked his personal attributes and saw that his system was Beginner Level 5.

Lin Chen visited Liu Yan at the Five Element People's base, where Liu Yan gave him an experimental laser weapon called the Grip Dual-Blade Light Sword. After Lin Chen extended it to its full length and tested its cutting power, he learned how dangerous and concealable it was.

• Liu Yan told Lin Chen that the Five Element People would leave for the Jiangsong Li Family Tomb early the next morning.
• Lin Chen said goodbye to Tang Wanqing and Old Master Tang, then used the Teleportation Gate to reach the Five Element People's base.
• Liu Yan showed Lin Chen a hilt designed to activate a double-bladed laser sword through grip strength.
• Lin Chen squeezed the hilt and extended the light sword to its two-meter maximum, startling Liu Yan.
• Lin Chen tested the blade on a wooden stool, and Liu Yan explained its cutting power, concealability, and lack of a traceable duplicate.

Lin Chen recruited Lightning to help lead Tiandihui and prepared to travel with Liu Yan to the Jiangsong Li Family Tomb. A new system mission sent him after the Sihai Gang and into the tomb’s main burial chamber, and Liu Yan revealed a vehicle modified for travel on land, sea, and air.

• Liu Yan warned Lin Chen that Jin Chenglong might turn against him if he tried to poach her before entering the tomb, and Lin Chen agreed to wait.
• Lin Chen welcomed Lightning to Tiandihui, introduced him to Xu Fu and Li You, and said he hoped Lightning would replace Xu Fu as boss within six months.
• After spending the night at the Five Element People, Lin Chen received missions to become enemies with the Sihai Gang and enter the Jiangsong Li Family Tomb’s main burial chamber within two days.
• Liu Yan told Lin Chen that the others had already left for Jiangsong and took him to her garage, where she transformed a modified vehicle into a supercar for their trip.

Lin Chen and Liu Yan tested the modified car’s extreme speed on the highway and discussed advanced systems and speculative technologies. They reached the Jiangsong Li Family Tomb, where the Five Element People's tomb-raiding team was camped, and Liu Yan explained that Henglin could only be entered at the right time.

• Liu Yan accelerated the modified car to a reported 450 kilometers per hour, while its scanning system tracked obstacles and could steer automatically.
• Lin Chen asked Liu Yan about artificial intelligence, skill transmission, Teleportation Gates, and storage space, and Liu Yan explained how such technologies might work.
• Liu Yan said she might seriously consider joining Lin Chen because they shared an interest in science.
• Lin Chen and Liu Yan arrived near the Jiangsong Li Family Tomb and learned that the Five Element People's team was camped about 500 meters ahead.
• Liu Yan explained that Henglin’s trees grew sideways and that they had to wait for the right time to enter, then asked Lin Chen whether he wanted the legendary or scientific explanation for the forest.

Lin Chen joined the Five Element People as they prepared to explore Henglin, where unusual vegetation and underground gas hinted at a mystery connected to his earlier discoveries. As they crossed the forest during a brief break in the gas, the Sihai Gang followed behind and planned to kill them and seize their loot.

• Liu Yan told Lin Chen that researchers had found a substance underground that might explain why Henglin’s vegetation grew outward and downward, and Lin Chen suspected it was connected to the mysterious Stone Book.
• Jin Chenglong explained that the Five Element People believed they had entered a fake tomb before and hoped Lin Chen could translate the writing and locate the real one.
• Yang Jian learned from Huang Hao that Lin Chen and the Five Element People were preparing to raid a tomb, then ordered Huang Hao to kill them and take their goods.
• Jin Chenglong told Lin Chen that Henglin’s underground Mysterious Gas halted for about twenty minutes every two hours, and the group entered the forest during that window.
• Lin Chen and the Five Element People crossed Henglin’s three-kilometer stretch before the gas returned.

Lin Chen and Liu Yan joined Jin Chenglong’s team in entering the Jiangsong Li Family Tomb to find its main burial chamber. Inside, they discovered that the Terran Script writing had vanished without disturbing the dusty walls, and Lin Chen stopped the team just as they were about to open the coffin.

• Liu Yan showed Lin Chen the hidden seam of the pyramid-shaped tomb door and gave him multifunctional glasses.
• Jin Chenglong ordered Little Bai and Little Bei to keep watch while the rest of the team prepared to enter.
• Huang Tao activated the mechanism, and thirty-four people entered the tomb with the vanguard leading the way.
• At the main burial chamber, Lin Chen and Liu Yan noticed that the Terran Script writing shown in earlier images had disappeared.
• Lin Chen found no signs that anyone had touched the dusty walls, and Jin Chenglong directed Huang Tao and the vanguard to open the coffin.
• Lin Chen produced a candle and lighter from his storage space and stopped them before they opened the coffin.

Lin Chen and the Five Element People opened a coffin despite his warning, awakening a powerful Golden Body Female Zombie that blinded everyone except him. Lin Chen fought to protect the others, but bullets could not pierce the zombie, and she turned her attention toward him.

• Lin Chen lit a candle by the coffin and warned the Five Element People to leave if it went out, but they dismissed his advice and opened the coffin.
• The candle went out, and a Golden Body Female Zombie rose from the coffin and blinded everyone with a flash of golden light.
• Lin Chen used his X-ray vision to see through the temporary blindness, took Jin Chenglong's gun, and blocked the zombie from attacking the armed men.
• Lin Chen exchanged punches with the zombie, whose strength and blazing-hot hand made her a dangerous opponent.
• Lin Chen fired three shots, but the bullets failed to pierce the zombie, which then focused on him and raised a glowing object in her hand.

Lin Chen fought a laser-equipped female zombie that proved to be a robot disguised as one. After identifying its weak points, he destroyed it and left Liu Yan curious about its construction and control system.

• The female zombie shot Lin Chen with a laser, so he warned everyone to lie flat while he drew his Grip Light Sword.
• Lin Chen dodged the zombie’s attacks and discovered that his sword could barely cut through its armored body.
• Lin Chen activated Weakness Perception and saw weak points on the zombie’s head and foot.
• Lin Chen swept the zombie off its feet and destroyed one mechanical leg with his Grip Light Sword.
• Lin Chen pierced the weak point on the zombie’s head, destroying it in a powerful explosion.
• Liu Yan recognized the remains as a complex robot and said they would need to study it to learn how it was made and controlled.

Lin Chen deduced that the tomb chamber could be part of a shifting system and found a hidden passage to the central shaft. He secretly took the female zombie’s body and continued deeper into the tomb with Liu Yan and the others.

• Lin Chen proposed that the tomb chamber might have moved, and his X-ray vision revealed twelve similar chambers arranged around a central shaft.
• Lin Chen found and pressed a concealed mechanism beneath the coffin, opening a stone door to a passage leading toward the central shaft.
• Lin Chen reassured Jin Chenglong that his knowledge of mechanisms came from past experience, then secretly stored the female zombie’s body.
• Liu Yan teased Lin Chen about running away, and he joked that he would wait until he found what he wanted before leaving.
• Lin Chen and Liu Yan talked as they followed the group farther into the passage.

Lin Chen opened another secret passage from the central bearing and led the group into the burial chamber they had visited before. He began reading the Terran Script on its walls, while Jin Chenglong asked him to share what it said.

• Lin Chen examined the twelve caves, found the one marked with writing, and activated its secret door by turning a pillar on the central bearing.
• Liu Yan gave Lin Chen a tomb-raiding suit and explained some of its functions before the group entered the passage.
• Huang Tao led everyone into the burial chamber, where Jin Chenglong and the others recognized it as the chamber from their earlier visit.
• Lin Chen identified the wall inscriptions as Terran Script and claimed he knew of it from an ancient book.
• Jin Chenglong asked Lin Chen to read the inscriptions aloud, and Liu Yan suspected he wanted to make sure Lin Chen did not keep anything important to himself.

Lin Chen read inscriptions describing the Terra Stones’ radiation and the hidden entrance to the Li Family Tomb’s main chamber, while noticing signs that someone had entered three years earlier. He opened the passage and led the team to a vast underground castle, where they stood above a cavern resembling a starry sky.

• Lin Chen read the tomb inscriptions and learned that five Terra Stones could emit radiation that caused hallucinations and mutations.
• Liu Yan recounted a science-fiction story about Planet Terra, but Lin Chen remained convinced the Terrans were real.
• Lin Chen warned the team to keep their suits sealed, learned they had about three hours of oxygen, and questioned whether anyone had entered the tomb before.
• Lin Chen triggered a mechanism in the coffin, opening a new door at the far end of the chamber.
• Lin Chen led the team through a long tunnel to an enormous underground cavern, where they discovered a castle-like palace beneath a starry-looking ceiling.

Lin Chen and Jin Chenglong’s team descended into the Underground Palace and crossed an underground river while heading for its main tomb chamber. They reached a massive gate labeled Lifeng Hall and prepared to enter.

• Jin Chenglong’s team descended a hundred meters into the Underground Palace using ropes and the suits’ jet devices.
• Lin Chen cautioned the group about the dangers, while Liu Yan explained the suits and offered him protective Tomb Raiding shoes, which he refused.
• Huang Tao’s scouts crossed a thigh-deep underground river and reported that the group could follow.
• Jin Chenglong and the others crossed the river and spotted a huge gate ahead.
• Huang Tao read the plaque above the gate as “Lifeng Hall,” and Jin Chenglong urged everyone to go inside.

Lin Chen and the Five Element People explored the ancient city beneath Lifeng Hall and discovered it might be the vanished Ice Palace. After mutant leeches attacked Old Sha and several others, Lin Chen removed them and warned the group about the palace’s dangerous radiation.

• Lin Chen recognized that the Underground Palace contained an ancient city, and Liu Bao recalled records of the vanished Ice Palace in northwestern Huaxia.
• A mutant leech burrowed into Old Sha, and Lin Chen used X-ray vision to spot dozens more attached to him.
• Lin Chen pierced the leeches with silver needles and pulled them from Old Sha while Huang Tao prepared medicine for his wounds.
• Lin Chen warned that the leeches might have come from the underground river, and the group checked each other and found leeches on several men.
• Lin Chen told everyone to cover up quickly because the Underground Palace might contain strong radiation.

Lin Chen and the Five Element People found the Ice Palace, where leeches killed six members of the group. Despite Lin Chen urging them to stay behind, Jin Chenglong led the remaining twenty-six people deeper inside, leaving two men to guard the bodies.

• Lin Chen sensed cold air ahead and guided the group to the Ice Palace.
• The group entered the palace, where Old Sha collapsed and died after leeches inside his body consumed his blood and organs.
• Lin Chen discovered leeches in Old Sha and warned that they had entered through bites; five more bitten members then collapsed and died.
• Jin Chenglong and Huang Tao rejected Lin Chen's suggestion that the others wait outside, while Liu Yan offered to accompany Lin Chen alone.
• Jin Chenglong left two men to guard the six bodies and led the remaining twenty-six people into the Ice Palace.

Lin Chen and the others were attacked by beasts that emerged from Ice Palace’s murals, and their supposedly protective suits failed as the group was slaughtered. After Liu Yan appeared to die, Lin Chen realized the scene was an illusion and stabbed himself with a silver needle to wake up.

• Liu Yan made the group inspect their tomb-raiding suits before they explored Ice Palace’s mural-covered halls.
• A piercing buzz sounded, and beasts carved on the walls came alive and attacked the group, killing one subordinate.
• The group’s suits were torn apart by the beasts, and Lin Chen killed a snow bear with his Grip Light Sword while the others fled.
• Lin Chen tried to escape with Liu Yan, but beasts killed Jin Chenglong and apparently tore Liu Yan away from him.
• Lin Chen recognized that the slaughter was unreal and stabbed himself in the philtrum with a silver needle to break the hallucination.

Lin Chen led the group through a hall where radiation and the murals had trapped them in a shared illusion, then guided them into a buried area beneath the Ice Palace. The group encountered a venomous Silver Ant, and Lin Chen warned that Liu Bao may have been bitten and could die within thirty seconds.

• Lin Chen realized radiation and the murals had caused the group’s shared illusion, woke everyone, and led them away from the murals.
• Liu Yan thanked Lin Chen for protecting the Five Element People, and they continued to the hall’s muddy final section.
• Lin Chen identified an emergency exit leading downward, and Jin Chenglong ordered the group down the long staircase toward the presumed tomb chamber.
• The group entered a sand-filled underground area, where Liu Bao discovered a large Silver Ant inside his boot.
• Lin Chen warned that the ant’s venom could stop Liu Bao’s heart within thirty seconds, while Jin Chenglong doubted him.

Lin Chen's warning about Liu Bao's Silver Ant bite went unheeded, and Liu Bao died after the venom suction device failed to remove enough toxin. When more men were bitten, Lin Chen ordered bloodletting and spotted a swarm of Silver Ants approaching, leaving the group preparing to defend themselves with kerosene.

• Lin Chen sealed Liu Bao's leg and urged bloodletting, but Jin Chenglong and Liu Bao chose to use the venom suction device instead.
• After the device stopped drawing out toxin, Lin Chen warned that some venom might remain, but Liu Bao insisted he was fine and Lin Chen unsealed his acupoints.
• Liu Bao's skin began to rot less than thirty seconds after the group resumed walking, and he collapsed and died as his body melted.
• Four more men revealed Silver Ant bites, so Lin Chen sealed their acupoints and directed the others to drain the blood from their feet.
• Lin Chen spotted Silver Ants crawling over the cave walls and told the group to form a kerosene circle while the four men finished bloodletting.

Lin Chen led the Five Element People through a swarm of Silver Ants and across a path of floating stones over a bottomless abyss. When the stones began collapsing beneath Liu Yan, Lin Chen saved him with a grappling gun, leaving them dangling against the cliff face.

• Lin Chen organized the group’s escape from the Silver Ants, led them through the swarm with his Grip Light Sword, and sealed the passage behind them with TNT.
• The group reached a cliff crossed by floating stones, and Lin Chen tested the path before guiding everyone across.
• As Liu Yan crossed last, the stones beneath him began falling, and Lin Chen leaped to grab him and fired a grappling gun at a nearby rock.
• Lin Chen and Liu Yan swung against the cliff wall, where Lin Chen took the impact on his back, while Jin Chenglong called to them from above.

Lin Chen led the group toward the main burial chamber after rescuing Liu Yan, but a swarm of giant red-eyed rats attacked while Jin Chenglong struggled to open a Bagua lock. Lin Chen worked on the lock as the rats rushed the group, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Lin Chen and the others pulled Liu Yan up from the cliff, and Lin Chen warned that creatures below had interfered with the stones' buoyancy.
• Lin Chen received a side quest to obtain Phoenix Robe Grass and Full River Yellow, then led the group onward.
• Jin Chenglong failed to open the Qimen Five Elements Bagua lock, so Lin Chen stepped in as strange animal noises approached.
• Huang Tao spotted giant red-eyed rats, and Jin Chenglong ordered the armed men to fire when the swarm charged.
• The rats appeared to vanish under gunfire, then revealed themselves again and rushed toward the group at high speed.

Lin Chen saved the Five Element People from mutated rats that lifted them against the cave ceiling, but three people died and three were seriously injured. At a crossroads near the main tomb chamber, Lin Chen chose a passage, though another member disputed his choice.

• Huang Tao ordered the group to fight the rats, which lifted everyone except Lin Chen and Liu Yan toward the ceiling and caused three people to die from pressure.
• Lin Chen explained how the rats’ buoyant force worked and asked Liu Yan for explosives.
• Lin Chen cut through the rats with his Grip Light Sword, rescued two trapped men, planted Liu Yan’s TNT, and ordered him to detonate it.
• The explosion killed the rats and dropped the others to the ground; Lin Chen found three people seriously injured, and the group fled as more rats approached.
• At a crossroads with five cave entrances, Lin Chen selected the first passage on the right, but Jin Chenglong challenged his choice.