Chapter 16: Kirin Bloodline, Longevity Body
After Su Mo finished speaking, he immediately lifted his foot and walked forward.
A Ning was afraid of those Corpse Beetles and could only follow him step by step, not daring to leave his side at all.
She had brought an expedition team over, carrying a lot of the latest equipment, but she hadn’t expected to suffer a crushing defeat right upon arriving at Lu Wang Palace. At this moment, she had even lost the gun in her hand.
Seeing Su Mo, she finally knew what it meant that there are people beyond people and skies beyond skies.
He walked over bare-handed, without even unsheathing the ancient sword on his back, and directly kicked away two giant Corpse Beetles, while scaring off the other Corpse Beetles. This ability was simply unbelievable to her.
Although she was full of clever schemes, at this moment in front of Su Mo, she didn’t dare to have any ulterior motives and honestly followed behind him.
In Lu Wang Palace, the tomb passages extended in all directions, and each tomb chamber had different entrances and exits, making it look like a labyrinth.
But Su Mo used the Great Yin Meditation Technique and, just by sensing the flow of qi in the tomb, found the correct path. In no time, the way ahead suddenly opened up, revealing a huge cave.
This cave seemed to exist within the mountain’s belly, with the cave ceiling reaching nearly a hundred meters high, and cracks at the top faintly letting in moonlight.
Sparse and dim moonlight sprinkled down from the rock fissures, outlining the huge contours of the cave. In the middle of the cave, a massive shadowy figure was vaguely visible.
It was a gigantic strange tree, appearing at least ten stories tall. The trunk was so thick that several people couldn’t wrap their arms around it, with bark like mottled dark dragon scales, and countless vines like giant pythons coiled around the trunk. Many vines hung down from the crown into the air, with grayish-white figures dangling from the ends, looking like human bodies.
A mountain wind poured in from the top of the cave, causing the branches and vines to sway slowly, like countless pale wind chimes drifting, producing a eerie rustling sound!
Su Mo knew this was the Nine-headed Cypress deep in Lu Wang Palace. Although he was quite shocked in his heart, his face remained calm and unruffled.
A Ning behind him saw the Nine-headed Cypress and was so startled that her face turned slightly pale.
Su Mo then cast his gaze toward the base of the Nine-headed Cypress, where he saw a flight of steps leading from the lower tomb passage to under the tree.
Directly below the Nine-headed Cypress was a stone platform, upon which lay a corpse covered with white gauze.
At that moment, a light sound suddenly came from the distance.
Su Mo turned his head to look and saw Uncle Wu San, Little Brother, and Fatty poking their heads out from a tomb passage in the mountain wall on one side. The three hadn’t emerged from the same tomb passage, but they had all arrived here almost at the same time.
Fatty looked at Su Mo slyly, while Uncle Wu San’s face showed a trace of astonishment, then he forced a smile toward Su Mo.
Little Brother remained expressionless, still with that poker-faced look.
Su Mo looked at the three and smiled faintly, then turned back and said:
“Let’s go down!”
A Ning was stunned and glanced at the ground over ten meters below, then pulled out a coil of rope from behind her.
Before she could unfold the rope, Su Mo suddenly extended his long arm and directly grabbed her waist.
A Ning was instantly held in his arms. She struggled in resistance for a moment but then stopped moving, as if knowing that resisting would be useless. Feeling his breath, her face involuntarily flushed slightly.
Su Mo looked down at her and smiled faintly. With his left arm around A Ning, he suddenly leaped forward.
A Ning couldn’t help but let out a soft cry, feeling her body instantly enter free fall, plummeting downward.
Just as they were about to hit the cave bottom, Su Mo suddenly pressed his right hand on a protrusion in the mountain wall, stopping the downward momentum, then released it and leaped down again.
In the blink of an eye, the two landed safely at the cave bottom.
A Ning’s feet safely touched the ground, and she finally relaxed, though her heart was still pounding. When she looked up at Su Mo, the expression in her eyes had become much more complex.
Su Mo released her waist and turned to walk toward the base of the tree.
A Ning’s eyes flickered, and she followed after him.
Over there, Uncle Wu San and the other two saw Su Mo reach the cave bottom in an instant. They hurriedly took out their rope and slowly climbed down from the tomb passage. By the time they reached the bottom, Su Mo was already in front of the stone platform.
On this stone platform lay two corpses, one male and one female. The male corpse wore armor and had a bronze mask with a fox face on it. The female corpse was draped in white gauze, lying peacefully, and her face even had a somewhat pretty look.
Su Mo glanced at the bronze-masked fox-faced male corpse and reached to tear off a black armor piece from its waist.
The black armor piece had the four large characters “Yin Xi Bao Di” engraved on it.
It was exactly Kirin’s Gall!
【Kirin’s Gall: Condensed from the blood of the Kirin mythical beast. After consumption, it increases vital energy cultivation and brings extremely strong changes to the host’s physique!】
Under the Great Yin Meditation Technique, the properties of the Kirin’s Gall quickly appeared before Su Mo’s eyes.
Su Mo saw the property text in front of him and immediately swallowed the Kirin’s Gall without hesitation.
Although this Tomb Raider World had many grave goods underground, ever since Su Mo obtained heaven-defying comprehension and embarked on the Human Immortal Martial Way, his goal was no longer these gold and silver treasures.
What he wanted was to acquire more cultivation, then rapidly improve himself, even reaching Mortal Shedding to Become Immortal, See God Not Bad, and ultimately the realm of eternal life!
Compared to these, gold and silver treasures were nothing but rotten wood and filth!
Therefore, he had first entered the cave to obtain the Kirin’s Gall.
Now that he had obtained the Kirin’s Gall and seen its properties clearly, he had no hesitation at all!
As the Kirin’s Gall entered his mouth, a taste carrying intense bloody scent exploded on his taste buds, then quickly entered his blood.
Su Mo’s blood began to boil again, like adding a great tide to a river.
Moreover, this scorching hot blood tide carried a strange power.
Like the Kirin mythical beast from ancient barbaric times suddenly merging into his body from thousands of years of heavy history, galloping through his blood and stirring up tidal blood surges!
Boom boom…
Deep within his body, explosions sounded from time to time.
This Kirin Bloodline Power triggered a devastating explosion each time it flowed through a meridian or acupoint with the blood!
And the Kirin Bloodline Power quickly circulated through his entire body with the blood flow.
Su Mo felt every cell in his body rapidly injected with a brand-new power.
This power seemed to come from barbaric times, carrying a ferocious and unruly intent, completely unbound by the rules of this world, and capable of bringing destructive power to it!
Along with this power came the quenching and rebirth of his muscles and body!
Su Mo felt his entire body as if soaked in scorching hot springs, making his skin faintly red, and even his eyes tinged with red!
It was as if every cell in his body had been reborn, completely different from before!
“You consumed Kirin’s Gall, obtained Kirin Bloodline Power, and thereby improved your physique, gaining the Longevity Body!”
“Current lifespan increased by fifty years!”
