Chapter 18: The Millennium Mystery, Immortality
Just as the jade bed mechanism activated and arrows suddenly shot out, Su Mo suddenly dashed to Little Brother’s side in one leap, drew the Frost Moon Sword, and directly shattered the several arrows in front of him.
Little Brother looked at Su Mo with lingering fear, a trace of gratitude appearing in his eyes.
If not for Su Mo, he would at least have been struck by arrows at this moment,
The mechanism arrows in ancient tombs usually carry deadly poison. Even with the Kirin Bloodline in his body, after being hit by the arrows and poison, it would be impossible to save him.
“Thanks!”
Little Brother was as terse as ever, only saying the two words “thanks,”
But in his words, there was already a bit more respect and gratitude toward Su Mo.
As a Zhang Family Member, finding the Ghost Seal was both to guard the Queen Mother of the West and the ultimate secret, and also to find many of his own memories. Therefore, he had pretended to chase Fatty earlier, wanting to reach under the Nine-headed Cypress first, not deliberately deceiving Su Mo.
Su Mo had helped him once in the waterway, so he no longer had any previous doubts about Su Mo in his heart.
Moreover, Su Mo had just saved his life at this moment!
At this time, Fatty suddenly jumped up from under the jade bed.
That white gauze female corpse had somehow turned into clinging to his back, her hands wrapped around his neck, tightly entwining it like silk threads.
His eyes were full of madness, and he suddenly lunged fiercely at Uncle Wu San nearby.
Uncle Wu San was startled and quickly jumped aside, cursing loudly:
“Dead Fatty, have you gone mad!”
Fatty made strange gurgling sounds from his mouth but did not reply, still lunging fiercely at him.
Uncle Wu San hurriedly circled around the jade bed to behind Su Mo and Little Brother:
“This Fatty has gone mad!”
As he spoke, Fatty had already pounced in front of Su Mo, his hands reaching to grab at Su Mo’s neck.
His hand had just reached in front of Su Mo when Su Mo grabbed the pair of hands of the female corpse on his neck.
Crack!
The female corpse’s hands wrapped around Fatty’s neck were instantly snapped off by Su Mo, then yanked off Fatty’s body and thrown onto the jade bed.
The female corpse landed on the bed and was just about to rise again when Su Mo suddenly thrust his sword into its heart, piercing it straight through.
A thick burst of Corpse Qi sprayed out from its wound, then its body rapidly withered and shriveled at a visible speed. In a moment, its skin became yellow and wrinkled like dried leaves.
As the Corpse Qi leaked from the female corpse, Fatty gradually came to his senses, but his neck already had two bluish bruises from the female corpse’s grip.
If they had been even a little later in freeing her hands from his neck, he would probably have been strangled to death by now.
Su Mo used the Great Yin Meditation Technique to carefully examine the bronze fox-faced corpse and the female corpse from top to bottom, but found no sign of a Corpse Pill in them, and could not help feeling somewhat disappointed.
These two corpses apparently were not zombies in the common sense, so they had not nurtured a Corpse Pill.
Although they had been dead for over a thousand years, they could still release the Round Light Technique when triggered to rise by a living person, showing they were extremely eerie.
Fatty glared at the female corpse with gritted teeth:
“Damn it, this female zombie must really have taken a liking to your fat grandpa, actually clinging to me and not letting go!”
Uncle Wu San could not help laughing:
“Yeah, she wants to keep you here for eternal love, but the real owner of this fox face probably wouldn’t agree. How about you two duel again?”
“Cut it out, I think you two are a better match!”
Although Fatty had suffered repeated setbacks, he did not yield verbally at all. After retorting to Uncle San, he lowered his head and kept poking at that Eight-Layered Treasure Box with the bronze key he had dug out from the female corpse’s mouth.
After the bronze key was inserted into the lock and twisted twice, the Eight-Layered Treasure Box made a click, then split open from the middle into eight petals.
But inside it was completely empty!
Fatty could not help feeling disappointed:
“Holy crap, this female corpse treated it like a treasure and held it in her arms. I thought there was something good inside, but it turns out it’s empty!”
Little Brother and Uncle Wu San saw that the Eight-Layered Treasure Box was actually empty, and could not help showing disappointment on their faces.
They had originally thought the Ghost Seal was in the Eight-Layered Treasure Box, but it turned out not to be here.
Su Mo, however, turned his gaze to the Nine-headed Cypress behind.
This female corpse on the jade bed was probably King Lu Shang’s beloved consort.
And this bronze fox-faced corpse should be the Iron Masked Man who helped King Lu Shang take over King Mu of Zhou’s mausoleum by force.
This Lu Wang Palace was actually not originally King Lu Shang’s tomb, but King Mu of Zhou’s!
Legend has it that back then, King Mu of Zhou rode in a chariot of eight splendid horses driven by Zaofu westward to the Kunlun Mountains, where he met the Queen Mother of the West.
In the Yao Pool, the Queen Mother of the West entertained King Mu of Zhou lavishly. Before his departure, she gave him a pill of immortality.
However, this immortality pill had side effects. After a certain time, he had to use a special method to enter a dormant state; otherwise, the Corpse Beetles in the pill would enter his brain, turning him into a mindless thing like a walking corpse.
The Forbidden Woman in the South China Sea Underwater Tomb and the Golmud sanatorium is the product transformed after eating the Corpse Beetle Pill and having the Corpse Beetles enter the brain!
And if the dormancy was suddenly interrupted after entering it, he would turn into a Blood Corpse.
Only after dormancy in the Jade Coffin Armor for a period, shedding skin every five hundred years, and the body undergoing several Mortal Sheddings and rebirths to offset the side effects of the Corpse Beetle Pill, could he be reborn!
King Mu of Zhou lived to 105 years old and finally died a natural death, with his burial place being a matter of much debate.
In fact, he did not die, but hid himself in the Jade Coffin Armor in dormancy to pass the long dormancy period, and his true mausoleum is in the Lu Wang Palace!
In the Warring States Period, the state of Lu produced King Lu Shang. Once while tomb raiding, he killed a giant python and obtained a Ghost Seal from its belly, allowing him to command Ghost Soldiers and thereby help Lu state in wars for many years, establishing unparalleled merits.
Then, King Lu Shang met the Iron Masked Man, who told him that in ancient times, King Mu of Zhou had a piece of Jade Coffin Armor, and wearing it could grant immortality.
King Lu Shang thus searched everywhere for King Mu of Zhou’s mausoleum and finally found this Western Zhou imperial tomb in this mountain. He then released King Mu of Zhou who was hiding in the Jade Coffin Armor, turned him into a Blood Corpse, and suppressed him in a stone coffin.
Then he killed everyone involved in this incident, left the Iron Masked Man and his sacrificial beloved consort on the jade bed, and prepared to wear the Jade Coffin Armor himself to replace King Mu of Zhou and enjoy the power of immortality!
In the original work, Little Brother said that the one who actually replaced King Mu of Zhou and wore the Jade Coffin Armor was the Iron Masked Man.
This person was proficient in Qimen Eight Trigrams Feng Shui divination techniques and could be called extraordinarily wise. The reason he guided King Lu Shang to rob King Mu of Zhou’s tomb was for himself to achieve immortality.
After King Lu Shang removed the Jade Coffin Armor from King Mu of Zhou’s body and suppressed him as a Blood Corpse, the Iron Masked Man killed King Lu Shang, put a bronze fox mask on his face, and left the Round Light Technique on him and his beloved consort.
But regardless of whether the bronze fox-faced corpse on the jade bed is the Iron Masked Man or King Lu Shang, the true coffin is not here and can only be in the Nine-headed Cypress tree!
