"After that, the person told me some things and taught me a very mysterious method for breaking through traps. Then, after he finished explaining, he patted me on the shoulder, and I immediately woke up from the dream."

"When I woke up, my head was groggy. It was still dark outside; after all, I hadn't fully sobered up from the hangover. I wasn't sure if it was real or just a dream. But as soon as I took off my shirt, the next second, I sobered up completely."

"On my shoulder was a pitch-black handprint, my left shoulder. In the dream... the strange man in the dream patted my left shoulder!"

"I knew he was back, back to find me to fulfill his promise."

"I didn't dare delay any longer. I immediately started packing, left before dawn, and went to the blind Tuotuo Temple in the barren mountains west of the city. Sure enough, I ran into four people there."

"We didn't greet each other, but when our eyes met, I knew they were the right four people."

"Because things were strange, none of us dared to use our real names, so we cupped our fists and exchanged aliases. One was nicknamed Xiaoyao Jiang, and the other three were Fanjian Long, Dingmen Liang, and Huashetou. My alias was Luosha Shou."

Yuan Shanyuan narrowed his eyes, "All involved in shady dealings."

Liu Xueyi's expression was a bit awkward, and then he nodded.

Jiang Cheng knew what Huashetou referred to: someone who had connections to sell antiques and cultural relics. Some evil or unorthodox antiques could only find suitable buyers through them. These people were all eloquent and could talk the dead back to life.

Fanjian Long and Dingmen Liang were simpler: the former was a river pirate, and the latter was a mountain bandit.

As for Xiaoyao Jiang and Luosha Shou, Jiang Cheng had never heard of them. Fortunately, Li Bai spoke up in time: "Xiaoyao Jiang is responsible for finding the entrance to ancient tombs. Because the tomb door and the tomb passage beyond are full of traps, this person needs to be very skilled, hence the name Xiaoyao Jiang."

"As for Luosha Shou, they specialize in hand techniques. The best burial objects are usually placed next to the tomb owner. In some high-level tombs, the tomb owner's coffin is full of traps. Opening it requires a whole set of complicated techniques. A slight mistake could send you to see the King of Hell, so they took a name that wards off evil: Luosha Shou."

"It is said that highly skilled Luosha Shou can insert just two fingers into the coffin and strip the tomb owner of all their treasures, even their clothes and the jade in their mouth."

The fatty nodded as he listened, looking at Liu Xueyi, thinking, no wonder this kid's two fingers were so deeply infected with corpse poison. So that's the kind of work he did. Luo Tianhe was indeed an old hand; he guessed almost everything before Liu Xueyi even announced his alias.

"We walked for a whole day before reaching Wolong Town, then went into the mountains that night. Xiaoyao Jiang led us. He was also a man, older than all four of us, probably... probably in his early sixties."

"He had a gloomy face the whole way. We weren't familiar with each other, and we didn't communicate unless necessary. The atmosphere in the team was terrifyingly oppressive."

"After entering the mountains, Xiaoyao Jiang led us to a depression. I know a little about feng shui; it was indeed a treasure land, but it had been forcibly transformed into a Kunlong Ju (Trapped Dragon Formation) by an expert."

"The terrain was low-lying, with a cliff in front and a big river behind. The yin energy it absorbed was blocked here and couldn't escape. To put it bluntly, it was a place to nurture yin."

"Building a tomb here, the tomb owner would be assaulted by yin energy and would never have peace. Over time, strange things would inevitably happen."

"It is said that the name Wolong Town comes from a jiao (aquatic dragon) that failed to enter the sea and transform into a dragon, and was instead trapped to death in the mountain stream. I think this is true. That jiao must have sensed the yin and baleful qi in the ancient tomb, which changed its direction. It originally intended to seize the tomb owner's luck for its own use, but it was not skilled enough and was trapped by the yin energy near the tomb, struck by lightning, and killed in the mountain stream."

"Even though we saw that there was a problem with this tomb, we... we had no choice but to bite the bullet. Fortunately, the following events went surprisingly smoothly. Xiaoyao Jiang quickly opened the entrance to the tomb and eliminated the traps in the tomb passage."

Speaking of this, Liu Xueyi showed a strange expression and lowered his voice, "Although I could feel that this Xiaoyao Jiang was very capable, I absolutely didn't believe that he could find the tomb entrance so easily, let alone eliminate the traps. So I'm sure he had either been here before, or... or he had the same experience as me, and the person in the dream told him!"

"After successfully opening the tomb door, we went in with trepidation. The burial objects inside almost scared us silly. Huashetou was an expert in appraisal. He said that he had never seen at least half of the things inside, and some were treasures that only existed in ancient books. He told us to keep our hands to ourselves, not to touch anything, and especially not to move anything. The things inside were very evil, and with our lives, we couldn't suppress them."

"After Huashetou walked around the entire circle, he made marks in his notebook, and then asked Fanjian Long and Dingmen Liang to move the marked items out one by one in the order he had written."

"These two were all strong and sturdy men with fierce looks and heavy baleful qi. They didn't say much. Each of them offered three joss sticks for extending their lives on their shoulders and then began to move the items out one by one."

"This process lasted a long time, at least two hours. They moved dozens of boxes of things in and out, as well as some strange things. We couldn't even say what they were for. In the end, they even moved out a few burial coffins."

"When all of this was almost done, it was time to open the main coffin. This was my job. The moment I saw the main coffin, I suddenly had a bad feeling, because this coffin was very strange. It was actually suspended in mid-air by eight huge iron chains."

"And it was vertical, hung upside down, with the tomb owner's head down and feet up."

"This was absolutely the greatest of taboos. It violated almost all the taboos of tombs. At that time, I knew that this tomb was a great and ominous tomb. Even if we could get out alive, we would inevitably suffer a backlash."

"What's even stranger is that the coffin itself was also bound by layers of huge iron chains, as if they were worried that something inside would run out."

"But what could be inside? Only the tomb owner, this dead person!"

"I suddenly didn't dare to go up and open the coffin, because I was worried... worried about what I would see inside after opening the coffin. I was afraid, I was... really afraid, but we couldn't leave without opening the coffin."

"In the end, I gritted my teeth and climbed up the iron chains. The mechanism on the coffin was very ingenious and was integrated with the iron chains outside. Originally, I couldn't have broken it with my skills, but the method that the man in the dream... the man in the dream taught me just happened to be useful."

"No, what he taught me was to break this mother-son interlocking lock, to let me open this coffin!"