Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 49 - 47: Sharp as an eagle and watchful as a wolf, yet up to no good; her willow-leaf eyebrows and moth-like eyes exude a murderous aura!

Chapter 49: Chapter 47: Sharp as an eagle and watchful as a wolf, yet up to no good; her willow-leaf eyebrows and moth-like eyes exude a murderous aura!

Time rewound to noon today.

Atop Beimang Mountain.

Leading the group were the Ma Brothers, reeking of corpse stench, and the Earth Scholar "Pangolin" Fan Zhang, whose presence was marred by a heavy scent of earth and blood.

A gang of bandits, who had come to lend a fist, successfully opened the first Consort Mausoleum using the array of nine subordinate burial sites determined by the landscape geomancy of "Strategist Bei" Lang Qi.

Within the nine officers of the Prince Mansion.

[Changshi] controlled the political affairs of the mansion; [Judge] was in charge of enforcing justice in legal matters, preventing abuse of power, and maintaining the country’s laws; [Dianshan] was responsible for the banquets of the prince, princes, guests, and sacrificial ceremonies;

[Ceremonial Place] oversaw sacrificial music and dances; [Treasure] took charge of the prince’s treasure and talismans; [Jishan] managed the teaching of rituals and ceremonies, dissemination of ancient sympathies and the great principles of the nation’s grace and justice, decreeing the prince to good deeds;

[Good Doctor] was in charge of medical affairs; [Ritual Officer] managed ceremonial arrangements; [Construction Director] was responsible for the repair and refurbishment of palaces and mansions.

Along with the [Vassal King] himself, they totaled ten.

They corresponded one-to-one with the Owl God, Competition, Seven Killings, Food God, Injuring Official, Robber, Side Wealth, Righteous Wealth, Official, and True Seal, the ten deities of numerology.

This Consort Mausoleum, being the farthest from the Owl God Tomb and nearest to Daling Village, represented "Righteous Wealth" among the ten numerological deities.

After being forced to learn the secret of "Tomb Raiding," and faced with the very real lethal threat of the Owl God Tomb, they had no choice but to fight with all their might to survive.

"This ’Owl God Snatching Food Array’ is protected by nine layers of entanglement, like nine layers of feathers, with nine subordinate Consort Mausoleums placed within, heavily guarding the Royal Mausoleum of the Yili King at Bird Beak Slope.

It is a rare treasure spot in the world.

The Fan Family has been tomb raiding for generations, and we have seldom encountered such a treasure spot."

In a script titled "Shaking Dragon Scripture," written based on the nine stars’ fortunes and misfortunes, a secret technique is recorded: "In seeking the dragon, one hundred thousand looks to the entangled mountains, each layer of entanglement is a barrier. If you find Honesty accompanied by Greedy Wolf within, there princes and officials shall reside."

The "Dragon Vein" of a tomb is actually the main vein of a mountain range, and the mountain range will have many branches, which are called "entangled mountains."

The entangled mountains serve as the guardians of the dragon vein, and the more entangled mountains there are, the more guardians the dragon vein has. The more guardians, the richer and more auspicious the dragon energy will be.

These entangled mountain guardians can also be called wings.

Layer by layer, these wings combined with Bird Beak Slope, where the Owl God Tomb is located, form a giant vulture that looms menacingly over the whole of Beimang Mountain and the surrounding eight counties!

Together with the Yili King Zhou Yi’s innate "Owl God Snatching Food" life chart, it is possible to have the terrifying ability to swallow living beings for two hundred years.

Bang!

Fan Zhang, armed with a gleaming Luoyang Shovel and leveraging his non-human colossal physique, successfully created an entrance into the Underground Palace.

This "Pangolin" Fan Zhang, an Earth Scholar from the southwestern province of Zhu, practiced a third-rate military skill called the "Weasel Military Technique," but specialized in tunneling.

It was said that his ancestors had fortuitously excavated the tomb of a Magician and obtained the inheritance of a Divine Power Skill.

They were also cursed to suffer an early death, with each descendent destined to become stiff and lifeless after the age of thirty.

Generation after generation of the Fan Family had to continue searching for large tombs, hoping to find a way to break the curse.

Therefore, with his family’s deep knowledge in tomb exploration, Fan Zhang was second to none.

His presence here was not for the gold and silver in the tomb, but to persuade Master Ge, a Red Seal Mage from a sect, to help him break the curse hanging over him.

"Given my family’s technique, this tunnel is almost certainly located right above the main burial chamber’s coffin. The Ma Brothers can go ahead and get started," Fan Zhang, a supremely confident Earth Scholar who climbed out of the tunnel, stepped back and gave way to the Ma Brothers.

The two brothers, with disheveled hair, blue skin, and red eyes, resembled the fully-powered Mystic Armor Guard Zheng Yong.

This was because they had practiced a very sinister Daoist Military Skill called the "Iron Armor Martial Art."

However, unlike other martial arts where the practitioner actively trains, this particular martial art... trains the practitioner involuntarily.

It involved burying someone alive in a willow coffin, deep underground where the sinister energy was strong, with only a bamboo tube for airing, and dousing them daily with a secretly-prepared medicine and talismanic water.

This process had to continue for several months, even years.

It was said that years ago, when the Evil Mage wanted to create an "Iron Armor Corpse," he abducted hundreds of strong men, but in the end, only these two brothers succeeded.

After the brothers became prominent in the "Iron Armor Martial Art," although they could no longer have offspring, they became incapable of feeling pain, gained immense strength, became tough as steel, and far surpassed ordinary martial artists.

Their lifespan had been greatly extended, their minds were no different from ordinary people, though their reactions were slightly sluggish. When the two brothers worked together, they would be hard-pressed to find a match among the Daoist Soldiers.

Of course, those in the know preferred to call them— "Iron Armor Corpses"!

Besides, these two seemed to have awakened some formidable Divine Skills, making them the top experts among the bandits, second only to Wang Yunhu.

However,

before the Ma Brothers could pick up a rune-engraved Peach Wood stake and nail down the tomb owner with the peculiar life chart that could enhance the "Owl God Snatching Food Array" beneath the grave,

Woof, woof, woof...

The two Greyhounds they had brought to the mountain suddenly started barking wildly into the pitch-black tunnel.

At the same time, a sudden gust of wind descended upon the mountainside, whipping up dead branches and leaves, scattering the birds and beasts in the vicinity into frightful retreat.

As if a great disaster loomed overhead.

Elsewhere.

Under Wang Yunhu’s leadership, a group of people had arrived outside the Yili King’s royal mausoleum.

"Bring the person in."

Two tomb guardians, following the order, lifted a heavy hemp sack, striving to control their trembling legs, and walked into the still wide-open gates of the mausoleum.

They dumped it in front of the door to the Enjoyment Hall in the second courtyard and then rushed out as if fleeing for their lives.

Inside the hemp sack was Zhou Jingyao, the Third Prince, who had been successfully sent back the night before.

Apart from the direct participants, Cui Tong, Lady Peach Fairy, and "Strategist Bei" Lang Qi, only Wang Yunhu was aware of the sack’s occupant’s identity.

Overseeing such a significant event that could lead to the tribe’s extermination, Wang Yunhu had not slept at all the night before.

He personally guided the bandits who delivered the sack back.

One of the bandits’ operating principles is to pick the softest persimmons to squeeze, never to provoke someone they cannot afford to mess with.

However decrepit the court might be, it was still enough to crush any boisterous evil spirits that dared to emerge, let alone a group of bandits and tomb guardians.

The useless emotion of "fear after the event" was fleeting; the pressing matter now was to race against time, to wrap up the deed before the Luoyang Royal Mansion could react.

As long as the Owl God Tomb consumed this medicine bait, even a mage skilled in the Dao of Divination wouldn’t be able to predict Zhou Jingyao’s whereabouts or life and death state.

It was just unfortunate that no one dared to stay here at night, and even if they did, they would have been eaten without leaving a trace or message behind.

The last time someone was chosen as medicine bait, "Fool" Wang Yuan, his whereabouts and fate remained unclear to this day. This time, having taken the huge risk of capturing a son of the Luoyang royal family, they couldn’t afford any mishaps.

By his side, the Lady Peach Fairy, who had returned first without any unforeseen events, spoke to him in a low voice:

"Clan Leader Wang can be at ease. Mr. Cui is reliable in his work. Although we couldn’t kill Zhou Jingyao in advance, there’s no need to worry about the ’medicine bait’ escaping again this time.

After I told Mr. Cui about the unexpected incident with last time’s ’medicine bait,’ he made preparations in advance..."

In fact.

When they caught Zhou Jingyao, Wang Yuan immediately grabbed an awl and performed a frontal lobotomy on him. Even if the young prince woke up, he would be a real fool.

Wang Yunhu nodded in satisfaction only then.

"Mr. Cui is bold yet meticulous, truly an old hand in the Jianghu!"

Whether he is an old hand in the Jianghu or not, no one knew better than Wang Yuan how to create a "fool."

Suddenly.

A strange wind unexpectedly swept through the mountains.

Wang Yunhu’s body remained still, but his head turned one hundred and eighty degrees with a sharp look as he gazed at a certain branch of the mountains.

More precisely, toward the direction of the "Righteous Wealth" tomb.

This man actually exhibited the traits of "eagle-eyed and wolfish-gaze."

The so-called eagle eye refers to the person’s eyes being as greedy and sharp as those of an eagle, and the wolfish gaze means that the head can rotate one hundred and eighty degrees without moving the body.

Next to him, Lady Peach Fairy also noticed something amiss. She raised her brows and used the "Divine Power Talisman" to connect with the ubiquitous vegetation on the mountain, "seeing" in that direction.

"What’s this...?"

The countless startled birds pulled at his heartstrings, and "Strategist Bei" Lang Qi, on a whim, cast a divination using the "Three Lives Bird Calculation Book."

Then he mumbled to himself blankly:

"Eagle-eyed and wolfish-gaze spell trouble, dark eyebrows of willow and dramatic stares of moth foretell shades of murder!

Eighteen days of bloodshed pierce the sky, one enters the tomb, and two return."

...

It wasn’t until night fell completely.

Having accomplished his task, Wang Yuan finally returned to Daling Village, covered in dust from his journey.

Wary of encountering other bandits assigned different tasks, the exhausted man did not rush back to Wangren Town but instead went straight to his own small courtyard and collapsed into sleep.

"After all, having transcended non-human and needing to practice the ’Transformation into Tiger Technique’ on the Yin day and between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., there’s no rush to return, not for another three days."

Once he fell asleep, he lost track of how much time had passed.

The night was dense, like ink.

The tightly closed doors of the small courtyard were silently pushed open.

Woo-woo-woo...

Immediately following, a chilling cold breath accompanied a shadow reeking of a pungent corpse stench, as it took step by step into the courtyard.

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