122: Double Tomb

As a boss guarding the gate, the zombie's intelligence wasn't much, but it was significantly stronger than ordinary zombies or Zombies.

It wasn't like his skills were completely plundered, his weapons all disappeared, and he had no reaction at all.

His raised heel landed.

...

He raised his empty, wide sleeve, which hung limply after losing the support of the Divine Killing Claw.

The zombie fell into confusion.

Bai Yuan didn't intend to give him time to figure out the mystery.

With a wave of her hand, the clasps unlocked, and the four long blades detached from her fingers, connected by chains extending from the void beneath her palm, and slashed towards the zombie.

Seeing the situation was bad, the zombie still wanted to jump and escape.

How could Bai Yuan give him a chance?

She gripped the chains with her five fingers, flicked them, and forcefully changed the attack trajectory with brute strength.

Her arm dropped sharply, and the four sharp blades directly sliced the zombie open from head to toe.

Split into five!

Eradication! Instant kill!

[Successfully killed the Prince Zombie! Congratulations to the host for obtaining Golden Treasure Chest +5!]

"Prince?"

Seeing the words Prince Zombie on the kill notification, Chen Ming was convinced that his previous suspicion was not unfounded.

A Prince is generally the Emperor's blood brother or cousin.

"It seems this Prince... clearly had ill intentions and wanted to usurp the throne."

"It's a pity the Emperor's methods were more clever; the plan failed, and he could only use this method to satisfy his greed and desire for power."

Such things were not uncommon in the thousands of years of Great Xia's history that Chen Ming was familiar with.

After sorting out his thoughts, he got straight to the main business.

He selected the corpse that Bai Yuan had sliced into five sections with one claw and confirmed extraction!

[Extracting...]

[Extraction successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a new Undead Servant: Prince Zombie +1!]

After extracting the Undead, all skills plundered "in life" would return completely according to this setting.

Combined with the Prince Zombie's own impressive combat power, Chen Ming really couldn't find a reason not to extract him.

After becoming Undead, the Prince Zombie's appearance changed. The main color was the shadow-black of the Undead, while the patterns and ornaments on his body... turned blood red.

For example, the large golden toad mouth on his belly.

When the skill [Devouring Absorption and Monster Gathering] is triggered, the golden toad will open its mouth to its limit, sucking all living beings within range into the Prince Zombie's large belly, devouring them, and converting them into attribute boosts!

"How does it feel like this skill became weaker after adaptation?"

"Did it just increase the monster gathering range?" Chen Ming murmured.

There was no point in continuing to overthink.

He couldn't possibly force the system to change the optimization plan made for normal use after the skill was bound to Bai Yuan, right?

Instead of caring about these things, Chen Ming was more concerned about when the clearance reward would be given to him, now that the guarding boss had been successfully killed.

He looked around but didn't see any clearance treasure chests or similar items, nor were any mechanisms activated.

"Could it be that, unlike secret realm instances, this great tomb has no reward after being cleared?"

"If that's the case, wouldn't ordinary people gain nothing except for an exciting tomb raiding experience?"

"Or is it..."

An idea quickly formed in Chen Ming's mind, "I haven't cleared this great tomb secret realm?"

Besides this, Chen Ming really couldn't think of any other more reasonable explanation.

He turned his head to look at the Prince Zombie, who was standing honestly and with a simple look beside him, and asked, "Do you know where the hidden entrance is?"

He had just said it casually, but unexpectedly, the Prince Zombie actually raised his arm and pointed towards the location of the throne with his drooping sleeve.

Chen Ming instantly teleported over.

He noticed that at the bottom of the coffin, which had moved slightly, he could see the outline of a passage.

Mind Control wrapped around the unusually heavy coffin bottom, and then he moved his fingertips.

Bang! Boom!

It was immediately flipped away, very easily.

"There really is!"

When the coffin was completely moved away, an underground stone door appeared before Chen Ming.

Chen Ming used Mind Control to grasp the pull rings on both sides, and the iron chains tautened.

Then he flicked his finger upwards.

Rumble!

The heavy stone door opened at once.

Whoosh!

Immediately, a mechanism was triggered, and a huge crossbow bolt shot out from it.

The size of this crossbow bolt was such that if it hit, it could instantly cut a person in half.

Chen Ming had predicted this mechanism behind the stone door in advance through his skills.

The moment the huge crossbow bolt shot out, he changed its trajectory with Mind Control.

Bang!

It shot into a decorative stone pillar.

The arrowhead was fully embedded, and the arrow shaft was still vibrating violently, making a buzzing sound.

"You, go in and take the lead." Chen Ming extended his arm back, sucked the Prince Zombie over from dozens of meters away, and threw him into the passage.

Bai Yuan followed closely, actively coming to Chen Ming's side.

Chen Ming walked in front, while Bai Yuan was responsible for covering the rear, preventing sneak attacks from behind.

One corpse, one puppet, protected Chen Ming very well.

...

They walked at least a thousand steps.

They finally finished walking and reached flat ground.

During the process, there were no protective measures whatsoever. The surroundings were filled with mist, and one slip of the foot could lead to a place of eternal damnation!

Not long after.

A stone door with a double dragon relief carving, far grander than the previous Stone Imperial Palace in specifications, showing even more superb craftsmanship and detailed carving, came into view.

"Double-layered tomb? It seems this is the main tomb chamber!"

Looking at the Prince Zombie, he concluded that he was just a doorkeeper.

In life, he couldn't compete with his brother and was a Prince who had given up, with no military power. After death, he still had to guard the door for his imperial brother...

Thinking about it, it was quite frustrating.

Chen Ming wasn't interested in the slightest in their love and hate relationships.

He just wanted to figure out one thing: how much gain could the main tomb chamber before him bring him?

He was about to step forward and push open the wooden door.

Crisis Sense notification triggered!

Chen Ming quickly retreated half a step.

A drop of green liquid dripped down with a plop.

It was only about one body length away from him.

After the liquid touched the ground, it sizzled, began to corrode, and emitted pungent white smoke.

Chen Ming looked up and saw that the ceiling of the stone chamber was densely packed with vampire bats with blood-red eyes, open mouths revealing sharp fangs, and constantly dripping highly corrosive saliva that was more terrifying than sulfuric acid!

Like pouring rain, they fell densely towards Chen Ming, Bai Yuan, and the Prince Zombie.

Chen Ming was about to use his skill to evaporate the poisonous rain and burn all the vampire bats into charcoal.

The Prince Zombie took a step ahead, spread his arms, and leaned back.

The golden toad on his belly opened its large abyssal mouth wide.

Inside, red energy swirled, like an underwater vortex, with astonishing suction!

All the venom and vampire bats found it difficult to cling to the wall. No matter how they flapped their wings, it was useless.

They turned into a black tide, forcibly devoured by the Prince Zombie and refined into growth experience.

The bats' corrosive poison had little effect on him.

The Prince Zombie proved with facts that Chen Ming had not extracted the wrong Undead.

After confirming there were no more hidden threats around.

Chen Ming came to the stone door.

As usual, his palm touched the stone door first.

There was no crisis alert.

This proved that no mechanisms or hidden weapons were set behind the door.

Rumble!

With loud rumbling sounds, Chen Ming pushed open the stone door.

After the familiar use of flames continuously and rapidly illuminated his entire field of vision.

He suddenly understood why the main tomb chamber had the confidence not to set up mechanisms or hidden weapons.