45: Chapter 45 Digging Graves

Time returns to five days ago.

In order to make money, Jiang Nan brought the White Bone Banshee into the Forest of Buried Bones for the second time.

This time, they no longer set their sights on Bronze Grade magical beasts, choosing instead to continue deeper into the Forest of Buried Bones.

However, their luck didn't seem very good. Over five consecutive days, they only encountered a little over fifty Silver Rank magical beasts.

"Silver Rank magical beasts have already begun to possess territorial awareness. Expecting to find them as easily as Bronze Grade magical beasts is clearly just wishful thinking on our part."

Jiang Nan stepped on the corpse of a Silver Rank magical beast. While wiping the blood off the newly purchased B-grade alloy battle blade in his hand, he muttered helplessly.

Seeing him sulking like this, the White Bone Banshee chuckled, took a bottle of water out of the Beast Taming Space, unscrewed the cap, and placed it in front of Jiang Nan.

"Husband, why don't we continue deeper into the Forest of Buried Bones and enter the central area? There should be quite a few Silver Rank magical beasts there," the White Bone Banshee suggested.

"No, the danger in the central area of the Forest of Buried Bones cannot be compared to the outer areas. Besides… we have never fought against a Gold Tier magical beast. Even though your strength is already hard to match at the Silver Rank, fighting across tiers against a Gold Tier beast is still too dangerous."

Jiang Nan shook his head and, without any hesitation, directly rejected the White Bone Banshee's idea.

Seeing Jiang Nan being so considerate of her, the White Bone Banshee felt incredibly warm in her heart. The look she gave Jiang Nan was filled with affection that was about to overflow.

"Forget it, the harvest this time is already enough. Finding one Silver Rank fire elemental spirit crystal from the corpses of over fifty Silver Rank magical beasts can be considered a trip well spent."

"The resources we brought are almost used up. Let's head back to the city first."

Jiang Nan had brought quite a lot of resources for his second trip into the Forest of Buried Bones, but in just five days, these resources were already running low.

Ever since the Little Skeleton evolved into the White Bone Banshee, Jiang Nan's appetite had also changed. The food and water that were originally planned to last a month were now found to be far from enough.

Following Jiang Nan's plan, the human and the skeleton prepared to return to Yun City via the nearest path.

However, perhaps it was the guidance of fate, or perhaps it was a coincidence, but as Jiang Nan and the White Bone Banshee walked, they unexpectedly arrived at the place where they first met… the Mass Grave!

Looking at this familiar place before him, Jiang Nan's heart was slightly touched, and he muttered to himself with a sense of emotion.

"If I hadn't contracted Xiao Gu here back then, I don't know when I would have awakened the system. Thinking about it now… it feels like it only happened yesterday."

Memories began to flash through his mind. Since obtaining the system, the changes that had occurred in these short dozen days seemed to be more than everything he had experienced in the previous ten-plus years.

Seeming to have thought of something, Jiang Nan's expression gradually became strange.

Thinking carefully, his bad luck seemed to have started from the moment he obtained the system…

Obtaining the system gave him the chance to become a powerhouse, but immediately following that was offending Young Master Lin Tianxin, then being expelled from school, and losing even his only chance to participate in the Beast Taming College Entrance Exam.

Although he knew none of this was the system's fault, it was just too coincidental, which made Jiang Nan's mind inevitably wander.

"System, you wouldn't happen to come with bad luck, would you?"

[Damn it!]

The system had a breakdown and cursed very dirtily…

"Ahem."

Jiang Nan coughed awkwardly and very naturally blocked the system's profanity.

Just as he was thinking about how to explain to the system that what he just said was only a joke, the White Bone Banshee leaned in to his ear.

"Husband, I sense a very strong aura of wandering spirits here…"

Hearing her words, Jiang Nan was immediately startled and shivered, suddenly remembering the system's evaluation during his first check-in.

"Xiao Gu, it's not the aura of a magical beast, is it? I remember that this place, the Mass Grave, seems to be the territory of the Red-Clad Evil Ghost…"

Jiang Nan swallowed his saliva. That was the Red-Clad Evil Ghost!

A Lord-level magical beast, comparable to a Spirit Pet with Platinum Rank strength… that was not something the two of them could handle.

"It's not a magical beast's aura. The aura of the wandering spirits I sense is very pure. This feeling is very familiar, just like… when Husband took me to the Spirit Pet Mall to go shopping earlier, it's exactly the same as the aura I sensed from a type of purple spirit crystal!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Jiang Nan's eyes immediately lit up.

Why did he come to the Mass Grave in the first place? Wasn't it for the ghost spirit crystal!

It is rumored that ghost spirit crystals can only be produced in places with dense Yin energy. The Mass Grave before him was overflowing with Yin energy; it would be strange if this thing wasn't here.

"Could it be that the omnipotent netizens really didn't lie? Does this place really have ghost spirit crystals?"

Although he was very excited, Jiang Nan did not lose his head. He still remembered that this place was the territory of the Red-Clad Evil Ghost.

"Xiao Gu, can you sense any magical beast auras here?"

"Rest assured, Husband. I have already used my spiritual power to investigate. Aside from you, there are no living things here…"

"Really? Can you also detect Lord-level magical beasts?"

"Unless they are deliberately hiding, even Platinum Rank magical beasts cannot escape my spiritual detection…"

Having received the White Bone Banshee's assurance, Jiang Nan's heart became active.

Wealth is sought in danger.

If Heaven gives it and you do not take it, you will instead suffer the blame!

This place could at least be considered the White Bone Banshee's old home. Rounding it up, the treasures hidden under their old home, aren't those just their own!

Thinking of this, Jiang Nan said: "Xiao Gu, can you sense the specific location of the ghost spirit crystal?"

"Yes! It's about one hundred meters ahead, under that grave mound."

"Under the grave mound???"

Looking in the direction the White Bone Banshee was pointing, what came into view was a broken stone tablet and a raised mound of dirt.

Whether out of a guilty conscience or some other reason, the first time Jiang Nan saw the grave mound, he felt a chill down his spine, as if he were being watched by something unclean.

"Amitabha, Great Merciful Guanyin, Jade Emperor, Jesus Mary~"

"You will bless me, right?"

Smoothing down the goosebumps standing on his arms, Jiang Nan gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and went for it!

He took the Luoyang shovel, which was made using the Bone Metamorphosis skill, from the White Bone Banshee and began to dig vigorously into the grave mound at his feet.

Having received the feedback from his Spirit Pet, Jiang Nan had great strength, and before long, he had dug a pit nine meters deep.

A full nine meters deep, yet he hadn't dug up anything. This made Jiang Nan feel a bit strange.

"Where is the coffin buried in this grave mound? If they had enough money to set up a tombstone, they shouldn't have been short on money for a coffin… Do normal people dig this deep for burials?"

"Or is it that too much time has passed, the coffin has completely rotted away and disappeared, and the grave owner's bones have also been dug up and taken away by wild dogs?"

Jiang Nan muttered while digging with effort.

Suddenly! The bone shovel seemed to poke something hard.

Jiang Nan narrowed his eyes slightly, squatted down, and gently brushed away a layer of loose dirt and sand, revealing the heavy stone coffin underneath!