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They're heading to the Ruins of the South China Sea to find the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror!
P.S.: Thanks to [無痕無蹩] for the monthly pass! (Bro)
Chapter 101 Fatty Wang's Extraordinary Encounter! The New Tomb Raiding Trio!
Say Cao Cao Cao Cao is here!
Professor Chen had just mentioned that Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang were also coming when the two of them walked into the private room with Big Gold Tooth.
"Hey, Brother Li, Miss Yang, it's been a long time!"
Fatty Wang greeted Li Yang warmly.
Looking at his more plump appearance than before, Li Yang teased, "Brother Wang, you've gotten quite round and full lately!"
Hu Bayi, who was standing to the side, explained with a smile, "Fatty recently had a strange encounter and learned a profound skill in his dream!"
"Just keep eating and storing up fat. When you're exhausted or injured, the fat can be quickly converted into energy, which can replenish your strength and even heal your injuries in a short time!"
Li Yang paused for a moment, then turned to look at Fatty Wang.
"Brother Wang, is this true, or just an excuse you made up to eat a few more bites?"
Fatty Wang patted his chest proudly and said, "Of course it's real! Absolutely guaranteed!"
“I used to run five kilometers with Lao Hu. He was in the army, so five kilometers was a piece of cake for him, but it would kill me to run five kilometers!”
"But now, running ten kilometers is like Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts... a piece of cake!"
"And just a few days ago, Lao Hu and I went to some Lan County in Shaanxi Province and stumbled upon a large Tang Dynasty tomb. Inside, we encountered a giant spider that was even bigger than a rhinoceros!"
"Old Hu, what was that big spider called again?"
Hu Bayi succinctly stated, "A mutated human-faced black worm!"
Fatty Wang slapped his thigh suddenly, "That's right, that's the thing! Good heavens, those eight giant spider legs are like spears!"
"I accidentally got a hole in my thigh, and I thought I was going to die there, but to my surprise, it scabbed over in half an hour!"
"Once we leave that fishbone temple, we'll go to the hospital for a checkup. Hey, nothing's wrong!"
"The doctor told me that if the recovery goes well, there won't even be a scar!"
"I've only rested for a few days, and I can already walk like the wind again!"
"This is the profound skill I learned in my dream, it's amazing!"
Hu Bayi couldn't help but sigh, "This is what they call 'fools have good fortune.' Fatty eats, drinks, and plays around all day, carefree and good-natured, which is why he was blessed by heaven!"
Hu Bayi had seen this kind of thing before.
During his trip to Kunlun Divine Palace, the old friend he went to see, "Ake," was the divinely inspired singer!
Because of a serious illness, an epic masterpiece of tens of millions of words suddenly appeared in my mind!
Wang Pangzi didn't take Hu Bayi's insults to heart at all; instead, he was smug. "That's right, I, Fatty, have always had a great appetite!"
Li Yang felt a strange sense of familiarity when he heard their description of that miraculous technique, so he asked:
"Brother Wang, does your method have a name?"
Wang Pangzi hesitated for a moment, "In my dream, I vaguely heard someone say something about this method, something called 'Give My Life Back to Me 723'... That name is too strange."
"Is it a return of life?!"
Li Yang was taken aback.
Fatty Wang's eyes lit up. "That's right, that's the name! Hey, Life Return, awesome, right?"
Li Yang never expected that Fatty Wang would actually be able to save his life, and that he had learned it from a dream!
"Brother Wang, how long have you been practicing the life-saving technique?"
Fatty Wang recalled, "It's only been about half a month since that dream I had that night!"
"Let me tell you, I'm an absolute genius, in just half a month..."
Li Yang didn't hear what Fatty Wang said next, and instead fell into deep thought.
Two weeks ago, he and his fellow Love Apartment friends entered the world of One Piece!
Two worlds intersect, two parallel lines converge at a single point!
For some unknown reason, Fatty Wang became the beneficiary of this intersection!
Li Yang had just heard Fatty Wang mention the Tang Dynasty tomb and the Fishbone Temple, and knew that Hu Bayi and the others must have gone to the Dragon Ridge Caves, so he asked curiously:
"What are you doing here in Shaanxi Province? You have nothing better to do?"
Big Gold Tooth grinned and said, "Hey, Brother Li, Old Hu and Fatty really made the trip to Shaanxi Province worthwhile. They found a lot of good stuff... but they handed it all over to the state!"
aside.
Hu Bayi got down to business.
"Fatty and I were just killing time, so we set up a stall in Panjiayuan. We ran into a idiot from Shaanxi province who was carrying around an ancient woman's shoe and asking around..."
Then comes the story of the Dragon Ridge Caves.
Hu Bayi exclaimed, "The most important thing about this trip to Shaanxi Province was meeting Chen Yulou, the former leader of the Xieling faction. Although he is blind, he is not blind in spirit and is very capable!"
"I brought him to the capital, got him a small courtyard, and hired a nanny to take care of him so he could live out his days in comfort!"
After Hu Bayi finished speaking, he turned to look at Professor Chen and Sun Xuewu.
"Professors, have you told Li Yang about this?"
Professor Chen shook his head. "I was just about to speak, but before I could, you all arrived."
Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi had known Sun Xuewu for a long time, probably because of their trip to the Dragon Ridge Caves, where they crossed paths due to the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book.
However, the things recorded on that scroll of Dragon Bone Heavenly Book were related to the Muchen Pearl. Now that Hu Bayi and the others all knew that the Muchen Pearl was the eye of the Chaos Serpent God, they didn't take it seriously.
Professor Chen looked at Li Yang.
"Here's what happened: I've obtained some very important information... The legendary Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror has been lost in the deep sea of the South China Sea!"
"The origin of this Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror is extraordinary. It is a rare treasure in China, a national treasure among national treasures!"
According to the "Strange Things" section of Volume 10 of "Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang", there is a square mirror in the ancient stone cave on the bank of Wuxi. It is more than 10 feet in diameter and can reflect a person's five internal organs. Emperor Qin Shihuang called it the "Bone-Illuminating Treasure".
"In the past, Qin Shi Huang liked to use a bone-revealing mirror to examine the internal organs of palace servants. If he found any disloyalty in a palace servant, he would order the guards to kill him!"
"Later, when Qin Shi Huang was on his southern tour, he saw a floating corpse on the beach!"
"The male corpse was an old man, tall and unusual in stature, with a handsome appearance, a beard that reached past his chest, fair and smooth skin, and flesh as hard as iron. He was dressed in the robes of an ancient king. He had been floating in the sea for an unknown period of time, and we do not know his origin or cause of death!"
"But the ancient corpse still looks lifelike. Not only is its face rosy, but even after being soaked in seawater for so long, it has no bloat sac. In fact, when the sea breeze blows, its beard and eyebrows move, just like a living person!"
"Qin Shi Huang believed that the ancient corpse was the remains of an immortal from a fairy mountain in the deep sea, and that it should be worshipped and offered sacrifices in order to ask the immortal to bestow the elixir of immortality!"
"But some of the sorcerers and magicians around him held the opposite opinion, believing that this ancient corpse was actually a zombie that floated out of the eye of the South China Sea and was a demon in disguise!"
"The mere sight of such a demonic zombie is already an omen of misfortune. If it were to be worshipped and offered sacrifices, let alone seek any elixir of immortality, it might even affect the fate of the nation!"
"Qin Shi Huang believed the words of these alchemists. According to their methods, the ancient corpse could not be exposed to fire, weapons, or axes; the only way to hide it was in a cave!"
"Therefore, Qin Shi Huang ordered 30,000 convicts to carve through a barren mountain to bury the corpse, cast a bronze beast to weigh down the corpse and suppress the mountain, and embedded the 'Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror' from the Eight Mirrors of the Qin King into the beast's head, and finally sealed the mountain and returned!"
Professor Chen's throat was dry from talking, so he took a sip of tea before continuing:
"Until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, someone was gathering herbs on the mountain when he suddenly saw five dragons fighting around a mountain in the sky. In the end, all five dragons died, and their corpses fell from the sky!"
"Out of curiosity, the herb gatherer went to check where the dragon's corpse had fallen, but instead of finding the dead dragon, he saw a huge chasm in the ground!"
"Later, the herb gatherer told the neighbors about this, and many people rushed to the mountain to see it. They saw a huge creature in the ditch that seemed to have come to life and was trying to crawl out of the ground!"
Everyone was terrified, thinking that some kind of monster had been born, so they gathered firewood and set it on fire!
"After the fire, a giant bronze beast appeared in the ditch. It had the head of a bull and the body of a tortoise. It had bull horns on its head, a tortoise shell on its body, seven tails with many skulls tied to the ends of the tails. It was ugly in appearance, plump at the top and slender at the bottom!"
"A simple bronze mirror was inlaid on the beast's head. Someone removed it and presented it to Emperor Huizong of Song, who was on the throne at the time!"
"Emperor Huizong of Song was very fond of this bronze mirror and played with it all day long. However, a minister with extensive knowledge and a good memory recognized the identity of the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror and knew that this mirror was a precious artifact used to suppress demons!"
"The ministers advised Emperor Huizong of Song that the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror had been guarding against demons for too long and might have been tainted by demonic energy. It should not be left in the palace, as it might affect the fate of the nation!"
"The item should be returned to its original location and reburied according to proper etiquette, restoring it to its original state!"
"But Emperor Huizong of Song regarded the bronze mirror as a priceless treasure and refused to part with it, keeping it by his side to admire. Not long after, the Jin army marched south and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, capturing two Song emperors. The Qin Prince's Bone-Illuminating Mirror disappeared again!"
"When the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror reappears, it will be during the time of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China. It will be looted from the people by the British Empire and eventually end up in India after many twists and turns!"
Professor Chen's expression became agitated.
But Li Yang's gaze secretly swept over Sun Xuewu, who was standing to the side.
A burning intensity was well concealed deep within his eyes.
Li Yang knew very well that Sun Xuewu was the one who cared the most about the King Qin's Bone-Illuminating Mirror!
Because the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror is actually a combination of the Ancient Mirror of Returning to the Void and the Fish Talisman, it is the key item for entering the Earth Immortal Village!
Sun Xuewu needs it to deduce the location and entrance of the Earth Immortal Village!
Professor Chen then said:
"Until a month ago, a wealthy man from Southeast Asia bought the bone!"
"Because it was smuggled out, it was transported by sea. However, when the ship reached international waters, it encountered a storm, veered off course, and sank to the bottom of the sea with the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror!"
"Of the hundreds of passengers and crew on board, almost none survived. Due to the recent bad weather in the South China Sea, with continuous storms, the search and rescue operation at sea is extremely difficult!"
"The exact location of the shipwreck cannot be found, only its general direction. That area is deep in the South China Sea, a no-man's-land with numerous reefs, which the locals call the 'Coral Spiral'!"
After explaining the origin and current whereabouts of the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror, Professor Chen turned to Li Yang, looking expectantly at him:
"Comrade Li Yang, I hope you can help our archaeological institute, and go to the South China Sea with Comrades Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to retrieve the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror!"
"Comrade Hu Bayi understands the art of celestial feng shui; perhaps he can use it to find that sunken ship!"
"Because one person survived from that passenger ship, and he said he saw eerie flames rising from the seabed at the site of the wreck!"
Hu Bayi, who was standing nearby, took over the topic.
"The secrets of Feng Shui can connect with the universe; mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas all have their interpretations within Feng Shui!"
"Because the seabed also contains mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, forests, and basins. Feng shui encompasses four aspects: form, momentum, principle, and energy. In the great lakes and seas, the main focus is on 'energy,' which is called 'sea energy'!"
"The man saw eerie flames rising from the seabed. I speculate that it is related to the legendary Southern Dragon!"
"Legend has it that there are dragon lanterns in Nanlong, also known as dragon fire!"
There are four kinds of fire in the world: ghost fire, heavenly fire, human fire, and dragon fire.
"Human fire is extinguished by water, but dragon fire blazes brightly when it encounters water. If the yin fire is powerful, it must be a dragon lantern!"
"Almost all the dragon veins of China originate from Kunlun, except for one southern dragon, which originates from Emei, flows east along the river, then south into the mountains of Haiyan and into the sea, where it later splits into nine branches and thirteen veins on the seabed!"
"The Dragonfire Pass is where the two branches of the Southern Dragon meet. I'm 80 percent certain that the shipwreck is probably there!"
Faced with the hopeful gazes of Professor Chen and Hu Bayi, Li Yang remained silent.
For him, finding the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror in the South China Sea was no challenge at all; he could easily wipe out the monsters in the Ruins of Return!
but.
Li Yang said calmly, "I might have to go to Japan soon; someone needs me to help them keep things under control..."
Fatty Wang's eyes lit up, and he chuckled, "Brother Li, what kind of place are you going to in Neon Town? It's not a nightclub or a geisha club or anything like that, is it?"
"Can you take me one?"
Seeing that Fatty Wang had steered the conversation off-topic, Hu Bayi tugged at him, then leaned close to Li Yang and whispered:
"Our trip to the South China Sea to find the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror is just a side trip. I also have a great deal to make money from here. Do you want to consider it?"
Li Yang remained expressionless and asked softly, "What's good to buy?"
Hu Bayi explained the ins and outs of the matter.
"Fatty and I were setting up a stall in Panjiayuan when we met a female shop owner named Han Shuna. This woman was actually the mistress of a Hong Kong businessman!"
“This Hong Kong businessman is called Lei Xianming. He’s in his fifties. I call him Uncle Ming.”
"Speaking of which, Uncle Ming and we have a history together!"