Chapter 961: Nine-Cat Life-Prolonging Formation (Part 2)
Master Chandler silently entered the ancient tomb through another underground passage he had excavated.
At this moment, as Lachlan was the last to enter the underground passage, the previous group of people immediately noticed him!
The middle-aged couple stared intently at Lachlan, and their companions also looked at him with mocking expressions.
“Isn’t this the guy who was loudly proclaiming earlier that there were great dangers in this tomb?”
“Why did he come down too?”
“Kid, you’re quite untrustworthy, aren’t you? You tricked the elder of the Mountain Moving Sect, but you came down yourself?”
“What, do you also covet that Fortune-Altering Divine Object?”
Several people asked Lachlan mockingly and with ill intent.
Lachlan snorted coldly, ignored them, and continued walking behind them.
At this moment, the middle-aged couple exchanged glances, a look of uncertainty flashing across their faces.
As late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, they found it strange that they couldn’t see through Lachlan.
Moreover, Lachlan gave them a sense of familiarity, as if they had seen him somewhere before.
Unlike their other companions, Eason Jenkin and Pandora Wynter felt an inexplicable sense of closeness to Lachlan.
The passage sloped downward, extending into the ancient tomb suspected to be Spike Keller’s true burial site.
Three major tomb-robbing factions and several tomb-raiding groups proceeded along the passage.
Along the way, they encountered some already dismantled and disarmed traps.
Previously, some of their members had died in this ancient tomb.
However, such casualties were nothing to these seasoned tomb raiders.
Besides, their deaths were not in vain!
Most of the traps in this ancient tomb had already been disarmed.
The biggest issue now was who could open the coffin in the main burial chamber.
The rumored Fortune-Altering Divine Object was likely inside that coffin.
Everyone proceeded unhurriedly into the ancient tomb!
All factions coincidentally headed towards the main burial chamber.
Of course, some people explored other parts of the tomb.
However, most of the forces entered the main burial chamber.
Lachlan mingled with the crowd, observing everything silently.
Inside the main burial chamber, some people were already guarding it.
At the end of the chamber lay a large black coffin, exuding a mysterious and unsettling aura.
White candles were lit around the chamber!
At this moment, several factions gathered together, and conflicts and frictions began to arise again.
After all, everyone wanted to open the coffin and seize the Fortune-Altering Divine Object.
“Stop! Quiet!”
“Listen to me!”
Amidst the commotion, a powerful voice rang out.
The current leader of the Dragon-Seeking Sect, an old man with white hair wearing a bagua robe, raised his voice and said, “Everyone, this Fortune-Altering Divine Object belongs to whoever can obtain it.
As I said before, fighting to the death before anyone can open the coffin is meaningless!
My suggestion is that we sit down and discuss it. Everyone should show their skills and ideas.
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Let the divine object appear first; then we can compete for it! Right?”
“Hmph! Let me try!”
As soon as he finished speaking, an elder from the Golden Point Sect jumped out and rushed towards the black coffin at the end of the chamber.
“Ha!”
He shouted and struck the coffin lid with all his might.
Despite his early Golden Core stage strength and full effort, the coffin remained unmoved with a loud bang.
“Eden Dixon, give it a rest! This coffin can’t be opened with brute force alone. No skill at all! Haha…”
A middle-aged man from the Mountain Unloading Sect sneered mockingly.
With a few talismans in hand, he approached the coffin and chanted something under his breath.
Despite his efforts, the coffin remained motionless.
This drew more ridicule and doubt from the crowd.
Subsequently, various factions tried different methods to open the coffin.
Meanwhile, Lachlan stood in the main burial chamber, his expression fluctuating between different emotions.
Outside, he could only sense great danger within this ancient tomb but wasn’t clear on what it was exactly.
However, upon entering the tomb and expanding his mental field, he finally discovered something.
His mental field covered every corner of the tomb.
He immediately understood what was inside the tomb.
“Wu Yin, Xin You, Geng Shen… arranged according to the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams diagram!
Nine positions each had a freshly dead black cat buried!
At the very center of the tomb stood a hollow death jade statue!”
Death jade is inferior jade containing many impurities.
This type of jade easily absorbs yin energy and can even house souls.
A two-meter-tall hollow death jade Buddha statue at the center of the tomb could absorb countless vengeful spirits.
This death jade Buddha statue wasn’t originally in the tomb but was placed there later by someone.
“Using cats as sacrifices-cats have nine lives and can revive after death-to absorb the vitality and fortune of freshly deceased people!
A hollow death jade Buddha statue is meant to absorb their souls?”
“What a vicious formation! It not only aims to kill everyone in the tomb and steal their vitality and fortune but also to absorb their souls!”
“So this is the great danger within this ancient tomb! Whose handiwork is this?”
A surge of intense anger rose within Lachlan’s heart. His entire body felt a chill down his spine.