Returning from cultivating immortality, the top scorer in the college entrance examination goes bers

Chapter 128 The Pharaoh's Curse Inside the Pyramid!

The interior of the pyramids is dark and damp, with a pungent smell of mold and blood permeating the air.

The beam of a flashlight flickered in the darkness, illuminating the ancient murals and hieroglyphs on the walls. These murals depicted the lives of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, as well as various eerie sacrificial scenes, sending chills down the spines of onlookers.

"Be careful, there are traps and mechanisms everywhere here," Elder Qingfeng warned. "The ancient Egyptians set up many deadly traps to protect the pharaoh's tomb. One wrong move and you'll lose your life."

As soon as he finished speaking, Elder Mingyue, who was walking at the front, suddenly felt his footing sink.

"Oh no! It's a quicksand trap!"

Elder Mingyue shouted, and her body began to sink. The yellow quicksand, like water, quickly submerged her knees.

"Elder Mingyue!"

Elder Qingfeng hurriedly reached out to pull her up, but the suction of the quicksand was too strong. Not only did he fail to pull her up, but he himself was almost dragged down as well.

Lu Jingchen reacted swiftly, grabbing Elder Qingfeng by the back of his collar and pulling him back. Then he pulled out a rope and tossed it to Elder Mingyue: "Grab the rope!"

Elder Mingyue quickly grabbed the rope, and Lu Jingchen pulled hard, pulling her out of the quicksand.

"That was close." Elder Mingyue patted her chest, still shaken. "I almost died here."

"The road ahead is even more dangerous, everyone stay close to me," Lu Jingchen said. He circulated his inner energy and lightly touched the ground with his foot to sense where there were traps or mechanisms.

The four of them walked forward cautiously, encountering many traps and mechanisms along the way, including hidden arrows, rolling stones, and poisonous gas, but Lu Jingchen overcame them all one by one.

After walking for about an hour, they finally arrived at a long passageway. At the end of the passageway, they could faintly hear eerie chanting and the cries of a child.

"It should be just ahead," Lu Jingchen said in a low voice. "The blood sacrifice array is in the main tomb chamber. Let's be careful not to get discovered."

The four held their breath, pressed themselves against the wall, and slowly walked towards the end of the passageway.

Stepping out of the passageway, a bright and open space suddenly appeared before me.

This was a vast main burial chamber, in the center of which lay a massive golden stone coffin. Around the coffin was a huge crimson array. One hundred children dressed in white were bound to the edge of the array, their faces deathly pale, their eyes filled with terror, and they wept incessantly.

Shadow Two and Shadow Three stood in the center of the formation, staffs in hand, chanting ancient incantations. Beside them stood dozens of black-clad assassins, vigilantly watching their surroundings.

The crimson array flickered with red light, and wisps of black resentment rose from it, surging into the golden stone coffin. The coffin was trembling slightly, emitting a muffled sound, as if something inside was about to break free.

"Not good! The blood sacrifice has reached its final stage!" Elder Qingfeng's expression changed drastically. "Any later and the seal on the dragon's lair will be broken!"

"Let's do it!"

Lu Jingchen shouted and charged out first. He flashed and instantly appeared at the edge of the formation, waving his hand to release several golden streams of true energy, cutting all the ropes binding the child.

"Run!" Lu Jingchen shouted to the children.

The children were startled for a moment, then realized what was happening and scrambled towards the door.

"Who?!"

Shadow Two and Shadow Three turned around abruptly, and their expressions changed instantly when they saw Lu Jingchen.

"Lu Jingchen! What are you doing here?!" Shadow Two roared angrily, "How dare you ruin our important plans! You're asking for death!"

"You use living people as sacrifices, you are utterly depraved. Today I will act on behalf of Heaven and kill you!" Lu Jingchen said coldly.

"You think you can stop me?" Shadow Three sneered. "Shadow Four, that piece of trash, couldn't even stop you. But it doesn't matter, today we brothers will make sure you stay here forever!"

With a wave of his hand, Shadow Two sent dozens of black-clad assassins charging forward with a roar.

"Leave these small fry to us!" Elder Qingfeng and Elder Mingyue went to meet them and fought alongside the assassins.

Su Muyue also drew her short sword and joined the battle. Her swordsmanship was agile and graceful, each strike precisely targeting the vital points of the assassins, and she quickly took down several of them.

In the main tomb chamber, only Lu Jingchen and Shadow Two and Shadow Three remained, facing off against each other.

"Shadow Three, you deal with that woman, I'll handle Lu Jingchen!" Shadow Two said coldly.

"Okay!" Shadow Three nodded and turned to rush towards Su Muyue.

"If you want to touch her, you'll have to get past me first!"

Lu Jingchen flashed forward, blocking Su Muyue's path, and threw a punch at Ying San.

Shadow Three hurriedly raised his hand to block, and with a "bang," he was shaken back several steps, his arm going numb.

"I didn't expect you to be so capable." Shadow Three's eyes narrowed. "But today, you are doomed!"

He formed a mudra with his hands and muttered incantations.

"The Spear of Darkness!"

Countless black spears appeared out of thin air and shot towards Lu Jingchen.

Lu Jingchen neither dodged nor evaded, but instead channeled the power of the True Dragon, forming a golden barrier in front of him. The black spears struck the barrier and were all deflected.

"It's my turn."

Lu Jingchen sneered and charged forward. His fists were wreathed in golden flames, each punch carrying immense power. Even the combined forces of Shadow Two and Shadow Three were no match for him, forced to retreat steadily.

"No! This kid is too strong! We have to use our ultimate move!" Shadow Two shouted.

Shadow Three nodded, and the two of them simultaneously bit their tongues, spitting out a mouthful of blood onto their respective staffs.

"Undead Summoning!"

The entire main burial chamber suddenly began to shake violently. Cracks appeared in the ground, and countless spirits crawled out from underground. These spirits were ancient Egyptian soldiers and priests, exuding a dense aura of death, and roared as they rushed towards Lu Jingchen.

"Lu Jingchen, be careful! These undead are cursed by the Pharaoh and cannot be killed!" Elder Mingyue shouted as she fought.

"Can't be killed? I don't believe it!"

Lu Jingchen's eyes narrowed as he looked up at the sun god statues on the wall. He could sense that these statues contained a pure solar power, the nemesis of the undead.

He formed a hand seal and poured the power of the true dragon into the sun god statue.

"With my blood, I draw upon the power of the sun! Ancient formation activated!"

With his shout, the sun god statue on the wall suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light. Countless golden rays shot out from the statue, heading towards the dead.

"ah--!"

The spirits let out mournful screams, and when they were struck by the golden light, they instantly turned into wisps of black smoke and vanished into the air.

"Impossible! This is the ancient Egyptian solar array! It was lost long ago! How could you activate it?!" Shadow Two shouted in disbelief.

"There are many things you don't know." Lu Jingchen sneered, his figure flashed, and he instantly appeared in front of Ying Er, punching him in the chest.

"puff!"

Shadow Two spat out a mouthful of black blood, flew backward, and crashed heavily into the golden stone coffin, instantly losing consciousness.

Seeing this, Shadow Three was so frightened that he turned around and tried to run away.

"Trying to run away?"

Su Muyue flashed forward, blocking his path. The short sword in her hand gleamed coldly, piercing through Ying San's shoulder.

"ah--!"

Shadow Three let out a scream and collapsed to the ground.

Lu Jingchen walked up to him and said coldly, "Speak! Where is your master now?"

"My lord... My lord has gone to the Amazon rainforest..." Shadow Three said breathlessly, "The fifth dragon's lair is in the Golden City of the Amazon... My lord said... we must first open that dragon's lair... obtain the power within... and then come back to deal with you..."

"Anything else?" Lu Jingchen continued to ask.

"And...and..." Shadow Three's eyes suddenly turned ferocious, "And...your master...he's not even in the Vatican...The Lord lied to you...He threw your master...into the dragon's lair to feed the ferocious beasts long ago..."

"What did you say?!"

Lu Jingchen grabbed his neck, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

"I said... your master died a long time ago... Hahahaha..." Shadow Three laughed maniacally, "You'll never see him again..."

Lu Jingchen suddenly exerted force, and with a "crack," he snapped Ying San's neck.

He stood there, his body trembling slightly.

Master... is he dead?

Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Shadow 3 must be lying to him!

Su Muyue walked to his side and gently took his hand: "Lu Jingchen, don't listen to his nonsense. He's just trying to provoke you. Master is definitely still alive."

Lu Jingchen took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

He knew that Shadow Three was likely lying. The Dark Pavilion Master must still have his master alive to threaten him.

Just then, his gaze fell upon the golden stone coffin.

The lid of the stone coffin had been shaken open, revealing no ancient ferocious beasts inside, only a stone platform.

On the stone platform, there was half a dragon's lair jade pendant and a carving knife.

Lu Jingchen walked to the stone platform and picked up the half of the jade pendant. When put together with the jade pendant in his hand, it was exactly one-quarter of the complete pendant.

Then he picked up the carving knife and found several lines of crooked Chinese characters carved on the stone.

It's my master's handwriting!

Lu Jingchen's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly leaned over to take a look.

It was engraved on it:

"My disciple Jingchen, by the time you see these words, your master will have already been captured by Xuanqing. The eight acupoints are locks, used to suppress the ferocious beasts of the eight wastelands; this is not a legacy. Xuanqing is not the leader; behind him is an emperor named Chiyou. Remember, you must not collect all eight jades, or the world will descend into chaos. Your master awaits you in the Vatican."

As Lu Jingchen looked at the writing on the stone platform, tears instantly streamed down his face.

Master... is really still alive!

Moreover, he told me a shocking secret.

The eight dragon lairs are not places of inheritance at all, but locks used to seal ancient ferocious beasts.

Even Lu Xuanqing, the mastermind behind the Dark Pavilion, is not the real mastermind.

The real mastermind behind it all was actually the ancient demon god Chi You!

Lu Jingchen gripped the jade pendant tightly in his hand, his eyes becoming incredibly determined.

Master, wait for me.

I will definitely go to the Vatican to rescue you.

Regardless of whether Lu Xuanqing or Chi You is the mastermind, I will stop them.

We will absolutely not allow them to open all the dragon's lair and harm humanity.

He turned to Su Muyue and the two elders and said, "Let's go. Next stop, the Amazon rainforest."