"Can you read the words on it?"

"Yes."

Li Cunxu added silently in his heart, having seen it often in his previous life.

Xiaoruan asked, "What are they?"

"Grave robbers shall die."

Grave robbers really would die, for there was a curse on the tomb door.

Li Cunxu ignored the curse and pushed the heavy tomb door.

A curse?

Humph!

The thing I fear least is a curse.

The withering curse on the tomb door traveled up Li Cunxu's hand and entered his body.

And then?

Nothing else happened.

The withering curse was too feeble, not even comparable to the Red Dragon Curse. As soon as it entered, it was torn apart by the Blood Infant Spirit and then devoured by the two curse spirits.

The Golden Dragon Curse watched eagerly, not daring to step forward to snatch anything.

"The curse is quite weak. Presumably, the specifications of this tomb shouldn't be too high."

It's not a large tomb, just a small one.

Li Cunxu was very sure.

Because there was another point to support that this was a small tomb: there were no tomb beasts guarding the tomb door.

Even though it's a small tomb, Li Cunxu would not risk his own life to explore it personally.

After all, he's just a mortal; a slight mistake could cost him his life.

Li Cunxu opened a small gap in the tomb door, allowing Slime to enter along with some Miner Slimes.

Miner Slimes had a bad habit of liking to knock around with their pickaxes, which could be used to explore the dangers inside.

"Xiaoyi, send your doppelganger in too."

After a while, Xiaoruan reported, "All the Miner Slimes are dead, and my doppelganger has fallen too."

Li Cunxu asked, "What danger is inside?"

"There's no mechanism inside, but there are many stone dogs. The Miner Slimes were killed by the stone dogs, and so was my doppelganger."

"Do those stone dogs have a deathly aura about them?"

"Yes."

"The stone dogs you mentioned should be a type of tomb beast, called Tombstone Puppies. These tomb beasts are very skilled at group combat."

The presence of Tombstone Puppies further confirmed that this was a small tomb.

Tombstone Puppies are very weak, ranked at black iron level. If they break through to bronze level, they will evolve into Tombstone Hellhounds.

"These Tombstone Puppies are quite peculiar. I clearly poisoned them with holy toxin, yet they revived immediately."

Li Cuncun was puzzled for a moment. Resurrected? Tombstone Puppies don't have the ability to resurrect?

After thinking for a while, Li Cunxu had an answer.

There must be a Resurrection Tombstone in this tomb chamber.

A Resurrection Tombstone can continuously resurrect tomb beasts, and the stronger the tomb beast, the more energy is consumed for resurrection.

There are two ways to deal with a Resurrection Tombstone: one is to find and destroy it, and the other is to keep killing the tomb beasts, depleting the Resurrection Tombstone's energy, until it's rendered useless.

Li Cunxu chose the second method.

Resurrection Tombstones are generally well-hidden, and finding them amidst the protection of tomb beasts is an extremely difficult task.

However, continuously killing tomb beasts to deplete their resurrection energy is much simpler.

Xiaoruan stood outside the tomb door, bombarding the Tombstone Puppies in the tomb furiously.

Li Cunxu thought this way and did it this way.

Tombstone Puppies are not living creatures but rigid low-level tomb beasts that don't even dodge attacks; they only attack tirelessly.

Attacking is futile due to the vast disparity in strength. Tombstone Puppies can't advance under the barrage of water balls; even the remnants of a single water ball can shatter them.

Even if the Tombstone Puppies advanced under the barrage of water balls, it would be useless since Xiaoruan is outside the tomb, and the puppies can't leave it.

Li Cunxu had no interest in watching the battle and sat down, silently reciting the Clear Heart Technique.

He didn't like fighting tomb beasts because there was no gain from it.

Tomb beasts don't drop skill points or materials, only a pile of useless broken stones.

Xiaoruan bombarded for an hour, switching between various elemental skills.

The water spiritual energy was depleted, so he used wood spiritual energy; after that ran out, he used fire spiritual energy...

An hour later, the Tombstone Puppies stopped resurrecting.

By the time Xiaoruan's spiritual energy was fully restored, they entered the tomb.

Along the way, they encountered many Tombstone Puppies, which were reduced to fragments under Xiaoruan's single water ball.

The tomb chamber wasn't very large, and with rich tomb-exploring experience, Li Cunxu quickly reached the main chamber.

Li Cunxu's eyes lit up upon seeing the main chamber filled with many gold and silver burial items, particularly a large number of small golden dogs.

"It seems the tomb's owner loved dogs a lot during their life."

Gazing at a row of divine script on the redwood coffin in the main chamber left Li Cunxu speechless.

"[To my dearest General Tengu, may you reincarnate by my side in your next life.]"

So, this is a dog's tomb?

When he pried open the coffin lid, a sharp dog mouth imbued with corpse poison lunged at Li Cunxu's arm.

With a tense grip of his hand, a black sickle appeared, and with an involuntary shudder, the dog's head fell instantly.

Looking at the twitching lower half inside the coffin and the grotesque dog head on the ground, continuously opening and closing its jaws,

Li Cunxu took a while to understand what happened.

The 'General Tengu' inside the coffin had undergone corpse transformation, evolving into a Corpse Poison Dog. As soon as the coffin was opened, the dog had planned to jump out and bite him, attempting to infect him.

Corpse Poison Dogs aren't very powerful but have a particularly nasty ability, leading the alliance to immediately exterminate them upon discovery.

This ability is called [Corpse Poison Infection]. Any creature infected by it becomes a Corpse Slave, which can also infect others.

If Corpse Poison Dogs grow stronger, they can incite a mini zombie crisis of Corpse Slaves.

But this Corpse Poison Dog was too weak, and Li Cunxu instinctively decapitated it in his reflexive reaction.

The stronger one was in life, the stronger they are after corpse transformation, and vice versa.

This Corpse Poison Dog must have been very weak in life.

Even if it were strong, it wouldn't pose a life-threatening danger to Li Cunxu. He had the Injury Replacement Scarecrow, which could transfer the bite wound to it, along with the toxin.

Li Cunxu plunged the sickle into the forehead of the Corpse Poison Dog, gradually stopping its head movement.

The Corpse Poison Dog was dead, having dropped no skill seeds nor any of its most valuable toxic resource, the Corpse Poison Bone.

It seemed the Corpse Poison Dog was too weak and hadn't yet produced the Corpse Poison Bone.

"Sigh! Why are you so weak?"

Nonetheless, the Corpse Poison Dog still had value, as its body could be turned over to the alliance for a reward.

An iron-level Corpse Poison Dog could fetch at least a one-star rare item.

Li Cunxu encountered no more danger in the subsequent exploration of the tomb.

Other chambers contained gold and silver burial items, albeit not as many as the main chamber.

The gold burial items would be kept; the silver ones, Li Cunxu intended to feed to the Silver Slime. Once the Silver Slime died, it would yield purified silver ingots.

He planned to sell the silver ingots to buy jade stones.

As to why not sell the silver burial items as antiques?

Because antiques from this era are too numerous and not very valuable.

Li Cunxu deduced from the traces left in the tomb that it only had a history of two hundred years.

Antiques from within the last five hundred years are not very valuable; those from a thousand or ten thousand years ago are the truly valuable ones.

After all, the history of the Human Race here is very long.

Since the decline of the Dragon Race and the Giants, the Human Race has been the continent's Overlord for five hundred thousand years.

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