They wouldn't personally scout the path themselves.
Of course, they also started selling so goods, exchanging resources.
Seeing other families set up stalls and start a temporary market, Jiucai Rong and the others didn't feel out of place and directly took out painting cards to set up stalls for everyone and began introducing them.
"Everyone, this low-tier communication magical artifact is much better than your Yunshan City's Mother and Child Rings. Yours need to be collided, pressed, making a ding-ding sound that attracts enemies."
"Ours is handwritten; no sound, making communication safer."
Many young people were a bit tempted. Indeed, it's not good to make noise when raiding a tomb, and the painting card is a powerful tool for tomb communication.
The lowest blind boxes, at 49 Magic Coins a pair, are not expensive.
For a family of three, the three-pack costs 73 Magic Coins, and four generations under one roof cost 95 Magic Coins... a bit pricey.
Many gritted their teeth and bought the basic version.
And the blacksmiths also strolled around, gaining insight from this temporary market.
Among them, the Shi Family's stall was the most crowded because everyone was buying various professional tomb raiding tools.
"How much is this?" Shao Chaikun asked curiously.
The female cultivator from the Shi Family at the stall introduced,
"Concealing Breath Talisman, essential for tomb raiding, as the breath of the living is too delicious for Great Calamities and Ghosts, making it easily discovered. This talisman can shield the breath of the living within a certain range, but might be ineffective against really sensitive Great Calamities."
"Of course, there's also this Corpse Cloth, specially treated, to give you a Ghost Qi aura when worn."
The other party continuously introduced various tomb raiding tools.
Things like compasses, tools for detecting dense Yin Qi...
The blacksmiths listened for a while, one by one gritting their teeth, bought so talismans, feeling that this ga was a money pit, frantically swindling money.
These NPCs are just too cunning!
Not only do we earn their money, but they earn ours too.
After walking around, purchasing supplies, the tomb entrance had already opened.
The inside of the cave was inky black.
According to detection, the interior of the tomb was enormous, almost hollowing out a mountain range. It wasn't on the sa scale as the ancestral Paper House mansion of the mountain villa.
It was clear how extravagant this governor had been in life.
At this ti,
A group of young cultivators didn't hesitate, rushing into the tomb.
"Let's go."
Shi Youyou was the first to lead the way, charging forward.
She clutched the Teleportation Talisman in her hand, a Life-Saving Talisman she had as a core mber. Unless an expert from the Three Elents Realm struck her down in an instant, she could teleport away as long as she had the chance.
"This is my first official training session, the first ti leading a tomb raid alone."
She paused, her expression solemn.
Yesterday, the Blood Separation Flower Family showcased themselves well, shining brightly and took first place!
But today, tomb raiding is the Shi Family's domain.
As one of the two leading families alongside the Blood Separation Flower Family, she had to showcase her abilities too.
Showing these tomb raiding amateurs what a Tomb Raider Family is.
She sniffed the musty air, "This sll, there's actually so bloody ancient torture devices... Why would a scholar's residence have these?"
"It doesn't add up, this tomb has problems."
She cautiously walked into the tomb passage, looking at the layout, touching the stone bricks on the walls, and spoke deep:
"This style, common in Court's dungeons, torture chambers, judgnt prisons, and such facilities."
"The tomb we're in, if I'm not mistaken, is built in an ultra-large prison architectural style."
"This is extrely rare, as tombs are usually large residences for the dead, why is a tomb built into a Court's prison?"
She furrowed her brows, recalling what she learned throughout her education, suddenly thinking of sothing.
"It should be that the tomb's owner, in life, lived in prison for years, managing it. This city guard perhaps died suddenly in prison due to an accident."
"After his death, he remained in his life's logic, thought himself in prison. So his relatives fashioned his tomb into a massive prison."
She unraveled the history of the ancient tomb piece by piece, restoring the truth of the past.
"So, here, there will not be regular noble tomb attendants like servants, maids, butlers... Instead, those accompanied might be prisoners!"
"That's right, instead of buying maids for burial, they bought prisoners, interred in prison-like ways, allowing the tomb owner to maintain his daily activities—torturing, interrogating prisoners."
"Therefore, we would encounter prisoners notorious for cris that shock the heavens in this tomb... and patrolling prison guards, and the tomb owner too..."
...
After she finished her intricate analysis, she realized there was no sound behind her.
It seed they were all amazed by her exquisite tomb raiding techniques.
Turning her head.
Her entire smile froze.
Because every one of them had already pried the floorboards, squatting on the floor with the joy-filled expression with their so-called godly crowbars.
Shi Youyou hesitated for a mont, opened her mouth and said,
"What are you doing, we are tomb raiders, not construction workers, why prying up the floorboards before going further inside?"
"How much is the floor tile worth? Pryed up seventeen or eighteen pieces, maybe only worth a Magic Coin."
She felt a little embarrassed to lose face like this.
The other cultivators from the demon families froze for a mont, also watching this group of blacksmiths pry the floors.
They didn't understand the specifics of tomb raiding, and a herd ntality made them hesitate for a mont.
Plus, after yesterday's bricklaying training, teaching they should earn even a Magic Coin, along with the Blood Separation Flower Family's leadership charisma...
"Then I'll join, living cautiously is key, only surviving can you output, survive and see tomorrow!" The chubby boy from the Zhu Family was the first to start prying the floorboards as well.
Others hesitated, and seeing soone lead, they followed in prying too.
It was a fiery and bustling scene.
Shi Youyou found herself in a dilemma with such rich tomb raiding experience, judging direction, surroundings, assessing dense Yin Qi. And yet, they're all digging the earth?
She paused in contemplation, and led the team to pry the floorboards too.
She started slacking off too.
Anyway, it was better to stay with the main group than venture alone.
Yes, let them pry up the floorboard first, get accustod to the tomb environnt before moving forward.
A group of people continued yesterday's work—continued carrying bricks.
Transporting bricks from the tunnel outside, slowly stacking brick mountains outside the house built yesterday.
Watching this, the family heads of the demon cultivator families stood in slack-jawed amazent.
They asked Shi Youxing, "Has your family's tomb raiding technology, young people's demon cultivator education, also been revamped?"
Shi Youxing shook her head imdiately, refusing to lose face: "It's the exclusive tomb raiding technology of the Blood Separation Flower Family. Apparently, they too have recently been researching tomb raiding, exploring new inheritances...?"
She posed questioningly.
A group of demon cultivators dug, going further and further along.
Crack.
Suddenly a girl blacksmith was smashed by a brick.
Shi Youyou went up to have a look, saying: "Don't carry bricks, you've broken your hand, not doing heavy work, careful healing, half a month will be enough."
The girl froze, and imdiately burst into tearful grievance:
"Why, why treat like this? I want to carry bricks. I really want to carry bricks. I'm still a little short of money for my hairpin. I promised my sisters to earn money in the tomb, then craft a hairpin together. Is my hand really broken now, requiring half a month recovery?"
"Yes, it requires half a month." Shi Youyou was evidently experienced, seeing through the injury at a glance.
"No, I won't rest, even with one hand, I will persevere." The girl, eyes brimming with tears, felt very upset.
Entering the tomb only once, as Jiucai Rong said, once resurrected, you can't return.
Thinking of this, she was even more aggrieved:
"Wah wah, with a broken hand, I don't want to live and erge from the ancient tomb. Later, I will scout for you, and in crucial tis, dispose of ."
"If my body can be brought back, do it. If not, just send 100 Magic Coins as burial fees to my siblings back ho, as a token gesture."
Then, looking at the terror-stricken faces around her,
The tearful, helpless girl, incredibly committed despite her disability, a hand hanging in a twisted manner, continued one-handedly carrying bricks, prying the floor.
"..."
Shi Youyou and several others were stunned on the spot.
Wasn't it just a fracture, needing half a month's rest?
It sounds like she's terminally ill, handing out last will instructions.
This family, even such a sweet and lovely girl is that fierce, with a broken hand, still working, till dying deadened, ready to heroically sacrifice?
They felt a spirit among this generation of demon cultivator disciples that was hard to describe.
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