The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine

Chapter 824: Chapter 824 Explosive Coffin (Large Chapter) Chapter 824: Chapter 824 Explosive Coffin (Large Chapter) “`

Faced with a massive underground cavern that resembled the maw of a demon, everyone present, even the ancient martial arts Great Grandmasters, felt their hearts palpitate.

Huang Xiaolong was about to step down the stone stairs that bordered the cavern.

Suddenly!

“Ahh~~~~~!”

Several ancient martial arts Grandmasters let out cries of horror, as if possessed, hurling themselves toward the depths of the cave like moths to a flame!

“I’m saying, if you want to go down, hurry up and go. Don’t keep staring at this cavern. If you look too long, your mind will become confused and you’ll find yourself jumping down involuntarily, smashing to pieces,” Huang Xiaolong chuckled.

Hearing Huang Xiaolong say this, the people from the ancient martial arts families quickly averted their gazes, not daring to look any longer.

It was too sinister! Several had already died before even descending!

The people from the ancient martial arts families all felt a chill in their hearts.

Without concerning himself with much else, Huang Xiaolong, taking the lead, followed the stone stairs downward.

Ji Zhengyu took a deep breath and thought to himself, with the Master here, even if there were abyssal demons below, they could handle it!

Without delay, Ji Zhengyu also followed closely behind.

Huang Xiaolong’s wives, slaves, and members of the Ying Family swarmed after him. They no longer cared what mysteries or traps might lie beneath; in short, following Huang Xiaolong was invariably the right choice.

The people from the ancient martial arts families hesitated slightly.

It seemed as though some peerless fierce creature lay dormant beneath, causing them great apprehension.

Xuanyuan Zhou gritted his teeth. “Now that things have come to this, we must break through the final barrier no matter what! Passing through means glory and wealth, splendor for a lifetime! The strongest legacy of the Kunlun Sect lies below this cavern! We can’t let Huang Xiaolong monopolize it! Let’s go!”

With a wave of his hand, Xuanyuan Zhou led the large group from the ancient martial arts families as they entered, one after the other!

Even those martial artists who were already blind were supported and led down into the cavern.

The man-made stone stairs were extremely rough; Huang Xiaolong felt somewhat uncomfortable walking on them.

It was pitch black and ghastly within the cavern, so dark that one couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face. Huang Xiaolong produced several bundles of incense, recited the Firebell Spell, and suddenly, the fire illuminated the surroundings, making an area of dozens of meters bright as day.

Upon closer inspection, the edges of the cavern were pockmarked, but there was nothing particularly unusual.

The stone stairs stretched downward continuously, and after walking for more than half an hour, they still hadn’t reached the bottom.

“I think we’ve delved deep into the mountain’s interior, perhaps even beneath the ground,” Huang Xiaolong said, his eyes flashing with intense brilliance. He had a premonition.

He was about to encounter something very interesting—something he had never seen before in his life!

The powerful life aura from deep within the earth became clearer and clearer, seemingly within reach!

Finally, after about another twenty minutes of walking, the stone stairs came to an end.

Before them lay a vast, open area with an underground river flowing in the middle, and the space on both sides didn’t seem too cramped.

Soon, everyone had descended and stood observing their surroundings.

“Let’s go,” Huang Xiaolong said casually, choosing a path on the left side of the underground river and continued forward.

All followed behind Huang Xiaolong, with not a single person rashly choosing the path on the right side of the river.

After about half an hour, suddenly, a mass appeared, slowly drifting over from within the dark river!

“Little Long, look, what is that?” Ma Chuxia pointed casually.

In the midst of speaking, the mass drifted closer, emitting a dismal green light. Against the black waters of the dark river, it was particularly striking and eerily odd.

“Bring it up for a look,” Huang Xiaolong instructed casually.

“Brother-in-law, let me do it,” Ying Aotian stepped forward and, with a wave of his hand, his True Qi formed a giant hand that fished the object out of the water, gently placing it before Huang Xiaolong.

Everyone looked intently and the women by Huang Xiaolong’s side couldn’t help but scream in shock.

As it turned out, the retrieved item was a corpse!

A woman’s corpse!

The cold body emitted a green glow; the scent of death permeated the air.

The female corpse was naked, her skin pale to the point of near-transparency. Her face, well-preserved and lifelike, looked ferocious and terrifying at a glance, like that of a vengeful ghost, with her teeth clenched as if she were in great pain or casting a curse.

“Little Long… this must have been the victim’s expression at the moment of her death,” Ma Chuxia, not very afraid of corpses or evil spirits, observed carefully before speaking. “It’s terrifying. She must have suffered unspeakably brutal punishment before dying… Who killed her? Could it have been someone from the Kunlun Sect?”

“Look, there are some inscriptions on the skin of the deceased,” Huang Xiaolong said, his gaze showing a contemplative expression.

Indeed, the skin of the female corpse was covered in tadpole-like inscriptions, obscure and incomprehensible.

“Eh~~ Little Long, although I don’t recognize any of these inscriptions, they… they look somewhat familiar. I must have seen them somewhere before,” Ying Aoshan suddenly said.

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Ying Xiao also found it somewhat perplexing, “Actually, it does look quite familiar.”

“Hehe~~ of course you find it familiar.” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile. “This female corpse was cursed with a charm spell. Back when we were about to enter the Ying Family’s ancestral grounds, you almost cooked the fish that had been bewitched into fish soup.”

“Oh! Right! No wonder! The runes on this female corpse are exactly the same as the ones on the large urn you fished out of the river back then!” Ying Xiao’s eyes lit up.

“After this woman was killed, she was cursed with a charm spell, so her soul has not been set free, which means she wasn’t even able to become a ghost. Her resentful spirit was sealed inside the corpse.” Huang Xiaolong murmured, “What was being nurtured inside the female corpse?”

Just at this moment!

In front of the dark river, a dense and terrible green light suddenly lit up!

Looking up, an innumerable number of female corpses were drifting towards them!

The mysterious and eerie, evil aura spread along the dark river, causing the heartbeats of the people on the bank to suddenly quicken, unfounded feelings of loss, despair, and sadness emerged in their hearts, as if they had plunged into a nightmare!

“Damn it! What the hell is this!” Xuanyuan Zhou cursed through clenched teeth.

Soon, a large number of female corpses had drifted to the side of the ancient martial families.

Many were horrified as they watched the female corpses.

Just at this moment!

One of the female corpses suddenly expanded, as if it was a balloon being inflated!

In just a few breaths, the female corpse became bloated and continued to swell.

“What does this mean!”

The next second——

Bang!!!!!

The swollen female corpse finally could not take the strain and exploded!

In an instant, a large number of black, worm-like objects burst out from the inside of the female corpse and, like arrows, shot towards the ancient martial families on the bank!

This sudden turn of events caught the ancient martial families completely off guard.

Huang Xiaolong saw clearly that what burst out from inside the female corpse were black, strange snakes.

These weird snakes were only about ten centimeters long, entirely black, without scales, sticky, and seemingly eyeless. On their heads, there was a fist-sized lump that looked extremely ugly and evil.

The strange snakes instantly bit several martial artists.

“Ahhh~~~!!!!!”

The excruciating screams were relentless as about a dozen martial artists bitten by the strange snakes let out pigslaughter-like yells, fell to the ground, convulsing continually, their skin visibly turning jet black at a rate visible to the naked eye!

Death!

The martial artists bitten by the strange snakes writhed for a moment and then died completely.

You should know that a Great Grandmaster with True Qi protecting their body was generally invulnerable to all poisons, and even if bitten by the most venomous snake in the world, they would not die, and maybe would not be affected at all.

But the strange snakes that exploded from the female corpse could ignore the True Qi defenses of the Great Grandmasters, killing them instantly—it was truly terrifying!

“It’s snakes! Snakes! They’re extremely venomous!”

Many Grandmasters reacted swiftly, their True Qi slashing out like a blade, cutting the strange snakes lunging at them into two pieces.

However, those severed snakes did not die immediately; the halved heads, like lightning, continued to spring towards the martial artists, and in the blink of an eye, they had bitten and killed another dozen or so martial artists.

Terrible!

This was simply the world’s most venomous, terrifying snake!

“Too… too… too terrifying…” Only after using True Qi to blast all the strange snakes into pieces did the martial artists manage to speak with trembling voices, filled with horror.

Just at this moment——

Gurgle~~

Gurgle~~

Gurgle~~

…

All the female corpses drifting in the dark river started to swell up!

At this moment, more and more female corpses were drifting from the front, densely packed, even overlapping each other, causing congestion in the dark river.

The number of female corpses was probably in the thousands.

So many female corpses swelling up together was a spectacular sight!

Each female corpse contained roughly dozens of monstrous snakes, meaning if all the female corpses exploded, at least tens of thousands of monstrous snakes would burst forth!

The venom of these monstrous snakes was so fierce it could easily poison a Great Grandmaster of ancient martial arts; tens of thousands of snakes, bombarding in turns, could likely cause widespread death among the ancient martial arts families. The loss was unimaginable!

Even family heads like Xuanyuan Zhou, who were masters of their domains, now felt an intense suffocation, their minds going blank.

“A bunch of useless things~~~” Huang Xiaolong said with a face full of ridicule, shaking his head and smiling, before promptly biting his tongue tip and spraying out a mouthful of essence blood.

The essence blood hovered in air without dispersing.

Huang Xiaolong used the blood to draw symbols, muttering under his breath.

Finally, he pressed a hand onto the blood symbol he had drawn in the void.

Boom~~~!

Giant fire swept across the field!

The symbols Huang Xiaolong drew, every stroke and line, emitted dazzling golden light as if it was the authority of heaven!

The blood symbol turned into a seven-zhang-long fire dragon with its claws outstretched, whiskers fluttering, emitting a deep and majestic dragon chant as it swept directly across the surface of the dark river!

Boom~~~!!!!

The entire dark river burst into roaring flames.

All the female corpses, which were about to swell and explode, were burned to ashes.

The martial artists present were so stunned that they saw the seven-zhang fire dragon, then looked at Huang Xiaolong, who remained calm and collected, their knees weakened instantly, and many martial artists knelt down on the spot before Huang Xiaolong.

Yan Pianpian and Feng Hanyan had adoration and affection difficult to describe in their eyes, trembling with excitement.

Ma Chuxia chuckled beside them, “Little Long has got some serious skills. What you all see is always just the tip of the iceberg. Have you decided yet, whether or not you want to be Little Long’s women?”

The expressions on Yan Pianpian and Feng Hanyan showed they were more than willing; they were just short of nodding their heads immediately.

At that moment, Ma Chuxia asked, “Little Long, what’s going on here? Why would the female corpses contain such venomous monstrous snakes?”

“Oh, that’s simple. It’s actually an evil mysterious art that kills women with the world’s cruelest punishments, then seals their resentful souls inside their bodies using the mysterious art. Then, they implant snake eggs into the dead bodies. Hence, when the snake eggs hatch, the monstrous snakes feed on the resentment of the female corpses and become extremely venomous. This venom can’t be cured by any medicine or remedies; it is formed by the dead’s yin souls and resentment. Even a Great Grandmaster of ancient martial arts cannot withstand it.”

“Snakes are cold-blooded creatures. With so many of us entering here, emitting True Qi from our bodies, the snakes were provoked and burst directly out from within the female corpses, attacking wildly.”

Huang Xiaolong’s analysis was clear and logical, impressing the listeners.

“Alright, these endless traps can’t stop young master me. Heh heh, I must obtain the so-called strongest inheritance of the Kunlun School! Let’s go!” Huang Xiaolong waved his hand and led the way forward.

Thousands followed closely behind him.

After another hour or so of walking.

A huge natural cavity appeared ahead!

Thump thump~~ thump thump~~~ thump thump~~~~

From inside the cavity, there came a faint sound similar to a heartbeat, a terrifying life force coming at them face-on, causing oppression, suffocation!

“Master… it’s… it’s… it’s inside…” Ji Zhengyu, in the role of Xu, was overwhelmed by innate fear at this moment.

“Hahahahaha~~~ What could it be? The mystery is about to be unravelled, and I’m feeling a little excited~~~” Huang Xiaolong rubbed his hands and walked directly into the natural cavity.

The people behind followed in single file.

Inside the cavity!

This cavity was unimaginably large; looking up, the top seemed endlessly high. Even with the light of True Qi from thousands of Great Grandmasters and the brightness of the candles in Huang Xiaolong’s hand, they could not light up the very top.

In the center of the cavity stood a sky-reaching giant tree!

This tree was at least as tall as a ten-story building, lush and leafy. Its roots were not underground but entwined like dragons, extending in all directions inside the cavity.

The tree emitted a cold, metallic luster, appearing incredibly tough.

Seeing this tree, Huang Xiaolong narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Little Long, this is strange. This tree grows underground without sunlight, so why is it thriving so well?” Ma Chuxia was full of curiosity.

“Though there’s no sunlight, there are nutrients,” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile, turning the candle in his hand to a different angle. In a corner of the cavity, there was a heap of bones!

Piles of bones stacked together, rising to a height of more than ten meters — likely tens of thousands of skeletons!

Many roots of the giant tree were probing into the skeletons as if they were relying on the nutrients from the corpses to grow so vigorously.

“Master! Over there!” Ji Zhengyu’s voice trembled as he pointed.

Among the tangled roots of the giant tree below, a coffin was encased.

“A coffin made from the Kunlun sacred tree,” Huang Xiaolong nodded slightly. “The body inside the coffin remains undecayed after ten thousand years, preserving its appearance from life.”

“Master… it’s that coffin! The coffin is emitting an extremely evil presence, as well as a terrifying life force! It’s that coffin!” Ji Zhengyu cried out in alarm.

“Could it be that the so-called strongest inheritance of the Kunlun Sect is inside that coffin?” Ma Chuxia was also full of suspicion.

Just then, everyone began to smell a mysterious fragrance permeating the air of the great cavern.

“Oh?” Huang Xiaolong frowned slightly and followed the scent. He saw that in some areas of the cavern, there were many black flowers growing.

Those black flowers were very sinister-looking, each petal hexagon-shaped.

Beyond their fragrant scent, if one listened closely, it seemed as if each flower was emitting a seductive whisper.

It was as if a devil were speaking!

“The legendary ancient devil flower, the Six-desire devil flower?” Huang Xiaolong’s eyes lit up. “Six-desire devil flower, seductive devil whispers, tempting one’s senses, inducing intense illusions…”

With a thought, Huang Xiaolong took out a handful of magical talismans from his canvas bag and scattered them through the air like a shower of flowers.

The talismans burned in the air, transforming into streams of golden light.

However, at that moment, within the ranks of the ancient martial families, a group of martial artists revealed an extreme greed in their eyes, their mouths twisting into bizarre smiles.

The next second!

“Kill!!!!” Xuanyuan Zhou let out a mad cry, swinging his right hand, True Qi burst forth, severing the waists of several members of the Xuanyuan Family beside him!

Blood sprayed wildly!

At the same time, many martial artists went mad, launching deadly attacks on their relatives next to them!

“Ah~~ Father! Why are you killing me!”

“Ah~~ No! Don’t kill me! Uncle!”

“Kill! Kill! Slaughter everyone under the heavens! Kill! Only I reign supreme!”

…

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

Screams of agony, the sound of bones shattering, the explosion of True Qi…

In a flash, several hundred fresh corpses lay in the cavern, the smell of blood rising to the heavens.

It was only after the talismans had burned and their golden light shone like the blazing sun that those who had fallen into madness regained their sanity.

Huang Xiaolong and Ji Zhengyu, Ying Xiao, and the others burst forth with True Qi, destroying all the Six-desire devil flowers inside the cavern!

“Impressive, impressive, to have planted the Six-desire devil flowers to make those who entered here kill each other, creating rivers of blood,” Huang Xiaolong scoffed coldly.

At this moment, those martial artists who had engaged in the killing finally snapped out of it, holding the corpses of their relatives on the ground, and began crying out in sorrow, overwhelmed with grief.

However, just then!

Bang~~Bang~~Bang~~~Bang~~~

Strange noises.

Huang Xiaolong’s gaze sharpened as he saw the coffin made from the Kunlun sacred tree. The lid of the coffin was bouncing up and down as if something extremely ferocious inside the coffin was trying to break free!

“Xiaolong… it’s the scent of blood here, seeping into the coffin, agitating something inside… could it be a zombie?” Ma Chuxia reacted quickly.

Inside the great cavern, the martial artists also stopped their mournful wailing, a hush fell over them, and every person pricked up their ears, listening to the sound of the bouncing coffin lid.

A sense of nameless tension, oppression, and terror spread throughout the cavern.

“Careful… careful… inside the coffin, is… is… what is it?” Xuanyuan Zhou’s face turned ashen as he continued backing away.

Just at this moment!

Bang~~~~!!!!

An explosive sound!

The coffin burst open!

A fearsome presence, unparalleled in its ferocity, soared into the sky!

Crack~~~~

The sensation of a behemoth awakening, the return of a king, spread swiftly!

This presence was incredibly powerful, yet it also contained a tyrant’s cruelty, slaughter, and indifference!

“Oh, it has finally come out…” Huang Xiaolong sneered, his eyes filled with excitement.

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