Mountain village beauty: Brother, don't stop!

Chapter 325: 325

Generally, by nightfall, wild beasts and poisonous creatures would often appear in the back mountain, making all sorts of strange noises, so everyone had their dinner and closed their doors early to sleep.

Wang Hao wasn’t afraid, he had even encountered fierce ghosts, so why would he fear these animals?

The two of them went straight to the odd tree.

Climbing up the tree, Wang Hao found the rope inside the hollow was still there, and he and Su Zhenping descended along the rope.

Wang Hao remembered there used to be many poisonous centipedes here, and although he wasn’t worried about getting bitten by them, Su Zhenping was, so they both trod very cautiously.

To Wang Hao’s surprise, not a single one of these poisonous centipedes appeared; he wondered where they had gone as the two of them made their way to the side of the coffin.

"My goodness, is this the box that Shen Nong used to store medicinal herbs?" frёeωebɳovel.com

As soon as they arrived, Su Zhenping exclaimed, and after seeing the mysterious box, he couldn’t take his eyes off it.

"Don’t just focus on that box, help me look for that medicine I gave you last time."

Wang Hao searched around with a flashlight, but he couldn’t find any trace of the medicine inside the whole coffin.

"Shall we open this coffin and look inside?"

After searching the entire tomb chamber without result, Su Zhenping finally set his gaze on the coffin before him.

Wang Hao was shocked at Su Zhenping’s suggestion.

This was Shen Nong’s ancient tomb, and if it were damaged, the loss to archaeology would be immeasurable.

Last time, Wang Hao felt guilty for taking away the "Shen Nong’s Herbal Studies" written on animal hide; could he really dig up someone’s grave completely? Was that not too disrespectful?

Wang Hao hesitated.

"I know you want to protect the integrity of these cultural relics as much as possible, but is the integrity of these relics more important to you now, or is Ya Ya’s life?"

Su Zhenping was very curious and eager to open the coffin, but without Wang Hao’s agreement, he couldn’t open it alone.

Wang Hao still didn’t move, seemingly unwilling to do so; after all, Shen Nong was revered in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, a godlike figure to whom everyone felt reverence.

"Have you ever thought about why Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs?"

Su Zhenping began to patiently persuade Wang Hao.

"It was for saving people. Think about it, if Shen Nong knew you were opening his coffin to save someone, he would definitely not blame you."

"And Shen Nong spent his whole life writing medical books and refining medicines, all to heal the sick and relieve the suffering of people."

"If there are other medical books and secrets in his coffin, he would be most willing to share them to heal and save people."

Following Su Zhenping’s speech, Wang Hao’s resolve softened.

Feeling that Su Zhenping made some sense, Wang Hao believed that if Shen Nong were still alive, he surely wouldn’t stand by and watch someone die.

"Alright, let’s get started!"

Wang Hao gritted his teeth and decided to open the coffin.

The two immediately took out crowbars they had brought with them, and got to work right away.

But this was not an ordinary wooden coffin, it was a solid stone sarcophagus, which was not nailed shut, so the two could only look for gaps on the stone lid, then insert the crowbars into the crevice to pry it open.

After searching around, they couldn’t find a single gap.

"Were the ancient people’s coffin-sealing skills this advanced?"

Patting his head, Su Zhenping felt around the stone sarcophagus again.

"No way, the polishing technique is this good? Not even a single gap is left? That’s impossible!"

Unable to find a gap, they couldn’t open the coffin, but opening Shen Nong’s coffin was the only way to find the cure for Ya Ya. Wang Hao didn’t want to give up, so he decided to force it, quietly channeling the energy of the Heart of the Dragon.

"I apologize, I’ve offended you today!"

Wang Hao suddenly shouted and gathered all the Heart of the Dragon energy into his hands, pushing fiercely forward with both palms.

"Boom——"

Just as Wang Hao’s palms were about to land on the coffin, the entire tomb chamber was violently shaken.

But Wang Hao hadn’t exerted that much force at all, it was a force rebounding from inside the coffin, a shock that emerged to protect the stone coffin from damage.

Wang Hao worried secretly, Could the tomb owner be angry?

After the palm strike, the tomb chamber quivered briefly before immediately returning to calm, and the coffin remained unmoved.

"Have you lost your mind? That’s a real stone coffin, do you think you are Iron Sand Palm, able to open it with a single strike?"

Su Zhenping chided, but his heart was still filled with astonishment; the force behind Wang Hao’s palm strike was truly terrifying.

As soon as Su Zhenping’s words fell, a "crack" sound suddenly came from the stone coffin.

The two widened their eyes in surprise to find that a crack had appeared on the surface of the coffin, with fissures spreading across the entire coffin.

"You actually opened it!"

Su Zhenping looked at the stone coffin in amazement.

Inwardly, Wang Hao found it very strange because his last palm strike was obviously blocked by this mysterious force before it hit the coffin, so how did the coffin open on its own?

Suddenly, Wang Hao remembered what that strange old man in the Zao City antique district had said, the first owner of the Heart of the Dragon was Shen Nong.

Could it be because Wang Hao used the Heart of the Dragon that the stone coffin opened by itself?

Su Zhenping, however, didn’t care about that and went to pry open the stone coffin.

But the stone coffin was indeed too heavy. Even after inserting a crowbar, Su Zhenping alone definitely couldn’t move it.

Seeing this, Wang Hao didn’t care about anything else and directly grabbed a tool to help.

The stone coffin was nearly as tall as a person; the two of them, one at the front and one at the back, pushed together, and finally, it budged slightly.

So, after loosening the lid of the coffin, they tried to push it off, and in the end, it was Wang Hao using the energy of the Heart of the Dragon that completely slid the lid aside.

At the moment when the lid of the coffin was pushed open, both of them instantly felt a chill sweep over them, as if a bone-chilling wind had blown through.

And this coldness was emanating from inside the coffin.

Su Zhenping swallowed nervously, looking towards Wang Hao. This was a historical moment, and it was impossible not to feel tense.

"It’s already open, why be polite?"

Wang Hao seemed to see through it all and said as he walked over to examine the coffin.

"What’s going on here?"

When Su Zhenping followed and took a look, he was stunned.

Inside the stone coffin was empty, completely devoid of any body.

Not only was there no body, but there were also no clothes or bones, just an empty coffin.

This outcome was beyond what Wang Hao and Su Zhenping had expected. The ancient people went through great lengths to construct such a magnificent palace, but the coffin was empty.

If the body had decomposed, there should still be clothes and bones, right? How could there be nothing at all?

It wasn’t possible that Shen Nong had risen from the dead, opened the coffin from inside, and then resealed it himself, was it?

Such a thought was simply too absurd.

Moreover, Wang Hao had clearly felt a strange force inside the coffin, indicating that there must have been something. But later, something happened, and it was gone.

Therefore, Su Zhenping began to doubt.

"Could this tomb be fake?"