"Good thing you held it in." Alex laughed.
"If you had not held it in, I reckon you really would have fallen into the river and been dragged away by those Fishmen for a kiss."
With lingering fear in his heart, Noah let out a long breath and said with chagrin. "However, Saint Lord, I genuinely admire you to the point of death."
"Your strength is clearly so powerful that you could have directly bombarded this pool into flat ground."
"Yet facing the provocations of that group of Fishmen, you actually did not unleash a single move from start to finish, and just walked calmly across the entire bridge."
"Such spirit, such broad-mindedness, I am afraid I will not be able to learn it in my entire lifetime!"
The Grave-Digging Ghost on the side immediately chimed in. "Of course, who is my Master? A divine being!"
"With his abilities, even without my assistance, flattening this ancient tomb would be as easy as lifting a hand!"
Alex shot a glance at the Grave-Digging Ghost, unable to help but twitch his mouth.
How come when it was the exact same flattery, coming from Noah’s mouth it felt quite pleasant and acceptable? But coming from the Grave-Digging Ghost’s mouth, it seemed so exaggerated and absurd, almost as if it were being weirdly sarcastic.
"Alright, no need to say more. Let us keep moving."
After passing the Bridge of Banned Magic, they were considered to have officially entered the interior of the ancient tomb.
Along the tomb passage on both sides stood rows of stone pedestals.
On each pedestal, an ancient treasure was displayed. Even having been deeply buried for tens of thousands of years in this dark ancient tomb, they still exuded a faint luster, proving they were absolutely not ordinary items.
Alex could not be bothered to care about what they were. He simply accepted everything his eyes fell upon, sweeping all the treasures into his storage ring.
Either way, these things would definitely be useful.
After weaving through the numerous stone pedestals, a nine-foot giant stele stood before them. Densely packed characters were engraved on the stele using blood-red cinnabar, almost filling it completely.
However, Alex could not understand a single character on this stele. It was as if he had suddenly become illiterate.
Left with no choice, he cast a seeking gaze toward the Grave-Digging Ghost. "Can you read the words on this?"
"Mhm, this is the Ghost Script used by the ancient Ghost Race. I did some research on it back in the day." The Grave-Digging Ghost stroked its chin and started reading the contents line by line from the top.
After finishing the first three lines, its eyes instantly lit up. "Master, this is incredible!"
"No wonder this tomb chamber exudes such formidable spiritual energy."
"It turns out that this is the tomb of one of the Four Great Ancient Zombie Kings, Quill!"
"Quill?" Hearing this, Alex’s heart instantly gave a violent jolt.
He was absolutely no stranger to this grouping.
At the climax of the original novel’s ending, when Knox challenged the Ten Divine Kings to prove his Dao as a God, these four were members of his ultimate protagonist party.
The Four Great Ancient Zombie Kings: Quill, Adyr, Morwen, and Gilbert.
All four were primeval progenitors of the zombie race, old monsters that had survived for hundreds of thousands of years.
Zombies were beings who harbored resentment in their hearts and died but remained unyielding.
When a corpse fraudulently moved, it became a zombie. However, in the present world, zombies had basically gone extinct. Because aside from looking slightly scary, they possessed almost zero combat power.
Even a mere Qi Gathering Realm cultivator could easily slaughter through a horde of them.
However, the power of a Zombie King was a completely different matter, a difference as vast as the heavens and the earth.
These Four Great Zombie Kings all possessed unique innate divine abilities.
Adyr was bad-tempered and would kill anyone who angered him.
Gilbert possessed a pair of Zombie King Wings, capable of ascending to the heavens, plunging into the earth, and traversing freely across all realms.
Morwen was the legendary progenitor demon of drought, with a wave of her hand, she could cause tens of thousands of acres of crops to wither, and could casually use witchcraft to turn tens of millions of acres of wheat seedlings into corpse seedlings condensed with yin energy.
And the owner of this tomb, Quill, was the universally acknowledged leader among the Four Great Zombie Kings.
Not only did he possess formidable innate divine abilities, but his temperament was treacherous and capricious, adept at political maneuvering and schemes, with an extremely deep mind.
Quill was not bad-tempered like Adyr, nor playful and lazy like Gilbert, nor did he harbor extreme prejudices like Morwen.
If anyone offended him, it would be equivalent to a fate worse than death.
Because no matter what method you used, it was impossible to completely kill a zombie progenitor.
And as long as he could not be killed, he would launch endless revenge against you, leaving you to live in fear for all eternity.
"Hmm? That is not right." Alex frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice.
"Quill is a zombie progenitor. There is absolutely no method in this world that can kill him."
"Since he is immortal and indestructible, how could there be a tomb chamber for him?"
The Grave-Digging Ghost explained. "Master, there is something you do not know."
"Although the Four Great Ancient Zombie Kings are immortal and indestructible, they are not invincible existences."
"Because their lifespans are infinite, defying the Heavenly Dao, thousands of years ago, a Great Emperor descended from the Immortal Realm to judge them."
"That Great Emperor gave the Four Great Zombie Kings one year to each build a tomb chamber for themselves."
"Then, using an Emperor Weapon to execute a sealing technique, he sealed all four within their respective tomb chambers."
Alex was stunned. "Such a thing happened?"
These matters were not mentioned or recorded in the original novel.
In the original novel, when Knox was dueling against the Outer Realm Demon Race, a demon lord fought him desperately with his life on the line, sucking him into a black hole space.