Tomb Raider: Evolution of the Red Dragon, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

Chapter 18 Identity Exposed, Dragon Bone Book!
Professor Chen, Shirley Yang and others felt tired after the excitement of discovering the stone statue with giant pupils wore off.

Everyone fell asleep.

Hu Bayi and Wang Fatty were responsible for keeping watch.

Jiang Hua sat cross-legged on the ground and began to practice.

He wanted to break through to the second-grade warrior realm.

Unfortunately, this is not so easy to break through.

Jiang Hua's membrane has been tempered to perfection, and his true energy is constantly flowing under the membrane, like steel.

And want to break through to the second level.

That requires infusing true energy into the flesh and blood.

There is a thin membrane between the skin and the flesh, which blocks the path of the true qi.

Therefore, Jiang Hua needed to break through that thin membrane and allow his true energy to enter a wider world.

This is not a simple matter.

The film looks thin, but it is extremely strong.

Jiang Hua needs to find a point and then use his true energy to continuously impact it. After a long period of ink painting skills, sooner or later he will be able to break through this thin film.

However, this takes a long time.

Jiang Hua hopes that he can reach the level of a second-grade warrior in a short period of time.

He held the bead in his hand, and the gentle energy entered his body and transformed into true energy. Under Jiang Hua's control, it continued to charge towards a point.

Every time he charged, Jiang Hua could feel a piercing pain in his flesh and blood, as if someone was drilling into his body with a drill.

After practicing for about two hours,
Jiang Hua was already sweating profusely.

He felt that his spirit had become weak.

He had to stop practicing.

“Hey, even if I have enough energy, it will take more than ten days to break through to the second-level warrior.”

"This speed is too slow!"

If this is told to his father.

His father must have been unable to bear it and kicked him in the face.

So shameless!
It only takes a dozen days to break through the barrier from the first to the second grade.

This is super fast, okay?

When Jiang Bainian made a breakthrough, it took him two or three years of hard work and constant use of his true energy before he finally broke through this barrier.

Now it only takes a dozen days, and you are still complaining about this and that...

"Forget it, haste makes waste!"

"Now we can only take it slow!"

He opened his eyes and saw Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang chatting not far away.

Jiang Hua thought about it and moved closer.

"Hey, Brother Jiang, you haven't slept yet?" Hu Bayi said with a smile.

"You can't sleep. If you are tired, you can go to bed and I will keep watch for you."

"Hey, Brother Jiang, how can this be possible?"

Fatty Wang also said, "Brother Jiang, you are intellectuals, and Lao Hu and I are rough people. It is enough for us to sleep for half a night."

"There's no need to be so particular. Fatty, you're insulting me, right?" Jiang Hua scolded with a smile.

The three of them sat next to the cave entrance, listening to the howling of the wind and sand outside, and began chatting with each other.

"Hey, Brother Jiang, do you think we can find the Jingjue Ancient City?"

"This place is not far from the Jingjue Ancient City. It shouldn't be a problem to find the Jingjue Ancient City."

"Then doesn't that mean that Lao Hu and I will get the 20,000 US dollars?"

Fatty Wang said happily.

"Twenty thousand US dollars is not so easy to get. The Jingjue Ancient City is very dangerous." Jiang Hua shook his head.

"It's okay. I'm strong. No matter what monsters they are, they will all run away in front of me!"

Jiang Hua sighed, not knowing what to say.

There is a ghost cave curse in the ancient city of Jingjue, and this curse can only be broken with the Zhuchen Pearl.

If the system hadn't allowed him to enter the Jingjue Ancient City to find the secret of the Red Dragon bloodline, he wouldn't have wanted to go in.

Actually, there was no need for Hu Bayi, Fatty and the others to go in.

It's not worth it for that ten thousand dollars!

However, Jiang Hua also understood that even if he told Lao Hu and the others not to go in, they might not listen to him.

"Hey, Brother Jiang, I really think that foreign girl's purpose for coming to Jingjue Ancient City is not simple."

Lao Hu frowned: "Fatty!"

"Hey, Lao Hu, I wasn't wrong. She kept saying that she came to Jingjue Ancient City to look for her father, but after she came out of Kunlun Glacier, she basically stopped talking about it."

Suddenly, the fat man felt a chill on his back.

"Hey, why do I feel a little cold?"

Hu Bayi and Jiang Hua both concealed their smiles and looked behind him.

Fatty Wang was startled: "Old Hu, what's wrong with you guys?"

Hu Bayi winked and asked him to look behind him.

Fatty Wang turned around and saw Shirley Yang standing behind him, looking at him calmly. Fatty Wang was startled and couldn't help but stand up.

"You, when did you come?"

"While you're talking, I'm already here."

“Well, then you heard everything…” Fatty Wang stuttered. It was really embarrassing to be arrested on the spot for talking bad about others behind their backs.

"I heard you, what's wrong?"

Shirley Yang looked calm.

Fatty Wang was a little confused and said, "You, you won't deduct our wages, right?"

They were discovered anyway.
Love as much as you like!

As long as his salary is not deducted, everything is fine!

Jiang Hua laughed, stood up and said, "Fatty, I believe Miss Yang, she has no bad intentions!"

"Tsk! Who knows!"

Fatty Wang curled his lips slightly and muttered.

Shirley Yang sat down and roasted the campfire with a calm face, as if she didn't care about what the fat man said at all.

"Mr. Hu, if I'm not mistaken, your ancestor wasn't a Feng Shui master, right?"

Hu Bayi was stunned for a moment.

"What do you mean?"

Shirley Yang looked at Fatty Wang again, "Mr. Wang, your background is not simple, right?"

Hu Bayi and Fatty frowned, not knowing what she meant.

Only Jiang Hua found it funny. Shirley Yang should have seen through their identities long ago.

"Since the first time I saw you, I noticed that you had a strong earthy smell, and this kind of earthy smell can only be found in one kind of people in this world..."

Shirley Yang smiled, "Mr. Hu, Mr. Wang, I don't need to tell you the answer, do I? Do you want me to tell Professor Chen about this?"

Fatty Wang widened his eyes in disbelief.

He didn't expect that his and Lao Hu's identities would be discovered at a glance.

"You threaten us?"

Shirley Yang ignored him and pointed at the tomb-grabbing talisman on Hu Bayi's neck.

"And the things around your necks also give away your identities!"

"am I right?"

"Two tomb raiders?!"

……

"She's threatening us!"

After Shirley Yang left, Fatty Wang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and said angrily.

"Fatty, stop talking!"

"Humph! So what if we are tomb raiders? At least the treasures we took out are still in our hands."

"At least she is a foreigner, so she can take away the treasures in the tomb, right?"

"Fatty, Miss Yang's family is rich. If it was for the baby, why would she come with us and take the risk to come to the Jingjue Ancient City?" Hu Bayi said helplessly.

"Alas! Old Hu, I find that you have changed. Why are you speaking for the enemy now? She is a capitalist, and I am the son of us ordinary people!"

The fat man curled his lips and said, "Besides, who would complain about having too much money?"

"..."

Hu Bayi didn't want to pay any attention to him anymore.

the other side.

Shirley Yang called Jiang Hua over.

"I wonder what Miss Yang wants to talk to me about?"

Jiang Hua was a little confused. He didn't know what Shirley Yang wanted him to come over alone.

Shirley Yang gave him a deep look.

"Mr. Jiang, I know you are a top student at Yujing History College and have done in-depth research on ancient characters. I wonder if you know anything about oracle bone inscriptions?"

"Oracle bones?"

Jiang Hua was stunned, then he pondered for a while and said, "I don't know much about oracle bone inscriptions. Is there anything I can help you with, Miss Yang?"

Shirley Yang hesitated for a moment, then picked up a backpack from the side and took out a package from it.

From the outside, the package looks like a box.

As for what's inside, I don't know.

Shirley Yang opened the package, revealing an antique box. Jiang Hua's eyes narrowed. This box alone was very expensive.

This is a box made of golden nanmu wood.

It can preserve the items inside very well!
Shirley Yang opened the box and found a tortoise shell inside.

"Dragon Bone Heavenly Book!"

Jiang Hua screamed.

Shirley Yang's eyes lit up.

"Do you know what this thing is?"

(End of this chapter)