Transmigrator's Guide to Conquering Another World-Chapter 480 - 444: Enshrouded in Mystery

Friends who have studied geography should know.

The land here is vast, so it's common for many places to have the same name.

Take Guangjiangkou, for example.

There's a Guangjiangkou in Lianyungang City locally, and there's also one in the Dujiangyan area of Tianfu City.

Coincidentally,

both Guangjiangkous are rumored to be related to Yang Jian.

Of course,

the more widely recognized Erlang God's place is in Tianfu City.

Also known as Guanzhou, Guankou.

If you've traveled there, you may have also seen an Erwang Temple.

It's rumored to be the Ancestral Court of the Erlang God.

As for in the Investiture of the Gods,

after the Meishan Seven Monsters were subdued by the Investiture Board, besides being honored as Star Monarch True Gods, they were also directly under the command of the Erlang God.

Many people have encountered the Meishan Seven Monsters in film and television works, but just didn't realize it:

In the 2005 version of "The Lotus Lantern," starring Jiao Enjun and Shu Chang, several Meishan brothers under Yang Jian refer to the Meishan Seven Monsters!

Especially the bearded face of the Meishan leader, which many people probably still remember clearly.

And the figure of the Erlang God is still controversial to this day.

Li Bing, the builder of Dujiangyan, Li Bing's second son, and even Yang Jian, the Great Eunuch of the Song Dynasty and Governor of Zhanghua Military.

All have been considered prototypes of the Erlang God.

Among them, Li Bing can be counted as the earliest appearing prototype among the Erlang God's many prototypes.

Mr. Yuan Ke pointed out in "Chinese Myths":

Li Bing appeared as the prototype of the Erlang God earliest, with the most historical records, and spanning the longest time period.

In the article "The Evolution of Guankou Erlang God," Jiao Jie mentioned the deification of Li Bing as Erlang God started during the Later Han. Not only was he involved in water conservancy and irrigation, but he could also transform into a cow-shaped form to battle the River God. In the Sui-Tang and Five Dynasties periods, with the prevalence of superstitious beliefs in gods and monsters, Li Bing completely shed human characteristics to become a bona fide god.

Mr. Rong Zhaozu, in the article "An Investigation of Erlang God," meticulously combed through historical documents related to the prototype of Erlang God, Li Bing.

The records he cited from the Han to the Song concerning Li Bing provided valuable materials for later research on Erlang God.

Even in some of the current historical research groups, Li Bing and Erlang God are directly studied as an image-mapping relationship.

But on the other hand,

whether it's Li Bing, his second son, or the eunuch Yang Jian,

there are some difficult-to-explain logical or historical barriers between them and Erlang God.

Especially now with the discovery of the Wu Long corpse,

it undoubtedly poses a severe challenge to the Li Bing prototype theory.

The Wu Long corpse dates back at least three or four thousand years ago, while Li Bing and his son were from the Warring States period, around 300 B.C.

That's a gap of more than a thousand to two thousand years, they couldn't have existed simultaneously.

Of course,

all of this has to be based on the earliest evidence of Yang Jian's existence left behind in cultivation relics.

After all, the Erlang God's Guangjiangkou is very close to both Meishan and Wu Long's Tomb.

Could there really be some connection between the three?

Director Feng immediately reported his thoughts to the decision-makers.

Soon,

a response came from the decision-makers:

Remain on standby, wait for support, a separate team will be dispatched to explore Guangjiangkou!

Wu Long's Tomb is not large, one could even say it's very rudimentary.

Therefore, after masking it with simple means, Director Feng left a team to stand guard at the site.

As someone without special abilities, he temporarily returned to the city for a short break.

Another eight hours passed.

Darkness was approaching.

A team of reinforcements from Ju Mang Base arrived on-site.

Leading the reinforcements was a handsome young man, with two bars and a star on his shoulder.

Director Feng knew this person, named Li Kuan Shu, a Fifth-Layer Qi Cultivation Warrior fostered at Ju Mang Base.

Aside from a few individuals such as Chen Rong and Huang Jingsong who have been transferred to the Damo Realm,

Li Kuan Shu's level is already considered top-tier locally.

"Major Li, thank you for your hard work."

After meeting,

Director Feng shook hands with Li Kuan Shu and pointed towards Ning Hao, saying:

"Director Ning has already arranged for the surrounding lockdown measures, traffic has been controlled within a ten-kilometer radius. Of course, this has to do with the tomb's proximity to the freight railway; if it were in another location, we might not have managed such a broad closure.

In any case,

Major Li can proceed with the plan without worry."

Li Kuan Shu politely nodded to Ning Hao, then turned around, gesturing widely:

"Group One and Two stand guard, other groups remain on standby, engineering team re-evaluate the excavation plan!"

With Li Kuan Shu's order,

each group immediately started acting according to the arrangements.

Even though Wu Long's Tomb is some distance from the city, it still falls within the suburban area.

As Qingming season approaches, people in Rongcheng particularly enjoy going out for spring outings.

It's not unlikely that some curious folks might venture to this remote area.

Therefore, from a confidentiality standpoint,

the decision-makers ultimately decided to move Wu Long's body to Ju Mang Base for research. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The reason for dispatching personnel instead of using a Spatial Bag is simple:

Based on rough estimates, Wu Long's body alone is nearly seventeen meters in length, and weighs at least three tons.

Given the earlier mentioned idea that a higher realm means heavier weight, his body's actual weight might exceed ten tons.

With such a massive beast's corpse, Wei Fan cannot possibly fit it into a Spatial Bag here locally.

According to Wei Fan,

to accomplish this here, one would need to reach at least the Core Formation Realm.

Alternatively, as suggested by Academician Pan, one could create a 'local space' by dividing the space, producing a Spatial Bag aligned with this realm.

Twenty minutes later.

The discourse on the excavation plan was approved.

Wu Long's Tomb is situated within a mountain hollow, with relatively loose soil, and the body lies roughly thirty meters below the surface linearly.

Under normal circumstances,

there are generally two methods to excavate inside:

either employ a few excavators or spend weeks manually drilling.

But with the rabbits having supportive cultivation power, everything becomes much simpler.

With cooperation between Li Kuan Shu and others,

the cave entrance gradually expanded according to calculated metrics.

Inside, Wei Fan used spiritual power to reinforce it, ensuring the entrance doesn't collapse.

In the end,

a circle nearly twenty meters in diameter appeared before everyone.

Then, each group entered sequentially to record video footage of the tomb's interior conditions.

Once all footage was backed up,

the warriors used rollers and spiritual power assistance to lift Wu Long's body to the surface.

Needless to say,

seeing the object in person is completely different from seeing it on video.

At this moment,

a giant centipede carcass nearly twenty meters long, adorned with innumerable tiny limbs and a black-and-red patterned back, lay on the ground.

If this scene was uploaded online, who knows how many tech enthusiasts would criticize it.

Some would say it's Photoshopped, others would call it 3D modeling, sparking endless debates.

Eventually, arguments would diverge into whether the 3D realm queen is Tifa or Alice, resulting in numerous requests for resources.

From an academic perspective,

this is the largest land-dwelling arthropod of the order Chilopoda found locally so far.

It also marks the first discovered local monster carcass of such magnitude!

Another half an hour later,

the centipede was loaded into a large vehicle of a nearby special research train, which transported it towards Ju Mang Base!

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