Chapter 231 The light in the southeast corner goes out
"Awu, Qingsheng, prepare to load up the explosives and blow open the tomb door directly."
The captain's method is very crude and simple.
Duwei is an army general.
It is not surprising that he went down to the Yinyi River with explosives that were controlled by the imperial court.
Just as two burly men walked out of the cavalry guards, holding explosives in their hands and preparing to blow open the tomb door, they kept sharpening their swords in a dull and silent manner, but suddenly stopped the captain and the others.
"This tomb door cannot be blown up."
"The tomb door is sealed with the lead and mercury venom left over from the Taoist priests' alchemy. Once the tomb door is blown open, so many of us will not be able to escape these highly toxic lead and mercury venom and poisonous gases."
Xiajian suddenly spoke and immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.
Jin An's heart skipped a beat.
As the saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind.
really.
The captain looked carefully at Xiajian this time: "Brother Xiajian, did you see anything wrong with the tomb door?"
Chi Jian did not answer immediately, but turned to look at Jin An. Jin An was too late to stop him at this time, so he could only nod towards Chi Jian and let Chi Jian answer the captain's question.
After receiving Jin'an's approval, Chi Jian replied dully: "The entire tomb door is black, like Lei Gongmo. It looks like it is deliberately creating an atmosphere to highlight the evil intentions of the evil plots in Tomb Gate Mountain and scare away outsiders. But Lei Gongmo usually
They are rare, and most of them are in the shape of sporadic stars and raindrops. It is almost impossible to see such a large piece of Lei Gong ink used to carve and polish the tomb door."
"This should be the result of a hollow layer inside the tomb door, which sealed the lead and mercury poison used by Taoist priests in alchemy. Over the years, it slowly eroded the stone, so it gradually turned into black stone."
This is the first time I have spoken such a long paragraph at once.
Jin An and the old Taoist priest both looked at Sharpening the sword in surprise.
Since entering the cemetery, his performance while sharpening the sword has become more and more active, like a precursor to awakening his memory.
After hearing the words about sharpening the sword, the captain showed interest and was very interested in sharpening the sword: "It seems that the Taoist priests of Wu Zang Taoist Temple have their own merits, and each of them has extraordinary skills. Taoist priest Jin'an is good at subduing demons and eliminating them.
Demon, Dao Chen is good at Feng Shui, metaphysics, and acupuncture points, and the sword-cutting brother also knows a lot about ancient tombs?"
Jin An's eyebrows twisted secretly inadvertently.
Some are worried that the captain will ask about the origin of the sword.
fortunately.
The captain did not inquire about the origin of the tomb door. The most important thing at the moment was how to open the tomb door. The captain asked the sword master for advice: "Since the little brother sharp sword can see the origin of the tomb door, I wonder if the little brother sharp sword can
Is there a way to open this tomb door?"
The captain seemed to really believe what he said.
Instead of asking his men to grab explosives and rush to blow open the tomb door, they wanted to hear how they could open the tomb door by sharpening a sword.
If the tomb door really contains the poisonous lead and mercury left over from Taoist alchemy.
When the time comes to blow open the tomb door, they will not only have to be careful of the highly toxic lead and mercury, but also the highly toxic gases emitted by the highly toxic lead and mercury.
These poisonous gases will kill a living person if they come into contact with them.
This is another cave in the mountainside with a closed environment.
If they wait for the highly toxic gas to dissipate naturally, they may not be able to enter the tomb in less than ten days and a half.
Therefore, regardless of whether what Chi Jian said was true or false, the captain could not afford to take this risk and delay the ten days and a half.
With a dull look on his face, he sharpened his sword and walked to the door of the tomb, and began to carefully explore the door with his fingers, not afraid of the evil carvings on the door.
"For example, the masons who built the ancient tombs would be killed by the owner of the tomb on the day they were built and buried in the burial pit or sealed in the tomb to prevent the masons from leaking the location of the ancient tomb. For thousands of years,
, the mason and the owner of the tomb have always been fighting for wits and courage. In order to survive, the mason will secretly leave secret passages for himself when building the ancient tomb..."
When he said this, he sharpened his sword and pointed his fingers. He seemed to have touched something on the tomb door, and then pressed it hard in.
Click——
Because of the dark environment, the tomb door that seemed to be integrated actually had a movable secret passage. A sharp sword was used to push out a secret passage that could only accommodate one person and crawl through it. It was like a bastard.
Seeing that the sword-sharpener had indeed found a way out, everyone present's eyes lit up.
I started to look at him with admiration at Chi Jian, who was dull and silent all the way.
Only Jin An and the old Taoist priest were unhappy.
Because there is a saying that "big trees attract the wind".
Xiu Jian decided to find an opportunity to secretly say hello to Xiu Jian later, trying to be steady so as not to reveal our identities as thieves.
"Brother Sharpen the Sword is really amazing. He can see the hidden mechanism of the tomb door, and he can carefully find the escape passages left by the masons. Little Brother Sharpening the Sword knows something about tomb robbing?" The captain finally asked.
The origin of sword sharpening began.
What is coming cannot be avoided.
Fortunately, Jin An had already thought of his words, so he took the initiative to stand up and explain for Xiajian: "Wuzang Taoist Temple is willing to save the common people and kill demons and eliminate demons, and it is obligatory. So occasionally, I met a few tomb robbers who came to the door for help after encountering evil spirits.
My disciple is eager to learn, and it seems very logical to hear some knowledge about tomb robbing from the tomb robbers, right?"
The captain thought for a while and smiled at Jin An: "It is indeed very logical."
I don't know if the captain's smile has some profound meaning.
Now that the secret passage at the tomb door was found, everyone began to enter the cemetery in an orderly manner. However, before entering the cemetery, someone called out to everyone: "Wait a minute."
This time it was Jin An who stopped everyone.
Jin An found a torch and threw it directly into the tomb behind the narrow secret passage of the tomb door. Seeing that the torch kept burning normally and did not go out due to lack of oxygen, he explained:
"This ancient tomb has been sealed for so long. No one knows whether it is a sealed environment or whether there are ventilation holes. Be careful and be prepared."
"Isn't it possible that Taoist Priest Jin An's meticulous thoughts were influenced by his experience when he was exorcising evil spirits from tomb robbers?" The captain winked at Jin An.
Jin An looked directly into the Captain's eyes fearlessly: "This should be very logical, right?"
The captain laughed: "It is indeed very logical."
The captain said with a smile, waved his hand, and went down to the tomb.
This time, everyone climbed through the dog hole successfully.
Those cavalry guards wearing heavy armor were a little more troublesome. They took off their armor and dismantled their tower shields. After entering the tomb, they put them back on again, which took a lot of time.
Behind the tomb door is a corridor. The corridor is quite spacious. It was a passage cut out of the mountain wall manually. There are still many traces of manual digging on the cave wall.
At first, I didn't notice it when I was outside. After I got through the door of the tomb, I realized that there were dozens of dead bodies lying densely behind the door.
Those people have been dead for many years.
Only the bones have long been left.
The clothes on the bones were also rotten and covered with a thick layer of dust.
When I peeled off the dust on my clothes, I found they were ordinary people's burlap clothes.
"Abbott, could it be that these people are the poor masons who were trapped in the tomb after they built it? They all died behind the tomb door. They were only one door away from escaping. It seems that they were trapped in the tomb.
The underworld weapon on the door was killed behind the tomb door."
The old monk Kong Ming, who was old but strong and wore large Buddhist rosary beads around his neck, squatted down to inspect the bones and said.
At this time, everyone also noticed that the death methods of these corpses were the same without exception.
There were bursts and cracks in the bones near the eye socket.
It was as if someone had torn open the eye sockets alive, cut out the human eyeballs in the eye sockets, and suffered a brutal execution before death.
Looking at the dozens of withered bones lying scattered on the ground, it seems that I can still hear the screams of their deaths hundreds of years ago, as well as the strong longing for their families, parents, wives and children.
Everyone looked unbearable.
They all know it.
Even if these ordinary masons could escape by chance, they would not be able to escape the many strange and dangerous places outside.
To these ordinary people, those dangerous places are like a hopeless place of death and no life.
After saying sorry to the corpses of these poor people on the ground, everyone continued walking deeper into the corridor.
As they walked further into the corridor, stone steps began to appear. As they walked higher and higher, the terrain rose, and they went deeper into the mountain.
These stone steps were all dug out piece by piece in the heart of the mountain using labor and human life.
The surface is rough and has obvious gouge marks.
"The terrain is getting higher and higher as we go. It's dry and dusty all the way. There's not even a moss on it. It's strange. Little brother, tell me, if there is really a Dragon King buried in this tomb, this ancient tomb is the Dragon King's Dragon Palace. Isn't it true?
Should it be soaked in the Yinyi River?"
"Because the Dragon King likes water."
"But why is it that the opposite is true here? Instead, the terrain is getting higher and higher, as if it doesn't want the Dragon King to gain power?"
The old Taoist priest held a torch in one hand and covered his mouth and nose with the wide sleeve of his Taoist robe with the other hand to prevent inhaling dust.
This ancient tomb has been sealed for too long.
The stone steps were covered with a thick layer of dust.
The air flow caused by people walking around blew up the dust on the stone steps. Under the dim light of the torch, a large number of dust particles floated in the air.
"It's indeed a bit strange."
Jin'an, the old Taoist priest, sharpening his sword, the country goddess, and General Duwei were at the forefront.
Because he had shown his skill in sword-sharpening before, the captain specially invited several people from Wu Zang Taoist Temple to walk in front with him to clear the way.
After passing the stone steps carved into the mountain wall, they entered the tomb chamber on a large platform.
This tomb is very large.
Even though there are so many of them, they are not enough.
The first thing you see at first sight is a stone coffin placed in the center of the tomb.
There is a huge cast iron tablet standing on the sarcophagus, which tells the life story of the owner of the tomb. The cast iron tablet was made with rough techniques, but it is thick and heavy. It is estimated that it is not much lighter than a gate that weighs several tons.
It seems that they are just using weight to suppress the contents of the sarcophagus and coffin, so they don't care whether the appearance is beautiful or not?
But after so many years, the surface of the pig iron monument has long been covered with decay.
Even those handwritings have long been corroded by the years and have been extensively damaged, with only one or two out of ten left.
Under the light of the torch, Jin'an and the others also noticed that the four walls of the tomb were covered with murals.
Those murals are carved with vivid people, carriages...
They all describe the life of the owner of the tomb. They all live a luxurious and luxurious life. They have retinues surrounding the mountains when hunting, and hundreds of people accompanying them when traveling.
"It's such a big battle in one trip. I'm afraid it's no less than the royal family. Isn't this tomb owner really the king of a small country in the past?"
The old Taoist priest was amazed and envious. He was about to turn around and continue the discussion with Jin An, but Jin An asked him which part of the tomb was the southeast corner.
Old Taoist priest: "?"
The old Taoist priest pointed to a corner, and then asked curiously: "Little brother, what are you doing? Why do you put a torch in the southeast corner?"
Jin An had a serious expression on his face: "Light a candle in the southeast corner. If the light goes out, you won't touch the gold."
The old Taoist priest was confused: "Little brother, are you very experienced?"
After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he actually nodded in agreement: "However, little brother, you are right, the southeast corner is indeed the most important Fengmen Xun Gua in the Yin Mansion. The lights in the southeast corner are out, which means that the air in this tomb is thin.
It is not suitable for living people to continue to stay in the tomb, otherwise they will suffocate and die in the tomb, and maybe they will transform into corpses after death."
"The cemetery is a yin house, and the Yin and Yang Bagua Feng Shui are often the most important. In the Bagua, 'Qian is the sky, Kun is the earth, earthquake is thunder, Xun is the wind, Gen is the mountain, Dui is the lake, Kan is the water, and Li is the fire', Fengmen represents
The Xun hexagram is located in the southeast corner. Generally speaking, the door and main vent of the tomb will be in the southeast corner to vent the Yin energy into the tomb, so as to prevent the Yin energy from growing and the Yang from growing.
It's too heavy, and the corpses of the dead in this tomb have become corpses."
"Of course, the Xun Gua wind gate is also used to ventilate the yin house, so the air circulation is strongest in the southeast corner. If you can't even light a candle in the southeast corner, it means the air is thin and not suitable for living people to stay..."
Before the old Taoist finished speaking, poof——
The torch that Jin An had just inserted in the southeast corner suddenly went out, and the southeast corner suddenly became dark. The old Taoist priest whose thirteenth zodiac sign was the crow's mouth was once again struck by his words.
The old Taoist priest was so shocked that his hair exploded.
"No, the air in this tomb is thin and not suitable for living people to stay there!"
But Jin An and the captain were unmoved. The captain came over and looked up at the top of the tomb. There was a dark hole there.
The cave entrance can probably be large enough for two people to pass through.
Just now, the air flow from outside blew in here and blew out the torch in Jin An's hand.
Unexpectedly, a robbery hole was found in the tomb. This was really beyond everyone's expectation. Everyone present gathered around.
"This tomb robber's hole is really amazing. It's unbiased and hits the position of Fengmen Xun Gua. This tomb robber's ability is truly a master."
Kuixing Kickfight's stern-browed man has the most dealings with corpses, monsters, and the like. Maybe he also deals with tomb robbers on weekdays, he said in surprise.
"Could this hole be made by someone else who entered the ancient tomb before us?"
"No wonder, let me tell you, the tomb door has not been damaged. How did those people enter the ancient tomb? It turns out that a powerful tomb robber sneaked in among us and directly broke into the ancient tomb. Naturally, there was no need to go through the hanging coffin burial.
The canyon and the tomb door are both a ghost weapon and a mechanism."
The more Kuixing Ki Dou talked about, the more surprised he became.
But the captain noticed that the hole above his head was unusual.
"The traces near the Robber's Cave don't look new, but they look like they were made a long time ago. It seems that a group of people have entered this ancient tomb before us."
"I guess the others discovered the robbery hole left by their predecessors, so they followed this robbery hole and descended into the ancient tomb."
The captain frowned deeply.
Jin An and the abbot of Bailong Temple looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.