The mysterious black shadow under the Hualong Pond finally surfaced.
But that’s not the coffin everyone imagined.
It’s actually a stone tablet.
The stele is as black as ink, larger than a millstone, and heavier than a millstone, with characters carved on the surface in snake-like characters.
The moment the monument emerged from the pool, bang!
The weapon in the captain's hand actually flew towards the monument uncontrollably and clung tightly to the monument.
Then all kinds of iron tools carried by everyone, including Jin'an's Hu Sha Dao and the old Taoist Yin and Yang compass, were not spared, and were all sucked away by the stele.
Then it was all defiled by the corpse water gathered in the Hualong Pond, where all the evil spirits from heaven and earth gathered.
Bang! Bang!
The captain had just taken off his half-breastplate in a hurry. As soon as the half-breastplate left the captain's body, it was immediately sucked away by the black stone.
Very strong magnetism.
The completely black stele hung in the Hualong Pond is actually a huge magnet, and it is also a rare treasure whose magnetic power is no less powerful than a neodymium magnet.
Because even Jin An could not hold the Husha Sword, all the iron weapons on his body were sucked away in an instant.
If General Duwei hadn't reacted quickly at the last moment and hurriedly took off his armor, which was no different from an iron coffin, he would have been crushed alive by the front and rear armors and his internal organs would have been crushed to death.
"The tomb in this imperial mausoleum is really hard to steal. There are all kinds of traps along the way. Sure enough, the tomb of the Lord of Teng Kingdom is not easy to dig. He didn't forget to trick us at the last moment." The old Taoist priest felt heartbroken.
His yin-yang compass.
Because we are looking for the right acupoints in the Yin Mansion, whether we can get rid of the Dragon King and get out of the mausoleum, we can all use the compass to find a way out.
It was the last moment, and they were so tricked by the leader of the Teng Kingdom. Who knows if they could find their way back when they were trapped in a huge mausoleum like a maze.
This change was unexpected by no one and caused a small chaos in the team.
"This magnet is so powerful that all of us have fallen in love with it. I'm afraid this magnet is an alien stone. It was polished into a monument by the Lord of Teng Kingdom to prevent outsiders from destroying his body." As a member of the imperial court,
The captain has been exposed to more secrets, and as he is well-informed, he has already recognized the origin of this extraordinary magnet.
Jin An frowned and looked at the Husha Dao that was sucked away by the black stele.
The smelting technology of neodymium magnets is complex, and I am afraid that in this era of backward production, it may not be possible to smelt it.
Only extraterrestrial stones can explain why a magnet with stronger magnetism than neodymium magnets appeared in ancient tombs thousands of years ago.
“Speaking of which, if the magnet from the alien stone in the sky is so powerful, why are the iron chains above our heads not affected by the magnet?”
Some people looked curiously at the iron chains that hung up the monument.
This time Jin An answered the question: "Actually, there are many metals in the world that are not affected by magnets, such as gold, silver, copper, lead, etc."
…
Boom!
At this moment, Hualong Pond emerged from the water with the stele, and the entire platform began to shake. The ten people were a little unsteady, as if they cut off the iron chain of the Nine Dragon Coffin and triggered some mechanism in the pond.
Boom!
The platform is still shaking violently.
Soon after, everyone saw that the water in the pool dropped rapidly in the fast-flowing whirlpool and emptied out. Finally, a corpse at the bottom of the pool was finally revealed.
“Girl? So big!”
After the old Taoist priest saw clearly what was happening under the pond, he was stunned and said something.
Under the drained pond, there was a huge tree stump. The stump was so thick that it was difficult for the ten of them to hug it together. Liquid was still dripping down from the vicissitudes of the tree bark, which was heavy with age.
The log was so thick that it was difficult for the ten of them to hug it together. It was vigorous and had a thick and aged bark, and liquid was still dripping down from it.
Such a big log.
No matter where you are.
They are all precious spiritual objects in the world. They have been transformed into gods for thousands of years. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are sacred trees.
On the tree stump, lying flat on his back, was the body of a man whose body fluids had not yet drained away.
The Lord of Teng Kingdom!
Everyone is in high spirits.
Can appear in the depths of the emperor's tomb and be so solemnly buried? It must be that the Teng Kingdom owner they have been looking for is undoubtedly.
"The tree stumps in this pool are really big. Isn't this tree about ten thousand years old? Not to mention the sacred trees that are ten thousand years old, even the thousand-year-old wood is precious wood? But whether it is the thousand-year-old wood? Or the giant trees we saw in the underground palace ahead.
The dragon pillar? It's nothing compared to this log. My elbow touched my thigh."
Everyone looked at each other. It was no longer appropriate to say anything about shrinking at this time. Moreover, after going through all kinds of hardships, they were finally about to meet the legendary leader of Teng Kingdom, the Dragon King. Everyone couldn't help but feel excited.
I was so excited that I wanted to go into the pool immediately to see what the legendary Dragon King looked like? Is he really a sole face?
In the dark tomb, just when everyone had a tacit understanding and was about to go to the bottom of the pool at the same time, suddenly, the nine coffins that circled the platform suddenly slid open and crashed into Jin An and the others in the dark tomb.
He finally dodged the coffin lid that suddenly flew towards him. When Jin An turned around and looked in the direction behind him, he saw the corpse of a human being and a dragon half sitting up in the coffin. Wearing a bronze mask that looked like it was used for sacrifices and full of inscriptions, he opened his eyes.
A pair of eyes with clear black and white eyes were staring directly at these "grave robbers" who disturbed the peace of the dead in the dim environment.
“Your mother!”
“The corpse has been raised!”
This sudden appearance of a fake corpse shocked the old Taoist priest and the mourner brothers so much that they were about to take action on the spot, but were stopped by Jin An and the captain in unison.
“There’s something wrong with these corpses!”
“Don’t do it yet!”
Jin An and the captain looked at each other in surprise at the same time. They both felt a little surprised that the other party could find something wrong with the corpse in front of them just like themselves.
After the initial shock, the old Taoist priest also saw something wrong with the corpse in front of him and frowned: "This corpse doesn't seem to move? It seems to be a completely dead thing?"
"Since the nine sons of the Dragon are the ones who feed the Dragon King, no matter how unwilling and resentful the people buried in these nine coffins were during their lifetime, the Yin Qi, evil spirit, and resentment used to nourish the corpses in these coffins have probably already been destroyed.
The Dragon King is sucked dry, leaving only an empty shell. The nine sons of the Dragon will eventually become a Dragon King."
This wave kept coming, and everyone decided to get rid of the corpses in the nine coffins first, and then go to the pond to deal with the Dragon King, so as not to be attacked by the corpses in the nine coffins on the shore after they got into the pond.
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Everyone held torches and came to the coffin with vigilance, and soon found out why the corpse in the coffin suddenly became a corpse.
It turns out that there is a very sophisticated bronze mechanism hidden in this coffin.
There is a secret lock in the coffin. When the coffin is shaken and loses its balance, the corpse liquid in the coffin will shake violently, which will activate the secret lock and mechanisms, eject the heavy coffin lid, and attack tomb robbers or outsiders.
Then a rusty green bronze bracket will pop up on the back of the corpse, which will prop the corpse up to create the illusion of a dead body.
In fact, all of this is a set of sophisticated mechanisms that scare people.
In order to obtain verification, everyone held up torches and began to inspect the nine coffins on the huge platform in front of them.
As expected, all nine coffins had hidden mechanisms. When the internal balance of the coffin was broken and the lid was ejected, the human and dragon corpses inside were propped up by the mechanism, creating the illusion of a fake corpse.
"What? The corpses in these coffins, except for being scary at first, turned out not to be dangerous at all. The leader of the Teng Kingdom is also bored. He spent so much time laying out the mystery, just to scare away the tomb robbers.
?”
The old Taoist priest muttered something.
“Zhi Jian, what’s wrong with you?”
“Have you discovered anything?”
In the tomb, Jin An suddenly saw that Xi Jian had been studying one of the corpses. He stood in front of the coffin, staring at the half-sitting motionless human and dragon corpses, and then he did not shy away from the corpses of the dead and those disgusting people.
Liquid, hands began to touch the body.
When he touched the belly of the human dragon corpse, the sharp sword felt like a sudden electric shock. He withdrew his hand and returned to Jin An with a solemn expression.
He sharpened his sword and looked at Jin An: "Master, there is an inner elixir hidden in the dantian of these corpses seven inches away."
Neidan?
Everyone was stunned for a moment and shouted in surprise.
“There is an inner elixir in the Dantian. Doesn’t it mean that the leader of the Teng Kingdom is really the reincarnation of a real dragon? Isn’t the inner elixir in the dragon’s Dantian the dragon’s inner elixir?”
“That’s the dragon’s inner elixir, brother. Isn’t this thing valuable?”
The mourner's brother said in surprise.
The eldest brother of the mourner also stared straight at this time, looking straight at the corpse of the human dragon that was half-seated in the coffin in front of him: "This is not only priceless but has no market, it is already a rare treasure! It is rare to find it!"
Unexpectedly, Chi Jian’s next words quickly broke the two brothers’ illusions.
"That's not the dragon's inner elixir, it's the corpse elixir that was smelted by a Taoist master who made alchemy using the highly toxic substances left over from the elixir. It was hidden in the corpse. When the mechanism was triggered, it detonated the highly toxic corpse elixir hidden in the corpse."
Dan is used to guard against those robbers who steal corpses and tombs."
"The Dragon King is not using these corpses to scare people, but if the mechanism fails, when you damage or move the corpses just now, the poisonous corpse elixir hidden in the corpses will also be erupted." When Chi Jian said this.
, glanced dullly at the old Taoist priest and the mourner.
Made the three of them look embarrassed.
“It must have been too long, and many mechanisms have aged and malfunctioned, so these corpses did not detonate the poisonous corpse elixir in their bodies when they sat up.” Chi Jian finally concluded.
The thief is worthy of being the thief.
Sharing a sword is a profession.
"Brother Sword Sharpener, you are really amazing. Your vision and knowledge are simply more professional than those of a tomb robber. Anyway, I didn't expect that there would be so many doorways and mechanisms in the next tomb. Let's ask a less capable tomb robber to dig it.
This imperial mausoleum from a thousand years ago, let alone successfully pass the suspension bridge of the Dead Man's Walk, I'm afraid it can't even be recognized as a fake tomb."
As the saying goes, the speaker is unintentional and the listener is interested. The words of a mourner will make others subconsciously take a second look at the sharp sword.
Subsequently, everyone reached a consensus.
Don't touch the nine human and dragon corpses if you have nothing to do.
Lest you accidentally trigger the poisonous corpse elixir in the corpse.
…
Since the nine human-dragon corpses were not in danger for the time being, everyone gathered around the Hualong Pond where the corpse liquid had dried up, and then carefully and cautiously descended to the bottom of the pond.
When we entered the bottom of the pond and took a closer look, we discovered that the tree stump at the bottom of the pond was far more visually impactful than what we saw on the shore.
“For such a huge tree, the first thing I thought of was the Jianmu from myths and legends.” The old Taoist priest sighed in surprise.
But immediately, everyone was shocked to discover that this log tree stump, which had been soaked in corpse fluid for thousands of years, was still as new as when it was first cut down. The roots of the tree stump stretched out under the pond and into the ground of the platform.
I don't know where it leads.
Especially.
This tree stump has been soaked in the foul-smelling corpse fluid for so long.
Surprisingly, there is no pungent stench of a rotting corpse at all.
Just the opposite.
It also has the fragrance of thousand-year-old agarwood.
The old Taoist priest seemed to have thought of something. He surrounded the tree stump and said in surprise: "The Lord of Teng Kingdom buried himself wet in this Hualong Pond. Could this tree stump be the legendary soul-nurturing tree?"
Speaking of this, the old Taoist priest's eyes widened in shock.
“Mother!”
"Sure enough, he is worthy of being the king of a country, even if it is just the imperial mausoleum of the king of a small country. These rare treasures collected from all over the world have opened my eyes today. Such a huge tree that is thousands of years old to nourish the soul.
Mu, I never dared to think about it before."
“It’s no wonder that there are so many thieves in this world, they always like to lurk day and night and burrow underground. Just because of this broadened horizons and being able to see all kinds of legendary treasures, even if it means death, it is worth it.”
The old Taoist priest sighed in admiration.
At this time, even the monk Hongzhao, the elder of Bailong Temple’s Enlightenment Priest, looked up with emotion and looked up at the huge stone tablet hanging above his head.
Monk Hongzhao clasped his hands together and sang a Buddhist chant in a low voice with emotion: "Amitabha, the Lord of Teng Kingdom, or the Dragon King, the burial objects after his death are not ordinary at all."
“In addition to the ten thousand year soul-nurturing tree in front of us, even the magnet above our heads is not as simple as a stone from the sky.”
“The Teng text on this magnet means ‘corpse-suppressing stele’ when translated.”
“Corpse stele?” The captain looked at Monk Hongzhao in confusion.
As a result, the old Taoist priests, mourners, and country goddesses all looked shocked and horrified when they heard the words "Corpse Memorial Monument."
“Corpse-suppressing Monument!”
The mourner brothers looked up at the magnet above their heads in stunned silence, muttering, if it was really a corpse-suppressing monument, they would not lose at all if they just folded it into their hands.
Seeing the horrified looks on several people's faces, the captain became even more curious: "Master Hongzhao, what exactly is a corpse-suppressing stele?"
Monk Hongzhao once again glanced at the huge black stele hanging above his head, lowered his head and said: "Amitabha, I won't be able to explain the origin of this corpse-suppressing stele in detail to the captain for a while. I can only say that if we have this huge stele in front of us,
The tree stump is really a tree that nourishes the soul for ten thousand years, so the origin of the corpse-suppressing stele is no less precious than the tree that nourishes the soul for ten thousand years."
"No wonder the leader of the Teng Kingdom is so confident. He set up the Hualong Pond, confident that he can come back from the dead on the Huangquan Road. It is also a soul-nurturing tree, a corpse-suppressing stele, and a Hualong Pond of the Nine Sons of Dragons and Dragonfly Dian Shui Bureau.