There are many practices of cultivating immortals in ancient tomb culture.
Some people believe that by placing relics and Guanyin statues in tombs, they can become immortals after death. Some people use a large amount of cinnabar to keep their bodies as incorruptible as possible, so that they can become immortals when the time comes.
Even in foreign countries, like the Egyptian Pharaoh, they would think that the pyramid is a staircase to the sky, so there are not a few people who want to become immortals after death.
So when everyone heard Ji Han say that this Daliao general wanted to become an immortal, they were not very surprised.
Song Qian asked:
"Cultivation as an immortal? Just with this pool of blood?"
Ji Han had already roughly figured out the situation and explained:
"This character is not from the Daliao period, but from the Zhao state during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."
This is a text left by a certain monarch of the Zhao Kingdom. This monarch of the Zhao Kingdom went to the land of southern witches and learned some kind of witchcraft.
There is a kind of bug called "red" that can only survive in corpses and blood, so it is extremely difficult to raise and is almost extinct.
This insect is divided into queens, males and workers. The mucus they secrete can keep the corpse from rotting and rotting, and the blood from being fishy or smelly, allowing them to survive in the corpse.
Moreover, this monarch of the Zhao Kingdom had seen people who had been dead for many years maintain their original appearance under the influence of this insect. The corpses would not rot at all, and they could even act like living people.
He also heard that there were local legends about this insect.
It is said that as long as the corpses of 999 young people are used to breed this insect on a large scale, the corpse parasitized by the queen will not decay for thousands of years.
And it has been soaked in blood for a long enough time, reaching a thousand years.
When the destiny arrives, it can escape from the blood and water and become an immortal with its body.
But this King Zhao was the last king to subjugate his country. Although he had collected the blood jars containing the living "red" worms, he no longer had the ability to gather all 999 young people.
So this King Zhao left behind the sarcophagus where his body was stored and the blood jar where the living "red" worms were kept.
The blood pool required for this ritual has been made and filled with blood. The pool will break after a thousand years, which is exactly what is needed for the corpse to escape the blood water and become an immortal.
I hope that when someone in the future generations sees him, he can gather enough 999 young people to complete this great task of becoming an immortal. His sarcophagus is placed in the blood pool, and he hopes that he can become an immortal together with those who perform this ritual in the future generations.
After listening to Ji Han's explanation, Song Qian concluded:
"That is to say, the Daliao general discovered the tomb of King Zhao from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and learned from it such a way to become an immortal by killing 999 people, so he captured thousands of young captives.
After rebuilding this ancient tomb here, they were killed to satisfy this immortality ritual."
Ji Han nodded and added:
"According to the records about bugs here, the worker bugs will divide the corpses and use them. The liquid they secrete can keep the flesh fresh and even continue to grow, so this nest is made like a mountain of meat. The male bugs can manipulate the corpses to defend the nest.
The insect queen only lives inside a corpse, and can ensure that the corpse's body remains intact. In other words, the weird sights we see on these corpses are basically caused by those insects."
Eggplant remembered the "Nezha" he met before and cursed:
"Damn, that is to say, the three-headed and six-armed Nezha-like corpse we encountered before was controlled by this male worm? The red nematode that ran away at the end should be the male, right?"
Ji Han nodded and said:
"I didn't expect that most of these weird situations are caused by those bugs."
Chen Ke pinched his fingers and said:
"Hey, Brother Ji, it says here that he was the last king of Zhao State. If I remember correctly, the last king of Zhao State was called Zhao Wangqian. This idiot originally had Li Mu, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, to guard Zhao State.
The Qin State suffered repeated defeats. In the end, he fell into the Qin State's counter-intentional plan and foolishly killed Li Mu. The country was also defeated and he was captured and sent to the south."
Ji Han nodded. He was also familiar with this period of history. It was indeed as Chen Ke said.
"Then it was King Zhao who discovered this kind of Gu insect called 'Red' after moving to the south, so he secretly escaped back to the north and built this ancient tomb in the hope that he could become an immortal."
Eggplant cursed:
"Such a bastard king actually wanted to become an immortal. Fortunately, this general of Liao still believed that he really killed so many people. I really don't know what these idiots were thinking."
Song Qian explained:
"People at the peak of power in ancient times all wanted to live forever and become immortals. Besides, everyone was superstitious at that time. Most people believed in such things. Qin Shihuang once sent people out to search for elixirs."
Chen Ke thought of the stone coffin on the top of the mountain and asked:
"King Zhao here said that he left behind his own stone coffin. Is it the one we saw on the top of the mountain?"
Ji Han replied:
"It should be like this. This Daliao general was stingy enough. He used other people's methods, but instead of soaking his coffin in blood as King Zhao said, he threw it on the top of the mountain.
Even if you barely force it, it can be considered as a bloodbath for King Zhao, but compared with the scale of this place, it is almost negligible."
Eggplant was surprised:
"Could it be that the person who caught my folding shovel in the coffin on the top of the mountain was the resurrected Zhao Wangdai? Is this guy really alive?"
Ji Han shook his head and said:
"I guess what you encountered is the same as that Nezha, a corpse controlled by insects. In ancient times, you also know that making a corpse move again is considered to be resurrected."
Song Qian still has a problem:
"Then since this method is so mysterious, why did the Daliao general still leave these words here? Isn't he afraid that someone will break this blood pool later and cause trouble for him?"
Ji Han thought for a while, shook his head and said
"No, first of all, there are only a few people who can get to this other world. Secondly, there is a forest of bones and a dead end of nerves and blood vessels outside. Even if you really get here, it is said on the wall that once the secret arrives, you will escape from the blood and become immortal.
To become an immortal, this Daliao general probably wants us to break this blood pool and help him become an immortal."
Eggplant cursed:
"The grass helped him transform into an immortal? When I left, I soaked his urine in the blood pool to see if his body, which has not decayed for thousands of years, would be pickled by the smell of urine."
Everyone also reorganized their thoughts. After all, the amount of information is indeed huge.
I didn't expect that so many prisoners died tragically for the dream of a Liao general and Zhao Wangqian of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. I really felt unworthy for these prisoners.
Chen Ke asked:
"Now that the situation of this ancient tomb is basically understood, where is the sacred pillar?"
Indeed, everyone is here to see the divine pillar, not to explore the historical truth.
There is no deeper place here. If there is a sacred pillar, it can only be in the uncovered coffin of General Daliao in the blood pool.
The four of them turned to the coffin in the pool of blood in tacit agreement.
It seems that we have to meet this general of Daliao for a while, who has been soaked in blood for thousands of years and whose body is incorruptible.