Chapter 338: One Hall and One Tomb (two in one chapter)
In order to save themselves, the ancestors of the Chen family came to a temple during the flood. This temple was called the River Temple by the locals because the dragon god was worshiped in the temple and was used by the villagers to pray for good weather.
The ancestors of the Chen family knelt down in front of the temple, hoping that the Dragon God could protect the Chen family. However, what the Chen family ancestors did not expect was that that time, the Dragon God really appeared and told the Chen family a solution.
In order to make the flood recede, the Chen family has to go to a place because there is something there that can control the river water and make the river water recede.
For the ancestors of the Chen family at that time, they had no way out, and they had to fight through mountains of swords and seas of fire.
According to the guidance of the Dragon God, the thing was hidden in a certain cave. The cave was originally blocked by boulders. It was this flood that pushed the boulders away, revealing the true appearance of the cave.
The ancestors of the Chen family came to this cave as promised, and what happened next was very simple. The ancestors of the Chen family accidentally entered the ancient tomb. However, the ancestors of the Chen family were not so lucky to see the stone platform, but fell into the cave.
into the abyss.
When the ancestors of the Chen family woke up, a voice sounded in his ears. This voice asked the ancestors of the Chen family if they were willing to be the tomb-keepers. If they were willing, the Chen family would not only become the tomb-keepers, but more importantly, they would also be the tomb-keepers.
Become a river controller, that is, the controller of this river.
To the ancestors of the Chen family at that time, this sound was no less than the rain during a long drought. They agreed without thinking, so what the Chen family got was the black box.
With the black box, the Chen family finally let the river recede, but since then, the Chen family has been tied to this ancient tomb. Every generation of the Chen family has to enter the ancient tomb.
After the death of the ancestors of the Chen family, the descendants of the Chen family's disciples once seemed to break their promises. However, the consequence of breaking the promise was that almost all of the Chen family of that generation died. There was only one left, and they all died in strange ways in the river.
From that moment on, the Chen family became a single generation. The Chen family did not dare to have any thoughts of breaking their promise, because they were afraid that if they broke their promise again, the Chen family would really become extinct.
Listening to Chen Qian's father's words, Fang Ming thought of the dragon head on the boat. It was obvious that the dragon head was the river god that the ancestors of the Chen family were looking for.
"Guardians of the ancient tomb, what is your mission?" Fang Ming looked at Chen Qian's father and asked.
"The task of our Chen family is actually very simple, that is, to guard the bronze coffin. That bronze coffin is the owner of this ancient tomb, but it is not always there, but only appears every ten years.
, what our Chen family has to do is to protect its safety when it appears."
Fang Ming fell into thinking. The bronze coffin gave him a very strange feeling. His intuition told him that it was better not to get close to the bronze coffin.
"You, the Chen family, don't know the origin of this ancient tomb?"
"have no idea."
"Although we are tomb keepers, we don't know as much about the ancient tomb as some intruders." When Chen Qian's father said this, he had a wry smile on his face, "You may not believe it, but there are so many people in our Chen family.
So many people have come in, but our scope of activities only covers this area, and we cannot leave this area."
"However, according to our guess, this ancient tomb is very old, because we found a characteristic in those apes. The hair of these apes will grow by one inch every hundred years, and the one with the longest hair among these apes
The head is almost over one meter long, so you can imagine how long this ancient tomb has existed."
One hundred years is an inch, and the length of one meter is close to three thousand years.
Fang Ming knew what Chen Qian's father meant. This was only discovered after the Chen family's ancestors came in. Who knows if older apes had died before the Chen family's ancestors came in.
Another very important point is that generally after an ancient tomb is built, no one will break in for a period of time. After all, being able to build such a large-scale ancient tomb shows the strength of the owner of the ancient tomb during his lifetime.
Even if such a strong man dies, he will still be intimidated for a long time. If we say anything, this ancient tomb is conservatively estimated to be four thousand years ago.
"In all these years, your Chen family have never thought about leaving?"
Fang Ming looked at Chen Qian's father with a smile, and Chen Qian's father nodded, "Since you are Qian'er's friend, I won't hide it. How could my Chen family give up? I have learned a little bit about it over the years."
There is a clue, there is actually only one way to get our Chen family out of trouble, and that is to destroy the bronze coffin. Only in this way can our Chen family get out of trouble."
"Destroy the bronze coffin? Kill the owner of this ancient tomb?"
"That's right, only in this way will the promise be invalid. After all, the owner of the ancient tomb is gone, so there is no point in guarding the ancient tomb. Naturally, our Chen family can get out of trouble."
"However, as the guardians of our Chen family, we cannot be obsessed with this bronze coffin, otherwise we will be counterattacked, and we will be punished before we even get close to the bronze coffin."
When he said this, Chen Qian's father suddenly bowed deeply towards Fang Ming, "You are Qian'er's friend. I hope you can help save my Chen family. My life doesn't matter, but I don't want to see my Chen family descendants from generation to generation."
They all died in this ancient tomb."
Chen Qian's father had a sincere expression on his face, and Fang Ming quickly avoided it, "Uncle Chen, you are serious. If I can help, I will definitely help. However, there is something evil about the bronze coffin, and I am not sure."
"If it's dangerous, I naturally won't let you help. I can't put you in danger for our Chen family. But you came at the right time. In another hour, the bronze coffin will open automatically.
At that time, the defense of the bronze coffin was at its worst, and the mission of our Chen family was to protect the bronze coffin at that time."
Fang Ming understood what Chen Qian's father meant. Chen Qian's father was a guardian and could not take action against the existence in the bronze coffin. When the bronze coffin was opened, he was allowed to take action. As a guardian, he would not protect the bronze coffin.
that is.
"I can try."
After a moment of silence, Fang Ming finally agreed.
"Thank you, thank you very much."
Chen Qian's father expressed his gratitude with excitement. Fang Ming waved his hand. He was not just helping the Chen family, but because the bronze coffin gave him an extremely evil feeling. The existence inside the bronze coffin seemed to be based on the past.
He continues his life in some way. If he really waits until the moment of his resurrection, I'm afraid the whole world will be in chaos.
In the following time, Chen Qian's father told Fang Ming in detail about the situation an hour later, and Fang Ming also began to close his eyes and rest.
An hour passed quickly or slowly. When Fang Ming opened his eyes again, a bell rang again.
"Coming."
Chen Qian's father's expression became excited. He held a bowl of blood in his hand, "This is the blood of the tomb-keepers of my Chen family. You can smear this blood on your body later, so that you can get closer to the mouth."
Bronze coffin.”
Looking at the bowl of blood in front of him, Fang Ming also understood in his heart that the Chen family might have been envisioning this scene a long time ago, otherwise there would not be this bowl of blood.
A normal person only has a few mouthfuls of hard work, and it is difficult to make up for the hard work. Therefore, this bowl of hard work is left by each generation of the Chen family. This shows that the Chen family has already
Start making preparations.
After smearing the bowl of blood on his forehead, Fang Ming walked out of the cave and walked towards the bronze coffin.
At this moment, the white apes were lying on the ground, not even daring to lift their heads, and the chains locking the bronze coffin also began to shake. After a burst of metal swaying, the lid of the copper coffin began to be shaken by these chains.
Pulling slowly, finally, the entire copper coffin was completely opened.
That's it!
There was a flash of light in Fang Ming's eyes. He jumped up, grabbed one of the chains, and moved towards the copper coffin. But from the beginning to the end, the white apes did not make any move, and were not aware of Fang Ming's approach.
.
Five meters, four meters, three meters...
As he got closer and closer to the copper coffin, Fang Ming could feel the evil aura more and more, and the power of the wizard in his body began to operate, but when Fang Ming's body was only one meter away from the copper coffin
, a terrifying suction force suddenly came from inside the copper coffin, and this suction force directly sucked Fang Ming into the copper coffin.
Not far away, Chen Qian's father saw Fang Ming being sucked into the copper coffin, and suddenly burst into laughter, laughing and crying.
"God is pitiful, our Chen family is finally liberated."
Such wild laughter made the white apes stand up one after another, but the eyes of these white apes looking at Chen Qian's father were full of fear.
"A bunch of flat-haired beasts, get out of here."
With a scolding, those white apes fled here one after another, as if Chen Qian's father was such a terrifying devil to them.
"Don't blame me for deceiving you. If I don't trick you into the coffin, our Chen family will not be able to escape. We can only sacrifice you."
Chen Qian's father looked at the bronze coffin. Although he said this, he did not feel any guilt in his words. He had been waiting for this day for a long time, or to be more precise, the Chen family had been planning for a long time.
"I can finally leave this damn ancient tomb, but before that, my Chen family wants to get back everything we have lost over the years."
Chen Qian's father looked excited and did not look at the copper coffin again. He pressed his hand on the stone wall a few times. A secret door appeared, and his figure walked into it and disappeared.
As for the bronze coffin, after Fang Ming was sucked in, the iron chain shook, and the coffin lid was slowly pulled back again, and finally closed completely with a roar.
…
Inside the copper coffin, although Fang Ming was anxious, he did not lose his composure. As soon as he was sucked into the copper coffin, he began to look at the copper coffin.
The copper coffin was about three meters long, and there was nothing in the entire copper coffin. When the lid of the coffin was closed, it became pitch black.
"Are you willing to follow me?"
At this moment, a clear voice suddenly appeared in Fang Ming's ears. Fang Ming pricked up his ears, but he could not find the source of the voice, as if the voice sounded directly from his mind.
"Are you willing to follow me?"
The voice sounded again, and this time Fang Ming did not look for the source of the voice, but directly replied: "I won't follow."
There was silence for more than ten seconds before the voice sounded again, "If you don't follow, you will only die."
"If you could kill me, why would you say so many things?"
Fang Ming had a sneer on his face, "If my guess is correct, you should be at the last level of this ancient tomb. From the beginning, the agencies here can only rely on temptation to deal with intruders.
It's like this in Yuantai, and it's the same here, but as long as you can keep your heart, you can't do anything to me."
At this moment, Fang Ming thought of what the great man said: what you see may not be true, and what you hear may not be true.
Moreover, everything he encountered from the beginning to the end was temptation, which led people into falling into it, but there was no temptation in this bronze coffin, so this can already explain a problem.
"If my guess is correct, this should be the last level of the ancient tomb, but the Chen family doesn't know this and thinks they have already figured out the ancient tomb."
Fang Ming sneered. Chen Qian's father thought he had fallen into a trap, but he didn't know that he had discovered something was wrong before.
First of all, if the Chen family were the guardians of the ancient tomb, they would be punished if they escaped. So when they approached the bronze coffin, if the Chen family did not stop them, they would have suffered backlash. With the ability of the ancient tomb,
It's not difficult to get to this point.
The tomb guardians would betray. The builders of the ancient tombs must have thought of this and must have taken precautions.
It's like Fang Ming once heard his master say that after the death of a certain prince in ancient times, he left a group of people to serve as his tomb-keepers. In order to fear that the people of this group would betray him, he specifically cast a curse on the people of this group. Only
If the tomb guardians and descendants have evil intentions towards the ancient tomb, they will suffer thousands of consequences.
The heart-gnawing pain of ants.
A prince can do this, let alone such an ancient tomb.
The Chen family didn't understand, but Fang Ming understood. The Chen family thought they understood this ancient tomb, but they were just kept in the dark. The person who really understood this ancient tomb was probably that outstanding person.
The bronze coffin returned to calm, and he didn't know how long it had passed. Fang Ming suddenly felt his eyes light up, and a light suddenly appeared on the lid of the coffin above him, and then there was a shaking sound from the entire coffin.
The bronze coffin is moving!
This was Fang Ming's judgment, and as the bronze coffin moved, the entire coffin became extremely unstable and bumpy. This bumping lasted for about a few minutes, and then calmness returned.
"Young man, congratulations on passing the previous test."
The light appeared again, and Fang Ming's vision returned to normal. The coffin lid fell, and Fang Ming stood up. His eyes were immediately attracted by a figure in front of him.
It was the figure of an old man, but his back was turned to Fang Ming, so his face could not be seen clearly.
"Who is the senior?" Fang Ming was a little confused, looked at the old man and asked.
"The palace of mountains and rivers, the tomb of the sky, the old man is the guardian of the palace."
The old man did not look back, but his words shocked Fang Ming. It seemed that what the talented man said was indeed right.
"How long have you been here, senior?"
Fang Ming was a little curious. Logically speaking, this ancient tomb has existed for thousands of years. Is it possible that this old man also has a lifespan of several thousand years?
"There is no time in the mountains. I don't know how long I have been here."
The old man failed to give Fang Ming a definite answer, which made Fang Ming sure that this man could definitely be called an old monster.
"No, senior, isn't this an ancient tomb? Why are you not the tomb keeper, but the temple keeper?" Fang Ming suddenly found something confusing and asked.
"One tomb and one palace is the real pattern, or to be more correct, when the mountain and river palace that I guarded was built, I didn't know that there was an ancient tomb underneath."
Fang Ming was awe-inspiring, if this was really the case, then this ancient tomb would be too old.
"No one can tell clearly about the origin of the ancient tomb. There are even rumors that it is a tomb that reaches the sky, because a Feng Shui master once conducted some deductions here and finally concluded that this place of heaven and earth has been turned upside down.
After all, the earth is the sky, and the sky is the earth.”
"It's just that even the Feng Shui master can only deduce it up to this point. According to what he said, the power of heaven and earth here is beyond human ability to figure out, unless you are at the Feng Shui Saint Master level, but Feng Shui masters at that level can't say no.
Existence, even if it really exists, is a god-like figure, so how could he reveal this information?"
"The ancient tombs below were discovered only when the palace was halfway through construction. At that time, it was no longer possible to change the location, and the palace of mountains and rivers could not be changed at will, so there was the existence of palace guards like me.
, not only to protect the palace, but also to monitor this ancient tomb."
The old man still did not look back, "I was entrusted by the palace master to find a guardian for this ancient tomb, and the guardian's duty is to protect this ancient tomb and prevent outsiders from entering."
In the old man's narration.
When the ancient tomb was discovered in the middle of the construction of the main hall, many strong men rushed in and wanted to enter the ancient tomb, but the final result was that all these strong men died at the entrance of the ancient tomb, and no one could enter.
It can be said that it was a disaster in the world of cultivation. Countless strong men came one after another, just because a strong man from the Tianji Sect deduced that this ancient tomb was the tomb of a prehistoric strong man, and there was probably a prehistoric strong man inside.
inheritance.
The prehistoric strong men were sealed in a period of time, but it is recognized by all the cultivation circles that there must have been strong men during that time, and the current cultivation world was inherited from that time.
"The entire cultivation world fell into madness. It was not until nearly a thousand powerful people died that the cultivation world calmed down. At this time, Old Man Tianji gave up his own life and deduced another hexagram, and finally came to another ending. This ancient tomb
It is an evil tomb, and inside it is buried an evil person who has never been born before. Once the ancient tomb is revealed, the entire cultivation world will be devastated."
"It is precisely for this reason that several powerful men in the cultivation world at that time joined forces with the palace master to arrange a formation to seal the ancient tomb."
"In addition, these strong men also set a test together. As long as those who pass the test can become the guardians of the ancient tombs, they will receive the gifts left by these strong men. From now on, they will continue to protect the ancient tombs.
Interference from the outside world."
After hearing this, Fang Ming finally understood that the guardian of the ancient tomb was not chosen by the owner of the ancient tomb, but was made by those who sealed the ancient tomb. To put it bluntly, it was equivalent to guarding the seal.
"Senior, haven't there been any guardians of the ancient tombs for so many years?" Fang Ming asked with some confusion.
"Over the long years, there is only one person besides you who has been able to reject so many temptations before, and finally chose to sacrifice himself and throw himself into the bronze coffin."
Hearing the old man's answer, Fang Ming was stunned for a moment, sacrificing himself and throwing himself into the bronze coffin? What does this mean?
"At the beginning, the palace master and the strong men set up three levels to test the visitor's character. The first level was to test the visitor's wisdom. If you can't find the mechanism and pass directly through the iron chain, you will be eliminated."
"The second level is to face the many temptations of money, power and strength. If you choose any of them, you will still be eliminated."
"The third level is the bronze coffin. Step into the bronze coffin and give up yourself in exchange for the rebirth of those who have been eliminated. Only people with this kind of heart are qualified."
Fang Ming was completely confused. Why would he give up himself to save others? He was not that great, but he would not explain it at this time. This could be regarded as a mistake.
"Senior said there is someone besides me, I wonder who that person is?"
Although he couldn't see the expression on the old man's face, Fang Ming obviously felt the old man's body tremble after saying these words. It was obvious that the mention of that person greatly stimulated the old man.
"Don't mention that person, he is just a fool."
The old man's words changed his mood for the first time, which made Fang Ming curious as to what the great man named Fang Zheng had done to make the old man feel so resentful.
"Young man, I ask you once, if you are willing to become the guardian of the ancient tomb?" The old man regained his composure and asked with his back to Fang Ming.
Fang Ming did not make a choice directly, but asked: "Are there any restrictions after becoming a guardian?"
"Yes, that means you have to stay here, unless you can cultivate to the point where the soul and body are separated. By then, only one of them can stay here."
Well……
Fang Ming was silent for a moment, "Senior, I'm really sorry, I can't stay here. I don't think I'm suitable for the role of a tombkeeper."
Just kidding, cultivating to the point where the soul is separated from the body is not as simple as the soul leaving the body. No matter how talented he is, and he assists with all kinds of unique medicines, it will probably take decades.
"Young man, do you know what it means to be a tombkeeper? Decades of shackles are nothing. After that, you will find that this opportunity is something that many people can't dream of."
"Senior, no matter how good this opportunity is, it's a pity that I'm really not suitable. I still have a wife and children outside."
The old man was silent, and after a while he said quietly: "The body of a boy is still there, so where can I find a wife and children? Young people must be honest."
Well……
Fang Ming's mouth twitched, "Senior..."
"Okay, stop talking and come with me first."
The old man did not allow Fang Ming to refuse. With a wave of his right hand, Fang Ming found that his body was floating forward uncontrollably, and in front of him was a door covered with runes.
As he approached, the bronze door slowly opened, and light shot out, stabbing Fang Ming unable to open his eyes. Then he felt a push from behind, and he fell into the door.
The moment he fell through the door, Fang Ming vaguely heard the old man's wild laughter behind him.
"You bastard, that bastard let him run away in the first place, but he can still let you run away. Hehe, luckily I was prepared."