Chapter 157 Shadow Bone
I saw the fat man hooking the ancient corpse's neck with a "corpse-binding rope", swinging his arm around and slapped the ancient corpse with five loud slaps. I quickly stopped him. When I heard him say something strange, I continued to ask: "Did you eat too much and kill someone?" But then I thought that the fat man had been hit by the fat man before, but he still had not been completely removed, and there was something left. I thought that the owner of the "witch robe" was also killed by King Xian. Did she turn into a ghost and attach herself to the fat man, just to sneak into the Yin Palace and learn what Wu Zixu did back then, and whip the corpse to vent his hatred?
Thinking of this, he immediately raised his hand to remove the fat man's gas mask. When he looked at his eyes, there was nothing special. At this time, he heard the fat man say, "This place is so stormy, why did you take my gas mask?" He snatched it back, put it on his face, and continued, "I said, Commander Hu, Chief of Staff Yang, haven't you seen it? Look at this..."
The fat man pointed to the head of the ancient corpse in the coffin. Halfway through his words, he saw that the head of the eyeless ancient corpse suddenly shook three times on the body, shook three times. With a "knock" sound, it fell down and just fell to the edge of the "Stone Spirit Ghost Coffin". The stone essence was as smooth as ice. After a moment of stopping, it immediately rolled to the ground of the wooden coffin.
The three of them were all shocked. The ghost coffin made of the stone spirit was very tightly sealed, and it was extraordinary. Although the "stone spirit" with extremely heavy yin energy was regarded as an ominous object, its unique shade and nature can preserve the original appearance of the corpse in an extremely intact. When opening the coffin, the ancient corpse was as bearded as ever, and its muscles did not shrink and sink. Most of the moisture in the corpse was locked in it, with no sign of rotting and drying. Why is this head so unsolid? Although these fat people slapped hard in the face, they would never be able to knock off their heads?
The fat man was also very surprised and immediately picked up the head that fell to the ground. The skin of the head was gradually becoming darker. This should be due to the humid air environment in the "wooden coffin", which had a sharp oxidation effect on the ancient corpse that had been placed in the closed environment for a long time.
The fat man said, "Why are you so unharmed? Even if you pull it down, you shouldn't be able to pull it off?"
Shirley Yang took the head of the ancient corpse from the fat man: "Let me see." Then he asked the fat man: "What did you want to say just now? We didn't see what?"
The fat man said to Shirley Yang, "Oh, that... I said, don't you see what I was doing just now? According to the fortune teller, when they encountered a fresh corpse, they had to wrap it with a rope to tie it up and slapped it hard. If they didn't do this, the corpse's clothes and the bright weapon in the coffin would not be able to be taken out. When he was talking about this, we were having dinner together, and you should have heard it. I wanted you to see that the head of this zongzi is just like a living person. He should have tried to beat it first. Who would have thought that it would be like paper, and it would fall off with a touch."
I nodded and said, "So you are talking about this. The fortune teller said that this is true, but that is the method of those of them. They do it to strengthen their courage and calm the dead body. As for the statement that they will not slap people in the face and cannot get the equipment, it is somewhat self-deception, and the targets are mostly new dead people who have just been buried in the grave. It is such a waste of this. I announce that you will be removed from your position as deputy commander from now on."
The fat man wanted to argue, but he heard Shirley Yang holding the head of the ancient corpse and saying, "Don't argue, come and see this head..." As he said that, he put the head on the lid of the coffin and let us watch it.
I went over and took a look. In this short period of time, the ancient corpse's head was even darker than before, and it looked extremely terrifying, especially the deep eyes, which made it look like a pitch-black skull. There were circles of spiral-shaped dark red blood marks on the edge of the eye socket. Because the head was constantly turning black and dry, I only took a look and the traces disappeared.
I have never seen many corpses in the coffin of the ancient tomb. I have a lot of plans. There are only the golden tomb in the black wind gust and the jade coffin in the jungle at the entrance of the insect valley. There are corpses soaked in blood. I saw that the head of the ancient corpse was not seen in any special place except that the eyes were dug off. I asked Shirley Yang: "See the ancient corpse, I am not here to do it. Do you think it is possible that it is the head of King Xian?"
Shirley Yang said: "It is still difficult to determine whether King Xian is. You have just seen that there are traces of being punished in the frame of the head. In ancient times, there were torture instruments, which were shaped like wine glasses, with rotating knife teeth inside. If you put them in a person's eyes, you can get all the eyeballs out alive."
Fatty and I nodded at the same time. Two years ago, I saw an ancient Tibetan custom exhibition in Beijing, which included a bowl that plucked away the eyes of a living person. However, those cultural relics were all from Tibet. It turned out that the mainland also had the same torture instruments in ancient times, but why did this ancient corpse have their eyes plucked out during their lifetime? And why was it held in a "ghost coffin" with heavy yin energy? People other than royal members would never be buried in the tomb of the royal family. So who is this ancient corpse?
In addition, I also found that there were traces of cutting the head of the ancient corpse by a sharp weapon, but it did not seem to be beheaded, but was cut off after death. It seems that this was not a fat man's heavy hand, and the neck of the ancient corpse was whipped. The head was originally spliced onto the corpse. What is the reason for this? Does the ancient Dian Kingdom have the custom of cutting off the head after death and then re-pressing it?
I suddenly thought of a possibility, but it is not possible to assert for the time being. I must first look at the corpse in the "ghost coffin" to further confirm. So we surrounded the coffin again. I asked the fat man to hold a flashlight to illuminate it. Shirley Yang and I took action to cut the layers of white brocade that wrapped around the corpse with a paratrooper knife. The king of Han Dynasty had the custom of jade clothes (also known as jade boxes) and used cool and moist jade to prevent corrosion. This ancient corpse was tightly wrapped with white brocade, but exposed its head outside, which seemed outrageous.
The white brocades also began to be eroded by the damp mold gas. The more they got inside, the harder it was to peel. In the stuffy gas mask, sweat broke out on the tip of my nose. Finally, with the assistance of Shirley Yang, I finally peeled off the layers of shrouds.
When I was peeling the white brocade for several layers, I had already noticed a difference in my hand, but when I saw the situation inside, the beam of the flashlight shone into the coffin, reflecting countless golden lights to the smooth stone spirit, indicating that the dazzling golden light attracted the soul, and I was even more surprised. How could this be?
In the white brocade wrapped in the corpse, there is a golden skeleton. Except for the spine and waist and hips, there are also several human bones left. The rest of the parts are filled with gold, without a trace of flesh. This half-bone and half-gold chamber seems to be because the corpse is too rotten, almost all of them have become mud and air. They are artificially sorted and pieced together again to create a set of golden bones.
The golden bones formed a sharp contrast with the head that was knocked down by the fat man. The body was almost rotten and the bones that needed to be filled with gold, so why was the human head not rotten at all? If we said that because we took apart the white brocade of the corpse, the body quickly disintegrated and disappeared into the air in an instant, it would be absolutely unreasonable.
Shirley Yang said to me: "Old Hu, look at the neck of this golden bone, there is a jade hoop that connects the head. I was slapped by the fat man just now and knocked off the jade hoop, which caused the head to fall to the ground."
The fat man immediately said: "Chief Yang is still your clear play. If the commander hadn't mastered his hand force just right, it would not be easy to discover the secret of this ancient corpse. How could mortals afford this golden bone? I think this is the old thing King Xian."
Shirley Yang didn't know if he could do it, just pointed to the golden skeleton and said, "There are a few missing ribs on the left, and it seems that they were not repaired on purpose..."
I saw that I had a clue here, so I said to Shirley Yang: "This is very obvious. This is the way to maintain the corpse being punished with heartbrokenness during my lifetime. It seems that the ancient corpse in the ghost coffin is a corpse made up of the coffin owners of the three coffins in the tomb chamber. We have thought of it before that in three sets of alien coffins of different periods, three great nobles who were sentenced to death. Although they were executed, they were still given the same burial system as their status in their lifetime. They were all considered to be the previous life of King Xian, indicating that he had experienced three prisons and was the shadow bone left in the underworld before he became an immortal."
Since ancient times, "Confucius has benevolence and Lao Tzu has Taoism". Taoism specializes in refining alchemy to cultivate qi in order to prove the Tao and become an immortal, and to escape the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death of mortals. However, immortality is naturally not something that can be obtained in vain. If you want to be reborn, it is not as simple as peeling off the skin, you must go through several major disasters, and these disasters are not forced. Therefore, some people in the Taoist sect find their corpses from their previous three lives to be used as shadow bones, so as to show to the world that they have experienced three prisons and can be reborn. In this way, there is hope for this immortal.
It seems that King Xian did this. The "wooden coffin" under the tomb of the Yin Palace represents the part of the torture in the underworld. The three corpses were pieced together into a complete substitute. Because the three corpses were considered to be the first three lives of King Xian, they were no different from him and were placed in the main tomb.
Shirley Yang and I thought about it, and said to me: "Maybe the symbolic meaning of each floor of this tomb chamber is different. The middle layer represents the world, and the wooden coffin below represents the underworld. There should be another tomb chamber above the tomb chamber, representing the fairy mountain, and the real corpse of King Xian lies on the fairy mountain."
I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty, "What we just said is just an assumption. We should further confirm that few people have seen the tomb of the king who cultivates immortality and seeks immortality. There seems to be mystery everywhere. It is better to find out if there are any other information-worthy things in the coffin. Now that we have finished reading the head and body, the stone essence can protect the body from the immortality of a thousand years, so the state of the corpse should be consistent with the original appearance of each coffin. I think the head is preserved so well. It must be from the cellular coffin with the best eight-inch plate. In the middle, the bones are all broken and have to be repaired with gold. It is mostly the residual bones in the sarcophagus, and the elixir outside the sarcophagus was sealed later."
The fat man said: "The only leg left is left, we haven't seen this piece of substitute bone. It may be some valuable product."
I think that's unlikely. The legs came from the huge bronze coffin. The two prisons in front were "eye-glazing" and "heart-to-heart". Then the third prison must be the most terrifying "soul-taking", so the owner in the bronze coffin was so fierce. While peeling off Bai Jin wrapped around the legs of the corpse, I asked Shirley Yang and Fatty: "Do you know what soul-taking is?"
Chapter completed!