A few faint lights suddenly lit up in the darkness, floating in the void, as if they were ghost fire in the underworld.

Lan Jue said: "This is really a mechanism."

Wang Yan smiled and held his hands behind his back.

Zhang Ping bowed: "It's just that there are paper coal and other objects. The stone door is heavy, and it opens with air flow and vibration. If saltpeter falls down, it can spontaneously ignite."

Wang Yan nodded: "Well, since you are good at Taoism, you think you are very familiar with these techniques."

Wumei mustered up the courage and said, "Sir, there are indeed many scammers in the market who lied to the people in the sect and used some saltpeter fireworks to deceive people. But cheating is a sin and ruining one's own blessings. Those who truly practice Taoism will never do this."

Wang Yan laughed.

Lan Jue said: "There are mosquito larvae in the water, and there are worms. This is the norm in the world. Lord Wang is also playful. He has seen through this mechanism before, but he still lets us appreciate it again."

Wang Yan said, "I see this interesting, so I will restore it. Please ask Peizhi to see through the intentions of these tricks."

As the few people spoke, they had already entered the door. In fact, there were guards in this hall, including the lights, Zhang Ping, Lan Jue, and Wumei's steps.

Under their feet, they were stepping on some debris and powder.

And this entire stone hall is actually a gossip!

The huge hall is round in shape, with Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen and Kun hexagrams engraved on all directions of the ground. The stone gate is the Kun hexagram. Except here, there is a stone pillar in each of the other seven hexagrams, and a stone basin is supported on the pillar. The fire in the basin is burning, making the entire hall bright as daytime.

In front of Kun Gua, there is a stone platform, and the whole hall is empty, but the stone platform is in a mess. The red, gold, white, gray, and blue powder particles are scattered in the broken porcelain, and some are still slightly up to the stone gate, reflecting the fire, refracting the crystal iridescent.

In the middle of the stone hall is a round pool.

The wall of the pool is half black and half pure white. The water of the pool has dried up and half black and half clear, forming a yin and yang pole. There are some red and shiny things at the bottom of the pool.

There are also some broken pieces of porcelain in the edge of the pool facing the gate. There are two bright red cylinders in the eyes of the pool water, which are inserted straight upwards, facing the top of the hall.

Zhang Ping walked to the ground, which represents Li's hexagram. Only the ground in this direction is sunken.

Zhang Ping squatted down silently next to Li Gua, with dried blood marks here.

There are also such traces on the smooth ground.

Zhang Ping followed the bloodstain and walked to the square stone platform.

When those people left, they did not sweep over here. The mess on the ground solidified the things that had happened decades ago. They told later generations that the wooden coffin sealed under the willow tree was respected by the people as the grandma of Gujing, enjoying the tragic moment of the last moment of their lives.

Wumei came to Zhang Ping's side: "Is this red cinnabar..."

Zhang Ping twisted some debris: "There are also mica, Zeng Qing, and lead powder."

Wumei exclaimed: "It's all elixir? These jars have been smashed, and they are all fine porcelain pieces."

Lan Jue also walked over and leaned over to pick up a piece of broken porcelain at the bottom of the jar: "The Chu period uses porcelain. Chunyu's family is extravagant, and there are many porcelains left in the world. If this jar is intact, it will be sold to the market shop and you will get about a hundred taels of silver."

Wumei was amazed: "Hundreds and tens of taels? Just smashed like this?! Sin, sin!"

Lan Jue put down the porcelain pieces: "I thought about the mountains of gold and silver, but I only saw a few such jars, so I couldn't help but feel angry."

Wumei glanced at the ground: "There are these bloodstains, and they... killed people here? Could it be the woman we saw in the sarcophagus?"

Zhang Ping said in a muffled voice: "That woman committed suicide."

Wumei was stunned, Zhang Ping pointed to the bottom edge of the stone platform: "Some powder here is sulfur powder. There are also some red spots, not cinnabar, but mercury residues sprinkled with sulfur powder. In the clear water pool, there are glazed fragments and red blocks, and there are five jars of broken porcelain on the ground. On this stone table, in addition to cinnabar mica lead powder Zeng Qing, there is also a porcelain jar of sulfur and a glass jar of mercury."

Wumei immediately jumped backward, and his feet were slipped by debris. Fortunately, the guards beside him held him and did not fall on the porcelain piece.

Zhang Ping said: "It's okay. The mercury has been sprinkled with sulfur and has been thrown into the water. No toxic gas can be dispersed. If there is poisonous gas, we should have been poisoned for so long."

Wumei stood up tremblingly and looked at his hands and nails quickly.

Lan Jue said: "I heard that Lord Feng found that there was mercury in the stomach of the female corpse, and she took it herself?"

Zhang Ping nodded: "Those people tortured the woman and entered the hall with her. After the woman was tortured again, she told the mechanism of Li Gua."

Wumei grabbed the back of his head: "The mechanism refers to..."

Wang Yanyaoyao said: "I can't imagine this? These two pillars were not pillars, but just the Yin and Yang eyes in the pool. There is a stone platform above it, with a sarcophagus on it."

Wumei opened his mouth halfway: "Coffin?"

Wang Yan hummed, "The so-called sarcophagus that is now offered to Grandma's temple."

Wumeisha stayed in place, Wang Yan pointed upwards and said to the guards on the side: "Master, please take a closer look at the top."

Wumei stretched his neck and looked up, and then he heard the Minister Lan beside him say, "There seems to be a square mark at the top of the stone pillar."

Wumei's mouth opened a little wider. Yes, the dome of the hall was very smooth and there was no joint visible. It was only under the pillars, facing the pool, four gaps formed a rectangle.

Lan Jue said: "This is not Tianmen."

Wang Yan chuckled: "Peizhi is right. He only opened the Tianmen and sent me back to Quetai. The Tianmen has already opened."

Wumei felt that his feet were floating under his feet and the dome was turning: "The sky gate opens, return to the Quetai?!"

The guard next to him said, "Master, press the Li Gua, these two pillars will drag the coffin to rise and rise to the top. Our minister can see through the small mechanism at a glance."

Wumei's tongue knotted: "Top?!"

The guard said, "Yes, a hole will be opened on the top first, and then the pillar will hold the coffin and rise outside the hole, and it will be like this."

Wumei stared at the dome: "Can you, can you do this?!"

The guard nodded: "Master, the mechanism, that's it."

Lan Jue sighed: "No wonder it's groundbreaking outside again. It turns out to be a test of the mystery on the top."

Wumei's eyes shine with stars: "But why do you need to lift the coffin up?"

Wang Yan smiled and said, "Good question. Those criminals must have been confused by this incident at that time."

Zhang Ping said: "Then, the woman took the opportunity to rush to the stone platform and picked up the mercury can."

She hated these people very much, wanted to kill them, and wanted to end her pain.

She drank the mercury, smashed the bottle and spilled the mercury on the ground, trying to kill them with the poisonous gas emitted by the mercury.

"It's a pity that there is a can of sulfur on the stone table. Moreover, she told those people that one of them was sulfur."

Lan Jue was moved. Zhang Ping picked up a few pieces of broken porcelain near the pool, with blood marks on it.

"She wanted to throw the sulfur into the pool, but she couldn't throw it in, but instead let the other party get the solution as soon as possible."

Wumei said ah, jumping from what Mr. Wang said to the plot told by Zhang Ping. He was completely fainted, but he still struggled to find the direction: "Then why not throw away sulfur first and then smash the mercury pot? Wuliang Tianzun, I am guilty of it!"

Lan Jue said: "The situation was urgent at that time, and I was afraid that it would not be too late to stop. I might not have thought about it carefully."

Zhang Ping stared at the ground and fell into silence again.

The group of people sprinkled sulfur powder on the mercury and threw the mercury and the can into the water.

They checked the remaining jars and found that they were all worthless elixirs, so they broke them.

Zhang Ping walked to the stone door and looked at the door.

Wang Yan said: "This door can only be opened from the outside. Press the mechanism and the door should be closed. However, the criminals of that year did not all enter the inner hall, and the people who stayed outside opened the door. The woman originally wanted to trap the criminals here or poison them to death with mercury gas. Unfortunately..."

The people left smoothly and returned to the ground with the woman's body.

Zhang Ping said: "They opened the sarcophagus and sealed the place where they lifted out of the sarcophagus and the passage underground. The sarcophagus was too heavy and difficult to hide, so they put the woman's body into the coffin and threw it upright into the well."

However, a few years later, the house on the ground was distributed to the village household Jiao Er, and the sarcophagus was discovered while digging a well.

The hall was silent for a moment, and Wumei murmured again: "It turns out that we have not understood the mistake, but the three horizontal lines meet one vertical lines. Gongmu meets Changcai, which is not about the map, but about the mechanism of this tomb! Gongmu meets Changcai, and the three talents that Changcai refers to are not heaven, but earth. Entering the door is Kun, which is in response to this sentence. The Li hexagram is the mechanism, Kun and Li, which is the earth, and will not ascend to heaven if you have a lid."

Zhang Ping, Lan Jue, Wang Yan and the guards didn't say anything.

Wumei touched his nose and muttered again: "But... I still can't understand why I have to build a mechanism in the tomb and lift the coffin up."

Lan Jue looked around: "This entire Xuan Palace is very strange. The stone tablet in front of the door is intimidating, but there are no powerful hidden weapons in the entire underground palace. Even this in the inner palace can open the door as long as there are people outside."

Even the tombs of ordinary wealthy households, if there are a little specifications, there will be some anti-theft mechanisms.

This mysterious palace seems mysterious and mysterious, with simple and empty inside, giving people an inexplicable emptiness.

Zhang Ping said, "Because this is a cover." He looked at Wumei, "Senior Brother, please bring the plate."

Wumei quickly took out a compass from his small bag, held it in his hand, looked closely, and immediately shouted loudly: "There is a ghost!"
Chapter completed!