Chapter five hundred and eighty
After about half an hour of walking, Liu Shangang stopped, pointed directly in front of me and said to me: "There is something."
Actually, I didn't need to say that I saw it, and there was a dark shadow near the end of the searchlight.
I nodded, pulled out the green steel sword, and approached the shadow carefully. It shrank motionlessly in a corner of the tunnel. Gradually, I could see that it seemed like a person sitting on the ground.
I got closer and saw it clearly. It was a corpse sitting under the stone wall.
The corpse seen in the tomb may be evil corpses, but the skeletons are not threatening at all. After losing their muscles and nervous system, a skeleton cannot become an evil object.
I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly walked over.
This corpse has been around for some time, its clothes have been completely corroded, and a large number of erosion pits have appeared on its bones.
I held the fox fire lantern in front of the bones and looked carefully, and found a small metallic box between its two ribs.
Liu Shangang reached out and was about to grab the box. I patted him and signaled him to retreat. Then he squatted down and carefully pulled the box out of the bones.
This box should be made of gold and silver. It has not been corroded in the tunnel for so many years. A glaring Vajra is engraved on the front of the box, and a statue of a low-browed Bodhisattva is engraved on the bottom of the box.
Just as I was about to open the box, Liang Houzai also came over and reminded me: "This may be the remains of the crazy monk."
After hearing what he said, I closed the lid that was about to be lifted back.
According to Zhu Shuanzhu, when the crazy monk was digging his eyes, he did give him a box and told him not to open the lid. Once the lid is opened, the things inside will be useless.
Liu Shangang patted my shoulder: "Look at what that is?"
I looked at the place illuminated by the exploration light and saw a pile of beads as big as walnuts scattered on the ground.
Liang Houzai picked up one and took a look, and said to me: "This is a Buddhist bead made of golden nanmu, which is already very corrupt."
As he said, he pinched the beads in his hand and squeezed them away on the spot.
I looked at the bones in front of me and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
This is really the corpse of a crazy monk. Didn't he leave back then, but went to the tomb alone? But how did he come in? In that era, it was not as long as the diving equipment like today. The spiral waterway was as long as it was, and it was impossible to travel through just by holding a breath.
What's more, there is no sign that the Shengmen in the Jiuer Tomb chamber has been opened.
Liang Houzai, who was beside me, couldn't help but wonder: "How did he come in? Is there any other entrance to this tomb?"
Liang Houzai and I looked at Senior Brother Geng at the same time. Senior Brother Geng felt our gaze and frowned and said, "When the First Ancestor was building a tomb, considering the stability of the Feng Shui bureau, it is impossible to open another entrance. Unless... when the tomb is being built, an outsider tampered?"
When he said the last sentence, Senior Brother Geng's tone seemed a little uncertain.
Liu Shangang said from the side: "Crazy Monk didn't dig a hole in it by himself, did he?"
Senior Brother Geng immediately shook his head: "Impossible, this tomb is too deep into the ground. There are *** and rock layers on the tomb, so I can't dig it in at all."
Liang Houzai nodded and said, "I remember, when Zhu Shuanzhu talked about the old story of the Iron Dragon King, he said at first that he dug an iron mass in the river and did not see the Iron Dragon King. The statement about the burying the Iron Dragon King under the ground also comes from the mouth of a crazy monk. I always feel that the monk had gone down to the tomb early in the morning and had seen things in the tomb."
Liu Shangang: "After Huangshan died, didn't he send a dream to him? Maybe he told him in the dream that there was an Iron Dragon King under the ground."
Liang Houzai curled his lips and said, "If Huangshan and the Crazy Monk had no connection with each other before, it would be unlikely that they would have sent a dream to the monk. Most of the things like sending dreams to the monks will appear between relatives and acquaintances. According to the monk, Huangshan's soul was imprisoned by the Iron Dragon King, so it would be impossible for him to send a dream to the monks."
I feel that Liang Houzai’s statement is a bit too absolute and has not made any comments.
At this time, Liang Houzai squatted in front of the remains again. He turned on the flashlight and looked at the skeleton carefully. When the beam of light fell on the skeleton's chest, I saw that there seemed to be traces of fragmentation on the sternum. After years of corrosion, the cracks on the bones were already very unclear, but it can still be seen that a bone was missing on the thoracic rib joint in the third section.
"I die by piercing my chest." Liang Houzai said, and hit the flashlight on the ground, carefully searching for something.
Soon, he found an iron cone-like thing under the corpse. The awl was about one foot long, with a wide tail and a narrow head, hollow, and a layer of hard scales as hard as iron on the outside.
Liang Houzai held the cone in his hand and weighed it, and said to me: "This should be the cause of the crazy monk's death."
I took the awl and looked at it. After so many years, there was still a vague yang energy on it. It seemed that it should be something from the Iron Dragon King.
Seeing that I had been staying near the corpse for a long time, I thought I could not delay any more, so I picked up my fist, bowed respectfully to the corpse, and said, "We have always respected the dead as the most important thing. You shouldn't have taken your things, but this box may be the key to dealing with the Iron Dragon King. Please borrow it for me. If you can still return the same way, you will definitely return it."
Liu Shangang frowned and asked me: "He has been dead for so many years. Can he still hear your words?"
"This is the most basic respect for the monks." I patted Liu Shangang on the shoulder and said with a smile.
Asked Liu Shangang to put away the scale cone, I asked everyone to move forward.
As I continued to deepen, the yang energy in the tunnel became more and more intense and dry. When I wrapped my cold clothes on my body, I could feel that the temperature outside was getting higher and higher. The silt atmosphere here was not as heavy as before, and there was a feeling of dryness and cracking in the air.
All the water on the ground was evaporated. Because of excessive drying, very narrow cracks appeared on the stone walls, and some *** slowly flowed in from those gaps, but before it could land, it was completely evaporated. In such a dry environment, I felt that the air was about to crack.
Senior Brother Geng muttered something while walking. He didn't press the button on the cover below, and no one could hear clearly what he was saying.
After walking for more than an hour, I stopped, took out the kettle from the waterproof bag, took off the mask, and drank a lot of water. My throat, which had been dry for a long time, finally became a little wet, and my mind became a little clearer.
I put on the mask again and saw that others took out the kettle like me, frowning and drinking water.
This place is so dry. Walking here is like walking in the desert under the scorching sun. The only difference is that you can at least sweat in the desert, but here, as soon as the sweat beads appear on your forehead, they will be steamed dry almost immediately.
Senior Brother Geng walked to me and grabbed a handful of Yin and Yang sand and sprinkled it in the air. He saw that the sand first turned into a circle in the air, but then began to run around irregularly, and finally scattered on the ground like ordinary sand.
Senior Brother Geng said to me: "The Iron Dragon King is really powerful. Even the first generation ancestor's mistress cannot completely suppress it. It has the possibility of breaking the tomb at any time. You can walk in front of you, be careful."
I asked Senior Brother Geng: "What's going on with Yin and Yang San?"
Senior Brother Geng: "The Qi field in this place is influenced by the Iron Dragon King, and it has been completely separated from the Feng Shui trend outside. It is too troublesome to explain it specifically. In short, be careful."
I nodded and saw that everyone had their masks put on, I waved and signaled everyone to continue moving forward.
The Iron Dragon King may break the tomb at any time? In other words, for the past two thousand years, this tomb has been in a dangerous situation of storm. Now, this tomb may be at risk of rapid collapse at any time.
The yang energy in the tunnel gave me a very uneasy feeling. Now when I heard Senior Brother Geng’s words, my worry became even heavier.
After walking for about half an hour, I vaguely felt a corpse gas coming from the front of the tunnel. I immediately pressed the button on the mask and said to the person behind me: "There may be an evil corpse in front!"
Just as I was talking, the corpse gas in the distance suddenly moved closer to us at an extremely fast speed. I immediately raised my arms, waved my hand, and signaled everyone to retreat.
The corpse energy is not too strong, but it gives me a very awkward feeling. It is too pure. The evil corpse I have seen in the past, whether it is a copper armored corpse or a corpse bar, must have other qi fields on it, but what comes from the front is a simple corpse energy.
I pulled out the Qinggang Sword and pinned the Fantian Seal to my waist. While retreating, I was alert to the movement ahead.
But at this moment, corpse gas also attacked behind us, and two corpse gases were double-teaming, surrounding us.
Where did the corpse gas behind me come from? After walking for so long, there were no other forks in the tunnel behind me.
As the two corpse gases in front and behind got closer to us, I realized that they were coming from the top of the stone in the tunnel.
Outside the tunnel, it should be the *** used to suppress the tomb. Could it be that the evil corpse swam along the waterway?
At this time, a few small cracks came from the top of the tunnel. I stared at the top of the stone and saw a place as big as a palm cracking rapidly, raising a bundle, and the fragments of the stone continued to fall along the crack.
Immediately afterwards, a series of sounds came from the top of my head, and stone bags were raised in many places, and the things hidden in the waterway were about to break out of the top.
If I had taken a set of gang steps in the past, I could have kept the people in the waterway in the east and west. But here, once I stepped on the entire set of gang steps, the yin energy in the waterway would be quickly consumed, but the yang energy on the Iron Dragon King would not be affected too much.
At that time, I am afraid that the Yin Qi will be consumed too much, and the Iron Dragon King will immediately lose his suppression.
At this time, some *** had already flowed down the crack. Liang Houzai immediately took out the evil-proof talisman and pasted two pieces on the backs of Liu Shangang and Geng.
When I turned around and looked at Liang Houzai, I found that Xian'er had a long whip in his hand and a cluster of hard thorns on the head of the whip.
The situation was quite urgent, and I didn't think much about it, and moved my eyes to the top of my head.
With a dull bang, a large amount of gravel splashed down, and a hole as big as a bowl appeared on the top of the stone. The water column poured out along the hole, but nothing else came out.
After the *** landed, it soon spread around. The yin energy in it was impacted by the yang energy, and the water began to bubble and roll, looking like it was boiling.
When the water spreads to my feet, the yin energy inside is almost completely exhausted.
I clenched the Qinggang Sword and stared at the hole in my head. The corpse gas on the top was pressing towards us quickly, but the evil corpses had not yet penetrated out of the hole. I felt that they seemed to be afraid of something.
Chapter completed!