Chapter 38: The Strange Man in the Cave, the Eight Treasures Pill Furnace
There was a long-term ash deposit on the excavated stone steps, and I couldn't wait to walk up.
From the moment I stepped into the giant ship, I felt empty, and at this moment I finally felt like I was down to earth. The cold and thick feeling from the soles of my feet made me a little surprised, so I saw the black hole at the end. The heavy darkness surged into my heart with pressure.
"What should I do with this ship?"
The white-headed man smiled and said, "Just go out, what kind of boat do you care about? Do you still want to return here?"
"What if there is no way out?" Yini said with lingering fear, "It's better to fix the ship on the shore to avoid..." She couldn't continue and looked at Zhuo Bufei.
Zhuo Bufei's heart had already flown out of the sky, staring at the darkness ahead, "Don't worry about the ship. If there is no way out, everyone will die here, let alone return the same way." He looked around us and said, "Do you think the same way can you return?"
Thinking of the situation along the way, I couldn't help but look back at the opposite side of the silver ocean. But at this moment, I clearly felt the Buddhist beads on my neck trembling, and I felt a numbness in my mind, and I walked up the steps in a daze.
I walked into the black hole without looking back, and only then did I find that the so-called black hole was terrifying with silver. I walked into the cave along the uneven stone path under my feet, but my eyes became wider.
This is a huge staircase that was dug out, dozens of feet left and right, and the geometry was unknown. The rugged rocks on the cliff made people panic, but at this moment, I didn't know how to describe this feeling. I was completely dragged into the depths by a sense of consciousness.
Perhaps because of the reason it was too spacious, the sound of footsteps on the stone steps echoed clearly around, breaking the particularly quiet environment. The smell of moisture here is refreshing, but it makes people feel refreshed.
I don’t know how long I walked, but finally saw the end and vaguely saw the mighty stone sculpture standing on both sides. However, due to the distance, I couldn’t see clearly what was carved. However, as I slowly got closer, I found that the winding and undulating stone sculpture was in the shape of a cloud, I couldn’t recognize what it was.
At the end is a wide jade bi, beyond cognition, but it is carved with a door frame wrapped in a green dragon. At this moment, I regained consciousness and felt a chill on my arms, and then I realized that when the sleeves on my arms disappeared.
I was completely shocked by what was in front of me, "This is amazing."
No one responded, but was surprised to find that there was no one around him. He heard anxious footsteps in panic.
Zhuo Bufei and the others ran wildly and came to me panting. Luohan raised the half-sleeved sleeve in his hand and said, "Brother Cheng, what's wrong with you just now? Why are you so strong? I shouted that I couldn't catch up with you all the way." He sat on the stone steps, threw down the sleeve in his hand and said, "No, I'm so exhausted. Take a rest, rest."
Yini also sat on the ground, her chest kept rising and falling, and her expression was full of worry. My eyes fell on the sleeve in front of the Arhat, which was the half-sleeve missing on my arm.
"You were really strange just now. What happened?" The white-headed man put down his skin, leaned on it, and looked at the strange stone sculpture in front of him.
I thought about the weirdness just now, touched the Buddhist beads on my neck, and said inexplicably, "I don't know, but one thing is certain, I really lost consciousness just now."
Yini said anxiously, "Brother Cheng, are you not tired at all?"
I forced a smile, "I'm not tired! I probably don't feel anything."
Zhuo Bufei looked at the stone sculpture not far away, slowly got up and walked towards the stone sculpture, "This carving seems to be a snake, but how could a snake have four legs?"
"Is this a dragon carved?" I corrected, "The dragon has claws and…." Only then did I realize that the dragon I thought was actually without horns, and the head with claws was obviously a huge snake head.
"This is really a snail." Yini blinked her big eyes and suddenly saw the Qinglong Gate. "Will this indicate the meaning of 'jumping the dragon gate'? Look, these snakes have claws when they pass through this stone gate."
Zhuo Bufei couldn't help but nodded and smiled, "It's interesting."
Luo Han said strangely, "What's interesting? Why do you care about these ghosts?" He smashed the four-edged iron rod in his hand, making a crisp sound, echoing around.
"You can't help but say a little bit, don't you know what's going on here yet, have you forgotten that? What if there are such a group of bats and snakes?" The white-headed man got up from the ground and thoughtfully said, "I really don't know what this structure is for."
In the jasper door frame wrapped around the inscription, it was like a whirlpool in a storm, and a strange aura was oozing out from it. A strange sound kept echoing in my mind, "You are here, you are here..., giggle..."
"Brother Cheng, what's wrong with you?" Yini shook my arm, her eyes full of concern, "Since you entered here, it's very strange."
My mind was drowsy, but I didn't want to deceive her, so I told her the strange thing that happened to me.
"You heard the voice?" Baitou Weng said in surprise, "Is there anyone else here?"
"Didn't you listen to him? It's in my mind. If there were others, how could anyone not hear it?" The Luohan walked towards the Jade Gate of the Qinglong Inscription, thought about it, but he retreated, "Will this place be as strange as we encountered at the beginning? I don't want to be buried in this ghost place." He sighed, "I'm actually a little sympathetic about why my family left me now."
Zhuo Bufei stepped forward speechlessly and patted the Luohan on the shoulder, "Don't worry, everything will be fine." He looked at the stone gate in front of him in complexity, "Now we can only hope for God."
"Dad, do you really want to go in?" The charming voice trembled a little.
"Yeah," Zhuo Bufei nodded and walked in first. Yini finally followed.
I looked at the stone gate and saw someone walking out of the stone gate and walking towards me. I took a few steps back in horror, but the figure still rushed over me.
"Brother Cheng, what's wrong with you?" Yini called.
My clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and I was weak all over. I took a few breaths and walked towards the cave, feeling nervous, hoping that all kinds of strange things like the previous ones would not happen.
The world I saw shocked my eyes: the first thing that caught my eye was a green lake. On both sides, there was a road on the rock walls close to the lake, surrounding the Bihu. The area of this lake was only four or five meters square, and it seemed to be made by hand. What surprised us even more was that we could see all kinds of swimming fish in this green lake.
I couldn't help but relax. Seeing the swimming fish at least proved that the water was not the silver sea water I just saw. I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"There must be someone living here before?" Luohan said confidently, "Look, it was clearly a place of excavated, but I just don't understand why it was scary to make those weird things at the door."
Zhuo Bufei looked around the path by the lake for a week and found that at the end of the stone path was a stone platform. There were railings on the stone platform dozens of feet, and various monsters were carved. You could even see eye-catching flowers and plants, which exuded an intoxicating fragrance.
"The smell of this flower is very strange, why is it so fragrant?" Yan Ni came to the strange flower bed, and laid it in the small flower bed, planted a few strange flowers and plants, and bloomed with strange flowers.
"Why is it black?" Luo Han sighed, "Why do I feel like I have seen this flower there?"
"I know I've seen it there." Zhuo Bufei pointed to the shadow on the ground, and everyone opened their eyes in horror. The shadow projected by the dark flowers on the ground was actually a hideous ghost face, a grimace with a rich and intoxicating fragrance.
"Look at what that is?" The white-headed man suddenly called out.
I was shocked to find that in the center of the stone platform, an old man with fairy spirit stood majestic. His hair bun was raised up with a jade hairpin, his eyes were slightly buckled together, and the wrinkles on his forehead were as carved as chisels; his figure was thin, exuding a majesty that was unworldly.
The huge octagonal pagoda stands in front of you. You can actually see the steaming smoke.
"Who are you?" The Arhat stepped forward and looked at the person in front of him vigilantly, but the man looked completely silent.
"He is a dead person." I found that this person was the figure that had just walked out of the cave and passed by himself. My heart trembled and I thought to myself, "Will this person who just talked to me be this person?" But I don't know how to explain everything in front of me.
The Arhat raised his courage and looked into the man's breath, "It's really no breath."
Baitou Weng said, "From his clothes, they are completely Qin people. But he..." Baitou Weng seemed unsure, "Can they be dressed up?"
Zhuo Bufei shook his head and said, "No, the surroundings are very closed. If it were a modern person, it would not be possible to be here." But the facts in front of him were beyond doubt. Zhuo Bufei pondered, "But if it were an ancient man, how could he live until now, even a corpse could not be preserved until now. Look at the person in front of him, if he looks like a living person without knowing the situation? Could it be that what Fujiwara San said is true?" He exclaimed, but even he himself did not believe in this possible existence.
"What is this octagonal pagoda? Why?" Luo Han was muttering, and suddenly looked at everyone with his eyes and said, "Is this a elixir?"
Everyone was stunned and looked at each other speechlessly. At this moment, Yini shouted, "Dad, do you think we are going to find something?"
In front of the incense table niche with strange bullheads, on the strange triangular stone stand, there is a golden bronze drum with dense Kui patterns on it and engraved with strange inscriptions. However, the most shocking thing is the two drumsticks placed on the drum stand.
The drumsticks are green and dark bronze, but they are hollow snake-shaped. Because they are too gorgeous, they even make people wonder whether they will be destroyed by touching them.
Zhuo Bufei stepped forward and stroked the bronze drum, and the biting coldness spread throughout his body. He originally imagined that even if he saw this legendary thing, it would be full of steepness, but at this moment he found that it was completely beyond his imagination.
The inscription totem was slowly brushed by Zhuo Bufei's hand, and he murmured, "This thing really exists, it really exists... I want to take him to see Mr. Sun."
I thought of the strange thing just now and said, "Can this person be the alchemy alchemy child cave that year?"
The white-headed man kept nodding, "Maybe it's him, but no matter how you say it, he shouldn't be the only one, right?"
"Children's Cave?Children's Cave?" The Arhat murmured, "Bronze Drum, Bronze Drum?"
Yini shouted excitedly, "Does this children's cave refer to the bronze drum? And this bronze drum refers to the children's cave?"
"Bronze Drum? Children's Cave? Children's Cave? Tonggu?" Zhuo Bufei nodded, "But what is the connection between the two?"
"Is this the case?" I thought for a while and said, "The thing Zhuang Chu brought out from Chu was this child cave. Of course, this child cave must have obtained something or had some special abilities, so he could not hesitate to let Qin Shihuang send his army into the miasma territory of Dian Kingdom."
The white-headed man continued, "This child cave alchemist was born in a child cave and was good at alchemy. He happened to be a talent that Qin Shihuang was very demanding. Therefore, in order to refine the immortal pill, Qin Shihuang did not hesitate to destroy the Dian Kingdom and also obtained the child cave."
"At the beginning, the Yunnan Army rose up to resist and barely confronted the Qin army, but finally lost. In desperation, Tongkuo could only agree to refine immortal pills for Qin Shihuang." Yini looked at everything here and continued, "This may be the secret place where Tongkuo refines alchemy back then."
Zhuo Bufei picked up the bronze drumsticks, but found that the purchase was very heavy. He reluctantly picked up the drumsticks and gently tapped the bronze drum.
"bite"
As if the heavy iron hit the ground, the dull sound echoed around, making a strange tremor. My body was panicked for a few moments, and the silent Buddhist beads became restless again, and even showed a silver light.
Zhuo Bufei looked at it curiously and found that there was nothing strange, so he tried to knock it again, "dong". It was heavy and dull, like the muffled sound of two stone doors squeezed out, which came into everyone's ears, and his mind trembled. The destructive light emitted by the Buddhist beads covered the blueness of the Night Pearl.
Zhuo Bufei was also affected. The drumstick in his hand fell on the stone slab, rolled twice, and lay quietly on the ground. The Luohan, Yini and the Baitou Weng hugged their heads in pain and wailed, covering their ears hard, as if the sound that was in his ears had strange magic.
"Bang, bang, bang." The sound of hitting the ground came. The ground trembled a few times before calming again, but the long-silent dust floated down, and everyone's eyes were confused.
"Old Zhuo, what did you do just now?" Luo Han shook his head and said in pain, "My head is about to crack."
Zhuo Bufei said in a daze, "I felt this way just now, as if I was accepting Lingchi."
"Brother Cheng, what is the dazzling silver light on your neck just now?" The white-headed man looked at me solemnly.
I walked towards the bronze drum, squatted down slowly, picked up the heavy drumstick, looked at it for a long time, but found that it seemed to be another unknown material wrapped in the bronze body of the drumstick, but I don’t know what it was, but I vaguely felt that this material was closely related to the Buddhist beads on my neck.
"Did you hear it just now? It seems that something is there underground?" Yini looked at the ground paved with fear, but found nothing unusual.
I always imagined the strange phenomenon just now, and always felt that it was strange. At this moment, the Luohan had reached out to grab the octagonal pagoda.
At this moment, I looked at the pagoda again, with red red all over my body, thick and treacherous.
There is a vivid picture of beasts carved on the pagoda. When you look closely, you will find that it is a flying black blood bat with spreading its wings, which is exactly the same as the black blood bat we encountered when we started entering this mysterious place. But as our eyes adapted to the patterns on it, we found that it was not a black blood bat, but a strange snake with strange necks stretched out. But when you look from the other side, you can clearly see another strange smile on the face of a bullhead with a strange smile.
However, before we could determine what it was, the Luohan's hand had opened the top cover of the pagoda, "Why is it black?"
Just as he was suspicious, a long black snake flew out of the pagoda and bit it towards the Arhat's neck. Fortunately, the pagoda lid in the Arhat's hand was separated and the black snake flew open and bit it.
The black snake fell on the ground and shuttled back and forth. The arhat angrily lifted the pagoda cover and smashed it down. The "bang" sound trembled and echoed around. The strange black snake was crushed into the pagoda cover.
The Luohan looked pale and gasped, "I'm so scared. I originally thought there would be something good here, but I didn't expect it to be such a hateful thing. I asked me to tell you that Fujiwara San is bragging, what kind of elixir, I think it's a nest of black snakes." As he said that, he shivered and said to Zhuo Bufei, "Old Zhuo, is this bronze drum the ghost thing the ancestors said? If you do, take it and leave quickly. Could it be that you want to spend the rest of your life here?"
The white-headed man glanced at Yan Ni, and saw her frightened cheeks, and turned to Zhuo Bufei, "Old Zhuo, if you are sure, leave here quickly. For some reason, I always feel strange." His eyes were pouring on the person standing in front of him, and a trace of doubt flashed across his eyebrows. He always felt that something was wrong, but in a short period of time, he couldn't remember it for a while.
The Luohan said without saying a word, and went forward to pick up the bronze drum, but he staggered and almost fell to the ground. He said strangely, "Old Zhuo, are you sure this is a bronze drum? Why is it so heavy?"
Zhuo Bufei didn't believe it, so he stepped forward and picked up the bronze drum. The bronze drum seemed to grow into the ground with a stone rack, as solid as a rock. No matter how hard Zhuo Bufei tried, he couldn't pick up the bronze drum.
I put the drumsticks into my skin, looked at the surroundings, and found that the open pagoda was spraying out of the dark smoke, and Yin Ni opened her eyes in horror.
At this moment, I actually found the standing corpse, with both pupils tremblingly rolling, as if it was about to open it. Even his chest seemed to have a heartbeat, and it was undulating rhythmically. The black smoke that ejected from the pagoda gradually enveloped the man's body, slowly penetrated into the man's body like sticky ink.
Chapter completed!