"Damn bottles..." After wringing out his clothes, Zhang Guozhong thought hard. Now it seems that those bottles are not just "surrender supplies". They may have a lot to do with the cracking of the entire Eighteen Mingding.

As a descendant of the Zhao family, Zhao Kuncheng's father cannot be ignorant of the power of the Eighteen Mingdings. If this person dares to go out alone without getting a "stepping stone", it means that he has at least theoretically found the Eighteen Mingding.

Ba Mingding's cracking method only made mistakes during the actual operation. At this time, it is still unknown whether the so-called "stepping stone" he has on hand will work after getting the Imperial Seal.

The safest way is to destroy the Eighteen Mingding to avoid future troubles. But until now, the only clues are those disgusting bottles.

Putting on wet clothes, Zhang Guozhong decided to go back to the corpse of Zhao Kuncheng's father and examine the bottles carefully.

At the same time, outside Longtan.

Holding the compass, Old Liu Tou found a towering tree, and the index seemed to be beating because of this.

These eighteen Mingdings have not been recorded in the literature of famous and decent sects. Only some manuscripts of folk miscellaneous books have been handed down to the modern world, and different miscellaneous books have different descriptions, and everything is said. At first, there was no

Being too dependent on the compass, Old Liu Tou did not pay attention to these eighteen Mingdings. Looking at the swing of the compass pointer, it was at best similar to that of a little beast who had been cultivating immortals for thirty to fifty years. But just now he and Qin Ge and Song Kuan

At the same time, the scene of the fall made Old Liu Tou have to be extra careful.

Peeling away the rotten fallen leaves, Old Liu Tou discovered that the roots of the big tree reached here and were cut off artificially. The smoothness of the ground outside the cut roots was very different from the surrounding land, and it was obviously tampered with.

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"That's it..." Old Liu Tou took off his backpack, took out a piece of dead jade, carefully placed it in front of the broken tree root, and then gently dug it up in the soil with a dagger. According to Old Liu Tou's idea, this

The Eighteen Mingding should be similar to the "Eight Immortals Bureau". The most feasible way to solve it is to resolve the grievances, first let the evil ghosts become wild ghosts, and then transcend them into reincarnation. Therefore, you should first set up an "Earth Fire Formation".

The "Earth Fire Formation" is a formation that uses red saltpeter as raw material. It is originally very expensive and difficult for the private sector to obtain. However, Song Kuan is an expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so it took no effort to find comrades from the Institute of Geology.

I asked for a large bottle, weighing more than a kilogram, enough to set up the earth fire formation more than ten times.

First force the evil ghost into the death jade, then put the death jade in a peach wood box, and build a "ghost tomb" far away from the pulse eye. If the evil ghost is too resentful, just set up seven gates to trap it, and then use the talisman sutra

If you repeatedly vent your resentment, you will probably become a wild ghost within an hour at most. However, after the soul is completely transcended and enters reincarnation, the peach wood box and death jade can still be used again.

I thought it was pretty seamless, but the actual situation made Lao Liu a little confused.

After a few digs, he came across a hard object, which was buried very shallowly. It seemed that this was the pulse eye (the body of "Mingding") in the Eighteen Mingding. After digging a few times, Old Liu Tou discovered

What he dug out was a leg bone, so he turned around, calculated the length and started digging out the other side, but as soon as the dagger plunged into the ground, it hit something hard, and it was buried deeper than the leg, wasn't it?

Half a point.

"Weird... Could it be that this person was buried sideways? And he was buried with him?" Old Liu Tou didn't know what was buried underneath, but the sound didn't sound like human bones, but more like ceramics.

or glassware.

"What the hell is this?" After peeling off the rotten tree leaves, Old Liu Tou found that it was a glass bottle with a rubber-sealed mouth, just like a bottle in a chemistry laboratory. Under the light of a flashlight, he poured something into the bottle.

Look, it looks like it contains a human ear.

Just as Old Liu Tou was watching, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing in front of him, which was very unnatural.

"Who!!?" Old Liu Tou was also startled. He shined his flashlight forward and found nothing, but out of the corner of his eye he seemed to see the ears in the bottle moving on their own. This frightened Old Liu Tou.

, and quickly buried the bottle back.

"Damn it, I won't touch this evil sect like you... I'll set up my formation first..." Just as he was about to dig deeper, Old Liu Tou suddenly felt something was wrong. Logically speaking, Zhao Mingchuan should have lived in the late Qing Dynasty. In that era, he should have

There is no such well-sealed glass bottle, so the glass bottle next to the pulse eye is probably put in by later generations...?

Thinking of this, Old Liu Tou, like Zhang Guozhong, immediately thought of Zhao Kuncheng and his father who never turned back. But... according to Qin Ge's analysis, neither Zhao Kuncheng nor his father got the Imperial Seal. Since they didn't get it,

What is the purpose of putting this thing? At this moment, Old Liu Tou stood up and did not dare to continue digging, "Or maybe they have already obtained the Chuanguo Seal, and the Eighteen Mingding has been destroyed? No, the three brothers just didn't even say a word

He was knocked down without saying a word, which shows that this Eighteen Mingding still has some remaining power. Moreover, if Zhao Kuncheng has already obtained the Imperial Seal, why did he risk his life to get that stepping stone..." Old Liu Tou became more and more confused as he thought about it.

, this bottle that popped out of thin air seemed to make all the logical assumptions start to become inconsistent again.

Looking at the bouncing needle on the compass, Old Liu Tou could only bite the bullet and open his eyes once. Although he was not very good at it, he had no other choice at the moment.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, closing his eyes, Old Liu continued to take deep breaths in order to calm down. After talking for more than 20 minutes, Old Liu's legs were numb, and he finally managed to open his eyes.

At that moment, I saw a dark gray mist concentrated on the place where the bottle was buried. There was nothing unusual about the position where the body was buried. It seemed that the problem was on the bottle, and the gray mist was not like a general evil spirit descending.

It's like the breath of an animal cultivating immortality.

"Could it be animal surrender?" Opening his eyes, Old Liu Tou peeled off the loose soil on the bottle again...

In Longtan, Zhang Guozhong returned to the body of Zhao Kuncheng's father.

I picked up the bottle just now, took out the compass and put it in front of the bottle. I found that the compass had a weak response. But if you were a little farther away, the response of the indicator would disappear. It seemed that it was not a powerful thing, or in other words, it would not work without the help of a descendant.

There is no harm in doing it at all.

After searching around the dead bones for a long time, Zhang Guozhong didn't find anything new, so he simply put the four bottles into his bag. Maybe the things Zhao Kuncheng's father carried might actually be effective...

After getting familiar with the route, Zhang Guozhong simply installed a compass and quickly returned to Bailonggou. "Damn it, I have to go into the water again..." Zhang Guozhong reluctantly swam across the ditch a second time and followed Bailonggou from the other side up.

Swim away.

After walking for about half an hour, Zhang Guozhong looked up at the stars, took out his compass, and compared it with the mountain map that Song Kuan accurately positioned based on ancient pictures and photos, and determined the scope of the "temple" to be about thirty meters square.

If you shine a flashlight on an area, you will see that it is 100% wild mountain nests without any trace of artificial construction. Except for a half-sized tree, it is all covered with grass and rocks. Only this tree stands out from the crowd.

When he came to the tree, Zhang Guozhong determined that it was a jujube tree. In the past, many members of the commune planted it in their yards in rural areas.

"Jujube tree?" Zhang Guozhong felt very strange. Jujube trees grow slowly. With the thickness of the jujube tree in front of him, it must be hundreds of years old. After so many years of flowering and fruiting, not a single sapling has grown under the tree.

, indicating that it is impossible for the seeds of the jujube tree to germinate naturally here, and what is even more strange is that this jujube tree looks like the domestic variety that was planted in the yard of the commune member's house in the past, and does not look like the wild variety in the mountains.

"Could it be..." Zhang Guozhong searched carefully under the tree. The only reasonable guess at this moment was that it was planted by Zhao Mingchuan or Zhao Kuncheng's father, and the purpose was probably to provide the coordinates of the treasure location.

Sure enough, five or six steps away from the tree, Zhang Guozhong quickly noticed a big stone. From the outside, it looked quite big, but Zhang Guozhong was able to move it after struggling with it with his hands. It seemed that the inside of the stone had been hollowed out.

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After removing the stone, I saw a black hole with a diameter of less than one meter, which went straight down like a well. I looked at it with a flashlight and it seemed that there was water underneath. I threw a stone and Zhang Guozhong listened to the sound.

Not very deep,

He took out a rope from his bag and tied it to the trunk of the jujube tree. Zhang Guozhong held the dagger in his mouth and slowly dug into the hole along the rope.

The water in the cave only reached his knees. With his feet on the ground, Zhang Guozhong used a flashlight to look around and discovered that this was not an artificial cave, but a semi-natural and semi-artificial cave similar to the Bashan Treasure Cave.

The area is not very large, only forty to fifty square meters. Three sides of the cave wall are natural and one side is man-made. In the center of the man-made cave wall is a seated statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva carved from the natural protrusions of the rock.

The size is about the same as a real person, but it is different from the Avalokitesvara statue enshrined in the temple: this Avalokitesvara statue is not holding a jade bottle, but a jade box.

"Could it be this?" Zhang Jian observed the cave and found nothing suspicious, but just in case, he tied the rope around his waist and walked towards the jade box cautiously...

At this moment, outside Longtan.

As Old Liu Tou was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a series of crisp gunshots in the distance.

"It's broken!" Lao Liutou didn't care to think about it anymore. He packed up his things and started running back in three steps and two steps. Not long after he ran, he saw two flashlight lights coming towards him from a short distance.

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"Master Qin...! Is that you?" Old Liu Tou yelled.

"Liu..." The person opposite was obviously Qin Ge. He called out the word "Liu". The flashlight suddenly flashed and the luminous point fell to the ground. Then there was a scream and several gunshots.

"Master Qin! Hold on!" Old Liu Tou couldn't figure out why something happened to the relatively safe grass pit where Qin Ge and the others were in. Could it be related to the bottle he dug out? Then why was he okay?...

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Onizuka: Like the Yiguanzhong, Onizuka buries not the body of the deceased, but the soul.

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