Chapter 15: Memories of the Ancient Kiln

After the loud bang, Ji Yiming suddenly heard many sounds.

Noisy human voices, dull and monotonous beating sounds, crackling and exploding sounds. Countless voices gathered together, but in the end, it became a ballad of ancient Yueyin. At first, just one or two voices were singing, and then there were young or old voices, male voices, female voices and even children's voices joining in, converging into a chorus of countless people:

"A kiln burner, how can the kiln generally burn two goods, the porcelain is so thick, the pottery is so thin, the thick is others, and the thin is my ......"

"Pottery has a thousand arts, porcelain has a hundred types, a porcelain, a pottery, a kiln, a burn, a world......"

The language used in the singing should be a very ancient Vietnamese dialect, but I don't know why Ji Yiming, a native of Hanzhong, actually used this ballad that modern Cixi people may not understand...... Listen clearly.

Desolate, ancient.

In just a moment, he only felt as if he had traveled thousands of years, standing in the late Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Eastern Jin Dynasty,

On the shore of Shanglin Lake in the Five Dynasties or the Tang Dynasty, countless potters shouted and sang songs to add hundreds of bundles of firewood

The mouth of the kiln of the Zagoshi kiln. In front of the raging fire, countless gray-black simple faces were filled with an indescribable light.

Then an irresistible force struck from the void, pulling Ji Yiming's figure towards an unknown place.

"Found it, keep people!"

Yan Siguang's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, and then he felt that there were suddenly several strong internal breaths around his body, directly dispersing the huge force generated in the void.

The ancient Yue language ballad in Ji Yiming's ears quietly stopped, and the feeling that it seemed to establish a spiritual connection with more than 100 ancient Yue kilns on the shore of Shanglin Lake for thousands of years also dissipated.

This feeling is so wonderful that for more than ten seconds, Ji Yiming was still outside the wandering object.

Until Yan Siguang's voice sounded again.

He really "woke up".

Outside the "Pseudo-Great Unification" formation, Ying Xingtian, Li Qi, and Mo Chabai worked together to pull Ji Yiming out of the center of the formation, and at this moment, the twelve red lights in the entire formation range had been lit up, and there seemed to be a scorching flame burning in the air, illuminating the entire night sky.

There was also a layer of red light around Yan Siguang's body, but when he jumped out of the range of the formation in a hurry, he was still operating the tablet in his hand: "The location is confirmed, it is about two and a half kilometers away from here." The coordinates are '869

117Β°7β€²07",30Β°14β€²38"', about 2.5 km...... Ha, sure enough, it's not around Shanglin Lake

area, in the heart of Upper Ao Lake!"

Ying Xingtian clapped his hands: "Let's go." ”

The group quickly boarded the Toyota Alpha and galloped towards the location of Gu Shangao Hu under the guidance of Yan Siguang.

As soon as Ji Yiming wanted to ask what to do with the rest of the formation, he saw that the ten members of the logistics team on the two Coasters had come down and started to dismantle the formation base and various metal parts. The crimson particles in mid-air, like flames burning, quickly disappeared as they moved. In less than a few minutes, except for the marks on the ground and the remaining heat in the air, this wilderness on the outskirts of Cixi had completely regained its tranquility.

"Wetsuit, goggles, underwater lights. ”

On the Toyota Alpha, Yan Siguang took out pieces of equipment and distributed them to everyone: "According to the mutual induction between the formations, I can only calculate the precise location of the main kiln, and I can't determine how many meters it is underwater." Don't miss any tiny traces,

The Guyue kiln that sank to the bottom of the water should occupy a separate space, and it is likely to be an underwater cave or something. ”

When it was Ji Yiming's turn, he also deliberately took two oxygen cylinders: "Your internal breath is too weak, bring one more safety point." Although the ruins of this cave type are not as dangerous as the ancient tombs and imperial tombs, after all, there are so many ancient formations involved, so try to follow us as much as possible, don't be strong. ”

Ji Yiming just felt a little moved, so he listened to him add directly: "The ancient lineage from the Yellow Emperor on your body is not only useful for the induction formation just now...... It would be a pity if he died early. ”

"Will Jiang Zhi's tryst be in the ancient kiln under the water?" Ji Yiming didn't bother with this Frankenstein with a dark face, and couldn't help but ask while learning from everyone else and changing into a diving suit.

"Eight or nine is not far from ten, and with her strength, she should not encounter any danger. There's no news yet, maybe the eldest lady has made another mistake, so I have to find that ......"

Before he could finish his words, the car had stopped on the shore of Shang'ao Lake 2.5 kilometers away. Ying Xingtian opened the car door and jumped down first, turned his head and shouted softly: "Don't talk nonsense, just get into the water." ”

A few people came out in the back, and when Ji Yiming put on goggles and put the two oxygen cylinders behind him, and put on a mask like everyone else, everyone except the driver had already jumped directly into the water.

There were several ripples floating on the surface of Shangao Lake in the cold night, and under the faint moonlight, only the headlights of the Alpha car were borrowed.

I can barely see some of the scenery clearly. As for the bottom of the lake, it is even darker, and I don't know what is hidden inside

What kind of danger.

Ji Yiming gritted his teeth, turned on the small light attached to the goggles, and immediately jumped directly into the water.

……

……

The underwater world is silent.

Small lights are attached to the goggles, and the lighting effect is limited. Fortunately, Ji Yiming is also a martial artist who has cultivated internal breath now, and his eyesight is at least a lot stronger than ordinary people. At this moment, while trying to swim down against the current, he could also vaguely see the figures of several people in front of himβ€”those real cultivators were as agile and swift as swimming fish under the water. In just a dozen seconds, he has dived to a depth of more than ten meters and began to explore around the bottom of the lake to find the entrance to the main kiln ruins.

He took a deep breath of oxygen and spat out a series of blisters, and his hands finally reached the bottom of the lake, and he also learned to grope around aimlessly.

Like the most famous Shanglin Lake, the bottom of Shang'ao Lake is covered with all kinds of broken porcelain and pottery shards, which are the defective products produced by more than 100 kilns in the surrounding area during the firing process of more than 1,000 years, and are sunk to the bottom of the lake by the potters after being smashed.

Each of these pieces has a market price of about 5 to 20 yuan, and there are several antique shops in Cixi that specialize in selling these broken porcelain and pottery - although the stock is huge, after all, at least they are antiquities from before the Song Dynasty, and there are still many private collectors who are quite interested in them.

This value is about zero for "Qianlong Yuan", and it is a windfall for Ji Yiming, who is in a hurry to save money, but unfortunately he can't think of it at all in this situation.

Groping, turning over the thick layer of broken porcelain, stepping on the floating soil and silt underneath.

There are eight people in total, and they are doing the same mechanical work at the bottom of the lake at the same time, and the eight not-so-bright lights can occasionally attract some lake fish, shrimp and crabs, and even water snakes, but they are not interested in attacking them.

Minutes and seconds passed.

Just when Ji Yiming began to hesitate in his heart, worried about whether Yan Siguang, who was full of self-confidence, miscalculated the position, the two brothers who were sloppy and Ma Ben not far away suddenly stood up and waved their hands, turning off the light on the goggles several times in a row.

Got it!

Everyone was instantly excited, and quickly swam towards it from all directions.

This time, it was Ji Yiming, who was the closest, who was the first to arrive. With the help of the dim light, he soon saw that the two brothers were guided by the two brothers to see a tightly seamed double stone door lying on the floor of the lake, where countless pieces of ceramic had been peeled open.

The stone gate is about two meters wide and three meters high, and the whole person is "embedded" in the silt at the bottom of the lake. As the remaining few people rushed together to clean up the floating mud, the various ornaments and Chinese characters engraved on it finally gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The ordinary moire on the top. The lines are simple and feminine, and they outline the ethereal feeling of the clouds very smoothly, and it makes people feel like they are ethereal at a glance.

There is no traditional knocker in the middle, only two animal heads carved on the left and right. As a student of the Department of History of Han University, Ji Yiming naturally recognized at a glance that this was the "kiss" among the nine sons of Longsheng, also known as "Owl Tail" - the mouth is moist and the throat is thick and easy to swallow, which is generally used at both ends of the temple ridge in ancient buildings, implying fire prevention and disaster elimination.

Although it is the first time to see such a doorman, it is not incomprehensible: there are many fires in kilns, and ancient kilns often have their own water dragons, and it is reasonable to carve this "kiss" beast in the hope of staying away from fire.

Dozens of centimeters below the beast's head, there are two lines of seals carved "Nine Autumn Wind Dew" and "Thousand Peaks Cui".

These two sentences Ji Yiming has an impression, which should be extracted from the poems of a poet in the Tang Dynasty describing Yue kiln porcelain, but there is no way to Baidu at the moment, and I can't remember the author's name and the whole poem for a while.

There are lines of words at the bottom, which look slightly shallower and older than the former, and are obviously not engraved by an era:

In the first year of the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the official system was rebuilt by order.

Although the people of Qianlong Yuan are cultivators, they obviously have a deep knowledge of Chinese history.

Jianyuan, the famous era name, is even more impossible to admit mistakes.

Yan Siguang, who was gathered next to the stone gate, opened the waterproof tablet and wrote on it with a stylus: "The first era name of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, it seems that the history of the main kiln is more than 300 years earlier than recorded. ”

The rest of the people nodded together, only Ji Yiming frowned slightly, and the one that was scratched by Jiang Zhiyou in Cixi County Chronicles came to mind: Xiankang first year to three years, great drought.

In Chinese history, "Jianyuan" was the name of the era, and Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was not the only one.

In the eighth year of Xiankang, Emperor Sima Yan abdicated to his younger brother Sima Yue, the king of Langya, who was also Jianyuan after his accession to the throne. Combined with the previous inference, he has at least eighty or ninety percent of the grasp of the current "official system in the first year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, and was ordered to rebuild", referring to the later Jin Kangdi and the former Langya King Sima Yue.

And the so-called "reconstruction" is precisely because this main kiln was destroyed in the first year of Xiankang!

There was a guess in his heart, but Ji Yiming did not correct the wrong judgment of several people. He had a faint feeling that the secret of the change of thrones between Emperor Jin Cheng and Emperor Jin Kang may have a great deal to do with the shattering of the Great Unification Formation in the Shanglin Lake area, and the destruction and reconstruction of more than 120 Yue kilns, including the main kiln.

Over there, Yan Siguang put away the tablet, and after Ying Xingtian made a gesture to signal everyone to get out of the way, he gently put his hands on the heads of the two "mantis kisses".

With the strength of his hands, a violent and turbulent water surged at the bottom of Shangao Lake in an instant, rolling up countless pieces of sediment and porcelain, and it was hard to condense a high-speed rotating whirlpool!

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

In the mixed mud and gravel, you can still clearly see that Ying Xingtian's arms, which were originally no different from ordinary people, instantly swelled to the size of a child's waist. The blue and black thick veins and tendons are intertwined on it, looking terrifying as alien beasts, but also full of indescribable power and beauty.

Is this the true strength of a martial arts master?

With a dull "squeak" sound, this stone gate embedded in the bottom of Shangao Lake was opened inch by inch by Ying Xingtian with a huge force beyond the limits of human beings!

The speed of the mud and sand whirlpool became more and more rapid, and an entrance about 80 centimeters wide finally appeared in front of everyone.