Chapter 017: Twelve Yuanchen
"Eccentric? What's weird? "This sarcophagus looks a little thicker than a wooden coffin, and nothing else. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Fang Ze rolled his eyes and glanced at me: "Can you grow your brain and forget where Erhezi's carved bracelet was picked up?"
These words made a flash of inspiration in my mind, yes, Erhezi's bracelet was picked up from the river, which means that the coffin of the tomb owner Xiao Yan should be soaked in water, and the water should still be living water with a secret channel to communicate with the outside world, so that the bracelet can flow out of the broken coffin and appear in the river of Xiaoshiqiao Village.
But the tomb in front of me is extremely dry, there is no water stain at all, looking at the sarcophagus in front of me, I swallowed my saliva, since this is not Xiao Yan's tomb, then who is lying in this sarcophagus?
The shopkeeper and Xiao Wang carefully used a knife to cut the paraffin applied to the joints of the sarcophagus, and then slowly opened the coffin. As the gap got bigger and bigger, there were not jewels coming out of it, but bursts of black smoke.
Seeing this black smoke, Fang Ze's face changed slightly, pulled me and Li Yan behind him, and told me that the black smoke was extremely dense yin qi, and he was sure that even if this sarcophagus was not Xiao Yan's, we had already come into contact with the center of this Xiao Yan's tomb.
Old man Pan and that Brother Wen also stared at the slowly opening sarcophagus, and at this time, the shopkeeper seemed to have discovered something, his pupils contracted suddenly, and his face showed a panicked look: "Hurry up!"
Xiao Wang's reaction was fast enough, and when he heard the shopkeeper's words, he turned around and left without saying a word, but just as Xiao Wang turned to leave, I saw a miserable white arm stretched out from the sarcophagus, grabbed Xiao Wang's shoulder, and pulled him into the coffin: "pop", the coffin lid that had been half opened suddenly closed.
I was startled when I saw this situation, and the faces of the old man Pan were also very unsightly, especially the shopkeeper's face was as earthy, if his reaction was slower just now, then he might be the one who was dragged into the coffin.
"Zongzi, zongzi?" The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva, and then beckoned Fang Ze and Old Man Pan: "Hurry up and open this sarcophagus, Xiao Wang may still be saved!" ”
Fang Ze told me and Li Yan, who was full of panic, that zongzi is a professional term for tomb robbers, referring to the mutated corpse in the coffin, and the Xuanmen called the mutated corpse a zombie, or a corpse.
Fang Ze came to the sarcophagus: "According to common sense, after the zongzi is stimulated by anger and raises the corpse, it will bite like a mad dog when it sees someone, but the things in this sarcophagus are a little strange." As he spoke, he took out a small bottle of black dog blood from the bag and handed it to Li Yan's hand: "A few of us open the coffin, and if we hear any movement, pour this black dog blood into it." Saying that, Fang Ze beckoned a few of us to go over and open the coffin.
The sarcophagus that has been buried underground for many years is cold, and we carefully push it, taking into account the tomb mechanism at the same time, we must be careful to guard against the attack of the zongzi inside. Especially when I was standing at the front, my nervous heart jumped to my throat, and my eyes were fixed on the gap that was getting bigger and bigger, for fear that an arm would stretch out from it and drag me into the coffin.
Li Yan was also very nervous holding the small bottle, staring intently at the larger and larger coffin crack, ready to spill. I'm afraid that if we can't make a move, we will be dragged into the coffin.
The coffin was open enough, Fang Ze held a charm in his hand, looked at the inside of the coffin with a flashlight, and his pupils shrank: "There is no one in this sarcophagus!"
Looking at the empty coffin, Old Man Pan frowned, and looked at the moss-covered stone wall: "Zhang Laosan, go down and take a look, there should be a mechanism in this sarcophagus."
Xiao Wang's matter made the shopkeeper a little worried: "You have to watch me." After giving us a word, he jumped in, and then I heard an exclamation, and the shopkeeper was gone.
I quickly looked inside the coffin, the mossy stone slab was gone, revealing a step leading to the bottom, Fang Ze said that this is a very simple flap mechanism, touch the mechanism, the stone slab will automatically bounce open.
Hearing the screams of the shopkeeper below, Fang Ze and Old Man Pan showed relaxed expressions on their faces, and if they could make a sound, it meant that there was no danger.
We walked down cautiously, picked up the shopkeeper who had fallen into disarray, and then shook the flashlight to observe the surrounding situation.
We thought there would be something good down there, but we were disappointed to see what was going on. The inside of this tomb hall was really empty, and there was nothing else except a dozen stone pillars.
We took a closer look, and each stone pillar was carved with an animal, which was lifelike, not only the image was well depicted, but also captured the unique demeanor of each animal, which seemed vivid. Maybe it's because these animals are so realistic, and the closer I get, the more I feel as if they're staring at me.
"This stone pillar seems to be carved with the 12 zodiac signs." Li Yan, who watched it for a while, muttered a sentence in her mouth, and I took a closer look. On these twelve stone pillars are carved zodiac signs, but the ranking and order are out of order, I didn't see it just now.
"Zodiac?" Fang Ze's face changed when he heard this, and he walked a few steps to the nearest stone pillar to us.
A flying dragon carved on this stone pillar, looking up along its hovering body, when I touched the pair of dragon eyes, I found that a strange red light flashed in those eyes.
I was startled, and when I looked at it again, there was a water-streaked concussion on the eyes carved out of the stone, and the eyes dotted with black ink actually turned and gradually touched my gaze.
The eyes of this flying dragon pierced my heart like a sharp sword, and the eyes that looked at me were like looking at an ant, I subconsciously took two steps back, looked away and did not dare to look at the eyes of this flying dragon again. At this moment, I even had the illusion that what I was looking for was not a stone sculpture, but a real dragon.
Fang Ze looked at the stone dragon coiled on the stone pillar, and then looked at the surrounding stone pillars for a while, his face became more and more ugly, and he almost groaned out four words in his mouth: "Twelve Yuanchen!"
Seeing the puzzled eyes of several of us, Fang Ze explained, saying that this Twelve Yuanchen is a method of raising corpses, which is much better than the corpses we saw before. In ancient times, people divided the day into 12 hours, and each hour corresponded to a zodiac sign. Therefore, the 12 Yuan Chen also represents the 12 zodiac signs.
It is said that in the battle of the deer, the drought once killed the Feng Boyu Master with the power of the zodiac, and fought against the catastrophe with the help of the zodiac array. After that, many cultivators studied the Twelve Yuanchen Great Array, and some combined it with Tai Chi Bagua to create some extremely powerful spells. Some people use the Twelve Yuanchen to the right path, and naturally some people apply it to the crooked path.
The twelve yuanchen in front of us is the thing that raises corpses, Fang Ze said that this twelve yuanchen array rarely appears in the tomb, firstly, because the production process is quite troublesome, and secondly, it is difficult to get together the things needed.
"This stone pillar is not the original stone in the tomb, but was brought in from the outside and processed in this tomb. So it takes the dedication of the craftsmen and it takes years to make it. Most of the craftsmen will die suddenly after completing the stone carving. When he said this, Fang Ze looked at the stone pillar: "Some people say that the craftsman died with hard work, and there is also a saying that during the carving, the soul of the craftsman has slowly entered the stone carving, and the day the stone carving is completed is also the time when they die, so these stone carvings will be full of anger." ”
"However, the production method of these twelve yuan is different, in addition to the craftsman, you also need twelve special birth dates as the spirit of the stone pillar." Fang Ze explained, the so-called special birthday refers to the same person with the same four pillars.
Xuanmen will be born in the year, month, day, hour called the four pillars, the so-called four pillars are the same is to point out that the year, month, day and hour of birth are the same, for example, the well-known genius Tang Yin, he is the year of Yin, the month of Yin, the day of Yin, the time of Yin was born similar to this kind of birth of people are the same as the four pillars.
Moreover, Fang Ze said that the twelve people died extremely miserably, and their souls were confined in the stone pillar, and they could not be reborn forever.
Li Yan was a little strange: "Since they all want that person to die, why don't you give them a good time, and let them be tortured to death?" "Whether it was the Black Spirit Crystal Soul we encountered before, or the female corpse in the Tongding, they were all tortured and killed.
Fang Ze only said one sentence, using means to torture them, just to increase their resentment, because only the resentment is strong enough can support the soul for a thousand years, if you kill people happily, people have resentment, but that resentment has not yet reached the point of destroying the world, at most, if you wander in the world for seven days, if you are not captured by the ghosts, you will be wiped out.
When Li Yan heard this, her face became gloomy, and she said that those monks who invented this evil weapon should really be cut with a thousand knives.
Hearing this, I smiled bitterly, the people who designed the tomb have been more than a thousand years from modern times, and I don't know how many times I have been reincarnated, how can it be so easy to find them.
Fang Ze looked at the surrounding stone pillars carefully: "Let's walk over carefully, try not to touch the stone pillars, if it awakens the soul inside, then the matter will be a big deal."
I have been careful to keep a distance from the stone pillars, but when we walked between the stone pillars, we heard a "click" sound, and when I turned my head, I saw that the animal portraits carved from the stone pillars had become a little blurred, and the figures with strange red lights flashed in their eyes appeared from them!