Chapter Thirty-Six: Exploring the Palace at Night

Mu Han put away his thoughts, clasped his hands into fists and said loudly: "Old man, this matter is a long story, this is not the place to talk, just now this benevolent brother invited me to wait for a talk in the mansion, why don't we go to your mansion to talk in detail?"

"Okay, I can't ask for it!"

"Then bother! Yunping, you take Sun Feng's men and horses back to Fengtian to stand by, Brother Sun, you take the special combat team with me. ”

"Yes!" "Yes!"

People on both sides had their own thoughts, and they didn't say anything all the way, and they entered the Su Mansion.

Mu Han motioned to the special combat team members to pay attention, and he also secretly looked at the heavily organized mansion in front of him, and his original judgment on himself deepened a little in his heart.

Everyone entered the living room of the main house and sat down, and Su Jingshan ordered someone to serve tea to entertain them.

"Old man, if I didn't guess wrong, you should be a Manchu royal force, right?" Mu Han was the first to ask.

"Oh, how so?" Su Jingshan's face was calm and noncommittal.

"First, just now you know a lot about the Nine Dragons Minghong Sword, especially the Manchu Imperial Matter. Second, this place is not far from Fengtian, in history it is the Shengjing before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, although this mansion is not a royal place, but there is a planning style and decoration but quite a royal aristocratic style. Although the costumes of the people in the three mansions are the Republic of China, there are relics of Manchu nobles. Although the utensils and supplies in the four mansions are not authentic royal things, they are also used by the Manchu nobles. Old man, I don't know if what I'm saying is right? ”

"Haha! Young people are so thoughtful. ”

"Yes, this is an external annex to Dorgon, the king of the Iron Hat and Prince Rui of the Great Qing Dynasty, and was later given to my ancestors. My surname is Su, and my name is Jingshan. The ancestor worshipped by name, but he was a general under the account of the prince of Dorgon. The one who fought with you was my granddaughter Su Huiying, and the rest of the people were my disciples and grandchildren. We have lived here for generations, and it is the king's gatekeeper. ”

"Oh!" Mu Han was surprised in his heart.

"I wonder if the young man can tell me what to ask before entering the house?" Su Jingshan asked tightly.

Mu Han saw that Su Jingshan was honest, so he no longer concealed it, and explained how he obtained the Nine Dragons Minghong Sword from the wine and martial arts competition at the Rehe Qingyuanheng Hotel and his life experience.

Sun Feng on the side was also surprised by Mu Han's magical background, not to mention Su Jingshan and Su Huiying's ancestors.

Su Jingshan and Su Huiying glanced at each other, and their excitement was beyond words, especially Su Huiying's eyes when she looked at Mu Han were full of strangeness, both shyness and hope.

Mu Han was a little surprised when he saw the excited reaction of the two ancestors and grandchildren, and faintly felt in his heart that he seemed to be one step closer to his judgment.

"Old man Su, I don't know what you think about the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty?" Mu Han thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

"Brother Mu, I understand what you mean, although my Su family is a force of the Manchu royal family, it doesn't have much emotional intersection with the Manchu royal family, but it just abides by the ancestral precepts and sticks to it. There will always be successes and failures in any dynasty, the will of the people, and the destiny of heaven, which no one can avoid. Su Jingshan replied with a smile.

"Brother Mu, what do you think of the general trend of the world today?" Su Jingshan asked again.

Mu Han pondered for a moment and said, "Although the country has achieved formal unification, the Kuomintang government is incompetent, the warlords in various places are still divided into one side, and there are many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people are still living in dire straits. Foreign forces have even plundered and seized a lot of land, resources, and interests of country Z, especially the Japanese. There are really strong enemies outside, warlords fighting inside, the people are not living, and the country is not prosperous! ”

"Okay, Brother Mu is worthy of studying abroad, with insightful and profound insights, unlike ordinary people who think that the Republic of China is unified, and they get carried away." Su Jingshan stood up excitedly, "Little Brother Mu, your cultivation seems to be still above the old age, you have learned and penetrated China and the West, and your subordinates are extremely capable, can you want to make a difference in this troubled world?" ”

Mu Han didn't want Su Jingshan to ask this question, so he pondered for a moment before he said slowly: "It's difficult, it is not a one-time effort to change the fortunes of the country and the country. Besides, I didn't want to cause trouble between my brothers, and in the end of the domestic conquest, it was the national strength of our country Z that suffered, and it was the foreign powers that benefited. ”

"Brother Mu has learned a lesson in his five years of life, and he has more than enough self-preservation, why is he still working so hard, what is the so-called thing?"

"Drive out the captives, force me!" Mu Han blurted out without hesitation.

"Hahaha! The sentence drives away the captives, and forces me zh! Su Jingshan laughed, "Brother Mu cherishes Chicheng so much, and he no longer hides it. Su Jingshan continued: "We are originally a dragon guarding clan. My ancestor Subai was the number one master under Dorgon's tent. Before his death, Huang Taiji entrusted the dragon vein gold mine of the Qing imperial family in the northeast and the rare treasures plundered from the Ming Dynasty for many years to Dolgonmi and placed them at the foot of the Yemaotai Sacred Miracle Mountain, as a future when the world was in turmoil, the Manchu royal family retreated outside the Guanzhong for the purpose of rejuvenation. So Dolgon asked the people of the rivers and lakes to build an underground palace at the foot of the mountain, set up an ambush with organs, and instructed my ancestor and his master to guard it forever. Later, Emperor Qianlong improved the ambush of the underground palace mechanism, and used the Nine Dragons Sword and the Nine Dragons Minghong Knife as the key to open the underground palace. The secret palace is densely packed with a large amount of gunpowder, as long as it is not a combination of swords and swords to open the mechanism, the lead will be triggered by other methods, and the entire underground palace will explode and collapse, sinking into the underground. Later, when my ancestor saw the decline of the Qing Dynasty, he passed down that as long as the person who possessed both the Nine Dragons Xuanyuan Sword and the Nine Dragons Minghong Sword could enter the underground palace smoothly, we could help him take away the treasures of the secret palace and assist him in completing the great cause, so that the prohibition on our bodies could be lifted and we would be free. This is our ancestral teachings! Now that Brother Mu can control the Nine Dragons Minghong Sword, it must be the choice of destiny. As long as you find the Nine Dragons Xuanyuan Sword again and enter the underground palace smoothly, my Dragon Guardian Clan will do my best to assist you. ”

"Ahh Mu Han shouted in a lost voice, and his heart was as terrified as a wave. "Senior Su, is this true?"

"It's true!"

"Good! What providence! After Mu Han finished speaking, he untied the Nine Dragons Minghong Sword on his waist, took out the Nine Dragons Sword from his body, and handed it to Su Jingshan, "Old Master Su, look! ”

Su Jingshan's eyes widened, "This? This is the Nine Dragons Xuanyuan Sword? ”

"Yes, Sun Ying stole and excavated Qianlong's tomb, and the Nine Dragons Xuanyuan Sword was unearthed. In order to calm down the situation and protect himself, he wanted to dedicate this sword to Zhang Shaoshuai, and he didn't want to be robbed, and then I took a lot of trouble to get it in Rehe! ”

Su Jingshan's hands shook violently, and at the same time he held the sword in his hand, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then laughed and said, "It's really providence!" Providence! Brother Mu, it's really a destiny choice! ”

"Gui Sheng, you immediately call everyone in the village to guard twenty miles away, and anyone is not allowed to approach the mansion!" Su Jingshan said suddenly.

"Yes! Master! ”

"Brother Sun, you immediately send a telegram to Fengtian, let Jiang Yunshan contact Xiao Ran to closely monitor the forces of all parties in Fengtian, and at the same time mobilize all the horses in the Fengtian range to secretly garrison the surroundings of the Holy Trace Mountain, and ensure the safety of the Holy Trace Mountain at any cost." Seeing this, Mu Han also immediately made arrangements.

"Yes! Total Gun Head! ”

Everyone in the field acted separately, and only Su Jingshan, Su Huiying, and Mu Han were left in the room.

"Little Brother Mu, in order to prevent a long night and a lot of dreams, we will explore the underground palace at night, I hope you don't let my dragon guard clan continue to stay in this deep mountain!" Su Jingshan said to Mu Han with a solemn face.

"Senior Su, Mu Handing should do his best to live up to your old expectations!" Mu Han also looked resolute.

Su Jingshan, Su Huiying, and Mu Han came to a rockery behind the main house of the mansion, and Su Jingshan opened a mechanism with a familiar car, only to see the rockery moving slowly and a secret door slowly opened. ......After a muffled sound, a dark passage that could only accommodate one person reappeared.

Under the leadership of Su Jingshan and Su Huiying, Mu Han turned around along the steps of the dark passage and gradually walked underground.

"Brother Mu, these are just peripheral organs, we often maintain and deal with them, if there is an invasion of foreign enemies, these can also be a protective barrier." In the dark, Su Jingshan said to Mu Han: "Don't underestimate these things, without overweight firepower, you can't completely paralyze these organs." We have learned the lessons of the stolen imperial tombs of the past dynasties and made more detailed changes. ”

Mu Han felt that he had gone nearly 50 meters underground at this time, and he couldn't help but be shocked by this huge project.

After about another cup of tea, the group of three finally arrived at the main gate of the secret palace. I saw a gate formed by a natural boulder at the main entrance of the secret palace, tightly closing the exit. The two sides of the main gate are full of relief murals, on the left side there are crows, willow branches, wild boars, fish, wolves, deer, eagles, leopards, pythons, frogs and other Manchu totems, on the right side there are the founder of the Qing Dynasty Chengtian Guangyun Shengde Shengong Zhao Ji Li Ji Ji Ji

Although these relief murals do not have any textual description, if the Manchu royal family looks at it, they will definitely be boiled by the blood of the rise of the Manchus and the courage of the Eight Banners shown in these relief murals, thus giving birth to an ambition to recreate mountains and rivers.

Su Jingshan saw that Mu Han was attracted by the relief murals, so he reminded loudly: "Little Brother Mu, these are just patterns of the Manchu ancestors to inspire future generations, and now they have no practical significance. ”

Su Jingshan pointed to the moment when a wolf's head bulged in the center of the main gate of the secret palace and said: "This is the general hub switch that opens the secret palace, you stand in the center of the main gate, you are in the middle of the main gate, you have enough internal force in your body, the left sword and the right sword are fired together, and you can throw it in the wolf's eyes, remember not to make a difference." ”

Mu Han used all his strength, holding a knife in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, and did as he was told, but in the splash of sparks, a simple and low voice came. After half a ring, the boulder at the main entrance of the maze slowly opened from the bottom up.

Mu Han, Su Jingshan, and Su Huiying looked at each other and smiled, and jumped forward. Inside the main entrance, a large hall stands majestically. It's just that the countless square stones surging up and down within the range of dozens of zhang in front of the hall are arranged according to the direction of the eight trigrams, and each stone block is also printed with different numbers from one to nine, and there is a faint sound of rushing water under the stone. In addition, there are eight stone pillars carved with various dragons on both sides of the main hall, and the dragon eyes of the stone pillars flicker with strange light from time to time, and the whole hall looks eerie and terrifying.

Seeing this, Su Jingshan opened his mouth and said: "According to the records of the ancestors, those who can open the main gate of the secret palace with the Nine Dragons Sword will have to go through the test of three levels before they can successfully enter the treasure hiding place. This should be the first level. Brother Mu should be careful, if there is a slight mistake, the underground palace will fall, and the treasure will sink into the underground, and there will be no trace. We will also trigger traps and be hit by various traps. ”

Mu Han nodded, and began to carefully observe the square stones surging in front of the hall. After a long time, I noticed some eyebrows. Originally, these stones were arranged in a nine-palace gossip array, and at the same time, every nine stones formed a nine-square grid. If you want to crack this formation, you must not only be familiar with the formation, but also be proficient in the Nine Palaces Xuanshu algorithm, and the difficulty is not ordinarily huge. But these are really hard to stop Mu Han. You must know that in the previous life, Mu Han had a wide range of interests, and he had dabbled in various books, and he was able to be admitted to a key university, and his knowledge should be extraordinary; In this life, Mu Han has been nurtured by Chen Qi and others since he was a child, not only has superb martial arts, but also has attainments in other miscellaneous studies.

Mu Han had a plan in his heart under careful observation, so he said: Senior Su, the organ here is set up according to the Nine Palaces Bagua Array combined with the Nine Palaces Xuan Mathematics, and I already understand the specific principle, now it is just a lack of the formation general, let's look for clues separately! ”

Su Jingshan and Su Huiying saw that Mu Han's expression was calm, and they seemed to have a way to break the formation, and they were also overjoyed, and said in unison, and the three of them began to look for Chen Fa Commander.

At this time, Su Huiying pointed to a hollow pattern in the upper left corner of the hall and said, "Grandpa, Mu Han!" Look, here's a pattern! ”“

The three of them used their internal strength, and when they looked closely, it turned out to be a figure pattern. However, the people in this pattern are not Manchu dresses, but look like Han costumes. I saw that the generals in Han costumes could be seen dimly, one in front and one in the back, and there was a crescent moon above their heads.

"Could this picture be Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon?" Su Jingshan muttered to himself.

"Xiao He chased Han Xin under the moon? Han Xinbing, Han Xinbing .......I understand! Mu Han suddenly spoke: "Senior Su, Miss Su, I understand what the formation general introduction is. ”

"Oh! What is the general introduction of the formation? Su Jingshan and Su Huiying asked in unison,

"This formation is not a specific object, but a set of digital prompts, this is Han Xin's art of war. As a famous general in the Han Dynasty, Han Xin once commanded thousands of troops and horses, and he knew the number of soldiers under him well. He had a unique method of counting the number of soldiers, which was later called "Han Xin's soldiers". His method was this: when the troops were assembled, he asked the soldiers to report three times 1, 2, 3--1, 2, 3, 4, 5--1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and then reported the remainder of each time to him, so that he knew the actual number of troops and the number of absences. His calculation method is called "Guigu Calculation", "Partition Wall Calculation", "Pipe Shearing Technique", and later someone summarized the solution to this problem in a poem: three people walk together seventy rare, five plum blossoms twenty-one branches, seven sons are reunited and the moon is half, except for one hundred and five. The method of cracking the mechanism in front of the main hall is to follow the algorithm of the Nine Palaces Bagua Direction corresponding to Han Xin's soldiers, and advance step by step, so that you can pass through this stone henge. Mu Han said excitedly, "I'll try it first, if anything happens, please leave me alone and exit the maze immediately." ”

"Then you need to be careful." Su Jingshan and Su Huiying spoke almost at the same time.

Mu Han nodded, flew to the front of the formation, took the first step to take a palace position, and stepped on the square stone block of the number 3; The second step is to walk the second house and step on the square stone with the number 7; The third step is to enter the third palace Geng, and stand on the square stone of the number 2, the fourth step is to turn to the fourth palace Xin position, and walk on the square stone of the number 1, and the fifth step is to jump to the fifth palace and enter the square stone of the number 5; The sixth step is to explore the six houses, step on the square stone of the number 7, step into the seventh house, step on the square stone of the number 5, take the eighth position, stand on the square stone of the number 5, and step on the square stone of the number 5, and step into the second position, stopping on the square stone of the number 2. At this point, Mu Han successfully passed the main hall formation, only to see that Mu Han had just passed the big formation, and the stones that were originally surging up and down suddenly stopped, except for the nine stones on Mu Han's walking route, the rest slowly sank into the faint foul-smelling torrent water. Eight stone pillars carved with dragons on the left and right sides of the main hall rotated slightly, and a low voice came out, and the main entrance of the main hall slowly opened.

Su Jingshan and Su Huiying showed excited smiles on their faces, and they immediately flew to follow Mu Han's walking route and walked quickly to the main entrance of the main hall. As soon as the three of them crossed the main entrance of the main hall, a golden letterhead slowly fell, which read: You can successfully pass the first level, it can be seen that you have excellent intelligence, and you have hills and valleys, please enter the second level.

Mu Han, Su Jingshan, and Su Huiying nodded to each other and entered the hall, only to see eighty-eight sixty-four humanoid bronze puppets, dressed in the costumes of Qing military generals, holding various weapons, blocking the way.

Mu Han couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I have heard of the Shaolin Temple, the holy land of martial arts in the world, but eighteen bronze people have been placed. I don't want this Dolgon to place 64 Kirito to guard the treasure, and he also looks down on the descendants of the Qing Imperial Family too much! The last level tested wisdom, and this level has no intention of testing force! ”

"Yes, it should be like this, Mu Han, why don't I accompany your grandfather and you at the same time?" Su Huiying said with concern.

"Ying'er can't, according to the ancestral records, the person who broke into the battle should be one person, if you rush into the battle with many people, what accident happens, the consequences are unpredictable!" Su Jingshan immediately stopped him.

"Thank you Miss Su for your kindness, let's do it myself!" Having come to this point, Mu Han is already full of confidence.

Mu Han got up and walked straight to the narrow passage full of generals, only to see that as soon as Mu Han stepped into the passage, the floor under his feet was slightly heavy, and the 64 bronze figurines were launched in an instant, and all kinds of weapons in their hands attacked Mu Han. Suddenly, Mu Han fell into a sword shadow.