Chapter 22 Searching for Huayang Cave (2)
The zombie lost its head, and the yin source was broken by the gossip mirror, and it immediately dried up and leaked out a corpse qi, and soon became a rotting corpse, and the entire feather pool was filled with a fishy smell.
Before coming, Ge Zhengqing expected this to happen, so he made sufficient preparations, this injury is nothing to him, since he is here to find the extremely important "Yin Yang Sutra", if he does not turn this place upside down, Ge Zhengqing will never stop.
He found that the construction here is quite exquisite, the entire feather pond is made of blue bricks, the round treasure top is painted with Yujing Mountain and the immortals, the wall is written with one hundred and eight receiving mantras, there are a total of eighteen layers below, each layer has futons and dead Taoist priests, most of them have become dried corpses, only a small part has turned into white bones.
The bottom of the flat ground, is made of two different colors of bricks to spell out a gossip, Yin and Yang two levels of each placed two square column-shaped sarcophagi, if the "Yin Yang Sutra" is indeed in the altar, it must be hidden in the sarcophagus.
Ge Zhengqing climbed down the feather pool to the sarcophagus and inserted the torch, and carefully studied the two sarcophagi, this sarcophagus is thick and unpretentious, only a little lotus pattern is carved on the ingot-shaped lid and on all sides, and the surrounding floor tiles are obviously different from the green bricks in other parts of the feather pool, and the age should be older.
Ge Zhengqing saw the famous hall, in this sarcophagus there are two ancestors of the Nine Star Dao, the ancestors chose Huayang Cave and buried themselves in this secret place, and the descendants built the feather pool on this basis, and after there was no place for the feather pool, the tower above was built.
The sarcophagus is too heavy to be shaken by a single person, and if there is an abnormality in the coffin, it is not wise to open it rashly, and Ge Zhengqing would rather spend some effort than take risks.
He attached an iron claw to the end of the coffin board of one of the coffins, fixed the pulley in a nearby hard place, and finally connected the iron claw to the pulley with a rope, and when everything was right, he pulled up the heavy coffin board with great force.
When the coffin board was raised for more than ten centimeters, Ge Zhengqing stopped to check the situation in the coffin, and there were no dead people in it, but a broken clay pot that looked like a cannonball was placed on a thick layer of sand.
After pulling the coffin board higher, take out the clay pot and hold it in your hand to look over, the clay pot is loose and rough to make, but it does not lose the ancient meaning, the two animal head ring ears and the eaves have been damaged, at a glance you know that it is an object of the ancient period.
One side of the can is painted with white paint, although some places are peeled off, but it can still be seen that it is a monster with a human body and a snake on the lower body, and some oracle bone inscriptions are engraved on the other side.
Ge Zhengqing thought that this must be a terrible object, otherwise how could it be placed alone in a sarcophagus, and its importance should be in those words.
So he put the words on a piece of cloth and returned the clay pot to its place, so that future generations could come and get it if they needed it.
But the strange thing is that no matter how it is placed, this clay pot is not as stable as the original, Ge Zhengqing only then reacted, it was the layer of sand that leaked into a small eye at the bottom at some point, leaving only a wooden stick with the thickness that could match the small eye just left inside, which was probably used to block the eye, and it was originally inserted in it just buried by the sand.
Lean the clay pot against the corner of the coffin, put down the coffin board, and use the same method to open another sarcophagus.
Ge Zhengqing judged from experience that there must be sandalwood in the sarcophagus in order to prevent insects and moths, indicating that the sarcophagus is either an ancient corpse or a treasure.
Sandalwood is much better than camphor wood, but in ancient times, people generally used camphor wood to prevent insects, and there were very few sandalwood, that is because sandalwood comes from India, it is expensive, and it is a good raw material for making incense, and it is a waste to prevent insects.
Ge Zhengqing became cautious, he covered his mouth and nose with a black veil, afraid that if the exhaled anger of a living person touched the ancient corpse in the coffin, it would cause a corpse transformation.
The coffin board was pulled up little by little until it was completely opened, and there was an old Taoist priest sitting in it, he was wearing a black light gauze robe, holding the dust in his hand and swinging it on his lap, the whole person shrunk like the size of a dog, only a layer of skin was left against the bones, and he had become a dried corpse.
But what surprised Ge Zhengqing was that although he was already a dried corpse, his sallow skin was really weird, and it was not what an ancient corpse should look like.
At this moment, it seemed that the old Taoist priest had his mouth and eyes closed, his face was peaceful, and the location where he was found to have seven orifices faintly glowed with a faint red.
This red must be cinnabar, the old Taoist priest was about to die or just died at the moment, he was sealed with cinnabar to seal the seven orifices, probably for fear of leaking the true spirit and not being able to feather and ascend to immortal.
Under the old Taoist priest's buttocks was a flat box made of sandalwood, and the box was filled with sand.
Ge Zhengqing wondered, there were dozens of buckets poured large and small, unless the coffin was broken and leaked in, and the others had never seen sand deliberately placed in the coffin, and the sand would absorb moisture from the outside world and could not play much of an antiseptic role.
Ge Zhengqing took out a silver skewer about forty centimeters long, which was a tool he asked a silversmith to customize for treasure hunting.
The silver skewer is oblate, the whole has a fine thread, there are two small hooks on the tip to separate the left and right, the thread is to facilitate grasping, the hook is convenient to pick up the clothes worn on the dead body, and it is also inconvenient to hook out the treasure that is inconvenient to take out by hand.
Exploring every part of the old Taoist priest's body with a silver skewer, he didn't find anything hidden, only found a waist card engraved with the word "protection" on the belt around his waist, the meaning of which is unknown.
Now only the sandalwood box will hide the "Yin Yang Sutra", but think about it, the "Yin Yang Sutra" is the treasure of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor in ancient times, there was no paper at that time, the "Yin Yang Sutra" should be engraved on the stone or tortoise shell, or some other utensils, how many things can be contained in this flat box.
It's all here, I can't help but take it out and take a look, since he became a captain who touched gold, Ge Zhengqing used to wrap a cow tendon rope soaked in cinnabar and rooster blood around his waist, first, to facilitate his corpse, and secondly, it can also be used to deal with zombies at critical moments.
At this moment, Ge Zhengqing took out the black and shiny cow tendon rope, hooked it with a silver skewer and passed it through the armpit of the old Taoist, and made a cross around his neck, put back the silver skewer, jumped on the sarcophagus and stood on the edge of his mouth with his feet, and slowly lifted the old Taoist priest up.
The old Taoist's legs were already stiff, even if he was lifted, he still maintained a cross-legged posture, and the old Taoist priest was close to him, Ge Zhengqing held his breath and didn't dare to be careless, after lifting it out of the sarcophagus, he jumped lightly, and after landing on the ground, the old Taoist priest was slowly placed on the ground.
Turned around and took out the sandalwood box in the sarcophagus, scraped off the wax on the top seal with a dagger, and after opening it, there was a thin booklet inside, and the cover was written in small block letters, "Non-Nine Star Dao disciples are not allowed to open it."
It seems that this book is not the "Yin Yang Sutra", Ge Zhengqing was a little disappointed, he decided to go back and give it to the master, and everyone read the content together.
After putting away the booklet and looking at the coffin, there was also an eye at the bottom, and seeing that the sand had just leaked, there was a strange sound on the top of the feather pool.
Ge Zhengqing secretly said that it was not good, there must be a mechanism in the sarcophagus, and there should have been a way to block the mechanism back then, if the disciples of later generations were ready to open the coffin, they would block the operation of the mechanism in advance, but unfortunately the Nine Stars Sect reached their generation, and no one knew the mystery.
The green bricks on the top kept crackling and falling into the feather pool, and there was a sound of something breaking around that I don't know what was going on, and I wanted to put the old Taoist priest back into the sarcophagus, but it was too late now.
Ge Zhengqing tried his best to climb to the top, and before he could figure out how to climb the hole that fell, with a "boom", the entire top knot fell down solidly.
Ge Zhengqing reacted very quickly, released a red ferret from his arms, threw it at the hole of the head, and jumped to the bottom of the pool, but he lost his center of gravity when he stepped on the broken bricks, and fainted after hitting his head on the sarcophagus.
When Ge Zheng woke up, he found that the torch was still lit and not smashed, indicating that he had passed out too soon, he stood up, feeling pain all over his body, and was injured by green bricks in several places, but it did not hurt his muscles and bones, and the old Taoist priest was still sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Looking up, good guy, after the whole roof was smashed down, it happened to be stuck diagonally on the steps only a few steps away from him, and it is estimated that the tower above should also collapse on the top, if the movement is too big at this moment, maybe this roof will collapse again.
Ge Zhengqing took out the heavy shovel from his bag, and prepared to make a hole in the side as soon as possible by using the method of burglar hole, and escaped around the precarious brick roof.
As he walked, a blue brick fell and smashed beside the old Taoist, and he caught a glimpse of a red bead suddenly falling out of the old Taoist's mouth.
Ge Zhengqing knew that this bead was called the Corpse Pill, which was originally supposed to be white, but after years of nourishment by corpse qi and blood qi, it slowly turned dark red.
Suddenly, the old Taoist's beard and robe floated up, and the yin wind gradually rose around him, and the yin qi gathered towards the old Taoist, exuding a thick fishy smell from his body.
This is the precursor of the corpse transformation, Ge Zhengqing knew that it was not good, so he hurriedly went to take out the gossip mirror, who knew that the gossip mirror had been smashed, he had to put it back and take out the short sword and rushed to the old Taoist: "Heaven and Earth Xuanzong, nine stars borrow the law!" ”
Ge Zhengqing bit his fingertips and drew a circle in the palm of his hand: "One zhang seal!"
"Smack, smack, smack!" A burst of green smoke rose up, and the cow tendon rope that had just been wrapped around the old Taoist priest and had no time to be withdrawn broke in response.
There was another "click", and the old Taoist priest cracked from the top of his head, and his upper body was split into two halves, and he couldn't see what was coming out of the ancient corpse.
"Bang~" The old Taoist priest was blown open by the yin wind, the speed of the thing was extremely fast, and a gust of fishy wind swept by, only to see it stop firmly on the sarcophagus.
Ge Zhengqing hurriedly took a few steps back, he put on a posture and looked at it, good guy, a cloud of black smoke flew straight towards him.