Chapter Forty-Eight: The Ghost Hidden in an Ancient Painting

Sun Jiuye ignored the sarcasm of me and the fat man, hurriedly stuffed a few booklets of the ancient handwriting of the Feng Shi into his bag, pointed downstairs and said, "There is a yin mansion under Dixian Village...... There must be a tomb under this bone building, let's hide underground, not only can we avoid the coffin worms, but we can also follow the tomb to find the tomb of the earth immortals, otherwise how can we get trapped in the building? ”

Shirley Yang stopped Sun Jiuye and said: "The tomb is more dangerous, I saw earlier that there are many gaps in the tomb wall of the Yin Mansion in Dixian Village, and the coffin insects are pervasive, so they may not be able to block them." ”

I heard Shirley Yang say that it makes sense, the yin houses in the "Coffin Mountain" are connected vertically and horizontally, and the ancient tombs of different dynasties are stacked on top of each other, and the structure and building materials of each tomb are different, resulting in gaps and loopholes between the tombs.

Hearing the sound of insect foot crawling in the distance gradually approaching, more and more panicked people's hearts, I calmed down and thought about it, the "Coffin Mountain Xiang Mansion Map" depicts in detail the terrain of the Coffin Mountain, at the entrance of the Tomb of the Immortals, there are several metal rings around the mark, although there is no name in the picture, but it is located at the entrance of the tomb, in ancient times there was the concept of "the sky is round and the place is round", the circle is life, the square is death, the arc in the hexagram implies the meaning of "life", it is reasonable to assume that these rings should be the tomb in front of the "broken insects, anti-theft" things, Retreating into it may be able to avoid the attack of the coffin worm, which is also a "retreat as advance" strategy, which is better than being trapped in a lonely house.

At this time, I didn't care if there was really an old practice of "avoiding fire" in Dixian Village, so I immediately called the fat man and others to work together, opened the shovel and dismantled a few wooden tables and chairs, and tore some strips of cloth to wrap them on them, and wanted to light them as torches to repel insects.

Seeing this, Sun Jiu Ye was so anxious that his voice became hoarse, and he grabbed my arm and said hoarsely: "You can't light a fire, the wood in the houses and courtyards of Dixian Village are all old trees, and the fire is together, so you have to bring in the Nine Deaths Horror Armor in the stratum." ”

Sun Jiuye looked through the "Records of Viewing the Mountain and Excavating the Collection", and learned that all the buildings in the coffin mountain are made of "old dead trees" as raw materials, which is related to the feng shui layout of the yin and yang houses in the "Dixian Village".

"Old Dead Tree" is a kind of fierce wood, cold in winter, hot in summer, such as making a coffin, the dead people who pretend to be in the ground are not at peace, grow in the deep mountains and poor valleys, but the wood contains the gas of yin and decay, the mixed yuan house of yin and yang is inseparable from this thing, Feng Shigu in order to restore the Pangu vein in the coffin mountain to its original state, he specially ordered people to cut down a large number of "dead wood", and built a yang house in imitation of the original shape of the ancient town.

Although "Dixian Village" seems to be a yang house, but if it is studied in detail in the way of feng shui, it belongs to the "shadow house", in the past, the dead were buried, often tied with white paper into oxen, carriage, sedan chair and servants, and there were also white paper tables of the building palace, all of which were to burn the underworld for the deceased to be used in the underworld. This village built underground also has this meaning, specially for the souls of the martyrs to live, and because "ghosts do not see the ground", ghosts have no flesh and blood, so it is called "shadow house".

The reason why Dixian Village "avoids fire and avoids candles" is precisely because there are "Nine Deaths Shocking Tomb Armor" buried outside the coffin mountain, this extremely terrifying Shocking Tomb Armor has the nature of "holding yin and tending to yang", if the yang energy in the mountain is too heavy, the surrounding dense bronze blood erosion like insect cocoons will penetrate the wall into the mountain; At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "Guanshan Taibao" used old wood as a building material, also to prevent those self-proliferating "Jingling armor" from approaching the leylines in the mountains.

I can't go into detail at this moment, but I quickly understood the meaning of what Sun Jiuye said, and all kinds of abnormal signs in the "Coffin Mountain" indicate that an earth-shaking change will occur in the mountain. The root cause, I'm afraid we entered the Dixian Village to cause, to say that the candle fire dragon gas, just lit a candle may not be nothing, the most terrible thing is that there is no "Guiru Ancient Mirror" properly collected, "Bronze Mirror, Copper Fu" are all forged by the South China Sea Dragon Fire, although the dragon gas in the ancient mirror is about to disappear, but after all, it is the breath of dragon fire, and finally caused the Tomb Armor to drill into the mountain wall, and first drove out a large number of "coffin insects" in the crevices of the cliff.

Shirley Yang said: "If there is no flame, it must be surrounded by coffin insects and cannot get out, although Dixian Village is afraid of fire, but there is a fire pin hidden in the tomb of the underground house, and the tomb should be able to light a fire to defend yourself, let's quickly take a torch and avoid entering the tomb." ”

Everyone claimed that it was, the "Guanshan Hidden Bone Building" in the things that can ignite the fire were taken, and then immediately rushed downstairs to find the entrance of the Yin House, the passage of the Yin and Yang two houses, each place is different, in the "Cannon Temple" is near the shrine, there are under the stove in the dwellings, and there are also under the bed, all according to the "Eight House Mirror" Principle Hide, I have seen a few places before, since I have peeked through the mystery, the Eight House Mirror naturally can't help but "touch the gold secret technique", and soon led everyone to find the tomb in the Feng ancestral hall.

We pried open the floor tiles, we felt that the wind and cold fog under the ground were pressing, at this time there were many "coffin worms" poured in from the cracks in the doors and windows, everyone did not dare to hesitate any longer, hurriedly went down the tomb road, and re-blocked the passage, just in a blink of an eye, several coffin worms have followed into the ancient tomb, and we were killed on the spot with a sapper shovel.

Shirley Yang and his sister lit two torches, although the "coffin mountain" is buried deep in the ground, it is a strange vein of a group of dragons, there are some gaps in the tomb wall, if there is air circulation, although you will feel that you can't breathe, the fire will also be dim, but as long as the candle is not extinguished, you will not have to wear a gas mask, I dare not be careless, remind everyone to hang the bag of the gas mask on the chest, ready to use at any time.

The two houses of Yin and Yang in Dixian Village are stacked on top of each other, the upper side is the house, and the bottom is the tomb, but they are different, the scale is large and small, but they are all the tombs of the great nobles and some high-ranking hermits, in this joint "ancient tomb museum", all kinds of rare and unheard of "coffin coffin dingware, ancient corpse pearl jade", the things of the past dynasties, all hidden, have become a part of the "Pangu Feng Shui" of Dixian Village.

Located in the tomb under the "Tibetan Bone Building", it is a tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the coffin is mainly a "copper, wood" structure, the four tomb walls are pitch black ebony, the tomb is piled up with a lot of bamboo slips, there are a lot of ancient weapons such as sword and shield, many have been rusted and can not be used again, there is a well-preserved "shackle furnace Fuhu bronze coffin", that is, the copper coffin is hidden in the furnace of burning mercury, only the head of the Fuhu beast at both ends is exposed outside, the black and heavy mercury furnace is filled with mercury, if the tomb robber breaks the furnace wall, It is not surprising that mercury gushes out of the tomb and hurts people.

I looked around in the light of the torches, and saw that the ancient tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was not solid, the age of the tomb was too old, and the wood was mostly broken and rotten, so I couldn't stay here for a long time, so I hurriedly beckoned the fat man to pry open the tomb door together, so that everyone could get out of the way, who knew that although the ebony on the tomb wall was rotten and withered, it was very thick, so I had to do my best to dig it layer by layer with a sapper shovel.

At the time of "anxious and sweaty like rain", I listened to Shirley Yang and others behind him screaming "not good", and hurriedly looked back, only to see that the gap between the tomb wall seemed to be turbidity currents, and countless "coffin worms" continued to crawl out of the wall, the "coffin worms" in this ancient tomb are extraordinary, and there is also a strange small worm called coffin worm in the countryside, which secretes acid on its body and crawls to where it rots, and the coffin worm in the cemetery is even more powerful. Then it bleeds and pus, which can rot all the way to the bone.

Professor Sun also picked up a torch, took it on the torch in Shirley Yang's hand and lit it, plus one of my sister's son, three torches waved back and forth like meteors, and drove back the coffin insects that rushed to him, these torches were tied with a few bandages and cloth heads, and then poured some compressed fuel that ignited the fire, and the time to burn was not short, but the ancient tomb was extremely obscure, the fire was not prosperous, and some coffin insects were headless and brainless and did not know how to fear fire, and they were all burned to death by three people with torches on the ground, with more and more insects being burned, There was a strong scorching stench.

The coffin of the ancient tomb of the Warring States period is made of thick square wood, and after the giant wood was pulled from the original site, it has given birth to "rotting insects and maggots", which usually hide in the cracks and lurk still, but at this moment they were alarmed by the coffin worms that got in, and they also squirmed their clumsy bodies and escaped from the holes in the tomb wall.

Some of the maggots born in the wooden coffin have taken advantage of the yin qi in the tomb to produce abnormal changes, and the strange maggots with the thickness of human fingers will "squeak" and scream, and after being bitten by the coffin worm, they make a desperate struggle sound, like a baby crying blood, in this dark and cold ancient tomb, it is enough to make people's hearts tremble, almost crazy, and the hands holding the sapper shovel and torch are a little trembling.

Seeing that she couldn't support it anymore, thanks to Shirley Yang was in a hurry, she pulled out the sword of Fengshi Gu from my back, snatched two steps, and stabbed the sword into the mouth of the beast in the furnace, triggering the mechanism in the furnace, and suddenly streams of mercury water gushed out, engulfing all the swarms of coffin insects and maggots near the coffin.

This sword should be when the coffin mountain met the immortals, Feng Shigu used to stab the "black sheep king" of the sharp blade, I brought this sword out from the Guanshan Tibetan Bone Building, originally intended to use it to deal with the "Earth Immortal Feng Shigu", but was taken by Shirley Yang and inserted into the "Fuhu coffin", at this time it has been invaded by mercury and can not be retrieved.

I was also in a hurry, and I had no choice but to take one step at a time, and the tomb was filled with mercury, and the flames became weaker, but the swarming coffin insects were afraid of mercury poison, and they scattered and fled like a tide, and everyone put on gas masks, and moved away from the rotten wood blocking the tomb door, and pried open the incomplete bronze door, and ran into the tomb one after another.

Between each relatively independent tomb, there are the same tomb roads that are connected to each other, crisscrossing like streets and alleys, the brick walls are relatively solid and complete, not as heavy as the yin in the tomb, the flame on the torch in the hand is burning normally again, everyone identified the direction, and took advantage of the fact that there was not yet a large number of coffin insects to drill in, and quickly walked through the tomb to the place where the "Earth Immortal Tomb" is located.

The Pangu corpse vein in the "Coffin Mountain" is shaped like a headless ancient corpse lying on its back, and the Dixian Village is built in front of the chest of the ancient corpse according to the mountain, and the Dixian Tomb that falls into the deep ravine is located in the belly of the Pangu vein, the tomb road is tortuous, and the surrounding tombs and pits are next to each other, and it seems that they will never reach the end.

Everyone ran for a while, but there was still no trace of the "Earth Immortal Tomb", and the fat man muttered unhurriedly: "Old Hu, did you get the wrong way?" Why can't you reach the end after running for so long? Our principle has always been - bragging, not shallow bragging, walking not far......"

My sister couldn't hold on anymore and asked me how far is this road? I had to take a quote from Shirley Young: "Don't be discouraged, don't ask how far the road is, but ask yourselves whether you have the confidence and courage to finish the road, no matter how far it is." ”

The fat man said: "Let's take a break, don't forget that the earth is round, don't ask the way, just walk forward, that won't be a melon baby?" ”

At this moment, I also had no bottom in my heart, so I told everyone frankly: "This tomb is dark and tortuous, to be honest, I am a little confused, looking at the direction of the compass, the direction of our Dazhi must be right, but I can't help but walk through." ”

After a little discussion, everyone decided to take a look at the "Coffin Mountain Mansion" first, and confirm what position it is, otherwise it would not be reasonable to go around in the ancient tomb, so they lit two more torches, cleared a small safe area in the tomb, took out the ancient paintings from the backpack, and unfolded them one by one, trying to find out the picture of the Yin Mansion of Dixian Village.

I saw that the first one was "Watching the Mountains and Encountering Immortals", so I handed it to the fat man and asked him to put it away, and just unfolded the second volume of ancient paintings, but it was the "Night Walking Picture with Candles" that depicted the burial in the tomb. I became more and more anxious in my heart, the "earth fairy" painted several broken paintings, the paper is all exactly the same, after rolling up there is no way to distinguish, just about to take the third ancient painting out, I found that this "candle night walking map" and I have seen in the "Tibetan Bone Building" before.

I remember very clearly, in the original "Candle Night Walking Map", there were many people lighting lanterns and torches, walking into a cave with jade and bronze buried in the strata, and now this ancient painting in front of me has some more "things", in those sacrificial vessels, there are many blurred black shadows, which look like a hideous and vicious "ghost", and it seems to be a powerful ghost in the underworld, peeping into the fresh life of the person who entered the ancient tomb to be buried, teaching people to look at it, and suddenly have a sense of "shuddering".