Chapter 21: The Scarab and the Wraith
As the stone lotus petals left the lotus platform, the heavy stone door slowly opened.
What catches your eye is a nearly 10-meter-long road, surrounded by stone slabs carved with several Buddha statues and Bodhisattva portraits, and two long-extinguished lanterns hanging on each side of the road.
This time, Ye Xuan and the others learned smartly, found a few fist-sized stones, and threw them into the passage, after making sure that there was no trap, a few people Ye Xuan rushed in.
After passing through the corridor, Ye Xuan and the others entered the main tomb.
However, just a few seconds before they entered the main burial chamber, several black mist quickly drifted into the terracotta figurines on either side of the tomb door.
The layout of the main tomb is obviously different from the outer tomb, the tomb is surrounded by bronze lotus-shaped oil seals, the walls on both sides of the tomb are carved with portraits of eighteen Arhats, the wall facing the tomb door is carved with a solemn Buddha statue, in the center of the tomb are placed seven giant coffins, in the shape of the Big Dipper.
"This is the essence of our Chinese civilization, and it is a pity that it is buried in the ground all day long and does not see the light of day." Wang Laodao shook his head and sighed.
Pan Zi looked at the murals on the wall and said to Ye Xuan: "Mr. Ye, if you look at these murals and words, can you see who is buried here?" ”
"It's hard to tell the owner of the tomb from these alone, after all, it's too old." Ye Xuan shook his head.
Ye Xuan and the others started a fire, lit a few oil lamps, and the tomb suddenly lit up.
"The Seven-Star Coffin?"
Ye Xuan approached the seven coffins and muttered.
The seven giant coffins are arranged in the shape of the spoon of the "Big Dipper", and there are lines connected between the coffins, the seven-star giant coffin is not a small person, but only one of the seven coffins is buried with the owner of the tomb, if Ye Xuan and they accidentally open the wrong seven giant coffins, the consequences will be unimaginable.
However, just when Ye Xuan wanted to crack the seven-star giant coffin, Pan Zi was holding a clay pot, and took out three or four pebble-sized, black stones from it, and cheered: "Mr. Ye, is this black gold?" ”
"Jie Ji ......"
Suddenly, there was an eerie and terrible laugh from among the terracotta figurines next to the tomb door.
"Panzi, that's not black gold, put it down." Ye Xuan was shocked.
Pan Zi was frightened by the sudden weird laughter and Ye Xuan's shouting, and the mysterious black stone in his hand fell to the ground.
Click...
A crisp sound, like a glass being shattered, sounded, and suddenly the three or four black stones moved slightly, and a few black insects crawled out of them.
"It's a scarab, everyone get out of here." When Ye Xuan saw this mysterious black insect, his scalp tingled and he screamed.
The scarab beetle was one of the most evil insects in ancient Egypt, living in groups and devouring human body parts, leaving no bones left in their path.
The speed of the scarab beetle was extremely fast, and in an instant, one of them bit through Panzi's boots, burrowed into the center of his foot, and quickly rushed all the way from the center of Panzi's foot to his abdomen.
"Quick, save me!" Pan Zi panicked for a moment and threw the clay pot in his hand.
At the moment when the scarab beetle burrowed into Pan Zi's body, Ye Xuan quickly pulled out the dagger from his waist and came to Pan Zi's body, and the dagger in his hand stabbed into his abdomen without hesitation.
Between the rise and fall of Ye Xuan's hand, the scarab beetle that burrowed into Pan Zi's body was stabbed to death on the tip of the knife.
"Burn with fire, they are afraid of fire."
After doing all this, Ye Xuan quickly knocked over a few oil lamps, and for a while, the entire tomb flames rose.
Pan Zi was very aggrieved in his heart, he covered his wounds, stepped on the scarab beetle with fire on his body and fled in all directions, and made a squeaky sound, which made people get goosebumps all over his body.
Due to the spread of the flames, they burned on the terracotta figurines on both sides of the tomb door, and several black mist suddenly flew out of it.
The black qi dissipated, and several transparent spirits rushed straight to Ye Xuan and a few people, these were several female resentful spirits, with slender figures, two long braids, wearing a peach-colored cardigan dress and a pair of red embroidered shoes.
There were so many resentful spirits at one time, everyone was shocked, except for Ye Xuan and Bai Xinyan, the other three couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Cluck......
At the moment when the black mist floated out, an eerie sound suddenly came from the seven-star giant coffin.
Ye Xuan and the others turned their heads and stared directly at the seven-star giant coffin, and involuntarily a chill came over them.
This is really a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, for a while, Ye Xuan and the others were very busy, they trampled on the scarab beetle at the same time, they had to deal with these resentful spirits, and from time to time they had to pay attention to the movement of the seven-star giant coffin.
"Daoist Wang, give everyone the charms on your body." The dagger in Ye Xuan's hand slashed at his fingertips and shouted, "Everyone put the charm on their heads, so that the resentful spirits will not take the initiative to attack us." ”
"Destroy these wraiths first." He then took a bloody dagger and headed straight for two of the spirits.
There are a total of six resentful spirits, Ye Xuan fights two alone, and Bai Xinyan and the others can only get one.
Just when Ye Xuan made a move, the two resentful spirits responded to the killing intent emanating from Ye Xuan's body, and they were not to be outdone, they roared, their hands instantly turned into claws, and the black gas on the slender fingertips and sharp nails like knives was swirling, and they grabbed towards Ye Xuan fiercely, a few meters away, Ye Xuan already felt a chill all over his body, and the cultivation of this thousand-year-old resentful spirit was not weak.
At this time, I saw Ye Xuan raise the dagger in his hand and stab at one of the resentful spirits, and his other hand was not idle, he squeezed out a drop of blood from the middle finger that had just been cut, threw it out, and hit the other resentful spirit, making a heart-wrenching scream.
After the blow, the resentful spirit's already illusory figure became even more blurred, waving its claws, trying to catch Ye Xuan, but it turned out to be in vain.
However, just when Ye Xuan was distracted to deal with this resentful spirit, the resentful spirit in front of him seized the opportunity to grab it towards his heart.
Seeing this, Ye Xuan's face changed greatly, and he quickly retreated back, but he was still scratched by the claws of the resentful spirit.
The clothes on his chest were broken, and blood was flowing from the wounds, soaking the clothes on his chest, but strangely enough, the blood that flowed out was black.
Ye Xuan glanced down at his bloody chest, and hurriedly took out a talisman and pasted it on the wound, and suddenly a wisp of black smoke rose from the talisman.
After doing all this, Ye Xuan moved his gaze to the resentful spirit again this time, and said in a low voice: "If the tiger is not powerful, you really treat me as a sick cat." ”