Chapter 65: Jianwen Underground Palace
Dharma Mountain, the tomb of the Ming Emperor under the cliff, is probably the only imperial tomb built on an island in China.
"And every word on this stone tablet is also engraved by Qin Xiaozhong of the tombsmith clan." Qin Beiyang stroked the surface of the stele, "And the other tombsmith clan is loyal to Emperor Yongle and built the first mausoleum of the Ming Tombs in Beijing for him. I am the descendant of the Qin family who built the Ming Tombs. During the rise of the Ming and Qing dynasties, my ancestors wore braids and were loyal to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, what a shame! ”
"In troubled times, human life is like ants, and it is not easy to survive."
Ye Kenan said this, because his ancestors also shaved their hair and became the heirs of the six gates of the Qing Dynasty.
"You two keep talking, it's almost dawn outside, let's see if there is still a road ahead?"
Qi Yuanshan interjected, and he also understood most of it. Xiao Mu walked ahead, and he probed the risks of the dungeon. Then there is the town's tomb beast Nine Colors, which spits out a glass fireball that illuminates the tomb roads on both sides.
The next tomb door, Qin Beiyang took a long time to open. When the door turned, everyone smelled a pungent smell of blood. Xiao Mu said that in the past, there was a lot of rot in the dungeon, but this smell of blood was unheard of.
The last burial chamber.
There was no golden treasure as imagined, but a long tongue of fire, like a large python that winded endlessly, entrenched in the vault at the top of the underground palace.
"Dragon!"
Qi Yuanshan shouted in panic, this was clearly the monster he had seen at the bottom of the sea......
For the first time in their lives, the rest of them had seen the species of dragons – not hovering over the pillars of the palace or carved into the walls of the mausoleum, but living dragons.
Each piece of the dragon's scale armor glowed with dazzling fire. The dragon's head was covered with antlers of the same color as the nine-colored, and the bloody breath was spewed out from the dragon's bloody mouth...... I don't know how many shipwrecked people have been eaten, plus the boys and girls of the "Evil Dragon Festival" over the years.
The dragon let out a roar and spewed terrifying flames from its mouth, the first warning to the intruders. It had already treated the six of them as breakfast in advance.
Qin Beiyang ordered everyone to disperse quickly. He casually touched a weapon in the underground palace, which turned out to be a bronze trident, more than seven feet long. He did his best to protect his chest with his trident and keep the dragon from approaching him.
When the evil dragon was about to breathe fire again, the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast preemptively spewed out a ball of flames-the size of a hydrangea, emitting a green cold light, but it made the evil dragon extremely frightened, as if he had seen the same kind. The dragon roared again, and the entire dungeon was filled with flames.
The dragon body didn't know how long it was circling, and the dragon's tail had been outflanked behind everyone, like a shark's tail knocking Ouyang Anna down. The dragon's claw was about to step on her, but Qin Beiyang stretched out his trident with all his might, forcibly blocking the claw, and emitting a spark of metal collision - indicating that the evil dragon itself was not flesh and blood, but an artifact made of metal.
Anna escaped death, Ye Kenan dragged her back, and the pistol fired two bullets, hitting the scales like tickling, to no avail.
The dragon head was furious, and was about to swallow Qin Beiyang in one gulp, when the nine colors spewed out a glass fireball again. The antlers of the tomb beast of the young Qilin Town began to deform, growing outward one by one, and in just a few seconds the branches grew up, like a square of squares, and like two towering trees above their heads, and the snow-white branches were like blades that sharpened iron like mud. Like a stag in the gladiatorial arena, this pair of antlers rushed with great inertia, and in one fell swoop, it pierced the scale armor on the dragon's chest, and flowed out thick black dragon blood.
The evil dragon's throat let out a scream, and Qi Yuanshan and Xiao Mu both felt that their eardrums were bleeding.
Qin Beiyang brandished his trident and stood beside the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast, directing the battle of the young beast as the master. Although, the flames surrounded him and the Nine Colors, but they couldn't hurt him a single hair. Qin Beiyang understood, approached and entered the underground palace of Emperor Jianwen, and let Jiuse absorb the breath of the golden well of the emperor's mausoleum, thus recovering his strength in the Tang Dynasty tomb in Bailuyuan.
The dragon roared one last time, and the fire kept everyone open...... By the time the flames had been extinguished, it had disappeared from the dungeon, leaving nothing but the stinking dragon's blood.
Qi Yuanshan found several human stumps with thick hairs on the surface of the skin, which were Peruvian crew members who were eaten by the evil dragon tonight.
Everyone was coughing, and their faces were covered with soot like the bottom of the pot. Only Qin Beiyang rushed to the heart of the underground palace with nine colors and found a huge coffin.
Incredibly, the dragon was defeated, with its tail between its legs, whimpering and fleeing.
Ouyang Anna desperately wiped her face with a handkerchief, and Ye Kenan re-lit the torch to confirm that there was still oxygen in the dungeon.
The antlers on the top of the nine-colored head gradually returned to their normal size, and everyone looked at this magical scene and didn't know how to explain it.
Qin Beiyang walked around the coffin and found that the coffin was polished with granite boulders because the island lacked wood. He also found a simple jade mourning book, which clearly stated that the owner of the tomb was Emperor Jianwen.
"Xiaomu, aren't you a tomb robber, do you see any treasures here?"
Qi Yuanshan pushed Xiao Mu again, but was stopped by Qin Beiyang: "We are not tomb robbers!" Let Emperor Jianwen continue to sleep. ”
Before she could finish speaking, Anna curiously pulled the brass ring on the coffin.
Then, there was a loud rumbling sound overhead.
Stones kept falling, the door of the tomb was collapsing, and the dust was flying, and it seemed that the sky was cracking.
Xiao Mu exclaimed: "The mechanism that killed the dungeon and the tomb robbers together has been triggered!" ”
Seeing that the way back had been blocked, everyone was about to be stoned to death. Qin Beiyang thought of where the evil dragon had fled? There must be another channel.
He ordered Nine Colors to spit out the glass fireball again and explore the other side of the dungeon. Sure enough, he found a crack in the wall, the largest of which was just enough for the dragon's body to enter and exit.
Before the underground palace was completely destroyed, everyone had already burrowed into the cracks.
Qin Beiyang grabbed the trident, and there was a loud noise behind him. The cracks are twisted and curved, and they are not artificially excavated, nor do they look like they are formed by nature.
"Where did the dragon come from?" Anna gasped and asked, "I was born in Dharma Mountain since I was a child, and there are evil dragon legends and evil dragon sacrifices, which the old people say have been passed down for five hundred years. ”
"It's a grave beast!"
"Emperor Jianwen's tomb beast?"
"Yes." Qin Beiyang touched the scale armor of the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast that opened the way in front of him, "It's the same as the Nine Colors." It's just that due to the earthquake and other reasons, cracks have occurred in the mausoleum, causing the tomb beast to escape from the underground palace, endangering the islanders of Damo Mountain, as well as the ships of the entire East China Sea. ”
Qi Yuanshan remembered the evil dragon he witnessed eating people at the bottom of the sea: "This is an evil dragon town tomb beast?" ”
As he spoke, the crack suddenly opened up, and through the illumination of the glass fireball, it was a natural cave, just enough to contain the entire dragon's body.
Qin Beiyang observed the surrounding situation and said: "If the underground palace of Emperor Jianwen is the bedroom of the tomb beast of Evil Dragon Town, then this is its living room. ”
In the middle of the cave lies a stone tablet, but it feels different when you touch it, it turns out to be made of bronze.
There were a few lines of text engraved on the bronze tablet, and Anna casually glanced at it and found her father's name, Ouyang Sicong.
"O Virgin Mary!" Deeply guilty, she knelt in front of the monument and drew a cross, "This is the covenant my father made with the dragon!" ”
Qin Beiyang read the gist of the inscription - the evil dragon (written as "divine dragon" in the inscription) has been suffering from the East China Sea for hundreds of years, and every winter, the islanders must sacrifice virgins and boys, otherwise the evil dragon will make waves. In the year of Gengzi, Ouyang Sicong returned to Dharma Mountain with his wife and daughter, and he made a pact with the evil dragon: the islanders regularly fed the evil dragon boys and girls, and threw them into the dragon's lair under the cliff every few months. In return, the evil dragon deliberately caused a shipwreck, causing the ship to deviate from course and sink on the reef, while Ouyang Sicong took the opportunity to go to the sea to rob.
"It turns out that the dragon is a good helper for pirates." Detective Ye Kenan began to conclude, "This monument is supposed to be thrown directly into the sea from the cliff, using bronze instead of stone, in order to avoid smashing on the reef. Ten years after the year of Gengzi, Ouyang Sicong relied on this big dragon to become the One Piece King in the East China Sea, and then became the boss of the Green Gang in Shanghai. ”
Qi Yuanshan knocked on the surface of the bronze tablet, and there was something wrong with the sound. Everyone moved away from this bronze tablet, revealing a hole underneath. With a burst of fishy air, the blinding white light made it difficult to approach.
It was the first nine colors to jump down, followed by Qin Beiyang with a trident in his hand, and this jump reached Alibaba's treasure cave.
Silver!
A dazzling million taels of silver filled the entire cave, like snow in the harsh winter, and buried the lower half of his body.
Qin Beiyang seemed to be suffocated by the silver, he tried to straighten the part above his waist, and saw an evil dragon in front of him.
The dragon's eyes glowed red, hovering over a million silver, spewing out billowing flames at him......