Chapter 173: The Bottom of the Cave

"Taishan stone dare to be" these five words Wu Zhiyuan is still more familiar, the east wall of the Wu ancestral hall is inlaid with a stone tablet engraved with these words, that is because the east wall of the ancestral hall happens to be against a street, which is called "road chong" in feng shui, Maoshan Taoism belongs to a sha, is facing the evil stele engraved with these five words, you can dissolve the evil qi, keep the house safe.

In the Maoshan Taoist technique, there is naturally no spell of "Taishan Stone Dare to be", so this method of warding off evil spirits is naturally not from the Maoshan School, as for its origin, Wu Zhiyuan also knows a little.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a village at the foot of Mount Tai, and from time to time there were monsters who turned into a strange wind to come to make Lang wind and kill living beings. There is a young man in the village surnamed Shi, the name dares to be, he is brave and decisive, infinite strength, stand up and beat the monster away, the monster turned into a gust of demon wind to the south, and then came to Fujian to continue to be powerful, some farmers in Fujian heard the news of Shi Dangdang, he invited him to Fujian to subdue the demon, so the monster turned into a demon wind and fled all the way to the north, fled to the northeast, and people invited Shi Dangdang to the northeast...... Later, Shi Dare thought that the land of Kyushu was so vast, it was impossible to run around like this all his life, and there were many stones on Mount Tai, so it was better to use Mount Tai Stone to engrave his name, where there was a demon wind, just put the stone outside the door, so that the monster would not dare to go in? This method really worked, and later the name of Taishan stone dare to be spread farther and farther, all over the land of China, and now in all parts of the country can see the stone tablet of "Taishan stone dare to be".

There is no specific historical record of this legend, but for thousands of years, the five words of "Mount Tai stone dare to be" can be known to everyone, and have been handed down, it can be seen that its effect of warding off evil spirits is undoubted, and Mount Tai is the respect of the five mountains, since ancient times, there are countless legends of various fairies, and all the legends are not groundless.

Wu Zhiyuan looked at the words on the cyan brick and stone on the side, and then looked at the black lacquer hole that could accommodate one person after the masonry was lifted, and there were several bluestone steps at the entrance of the cave that extended down and disappeared into the darkness. In his heart, he had another thought, the five words "Taishan Stone Dare to be" were facing the cave, was it because there was some monster trapped in the cave, and he wanted to prevent this monster from running out?

Thinking of this uninhabited deserted village, as well as the Gu coffin placed in the house, Wu Zhiyuan felt more and more that this cave was a bit weird, although he was curious, but he would not take his life as a child's play, thinking that no matter what mysteries there were in this cave, it had nothing to do with him after all, and what he had to figure out now was whether this village was the Liuyin Village of Yidu County as mentioned by Shigong.

Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan picked up the Taishan blue brick on the side, and was just about to cover it on the entrance of the cave as it was, when suddenly, he vaguely heard a woman's cry, probably because of the distance, the cry sounded extremely weak, but it seemed to be very miserable.

Wu Zhiyuan was shocked, and the memory in his mind suddenly flooded: "This voice...... Seems to have heard it somewhere. He thought about it quickly, and before he could figure it out, the cry sounded again, and it was from the cave in the ground.

This cry again immediately reminded Wu Zhiyuan that when he and the fake Moon Shadow Fuxian drove the corpse past the mountain temple, he had heard this miserable cry at the entrance of the temple's cave, and the fake Moon Shadow Fuxian stopped Wu Zhiyuan from going down to the cave to investigate, and when he entered the cave the next day, he found that it was empty, only a steel ring made of stainless steel as thick as a wrist was placed in a stone room.

Now that he thinks about it, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly realized that there must be some monster locked in the cave of the temple, and the fake Moon Shadow Fuxian must know, but for some reason, she couldn't let Wu Zhiyuan know, so she stopped him from going down to the cave to investigate, and then notified the person guarding the cave of the temple to secretly transfer the monster, so he left the steel ring that the chain was poured on the wall.

But now, how could the same cry appear in the hole in the ground under this Gu Raising Coffin? Is there a connection between the two? Listening to the sound like a woman, Wu Zhiyuan thought about it, the monster whose voice was like a woman seemed to be only a snake, but the snake lived in the water, and her cry would cause floods at the lightest, and the tsunami would be monstrous.

After hesitating for a long time, Wu Zhiyuan finally decided to go into the cave to investigate, after all, this is related to the cave under the mountain temple, maybe he can find the truth of the matter. Thinking about it, Wu Zhiyuan lifted the coffin lid on the wall, he raised it to the top of his head, and smashed it against the stove hard, with a "click", the coffin lid was smashed to pieces. He took out a slightly longer piece of wood from it, tore off one of the sleeves of his garment and wrapped it around one end of the wood to make a simple torch.

Blowing up the fire and lighting the torch, Wu Zhiyuan bent down and drilled into the hole, and when his head was not hidden under the ground, he suddenly saw a figure walking into the gate of the courtyard, looked at it, and secretly screamed that it was not good, it was not a person at all, but a tiger who came in!

This tiger must have heard the screams of the tiger before, so he came here. Wu Zhiyuan didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly burrowed into the hole, thinking that this was trouble, and he originally planned to crawl out of the hole in time if there was danger in the cave, and he could still retreat with his whole body. Now there is a tiger outside the entrance of the cave, and even if he dies, he can only die in this cave.

Not daring to look at the movement of the tiger on the ground, Wu Zhiyuan could only climb down the steps step by step.

Although the entrance of the cave is narrow, but after entering the hole, it is found that the width of the hole is relatively large, which can allow two people to climb down side by side, and there are more than 20 vertical steps, the slope of the steps changes abruptly, becoming very gentle, and you can already stand up and pick up the steps and go down.

Wu Zhiyuan walked cautiously, while carefully observing the surrounding situation, the origin of this cave is unknown, what it is used is only a guess, maybe there is some mechanism hidden on this step.

The wall of the cave is made of cyan stone bricks, which looks very neat, and the brick joints are small, which shows that the craftsmen at that time were skilled. Could it be that this cave has some special purpose?

Wu Zhiyuan observed all the way forward, the steps were all made of bluestone, and they were covered with moss, which showed that this place should be very humid and not very airtight.

Walking down this way, it took more than half an hour, until he reached the time when his legs and feet were sore, and an octagonal open space vaguely appeared at the end of the front steps straight down, Wu Zhiyuan was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly walked down with a torch in his hand.

walked down the steps and came to the open space, by the light of the torches, Wu Zhiyuan looked around cautiously, and couldn't help but be taken aback!