Chapter 7: Seals
So Zuo Qingcang also followed the old man into the crack, the crack that was shaken out by the earthquake was very narrow, and people could only see the front when they walked inside, and they couldn't even turn their heads, and they felt very depressed.
But fortunately, this gap is not long, Zuo Qingcang walked about ten meters and got out of the gap. As far as the eye can see, it is a huge palace.
The palace is about hundreds of meters long and wide, and at the end of the main hall, there is a stone gate more than five meters high, which completely seals the next step.
And in the main hall, there are eighteen huge pillars towering on the ground, and on each pillar there is a monster that looks like a dragon, not a dragon, a tiger and not a tiger, and the monster's eyes are bursting with green light, staring at Zuo Qingcang, as if it will pounce at any time.
The old man patted Zuo Qingcang's stiff body and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, they are not alive, what they have in their eyes is the light of the night pearl." ”
After listening to the old man's explanation, Zuo Qingcang relaxed. No way, he has already encountered two groups of monsters on this island. Now that he looked closely, he realized that the monster on the pillar was indeed some kind of carving, but the carving was too lifelike, and the light of the night pearl was relatively dim, which would give him the illusion of coming to life.
"The entire tomb originally relied on Taoism, but too much time has passed, and there is a lack of people to maintain it, especially after the earthquake, many mechanisms and formations here have failed. There is basically no danger. As the old man spoke, the torch in his hand finally burned out, and he threw the torch on the ground casually, and walked towards the depths of the palace by the light of the night pearl.
"The passage behind is sealed, and the most we can do here is through the cracks in the rocks. If you want to go down, you have to think of another way. ”
"This room is for the burial goods and burial objects, which is the habit of the nobles of the Western Wei Dynasty. They also have a habit of recording the life deeds of the owner of the tomb in the burial chamber, you come with me. ”
Zuo Qingcang followed the old man all the way, and he could see that the room was full of all kinds of bottles and cans, as well as statues, gold and silver, and other things.
The old man explained: "The owner of the tomb here is also a cultivator, so in addition to various utensils, there are also many materials used in cultivating Taoism in his funeral goods. ”
Zuo Qingcang nodded, his eyes suddenly looked at a crystal coffin, the coffin was inlaid into the wall vertically, Zuo Qingcang could clearly see that in the coffin was a dried corpse with a human head and a bird body, curled up with wings.
"It's called Uncle." The old man said: "During the Western Wei Dynasty, there was a habit for Taoist priests to bury themselves, that is, to make specimens of the monsters they defeated in front of them and bury them together. It is hoped that although they have no hope of ascending, after going down to the underworld, they will still be able to hug each other and follow all demons. ”
"The same is true of the Yin Girl you met earlier. Because the owner of this tomb is very remarkable, there are many funerary goods. ”
Zuo Qingcang continued to walk down, as if he had come to an exhibition center where monsters were dried up, there were giant pythons with human heads, centipedes the size of cars, tigers with three heads, and so on.
All of them had turned into dried corpses, but their faces were still hideous, and even if they were curled up in the crystal coffin, they gave people a terrifying, strange feeling, as if they would come back to life at any time.
Just walked around and took a look, Zuo Qingcang and the old man finally came to a mural. The frescoes cover hundreds of meters of walls, and the figures on the murals are lifelike, but due to the passage of time and the earthquake on the island, many of them have cracked and faded.
The old man pointed to a boy at the beginning of the mural and said, "This is the owner of the tomb." ”
The boy in the mural is wearing a bun and a Taoist robe, following an old Taoist priest and walking deep into the mountains. With the old man's previous explanation, this picture is very simple to understand, obviously the boy followed the old Taoist priest to the deep mountains to practice Taoism.
The next mural shows a young man sitting cross-legged on the top of a mountain, and the old man holding a book teaching him something.
The subsequent murals are all about the life of the man, and it is about him who went down the mountain after learning the Tao and was recruited into the hands of the royal family at that time. The man shined in the army with his amazing Taoist skills, defeated all kinds of monsters and alien races, and fought for the rulers of the time.
The mural is full of black, ribbon-like ribbons coming out of his body. No matter what kind of monster, warrior, or hostile Taoist priest, if you are rolled up by that black belt, you will be defeated.
Then you can see from the frescoes that all the defeated were tortured, their heads were cut off, their bodies chopped up, and pushed into a throne made of corpses, and the man sat cross-legged on the throne, covered with hundreds of black ribbons, flying like a magic grasp.
Then the style of painting changed, and the man appeared at the banquet, it seemed that because of his high merits, he was persecuted by the royal family. Several babies and women were executed, and the man in the mural showed a furious look, obviously the portrayal of this section was very fine, and Zuo Qingcang could even feel the resentment and fury revealed in the other party's eyes.
After that, the man escaped alone, but was chased by various powerful enemies along the way.
Although the man's strength is amazing, he was outnumbered after all and was captured by the royal family. But for some reason, the man was not executed. Instead, he was taken by a group of monks over the sea to this island.
They began to build a burial chamber on the island using Taoism, creating a fist-sized humanoid for construction, and a stone figure more than two meters tall to do the heavy work.
In the mural, the entire desert island has been built into a tomb that has never been seen before, and according to the mural, there are seven floors underground on the island.
When the man was still alive, he was bound with iron chains, and then sent alive into a sarcophagus and sealed.
At the end of the mural, a pitch-black coffin is sunk into the underground abyss, and countless ghosts and flames in the abyss surround the coffin, as if roaring excitedly.
After looking at the entire mural, Zuo Qingcang's brows furrowed, he looked at the old man and said, "Even if this is a tomb, then why can't we get out?" ”
"Don't you understand? This is not just a tomb, but a seal. The old man said eloquently: "The owner of this tomb is not an ordinary person, he is recorded in history. It should be the cultivator of the middle of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Mirage. ”
"Legend has it that the Mirage Sect was born to know, was brought into the deep mountains to cultivate for 20 years by the Taixuan Master of the Southern Holy Gate, after leaving the mountain, with an amazing Taoist skill, he quickly gained a firm foothold in the dynasty, he successively conquered the Bai clan, the Nine Bird clan and the Tengri clan for the court at that time."
The old man pointed to the man and tortured others, and finally used the corpse of his opponent to create a fresco of the throne.
"Legend has it that he has the power to communicate with the underworld and summon ghosts and gods to fight. At the end of every war, prisoners of war would be killed as a reward for the ghosts.
Because of this, it is said that he has the ability to communicate between the two worlds of yin and yang, and can be injured without dying, and can come back from the dead. Look here......"
The old man pointed to the mural where the Mirage had broken with the imperial court before and said, "You see, he has a sword and a dagger stuck in his body, but he still hasn't fallen. After that, there was fire and flooding, and it was not a fight between the two parties, but they simply wanted to kill the Mirage.
So it was not that the people at that time didn't want to kill the Mirage, but that they couldn't kill him. So they found this place and wanted to lock up the Mirage and seal it forever. ”
Zuo Qingcang was a little dissatisfied with what the old man said about killing him, but he didn't show it, but asked: "You mean to say that in order to lock up the Mirage Sect, there is a seal on this island, and everyone can't get out?" But isn't it strange to make this a cemetery for the sake of sealing? ”
"I didn't say that." The old man walked up to a mural, patted the wall and said, "They said it." "On top of the mural, several Taoists surround the island, each in a different pose.
"This is the Great Array called the Shifting Stars, and they used this Great Array to envelop the entire island. It makes it difficult for anyone to get close to it. As time passed, the effectiveness of the Great Array gradually diminished, which is why we came here unintentionally.
But compared to coming from the outside to the inside, it is more than a hundred times more difficult to go from inside the formation to outside the formation.
And this is the big array of the Southern Holy Gate, you look at these Daoists, the robes they wear are exactly the same as the old men before. They were the same disciples of the Mirage Sect, so they said that this place was built as a cemetery. ”
"How do you know that?" Zuo Qingcang was puzzled: "There is nothing written on this mural. ”
"Because I can also do Taoism. Learn more about the history of the monastics. The old man looked at Zuo Qingcang fixedly, and the latter suddenly felt a burning in his chest, and saw a small burnt black dot on the robe on his chest.
"This is called blinking an eye into a fire, and when you practice to the extreme, you can burn people to death with one look."
Zuo Qingcang's face was full of surprise, but looking at the focus on his chest, he could even feel a burst of warmth when he touched it with his hand.
"Is there really a Dao technique?"
When the old man said this, he sighed: "Compared with the masters who built this tomb and the mirage, it is the difference between cloud and mud. There is no difference between having and not having it. ”
"I'm afraid I won't be able to find a way out of here for the rest of my life." Speaking of this, the old man's face was lonely. Zuo Qingcang didn't speak, just looked around, as if looking for something on the mural.
Seeing that Zuo Qingcang had not spoken up, the old man pretended to be contemplative, and then said: "But to leave this tomb, in addition to cracking the Great Array of Shifting Stars and Changing Houses head-on, there is actually another way. ”
'Is the meat show finally here?' Zuo Qingcang narrowed his eyes and asked cooperatively, "Oh? I don't know what else to do? ”
"The big array covers the entire island, and there is no danger in the entire tomb, but outside the tomb, there are monster handles such as Yin Maiden and giant elephants, oh, the giant elephant is the huge stone man, what monster handles, as soon as we go out, we will be besieged.
And even if we get out of the tomb, it is impossible to leave the island, and under the influence of the Great Array, there are various whirlpools and rapids in the sea far from the island, and we cannot get out from the sea. The old man pointed to the ground and said, "Our only way out is underground, in the coffin of the mirage. ”
"But before you go there, you have to learn something."
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