Professor Sun sorted out the information collected today before the campfire, and on the other hand, he intermittently gave us the legend recorded on the inscription, the stone pillar under the Wuyang King's coffin was left by the water control in that year, the carved seal was extremely fine, the pattern is "light and heavy thunder pattern", the seal is "snail cicada ancient seal", and other idle people can't understand these strange snail seals like a book from heaven, but Professor Sun has been immersed in this way for decades, poured infinite effort, and has attained extraordinary attainments, which is not accessible to ordinary scholars and experts, and it is not a problem to read seven or eight percent.

I was secretly glad in my heart, if I hadn't dragged Sun Jiuye to Qingxi alive, with me and Shirley Yang and the fat man, even if I saw these ancient riddles, I had to treat them as invisible, and I didn't say much at the moment, and listened attentively to Professor Sun's story, the original hint of finding the entrance to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortals, in addition to hiding the secret of Qingwu Feng Shui, is really related to the ancient legends in the "Coffin Gorge".

In the early years, due to the unique topography of the Wushan Mountain Range, it was not benefited by the water diversion of the yin and yang fish, and the floods in this mountainous area were raging, and the floods and natural disasters continued year after year, and countless people and animals were swallowed by the flood every year, becoming the food of the fish in the river.

Just when the upper and lower hands were helpless, there was a hermit in the mountain, burly, full of beard, dressed in black robes, calling himself "King Wuling", with the skill of moving mountains, which could drive the Yin soldiers to dredge the river.

But he also put forward two conditions, one is that during the project of moving mountains and opening rivers, the place should be dedicated to wine, meat and rice, and when it is time to eat, the wine, meat and rice will be piled up at the entrance of the cave, and there is a big ding in front of the hole, and the people who deliver the food will sound three times in advance, and then hurry out of the mountain to avoid.

The second condition was to ask the Son of Heaven to be crowned an official in recognition of his merits, because of the huge project at that time, even if he was willing to pay for food and people, he could not do the act of moving mountains and guiding rivers.

So the king of Wuling did it all day long, driving the Yin soldiers and Yin generals to dredge the river. Since then, the mountain is gloomy every day, the sound of attacking the mountain and opening the stone is rolling like thunder, the local people feel its virtue, choose a woman surnamed Li, marry the king of Wuling as his wife, and then offer food for the Yin soldiers of Kaihe, all supervised by the lady herself.

The water control project was difficult and long, and one day it suddenly rained heavily. King Wuling commanded the Yin soldiers to cut down the river, and the wine and food sent were untouched for two consecutive days.

To the scene of the river felling, everyone is shocked, a big black pig in the canyon is in the water with its head arching the mountain, behind it is countless mountain ghosts and mandrills to carry the earth and stones, the original moving mountain Wuling King is the black sheep in the mountain, to show the original form to open the river with the power of ghosts and gods, so never let people into the mountain to meet.

King Wuling saw that the original form was recognized, and since then he hid in the mountain, and refused to open the river again, and was even more ashamed to meet his wife again, and his wife knelt in front of the mountain and begged to no avail, so he had to throw himself into the cliff and die, King Wuling felt ashamed of his wife, so he led the Yin soldiers to dredge the last section of the river, and completely cured the flood.

The court issued a heavy reward, and asked Wuling Zhenjun to deal with another section of the flooded river, and if he could collect all the credit, he should have a period of sealing the king. But King Wuling said that he would return to the deep gorge from now on, unless his wife was resurrected, he would never open the mountain, and on the day of farewell, there would be thousands of people to send him off.

King Wuling was drunk, mistakenly went to Xiling Mountain, showed his original form and fell asleep, but was captured by the local unaware mountain people, immediately tied tightly, burned the cauldron, and was a busy job of hair removal and bloodletting, and when his subordinates found the whereabouts of King Wuling of Yishan, the king's water has been cooked for a long time.

Then the local plague was great, and then the locusts came to the sky, and the people said that this is the ghost of the king of Wuling, so he built a big tomb in the gorge, collected his remaining corpses and buried them, but only a body of skin and flesh remained, the head was probably eaten, and it could not be found again, and the palace was built to sacrifice endlessly every year, and the jade body and copper head were worshipped.

The criss-crossing canyons of "Coffin Gorge" and the dangerous paths of bird roads all over the wall are the relics of the Wuling King who made the Yin soldiers open the river in those years, and the natives who died in the process of opening the river and controlling the water in the past dynasties were included in the hanging coffins, and with the flood gradually decreasing, they were buried on the cliffs layer by layer. Originally, it was unintentional, unexpectedly constituted a headless colossus, I am afraid it is also the harbinger of the death of King Wuling, and before King Wuling went out of the mountain, he had taken the Yin soldiers to dig the Wuyan vein in the mountain, the salt well mine cave in the "Coffin Gorge" is where its mausoleum is located, from the palace to the king's tomb, it is necessary to go through a period of "Hundred Steps Bird Road" to reach the entrance of the tomb.

Professor Sun told us this record as it was, and I suddenly realized: "It turns out that this passage left by the head of the Feng regiment back then, in fact, only the last sentence is useful, or this may be just the first paragraph, which means that the entrance to the ancient tomb of the Dixian may be hidden in the original tomb of the Wuyang King, so if you want to visit the Dixian, first look for the black sheep, and the legend of the Wuyang King opening the mountain and guiding the river is an important clue to find the king's tomb, but this is only the first step in finding the Dixian Village, and there should definitely be some hints next, which is unknown now." ”

Shirley Yang also had a lot of confusion about the legend of the "Black Sheep King", and asked Professor Sun: "This legend does not sound like historical facts, according to this, King Wuling should be a virtuous man who opened mountains and controlled waters, and made meritorious contributions to the people, but the corpse in the cave is so tyrannical, but it is very different from the deeds on the inscription, will there really be an ancient tomb of King Guangde in the coffin gorge?" ”

Professor Sun said: "The inscriptions engraved on the Zhongding stele are probably words of praise and virtue, and they cannot be trusted, but the remains of the ages are here, and people can't help but not believe that the tomb of King Wuling is hidden in the coffin gorge, but the real deeds may not be so." The legend of the black sheep king showing the original form of the mountain, there are many colors of god-making, so naturally it cannot be taken seriously. In addition, this matter is not recorded in various historical records, the witch culture is secret and ancient, and many things have been screened in the long river of history, and now it is impossible to verify.

The fat man interjected: "I see that the coffin gorge is so steep, it doesn't seem like the primitive labor force in ancient times can chisel through, it may be all the rhetoric of putting gold on his face, this king who has no brains, should be full of evil, but he is afraid that he will be upside down after death, so he finds someone to set up a monument and poke it in front of the tomb." But then again, no matter how tyrannical King Wuling was during his lifetime, he was made into pig's head meat and boiled and burned at the end of his life, which can be regarded as unpleasant retribution. ”

Professor Sun said: "There is some truth in this statement, according to my experience, King Wuling may not really be a black sheep, there are too many winds of overturning cases in ancient Chinese history, turning hands into clouds, covering hands for rain, everything is not easy to conclude in one word." I remember that there is a similar deeds of the princes in the historical materials, but it is not Wuling, but Longchuan, it is said that the king of Longshan was cruel by nature, poor and extravagant, but he dredged the river and cured the flood, he was a person who had merits and deeds that are difficult to evaluate, and when he died, he was dismembered by a random blade. His descendants were worried that someone would steal the royal tomb in order to retaliate against him, so he changed his name when he was buried, and used various means to cover people's eyes, as for the ruler of which region the King of Longshan was, now there are always different opinions, judging from the remains in the coffin gorge, I think the King of Longchuan is likely to be the King of Wuling. ”

Sun Jiuye usually doesn't dare to talk much at work, but in front of us naturally don't have to worry about making mistakes, so as soon as the conversation box opens, there is some control, and Pang Zheng Bo quotes endlessly, and then talks about the king of Longchuan, this person will be different from the astrological technique, in ancient times, it is inseparable from the magic of the river, if you don't understand the layout and pulse of the mountains and rivers, not only will you get twice the result with half the effort, but also the consequences will be endless......

I said to Professor Sun, "It doesn't matter if he is the King of Wuyang or the King of Longchuan, his tomb has been stolen for hundreds of years. Success or failure is empty, so we don't need to verify the merits and demerits in history, now we should first find a way to find that section of the hundred-step bird road, if the cave with a jade statue is really a place to sacrifice the tomb, according to the layout of the feng shui burial system, the entrance to the tomb must be in the direction behind the jade man, it will not be too difficult to find, what I am worried about is that the tomb is not over. ”

Professor Sun and Shirley Yang were also deeply worried, the hint left by the head of the Feng regiment was only the first paragraph, after finding the entrance to the ancient tomb of the Wuyang King, we had no reference at all, and when the time came, we could only take one step at a time, and no one knew how far away it was from the ancient tomb of Dixian Village. Everyone has been thinking for a long time, but they only say that the good luck is uncertain and the future is unpredictable.

Rest in the cave until the early hours of the morning, then shake up the spirit, continue to the end of the cave, to the cave to see, sure enough, it is through the mountain, this is another canyon of the "coffin gorge", although it is much more open than the hanging coffin area, but there is also another steep shape shì.

The peaks of the mountains are misty and misty, the vast sky is endless, the water at the bottom of the gorge is monstrous, the impact of the mountain cliff has formed an "A" shaped turn, and the upstream in the distance is a roaring waterfall mouth like thunder, the rapids "fall sharply" between the canyons, stir up the mist in the sky, just like a giant dragon with silver scales, volley down the clouds, drill into the depths of the canyon, hit the cliffs on both sides and split the sky.

I looked at the rapids at the bottom of the gorge a few times, although I was not afraid of heights, I also felt dizzy, and then looked at the cliff opposite, sure enough, there were many winding volley bird paths, like a huge spider web, embedded in the cliffs of thousands of people, lost intricately, for a while to see the eyes are dazzled.

Shirley Yang held the binoculars and looked at it for a while, and unconsciously hesitated: "There are hundreds of dangerous paths on the opposite side, in addition to many desperate roads, there are many caves at the end, how do you know which section of the Hundred Steps Bird Road refers to?" ”

I said don't worry, Sun Jiuye contributed a lot last night, otherwise how would he know the origin of the headless king? But the credit can't be taken by him alone, today let the comrades see the means of "touching the golden captain", I confirmed with Professor Sun again, is the original words of the head of the regiment "Bird road vertical and horizontal, one hundred steps and nine times"?

Professor Sun immediately vouched for his reputation, and this passage has been repeated in his mind for more than ten years, and he will definitely not be wrong.

I nodded secretly, I already knew the way in my heart, the key word of the sentence "Bird Road Vertical and Horizontal, One Hundred Steps and Nine Times" should be "nine", looking at the bird road on the opposite cliff, just like the trend of "dragons entwining the mountain", no matter who left the ancient ruins in this canyon, it is definitely not a random structure, maybe it is difficult for others to peek into this mystery, but this time the pattern of deferring stars and hexagrams, but it is just hitting the tip of the knife of the secret art of touching gold.

The tombs of the ancients, their parts or the whole, must be combined with the "nine" number, take the land is the meaning of "long-lasting", "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" of the "dragon hunting" has clouds: "The dragons entangle the river to do nine songs, and the songs are all nine loops; Nine times outside the nine turns, nine turns and nine times around the dragon tower; Ninety-nine circles and finally returns to one, and enters the Lingshan Mountain in twos and threes......"

The fat man said strangely: "Commander Hu, you are good at arithmetic, you can read ninety-nine eighty-one, but you have been nine for a long time, I didn't hear which way we should go?" ”

I explained, "When did you say ninety-nine-eighty-one? It's also 3972, let's call it the trick of finding the dragon into the potential, and the mystery of the gossip of the Nine Palaces is in it, if even a rough person like you can understand it, I might as well tear up this broken book from my family and throw it into the river. You see that the bird road on this mountain is as dense as a spider's web, in fact, there is only one road is true, as long as you go up from the bottom of the tenth, every third fork in the road turns a corner, after turning twice, every three poor roads and then turn, go down and do not go up, go left and do not go right, so repeated nine times, the hole you see can enter, it is estimated that there is the entrance to the tomb of the black sheep king. ”

Professor Sun found it even more strange. Out of work habits, he likes to exhaustively investigate everything, so he asked me: "Back then, Zhuge Liang almost trapped Lu Xun, the general of Eastern Wu, with the Eight Formations, as if he used the principle of the Five Elements Shengke, which has been lost for many years, how do you still know?" I heard Lao Chen say that your set of things was passed down by the elders in the family? What exactly do the elders in your family do? ”

I glanced at Shirley Yang and thought to myself that Shirley Yang's maternal grandfather was the leader of the mountain movers, how famous was he? Her grandfather is also a scholarly family, and he can handle it with anyone, even the godfather of her sister is the old Yuanliang in the "Honeycomb Mountain".

Why did my old Hu family go to my grandfather's generation, and they set up a stall to tell fortunes and promote feudal superstition? The consciousness is too low, I am embarrassed to say it, so I whispered in Professor Sun's ear: "My grandfather was a harrier who traveled across the mountains and seas back then, famous all over the world, and participated in the revolution relatively early, but he participated in the Xinhai Revolution. ”

On the way, Professor Sun asked Shirley Yang about the incision of the Mountain Scripture, and when he heard this, he praised him: "No wonder, if it weren't for the Green Forest family, it would be impossible to have such a genius." ”

I'm worried that Sun Jiuye will ask again, and quickly take the lead in looking for a dangerous path that can be walked down the mountain, between the two seemingly boundless cliffs, there are several iron-locked wooden bridges connected, walking on it people swaying with the bridge, the soles of their feet are rushing rivers, it is inevitable that it is thrilling, and it is difficult to turn back, and everyone has to go to the opposite side.

The canyon suddenly rises again, in the rain and fog, the surrounding scenery has become blurred, fortunately I saw the path before, found the entrance of the hanging mountain bird path, and went all the way according to the mantra of "looking for the dragon into the potential", this road was wet with rain, and it was almost better than shaving the head, one hundred steps and nine turns, and the people who walked behind could see the feet of the people in front of them on their heads.

I secretly recited the "Dragon Hunting Formula" and meandered all the way up between the dangerous cliffs, but I was worried that I would lead the wrong way, and I couldn't help but be distracted from time to time. As the saying goes, "it's easy to go up the mountain and hard to go down", go up to see the road in front of you, even the fat man can insist, but if you go down, what you see in your eyes is the deep gorge fog that makes people tremble, if you don't pay attention, you fall down, and even the corpse can't be fished back, but the bird road is up and down, a hundred turns and a thousand times, there is no certainty.

At the end of the bird's road that turned around in 100 steps and nine turns, a strange and unfathomable tunnel appeared on the mountain wall, and I climbed into it first, and the probe arm connected the other four people one by one, and then carefully watched the situation in the cave. The fog here is thick, breathing is not smooth, there are traces of the stone mother in the rock formation, which is completely different from the previous Qingxi air-raid shelter tunnel, it should be an ancient tunnel, I don't know where it leads.

I don't have any confidence in whether this road is correct, maybe just turned the wrong path on the cliff, I can't help but be in a trance, holding a wolf's eye flashlight and walking a few steps inside, I suddenly saw a tombstone standing next to it, a dead body sitting cross-legged in front of the monument, the face and clothes have been weathered, the skin and flesh have been dissolved, I don't know how long I have been dead, I hurriedly beckoned Sun Jiuye behind me to come over, let him see if this is the body of the head of the Feng regiment.

When Sun Jiuye saw the dried corpse, he immediately became a little excited, trembling and putting on a mask and gloves, holding the deceased's head up and looking at it carefully: "It's not like ...... Unlike ......, I remember that before absconding, Captain Feng was injured in the quarry and had several teeth knocked out. Wrong...... Come and see what this is? ”

We thought Professor Sun was talking about the "nameless dead corpse", and we were about to go to see it, but we heard Professor Sun say: "It's not a dry corpse, it's this tombstone, and it's really the road sign of Dixian Village." ”

I was in high spirits, and hurriedly carried the "nameless corpse" away with the fat man, only to see that the tombstone that was originally blocked by the dead corpse did not have the name of the deceased, but was engraved with five vigorous concave characters of "Guanshan Finger Mystery Fu", and there were several lines of small characters on both sides, I glanced at it, it was the hint of looking for the ancient tomb: "What a king, with a body and no head; If the lady doesn't come, the mountains won't open......"

I saw that the few hints on the remnant tablet were far more complete than what the head of the Feng regiment confided to Sun Jiuye back then, and I couldn't help but be moved: "It turns out that this hint about the secret of the entrance of Dixian Village is called Guanshan Finger Mystery Fu, and the next few sentences are......