Although Professor Sun does not know much about the phoenix gall dust beads, but after all, he has mastered a lot of ancient encrypted information, and has a deep study of historical archives, Professor Sun believes that the dust beads must be stored in zài, this artifact has extraordinary significance to the ancient monarchs, symbolizing power and prosperity, and different cultural backgrounds and geographical relations, so that the understanding of the dust beads is also different.

The stone box jade beast found in the coffin shop can be said to be from the ancient Dian Kingdom of Yunnan.

The Dian Kingdom was once three counties under the Qin Dynasty, and at the end of the Qin Dynasty, when the world was turbulent, this region was closed to the country, established itself as the king, and broke away from the central power, until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was re-pacified.

According to records, some people in the ancient Dian Kingdom believed in witch gods and evil arts, and these people who believed in evil gods, in order to avoid chaos, left the Dian Kingdom and moved to live in the deep mountains on the banks of the Lancang River. This kind of grass-headed son of heaven is innumerable in Chinese history, and the record of this sacrifice to the king in the history books is only a few words, and these jade beasts are the sacrificial vessels used by the king to hold witchcraft.

The six red jade beasts represent the six directions of east, south, west, north, heaven and earth, and each has its own name and function. When the king holds a sacrificial activity, he needs to take some hallucinogenic drugs to make his spirit reach the realm of unconscious, and at the same time, the six jade beasts are fixed on the six altars to produce a certain magnetic field, so that he can communicate with the evil god totem at the level of spiritual consciousness.

The jade beast used in the sacrifice of the king is much larger than the set under the coffin shop, and the set we found under the coffin shop should be used by wizards with a relatively high status in the country, as for how it fell into the hands of the old shopkeeper of the coffin shop, and how the old shopkeeper mastered these evil methods, it is hard to say, maybe he is a tomb robber, maybe he is a descendant of the wizards under the king.

As for these six red jade beasts, it is possible that the king of Xian has materialized the dust beads according to his own understanding, or has made some kind of extension of Cheng dù, and this king is likely to have seen the real cloud dust beads, and it is even possible that he is the last owner of the cloud dust beads, but there is no more information, so this kind of inference can only be made temporarily.

I listened to Professor Sun's analysis and felt that it was very reasonable, as long as there was still a chance, we would have to work very hard, but when I asked Professor Sun about where the tomb of the king was buried, Professor Sun didn't know at all. The tomb of the king is located in a remote area, and the king himself is proficient in foreign arts, the selected mausoleum site must be very secret, after so many years, the probability of finding it is very slim.

In addition, Professor Sun also instructed us not to rob the tomb, try to think of other ways, there are many ways to solve the problem, now that science is very developed, it is best to solve it by scientific and technological means, and do not be too obsessed with the dust beads. After all, the ancients had imperfect values and a deep understanding of nature, and the ancients would regard wind, rain, thunder and lightning as the manifestation of immortals, many of which were imagined out of thin air. And promised that as long as he found any new clues, he would notify us immediately, and I said to Professor Sun: "Don't worry, how can we go to rob the tomb, and even if we want to, we can't find it?" ”

Professor Sun nodded and said: "That's good, I hate tomb robbery the most in my life, although archaeology and tomb robbery have something in common, but tomb robbery is too strict about the destruction of cultural relics, and the country and the nation are ......."

I am most afraid of Professor Sun's preaching, he reminds me of the director of the Political and Educational Office in primary school, who went online at every turn, complicated simple events at every turn, and rose to a certain height that I could only look up to. As soon as I heard this kind of big truth, I felt uncomfortable. Professor Sun has basically already said all the information that he can tell us, and the rest will be all nonsense, so he thanked Professor Sun again and again, and got up with Shirley Yang to say goodbye, and asked for the photo of the jade beast when he left. Professor Sun did not return to the county guest house because he had to rush back to the stele shop to continue his work, and after we said goodbye, he went on his own.

I went back to the county guest house with Shirley Yang, and saw that the blind man was telling fortunes at the door, and the other party was a local woman, and the blind man said to the woman: "It's amazing, this grandmother was the queen mother of heaven, only because she was tired of living in heaven, so she was reincarnated in the earth, and went to the world to play for a while, and now it is time to go back to heaven, so I got this incurable disease, not more than three months, but I can hear the sound of fairy music in the sky, it is the time for you to drive back to the palace......"

The woman asked with a sad face, "Old fairy, you say that there is no cure for my disease?" But I can't bear the men of my family, I don't want to live with the Jade Emperor, I have no relationship with him. Besides, I have two babies at home. ”

The blind man looked very embarrassed, and said to the woman: "Niangniang, if you don't want to go back to the palace, it's not that there is no way, it's just that the old man ......."

The woman kept urging the blind man, and stuffed a ten-dollar bill into the blind man's hand, begging the blind man to find a way for himself to live another fifty or sixty years.

The blind man twisted the banknote with his hand, knowing that it was ten yuan, and immediately said: "Okay, the old man will let it go, and make accommodations with the Jade Emperor for you, anyway, one day in the sky and one year in the ground, let the Jade Emperor wait for you for three or two more months, and you will live in the mortal world for a few more decades." But this is bitter Jade Emperor, you don't know, he thinks you don't think about it, the last time I saw him, I found that I lost weight three times, and I didn't have the heart to deal with national affairs, looking forward to the stars and the moon every day, looking forward to your return. ”

I was worried that the blind man would be out of line, and that the woman's man would come back to make trouble again, and accuse him that it was light to provoke the feelings of husband and wife, so I beckoned the blind man to eat in the canteen. When the blind man saw that we were back, he hastily took the money and sent the woman away, and I took him with his bamboo stick and led him into the canteen.

We were ready to have lunch and then head back to Xi'an and then back to Beijing. I sat at a table with Shirley Yang and the blind man, Shirley Yang was so preoccupied that he couldn't eat anything, and I looked at the picture of the jade beast while eating.

At present, all the clues are broken, only these red jade beasts with eyeballs that resemble dust beads, it seems that the next step is to go to Yunnan to find the tomb of King Xian, if you are lucky, you can pour out the phoenix gall, and you can also find one or two related clues if you are not good.

But the most difficult thing is how to find this tomb of the king, I only know that it is probably in Yunnan, on the bank of the Lancang River. The Lancang River is long, so you can't turn over the ground and look for it from place to place, kilometer by kilometer.

Shirley Yang asked me, "Don't you often boast that you are proficient in dividing gold and calculating points?" Where is it difficult to get you in this small situation, you can find it when you go to the river and look up at the stars in the sky. That's what you say a lot. ”

I smiled bitterly and said: "My aunt, how can it be so simple, the gold and gold points can only be used in areas where there are no undulating earth veins." I went to Yunnan when I was fighting on the front line, and the mountainous plateaus accounted for more than 90 percent of the entire area of Yunnan. Yunnan has three major water systems, in addition to the Jinsha River, the Nu River, is the Lancang River, from north to south, through the whole province, and the terrain is complex and changeable, from the north in the Hengduan Mountains, the mountain range branches are too many to count, if we do not have a specific goal, even if there is a feng shui secret technique, I am afraid to find a hundred years can not be found. ”

Shirley Yang said to me, "It's so rare, why did you start saying such discouraged words, it seems that this time it is really difficult." ”

I said to Shirley Young: "I'm not discouraged, I think our current situation can be summed up as confidence is not sure, confidence is always enough, but now there is no certainty at all, and we can't do the needle in a haystack." We can go back to Beijing first, find everyone in total, and then find as much information as possible, even if we are 30% sure, it is better than 10% none. ”

The blind man suddenly interjected: "Two male mothers, listening to this, do you want to go to Yunnan to fight?" The old man advises you to die as soon as possible, thinking that when the old man and other people were relieved of the Ling, in order to plot this great wealth, they wanted to go to Yunnan to offer the king's fight, but they did not expect that the place was dangerous, and they broke six lives in vain. Looking back now, I still have palpitations in my heart. ”

The blind man's usual words, listening to my ears, were like a thunderclap in June, and I sprayed the blind man with the food in his mouth: "What did you just say? Have you been to Yunnan to find the tomb of King Xian? If you don't say anything, we'll throw you down and won't take you into Beijing. ”

The blind man wiped his face and said, "What kind of man is the old man, how can he speak falsely." The old man once poured the bucket of the King of Dian in Lijiashan in Yunnan, but it was a little late, and the Ming weapons in the bucket were all lost by the predecessors. In addition to a piece of human thigh bone in the tomb, only half of the map of the ancient Dian Kingdom made of human skin remained, but the handwriting was also blurred. The old man has always been a thief, and there is no reason not to take such ill-gotten gains, so he took the sheep out of the hand immediately. Later, in Suzhou, I invited a local craftsman who repaired ancient calligraphy and paintings, wiped it with ice vinegar 16 times, and finally made this human skin map as good as ever. ”

Shirley Yang said to the blind man: "King Xian led a group of people, separated from the Dian Kingdom, and migrated far away to the mountains to escape the world, how can there be a map of the tomb of the King of Dian in the tomb?" Don't lie to us. ”

The blind man said, "The old man has something to say. These two countries were originally one family, and it is said that the king chose a treasure of feng shui, and was buried there after his death, and that place had a very special environment, and it was never possible to be overturned. Think about the Tang Dynasty and Han Wu, what kind of heroes they are, they shocked the Quartet before their deaths, and after death, they were inevitably beaten upside down, and the corpses were trampled on. After the death of King Xian, his people fell apart, and some people wanted to return to their homeland, so they drew a map of the location of King Xian's tomb and presented it to the King of Dian, claiming that they could also choose this kind of good cave for the King of Dian. These things are recorded on the back of this human skin map, but presumably that kind of treasure cave was not selected later, otherwise how could the old man pour out this human skin map. ”

The blind man took out a bag of things from his bosom, and when he opened it, he was greeted by a leather ancient map, which had been restored, but was still very vague, and the mountains and rivers on the map were faintly recognizable.

The blind man said: "It's not the old man who bluffs the two of you, this old man has been with him for many years, and he never shows it on weekdays. However, the old man has a word of persuasion, you look at the worm valley in this picture, there is a blank space, there are many strange things there, it is really like a tiger's den in Longtan, let you have three heads and six arms, King Kong Arhat reincarnated, into the worm valley, and there is no return. ”

As he spoke, the blind man took off his dual blind mirror, and Shirley Yang and I looked at his face, and our hearts were chuckled, only to see that the blind man's eye sockets were deeply sunken, and from the inside out, they were full of dark red scars, like the withered meridians of an old tree growing out of the eye sockets. It turned out that the blind man's eyes had been gouged out, and even part of his eyelids were peeled off.

The blind man put on the blind glasses, sighed, and said to me and Shirley Yang: "After so many years, although the past is like a cloud of smoke, but it is still vivid, the last time I went to the inverted fight, the old man still remembers it clearly, what is shocking, that is shocking!" ”

I know that although the blind man usually talks without saying anything, he cheats and cheats on food and drink, but he said that the experience of stealing the tomb of the king back then will most likely not be fake, after all, not everyone knows these things, but the tomb of the king in the depths of the worm valley is not as powerful as the blind man said, and there are still places worth scrutinizing, I have never heard of any feng shui treasure points that can never be poured down.

But thinking of some of the information that Professor Sun told us, the king is secretive, reveres evil gods, and knows how to do magic, so it is not expected that he is an ordinary person. The coffin shopkeeper used human corpses to raise fish in order to prolong life, this method was handed down from the king thousands of years ago, which shows that the evil and viciousness of the king back then was not something that ordinary people could imagine.

Shirley Yang wanted to know more about the situation of the tomb of King Xian from the side, and told the blind man about the fact that we found a leaky tank under the coffin to contain human corpses and raise fish, and explained Professor Sun's inference, saying that it was probably an ancient evil art left over from King Xian in Yunnan.

The blind man snorted coldly when he heard this, twisted his goatee and said: "What is Professor Sun, Professor Sun, the more you teach, the thinner you become, and you have taught all the talents to be thin, and you must be an old horseman." What does that guy know, it is not an exaggeration for those who don't know, but if they don't know and pretend to know, they are misleading. ”

I asked the blind man, "What do you mean by that?" Isn't what Professor Sun said wrong? ”

The blind man said: "As far as the old man knows, the evil art of offering the king came from the southern Yidi, which first originated in present-day Burma, and is the oldest art of hemorrhage. Hemorrhoids, Gu poison, and head lowering are listed as the three major evil methods in southern Yunnan. Now that the hemorrhoid technique has been lost for a long time, Gu poison lowering is still used in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, Nanyang, Thailand, Laos (i.e., Laos) and other places, but it has long been in decline, and only some small methods remain. ”

I asked the blind man, "According to you, it turns out that the old shopkeeper of the coffin shop hangs the iron jar with iron chains and feeds the fish with dead corpses in it, which is a kind of hemorrhizome?" What's the point of him doing that? ”

The blind man smiled and said, "The old man is about to become your advisor now, so you can simply tell Sùer and the others to know." When the old man and six of his peers went to the mountains of Yunnan to go to the inverted bucket, for the sake of safety, they visited many places in advance, and learned more or less from the old people in some villages. The strange jar you are talking about is indeed a kind of scab technique, drowning the living in the jar, this must be a living person, it is useless to die before entering the water, the pattern on the jar is called the soul talisman, the legend can make people die, the soul remains in the flesh and blood, can not be freed, the end is extremely vicious. The small fish in the water swim into the hole in the tank and eat the dead flesh that is blistered, and the soul of the dead is eaten by the fish, and it doesn't take long for it to be gnawed into a clean white bone, and those fish who eat the flesh of the dead grow fast, they can grow to three feet in ten days, and the soup with this fish is delicious, and there is no more delicious food in the world than this fish soup......

I was eating, and the more I listened to it, the more disgusting I felt, so I had to put down my chopsticks and stop eating, and I said to the blind man, "This fresh fish soup tastes so good, you must have drunk it yourself, otherwise how would you know so clearly." ”

The blind man grinned: "The old man doesn't have that blessing, after drinking that fairy soup, where can he live for three days." After the fish in the tank is raised, it is no longer a fish, but it is called a scab, which is to use the unjustly killed undead as poison, killing people invisibly, drinking fish soup and being killed, there is no sign of poisoning in the whole body, and the face even maintains a trace of a smile when dying, as if it is reminiscing about the deliciousness of fresh fish soup. ”

Shirley Yang also frowned when he heard this: "It turns out that the legends of the coffin shop are all based on this evil art, and the black-hearted shopkeeper has this evil trick to harm people, as long as the coffin can't be sold, he will use the magic to kill people." Presumably, the king who knows this set of evil arts is not a good type. ”

The blind man said: "The shopkeeper of this coffin shop is a village man, although he knows this set of scabies, his methods are only scratching the surface, how can he be compared with the king of Xian." Therefore, the old man advises the two of you to dispel the idea of going to Yunnan as soon as possible. ”

Shirley Yang believed that the blind man was alarmist, and continued to ask the blind man: "Can you tell us about the process of you going to Yunnan to find the tomb of the king, if your words are valuable, I can consider asking Lao Hu to give you a Ming vessel." ”

When the blind man heard this, he immediately said, "How can the old man be a person who covets the Ming Weapon!" But it's rare to have this filial piety, the old man can't refuse people thousands of miles away, this is talking about the hatred of the year, alas, it's really troublesome not to find people, people are looking for troubles......"

When the blind man was in the city of Suzhou, the craftsman repaired the human skin map, and when he carefully verified, he learned that this was a map that recorded the location of the tomb of the king, and his heart was overjoyed. Before, the blind man even poured a few buckets, but there was no gain, after all, this king was a generation of monarchs of the ancient Dian Kingdom, although it was a small country in southern Xinjiang, the Ming utensils in his tomb should also be indispensable.

So the blind man summoned a few familiar unloading wrestlers, this group of tomb robbers encountered the tomb is a collective action, the means of robbing the tomb, whether it is touching the blonde mound or moving the mountain and unloading the mountain, is nothing more than this, horn blasting, using a shovel and hoe, or using explosives to destroy the mound and tomb wall, directly dig out the underground palace, this is the most stupid way.

Otherwise, it is "cut into the void", and the robbery hole is entered from under the tomb, which requires the tomb robber to start more accurately, and if the angle deviates slightly, it cannot be dug in.

In the early years, the blind people were digging tombs in the south, and they did not know the secret art of feng shui, so they could only find places recorded in county records, or those ancient tombs with stone tablets and remnants of sealed mounds. This time, with the human skin map as a clue, this group of people discussed and felt that this work might be a great wealth, so they decided to go out to dig the tomb of the king.

According to the analysis of the most experienced tomb robbers in this group, the scale of the tomb of the king will not be too large, because after all, their national strength is limited, according to the map of human skin, it should be a mausoleum built in a cave in a valley based on the naturally formed shape shì. At that time, the Dian country imitated the Han system, the king was buried in the tomb and there must be a bronze chariot and horse honor guard, the guard army hundred opera pottery figurines, two coffins and three coffins in the Xuangong Palace, the heavenly gate was set up, the Shinto was placed below, the six four were the eyes, there were one hundred single and eight beads hanging, and the six jade tripods were lined up all around, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, it can definitely be concluded that there must be a lot of good things in the tomb of the king.

Although the human skin map is old and some places are blurred, the location of the tomb of the king can still be identified. There is a tributary of the Lancang River called the Snake River, which is named because of its snake-like shape. The Snake River bypasses the Great Snow Mountain, which is known locally as Aiteng, and its official name is Shalong Mountain, with an altitude of more than 3,300 meters.

The snake river flows into the mountains and mountains, forming a valley, the terrain is extremely low, because this valley does not dissipate the mist all the year round, and there are many insects in the valley, so the valley is called the worm valley by the locals.

The worm valley is located in the deep mountains, inaccessible, after the big snow mountain, the front section of the mountains and rivers are beautiful and picturesque, you can often see groups of colorful butterflies, but the middle section often appears white miasma, all year round, the middle one is dead, people can not enter. There is a legend that these white miasma demon mist is the "cloud" of the town guard mausoleum set up by the king, surrounding the king's tomb, unless there is heavy rain in the mountains, so that the demon clouds are scattered, no one can enter. The blank white circle on the human skin map represents these demon fogs.

Further deeper, there is a huge waterfall, the water dragon in feng shui refers to the waterfall, the entrance of the tomb of the king, is at the dragon's eye of the water dragon. There is a detailed record on the back of the human skin map, saying that this cave eye was selected by the great witch under the king of Xian, and it was called "Water Dragon Halo". The misty water vapor that wraps around the heart of the cave forms a slightly damp circle, with its hazy halo ring of the sun and the moon, so the name halo, faintly slightly, as if it is like a Buddha, the rough look is tangible, the fine look is invisible, it is the place where the aura condenses and the spiritual light is revealed, cover it as the first good state, bury it in it, the anger does not leak, and the water ants do not invade.

The feng shui shape of the tomb of the king has a powerful point, that is, it can never be poured down, no one can enter, and this kind of self-confidence is afraid that there is no second person in the world. What the situation is like there, the blind can't say.

The blind man and his gang were obsessed with money at that time, although they knew that the tomb of King Xian was extremely difficult, they still decided to do it, hired a local Bai guide, ventured over the snow-capped mountains into the valley, waited by the worm valley for more than ten days, and finally caught up with the timing of a cloudy rolling, heavy rain and hail. The white clouds around were blown away by the mountain wind, and the blind man and the others were overjoyed, but when this opportunity came, they ran forward with their lives in order to rush through this death zone after the wind and rain. Unexpectedly, just halfway through, the wind and rain suddenly stopped, the clouds were blown away by the wind, the wind stopped, the sun was sprinkled down, and a faint white mist immediately rose around him.

The miasma in the valley grew very fast, and once it was inhaled into the human body, it would kill people immediately.

The blind man, relying on the skills he had practiced for a few young years when he was young, held his breath, spread his legs and ran out, and finally ran back, but his eyes were ruined by the poisonous miasma. Thanks to the Bai guide who was waiting for them at the mouth of the valley, he found the blind man who had fallen unconscious, and immediately took the opportunity to pull out the blind man's two eyeballs alive, so that the poisonous gas did not enter his heart, so that he survived.

Shirley Yang and I listened to the blind man's account and felt that the blind man's gang had lost their hands and folded in the Worm Valley because they lacked the necessary preparations, and as long as there were corresponding precautions, it would not be difficult to break through this poisonous gas. It is an exaggeration to say that there is no return after entering.

Shirley Yang said: "Such a thick miasma is very rare, it may be a special geographical environment, so that there is a special plant growing in the valley, the valley environment is closed, and there is some kind of chemical interaction with the air, wearing a gas mask, or using the corresponding medicine, you can not be affected by it, not necessarily some witch insect magic." ”

The blind man said: "No, don't underestimate the tomb of the king in the Worm Valley, this is only on the periphery, and no living person has entered it for many years." What is the world inside the miasma, you can see what is described on the back of this human skin map. ”

Shirley Yang unfolded the human skin map, watched with me, only to see a lot of words and pictures behind the map, around the king's tomb, there are four other burial pits, as well as a few close ministers to accompany the tomb, I can't imagine this little southern Xinjiang grass head Tianzi, the pomp is really not small.

There is a passage in which it is recorded that King Xian quoted Tianyi's description of his tomb before his death: Wang Yan 1, buried in the water dragon halo, the corpse ascended to immortality, the dragon halo is invisible, if it is not for the collapse of the sky, it is difficult for outsiders to break.

I said to myself, "If the sky doesn't fall, no one will ever enter the king's tomb?" Sky Collapse? Is it saying that a meteor has fallen from the sky? Or is it something else? Could it be that it is only possible to enter the tomb of the king at a certain time? ”

The blind man shook his head and said, "No, with the old man being so wise and wise, for so many years, he hasn't figured out what kind of dumb riddle this heavenly collapse refers to." It is expected that the king did not respect the royal way during his lifetime, believed in evil gods, and harmed many living beings, and his tomb will be robbed sooner or later, but it may not be timely, and it will be difficult to succeed. I'm afraid that King Xian also knew that although his king's tomb was hidden, he would still be targeted by the inverted bucket sooner or later, so he chose such a Jedi, not only is the valley sinister and abnormal, but there may be another powerful mechanism in the tomb. When the old man was young and vigorous, he only started with the great wealth that day, but he suffered a big loss, so he persuaded him to sacrifice the king's tomb and not go. ”

How can we have made up our minds, this trip to Yunnan is decided, and the details of this have to go to the snake river insect valley, see with your own eyes to know, only listen to the blind upper lip touch the lower lip to say, it is really unconvincing.

Shirley Yang bought the blind man's human skin map, and then we packed up our things and headed back to Beijing, and then we planned to meet the fat man, and then we went south to Yunnan together, and poured down the tomb of the king who had been built in the dragon's halo.

(The three of them went to Yunnan, all the way sinister and strange beyond common sense.) Whether the dust beads are really hidden in the tomb of the king of Xian, is it not a legend that the sky is shattering and the dragon halo is broken, what is the heavenly machine hidden in the picture mastered by Professor Sun...... the third part of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" "Yunnan Worm Valley" is about to be deciphered. ）