The man took out a finger-thick white incense stick from his bosom and lit it, carefully sending the smoke in the direction of the sarcophagus.

After ordinary sandalwood is burned, the smoke dissipates very quickly. But the smoke from the white incense on the man's hand lingered for a long time, and it would gather into a ball. It looks like the clouds of a fairyland.

It didn't take long for the gray smoke to envelop the two sarcophagus. The man put the white incense on the slightly larger sarcophagus, took out a few talismans from his bosom and lit them, and after shaking them in each of the eight directions of the two sarcophagi, the man said, "Okay, you can come forward when the smoke is gone." ”

I knew that he wouldn't answer me if I asked him about his identity again, so I said in vain, "You just mentioned the Qiming coffin, what is the Qiming coffin?" ”

The man looked at me and said, "What do you think of when you mention the word 'enlightenment'?" ”

I didn't even think about it: "Qiu Qiming? ”

The man and Hu Zhouzhou threw a contemptuous look at me left and right. I coughed twice and said, "Daystar? ”

The man nodded. The morning star is also Venus. Because it appeared on the eastern horizon in the morning and in the afterglow of the setting sun at dusk, the ancients mistakenly thought it was two different stars. In the morning, it is called "Qiming", and at dusk it is called "Chang Gung". There are also people who call the morning star "too white" or "too platinum star". Venus sometimes shines in the east, sometimes hangs high in the western sky, in the eyes of the ancients, this star is both a metaphor for death and a symbol of resurrection.

"That's how the name Qiming coffin came from. The larger sarcophagus is the Qiming coffin, and the smaller one is the Chang Gung coffin. It is suitable for joint burial of husband and wife. This type of burial was only available to people of princely rank and above. The man didn't look at me, stared at the two sarcophagi and said slowly.

I pondered his words and said, "A metaphor for death and a symbol of resurrection?" Could it be that the coffin of Qiming can bring people back to life? ”

The man said, "When a person dies, he loses his soul and becomes a ghost." If the deceased's soul is buried in the coffin of enlightenment before it leaves, the three souls and seven spirits of the deceased will be preserved. ”

Hu Zhouzhou said: "The dead are all dead, why bother to protect the three souls and seven souls?" "I know he thinks of Jade Mirror. When the jade mirror was alive, it was out of the body, and the three souls and seven spirits were complete, but it was useless. Even the weakest geist can love to go wherever they want, and they have the ability to attack. The jade mirror is complete, but there is no way to even stay in the same place for thirty minutes. When he was in the tomb of Xiaoyang, he couldn't even play the basic role of scaring people. So, how could anyone voluntarily become such a useless thing?

Although the man was wearing a tight mask on his face, I could still see that his eyes were a little dazed when he looked at Qiming's coffin, as if he was thinking of something from the past.

He listened to Hu Zhouzhou's words and said, "What do you know? The three souls and seven spirits can preserve the memories of this life, and more importantly, they can directly take away and be reborn. ”

"Rebirth?" Hu Zhouzhou and I shouted out almost at the same time.

At this time, the gray smoke from the white incense had almost dissipated. The man said, "The poisonous gas of the soul incense has been neutralized. He walked to the Qiming coffin, reached out to touch the golden dragon outside the sarcophagus, and said: "Only Taoist masters have the ability to make Qiming coffins, and it is naturally not difficult for those masters to help the dead princes and princes." ”

I remembered another question, saying, "A complete soul cannot stay in the same place for a long time." Will the soul in Qiming's coffin wander around before the master is ready to take it away? ”

The man looked up at me, seemed to have a smile on his face, and said, "It's not like you don't know anything. There are many ways to help the soul stay, such as nailing the corpse with the Soul Gathering Spike, or placing the object in the space where the soul is located. As soon as he finished speaking, he pressed the golden dragon's dragon eye, and then broke the dragon's whiskers, only to hear the sound of "click", and the originally tightly sealed sarcophagus coffin lid revealed a gap.

The man pushed hard, and the lid of the coffin was pushed open halfway. Hu Zhouzhou was the first to come over to see what valuable burial goods were in the coffin. I also walked over and saw a corpse wrapped in layers of yellowed linen in the center of a pile of large and small burial goods.

I said, "Who is he?" ”

Hu Zhouzhou said: "Why is this guy wrapped like a mummy? He came from Egypt? ”

The man seemed to frown, and looked at us with some confusion: "You don't know whose tomb this is?" So why did you venture in? ”

Hu Zhouzhou said: "I came in after a group of refining ghosts. God knows if there will be a burial chamber underneath this university. Hu Zhouzhou looked at me and said, "By the way, Master, how did you get in?" ”

I remembered the situation just now when I couldn't stop my feet and fell into the big pit, I couldn't help but be embarrassed, and after thinking about it for three seconds, I decided to open my eyes and say nonsense: "That, cough cough, that, I chased the five monsters in." ”

The man said no more, and picked up a bronze sword in the sarcophagus to fiddle with the funerary goods. "No?" The man was a little impatient, and his fiddling movements became faster.

"What are you looking for?"

The man ignored me at all, reached out to touch the corpse's Heavenly Spirit Cover, and said to himself, "Sure enough, I didn't nail the Soul Gathering Nail." Liang Yan is the king of a country, how can he allow others to put a nail in his head? Definitely put that thing in. How could there not be? Could it be in the queen's coffin? He walked to the slightly smaller Chang Gung coffin and was about to open it, when Hu Zhouzhou suddenly pointed at me and shouted: "Hand! ”

"Hands? What hand? "I'm baffled. When I looked down, the shriveled hand from before was on my shoulder again! Wipe! I hurriedly grabbed a lighter and burned it. The withered hands retreated like the sea at a low tide.

I had just breathed a sigh of relief when I heard the sound of "bang-la-la" in all directions, and countless withered hands poured in from all directions. These withered hands are different from what I just saw, they are dark green! It looks like a bunch of severed hands that have been poisoned are crawling towards us!

A few withered hands quickly climbed up Hu Zhouzhou's legs and dragged him out. Hu Zhouzhou yelled: "What the is this? "I hurriedly handed the lighter out, but these dark green little hands are not only different in color from the previous withered hands, but even their abilities are also upgraded, they are not afraid of fire!

The man hurriedly walked over and said, "Only the new vine with the blue-eyed ghost hand is afraid of fire." This dark green is a hundred-year-old vine, and the fire can't stop them! He bit the tip of his tongue and spurted blood onto the bronze sword. Brush and brush" a few knives to cut off the withered hands on Hu Zhouzhou's body. The rest of the withered hands withdrew as if they knew the danger.