Chapter 35: The Quest for Immortals
"I can't imagine that there is such a thing!" Professor Shen frowned slightly.
He took out a small vial, poured out some turbid liquid and sprinkled it towards the statue, a particularly strong smell emanated, and the thin snake immediately retracted.
"Look at these statues, are they slightly red?" Professor Shen pointed to several statues in the tomb.
"Teacher, you're really right." The young man said after taking a closer look.
"These statues are not hollow inside, they are filled with special medicine and flesh, and there are some blood snakes.
"When this tomb was first built, the young snakes of the Blood Serpent were sealed in stone statues along with the flesh and blood, and the flesh was fed to them."
"The eyes of this stone statue are the exit, and if someone is greedy for possessions, and takes off the jewel that seals the eyes, it will awaken the blood serpent in it."
"These blood snakes are extremely sensitive to the taste of flesh and blood, don't look at their small size, but they are highly poisonous, if they bite you, don't talk about people, it's just a cow, you can't walk a few steps and you will go down!"
Professor Shen told the origin of the blood snake.
"That's amazing!" The young man was horrified.
In other words, if you hadn't dragged yourself in time just now, your life would have been explained here!
"Teacher, this ancient tomb is too dangerous, I have explored several ancient tombs with you, and it is the first time I have encountered such a strange mechanism."
"This can only show that the owner of this tomb is very unusual." Professor Shen looked into the depths of the ancient tomb.
"Teacher, have you seen such a mechanism anywhere else?" The young man asked curiously.
"I've seen something like that." Professor Shen said, "Now I am more and more curious about the identity of the owner of this ancient tomb! ”
Walking through this burial chamber, they came to the second tomb door.
This is a whole huge stone gate, there are reliefs on the stone gate, there are the sun and the moon on the clouds, there are dragons and tigers on the left and right, and the mountains and rivers lie horizontally. On either side of the tomb door are two frescoes.
"Palm Lamp!" Professor Shen shouted softly.
The young man on the side hurriedly took out an electric lamp and turned it on, illuminating the contents of the mural.
The content of this mural is supposed to tell a story about the protagonist of the story, who travels all over the world and comes to a high mountain covered in rain and mist, with dense forests. On this high mountain, he saw a palace, and the master of the palace invited him into the palace as a guest and entertained him.
As he was leaving, the owner of the palace gave him a gift, like a book.
"This is an immortal map!" Professor Shen said softly.
"Seeking immortals? Teacher, the owner of this tomb wants to become an immortal? ”
"When you meet an immortal, you have to teach the method of cultivating immortals. This may be his dream, many people in ancient times had such a dream, and of course it may be his real experience. ”
"Real experience, teacher, do you mean that the person buried in this ancient tomb has met immortals?" The young man was taken aback.
"In the eyes of these ancients, if you meet some people who practice in Taoist temples or temples in the mountains, they will think that they are hermits outside the world." Professor Shen pointed to the mural.
"This palace in the mountains is very likely to be a Taoist temple, and this ethereal immortal person may be a Taoist priest practicing in the mountains."
"Teacher, look at what the Taoist priest is still holding in his hand, it seems to be a book, and there are small characters on it." The young man looked closely.
"Deng, Xian."
"What?" After hearing this, Professor Shen directly took the electric light in the young man's hand, and then took out a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully.
"Dengxian?"
He repeated these two words twice, and his arm holding the magnifying glass trembled slightly.
He turned to the second tomb gate.
"We have to open this tomb door as soon as possible, there are probably very precious treasures inside." Professor Shen was faintly excited.
After "Shenzhi Mountain", in the dense forest, a figure flickered, on the trees, on the rocks, and in the air.
Click, from time to time there is thunder shining, crisscrossing the mountains and forests, where the trees are scorched and the rocks are broken.
Wang Gan was alone in the forest chasing birds, and the fallen leaves fell from the trees with thunder and lightning.
With these days of uninterrupted practice and realization, these two techniques have become more and more proficient.
The figure kept flashing, and in a short time he had already crossed the mountains and mountains, came to the "Snake Valley", and then reached the cliff.
The little tree was still lush but had not yet borne fruit.
"Look deeper."
Wang Qian looked up at the mountain peaks more than a thousand meters high, his figure flashed, and where he passed, a gust of wind rose and the leaves swayed.
In the blink of an eye, he had swept out dozens of meters, and when he looked at the area from a distance, he saw a figure flickering in the air, and it didn't take long for him to reach the top of the mountain.
From above, the mountains and forests stretch in the distance, boundless, with peaks, valleys, and mist.
Wang Gan raised his eyes to look into the distance with the method of "looking at qi and looking at appearance", and saw a piece of vitality in the mountain, the breath was clear, and a piece of colorful light could be faintly seen in the distance, like smoke.
"Hey, there's a treasure deep in the jungle? Looking at this, it should be more precious than the spirit fruit on the small tree! Wang Gan's eyes lit up when he saw this.
Behind him, at the foot of "Shenzhi Mountain" in the distance, a car hurriedly drove into the mountain village and drove straight to the bottom of the mountain.
The driver was an obese young man, who got out of the car and hurriedly opened the back door and helped a person down.
The man was tightly covered, wearing a down jacket, a scarf clutch, sunglasses, and shivering.
"Brother Li, if you hold on for a while, we'll be there soon."
The fat man helped his friend up the hill, and they walked very slowly, and after a while, the young man wrapped in winter clothes had to stop and sit down to rest.
"How does it feel?"
"Ah, whew, cold, chills!"
At this time, Li Li felt extremely cold from the inside out, and this feeling was like standing in the cold wind of hunting in the middle of winter without clothes.
"It's good that you didn't go with me this time, otherwise even you would have been harmed!"
"Don't talk, it's almost there, the masters on the mountain should be able to do it!" He Yuan looked up at the top of the mountain.
The two of them stopped and went, and finally reached the mountain, where they were stopped outside by the earth dog.
When the earth dog saw Li Li, who was wrapped in winter clothes, he exploded all over his body and let out a low roar. It felt an aura in the man's body that made it very uneasy.
"What's that, Laifu, I've been here twice, and you also sent me gauze and Yunnan Baiyao when you kowtowed." He Yuan pointed to his forehead and said.
"I also brought you ham sausages, double gongs, pure lean meat, starch-free, barbecue-flavored." As he spoke, He Yuan took out a ham sausage from his bag, opened it and threw it to the earth dog, but he didn't expect it to even smell it.