The first chapter, the stone nods, the jade life, the years have meritorious
Shenbing Pass is still majestic and majestic, guarding the pass of Zhongnan Mountain, as if thousands of troops and horses are not trying to capture it.
Pan Long passed through the pass and stepped into Tianwu County again.
When he first came to this ancient country, he felt that there was an unspeakable pressure between the mountains, which made him very uncomfortable. At that time, he suspected that someone was going to deal with him, and he suspected that it was something related to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, so in order to avoid trouble, he left in a hurry.
Now he already knew that the Tianxiong Dynasty had nothing to do with the Shan Hai Jing. The Classic of Mountains and Seas is the golden finger plug-in of the predecessor Zhao Sheng, which can be regarded as his "companion spiritual treasure" as described by literary and artistic points. And the time when Zhao Sheng traveled was at the end of the Warring States Period, more than a thousand years have passed since the fall of the Tianxiong Dynasty and the closure of Tianxiong Mountain.
So when he felt some pressure between the mountains again, he took out the paper windmill in a hurry.
The paper windmill rotates slowly, very slowly, very slowly.
"It doesn't seem to be risky, so it's good to go and see it. ”
He muttered to himself and walked in the direction the pressure had come from.
After walking for a short time, I arrived at the Yinghou Ancestral Hall.
This simple and luxurious ancestral hall fully reflects the aesthetics of the strong men of the Tianxiong Dynasty, and the beams and pillars are forcibly forged by gems with strong mana. But its value makes it even so, and people dare not underestimate it in the slightest.
A random pillar here is worth the construction cost of a city, and it is a real "priceless city" - if you can remove all these gems and restore them to the appearance when they were not refined, and take them to the Warring States Period to exchange for a few cities, there should be no problem.
For the powerhouses of the Tianxiong Dynasty, it doesn't matter whether it is beautiful or not, the materials are high-end, and they are the best.
It's like some despised Tubaozi diners, who don't care about deliciousness, let alone nutrition, and just want what they eat to be rare and precious enough to satisfy their extravagant pursuits.
There is a poem in Wen Chaogong's poetry collection, which satirizes someone who dreams of making a fortune, and he can't look at the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and he eats rare and protected animals if he wants to eat.
If this person travels to the Tianxiong Dynasty, he must have a common language with those strong men.
The premise is that as a "rare animal" traverser, he must first think about how he should escape the problem of being sent to the table by those monster powerhouses......
Pan Long walked in this small ancestral hall and felt an invisible pressure coming from the grove behind the ancestral hall.
He looked over there and frowned.
That forest is a cemetery.
The Yinghou Ancestral Hall was the family ancestral hall of a prince at the end of the Tianxiong Dynasty. The family of this prince did not perish, and during the Warring States Period, they cooperated with several other princes to divide one side and call themselves the Tenmu Kingdom. Later, the Tianwu Kingdom fell, and this prince surrendered to the new ruler, and then the Great Xia Dynasty was established, and they surrendered to the Great Xia Dynasty.
Today, the descendants of this prince are still canonized counts of the Great Xia Dynasty, named Yingwu Bo. Although there are not many special benefits other than this title, at least it can be regarded as a guarantee, which is much better than ordinary families.
Ying Wubo naturally did not live in Tianwu County - when Emperor Jiazi Zhao Sheng accepted their surrender, he transferred them to other places to prevent them from becoming local snakes. But people can go, but ancestral ancestral halls and family cemeteries can't go. Not only can you not go, but after the death of the descendants of the past generations, they have to travel thousands of miles here to be buried, paying attention to a "fox dies on the head of the hill, and the leaves fall back to the roots".
Ying Wubo moved the ancestral tablet and opened the ancestral hall for people to visit, in order to prove to the Great Xia Dynasty that he was loyal and reliable, and had no two hearts. But no matter how loyal and reliable he is, it is impossible for him to open the cemetery for people to visit, there is no such reason in the world!
The tablets of people's ancestors are all in the cemetery, do you want to visit?
Believe it or not, ten or eight wild innate masters jumped out, a group of punches and kicks, beating you like a second senior brother!
Pan Long looked at the direction of Yingwubo Cemetery, hesitated for a moment, turned around and left.
That night, he sneaked up and crept here.
The pressure has disappeared, and the figure hidden in the shadows obviously can't see through his stealth.
Pan Long nodded and cautiously walked into the cemetery.
The layout of the cemetery is also simple, with trees as a barrier, then a mausoleum of the ancestors, followed by the mausoleums of several important children and grandchildren, and finally a family tomb.
The tomb occupies an extremely large area, and there is a side door next to the tomb, which can be entered after opening the side door, and the hall inside is one floor at a time, which is used to place coffins.
This is also a common feature of large family cemeteries, those who have made a significant contribution to the family, can enjoy a separate tomb, but ordinary family children, can only have a coffin, and those who have also made little achievements of the elders and juniors, as if in a queue.
The Pan family also has such a cemetery, but in order to prevent attention, the Pan family cemetery only has that large tomb, and there is no separate tomb for outstanding people. In the tomb of the Pan family, the ancestors and ancestors did not lie in the coffin as corpses, but burned to ashes, urns, tablets, and stone slabs in front of the tablets that recorded their lives.
Of course, because of the limited space, the life recorded on the stone slab is relatively rough. Pan Long once looked at the past one by one when he was sacrificing his ancestors and cleaning up the tombs, and most people's lives were only a few words such as "a certain year, month, day, autumn hunting and a certain demon beast".
Of course, this is because their skills are limited, their lives are short, and there are not many things that can be recorded.
Among them, the ancestor who used the Classic of Mountains and Seas to make life-prolonging elixirs and cooperated with the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce to allow the Pan family to gain a firm foothold in the north. His life is recorded in more than a dozen lines, which is quite detailed.
In the history books, it can probably take up half a page.
Pan Long did not rashly break into the tomb, the tomb is the top priority of the family cemetery, even the Pan family has set up a broken dragon stone in the tomb, once an outsider breaks in, does not know the correct way to open and close the tomb door, the broken dragon stone will fall one after another, the entire tomb will be completely sealed, and then the air in the tomb will be burned out by the lit fish oil candle in a short time, and the intruder will naturally be suffocated inside.
This cemetery of the Yingwubo family is far superior to the Pan family in terms of scale and history, and I don't know how many mechanisms are ambushed in the tomb!
He walked carefully in the cemetery, his gaze slowly sweeping everywhere.
It doesn't look special, it's just ordinary trees, inscriptions, stone carvings, etc.
Compared with their own cemetery, there are more trees, more inscriptions, and some stone carvings that only princes and nobles can have.
Some of the stone carvings were of cattle and horses, some of which were pigs and sheep, some of which were soldiers and craftsmen, and some of which were servants and maidservants...... This is naturally also according to the rank, the stone carvings in front of the Mausoleum of the Son of Heaven are civil and military officials and all kinds of Rui beasts, and the front of the Mausoleum of the Princes can only be like this.
Pan Long looked at the stone carvings one by one, and his eyes suddenly stopped on one of the stone carvings.
The stone sculpture was a deer, blue mixed with black and white, and it looked lifelike. Judging from the color, it should be jade. It is polished to a very smooth finish, and the patterns on it are all natural patterns of jade, which is a rare treasure if it is sold outside.
But what Pan Long cares more about is the aura it contains.
That aura was extremely strong, but it was completely restrained, if it weren't for Pan Long's cultivation of the Nine Transformations Xuangong, he was extremely sensitive to the aura, and he wouldn't even be able to feel it.
Something with such an aura can't be an ordinary stone sculpture.
"What kind of treasure is it?" Pan Long walked in front of him, looked at it carefully for a while, and couldn't help but muttered to himself.
He was about to say something like "But even if it's a treasure, what does it have to do with me", when he saw the stone deer suddenly open his eyes.
"Huh?!"
Pan Long exclaimed, almost frightened to withdraw from the sneak.
But the stone deer reacted even more, it shook its body suddenly, jumped up, and jumped out at least two or three feet at once.
"Who? is talking!" it asked, opening its mouth, in a voice similar to that of a young woman.
Pan Long, of course, will not answer.
The stone deer asked several more questions, but there was no answer, so he shouted, "There is a ghost, help!", and ran away into the distance.
Pan Long followed curiously, only to see it run for a while, jump into the courtyard of a house, and shout: "Assaki, Assaki, there are ghosts!"
"Bright blue sky, brilliant white day, where the hell did you come from!" A somewhat neutral voice came from inside the room, "Well, it doesn't seem to be daytime, it's night...... There doesn't seem to be anything unreasonable about being haunted at night. ”
As he spoke, the door opened, and a white-haired woman walked out.
This woman is delicate, but she looks a little manly, both like a more masculine woman, and like a more feminine man - such a good-looking person, Pan Long has never seen it in his life, but he has seen it in his previous life, a famous anti-skewer star looks like this, he is a beautiful man when he is a man, and he is a beautiful girl when he is a woman.
The woman walked into the courtyard, first touched the head of the stone deer, rubbed it back and forth, and comforted: "Don't be afraid, we are monsters." Demons and monsters, our ranking is higher than that of ghosts. If you are afraid, the ghost is afraid of us. ”
This crooked reasoning persuaded Shi Lu, and it quickly calmed down, no longer trembling, nodded and said, "Aki, you're right, I'm a monster, and monsters aren't afraid of ghosts!"
But its courage was just like that, and then it asked pitifully, "What...... Aki, do ghosts eat monsters?"
"Ghosts are such things as resentment, and some of them devour flesh and souls, which is quite vicious. The white-haired woman named "Misaki" replied, "But neither you nor I have any flesh to devour them, and no matter how vicious it is, will it eat stones, or will it eat old bamboo chips?"
"It seems...... None of them look. ”
"That's right. As for devouring souls...... Whether the two of us have a soul or not, we have to put a question mark, what does it eat?"
This analysis made Shi Lu suddenly calm down, and said with a smile: "Since you don't eat me, then you won't be afraid." Aki, I haven't seen a ghost yet, so how about we go back and see?"
The white-haired woman smiled slightly, shook her head, and said, "Don't bother. ”
As she spoke, she turned her head to look in Pan Long's direction: "This brother, you can be invisible for so long, and your ability is really amazing." But you're so dignified, what are you doing to scare our Xiaoqing?"
Pan Long was taken aback, it was the first time he had been seen from a stealth state.
Since he didn't see through it, he stopped sneaking and showed his traces.
"When I visited the Yinghou Ancestral Hall, I vaguely felt that someone was watching me, so I went to the cemetery at night to look for people who watched me during the day. He said, "It's not that I'm deliberately trying to scare people, it's that this little young man has been watching me for some reason during the day, and he lured me over." ”
"I ...... I just feel an aura similar to Aki's......" Shilu whispered, "Aki is my good friend, and I feel an aura similar to hers, so of course I need to pay extra attention to it." ”
Pan Long frowned: "Similar aura? What is the similarity between me and this Misaki girl?"
Shi Lu looked at him cautiously, then turned his head to look at Aki next to him, and said very firmly: "That's right, you have a similar aura." And...... I've felt your breath before. ”
Pan Long asked, "When did you feel it before?"
"More than once, most recently, I think it was a few years ago. "But every time I feel the breath, the breath soon leaves." You're the first to come to the door. ”
Pan Long was a little puzzled, and looked at the "Assaki" again - he felt that he had no resemblance to the other party, how could he have a similar breath?
Suddenly, his heart moved, and he remembered what Aki had just said.
She called Shilu "Xiaoqing" "stone" and called herself "old bamboo".
The stone is nothing, the old bamboo slices make him can't help but think of something.
He raised his right hand and exposed the bracer that was transformed from the imitation of the Shan Hai Sutra: "The similar aura you feel, is it coming from here?"
Shi Lu looked at the bracers with some confusion, nodded twice, and shook his head again.
"Its aura is indeed similar to that of Aki, but ...... I always felt like there was something else......"
Pan Long was secretly worried in his heart, but he didn't show it, and said: "Of course it's different, this thing was originally a picture scroll, and later an elder helped me transform it into such a shape. Now that it has been transformed, the breath will naturally change. ”
Shi Lu was about to say something, but Misaki interrupted him, she said, "The person who comes is a guest, and a friend has come from afar, so we can't stand outside and talk like this." If you don't think it's a humble house, why don't you come in and sit down?"