At this time, Qi Chengxuan hadn't taken a few steps when he heard a noise above and hurriedly turned around and ran back, catching the falling Bai Xue Sakura.

"What's the matter with you, what's wrong with you?" I saw that Bai Xueying's face was pale, obviously frightened.

Bai Xue Sakura breathed smoothly and her expression eased a lot. "There are ghosts! I just saw a ghost in red! ”

Qi Chengxuan patted her on the back and comforted: "It's normal to dream and meet ghosts!" ”

"It's not a dream, I really saw her, right there at the mouth of the cave!" Bai Xue Sakura didn't dare to look up anymore, and kept pointing to the hole just now.

Qi Chengxuan didn't see any female ghosts when he turned around, but the entrance to the cave was closed again.

"Bai Xue Ying, calm down for me and listen to me." Qi Chengxuan helped her off the ground and told her seriously, telling her about the causes and consequences of her being hit by the Nightmare Technique and the Soul Devouring Poison. Ahem, but he omitted the fact that Bai Xue Sakura was lying on the bamboo raft holding hands with him.

"So we're not dating, we're all here by Night Rose." Bai Xue Ying was a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, it was a dream, otherwise she really thought she had met a ghost.

"Then now that I know that this is just a scene I imagined, why are we still here?" Bai Xue Sakura was a little confused.

"Miyagi just said that I will help you get through the predicament, but he didn't say how to get out of the illusion. It should be that your body has not yet improved, or you need to find a suitable opportunity. Qi Chengxuan guessed.

"Let's go, let's find the exit first." Qi Chengxuan pulled her and continued to walk forward. As he walked, suddenly a flame ignited above the stone pillars of the wall, and at the same time, flames lit above the stone pillars in all the passages. The hearts of the two reflexively tightened suddenly.

"What is this place?" Bai Xue Sakura looked at the tall stone pillars carved with all kinds of rare and exotic beasts.

"This is supposed to be a palace underneath, we may have strayed into an ancient tomb." Qi Chengxuan said while looking at the reliefs on the stone pillars.

"Wow, that's amazing! It's so exciting! "Bai Xue Sakura is a little excited, this is her favorite adventure theme!

"Don't go too far, it's not like your little head came up with it." Qi Chengxuan complained.

"Come on, there's a mural here, come and see!" Qi Chengxuan pointed to the huge murals between their respective stone pillars.

Each mural is colorful, vivid and beautiful, and still tells the story of those historical moments after a millennium.

Judging from the clothing style of the figures in the tomb murals, the preliminary judgment should be from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Tang Dynasty.

"Look at this painting, is it Chi Gong and Qin Shubao of the Tang Dynasty?" Qi Chengxuan pointed to one of the murals and said.

I saw a mighty military general in a purple robe holding a pair of tile-faced gold maces, and another cyan robe was holding a bamboo steel whip in his hand. At this point they should be in a large courtyard, and it seems that a family gathering is being held. Several noble ladies were sitting upright, holding teacups, looking at the two with smiles. More than a dozen maids smiled at each other, and the male servants were cheering for their masters.

"Looking at the costumes of the characters on the murals, it should be from the early Tang Dynasty." Bai Xueying analyzed.

"It shouldn't be wrong, because in history, Wei Chi Jingde and Qin Qiong were married. This tomb is supposed to be related to these two families. ”

"Look here!" Bai Xue Ying pointed to a pond rock in the corner of the mural, where a thin and handsome young man in black sat and was secretly watching the lively scene here.

"This should be the descendant of the two generals, look at what he is wearing, the jade belt, especially his boots, are still inlaid with gold." Qi Chengxuan analyzed carefully.

"Then why didn't he stay with everyone?" Bai Xueying shined a flashlight on the black-clothed boy on the mural, and slowly he found that his face was very familiar.

Qi Chengxuan also stepped forward to check the black-clothed young man in the corner together.

"He gives me a feeling very much like an old photo that my master showed me, he looks very much like Jin Jue, no, his temperament is still like Miyagi." Bai Xueying thought for a long time and said to herself.

"What a mess, it's all in the ancient tomb~, and I'm still thinking about that golden peerless son and Japanese brother." Qi Chengxuan glanced at her and went to check on other murals.

The mural is nothing more than an expression of the relationship and family life of Wei Chi Jingde and his wife Xuxian, and there are also black-clothed young men in some pictures of worshipping Buddha. It is a miracle that these murals have survived thousands of years in good condition.

"This is his original wife, Mrs. Su Wei?" Bai Xue Ying questioned.

"You are stupid, you look at the noble lady in this painting, obviously much younger than Wei Chi Jingde, and his original wife Su Yu died at the age of about 24, and was later buried with him in Zhaoling. Su Yu only gave birth to a son for Yu Chi Jingde, which is Yu Chi Baolin. The other sons should have been born to this queen lady, and it is said that the surname is Meng, and there is no record of the surname in history. It is said that she loves cherry blossoms and pink, and you see that the expression of her here is basically wearing pink clothes, a proper fashion fan! "Qi Chengxuan has followed his mother to study the history of antiques since he was a child, and his skills are still good.

"Daystar, look here!" Bai Xueying pointed to the last mural, which was about the follow-up of Wei Chi Jingde, when Mrs. Eguo died in old age, there were imperial doctors and relatives in the bedroom. They all looked very sad. A young man in black knelt beside the bed crying in grief.

"Seeing the mural here, it is certain that it is the tomb of Yu Chi Jingde's follow-up Sakura Lady Meng." Qi Chengxuan was very sure of his judgment.

Bai Xue Ying didn't pay attention to his words, and kept looking up at the little boy in black in the mural.

"You don't even let go of the handsome guy in the mural, and you still want to see him alive!" Qi Chengxuan looked at her and began to complain again.

"Get out of the way, you know what!" Bai Xue Ying glared at her fiercely. I carefully studied each mural back and forth, but the mural gradually faded its original brightness with the continuous oxidation of the outside air. Only two or three murals have the description of the young man in black, and it is impossible to see what his identity is.

"Hey, do you know why Wei Chi Jingde and Qin Shubao were named door gods?"

"You can ask the point, my family has been in the antique business for generations, and I know all the official history and wild history."

"Don't be poor, say it quickly!" Bai Xueying wanted to laugh when she saw that he had regained his nature of being a hanger.

"I've heard two things. Qi Chengxuan rarely showed a look of being ugly.

"Now the folk New Year's custom of sticking the door god has a long history, and every household has pasted the portraits of Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde on their doors during the New Year.

It is rumored that during the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon King of Jinghe made a bet with a fortune diviner in order to make a bet with a fortune teller, which was a fragment in Journey to the West. As a result, this Jinghe Dragon King violated the rules of heaven and wanted to be beheaded by the heavenly court. The Jade Emperor appointed Wei Zheng as the supervisor of the beheading. In order to survive, the Dragon King of Jinghe pleaded with Tang Taizong.

Tang Taizong agreed, and when it was time to slay the dragon, he summoned Wei Zheng to play chess. Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng went down, took a nap, and his soul ascended to heaven and quickly beheaded the Dragon King. The Dragon King complained that Tang Taizong did not believe in his words, and called out outside the palace day and night to beg for his life.

After Tang Taizong informed the ministers, the generals Qin Shubao and Wei Chi Jingde asked the two to wear military uniforms and guard outside Taizong's dormitory. Taizong agreed. That night was fine.

Tang Taizong couldn't bear the hard work of the two generals, so he ordered Danqing to skillfully paint the true faces of the two generals and paste them on the door. After that, future generations followed, and as a result, these two generals became the gatekeepers of thousands of households. ”

"It's a little too deified." Bai Xue Sakura put away her backpack and walked deeper into the graveyard in front of her.

"Then let me tell you about this version, it is said that Emperor Taizong killed too much during the achievement of the imperial cause, and for a period of time he often had nightmares at night, hearing ghosts crying and wolf howling outside the bedroom, and the sound of killing continued, and he couldn't sleep peacefully every night. Tang Taizong told the ministers about this.

General Qin Qiong said: "He has been fighting horses all his life, killing countless enemies, I don't know how many corpses of soldiers he has received, and he has never been afraid of ghosts." He is willing to work with Jingde to be firm and stubborn, and guard the palace gate." Taizong readily agreed, and the palace gate was guarded by two generals that night, and he slept until dawn.

Although Li Shimin no longer has nightmares, the two generals are really hard to guard every night, and Li Shimin instructed the painter to draw the true faces of the two generals and paste them on the door. Replacing people with paintings is also the top thing, and the evil is self-contained.

So the people followed this method to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts, and Qin Shubao and Yu Chi Jingde became door gods. ”

"I've seen another method on Baidu." Bai Xue Sakura stopped and looked back at him mysteriously.

"Tell me about it." Qi Chengxuan took her backpack and took the lead to walk forward.

"At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang had no way, and the world was in chaos. In 617 AD, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, marched south from Taiyuan to defeat the Sui Dynasty. In Huoyi, Luzhou (now Huozhou City, Shanxi Province), Li Yuan led the Tang soldiers to fight with the Sui general Song Laosheng for more than a month, beheaded Song Laosheng, and then went straight to Chang'an to establish the Tang Dynasty. Another warlord, Liu Wuzhou, took advantage of the emptiness of Shanxi and occupied Li Yuan's Shanxi lair.

In the winter of 619 AD, Li Shimin was ordered by his father to lead his troops to attack Shanxi. After Li Shimin recovered Hedong and Pingyang, he went to Huoyi. Liu Wu Zhou ordered Marshal Song Jingang to defend Huoyi, and Song Jingang ordered the general Wei Chi Jingde to guard Baibi Pass and prevent Li Shimin from advancing north.

Li Shimin's generals Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde fought fiercely, and the two clashed many times, but it was still difficult to distinguish between them. Li Shimin loves talents and wants to subdue Wei Chi Jingde. Wei Chi Jingde said that as long as Liu Wuzhou did not die, he would not rebel. Li Shimin then came up with a way to kill a person who looked like Liu Wuzhou, and sent the head to Wei Chi Jingde. Wei Chi Jingde mistakenly thought it was true and submitted to Li Shimin.

Later, Li Shimin stayed overnight in Huoyi Yamen, and was awakened by two headless people in his dreams many times. Li Shimin pondered carefully, one of these two people was like Song Laosheng, a Sui general who was beheaded in Huoyi in 617 AD, and the other was like the person who was beheaded as Liu Wuzhou. These two headless ghosts harassed from time to time, making Li Shimin restless.

Li Shimin summoned Xu Maogong to ask for advice, and Xu Mao said fairly: "The lord killed this person who looks like Liu Wuzhou because he was eager to surrender General Jingde, and the lord can send General Jingde to guard the yamen at night, and maybe he can be peaceful." Li Shimin followed his words and asked Wei Chi Jingde to guard the door, and sure enough, the unjust soul like Liu Wuzhou no longer came to disturb, and the unjust soul like Song Laosheng still arrived. Li Shimin once again sought advice from Xu Maogong.

Xu Maogong said: "Although the minister heard that Song Laosheng was a Sui general, his loyalty and courage were commendable. I heard that Song Laosheng admired Second Brother Qin very much, and tried to send Second Brother Qin to guard the yamen at night, maybe he would be safe. Li Shimin sent Qin Qiong to guard the yamen at night according to his words, and sure enough, Song Laosheng's unjust soul did not come anymore.

This matter later spread to the people, and people posted portraits of Jingde and Qin Qiong on the door, so that the demons would not dare to enter. Since then, the two of them have become door gods, and they have become accustomed to each other.

As the saying goes, don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Li Shimin's dream ghost in the middle of the night has an inevitable connection with his killing of people who resemble Liu Wuzhou, and asking Wei Chi Jingde to be the door god is just to ask for psychological comfort. ”

"Hmm" Qi Chengxuan nodded in agreement. The two stopped in front of a huge stone gate. A large Buddha is carved in relief on the huge stone gate.

"This is the Great Wish Jizo King Bodhisattva." Qi Chengxuan could see it at a glance. Jizo is a bodhisattva in Buddhism with a deep will.

"Why did you carve the Jizo King Bodhisattva on the tomb door?" Bai Xue Sakura went up and touched the pattern on the door.

"Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha..."Qi Chengxuan muttered, his expression couldn't help but be a little sluggish. Isn't he struggling to find his mother?

"Maybe the owner of the tomb also feels that he is deeply sinful, and he hopes that the Jizo Bodhisattva, who crosses the ten worlds and all living beings, can also cross himself from the suffering of hell and be reborn in the Heavenly Dao." Bai Xueying sighed and slowly walked down the steps, intending to kneel in front of the stone mat in front of the stone gate, Qi Chengxuan also walked over and stayed behind her.

The Bodhisattvas of the Earth reside in the hells, not to control the beings in the hells, but to give them a glimmer of hope, to temper them, so that they can repent of their sins and finally get out of the sea of suffering. When we worship Jizo Bodhisattva, we are actually giving ourselves the opportunity to abandon our sins and change our ways to cultivate, so why can't we worship it?

Just as Bai Xue Sakura knelt down three times, the stone door slowly opened. The two couldn't help but look at each other in amazement.

Qi Chengxuan just wanted to go in, but Bai Xue Ying stopped him and reminded him to be careful that there was a mechanism in the tomb.

He nodded, and as soon as the two stepped into the tomb, the oil lamp in the tomb was instantly lit, and the tomb was brightly lit. The burial chamber is very clean, and it seems that it has not been disturbed for thousands of years. There are no patterns on the walls of the tomb, all of them are some Buddhist scripture texts, some are Sanskrit, and even the Taoist Tao Te Ching.

There is a huge sarcophagus that lies horizontally directly behind the burial chamber. It is carved with a delicate and detailed pattern of yin and yang five elements gossip.

"It's really all-encompassing, the ancient nobles were capricious!" Qi Chengxuan watched it with relish.

"Is this the coffin of the tomb owner?" Bai Xue Sakura curiously wanted to step forward and take a look.

"Generally, this sarcophagus like the one that appears in the novel has a mechanism!" Qi Chengxuan threatened behind her.

When Bai Xue Ying heard this, she immediately took her hand back. I'm afraid that the little hand will be gone in the next second!

"Find the exit quickly, the coffin of the tomb owner cannot be found so easily." Qi Chengxuan reminded her that leaving this ghost place was a big deal. Thinking about it, he took the flashlight and walked to the right side of the tomb.

Suddenly, the stone door that had just entered slowly closed, before the two of them could react. At this moment, a secret door slowly appeared in the corner of the tomb, and below the secret door was a stone staircase to the left.

"Is this the tomb owner prompting us to go down from here?" Bai Xue Sakura used a flashlight to shine a flashlight on the pitch-black staircase on the right.

"Let's go. Staying in this burial chamber is not a problem. Qi Chengxuan was the first to walk in through the right door. Bai Xue Sakura walked over and saw a green dragon carved on the first step of the side door.

The corridor is not wide or narrow enough for two people to enter, the walls on both sides are carved with the gods and Buddhas of the sky, all kinds of rare and exotic beasts, the top of the head is round arch, and the legendary countless ancient god tree Fusang is painted on the scene of connecting the heavens. Even the floor under his feet is carved with hibiscus flowers.

"Seeking immortality abounds in the world, how many people have become immortals?" Qi Chengxuan looked up at the top of his head and sighed.

Legend has it that in his later years, Wei Chi Jingde did not ask about the government and military affairs at all, and was obsessed with alchemy all day long, and even isolated himself from the world for more than ten years for alchemy. It is normal for his wife to also want to become an immortal. Bai Xue Ying explained.

Not long after walking, another huge stone gate appeared in front of the two of them, also embossed with a big Buddha.

"This is still the Great Wish Jizo King Bodhisattva!" Qi Chengxuan only glanced at him and said.

"It's weird!" Qi Chengxuan's mind went blank in an instant, and he didn't know how to think about it.

"Is this the stone gate we just entered?!" Bai Xue Sakura ran up and hurriedly checked, thinking that she was dazzled.

Qi Chengxuan also stepped forward, puzzled.

"Where are we going now?" Bai Xue Ying looked back and forth, except for the dark corridors on both sides of the stone gate, there was no other exit.

"Don't panic, you see there is also a corridor on the right side of the stone gate, let's go down and have a look." Qi Chengxuan stabilized his mind and looked to the right.

Because the corridor was very dark, the two of them groped forward with flashlights one after the other.

"Look here, it's beautiful!" It didn't take long for Bai Xue Ying to see a huge three-legged bird with wings flying on the wall around the corner, the whole body was red and lifelike, as if it could fly out of this tomb in the next second.

"What's all the fuss, drawing a bird only shows more that the owner of the tomb is a woman." Qi Chengxuan just wanted to leave the pitch-black corridor.

"It's art, I don't know how to appreciate it!" Bai Xue Sakura stepped forward and touched the pattern on it with her hand, and couldn't put it down.

"It's art, but I don't understand it, can I scratch your kitten's claws?" The two of them talked about each other, and the fact that they were silent in the illusion seemed to not exist.

So the two held hands, and saw the same stone gate appear in front of them. The two were dumbfounded. It was as if the Jizo King Bodhisattva above was not kind, staring at them with a mocking and strange expression.

"This is the first stone gate we have encountered." Qi Chengxuan confirmed.

"Are you sure?" Shirayuki Sakura carefully discerns her surroundings.

"Look!" Qi Chengxuan pointed to the round stone mat that Bai Xue Ying was kneeling on just now. The dust rubbed off by the knees on it is faintly recognizable.

"Let's go." Qi Chengxuan pulled Bai Xue Ying and continued to walk towards the right side of the road.

I don't know how long it took to walk, but soon after passing another corner, Bai Xueying saw a huge three-legged bird with wings flying on the wall on the left-hand side, all red and lifelike.

The two looked at the three-legged bird in front of them in horror, no longer feeling its beauty, as if it was full of ridicule. The two of them couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"Did we meet a ghost hitting the wall?" Bai Xueying pulled Qi Chengxuan and wanted to run back.

"Don't panic, the so-called "ghost hitting the wall" means that when walking at night or in the suburbs, you can't tell the direction, your self-perception is blurred, and you don't know where to go, so you always go in circles. Therefore, it is called "ghost hitting the wall", but in fact, this is a hazy state of human consciousness. There's a scientific basis for this, and besides, we're two people who wouldn't have encountered such a situation. Qi Chengxuan sat by the wall and analyzed.

"Is that the soul ladder that Hu Bayi said?" Bai Xue Ying interjected.

When Qi Chengxuan heard her say this, he couldn't help but glance at her with contempt.

Bai Xue Sakura immediately realized her mistake. "This one is even more unlikely. The Hanging Soul Ladder is called the Panlos Ladder, which is composed of twenty-three stone steps, and Hu Bayi said that it can only play its role under certain conditions. And what we encountered was more like a labyrinth. ”

"What's your better insight?" Bai Xue Ying looked at Qi Chengxuan and lowered her head in contemplation, and also sat beside him.

"What did you just say?" Qi Chengxuan looked up at her.

"I, I said you have no better way." Qi Chengxuan looked at himself so closely, Bai Xueying's heart couldn't help but beat faster, and her face began to turn red again.

"It's not this sentence, it's the end of the previous sentence."

"The last sentence? I'm talking about labyrinths..."Bai Xue Sakura didn't understand why he asked.

Qi Chengxuan nodded thoughtfully and said, "Did you bring your phone or watch?" ”

"Why are you bringing your phone, there's no signal here, and I'm wearing an electronic watch." Bai Xue Ying shook her wrist in front of Qi Chengxuan's eyes.

Qi Chengxuan took out Bai Xueying's backpack, opened it and flipped through it. There was not only nylon rope, but also pen and paper, and even a camera and two pieces of chalk.

Qi Chengxuan took out a pen and paper, handed it to Bai Xueying and asked, "When you met Shimen twice, did you find anything different, or something iconic?" ”

"From the outside, the buildings here are almost identical. Inside there is only one sarcophagus of the Five Elements Bagua diagram. By the way, when we entered the corridor from the secret door on the right side for the first time, the first stone slab seemed to be carved with the Oriental Green Dragon. Bai Xueying heard his analysis, and her head raced.

After Qi Chengxuan listened, he nodded and explained seriously: "You listen to me now, you pull one end of the nylon rope, now rely on the left side of the corridor to return to the last stone gate, in the end the designated position is safe, you pull the rope." After making a number 1 mark with chalk on the door. I will continue to walk down the right side of the corridor, and if nothing else, I will meet the other two stone gates and mark them before I can return to the No. 1 stone gate. It took us about 10 minutes to walk around the circle. When I go back to the first stone gate to meet, it should be more than twenty minutes. This proves that no matter how long you go here, it's an endless loop. If you encounter something strange or dangerous, immediately take refuge in the stone gate. ”

Bai Xue Ying never thought that she would be separated from Qi Chengxuan and act alone. Looking at him with big pitiful eyes.