There was no place to buy anything near the temple, so it took me almost an hour to get the gun and welding rod back. It was close to afternoon, and we hadn't had lunch yet, so on my way back to the temple, I bought some steamed buns and soy milk. So the three of us squatted at the door of the Luohan Hall like Hanako and gobbled it up, then got under the desk, lit the spray gun and started working.

And this work seems to be only possible to be completed by pine nuts, Qin Bukong and I have no work experience in this area, with the assistance of modern tools, things are much faster, and soon the pine nuts will be burned through again along the place where they were welded before, and then the base of the bronze statue is removed, and a statue of Arhat that has been preserved for thousands of years has been burned out of a big hole by us.

Matsuko shouted to us from under the desk, "Come in and see, there's something there." So Qin Bukong and I followed in, I squatted on the ground and looked at the light of the pine nut flashlight, and found that looking inside the bronze statue at our current oblique angle, we could see a boxy thing, wrapped in a piece of red silk cloth, judging from the shape of the red silk cloth, the thing wrapped in it was very similar in size to the three stone boxes we found earlier, but because it was covered, whether it was or not, we can only take it out, or we can only know if we drill into it.

And I had predicted that as long as we approached the stone box, there would definitely be some dangerous situations, which was really the meaning of the existence of each of the Seven Evil Passes. So as I crouched there and looked in, my nose asked about a long-standing smell of burnt eggs, a faint, but distinctly smelly, rotten egg. In addition to this, there is an even stranger smell in this smell, like the feeling of the corpse of some animal after it has died. This bronze statue is opened for the first time in a thousand years, and even if an animal gets into it when it is sealed, it is no longer possible to smell it, so this smell reminds us that danger is approaching.

My heart raced, I crouched down as low as I could, and then took the flashlight from Matsuko's hand, vigilantly guarding against it, and at the same time changing the angle to shine inward, trying to see the environment in the bronze body clearly. After some observation, I found that the environment inside was actually the same as I expected at first, a hollow place, that is, except for the base of the bronze statue, which was slightly thicker, the rest of the place was made according to the shape of the bronze statue, and I could look all the way to the top of the head of the Arhat from the bottom, and found that the other places were empty, even the orange and yellow of the bronze objects were still there, but they were not so strong for a long time.

I reached into my satchel and grabbed a handful of rice, spread it in the palm of my left hand, then pinched two fingers with my right hand, wrote a big purple micro word on the rice in the palm of my hand, and then spread out my left hand and rotated it three and a half times on the left and right, and then poured some in my right hand like a sprinkler, and then threw the rice up with my right hand, and the rice in my left hand was divided into seven parts, and I also lost it seven times. Under normal circumstances, if there were ghosts or anything that could be harmed by Zi Wei, then I would definitely see the kind of explosion without sparks when ghosts and other objects came into contact with the rice grains, as if corn would explode instantly after being heated, but when I finished throwing away the rice, I couldn't find anything other than the crisp sound of the rice grains falling on the bronze utensils.

I wondered for a while, then looked at Qin Bukong helplessly, and spread my hands. Qin Bukong asked me what was wrong, and I said that there was no response. Did he say you lost everything? What about the top of the bronze statue inside? I said I could lose it so high, and even if I did, I would have to put my upper body inside. Qin Bukong said, then you just go in, what are you waiting for? I said are you crazy, there's something in here, why don't you get in?

After some arguments, it turned out that it was fruitless. I obviously can't venture into the body of the bronze statue like this, and why should I go? We had to find another way, and when I thought of this, I took out my rattle from my bag, put it on the ground with my mouth down, and then took out a stack of money paper, and made some holes in the shape of copper coins, a thick stack, and then I took out three more incense sticks, lit them, and inserted them into the copper coins of the money paper, and then began to summon soldiers and horses.

My soldiers and horses have actually been used very little in actual combat since they started to break through the Seven Evil Barriers, because they are really no match for these ghosts, so why let them out and be damaged? Now there is no reaction from the rice grains that have been written in the book, but I can't be sure that the ghost is not here, so I have no choice but to let the soldiers and horses come out to explore the way. However, after lighting the incense of the terracotta and horses, the smoke bumped around under the already small desk for a while, and it seemed to have found the right direction, and it still drifted crookedly towards the opening of the bronze statue's base.

I thought I was going in the right direction this time, I just had to see the smoke drifting in which direction the statue was going, and even with a glance, I could tell exactly where the goblin was. But I don't know the bottom in my heart, because the three levels of ghosts and ghosts we encountered before this time are all ghosts that we can clearly see the entity, and now that I can't see it, it makes me panic. But when the incense of my terracotta wafted to the opening we opened, it seemed to hit an invisible layer of glass, and it spread out in all directions, turning into an umbrella. No matter how much I moved the Horse Incense, it always drifted towards one position and then crashed away.

Qin Bukong and Songzi saw all this, and they also knew that something was wrong with the situation, the soldiers and horses could not enter the Arhat's body, there were only two possibilities, the first was the majesty of the Arhats, and the five rampant soldiers and horses were evil things after all, so they could not enter. The second is that the ghosts occupying Luohan's body at this moment are too powerful, and even so powerful that they don't even give soldiers and horses a chance to enter. Considering that Guiyuan Temple has suffered from repeated catastrophes, the incense offering has been interrupted for a long time, and the war has been in chaos for thousands of years, and I don't know how long it stopped halfway, so whether this Arhat still has "majesty" is really up for debate, plus the box-like thing wrapped in red silk cloth, if it is really the stone box we are looking for, then it means that the purpose of the existence of this bronze statue itself is to preserve this box, and there is no spirituality at all.

So for now, the second possibility is the majority. This is a very dangerous sign for us, if it is really the second case, then since we have opened the opening, but the ghost refuses to come out, not only does not come out, but also hides and hides from us, judging from the power of its blocking of my soldiers, it must be a difficult guy to deal with, if it does not come out, if we do not go in, we will not be able to get that thing, and it seems to be competing with us to see who can wait longer.

Qin Bukong saw that there was no way to do this, so he squatted closer to us, looked down inside, and then Qin Bukong asked me, in addition to these useless things, what else did you bring in your bag? I said that there are also small wooden figures, iron scissors, master orders, etc., and the scimitar you gave me, etc., whose things do you say are useless? Qin Bukong ignored me, and then asked, Did you bring a gossip mirror?

I said I brought it, and I used it quite often. So I reached out and touched the gossip mirror from my satchel, and then handed it to Qin Bukong. After Qin Bukong took the Bagua Mirror, he pointed back and forth on the hexagram position, as if he was calculating something, and then he stayed on the Xun hexagram, which was when we discussed the Qisha Pass at the beginning before, and calculated the direction of the "魉" according to the Bagua direction, so he pointed the Bagua Mirror Xun Hexagram in his direction, and then stretched out his right hand and pinched the fingers, drew a cross on the concave mirror of the Bagua Mirror, and then wrote a word on the four openings of the fork.

Since he didn't have pen and ink, he was just writing falsely, and the pen was so fast that I couldn't understand what he was writing at all, and when I was studying with Master before, the Bagua Mirror had never been used in this way, so I didn't know what he was going to do. After Qin Bukong finished writing, he snatched the pine nut flashlight from my hand, I didn't exaggerate, I really grabbed it, and then said that the light pillar was aimed at the mirror surface of the gossip mirror, because it was a concave mirror, the light was reflected in a diffused form after it hit, and I only felt that my eyes suddenly lit up, making me close my eyes slightly. Then I saw Qin Bukong use the reflection of the gossip mirror to shine the light into the body of the bronze statue, and I understood his intentions.

It turned out that he wanted to find the traces of ghosts that we couldn't see on the gossip mirror that cast the spell, which was indeed a good way. So Matsuko and I squatted on the ground with him and looked up, but this time, I clearly saw that in the bronze statue's body, near the head and shoulders, there was a completely irregular black dot-shaped smoke-like thing, which was slowly flowing irregularly like ink dripping into the clear water, and it was also looming, hidden in the place where I couldn't drop the rice grains just now.

Maybe it's because this black guy doesn't have a fixed form, and when we see it, it actually starts to float towards a higher place, and then huddles together, and the area suddenly becomes smaller, as if it is hiding from the light shining from our gossip mirror. And I know that Qin Bukong's actions are definitely not just for us to see it, this kind of bagua mirror that has cast spells, any light reflected by it is lethal to ghosts, that is to say, when we shine on it, it should be injured, and then dodge violently.

But this guy is unhurried, as if he doesn't take us seriously at all.