Chapter 12: The Tomb Opens

The sound of the trumpet blew away the not quiet night of Eagle Ridge Mountain, and the sound of the trumpet came from the Gate of Heaven to remind everyone that there was still an hour before everyone could enter the tomb. The major forces and the surrounding mountains and wilderness repairs are all ready to go. Those warriors who sleep well with the support of the great forces are all energetic and energetic, and many young children who participate in this kind of safari experience for the first time are even more eager to try, and have great ambitions to show off their skills and soar to the sky. And those who are lonely, most of them are also low-level martial artists, who have not slept all night, and their sleepy eyes are worried, but there is also excitement and anticipation that cannot be concealed under their tired faces. At this moment, no matter their origin and cultivation, whether they are rich or poor, rich or poor, what is boiling in everyone's hearts is the expectation of the unknown, the burning heat of the supreme treasure inheritance, and the persistence of the path of the strong, all of which also cover up their prediction of danger, and their reason is useless in the face of a sufficiently big temptation.

In this world, there are many blessed places for tombs and caves. Or the place where the ancient great power sat on the army to dissolve the world, or the place where the martial arts masters once practiced and attained, or the supreme supernatural power left behind the people who were destined to be passed on to future generations. These places have slightly different names in each era and region, and they are called burial ruins, cave blessed lands, or immortal mansions, etc., but they are all independent spaces that have been opened up with great magical powers. Among them, the four seasons change, the sun, moon and stars, wind, frost, rain and snow, and even the rotation of time and space can be determined according to the mind and supernatural powers of the creator. After the founders open up this kind of world, they will mostly hide it with their own supernatural powers, and if it is not explored by someone with a comparable cultivation, it will hardly be discovered. And if you cultivate to be equivalent to the cultivators of these spaces, you don't bother to explore and enter the relics left by others. Only when the prohibition set by the space pioneer is automatically lifted at some time, some clues will always be revealed for those who are destined to discover. If no one discovers them or enters them during this time, these secret realms will sleep in the world for thousands of years.

The tomb found in Eagle Spine Liangshan this time was unsealed by the ban set by its owner before March, and there is a special organization in the Heaven-Shaking Gate called "Secret Bee", which is specifically responsible for searching for various secret realms within the scope of Sanhuai Town. The reason why there are so many tombs and caves in Sanhuai Town comes from two unverifiable legends. The first is that in the past, the world was divided by princes and heroes, and a human emperor once led countless strong men under his command, and the whole world was united into one, and when the whole world was subservient to him, he was worried that many warriors who had followed him in the war were unwilling, and he was worried that one day he would be usurped by others. Therefore he gave a feast to all the strong men who fought with him on the battlefield, and during the feast he suddenly wept and wept, and when they were asked, he expressed his worries. All the strong people were dumbfounded, and they all got up and swore an oath with blood and wine, and they lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests in this life and were no longer born, and it is said that many strong people were in Sanhuai Town to practice until they were old. The second legend is that the human realm and the heavenly realm are connected, and the place where they are connected is called the gate of heaven. After mortals reach a certain realm through martial arts cultivation or other cultivation methods, the heavenly realm will have some sensibility, and the gate of heaven will be opened, and those who have attained the Tao can step into the gate of heaven and thus ascend to heaven in one step. But because every time the gate of heaven is opened, there will be heavenly immortals who have ascended from the gate of heaven to return to the world, either seeking revenge against the enemy, or helping the descendants of the family to sweep away all hostile forces, or directly acting as a blessing in the world, covering the sky with one hand. No matter what kind of behavior, it will stir up the miasma of smoke in the world, and there will be no peace. Later, there were strong people who were at the pinnacle of cultivation in the world, summoned the strong people in the world, strangled the heavenly immortals who remained in the world, and even destroyed the gate of heaven at the cost of their own lives when someone ascended to the Tao, so as to restore peace in the world. to abide by the rules of the world. It is rumored that the boundary of Sanhuai Town is where one of the eight ancient heavenly gates is located, so countless strong people have been seriously injured and fallen here. In order for the sake of their own inheritance, the strong are even more worried that the Heavenly Gate will not be destroyed, and hope that future generations of martial artists can go forward and succeed, so they will open up the world before the fall and leave their own lifelong inheritance. And the Shaking Heaven Gate will continue to explore the secret realm here, and it has really been harvested, so it operates today's industry here, and with the advent of more and more tombs and secret realms, the two legends of the past are not groundless in the eyes of many people, but it is a pity that the world has changed, and many ancient classics have been lost.

After the tomb here was discovered by the secret bee that day, because the people who went in to explore did not gain much, so the Heaven-Shaking Gate could not tell whether this was a place where the immortals buried their bones or a place of inheritance. According to the analysis of the forbidden fluctuations of the secret realm, this secret realm will be open for half a year, weighing all factors, the heaven-shaking gate decided to let the world enter the secret realm in three months to explore, therefore, there will be three days later, that is, the date of today's secret realm opening. According to the accounts of those who entered the secret realm, there was no day in the secret realm, only night, and there were three bright moons hanging in the sky, and the rest were almost the same as the outside world.

At that moment, another trumpet sounded like hot oil poured into a boiling soup, completely detonating the frenzy of those present. The crowd pushed and shoved towards the entrance of the secret realm. Those of great power entered the secret realm without hindrance, and the guards were not stupid enough to suspect that among these people wearing the emblems of the major families and forces would be those who fished in troubled waters. Subsequently, the entry of the people of small forces and the wild cultivators who had no background became very strict, and it took more than 1,000 people nearly half an hour to pass the inspection of the entry order and enter the secret realm one after another.

In the crowd, there was a middle-aged man with a sleek, yellow-faced man, wearing a somewhat shabby single clothes, with his hands on his sleeves, and he entered the secret realm with the flow of people without hurrying, his face did not have the enthusiasm and expectation of the people around him, but this kind of incompatibility was not noticed by anyone.

The middle-aged man passed through an invisible barrier, and at the moment of passing through, it seemed that something had penetrated into his body, wandering in his meridians and acupuncture points in his body, and finally disappeared. The middle-aged man smiled a little bitterly, this should be the prohibition of suppressing the cultivation of martial artists to the mud embryo realm in the rumored secret realm, and his original mud embryo realm will naturally not be affected in any way.

There are one hundred and eight acupuncture points in the human body, and the process of martial arts cultivation is also the process of opening up the acupuncture points of the body. There was once a sage surnamed Zha who divided the realm of martial artists in the world into what it is today, and he also standardized the opening of acupuncture points in the human body. Generally speaking, when entering the Lower Martial Realm, you need to open at least nine acupuncture points before you can enter the Zhongwu Realm, and you need to open at least twenty-seven acupuncture points to enter the Shangwu Realm in the Zhongwu Realm, and you need to open fifty-four points to enter the Xuanwu Realm in the Shangwu Realm. This is not to say that as long as the nine, twenty-seven, and fifty-four acupuncture points are opened, it can be regarded as entering the next great realm, but if a sufficient number of acupuncture points are not opened, the human body will not be able to withstand the impact of the corresponding realm's heaven and earth vitality on the body, the inner house, and the gods, and thus go mad, and the light ones will regress in cultivation, and the heavy ones will fall. On the contrary, if the more acupuncture points are opened, the more heaven and earth vitality the human body can carry. Its combat power is also more and more amazing, and one of the most important factors in the so-called "Soul Killing Divine Tour" is that the former has opened up far more acupuncture points than the latter. In addition, every time a martial artist opens up the nine acupuncture points in his body, he needs to refine at least one Yin and Yang Five Elements Wind and Thunder Thing according to his own characteristics to support the connection between the small world in the body and the external world, and the communication and operation of the inner world. The refined object is called a "Qiankun Thing" and can be any item that has one of the nine attributes of Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Wind and Thunder. The degree of refining is divided into initial refining, refining and refining. Martial artists are often more affinity with one or more of the above nine wins and losses according to their own physique, the exercises they practice, and the different martial arts they practice. Usually the martial artist will use the attributes that are affinity with themselves as the main Qiankun things for refining, and the attributes of the mutual birth as the auxiliary Qiankun things for refining, and if you want to achieve cultivation, you usually need to make up for the nine genera, so the remaining attribute things will be used as the Qiankun things for the initial refining, so as to ensure the perfection of the inner world and the smooth operation. Of course, there are also martial artists who are extremely talented or have a natural affinity for the nine genera, who will refine the nine attributes of Qiankun things, as well as many refining and initial refining auxiliary things.

It is not that the more things that are refined, the better, the quality of the things refined, the origin, the degree of preciousness and scarcity, and the degree of completeness are all factors that determine the cultivation and future development of martial artists. Just like a car drawn by five horses may not outrun a car pulled by two horses. Of course, the mutual restraint between the universe and things is also very crucial, and a mistake may lead to years of penance in vain. It's like four horses pulling the same cart and running in four different directions, and in the end either the horses die of exhaustion or the cart falls apart. Therefore, any martial artist who pursues his own future, especially the children of great forces, is extremely cautious in refining Qiankun things, and may spend years or even decades looking for Qiankun things that are suitable for them. When a warrior reaches a certain level, his lifespan will also increase, and old monsters that live to a few Jiazi or even longer abound. Therefore, time is sometimes the most scarce resource for a warrior, and if it stagnates in a realm and runs out of life, it can only end with hatred. But sometimes time is the least scarce thing for martial artists, and after reaching a certain realm, the long life span can support them to find the right thing for themselves, so as to exchange for a more paid life in the future. As the saying goes, sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters.

However, for those who have not taken refuge in the big forces, especially those who have not taken refuge in the mountains, without strong human and financial support, it is difficult for them to find things that are in excellent condition and suitable for themselves. Therefore, many people will settle for the next best thing and choose to refine some things of average quality as their own things, which is why Ye Xiu rarely has amazing and brilliant masters come out. Even if there is a talented cultivation embryo, it will stump the hero for a penny and eventually disappear from everyone.

In the lower martial realm where martial artists cultivate, mud embryos, ying bones, and heavenly milk are all based on body refining. It's like building a container, only the bigger and stronger the container is cast, the more abundant the heaven and earth vitality that can be carried in the future. These three realms can be said to be the foundation and key to determining the level of martial artists' future achievements. The so-called clay embryo means that, like when burning porcelain, the clay should be beaten repeatedly to make it tough. And the warriors in this realm are also repeatedly boiling their own skin and flesh, from loose and soft clay to tough mud tires that can be molded. The cultivation of the Ying Bone Realm is the human muscles and bones, so that the bones are tight and hard, in order to better protect the human internal organs and the internal world, and the bones of those who have cultivated to the extreme are crystal clear and warm like jade, hence the name. The Heavenly Milk Realm is to initially feel the vitality of heaven and earth, temper the body with vitality, and remove the impurities and filth deposited by the human body due to the consumption of grains and grains, just like a baby who has been breastfed by the heavens, spotless, and the human body at this time can be used as a container to truly accept and store the vitality of heaven and earth, and the small world in the human body is built in this realm. Because in these three realms, martial artists are not allowed to use their vitality, so there is no great difference in the combat power of martial artists in the lower martial realm. In addition to competing for the strength of the body, it is more about their own experience, experience, mind and the number of means to save their lives. And many determined genius martial arts cultivators will try their best to open up more acupuncture points in these three realms to lay a solid foundation for the future.

And the middle-aged man with a sallow complexion used to be a person who had reached the middle martial realm, but because of his injury, his meridians withered, and the small world in his body turned into a scorched earth ruin, and the Qiankun things that had been refined and the acupuncture points in his body that had been opened up were almost all shattered and blocked. At this moment, it was as if there was a fire and an earthquake everywhere in the man's body, and there were scenes of burning and collapse everywhere. At this time, the man is no different from a wasted man, but the reason why he claims to be a mud embryo realm is because the acupoints on his right hand and right arm are still intact, and half of the acupoints in his heart have been destroyed, and the middle-aged man doesn't know whether to be happy or scolded.

Through the invisible barrier, the middle-aged man was a little dizzy, as if he was being dragged by someone with his feet and head down for a stick of incense in the air. He forcibly suppressed the churning of his internal organs and the discomfort of wanting to vomit. The middle-aged man pressed his temples with both hands, trying to wake up his head from the vertigo as quickly as possible.

The middle-aged man looked around and saw that he was in a valley. There is a lake in the valley, and the clear water of the lake is reflecting the three moons. There are some flowers and plants growing on the shore of the lake, but because they are far away, it is impossible to distinguish what kind of species they are. The valley is surrounded by rolling hills, and although there are three moons in the sky, the heavy mountains are in layers of black shadows under the night, and it is impossible to tell whether there is a way out of the ambush. There was no one around, and the middle-aged man was thinking that it would be better to spend the night in the valley and wait for tomorrow dawn to find the way out of the valley. After thinking about it, the middle-aged man walked towards the lake, but he didn't take a few steps, and the middle-aged man scolded himself for being stupid, when will there be daylight in this place? There are some reeds and some purple wildflowers that are not too tall by the lake, the middle-aged man squatted down to identify it, it is not any strange flowers and plants, then he shook his head in disappointment, and then scolded himself for being stupid, if it is really so easy to have an adventure here, how can the people who shake the heavens give up the good things that come in here to find opportunities.

The middle-aged man squatted by the lake, looking at his yellow and sickly face in the lake, he couldn't help but speak, and nodded proudly. He took off his clothes and jumped into the lake, the water was cold but not biting, he was a very particular and clean person, but this trip, he had not taken a bath in ten days. The middle-aged man soaked in the lake for a long time, and then lay flat on the lake and looked up at the night sky. There are no stars in the sky, only three moons, in a zigzag shape. The moonlight was as bright as the moon under his roof. The middle-aged man stared intently at one of the bright moons, and seemed to see the shadow of a laurel tree faintly on the moon. The middle-aged man lay down for a long time before returning to the shore. He didn't wear his original clothes, but took out a clean yellow shirt from a red jade peach talisman and put it on his body. The yellow shirt was still made of ordinary material, but it was very neat, not as sloppy as the single clothes he had worn before. The middle-aged man took out the water and a pig's trotter from the peach mustard seeds, and feasted on it, there was no one else here, and he couldn't pretend anymore.

The middle-aged man was eating fragrantly, and suddenly heard footsteps and talking in the distance approaching here. He frowned, and while unwillingly speeding up and gnawing on the meat on the pig's trotters, he picked up the old clothes on the ground, looked at them privately, pulled out the longest reed pipe as far as his eyes could see, and walked gently into the lake, not too far from the shore, and submerged his head in the water not too far from the shore, with a reed in his mouth and the other end at the level of the water. Not long after the middle-aged man dived into the water, a group of five people, three men and two women, appeared in the valley, not far from where the middle-aged man had been.