48. A possibility
Li Miao took a closer look, and there was a line of words engraved on the stone door, and after carefully identifying it, he could recognize it as "Tomb of General Maha".
It's a grave
The outer corridor and cave are only the perimeter of the tomb, and the inside of the stone gate is the real burial chamber.
The demonic energy and the aura came out of the door, and the door had been blasted through, and I didn't know what it looked like inside.
Generally speaking, there are many burial treasures in the graves of people with status and status.
If it is a mortal emperor and general, the funeral goods are mostly gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy, painting and antiques.
Cultivators don't care so much about the form, and the powerful magic weapon that accompanies them may not go into the earth together, but there will be some things that they used in their lives to accompany them in the grave after they die.
The word "general" in the "Tomb of General Maha" sounds a bit ambiguous, it seems to be a mortal, but it has a bit of an extraordinary monk's flavor.
Judging from the fluctuations of spiritual energy and demonic energy coming from inside the stone gate, I am afraid that the latter is more likely.
Li Miao took out his sword, came to the door, and cautiously slipped through the two-foot-wide gap.
It's all here, and it's not his style to go in and take a look.
Inside the stone gate is a spacious burial hallway, the ground is a little damp, covered with fluffy moss, and walking on it is slippery, and you can smell a faint fishy smell.
It is not difficult to imagine that when the water level of the river rises, it will overflow into this tomb and soak the entire tomb in the river.
Li Miao walked slowly.
Through the light emitted by the ever-bright lamp, you can see murals carved on both sides of the tomb, to the effect that a general wearing battle armor is holding a long-handled sword galloping on the battlefield and bravely killing the enemy.
The tomb is very deep, and there are many murals, and every step is a new one.
At first, the general in the painting was still fighting against some Terran enemies, some wearing rattan armor, some wearing chain mail, and some wearing cloth clothes.
But when Li Miao walked more than a dozen steps, the picture style changed abruptly, and the target of the fight with the general had become a vicious beast, and even a monster spitting water and fire spells.
The murals get so complex that it takes two or three to tell a story.
Behind the screen against the beast, the first youkai ambushed by the general is a dog demon.
Vicious dogs were as big as oxen, and they loved to eat young babies, and they killed many people. The general, wearing a flame token on his waist, was ordered to eliminate demons, and armed with a radiant long-handled war knife, fought fiercely against vicious dogs. In the end, the general cut off the head of the vicious dog with a knife, and held the head of the dog demon dripping blood high to calm the people's hearts.
Then there is the second monster, the python spirit.
The python hides in the mountains, disguised as a fallen tree, and is eaten and mutilated by a passing woodcutter. The general, wearing a flame token on his waist, was ordered to eliminate demons, wielding a long-handled war knife to fight the giant python in the mountains and forests. The python entangled the general and tried to kill him, but was torn in two pieces by the broadsword, and his body was cut in two places.
The third youkai is a giant crab.
Seeing the giant cancer on the mural, Li Miao immediately felt a sense of familiarity.
The giant crab is as large as a small house, and the first mural is a picture of the crab demon destroying a fishing boat and killing the fishermen.
The second depicts the general wearing a flame token on his waist and fighting with a long-handled sword.
In the third mural, the long-handled war knife breaks away from the general's hand and pierces through the gap in the carapace of the crab's tail, and the tip of the knife pierces through the crab's mouth, killing the crab.
"How can this giant crab be somewhat similar to the king of Hengjiang," Li Miao wondered.
The giant crab monster fighting with the general on the mural looks very similar to the blue crab monster he just met in the Cangyun River, with the same jagged back carapace, the same eight crab legs with barbs, and even the two pincers are just as huge and friendless, like a giant hammer that shakes the mountain.
If it weren't for the third mural showing that the Cancer monster had been slain by the general, he would almost have thought that the king of Yokoe he had encountered was the one in the mural.
With some confusion, Li Miao continued to move forward and looked at the next mural.
The fourth monster is a bat demon, the size is not very huge, but it is more ferocious than the three monsters in front, one after another sound waves tore the eardrums of the people, many people were directly shocked by the sharp sound waves and bleeding, and died of terror.
The general still wore a flame token on his waist to get rid of the demon, and fought a tragic battle with the bat demon, bleeding from the seven orifices of the victims, and the horse fell to the ground and died, paying a heavy price, and finally shot down the bat demon, and a knife entered from the back of the abdomen, splitting it in two.
Then there's the fifth youkai, a rhinoceros spirit as tall as a mountain.
Rhinos roam the land, destroying countless villages and towns.
Wearing the Flame Token as usual, the General came to stop the evil deeds of the Rhino Demon King, stepped on the void, and fought with it until the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, and the sky flowed with fire.
The long handle of the general's sword shattered, his armor shattered, and finally he performed a trick that had not appeared in the previous sets of murals, summoning a huge finger that fell from the sky, pierced the head of the rhinoceros spirit, and struck the mountain-tall demon king.
The giant finger that fell from the sky was terrifying, and the sky in the mural turned completely black, which had a sense of the anger of the heavens and the loss of color of the universe.
In this mural, the general seems to have been seriously injured, standing in front of the corpse of the rhinoceros demon king, there is a sense of heroic sadness.
But his fighting career was not over.
In the sixth group of murals, his opponent is a goshawk.
The eagle demon's wings covered the sky and the sun, and it was bigger than a town, just like the legendary golden-winged bird, which overturned the entire city with a single wing.
The general carried the flame token, held the sword with the broken handle, fought the eagle demon, and even used the shocking giant finger magic power again.
but
But it was invincible, and the blade of the war knife shattered a large piece, and the giant finger was annihilated in the air. The general himself, on the other hand, was pecked in the head by the eagle demon's huge pointed beak, and his head was shattered, turning into a headless corpse and falling from the sky.
This is the end of the mural.
This is the life of General Maha.
From a mortal general, conquer the world. to become a monk, face the monster, and finally die in battle. He fought a lot, won a lot of glory, and eventually paid with his life.
Vicious dogs, pythons, cancers, bats, rhinos, goshawks.
There are six youkai in total, each of which is much more powerful than the last. The last eagle demon was even stronger than imagined, and its wings fluttered, as if it was heavenly.
The general is undoubtedly very powerful, but he is still dwarfed by the eagle demon, and he can only die with hatred.
With the end of the mural, the tomb road also came to an end.
Li Miao raised the lantern and looked forward.
In front of it is a very large burial chamber, dozens of zhang high, three or four hundred zhang long and wide, and some places can not even shine with light, it is pitch black.
In the center of the burial chamber is a high platform with a coffin, presumably where the general rests.
Beneath the coffin platform is a large open space, surrounded by five round platforms.
The round platform is four small and one large, and the big one is empty, and there is nothing.
Two of the smaller ones were empty, and only the two closest to the doorway each had a huge piece of ice on them.
The round platform is one left and one right, and the Xuan Ice exudes a faint aura.
Frozen in the piece of ice on the round platform on the left was a grinning dog with bared teeth, and the neck of the vicious dog had obvious fractures, apparently having been killed.
On the round platform on the right is a python frozen in ice, and the python's seven-inch position has also been cut off, and the traces are very obvious.
The corpses of the two demons exuded a faint demonic aura, mixed with Xuan Bing's aura, forming a strange cycle, which seemed to have a strange effect that complemented each other.
Li Miao looked at the two pieces of Xuan Ice in front of him, and then looked at the other three empty round platforms, his heart was shocked, and cold sweat suddenly oozed from his palms.
He thought of a possibility
Since General Maha is buried here, the five round platforms around him are undoubtedly his burial objects.
Vicious dogs, pythons, cancers, bats, and the monsters killed by the general in the rhinoceros mural are exactly five
Moreover, four of these five yokai are small in size, and one is huge, which also coincides with the size of the round platform
Now three of the five round platforms are empty, and he has just met the blue crab demon "King Hengjiang" who looks very similar to the giant crab on the mural today, which made him subconsciously think of a terrible possibility.
That is, these youkai killed by the general have all been resurrected
The vicious dogs and pythons are still frozen in the ice, while the corpses of the crabs, bats, and rhinoceros are all gone, apparently resurrected and left the tomb
Li Miao wiped the cold sweat oozing from the corners of his forehead, and his heart was surging, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
He's also a person who's seen big scenes before, and he's even participated in super wars across several galaxies, but this is the first time he's seen a resurrection from the dead.
Although he was not yet completely sure that the king of Yokoe was the giant crab that Maha had killed, he was at least seventy percent sure that there was a connection between the two.
Fortunately, he came relatively late, and the three powerful monsters had already "resurrected" and left the tomb, otherwise if he collided, I am afraid he would have to confess here today.
Li Miao looked around again.
In addition to the five round tables and the high platform in which the coffin is placed in the middle, there are other things in the burial chamber.
Beneath the walls on either side near the doorway, there are rows of long weapon racks, the head of which is carved with a flame symbol, identical to the token brought by General Maha on the mural. There are all kinds of weapons on the weapon racks, including knives, guns, swords, halberds, spears, axes, whips, etc.
Take a closer look, there are also a line of small characters engraved on those weapon racks: Yanshen Army Maha Legion Battalion A, Yama Legion Battalion B, Yanshen Army Maha Legion Battalion C, etc., a total of ten weapon racks, which just correspond to the number of heavenly stems.
In addition, the weapons on each weapon rack also have flame symbols on them, as well as carved small characters, such as Xiao Tianzhi, the guard of the A-shaped battalion, Liang Lutong, the pioneer of the B-shaped battalion, and Zhuo Yijie, the crossbowman of the C-shaped battalion, etc., are all the names of soldiers, a total of more than 100 people, and should be the centurion of each battalion.
Li Miao took off the weapon of the "Xiao Tianzhi, the guard of the Jiazi Battalion", and took it in his hand to examine it.
It was a short sword with a blade of one and a half feet long and a handle half a foot long. The upper part of the hilt is engraved with small letters, and the bottom is a flame symbol, and the blade of the sword is cold and shiny, and it looks very sharp.
"It should be made of dark iron. Although it is not a magic weapon, the excellent material is no less than a magic weapon, and it has been put for I don't know how many years, but it is still so sharp. Li Miao was a little surprised.
You must know that even some magic weapons of low grade will slowly shed their aura after being idle for many years, become ordinary items, and gradually be corroded and weathered.
And these black iron swords have been placed here for a long time, and even sometimes the river rises, and they will be soaked in water, and they have not been corroded and rusted.
The quality of its materials and forging process far exceeds that of ordinary blacksmiths.
It's a pity that no matter how good a weapon is, it's just a funeral item after all, and it's not bad for mortals to use, but if you give it to him, it's a bit redundant.
Li Miao put the short sword of "Xiao Tianzhi" back into the weapon rack and walked to the side.
This "Flame God Army" seems to have a big background, and the quality of some of the funeral items alone is much better than that of secular weapons, and I am afraid that every piece that is really used on the battlefield is at the level of magic weapons.
He took a few steps to the side and saw some funerary goods such as calligraphy, paintings, and cloth.
These things are not as exquisite as weapons, and under the double corrosion of time and river, they have already become a mess of rotten things, falling messily everywhere, and even emitting bursts of unpleasant stench.
In the past, there were some armors, all kinds of styles, plate armor, chain mail, and chain mail were all made of dark iron, and the degree of corrosion was very slight, and the tough armor and rattan armor were greatly inferior, and they had already lost their original appearance.
Li Miao walked around the tomb and saw many things related to General Maha and funerary goods.
When he made a detour to the farthest point from the door, a large hole nearly ten zhang wide appeared in front of him.
It was a tunnel that had been drilled out of the chamber, so deep and deep that all you could see was yellow-brown earth and gray-brown rock, as well as some debris that had been carried out of the burial chamber by the rising river.
Apparently this tunnel was drilled out by the "resurrected" rhinoceros, and the bat demon and the cancer demon also left the tunnel nine times out of ten.
As for where the tunnel leads, it is unknown.
Li Miao hadn't finished reading the things in the tomb yet, and he didn't want to leave for the time being.
He turned around and walked towards the high platform in the center of the tomb.
Under the high platform are eighteen large steps, each five feet high, and the top floor is nine feet above the ground.
He leaped lightly, and in a short time he was on the top of the high platform.
On the high platform is the coffin of General Maha.
The coffin is large, two zhang long and one zhang wide, and inside are the sarcophagus, as well as some of the most important funerary goods.
The burial chamber had already been visited, and the coffin was open.
Strangely, however, the contents did not seem to have been taken.
Li Miao looked inside, and saw a set of worn-out red armor placed in the stone coffin, and the armor was covered with all kinds of gaps, cut by sharp blades, bitten by fierce beasts, and burned by flames.
There's also a patchwork long-handled sword.
The total length of the sword is about eight feet, and the handle and blade are half each. But now it had broken into many parts, and the handle was less than a foot and a half in length, and the end of the blade was broken into seven or eight pieces, and it was only about two feet long attached to the handle.
However, it is also a coincidence that after breaking the handle and breaking the blade, the middle part of the knife still maintains its original shape, but it is two sizes smaller, from the original "horse combat weapon" to a short "infantry combat weapon".