Chapter XXII: The Tomb

Qing Jin searched carefully, but there was a stone platform in a karst cave, on which more than a dozen books were sparsely placed, and there were stone tables and stone benches, Qing Jin couldn't help but be a little surprised, and secretly thought: "This cave is so secret, the things in it are extraordinary, and there are martial arts secrets!"

Qing Jin pressed the restlessness in his heart, and took it to look through, there was a music score, a few Taoist collections, and some works of a hundred schools, all of which were ordinary books that could be bought in the outside world. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info There are no cheats in such a secret place, Qing Jin was puzzled in his heart, and after careful inspection, these books do not have a mezzanine.

Qing Jin was a little unwilling, remembering that there were some secret methods circulating in the rivers and lakes that could hide the handwriting. He picked up the book, and baked it carefully on the torch, the fire was red, and the pages of the book were orange, and finally gradually yellowed, and gradually blackened, and suddenly it caught fire, and Qingjin quickly closed the book, and extinguished the flames. I chose this book to give it a try, this time I was much more careful, and there was still no clue, and I changed a few books in a row, and Qingjin had to smile bitterly!

Helplessly, Qing Jin took out the water bladder again, and wet a few pages one by one, but still got nothing, and finally Qing Jin had to believe that these books were indeed ordinary books, and he estimated that he had read a lot of novels in his previous life, and there were so many adventures in the world!

Qing Jin continued to check, turned around for more than two hours, and found a lot of traces left by his predecessors, there were no major clues, and the new path and stone gate could not find clues. For a while, it made Qing Jin suspect in his heart that this might not be the exit of the ancient tomb, it was built by someone else, or maybe this was the end of the cave!

It's just that Qing Jin has a lot of doubts in his heart, according to his memories along the way and the location of the ancient tomb, he has indeed traveled to the vicinity of the ancient tomb now, not to mention that for no reason, who would build such an exquisite stone gate in such a secret place, and the things inside are as ordinary as living at home!

Judging from the things left behind, it also proves this, there were once people who read books, practiced martial arts, tasted tea, played chess, and played music in it. If this is not the entrance to the ancient tomb, there should be another secret room portal for people to live in. If you are the entrance to the tomb, you should be able to find the path to the tomb!

Qing Jin stayed in the cave for two days in a row, searching all the large and small karst caves connected to this big cave, but there was still no clue.

Qingjin slowly discovered a pattern. The fact that there seem to be the most traces left in the cave is in one place, and the farther away from there, the fewer it is, indicating that the secret chamber and portal are most likely to be built in that area.

Qing Jin searched carefully, and the most suspicious one was the cave with stone tables, stone benches, chessboards, and tea sets that Qing Jin first walked into.

Qing Jin carefully observed the stone wall, saw that there were no gaps, and after checking it, he still couldn't see any clues, but with the experience of opening the stone door at the beginning, he knew that the owner of this cave did have the ability to do it tightly, so that people could not distinguish it with the naked eye!

Qing Jin did not give up, guessing that if there was a portal here, it should not be designed like the kind of mechanism that requires deep internal force to open in the cave outside. Walking around the cave every day, it is impossible to put so much effort into setting up such a complex mechanism, not to mention those who have low martial arts skills who can't open it, how to enter and exit this cave. On the contrary, it is more likely to open the portal directly by pressing or rotating the center of the mechanism by hand, just like a normal mechanism!

Qing Jin picked up the tea set and checked it to see if there were any clues left, or if it could be embedded in the stone wall as a key, but naturally there was nothing to find. Moved the stone bench to check one by one, but there was still no clue.

Helplessly, the stone table was carved out of a piece of stone protruding from the ground, and it was one with the rock in the cave. A palm slapped on the chessboard of the stone table, but the chessboard did not move at all, Qing Jin was stunned, remembering that he seemed to have forgotten the chessboard!

Qing Jin used his hand to take the chessboard, and sure enough, there was something strange, the chessboard seemed to grow on the stone table, and he didn't move it! He showed a hint of joy on his face, squatted down and carefully looked at the chessboard, and sure enough, the edge and bottom of the chessboard were seriously worn. Qing Jin suddenly realized in his heart, clasped the chessboard with both hands, turned to the right, and did not move. As soon as he turned to the left, a piercing "click" sound came, the mechanism was activated, and the natural seamless stone wall slowly cracked open a portal! Qing Jin was happy in his heart, two days of hard work were not in vain, and the mystery of whether it was a secret room or an ancient tomb was about to be solved!

Qing Jin carried the burden, held a torch in his left hand, and a long sword in his right hand, entered the stone gate, and the manual excavation passage was only a few zhang away. Then enter a karst cave again, the road becomes narrow again, winding like a long snake, the stalactites on both sides are like axes and chisels sharpened, steep and abnormal, but a distance of one hundred and ten zhang. Qing Jin walked the tea kung fu, then encountered a stone gate, groped around for a while, grabbed a raised rock and turned, the stone door "clicked" open!

On the opposite side is a stone house, Qing Jin carefully observed, did not find danger, so he plunged in, the stone house is artificially excavated, he secretly calculated the path when he came, and then compared with the location of the ancient tomb, gradually connected together, determined that this is the ancient tomb.

It is unimaginable that the people of the ancient tomb can open up the underground karst cave as a passage and use it as the entrance to the ancient tomb. Maybe it's Yang Guo, Xiaolongnu, or maybe it's their descendant disciples, they can't stand every time they dive in and out of the ancient tomb, and they want to open an exit, but they accidentally dig a karst cave and explore deeper and deeper. Later, according to the terrain of the outside world, the path of the karst cave was calculated, and then several karst caves were opened, and this portal to the outside world was built!

Just looking at the dust on the ground, this stone house has obviously not been walked by for a long time, and it seems that there is really no one in the ancient tomb. How did the Tomb Sect break the inheritance, Qing Jin regretted it, but also brought a strong curiosity, maybe he could find the answer by entering it.

Walking through the two stone houses in a row, perhaps because he felt that the cave mechanism was safe enough, the stone door in the ancient tomb did not activate the mechanism. With a little effort, Qing Jin was able to push it open, and after passing a stone house, opening the stone door, it turned out to be a hall. It was empty, with stone tables and benches, and a little furniture!

Qing Jin checked carefully, and there was indeed no trace of people, although there was very little dust, it should be caused by a long time of uninhabited and poor air circulation!

When the green hall went around to the back hall, it was also empty, only two portraits were hung on the west wall, and incense was offered below, and a futon was set up!

Qing Jin raised the torch and looked at the two portraits in the west, one was two girls, one was twenty-five or sixteen years old, extremely beautiful, with beautiful eyebrows and sideburns, but there was a faint murderous aura in the corners of her eyes, looking at them in awe, and she was grooming in the mirror; the other was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old maid, holding a porcelain basin in her hand, waiting beside her, looking naïve and cute, full of childishness!

Qing Jin knew that the eldest woman was the patriarch of the Tomb Sect, the first generation of heroine Lin Chaoying, and that maid was the second generation head of the Tomb Sect and the master of Xiaolongnv!

Qing Jin looked at another painting, but it was a pair of beautiful people, the painting was more hazy, the man was dressed in a green robe, with a giant sword on his back, arrogant and natural, chic and uninhibited.

The woman was dressed in a soft veil of smoke, a white mopping smoke cage and a hundred water skirts, with a jasper dragon and phoenix hairpin obliquely inserted on her head, showing a bright wrist on the light yarn, her hands were like soft wattles, her fingers were like green onions, her mouth was like a pill, her skin was like clotted fat, she swept her eyebrows lightly, her waist was not full of a hand, and she smiled, touching her soul and soul, as if she didn't know the fireworks in the world. It's just that the complexion is snow-white, as if he doesn't see the light of day all day long, and his appearance is extremely beautiful and extremely cold!

The cold and peerless posture makes people dare not look directly, as if a glance makes people ashamed of themselves and blasphemes the fairy!

Qing Jin was stunned for a while, and only after a long time did he sigh lightly and said to himself: "After the end of Nanshan, the tomb of the living dead, the Condor Heroes, extinct rivers and lakes." A portrait has such a heavenly posture, I don't know how shocking the real person is, and the city and the country are overwhelmed!"

After a while, he thought: "The painting is so expressive, even the person who made this painting is not an extraordinary person." ”

Qing Jin raised the torch and illuminated the portrait on the east side, painting a middle-aged Taoist priest, very tall, with a long sword hanging from his waist, and his right finger pointing to the northeast corner, but his back was outward, and his face could not be seen. There are still a lot of spots and dry water marks on the painting!

Qing Jin knew that this was the true patriarch Wang Chongyang, and the ancient tomb sect had a rule that after entering to worship the patriarch Lin Chaoying, he had to spit on the portrait of Wang Chongyang!

Qingjin came out of the back hall, lit a few candles in the hall, ate some dry food, and breathed for a while. I continued to investigate in the ancient tomb, but this ancient tomb is really huge, the stone room is connected to the stone room, rough estimates, when there are hundreds of rooms, most of them are empty, there are many miscellaneous items for life, or weapons, or ordinary books, although it is quite old, but they are all very neat!

Qing Jin left a mark while walking, so as not to get lost, so as to walk and check, the ancient tomb does not distinguish day and night, Qing Jin walked and stopped, tired and meditated and rested, in his heart estimated, into the ancient tomb has been more than a day! It's just that everything I saw was some ordinary things, I saw a lot of books, I didn't find anything like a codex, and I couldn't tell why the ancient tomb was deserted! The entrance to the secret room engraved with the "Nine Yin True Scripture" was in the sarcophagus of the ancient tomb spirit room, and this spirit room was really secret, and it was difficult to find it for a while!

After exploring a stone room, Qing Jin pushed open the stone door, but saw that the square stone room in front of him was really weird, "narrow in front and wide in the back, trapezoidal, semicircular in the east, but triangular in the west!" Qing Jin suddenly felt a shock in his heart, and immediately overjoyed, raised the torch, and looked up at the top of the room. I saw that the stone slabs on the roof were carved with all kinds of patterns and symbols and handwriting, deep or shallow, all of which had been carved with sharp weapons, which looked very irregular, and profound and abnormal, and I couldn't leave my eyes for a while. Going back, a moment of anger welled up in Qing Jin's heart, and it was all destroyed.

For a moment, Qing Jin smiled helplessly, blaming himself for not being greedy enough. Although it is a pity that only the beginning part of those martial arts is left, it is a pity to destroy them, but it is a fluke that others destroy their own things, and they can understand one or two of them!

Qing Jin groped around the stone wall for a while, and suddenly reached out and pushed open a stone house. This stone house is symmetrical everywhere from the previous one, and it is the opposite everywhere, it is narrow at the back and wide at the front, and the west is round and the east corner!

Although he guessed, Qing Jin couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart. The origin of these two stone rooms is not trivial, one is the secret room of Wang Chongyang's martial arts practice, and the other is Lin Chaoying's secret room for martial arts training.

Lin Chaoying even created a martial art that restrained the Quanzhen School according to Wang Chongyang's legacy, and under his enlightenment! It was when Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu learned martial arts, and they also came here to learn the essence of martial arts.

It's just that why it was destroyed, Qingjin saw that the mystery left on the top was unpredictable. After watching it for a while, people are physically and mentally exhausted, and suddenly they understand in their hearts that if they want to understand the subtleties, they must have superb understanding and good martial arts skills. The above is a subtle realm, and if you fall into it, it is easy to go crazy. Yang Guo Xiaolongnu's posture is unhindered. Their descendants and disciples may not have this talent, and maybe some people will suffer because of it. Yang Guo Xiaolongnu has already comprehended the essence of it, integrated it into her own martial arts, and taught her disciples by words and deeds, isn't it more convenient than self-enlightenment. It's for fear that someone will secretly watch, and then suffer misfortune, it will be ruined, leaving only the first part of the superficial, even if someone understands, there is no danger of going mad, but this is all Qingjin speculation, as for the truth, I am afraid that no one in the world knows!