Holy Bone

Chapter 235 Bronze Round Belly Tripod and Secrets (6k chapter, please subscribe for monthly ticket)
in fact.

There is no need for Jin An to say it.

Quite a few people have already recognized that the lower half of the dead man belonged to the ferryman from the underworld.

For example, the captain who has the most dealings with the ferrymen from the underworld.

Another example is cutting the sword.

It's just that Qi Jian was in a daze, and never said unnecessary words.

"The old monk who is the ferryman from the underworld also has some impressions. After Taoist Jin'an reminded him, I also feel that the clothes of this dead body are indeed similar to that of the ferryman from the underworld."

At this time, the abbot of Bailong Temple also nodded and approached, agreeing with Jin An's statement.

"It's just that there are a few things I can't figure out..."

"How did the ferryman die in the tomb?"

"Why is there only the lower body running around in the tomb?"

"Why isn't the little stubborn monkey that he kept with him all the time not by his side?"

The inner question of the abbot of Bailong Temple is also the question that Jin An is pondering.

"Maybe the little monkey is still alive. Isn't there a saying that the tree falls and the monkeys scatter? Or maybe the little monkey died in a corner of the tomb together with the upper body of the ferryman from the underworld. If you want to know the truth, you probably have to We have to rely on this half-body corpse to find out the truth."

Afterwards, Jin An planned to let the half-body corpse lead the way.

He was curious.

This half-body corpse keeps running around in the tomb, where exactly does it want to go?

The others just pondered for a while, and reached a consensus almost instantly, agreeing to Jin An's proposal.

then.

Jin An held the corpse rope in his hands.

Let the half-body lead the way.

When the half-body corpse was loosened from the five-flower binding, the old Taoist still stuck a circle of corpse-suppressing charms around the waist of the half-body corpse.

As soon as the half body was out of trouble, he continued to drill into the ruins of the main tomb this time. Fortunately, he had a corpse rope tied around his waist, so he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

"Little brother, you said that this underworld ferryman killed so many people along the way, and used so many lives to give him a way to gain life. How could such a sophisticated, vicious and sinister person suddenly die in this ancient tomb? inside?"

"According to common sense, this kind of person is usually the old bastard who has left a bad reputation for thousands of years and lived the longest..."

"Hey, even an insidious and cunning character like the Ferryman from the Underworld capsized in the gutter in the ancient tomb of the Lord of the Teng Kingdom. The road ahead is probably far more dangerous than imagined."

Jin An led the corpse in front, and the old Taoist followed closely beside Jin An, feeling a little guilty in his heart.

Jin An didn't talk much, and continued to hold the rope to let the half-body corpse lead the way: "Aren't we just looking for answers?"

The old Taoist glanced at the half-body corpse...

"puff."

In the darkness, everyone followed the half-body corpse solemnly, and the old Taoist suddenly couldn't hold back his laughter, breaking the solemn and depressing atmosphere in the tomb.

This inexplicable smile, in this ancient tomb, is not to mention how creepy it is.

"Old man, are you bewitched?"

Jin An, who was close at hand, looked at the old Taoist priest beside him rather speechlessly.

Under the faint light of the torch, the old Taoist rubbed his eyebrows and smiled, "Old Taoist, I just thought of a funny thing just now, and I couldn't hold it back for a while. Although the dead are the most serious, but the ferryman from the underworld has committed too many crimes, and he deserves to die. .”

"Others are walking dogs and playing with birds."

"Unexpectedly, following you, little brother, we can still be a walking corpse..."

"Sister, are you right?" The old Taoist still didn't forget to glance in the direction of the country witch, and he couldn't help chuckling again.

Country witch: "?"

Jin An: "?"

Captain: "?"

The three monks of Bailong Temple: "?"

Everyone:"……"

No matter how much there was talking and laughing here, Jian Jian was still in a daze, silent all the way, unmoved, as if he were two people from the previous performance outside the tomb door.

The half-body corpse led Jin An all the way to a corner of the pile of rocks in the main tomb, and then began to crawl into a narrow gap under the pile of rocks.

The torches have limited lighting and cannot illuminate the specific environment under the rubble pile.

The old Taoist said at this time: "Little brother, do you still remember the direction of the coffin of the owner of the tomb that I mentioned to you when I was in the hanging coffin burial canyon?"

"These tombs are built in strict accordance with the five elements and eight trigrams of heaven and earth, so the placement of the coffin also follows the eight trigrams, with the coffin facing the Kun position and the feet facing the Gen position."

"Old Daoist, I roughly positioned the lower position just now. The place where we are standing now should be the position of the coffin of the Lord of the Teng Kingdom. We should be standing at the Gen position, which is the dragon head of the Lord of the Teng Kingdom or the Dragon King."

"Standing on the Dragon King's dragon head?"

The others also heard the old Taoist's words, and looked at the ruins of the pile of rocks under their feet with strange eyes.

Although stepping on someone's grave is like revenge for killing one's father.

This is called overpowering.

It will provoke unknown.

But they went down the Yinyi River to dig up the grave of the Dragon King, so they didn't have so many folk scruples.

There are too many rocks collapsed in the main tomb, and the space of the pile of rocks is too narrow for normal activities.Fortunately, there were a lot of people on this trip, so it was quick to clear up these chaotic rocks.

But this time the old Taoist was wrong.

No coffin was found under the pile of rocks, but a three-legged bronze tripod with a round belly was dug out instead.

The bronze tripod has suffered from years of wear and vicissitudes of history, and a majestic, magnificent, and heavy sense of ancient history rushes towards the face, giving people a sense of historical heaviness.

The bronze round tripod is very large, not to mention being used as a coffin, it is more than enough to be used as a joint burial of husband and wife. Just looking at the heavy and thick feeling, it is a big lump weighing tens of thousands of catties.

This bronze tripod with a round belly is composed of upper and lower parts, the lower part has a round belly and three legs, and the upper part presses the top cover.

It's just that the bronze round-bellied tripod has long been severely damaged by the collapsed rocks, and the surface patterns have been severely damaged. It is no longer high-quality or antique.

Even the lid of the bronze round-bellied tripod was smashed into a large hole by falling rocks, causing flaws to appear in the heavy bronze round tripod that was originally sealed.

At this moment, the half-body corpse was impatiently wanting to enter the bronze round-bellied cauldron.

It seems that there is something in the tripod that attracts it very much.

"This bronze tripod with a round belly is so big, and the tomb passage here is not big. How did people move in there thousands of years ago?"

Looking at such a big bronze lump in front of him, he said in surprise.

Du Wei explained: "To build ancient tombs, especially large-scale tombs that require large-scale construction, it is not necessary to use mules and horses to transport materials in from the outside, after all, that is not realistic."

"For example, stone materials are all hollowed out from the mountainside, local materials are obtained, polished and carved on the spot."

"Perhaps in this mountain, craftsmen found a vein of copper ore, and directly cast bronze tripods in the tomb. Some tools left over from the past should be found in some side halls of the tomb."

After the captain finished explaining, he looked at Jin'an: "This bronze tripod has limited space, and it cannot enter too many people. Why don't you let Taoist Master Jin'an and I go in to investigate the situation first."

Afterwards, Jin An handed the body-binding rope to Chijian, and asked Chijian to keep an eye on the half-body corpse. If the half-body corpse poses a threat, he can cut off the two legs directly to prevent this thing from causing any trouble.

Originally, the old Taoist was very itchy and wanted to go down into the bronze round belly tripod with Jin An and the captain to see what happened, but Jin An resolutely refused the old Taoist's old body and asked him to stay and take care of it. sword.

Only when the old Taoist priest and Chijian are together can Jin An rest assured of the two of them.

Afterwards, Jin An and Captain Du, who were strong and strong, took advantage of a few leaps on the bronze tripod, and easily entered the tripod from the hole in the top cover.

"Little brother, what's the situation inside, are you and the captain okay?" The old Taoist shouted nervously towards the tripod.

The cauldron was silent for a while, and then there was Jin An's dull response in the cauldron: "We are fine, there is no danger here, old man, you are right, this cauldron is a coffin, we seem to have found a coffin." Human dragon corpse, we will come out immediately..."

Human dragon corpse?
Everyone breathed heavily and stared closely at the bronze round-bellied tripod. This was the first time they had seen a dragon!

Could it be that the descriptions on the inscriptions about the ruler of the Teng Kingdom are true, that the ruler of a small country thousands of years ago was really a real dragon reincarnated into the world?
Jin An and Captain Du didn't stay in the tripod for long, holding torches in their hands, they jumped out of the bronze tripod with the agility of two leopards.

They didn't come out empty-handed this time, and they had an extra dead body in their hands.

Everyone immediately gathered around and asked in amazement, could this be the lord of Teng Kingdom?The Dragon King they were looking for?

The reason why the corpse on the ground is considered to be the dragon king is probably because this corpse is different from ordinary people. There are shallow layers of triangular scales on the surface of the body that look like snake scales and fish scales.

Especially the face has the most snake scales, the whole face is covered by a thick layer of scales, the contours of the facial features can no longer be distinguished at all, and the facial features are extremely distorted and majestic.

Of course, the human dragon was already dead, because each of the human dragon's limbs was nailed to death by a coffin nail, and those coffin nails were engraved with scriptures and penetrated the keel.In particular, a coffin nail in Tianling Gai was the most deadly, it completely sank into the skull, leaving only a dark hole.

"This coffin-nailing method of suppressing evil seems to come from the usual method of the mortician. Could it be that the Dragon King was nailed to death in the bronze coffin by the mortician who stepped into the ancient tomb before us? That's right, I think these coffin nails are a bit old, and they still have a lot of dust..." Kuixing kicked and frowned as he looked at the corpse of the human dragon on the ground.

This human dragon has been completely dispersed, its three souls and seven souls have been completely dispersed, and it has been completely dead. After losing its yin energy to nourish the body, its body has shrunk and lacked water, like a human dragon stranded on the shore, becoming a dry corpse.

The muscles are dark.

The scales on the body surface are also dark and dull.

It was the first time for everyone to observe the Dragon King at such a close distance, and they were all amazed. It was the first time they had seen the legendary Dragon King. So the Dragon King looked so ugly?

It is also very different from the human dragon with a horny head and a tail behind it in the murals.

"In those small countries that are not very civilized, in order to consolidate the ruling position, the leader of one country claims to be the reincarnation of the gods, uses it to fool the people, strengthens the rule over the people under his rule, and deliberately myths the image of the country leader. This is not without precedent in the historical records .”

Jin An squatted beside the corpse of the human dragon and retorted.

At this time, General Duwei said politely to the monk Hongzhao of Bailong Temple: "The one who appeared in the main tomb may not be the real Dragon King. Master Hongzhao, we just found some Tengguo characters in the tripod. It seems that this The people in the tripod engraved it with their fingers, we don't know those Teng Guowen, and we have to trouble Master Hongzhao again."

Monk Hongzhao clasped his hands together, and after pronouncing the Buddha's name, accompanied by Monk Kongming, they went into the cauldron to check the words.

On the contrary, Jin An, who was squatting next to the corpse on the ground, frowned and pondered, staring at the corpse in front of him, as if he was thinking about something?
The captain saw that Jin An's state was not right, and was about to ask what was wrong with Jin An, and if he had discovered anything, but at this moment, the half-body corpse of the ferryman from the underworld, who was bound by the corpse rope, After seeing the corpse of the human dragon on the ground, he actually started to go crazy, interrupting the captain's inquiry.

"Why is the half-body corpse of the ferryman in the underworld always eager to find this human-dragon corpse?"

Jin An saw that the half-body corpse was struggling more and more violently. After thinking for a while, he nodded towards Chijian and said, "Chijian, put it over carefully bit by bit, and see what it is looking for."

Although the sword was dull and in a daze, but the movement in his hand was not slow, and he slowly let go of the length of the corpse rope.

When the half-body corpse approached the human-dragon corpse on the ground, the thing clicked and kicked the waist of the human-dragon corpse, and then lay down on the ground, desperately trying to fuse itself with the upper body of the human-dragon corpse.

As a result, the corpse-suppressing talisman around the waist and abdomen of the half-length corpse flashed with gold talisman and cinnabar red light, and the two corpses could not be fused together no matter what.

The half-body corpse had no hands, and was unable to remove the corpse-repelling charms. It was distorted on the ground in a panic, and there was an inexplicable sense of joy in the lonely ancient tomb that lacked popularity.

Uh……

Everyone fell silent.

There is no earth-shattering secret for the half-body corpse of emotion, which has spent so much effort, but simply wants to find a dead body to make do with.

Jin An was also amused by the funny half body corpse on the ground: "Is this counting as learning and using idioms flexibly, Zhang Guan Li Dai?"

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Everyone, look at Jin'an, and the old Taoist priest. Both of them must be mentally ill. Ever since they entered the ancient tomb, everyone's atmosphere has been extremely tense. Lung laugh out loud.

On the other side, Monk Hongzhao has made progress in deciphering Tengguo characters, and everyone immediately surrounded him.

"Captain Hui, abbot, the human-dragon corpse on the ground is not the Dragon King we are looking for, but one of the sons of the Lord of Teng Kingdom. The Lord of Teng Kingdom has many descendants. He knows that the end is coming, and he is afraid that he will die. Later, there was no descendant to guard his spirit, so he sealed his own son alive in a bronze tripod, and built a fake tomb to hide it from the sky."

"If anyone comes here and rashly opens this bronze tripod, he will be killed by the human and dragon corpses who died tragically inside the tripod."

"The worse this person dies, the higher his status in life, the more he can't let go of the glory, wealth and obsession in the world, the more resentment will be in the world after death. In order to protect his real tomb from being I found out that I didn't hesitate to kill my own son, so that my own son would guard the mourning hall for him and the mausoleum for him forever."

The fiery-tempered monk Kongming couldn't help breaking the monk's precepts of anger at this time, and scolded angrily: "People often say that the poison of a tiger does not eat its offspring, but the heart of the king of Teng Kingdom is so vicious. We have traveled all the way. From what I've seen, he's committed a crime worse than an animal."

Monk Kongming got angry, he hadn't scolded enough, and wanted to continue scolding, but when he saw the abbot of Bailong Temple's eyes, Monk Kongming stopped talking.

He knew that this time he broke the monk's anger precept.

After returning, take the initiative to go to the Discipline Hall to receive the punishment.

"Little brother, no wonder the old man said, how the terrain here is getting higher and higher. The Dragon King didn't touch the water, but was stranded on the shore. The feeling is that the Lord of the Teng Kingdom wanted to use a fake tomb to hide his real tomb, but also He didn't want his own son to gain power, Qianlong ascended to heaven, and took away the identity of the owner of the tomb. This Tengguo king took all the benefits by himself, but let his own son not even have a mouthful of soup. Don't they say that father and son didn't have an overnight feud, and I don't know how much estrangement and suspicion there is between father and son, but I actually persecute my own son like this."

The old Taoist stood beside Jin An, muttering something in a low voice.

Jin An: "Isn't there an old proverb called 'the most ruthless emperor's family since ancient times', this is a living example."

Monk Hongzhao was not influenced by Monk Kongming, and continued to talk: "When this human dragon was sealed alive in the cauldron, he was still alive. In despair and struggle, his nails and finger bones were cracked. The deep-rooted hatred left those words in the cauldron. In desperation, he also left a sentence, saying that the reason why the Lord of the Teng Kingdom took so much trouble was because the Lord of the Teng Kingdom found the secret of eternal life and wanted to Borrowing Hualongchi from death to resurrection, from Qianlong in the abyss, flying dragon in the sky, do it again..."

"What are you going to do again? Master Hongzhao, don't have any scruples. Your next words are just repeating the words of a dead man. I will absolve you of guilt." Promise, take the initiative to dispel the other party's concerns.

Monk Hongzhao clasped his hands together, looked at his nose with his eyes, and looked at his heart with his nose. He didn't look directly at the captain, and relayed: "The Lord of Teng Kingdom wants to use Hualong Pond to resurrect himself from the dead. Be the Ninety-Five Supreme again."

"Bold!"

"A little lord who has been dead for a thousand years dares to try to become a saint a thousand years later. He is really reckless! When the Dragon King Temple was built, he was driven back into the abyss with only four dry bone stakes, so that he would never recover. Looks like it's not enough!"

The captain's angry shout really revealed a lot of information.

The captain no longer concealed this matter, so he talked about what happened back then. After listening to what the captain said, everyone was surprised and understood that the Dragon King Terrace and the Dragon King Temple were indeed built by the imperial court.

There is no shortage of brilliant Fengshui masters in the imperial court. These Fengshui masters not only measure the land of all the kings in the world, but also find good Fengshui treasures for the royal family to build mausoleums.

The construction of the mausoleum of the royal family does not happen overnight, and it often takes 20 years to start and may not be completed.

Later, when a feng shui master passed by the big bend in Fucheng, the feng shui master was really extraordinary. He said that this big turn is a place for potential dragons, and there is a river-crossing dragon stranded under the Yinyi River. , The dragon crossing the river will raise its head once, wanting the dragon to fly in the sky.But this Dragon Crossing the River is too close to the Nine-Five Supreme Being, already threatening the Nine-Five Qi, and who the Nine-Five Qi is, of course, there is no need to point it out.

That's why some people don't want to see this dragon crossing the river soaring up to the blue clouds and soaring into the sky, but they want him to fall into the abyss forever, never to be able to raise his head, and never to be able to look up to the ninety-five supreme being pressing on his head.

However, due to the conditions at that time, it was impossible to stop the flow of the Yinyi River, and because the spirit of the dragon crossing the river was so weak that he was not even qualified to be recognized by the imperial court, so he ordered that A feng shui master built the Dragon King Temple and Dragon King Terrace at Daguaikou, laid down four dry bone piles, and used fire to press down the water, so that the dragon crossing the river under the Yinyi River could not raise its head or turn over for a lifetime.

Forever and ever, you will never be able to dive into the dragon and ascend to heaven.

I will be trapped under the dark Yinyi River forever and ever.

Unexpectedly, there are so many court secrets involved in the Yinyi River, and everyone is dumbfounded.

"Aren't you always worried that there will be risks in getting rid of the Dragon King this time?"

"Don't worry, with the four bone stakes of the Dragon King Terrace nailing the Dragon King under the Yinyi River, even if this Dragon King is a thousand-year-old corpse who has practiced for thousands of years, he will not be able to exert his full strength."

When the captain said this, he glanced around the crowd present from the corner of his eye, "As for telling you this kind of court secret, it will cause disaster, you don't have to worry about it. There are not a few people in the court who know about important matters."

"Besides, our trip to the Yinyi River was originally to pacify the Dragon King. To pacify the Dragon King, you not only rescued the people of Wuzhou Prefecture from dire straits, it was a great merit. At the same time, it was also to clean up the side of the couch for the Holy King. , It’s a great contribution, isn’t everyone going to Yinyijiang this time to confer titles and ranks, and to seek stability and wealth for future generations.”

"Old Daoist, let's burn this corpse on the ground first."

Jin'an's words were the first to break the silent atmosphere in the ancient tomb. The old Taoist secretly glanced at Jin'an's calm face and said yes. burned.

With the help of the turmoil and jumping flames of the burning corpse, everyone continued to discuss, what should be the next step?
"Since this is a fake tomb, where is the real tomb? The tomb is not small, but it is not big. The mountain range is so wide, and we are in the middle of the mountain. If we really want to find a tomb, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. different."

"I think the real tomb of the Lord Teng is still nearby. I don't know if you have noticed that among the people who went down to the tomb earlier, they only had footprints entering the main tomb, but no footprints walking out of the main tomb, which means that they did not After walking out of the main tomb, there should be a secret passage or something. Let's search carefully, maybe we can find it."

Needless to say, after this search, I really found some important clues that were buried under the rubble.

The main tomb chamber is not only the bronze tripod with round belly, there are many grooves on the wall, and there are many poisonous arrows, aqua regia spouts, crossbow beds, and fire oil spouts in the grooves on the walls.

These organs may have been designed ingeniously at the beginning, making it difficult for tomb robbers to guard against, but now they have been completely destroyed by people, and they have become a sea of ​​​​fields buried in ruins.

As a result, I dug and dug, ah!

After several sudden screams, Jin An immediately turned to look behind him, but he couldn't find the old Taoist priest and the sword-cutting figure, and the mourner brothers also disappeared strangely.

(End of this chapter)