Holy Bone

Chapter 342 Seven-Story Mortuary Tower

At the end of the palace complex is a narrow tomb passage.

When the three of them landed on the stone beam, they were almost taken aback by the two rows of white figures in the tomb passage.

This is the underground palace, the tomb where the dead are buried, and if you see a white figure in the tomb, you will subconsciously get nervous.

"Is it the living or the dead?"

The old Taoist bravely shouted at the two rows of white shadows.

But the tomb was cold and silent.

No one answered.

It was Jin An who was more courageous. Seeing that the two rows of white figures kept silent, he directly took a few steps forward with torches in his hands. Only then did he see clearly that the so-called white figures were actually carved from white marble, a lifelike human-shaped lamp holder.

Even after so many years, these white marble human-shaped lamp holders are still as white as snow. If you see them suddenly, you will subconsciously regard them as ghosts in the cemetery.

The human-shaped lamp holders are in the shape of holding lamps with both hands. If these lamp holders are still on, the tomb passage should be brightly lit and magnificent, just like the fairy palace.

But now all these lamp sockets have been extinguished, leaving only a long and narrow tomb passage, dark and eerie, like a ghost's way.

With King Xiaoling and the others walking ahead, even if there is a cold arrow in this tomb, the fire oil mechanism has already been destroyed. Besides, the immortals buried in the fairy palace don't bother to use this kind of trick behind the scenes. It was a sinister mechanism that released a cold arrow, so the three bravely walked into the dark tomb with torches in hand.

This tomb passage is quite strange, it is actually red.

The old Taoist approached curiously to look at the red wall, and said, "Little brother, you can still see some outlines of paint on these walls. The two sides of the tomb passage should have been covered with murals... It seems that the murals have been completely destroyed. , The pigment and the stone dissolve together, so the red wall is formed?"

Jin An was not interested in these things. The three-person team safely passed through the tomb passage, and a stone ladder going up appeared in front of him.

"If this underground palace is really buried under twenty feet, it seems that this underground palace is not as simple as one or two floors." The old Taoist probed up and saw that the stone stairs were dark and seemed to be quite long.

Jin An asked the old Taoist priest and Chi Jian to wait for him at the bottom, and he went up first to see what was going on.

The environment in the underground palace is narrow, and it is no longer suitable to use a stone bow as a weapon. Since entering the underground palace, Jin An has carried the stone bow behind his back. The cold stone ladder, step by step, go up carefully.

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The sound of footsteps in this empty, quiet and dark environment, every step of the landing is like stepping on people's hearts, so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat. Under the worried eyes of the old Taoist priest, Jin'an gradually disappeared from the old Taoist priest's vision.

It is said that time passes very long in the dark.

Without the sun, moon and stars as a reference, I don't know how long Jin'an has been there, maybe it's been a while?Or is it a moment?The old Taoist stretched his head several times to call Jin An, but he was worried that he would bring danger to Jin An, so he forced himself to hold it back every time.

"Old Daoist, cut your sword, come up, there is no danger up here." Jin'an's voice finally came from the upper floor, and the old Taoist priest, who was concerned about Jin'an's safety, immediately ran up the stone ladder to the upper floor.

"Little brother, why have you been away for so long and there is no movement, I am worried about your safety, and I want to ask you to ask what is going on, and I am worried that you will be in danger, but I am so worried." Seeing Jin An, he just complained.

Jin An, who knew he was wrong, apologized repeatedly to the old Taoist priest, saying that I just explored this layer of terrain and called you up when I saw that there was no danger.

The old Taoist hurriedly poohed, saying that this is the underground palace, little brother, can't you say something auspicious, if you insist on saying these unlucky things in the underground palace, be careful and report it quickly.

"Yes, yes, old man, you are right. I will try not to worry you and Jian Jian next time." Jin An didn't talk too much about these side details. He then talked about the situation of the underground palace in front of him.

Jin An: "This underground palace is not dangerous. There are also sarcophagi and human-shaped lamp holders. The sarcophagus is also opened, leaving only the empty coffin, and the human-shaped lamp holders are also extinguished."

In fact, Jin An needless to say, the environment of the underground palace in front of him is pitch black, and there are many human-shaped lamp holders standing against the wall in the darkness.

However, the human-shaped lamp holder on this floor is not made of white marble, but a golden figure.

After so many years, these golden men have been covered with dust and looked dim. At first, the old Taoist priests mistakenly thought they were bronze men, but it was not until Jin An reminded them that they were surprised to find that they were golden men.

The old Taoist breathed a sigh of relief at the golden man who fell to the ground and fell into several pieces, and rubbed the hem of his clothes vigorously, revealing the golden material.

But the next moment, the old Taoist discovered that the broken part of the golden man was not made of gold, but a heart of stone.

"There are dozens of golden figures here. These golden figures are not pure gold, but a layer of gold paint sprayed on the surface of the stone figures." Jin An explained.

And continued: "We are now at the edge of the wall, the stone ladder going up one level, and the opposite wall. To think of the opposite stone ladder, we must first pass through the middle sarcophagus stacking area."

The old Taoist didn't try to scrape some gold paint and take it out to make a fortune. It is estimated that this is the Daochang Palace. As a Taoist disciple, he was afraid of offending his ancestors and giving him a ruined old age.

Next, the three held torches in their hands and walked towards the opposite stone ladder.

Sure enough, as Jin An said, the sarcophagi on this floor were also opened, and there were no corpses buried inside, only empty coffins.

The placement of the sarcophagi on this floor is a bit strange. They seem to be messy and have a certain order. Some have three sarcophagi side by side, some have two sarcophagi side by side, and there are many messy and overturned sarcophagi.

As he was walking, the old Taoist suddenly let out a light sigh, and his brows were involuntarily frowned.

Jin An asked what happened?
The old Taoist still frowned, and replied: "It's nothing, maybe it's the old Taoist, I'm overthinking..."

Taking a strange look at the old Taoist priest, Jin An continued to walk ahead, leading the two of them to the opposite stone staircase.

Passing through the sarcophagus area at this time, it suddenly became clear in front of the eyes. In the central area of ​​the sarcophagus, there are several golden lamp holders upside down, and there are actually two ancient pools.

The ancient pool has been buried by the collapsed rocks and turned into ruins. Even though there was a clear spring of living water here at the beginning, it is now dry and has become a lifeless dead pool.

When he saw the ruins of the two water pools, the old Taoist suddenly realized and said: "Qiannan, Kunbei, Lidong, Kanxi, Dudongnan, Zhenbei, Xunxinan, Genbei, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, soil produces gold, metal produces Water and water give birth to wood, gold restrains wood, wood restrains soil, earth restrains water, water restrains fire, fire restrains metal...Little brother, these sarcophagi are not arranged in a random order, they are all arranged according to the nine palaces and eight trigrams in Qimen Dunjia of."

The old Taoist became curious, and he memorized the arrangement of each sarcophagus in this underground palace, and then arranged them according to Qian (), Kan (), Gen (), Zhen (), Xun (), Li (), Kun ( ), against ( ), draw the nine palaces and eight trigrams in the central open space.

The more he painted, the more he was amazed by the exquisiteness of the Qimen Dunjia technique here, but in the eyes of Jin An, who did not have a deep research on this aspect, he was at a loss.

The old Taoist deduced the Jiugong gossip on the ground, and the more he deduced, the more surprised he became: "Using the corpse of an immortal as a big formation, and setting up a strange armor here, it's amazing! Wonderful!"

Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest who was scribbling and drawing on the ground in a daze: "Old Taoist, I have been hearing you marvel at the exquisiteness of the Jiugong Bagua here, why do I feel that the Jiugong Bagua here is the same as the Jiugong Bagua seen at the fortune-telling booths on the street?" There is no difference in the pictures, they are all Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and Dui."

The old Taoist shook his head with a serious expression, and said solemnly: "Little brother, the same Jiugong gossip has been in the hands of different masters, and it has long been no longer sticking to the conventional rules, but there are countless variations at the fingertips."

"It's like talking about the Qimen Dunjia under the sarcophagus in front of me. The corpses are divided into male and female, parents, children, husband and wife, monarchs and ministers, twelve zodiac signs, four limbs, internal organs, six internal organs and seven orifices..."

"For example, Qian is the father, Kun is the mother, and Zhen is the eldest male. Kan is the middle male, and Gen is the young male. This is the Yang hexagram; Xun is the eldest daughter, Li is the middle female, and Dui is the young girl. This is the Yin hexagram."

"For another example, Qian is a horse, Kun is an ox, Zhen is a dragon, Xun is a chicken, Kan is a hog, Li is a pheasant, Gen is a dog, and Dui is a sheep."

"For another example, the stem is the head, the kun is the abdomen, the tremor is the foot, the sunda is the thigh, the ridge is the ear, the li is the eye, the gen is the hand, and the dui is the mouth."

"Qian is the king, Kun is the minister..."

The old Taoist said solemnly: "Little brother, tell me, these immortal corpses are buried here, what kind of changes will they use to deduce the nine palaces and gossip? Are they deduced by men and women, monarchs and ministers? Or are they deduced by the twelve zodiac signs or body hands and feet? If we combine several kinds of deduction together, then the evolution of Qimen Dunjia will be more complicated and changeable, and it will be impossible to find it. It will be even more impossible to pass through this corpse fairy gossip formation."

When talking about this, the old Taoist showed a regretful look: "It's a pity, I'm afraid the people who built the underground palace didn't expect that this underground palace was not destroyed from the outside, but from the inside. Discouragement, and the internal destruction from the lower level to the upper level, led to the disintegration of such an ingeniously designed Corpse Immortal Bagua Formation from the inside, and it is estimated that even one-thousandth of its power has not been exerted."

The more the old Taoist said, the more it was a pity.

Afterwards, the group continued to walk up the floor.

Also follow the stone ladder to enter the underground palace on the upper floor. There is also a human-shaped lamp holder with the lights extinguished on this floor, this time it is an iron man.

There are also a large number of sarcophagi placed, and the sarcophagus was opened, leaving only the empty coffin.

This time the sarcophagus is also arranged with the Qimen Dunjia technique, this time it is the Heavenly Stems and Earth Branch Corpse Immortal Formation.

The formation map here was also destroyed in ruins, so the three of them easily found the Shengmen and followed the stone ladder to the upper floor.

On the new floor are bronze lamp holders, empty sarcophagi, and copper chain silhouette sarcophagus array. The copper chains were broken in sevens and eights, and a large number of sarcophagi hanging above the head were smashed to the ground.

According to the old Taoist, the sarcophagus array with the silhouette of copper chains can suppress people's shadows, just like pouring copper water into the body, making people's bodies heavy and unable to move.

Speaking of this, it reminded Jin An that in the Dragon King's tomb, Mr. Yi also used the same mysterious technique, stepping on the monkey's shadow to stabilize the monkey's body.

The three continued to walk upstairs.

This floor is the stone man lamp base, the empty sarcophagus, the top of the head and the walls are densely packed with hanging coffins, which is as complicated as a maze.

The hanging coffins here also fell to the ground in large numbers, and the maze was broken.

Continue to the upper floor, where there are wooden lamp holders, empty sarcophagi, and wooden pile arrays.

Find the stone ladder and go up. There is not so much attention to this floor. It is just that the sarcophagi are arranged neatly and densely, and there are no strange variables.

Of course, these sarcophagi were also opened, leaving only empty coffins.

So many coffins are empty coffins. I don't know if they are empty coffins, or the people who were originally buried have been dug up and robbed.

This time there were no more stone stairs, and they finally came to the first floor.

"Why do I feel that this place is more like a morgue? Yizhuang? There are seven floors of morgues?" Finally, when he reached the end and reached the first floor, Jin An breathed a sigh of relief. He thought they would go on forever. .

Unexpectedly, the old Taoist said: "Little brother, it is not appropriate to call it a mortuary, it should be more appropriate to call it a mortuary tower."

He said the reason with a solemn face: "Because I have measured each floor and found that the walls of each floor are eight walls, which are built according to the octagonal tower."

An octagonal tower buried deep in the ground?

Jin An was taken aback.

"Hey, all the corpses in the tower of the mortuary are gone. I'm afraid that after someone broke the door from the inside, the ancestors of Dao Court who were buried in the seven-story tower were pulled out of their coffins, and their bones were thrown into ashes. Right..." The old Taoist's eyes were sad, Zhi Fenhui sighed.

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"It smells of blood!"

Suddenly, he cut the sword without saying a word all the way, and turned to look at a dark corner of the tower on the first floor.

Jin An frowned, and walked over with a torch in his hand.

Then I was surprised to find that there was actually a sarcophagus that was tightly covered.

This is the first time they have seen a co-authored sarcophagus.

Because they saw too many sarcophagi along the way, they were numb and lacked vigilance. In addition, the vision in the tower was dim and there were many sarcophagi, so they didn't find this abnormal sarcophagus at first.

When he got close, Jin An could already smell blood without cutting his sword to remind him.

Although it is blocked by the coffin lid.

But there was still a trace of bloody smell overflowing from the sarcophagus.

"Is it from Tianshi Mansion? Or someone else?"

"Why is someone hiding in a coffin alone?"

At this time, the old Taoist consciously stood behind Jin An.

Jin An raised his hand and made a silent movement. He knew who it was after opening the coffin. He handed the torch to the old Taoist priest hiding behind him, and walked towards the closed coffin with a knife.

(End of this chapter)