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Chapter 217 Breaking Through the Tomb of the Book and "Swordsman"

The cave that drilled into the ground revealed an underground palace. The walls of the palace were made of black rock, and there were candles burning inside the palace.
Walking into the palace, there is a square hall in front of it. There are dozens of corpses lying in the center of the hall. Most of the corpses have been decomposed into bones, and only a few corpses have turned into dry corpses. Yingxue was so frightened that she screamed, her little face turned green.

"Don't shout so loudly, those who don't know the situation will think I'm molesting you." Liu Xing said, "It's just a pile of bones."

Hua Yingxue was still trembling, and followed Liu Xing closely, never leaving her.
Liu Xing came to several corpses, examined them carefully, and found that almost every corpse was pierced with more than a dozen embroidery needles.

"Why are there so many dead people here?" Hua Yingxue asked cautiously.

"There are hidden weapons in the palace, and they all died under embroidery needles." Liu Xing explained.

According to the map of Heimuya, this underground palace is divided into nine floors in total, and each floor is equipped with hidden weapons. If you are not careful, you will die on the spot.Only by breaking through the nine-story palace can you find the book tomb.
The square hall in front of me is the first floor of the palace. The dozens of corpses on the ground should have been shot to death by embroidery needles after breaking into the palace.

Most of the embroidery needles on the corpse-bones were rusty, but on the ground, Liu Xing found hundreds of brand new embroidery needles, these embroidery needles were scattered on the ground, and some embroidery needles were even broken.

Obviously, this shows that someone entered the palace recently and successfully escaped the attack of the embroidery needles.

"It should be full of wind."

Feng Manlou killed more than 30 special police officers at the foot of Heimuya Mountain. He should have also been to this palace.With Feng Manlou's martial arts, it is not difficult to avoid these embroidery needles.
On the surrounding stone walls, there are densely packed holes, which should be the mechanism for launching hidden weapons.It's just that after Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue walked around the hall, there was still no hidden weapon fired.

"Could it be that the mechanism on the first floor of the palace was cracked by Feng Manlou?"

If the mechanism has been cracked, the hidden weapon will no longer be fired.

Liu Xing looked around and found that a stone gate on the east side of the palace had been opened, and he could directly enter the second floor of the palace, which meant that they had successfully broken through.
"Let's go to the next floor to have a look."

After speaking, Liu Xing took Hua Yingxue through the stone gate and came to the second floor of the palace.

What appeared in front of us was a narrow corridor, with huge animal-shaped reliefs on the stone walls on both sides. The reliefs were bright red, as if they could spew out fire...

"There is another dead body ahead."

I saw a charred corpse lying in front of the corridor, a faint burnt smell permeated the air, Liu Xing went forward to check, and found that the corpse had been charred recently, and the time would not exceed 24 hours.

The deceased was wearing white clothes, which were the prison clothes only worn by prisoners in the forbidden book area.

"The deceased was a prisoner who escaped yesterday."

After the explosion in the dungeon in the forbidden book area, besides Feng Manlou, eight prisoners also escaped. These prisoners are all disciples of Feng Manlou.

After escaping from prison, Feng Manlou should have brought these disciples to Heimuya's palace to break through. Unfortunately, the disciple in front of him was killed on the second floor of the palace.

"There are hidden weapons in this corridor?" Hua Yingxue asked weakly.

"Yes." Liu Xing reminded, "You follow me, don't act rashly."

After finishing speaking, the two walked forward slowly, taking every step very cautiously.

There was silence in the corridor, and they had walked a distance of about [-] meters in silence. During this period, there was no accident, and everything went very smoothly.

When you came to the end of the corridor, another stone door appeared in front of you, which was the entrance to the third floor of the palace.

"Isn't there a hidden weapon here? Why didn't we encounter it?" Hua Yingxue felt strange.

"The mechanism may have been cracked again." Liu Xing said, "Let's go to the next floor."

Go through the stone gate and reach the third floor of the palace.

A circular field appeared in front of it, with a diameter of about 20 meters. There were criss-crossing lines on the field, forming a giant chessboard.

On the chessboard, there were hundreds of black and white chess pieces. Liu Xing looked at it and found that it was a giant chessboard of novel chess.

The chess game on the board has been played, forming a dead game, and the winner is black.

On the edge of the chessboard, lay a corpse wearing white prison clothes. He was also one of the prisoners who escaped from the forbidden book area.

"Another dead person?" Hua Yingxue raised her brows tightly, "Is there a hidden weapon here too?"

"The hidden weapon should be on the chessboard." Liu Xing looked at the chess game where the outcome was determined, and said, "However, the chess game has been cracked, and the mechanism here may also be cracked."

"Who cracked it?" Hua Yingxue was curious.

"It should be full of wind."
On the east side of the chessboard, there is another open stone door.

Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue walked through the chessboard, came to the stone gate, walked in, and went directly to the fourth floor of the palace.

The fourth floor of the palace is a spacious studio. The four walls, floor and ceiling of the studio form a three-dimensional painting with a wonderful structure. There are many bright patterns on the painting: enchanting red roses, burning sea of ​​fire, rising The red sun...

The whole three-dimensional painting has only one color - red!
The style of the painting is extremely gorgeous and majestic, giving people a strong visual shock. When Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue were attracted by this red three-dimensional painting, they suddenly found a dead man lying horizontally in the corner of the studio.

The deceased was still wearing a white prison uniform, his face was pale, without a trace of blood, Liu Xing took a closer look, and was surprised to find that the blood in the other party's body had been drained!
Seeing this, Liu Xing realized that this red three-dimensional painting was drawn with bright red blood, it is a blood painting!
"Why did you draw such a bloody three-dimensional painting with blood?" Hua Yingxue asked uneasily.

"This may be the way to pass the customs." Liu Xing speculated.

Opposite the dead man, there is another stone door that has been opened. It can be seen that the mechanism on the fourth floor of the palace has also been cracked.

Therefore, Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue directly entered the fifth floor of the palace.

After that, the two broke through three levels in a row, from the fifth floor of the palace to the seventh floor of the palace.

There is a corpse in each floor of the palace. The dead are prisoners who escaped with Fengmanlou. These prisoners became victims in order to crack the mechanism of the palace.

Since all the organs on the first seven floors had been cracked by Feng Manlou, Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue took advantage of it. They did nothing, and successfully broke through from the first floor to the seventh floor of the palace.

The two did not stop there, and entered the eighth floor together.

It is only one floor away from the location of the book tomb.
Liu Xing originally thought that there was a dead body on the eighth floor of the palace, but the situation was beyond his expectation.

The eighth floor of the palace is a closed space, the space is like a small garden, there are rockeries and small streams in the garden, and there is an antique small pavilion beside the stream.

There is a stone table made of white jade in the pavilion, on which there are two musical instruments: a black guqin and a white jade flute.

"Unexpectedly, there is such a beautiful small garden underground!"

Seeing the beautiful scenery in front of her, Hua Yingxue couldn't help being a little excited, and she was about to walk towards the small pavilion, but Liu Xing grabbed her little hand and reminded: "Be careful! There is no stone gate in this small garden, so you can see the eighth gate of the palace. The mechanism of the layer has not been cracked yet."

Hearing this, Hua Yingxue suddenly realized this problem, there were dead people on the first seven floors of the palace, but not on this floor.

Liu Xing looked around, but there was no one else in the garden.

Feng Manlou successfully passed the first seven levels. It stands to reason that he should also be in the eighth level. Why is Feng Manlou not seen here?

"Could it be that Feng Manlou can't pass the eighth level?"

Thinking of this, Liu Xing immediately raised his vigilance.

If you can't even break through the windy mansion, then the organs on the eighth floor of the palace are probably no small matter.

"What kind of mechanism is it that can stump Feng Manlou?"

With doubts, Liu Xing looked around cautiously, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

I just walked around in the small garden, but nothing happened.

"Ok?"

At this time, a wall on the west side of the small garden attracted Liu Xing's attention.The wall is about three meters high and is made of jade. On the jade bi, there are densely carved strange symbols.

There are two colors of symbols, one black and one white. They look like tadpoles. The white symbols and black symbols are interspersed and overlapped to form a huge space that fills the entire jade wall.

"What kind of characters are these?" The symbols on the jade bi are so strange that Liu Xing has never seen them before.

"This is not a text, but a music score." At this time, Hua Yingxue reminded beside her.

"The sheet music?"

"Well." Hua Yingxue pointed to the symbols on the jade bi, and introduced, "This is called the 'Seven Rhythm Talisman', which is a kind of temperament symbol recorded by musicians in ancient China. It has seven original tones in total. There are seven variations, so it is called 'Seven Rhythm Symbols'. Because this rhythm symbol is too complicated, it is no longer used in modern music."
Liu Xing suddenly realized, looked at the jade bi, and asked again: "Since it is a music score, what kind of music is written on the jade bi?"

Hua Yingxue shook her head: "I don't know either. From the music score, this piece seems to be a piece of piano and flute ensemble."

"Qin Xiao Ensemble?" Hearing what she said, Liu Xing immediately thought of a piece of music - "Swordsman".
In "Swordsman", Liu Zhengfeng of the Hengshan School and Qu Yang, the elder of the Sun Moon God Sect, both love rhythm. One of them is good at playing the piano, and the other is proficient in playing the flute. The Divine Comedy played by qin and flute - "The Song of the Swordsman".

"Could it be that the song on the jade bi is "Swordsman"?"

Liu Xing walked up to the jade bi and carefully examined it. This music score is probably the key to cracking the eighth layer of the palace.

"Huh? What is this?"

On the jade biscuit, Liu Xing found many small holes, which are very small like the pores of the skin.

"This is the sound-absorbing hole." At this time, Hua Yingxue said again, "This jade wall is a sound-absorbing wall."

"A sound-absorbing wall? What?"

"The sound-absorbing wall is a wall invented by the school to absorb the rhythm." Hua Yingxue explained, "In the sound-absorbing wall, the structure of the wall will be built according to a specific rhythm. When the sound-absorbing wall absorbs the corresponding music When the melody is played, the internal structure will form a resonance. This sound-absorbing wall can be used as a security door, and music is the key to open the door."

Liu Xing roughly understood: "According to what you said, if you can play the correct piece, this sound-absorbing wall can be opened?"

"Yeah." Hua Yingxue nodded, "However, the rhythm structure of each sound-absorbing wall is different, and only specific tunes can be opened. There is a piece of piano and flute ensemble on this sound-absorbing wall, which should be the key to open the sound-absorbing wall. key."

Pointing to the Guqin and Yuxiao placed on the stone table in the pavilion, Hua Yingxue said, "The Guqin and Yuxiao in the pavilion should be the instruments used to play this piece."

After her explanation, Liu Xing finally understood why Feng Manlou could not break through the eighth floor of the palace.

To pass this level, you need to play the tune on the jade bi, but Feng Manlou probably can't play it?
"This piece is majestic and soul-stirring, but also soft and euphemistic. The rhythm fluctuates up and down, ups and downs, complex changes, and the difficulty of playing is very high." Hua Yingxue commented.

Liu Xing was a little surprised: "Do you know the rhythm?"

"Learn before."

"Can you play the piece on the jade disc?"

"I haven't tried it, and I'm not sure." Hua Yingxue swept her beautiful eyes over the jade, and said, "However, this piece requires a ensemble of qin and flute. I can't play the qin and play the flute at the same time. Playing this piece requires two people to cooperate, one playing the qin and the other blowing the flute." Looking at Liu Xing, he asked, "Can you play an instrument? If you can, we can try playing the qin and flute together?"

"Play a musical instrument?" Liu Xing frowned. He had never studied music, so naturally he couldn't play a musical instrument.
Liu Xing is not ignorant of rhythm, and some of the characters he has been fascinated by have learned rhythm.For example, Duan Yu, he is involved in both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but in terms of temperament, Duan Yu is only good at appreciating, not playing.

Moreover, the music system in "Dragon and Babu" is different from that of Huaxia Kingdom, Liu Xing can't understand the score on the jade disc at all.

Therefore, Liu Xing can neither play the piano nor play the flute.

If you can't play the piano and flute, you can't open the sound-absorbing wall and enter the palace on the lower floor, what should you do?
After pondering for a while, Liu Xing felt that there are two ways at the moment.

The first method is to find someone who is proficient in temperament in the forbidden book area, and let him and Hua Yingxue play the "Swordsman" together.

The second method is for Liu Xing to temporarily learn the temperament by himself and become a master of temperament.

For ordinary people, it is impossible to be proficient in temperament in a short period of time.However, Liu Xing is an exception.

If Liu Xing can find a novel about musical instruments, Liu Xing will be able to quickly become fascinated, transplant the knowledge about musical instruments within a month, and become a first-class musician.

Hua Yingxue is not only proficient in rhythm, but also knows how to write novels. If she is asked to write a novel about musical instruments, it should not be difficult.

In general, both methods are feasible, but both are time-consuming.

"Is there a more efficient way?"

Liu Xing rolled his eyes, thought of something, and said to Hua Yingxue, "Why don't you play the guqin first, store the melody of the guqin in your mobile phone, then play the melody of the guqin on your mobile phone, and then play the melody of the jade flute , when the time comes, you can play the piano and flute.”

Hua Yingxue frowned slightly, and thought for a while: "This method seems feasible, let's try it."

After the discussion, Hua Yingxue sat down at the stone table in the pavilion, stroking the black guqin with a pair of slender hands, and began to play the piano.

Liu Xing stood aside, took out his mobile phone, turned on the recording function, and prepared to record the melody of Guqin.

Swish!
At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps...

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(End of this chapter)