Ghost Blowing Lantern II

The raccoon woke up from a dream, with the black blood oozing from the coffin still hanging around his mouth. He was quite understanding of human nature, and seemed to be able to see the murderous aura of the bandits who were moving mountains and unloading mountains. Knowing that a disaster was imminent, he was immediately shocked like chaff. Shit and urine flowed out.

Miss Hong looked on and was puzzled. She had become a monk and joined the Changsheng Mountains on the way. She was still an amateur at robbing tombs and digging up tombs. At this time, she saw a mass grave and coffin in the mountain shade, and there was also a raccoon with a sly look on her face. What's going on? I couldn't help but ask.

Partridge Whistle did not answer, but waved to her and the group of thieves behind her, and led them to approach a grave mound at the base of the mountain. This was where Pingshan sunk into the ground. They could not straighten up in it, so everyone had to bend over. Holding up the lamp and crawling into the narrowest place, the white coffin oozing with dirty blood is right in front of you.

The thieves could only smell the fishy stench inside, and hurriedly covered their faces with black gauze, covering their mouths and noses. They guessed that there was probably a rotting corpse hidden in the coffin, but Partridge Whistle felt that this unpainted coffin did not look like an ordinary coffin. Coffins, wherever they are located in large ancient tombs, palaces and Taoist temples, must be full of vitality, but the soil in mountains has two sides, Yin and Yang. The roots of the mountains are cold and damp, but wooden coffins thousands of years ago look like brand new. How could he see this? He's very knowledgeable and doesn't know what's weird here.

Partridge Whistle is also a brave man who is skilled in art. No matter what strange thing happens, he must get to the bottom of it. He knocked on the coffin twice with his knuckles, and there was no sound. The wood of the coffin board was considered to be of high quality. , but it is by no means a rare coffin. The gaps between the coffin boards are filled with sticky blood, which smells like the stench of dead fish after being exposed to the sun.

Partridge Whistle saw that there was nothing outstanding outside, so he asked a few Xiling bandits to come forward and break the coffin. Those people had obeyed Blind Man Chen's instructions and obeyed Partridge Whistle just like they obeyed the helmsman of Changsheng Mountain. After receiving the promise, he stepped forward with a long ax in hand.

An important part of activities such as tomb robbing and fighting is inseparable from "opening the coffin". To open the coffin, Captain Mojin used probing claws and black folds, mainly "prying" and "pulling out", so It is called "raising the coffin and sending out materials"; when robbing tombs in Xiling, it is customary to use a mountain ax to open the coffin, mainly "smashing" and "splitting". However, the space under the mountain root is too narrow and there is no way to split the coffin. The three thieves swung their long axes horizontally, and with a few blows, they broke a big hole in the coffin.

The thieves used axes to enlarge the hole and completely dismantled the complete coffin. When they illuminated it with a lamp, they saw that there was no body in the coffin, only a pile of "meat fungi" filled with black juice. , the smell and color are the same as those of rotting corpses.

When Partridge Whistle saw this, he understood the situation and quickly ordered someone to light a torch to incinerate all the fleshy fungi. It turned out that the white stubble coffin was not a coffin containing dead bodies, but a wood from the Dan Palace that contained fleshy fungi. Lian, the art of refining mercury in elixirs in the Song Dynasty was much different from that in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was more sophisticated than in the previous dynasties. It emphasized the principle of "turning dead mercury into silver, lead and iron into gold, herbs into yin, and combining them into elixirs." Burning elixirs Rare and rare "Ganoderma lucidum, Kowloon plate, meat fungus, Tai Sui..." are often used in elixirs. However, after the meat fungus is harvested, it is difficult to preserve it in a normal environment and will soon dry up and lose its medicinal properties. , the only way to preserve it is to put it in a wooden box and hide it in a damp and cold place in the mountains.

Those mound-like mounds of earth were used to bury wooden tombs. It is not known whether they were thrown out by raccoons or were eroded by mud and water to expose the coffin-like wooden tombs. The flesh fungus in the tombs still cannot grow in the mountain shade. It was breathing, but it had been buried for too long and it was difficult to use as medicine, but it attracted the raccoon to lick the juice that oozed out.

The partridge whistle looked at the lizard captured by the old foreigner and cursed: "These beasts are actually the same as those who want to become immortals. They all plan to swallow pills and take medicine in order to live forever. The ancients in the Pingshan Immortal Palace The elixirs have not been refined, but the remaining elixirs and medicinal materials have made them perfect. If they are allowed to do whatever they want, sooner or later they will become a disaster."

Miss Hong also heard what blind man Chen said about the ancient raccoon stele causing demons. She was quite worried about this, so she asked Partridge Whistle: "In that case, should we let the brothers kill this raccoon now?"

Partridge Whistle has killed many people in his life. He will never show mercy to anyone who is caught by him, such as those who are arrogant and evil, or those who are out of character. Killing a living person is as ordinary as strangling a louse. What's more, it's a raccoon who only covets pills and has evil intentions?

But he was used to living alone. Because the mountain-moving Taoists were declining day by day, and fewer and fewer people in the tribe knew the mountain-moving technique, he took Hua Ling and the old foreigner with him and asked them to learn some real skills from him. Just in case something happens to him while robbing the tomb, the art of moving mountains and dividing armor that has been passed down for thousands of years will not be extinct. Partridge Whistle does not want to kill easily in front of his junior brothers and sisters. It is difficult to distinguish between things in the world, killing and not killing. Killing is just a thought, so as not to lead them down the evil path of excessive killing karma.

At this time, Partridge Whistle heard Miss Hong asking if he wanted to kill the raccoon immediately, so he shook his head and said: "Let's keep this guy for a while, we will use it later."

The thieves didn't know what Partridge Whistle was going to do after he caught the raccoon, but they didn't dare to ask any more questions. They had no choice but to follow his instructions and dig out the fungus and destroy it. Then they lit a torch while the fire was burning. The lanterns were temporarily extinguished, and they scattered around the gaps under the mountain roots, looking for a location where they could dig a robbery hole.

According to Chen Xiazi's unique skill of "listening to the wind and thunder", the ancient tomb in Pingshan is no different from the Taoist fairy palace built on the mountain peak. It is just that the cave inside Pingshan is used to build the fairy palace in the heart of the mountain. , also gradually ascending in the shape of a staircase, following the sloping trend of Pingshan. In the heart of the mountain is a hall higher than the next, about four or five stories high, and the scale is very grand.

The urn city dug at the ground gate at the foot of the mountain should be the mountain gate of the front hall. What is difficult to determine is which palace is the underworld where the bones of the tomb owner are buried and the bright objects buried with them are hidden? According to the idea of ​​moving the mountain Taoist Partridge Shao, it is to dig in from the root of the mountain. Judging from the location, it is estimated that the robbery hole can be dug into the main hall behind the urn city. However, the earth and rocks in the root of the mountain are messy, and the mountain gaps are deep and winding. I really don’t know. Where to start.

Before Partridge Whistle came in, he only planned to explore it first, and was not very sure. However, when he took a look at it, he knew that he was about to guess. Although Pingshan is a large bluestone in one piece, it is not a real stone. It is impeccable. Some places in Shanyin are mixed with earth and rocks. If Shanyang is compared to a giant bluestone shield, like an invulnerable golden bell and an iron shirt, blocking all tomb robbers who want to use external force to dig ancient tombs, then There is an empty door in Shanyin, a door covered by an iron cloth shirt. The bigger the thing in the world, the easier it is to find weaknesses. There must be a sparse in every hundred meters. I am afraid that there are flaws in the mixture of rocks and soil in Shanyin. Even the Yuan people who built the tomb here didn't consider it.

There are various methods of tomb robbing. In fact, it involves digging holes and breaking coffins. Although the craftsmanship is different, there is not much difference between them. Only the methods of searching for tombs are indeed very different, and the distinction between high and low is very different. There is a huge disparity. The first three cases that I watched, heard and asked were all hidden-hunting techniques. Among them, the gold-touching school captain was the most powerful. Moving mountains and unloading mountains was also convinced of this. The "Looking for Dragon Technique" and "Dividing Gold and Fixing Points" The secret technique of Feng Shui can only be used by the captain who holds the talisman.

The Captain Mojin scoured the mountains and swamps in search of ancient tombs. "You can tell the depth of the underground palace by looking at the shape of the mountain, and you can tell the location of the coffin by looking at the stars." These are skills that other tomb robbers cannot match.

But as the saying goes, "An inch is long, a ruler is short." Taoist Banshan also has his own unique method. The partridge whistle saw the group of thieves searching for a long time, using bamboo sticks to poke the east side and the west side, and water seeped everywhere. In a damp environment, Xieling's method of "looking at mud marks to identify the color of grass" no longer works.

Among the various methods of tomb robbing, the most limited can be said to be the method of identifying mud by looking at the soil. Once you reach the desert or a place flooded by water, these methods are not very effective. When the Partridge Whistle saw this, he asked the group of thieves to stop. , took the raccoon ball from the old foreigner's hand, reached out and took out a centipede bead from his arms, which was what Chen Xiazi and Luo Laowai had obtained when they dug out the corpse of the man. They gave it to him when they entered the mountain. Everyone divided some. If you are bitten by a poisonous insect, you can use it to remove the poison, but it cannot be used close to the mouth and nose.

Partridge Whistle took out a centipede spider and wiped it in front of the raccoon's nose. The raccoon suddenly twitched, his eyes turned white, and blood dripped from his nose. Partridge Whistle carried it on the mountain. Blood was dripping back and forth in the seam. Hua Ling held a torch to help him illuminate it, and carefully watched the changes in the blood dripping on the earth and stone.

Finally, I saw blood dripping on a piece of hard soil. It neither seeped nor flowed. Instead, it was adsorbed on the soil and swirled around, and then seeped into the soil. It seemed that this soil was connected to the shadow of the Pingshan Mountain. The gas is slightly repellent to the hot blood, but this change is also very subtle. If you are not an experienced person, you will never see the mystery. This place is far away from the mound where the flesh fungus is buried. Partridge Whistle After seeing it for sure, he nodded and said: "This is the place. If you dig a robbery hole, you will be able to penetrate directly to the underground palace."

He confirmed that it was correct, and then asked Hua Ling to use medicine to stop the bleeding. That raccoon may have also "not cultivated in the previous life, so it will be unlucky in this life", but it happened to hit the hands of Taoist Banshan, and it shed an unknown amount of blood. If it found the soil later, the blood and water in the whole body would be drained away.

Partridge Whistle also used a short knife to break a demonic tendon on the back of Lizi's neck, so that it would no longer be able to practice breathing and practice in this life, nor could it use blind methods to harm living beings. It could only follow the laws of nature and follow the birth and death of all things. He threw it aside casually: "Let's go, don't fall into the hands of Taoist Mountain Mover again."

If the raccoon boy was amnesty, he endured the pain of having his tendon broken and bleeding out, and escaped into the rock crevice without daring to look back. Miss Hong and her Xiling bandits saw all the strange things the partridge whistle did, and everyone could see it. I was stunned. Could it be that by digging a hole in the bloody soil, I could enter the ancient cemetery? In their eyes, this is like the "divination" technique used in the "wen" formula. It is simply miraculous. They thought that Taoist Banshan used raccoon blood divination to find out the direction of digging the robbery cave. .

The group of thieves were gearing up and preparing equipment to dig the hole. Miss Hong saw that there were only a dozen people, and she didn't know how deep the hole was. She was afraid that they wouldn't be able to dig it out in a while, so she wanted to send two brothers back and mobilize more people to help. .

The Partridge Whistle thought that Miss Hong, who came from the Moon Gate, didn't know much about fighting upside down. She didn't know that if she relied on the strength of a large number of people, she wouldn't have the reputation of being able to move mountains, so she said: "It's a big deal. No need, all you Xiling heroes just rest and wait, and let’s see how the Mountain-Moving Armor-Dividing Technique works..." After saying that, he waved to the old foreigner and Hua Ling: "Get the Mountain-Digging Armor!"

The group of thieves were startled when they heard this. They didn't expect that today they would have the opportunity to see the secret art of moving mountains. Who among those who rob tombs and fight upside down has never heard of the art of moving mountains and dividing armor? But in the past, mountain-moving Taoists never interacted with outsiders, so almost no one had seen the mountain-digging Zijia with their own eyes. Everyone was in the business of fighting upside down, so how could we not be curious? Immediately, everyone concentrated and took their breath, staring at every move of the hands of the three mountain movers without blinking an eye.

I saw Hua Ling and the old foreigner unloading the bamboo basket from behind. The bamboo basket was covered with batik flower cloth. It was heavy as if there were many things inside. Hua Ling took out the medicinal cake, crushed it and sprinkled it on the bamboo basket. What were the ingredients of the medicine cake? She shook her hand, and a cloud of dust and smoke suddenly appeared. She heard something squirming in the bamboo basket, making a "clatter" noise, like large iron armor leaves rubbing against each other.

The group of thieves were shocked. They had heard the name "Digging Armor from the Mountains" for a long time, but no one thought that this thing was "alive". The word "Digging Armor" was an ancient name for engineers, which was often used in ancient wars. In the siege strategy, when a city with strong walls and high fortresses is difficult to conquer, the siege troops will divide their forces and dig tunnels to trap the city. The defenders in the city will also dig deep trenches, fill them with water and bury stones to prevent them from being defeated. The enemy dug through the city wall from the outside. Most of the soldiers who performed such tasks were short and stout men who were good at digging soil and mud. They burrowed around in the trenches and tunnels like gophers, also known as "diggers". Army" or "digziying".

Therefore, the group of thieves had previously guessed that the "Mountain Digging Armor" was a set of bronze armor. It should be a special armor worn by the digging army in ancient times. It had iron claws and iron leaves for digging out the ground. They never expected that it would be a set of bronze armor. Living creatures, I heard the sounds in the bamboo basket getting louder and louder, and suddenly two spherical objects covered with armor leaves rolled out from it. They rolled twice on the ground and then stretched out. They turned out to be two monsters with scales all over their bodies. .

The pair of monsters are shaped like dragons, turtles and carps, with scales on their bodies as neat as ancient armor. Their heads are like cones, their tails are horns, their limbs are short and thick, their toes and claws are extremely sharp. The scales made a sound like iron armored leaves, and a copper ring was put on the body, with the word "Xingling" engraved on the ring.

Most of the bandits in Xieling had never seen this thing before. They were shocked by the color and took two steps back. Only a few old Jianghu people were relatively knowledgeable and recognized it as a Dace and Carp Armor at a glance. But when I saw the rusty copper ring and it was no ordinary carp armor, I suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Could it be the cave armor?"

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