The upstairs was also empty, with no furnishings. There were only various spells and scriptures drawn with cinnabar on the four walls, as red as blood, with dense handwriting.
In addition, there are two bronze mirrors hanging on the east and west walls.
On the floor of the room, there were three large porcelain bowls arranged in a line, and two slightly smaller copper bowls arranged side by side behind them.
Then came smaller wooden bowls.
These six bowls form an inverted triangle.
The bowls contained a freshly chopped rooster head, dripping with blood, but strangely, there was no smell of blood, but instead there was another smell, like something rotten.
There is a futon placed on the east and west sides of the six-mouth bowl.
Apparently the two Taoist priests were kneeling here and reciting scriptures.
"What the hell is this?" Shao Zilong frowned and looked at the spells and scriptures on the wall.
I asked him if he saw anything.
"I haven't seen the scriptures before, and this talisman is also messy." Shao Zilong said.
I looked around the room, came to the futon on the east side, and sat down.
Upon seeing this, Shao Zilong also sat down on the west side.
The two of us looked at each other, and Shao Zilong said, "How about we also try to recite a scripture?"
I said yes.
The two of them read the scriptures on the wall opposite.
Sitting on this futon, I happened to face the bronze mirror on the opposite wall.
"The atmosphere is a bit strange, but I can't tell anything." Shao Zilong read for a while, then stopped and turned around to look around.
I got up and walked downstairs.
"Where are you going?" Shao Zilong also hurriedly followed.
I came to the cabinet, opened the cabinet door, and stared at the terrifying ghost picture.
"What did you find?" Shao Zilong also came over to take a look.
I said, "This is a door."
"Door?" Shao Zilong stepped forward and touched the wall in surprise, "You mean there is a secret door in here?"
"It's not a secret door, it's a ghost door."
"Ghost Gate?" Shao Zilong was confused.
I pointed to the left and right sides of the wall, "Here, and here, there should be two corpses of a man and a woman sealed inside."
"Really or not?" Shao Zilong's narrowed eyes turned into bells, "You mean, there are corpses built in this wall? How did you see it? Could it be that you have practiced some powerful eye skills? , can you see through walls?"
"That's impossible." I said angrily, "As long as it's a ghost gate, there must be a male and a female corpse guarding the gate. This is called the door god. Do you still need to look at it?"
"How come I haven't heard of this thing?" Shao Zilong was doubtful, "Then how did you know it was from the underworld?"
I raised my head and glanced upstairs, "Did you see the layout above? It's called the Pavilion of the Past, and the Pavilion of the Past hides the ghost gate. Have you never heard of it?"
Shao Zilong was stunned for a moment and said, "You are talking about these heretical things. I have never heard of them."
"There are a lot of side stories. It's normal if you haven't heard of them." I said, taking a few steps back and looking around the room.
Shao Zilong came over and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Your Excellency, after the ghost gate, there must be a corpse refining kiln. This is common sense." I explained.
"Even I have never heard of it, this is such common sense!" Shao Zilong rolled his eyes and said, "Then you said that corpse refining kiln is behind the ghost door, so why don't you just open the door?"
As he said that, he ran into the cabinet and lay on the wall to study.
"Don't look at it. This ghost door is just the entrance to the corpse refining kiln. It is not for people to enter or exit. The real entrance must be hidden somewhere else." I called him out.
"Did you tell me earlier?" Shao Zilong started rummaging around the room again.
I walked to the right side of the cabinet, reached out and knocked on the wall.
"Is there a problem here?" Shao Zilong perked up.
I said no.
"Then what are you knocking on?" Shao Zilong turned around and prepared to look elsewhere.
I called him back and said, "Stop looking for it. It's a waste of time. Come and just order something."
Shao Zilong stared at me for several times, "You're not planning to tear down this wall and go in directly, are you?"
I'd say that's about right.
"Are you making too much noise? It's not good!" Shao Zilong said, rolling up his sleeves, "Let me do it!"
I stepped aside.
He touched the wall for a while, stooped slightly, put his palms against the wall, paused for a moment, and suddenly pressed forward, "Get up!"
Then he quickly pulled back, and a green brick was sucked out of his palm.
"How about it? I've been practicing this trick since I was young." Shao Zilong weighed the bricks in his hand and said proudly.
"Not bad, I think besides washing dishes you can also work as a bricklayer." I praised.
"Oh, why didn't I think of this?" Shao Zilong said, and pulled out the bricks from the wall one after another.
During this period, it was silent and there was no sound.
Soon, he opened a hole big enough for one person to enter.
"Let's go." I walked in first.
Shao Zilong then came in, took a breath of cold air and said, "Let me go, are you digging a big hole in the mountain?"
This two-story building has its back against the mountain wall. If you dig in from here, you will naturally dig into the heart of the mountain.
We walked forward for a while and saw a large pit in front of us, which was about ten meters square and about six or seven meters deep.
Around the big pit, there were burned incense candles, so densely packed that there was no telling how many there were.
In addition, among the incense candles, there are black wooden signs placed one by one.
"Damn it, isn't this a spiritual tablet?" Shao Zilong squatted down, took a look at one of the wooden tablets, and shouted.
I went over and looked at them one by one, and sure enough, they were all spiritual tablets, hundreds of them in total.
The name of the owner of the spiritual tablet is engraved on it. It seems that there are men and women, and the surnames are also different.
"Go down and have a look."
We jumped down and came to the bottom of the pit.
In the middle of this big pit, there are piles of white porcelain jars, which are slightly smaller than those wine jars.
On one side of the altar is written a blood-red word "福", and on the other side is a black word "Longevity".
In addition, there are densely written small characters surrounding the word "luck and longevity". The content is similar to the scriptures on the wall on the second floor.
When I saw these jars, I immediately thought of the jars in the Ice Prison under the Liu residence.
The bottom of this pit is filled with lifelessness.
Shao Zilong had probably realized something, his brows were furrowed and his face was gloomy.
The mouth of the altar was sealed with yellow mud, and two talismans were pasted on it.
"I'll open it!" Shao Zilong grimaced, pulled off the two talismans, slapped the seal with his palm, and then lifted the yellow mud seal intact.
The moment it was opened, only a hissing sound was heard, and wisps of black smoke came out of the altar.
"Unlucky, there are restrictions here, we were discovered!" Shao Zilong cursed.
