After the stone door of the tomb was opened, a group of people led by Jiang Xiaotang lit up their lamps and stepped into the corridor behind the door.
The corridor is about four meters wide and five meters high, leading directly to the depths of the mountain. It is so dark that there is no end in sight.
There was an oil bowl placed on the alcove. It was originally extinguished, but after everyone lit it, flames like beans suddenly burned quietly.
"These lamp oils are left over from the past. They should be the oil boiled out of the bodies of the East China Sea Monster Clan. They can still be used after thousands of years."
Jiang Xiaotang sniffed the smell and commented.
Siren's sebum? Hearing these words, the eyes of the country bumpkins lit up, and Qiao San became even more greedy, muttering:
"This thing is extremely valuable nowadays."
After the battle between the human and demon clans, the demon clan retreated.
The power of Daxizhou is stronger, and it can also confront the human race and conquer the mountains.
But the Kraken in Donghai Prefecture was much miserable. They were beaten back into the sea. After a final flutter at the end of the Great Qian Dynasty, they were wiped out by the Great Zhou Imperial Master.
As a result, the number of sea monsters has dropped sharply. If you can catch one now, it will be said to be full of treasures and of immeasurable value.
Jiang Xiaotang glanced at him:
"Keep an eye on your men and know what to do and what not to do."
Qiao San was dissatisfied in his heart but agreed on the surface.
The group of people began to take precautions and walked inward little by little along the spacious corridor.
Although hundreds of years have passed, perhaps due to the isolation of the formation and the fact that it is hidden in the heart of the mountain, the entire tomb is quite well preserved. The ground is covered with a light layer of ash. The surrounding area is extremely quiet, with only the sound of people's footsteps echoing. .
"It doesn't look like there's any danger." Hongying muttered in a low voice.
Her big single-lidded eyes moved around. Suddenly, when she lowered her gaze, she was stunned for a moment:
"Where did the fog come from?!"
Unknowingly, the ground beneath everyone's feet was filled with mist.
The fog came very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it filled the corridor. Although it was not thick, it only slightly blocked the line of sight, but it was enough to make everyone vigilant.
"Could it be poison gas? I heard that this thing is often found in large tombs." Someone was worried.
Jiang Xiaotang glanced at the lantern on the pipe pole. The flame had a constant temperature and said:
"Don't make a fuss. This mist is not poisonous."
Even though she said this, she was still very energetic and guessed the reason, until the Feng Shui in the team let out a light sigh, holding the kanyu plate in her hand, and said:
"We were spinning in circles."
Nangong Wan also looked at the mark she had left on the stone wall next to her not long ago.
Ghost hitting the wall? !
Everyone was surprised. As monks, everyone present was smart, but they were unprepared and fell into the trap.
Jiang Xiaotang raised his eyebrows and looked around the team:
"Who is good at breaking through this mystery? Rewards will be given in hindsight."
After a short silence, a plain-looking Qimen monk walked out:
"Let me do it."
He opened the cloth bag at his waist, shook it gently, and pulled out a thick black horn. It was polished and shiny, and was tied tightly with copper wire. Many strange patterns were outlined on the surface with black blood.
"The reason why we circled back was probably because of the fog, which distorted our sense of direction."
Said.
He spread his knees side by side, holding the horns in his hands, and suddenly took a deep breath. The naked eye could see that his belly was dry and his chest was bulging.
Then, the man blew hard on the horns!
Woo!
An extremely subtle, almost silent horn sound sounded, and the Qimen monk's face turned red. The ripples on the tip of the horn spread out and spread to the surroundings, and the mist suddenly boiled.
Gradually fade away.
Everyone was able to continue moving forward without the obstruction of the fog. Sure enough, they quickly passed through the outermost tomb barrier and entered the front hall.
Seeing this scene, Qiao San and others fully realized the benefits of having more people. If he could explore the world alone, he might not be able to crack it so easily.
However, at this moment, "Buddha" suddenly turned his head and looked at the front of the deep corridor:
"careful!"
At the same time as he spoke, the Tingxuelou heroines who were proficient in hidden weapons had already heard the faint scream in the air.
The pupils of "Lord Buddha" reflected a short spear flying from the depths of the corridor, and the fat monk clasped his hands together.
"Dang!"
At this moment, he actually held the half-meter-long stone spear between his two fleshy palms. His palms stained with golden light rubbed against the short spear, and dazzling sparks erupted.
The great monk pinched it hard with both hands, and the short spear exploded inch by inch like a bamboo joint and turned into powder as it spun.
"Buddhist Vajra Palm." Jiang Xiaotang narrowed his eyes, held out the pipe in his hand at the same time, and knocked away the second short spear that was piercing her.
Qiao San also struck out with his sword and swung away the third one.
"Swish swish——"
But in front of the dark corridor, more than dozens of sharp short spears flew towards them, as if there were war crossbows placed at the end, each one carrying powerful kinetic energy.
Extremely fast!
Except for some masters from various sects who dodge or defend in advance.
Most of the other Jianghu people, including some Qi-nurturing warriors, barely had time to react before their chests were pierced by short spears. Their bodies fell back, their legs lifted off the ground, and they fell down screaming.
Nangong Wan saw with her own eyes that the head of the Qimen monk next to him who had just blown the horn was pierced, and the headless body swayed and fell like a watermelon.
And there are many such examples.
For a moment, the originally spacious corridor became crowded, screams continued, and the weaker Jianghu people fell like straw.
In just a few breaths, more than a dozen corpses were left on the ground, and there were also many people who were bruised.
Before everyone could calm down, they heard the sound of neat footsteps.
"It's a stone figurine!" Hongying exclaimed.
I saw a group of stone figurines that looked like soldiers approaching in the corridor ahead. They held stone halberds in their hands, lined up in an array, and rushed towards everyone.
Some people wanted to flee backwards, but found that large groups of stone figurines came to block the passages on both sides of the rear, blocking the front and rear.
The battle started instantly, and in the blink of an eye, the entire corridor became a battlefield. People from various factions showed their special abilities and fought with the stone figurines guarding the tomb.
The battle lasted for a full quarter of an hour before it finally ended.
After cutting off the limbs of the last stone figurine, Qiao San was sweating profusely and looking at the corpses on the ground with an ugly face:
"What the hell is all this?"
In this round of attacks, because he had the largest number of members of the Heaven and Earth Society, he suffered the most casualties.
Jiang Xiaotang wiped the pipe on the clothes of the corpse on the ground, then stood up, tugged at the overly splayed corners of the cheongsam with her jade hands, and said calmly:
"The King of Zhennan is a royal noble. According to the rules of the Daqian Dynasty in the past, he is qualified to form a private army. It seems that this treasure house was also built in accordance with the rules of the prince. As for the stone figurines guarding the tomb, they should be from that era. A common puppet technique. Move forward quickly, otherwise it will be even more troublesome to wait for the stone figurines from other directions in the tomb to arrive."
besides?
Everyone was shocked and did not dare to delay. They simply packed up and broke into the front hall.
Sure enough, a relief sculpture of green seedlings, tusks and strange beasts was found at the end. It was as big as a wall and blocked the entire passage.
Terrible and terrifying.
"This should be a tomb beast. You see, the short spear just now was shot out from these launching ports."
Jiang Xiaotang pointed to some dark gaps in the stone wall under the light of the lights.
As she said that, she opened her long slit legs again, walked to some square doors next to the tomb beast, and poked out the thick copper pipes, and said with a solemn expression:
"As expected, this is a magical artillery weapon from the Daqian Dynasty. I didn't expect that such a thing would exist in the tomb. In comparison, the bed crossbow is nothing."
artillery!
Upon hearing these two words, the martial arts warriors present took a step back with fear in their eyes.
What is the strongest dynasty army?
It is not the Iron Buddha, nor is it a powerful divine general, but a powerful magical weapon and artillery.
It can be said that the reason why the Zhou Dynasty is able to maintain its position today is largely due to its magical weapons and artillery.
On the battlefield, as long as you send experts to temporarily delay the enemy and then bombard them with artillery, even the monks sitting in the well will not be able to withstand a few cannons.
Hundreds of magical weapons and artillery were fired at once, and the monks who watched the sky were also filled with hatred. Not to mention these trash fish.
"But it seems that after so many years, the Qianyuan Treasure House has indeed been seriously damaged. These artillery pieces have misfired, and a large number of short spear crossbows have their launch ports damaged." Jiang Xiaotang said with emotion:
"Otherwise, if the defense facilities here are intact, under the artillery cover just now, we may be completely wiped out."
After a pause, she smiled:
"But now, after all, it is not the same as back then. According to general rules, the perimeter of this kind of large tomb is the most tightly defended. The further inside, to the living area of the owner of the tomb and the area where the funerary objects are placed, the safer it is."
Hearing the words "funeral objects", the remaining people in the world regained their fighting spirit.
Qiao San said "Hey" and stepped forward and said:
"Next, how about I open the door?"
After saying that, he stepped outside the relief of the tomb beast with green tusks, stabbed the steel knife into the crack of the door, and exhaled loudly.
In the sound of "rolling".
The relief is split in the center and the door to the nave is open.
At the same time, the lights in the dark hall were lit up one by one. Unfortunately, most of the lamp holders were extinguished, so it was still dim.
The space in the middle hall is also wider and larger, making everyone feel lighter all over and the surroundings are no longer cramped.
"If nothing unexpected happens, we have already entered the middle of the mountain."
Nangong Wan said.
But compared to the excitement of the other Jianghu people, her face was full of fear and worry.
Although many people died along the way, in her opinion, it was still too smooth. The people behind the scenes as imagined have not yet appeared, and the major factions in the city have not yet appeared.
It always made her feel uneasy.
"Ah! What is that!"
At this moment, as everyone stepped into the middle hall, someone tentatively threw a torch forward.
The torch flew several times in the air, and then hit a huge thing with a bang.
Following this action, a huge stone pillar covered with patterns suddenly lit up behind the nave, illuminating the huge thing.
People froze suddenly.
I saw a stone ape several feet tall sitting cross-legged in the middle of the empty nave.
The whole body of the ape was carved from stone, but the joints were not perfectly jointed. The stone ape sat cross-legged on the ground, with its back slightly arched. It was covered with a set of dim metal armor, and its hair was lifelike.
The huge body gives people a strong oppressive force.
At this time, Shi Yuan's closed eyes suddenly lit up, revealing a red light.
Dust quickly fell from the joints, and the sound of countless mechanisms rotating came from the underground of the treasure house, and the earth seemed to be shaking.
"No! This is the real tomb beast!"
Jiang Xiaotang's elegant and calm posture disappeared without a trace. The moment Shi Yuan woke up, Wu Fu's inspiration gave her a strong early warning of crisis.
escape!
Without hesitation, Jiang Xiaotang rose into the air, her beautiful legs under her cheongsam stretched straight, and she ran straight back. The Jiang family disciple beside her did not hesitate at all, and turned back.
Other people in the world did not react so quickly. Instead, they were fascinated by the jade ornaments in the hall and the lamps that looked like pure gold.
When he came back to his senses, he was shocked to find that the stone ape was covered in dust like a waterfall.
The twisting joints clicked, and with a grab of his big hand, more than a dozen Jianghu people were crushed to pieces in an instant.
The bones were broken, the tendons were broken, and the blood was like a fountain.
"retreat!"
Qiao San turned around and left.
With his cultivation level, it was okay to deal with several Yang Qi at the same time, but it was absolutely impossible to kill more than a dozen Yang Qi at the same time with one blow.
He even had a feeling that this stone ape could crush him to death with just one finger!
"Amitabha!"
The beggar Buddha looked forward in astonishment and stood up slowly. The ground around him shook and shook, stones fell one after another, and stone apes rose from the ground like mountain peaks.
His emotionless eyes locked on the ant below, and he pressed down with a big hand.
"Buddha" roared angrily, and his whole body shone with golden light. His fat and fat body suddenly seemed to be cast from brass.
A copper bowl suddenly enlarged, enveloping him and several close monks around him.
"Dang!"
The next second, Shi Yuan's big hand fell, and the ground suddenly collapsed. The Jianghu people who could not avoid him were crushed into a pulp, waiting for Shi Yuan to move his big hand to pursue others.
The cracked copper bowl that was pressed to the ground was suddenly opened. "Buddha" was covered in blood and his face was horrified. He picked up the copper bowl and ran away without daring to say a word.
"Run away!"
"Run!"
The entire treasure house fell into unprecedented commotion.
The remaining masters of small sects originally wanted to take the opportunity to go around and break into the back hall of the main tomb. However, after seeing the miserable state of the Buddha, they all became sweaty and used all their strength to escape.
There was chaos.
A famous martial arts master was either beaten to death by a stone ape or hit by a stone falling from the cave roof in the chaos.
"Owner! Let's go quickly!"
Among the crowd, Hongying's face turned pale, and she turned around to cover Nangong Wan's departure. Everyone was already in the middle and rear, and there were not many people. They were cautious along the way, but there was no loss of personnel.
At this time, he was about to leave, but suddenly he saw Qiao San passing by, with a sharp look in his eyes, and suddenly struck out with a palm, sending Hongying flying towards Shi Yuan.
"Hongying!"
Nangong Wan's eyes were about to burst, and she had no time to pay attention to Qiao San. She tapped her boots on the ground, pulled out the afterimage with a swipe, picked up Hongying and was about to leave.
But he felt a terrifying coercion falling from the sky.
She looked up in shock, only to see the huge stone ape crouching on the ground, supporting the ground with one hand, making a fist with the other hand, and sinking towards her.
The powerful Qi locked her, and Nangong Wan was like falling into an ice cave. She was clearly at the eighth level, but she had no power to fight back in front of this tomb-suppressing beast.
"No...it shouldn't be. King Zhennan is just sitting in a well. How can he have such a powerful puppet..."
"Are you going to die..."
Nangong Wan's thoughts flickered, and her heart was filled with sadness and despair.
At this time, everything in her field of vision seemed to have slowed down. She could clearly see the falling gravel above her head, Hongying who was pushing her hard in her arms, and the frightened and sad female nuns of the Snow Tower in the distance.
Suddenly, Ji Pingan's face flashed in her mind.
In the flash of lightning, she remembered a strange and incomprehensible word that Ji Pingan had whispered to her that night in the theater.
The general idea is:
"If your life is in danger in the Qianyuan Treasure House, just..."
Nangong Wan suddenly read loudly:
"I love you walking down a dark alley alone!"
Kaka...
As she recited this strange "spell", the eyes of the tombstone ape above her head suddenly flickered, as if it had received a certain instruction, a roar came from the body, and the huge fist stopped.
Hovering over the heads of the two women hugging each other.
Got...saved?
How on earth does he know this?
Nangong Wan was surprised and happy, and the joy of surviving a desperate situation surged in her heart, and she continued to test out the second sentence:
"I love the way you don't kneel down?"
Kaka...
Tombstone Stone Monkey raised his fist heavily.
As if he glanced at her, then ignored her, his limbs sank, he suddenly jumped up, and instantly attacked the crowd who fled to the tomb relief at the entrance of the nave.
At the door.
The crowd was crowded together. Qiao San, who was tall and thin and stared at the dark circles under his eyes, was about to step out when he suddenly heard movement behind him and turned his head curiously, then froze.
When he saw Shi Yuan letting Nangong Wan go, he couldn't help but be startled, and his movement to escape stopped. Only one thought came to his mind:
How can it be? !
Then, greed suddenly flashed through his mind: If Tingxuelou could bypass this stone ape, could he also...
But during this moment of hesitation, a strong fear suddenly surged into his heart. He suddenly woke up and saw Shi Yuan poking straight at him with a finger.
"Here comes the knife!"
Qiao San shouted loudly, slashed with the sword in his hand, and his hands glowed with white light.
However, in the next second, as a martial artist in the Nine-Nine Perfection Realm and the second strongest person in the Heaven and Earth Society, the aura on his body instantly tore apart, and the sword in his hand flew out.
His whole body felt as if he had been hit by a train. His chest was dented, white bones were piercing out of his muscles, his neck was twisted and broken, and he was pressed to death on the ground.
Dead... dead... Not far away, a group of female monks in Tingxue Tower were at a loss the whole time, their minds went blank. Hongying grabbed Nangong Wan and urged:
"Keep reciting poems, keep reciting..."
…
…
A little earlier, among the mountains.
"What are you looking at?"
The group of five people stopped and changed their clothes. Yu Yu, who covered his pretty face with a scarf, couldn't help but ask.
Ji Ping'an looked back and shook his head:
"Nothing, let's go into the treasure house."
Behind him, Fang Shijie, Yu Yu, Huang He and Mu Yaoyao all changed their clothes and followed Ji Pingan out of the city early in the morning and wandered around in the mountains.
At this time, except for the God Emperor who looked calm, everyone else looked confused:
"How to get in? There isn't even the slightest spiritual fluctuation around here. Are you sure the entrance is here?"
Ji Ping'an smiled, took out a simple map from his arms, and said:
"According to what the Imperial Master once told me, there are no shortcuts in the world. If you open it in the right way, there will be a shortcut. We don't need to follow the conventional route to enter. We have to solve the defense mechanisms in the Qianyuan Treasure House one by one. It is too troublesome. .”
God Emperor Fang Shijie looked anxious and urged:
"Explain to them what this is for, please hurry up."
Ji Ping'an looked at the God Emperor who was jumping in front of him like a little potato, and sighed helplessly:
"All right."
Immediately, he raised his hand and broke a wooden stick from a nearby tree. He circled the four people on the ground three times to the left and three times to the right. Finally, he punched the stick towards the ground and recited:
"open!"
The next second, the scenery around everyone wrinkled like water, shattered and reorganized, until it stabilized.
Surprisingly, they were no longer in the wilderness around them, but in a quiet corridor inside the Qianyuan Treasure House.
Bowls of oil on the walls on both sides ignited themselves, dispelling the darkness.
Yu Yu, Huang He and Mu Yaoyao were confused, looking left and right:
"Coming in now?"
"Otherwise?" Ji Ping'an didn't explain, and walked along the ancient corridor.
Not long after, a small unlocked door appeared in front of him. He pushed it with the wooden stick in his hand. Behind the dark door, oil lamps lit up one by one, illuminating the entire jeweled hall in his breath.
"Well, this is the core of the Qianyuan Treasure House, the apse of the tomb of King Zhennan, and the place where he lived after his death." Ji Ping'an explained.
I wonder how those people in the world would feel if they knew that someone could enter a place that they could not enter even if they lived or died.
However, several people present were in a happy mood.
"Come on, let's go! Momojiji, where did the Imperial Master put his things? The front hall of the house? The back hall? Or the bedroom?" Fang Shijie rushed in at a brisk pace and asked.
Ji Pingan said helplessly:
"I'm not a national master. How can I know? Just look for it. It's in this house anyway."
Everyone stepped into the back hall and found that there was something else going on here. The huge hillside was built into a small world, and there was a huge mansion in front of them.
Built imitating the royal palace in the Yang world, it is the so-called Yin house.
"The real Zhennan Prince's Mansion is much larger than this, and the restricted formation is already much smaller." Ji Ping'an explained.
As soon as they spoke, everyone pushed open the door of the house, where there were all kinds of landscapes and towers.
"Ah, there are so many copper coins on the ground! There is also silver!" Mu Yaoyao said loudly with sharp eyes.
Everyone looked down and saw that there were indeed a lot of copper coins spread on the ground of this huge mansion. They bent down and grabbed a handful. Picked up one, with the word Qianyuan written on it.
There were also small silver ingots scattered in the dirt.
Not only that, the saint soon discovered that the trees in the courtyard were made of jade and coral, and the blue bricks were also paved with jade.
As a saint of the state religion, Yu Yu was never short of money, but at this moment, she was shocked by this scene:
"Excessive and extravagant, how rich was the King of Zhennan back then?"
Fang Shijie let out a "hum", put his little hands behind his back, and said with a "rare and strange" attitude:
"Otherwise, what do you think, why did Da Gan make the people miserable? People from all over the world revolted? When a handful of people in this world control most of the wealth in society, this will happen."
He pointed to the jeweled house and said:
"Have you seen the wood used in that house construction? They are all top quality wood, much more valuable than these jade and corals. Back then, this house was filled with gold and silver in several large rooms. I...came in with the God Emperor and the Imperial Master When I arrived, I was shocked. When I opened the house, the firelight shone, and I was almost blinded by the gold and silver. However, the situation was special at that time, and it was not easy to move it with a big fanfare, so I only took away the gold and silver that were most convenient for smelting. I originally planned to keep the rest of these things as a reserve, and if the military funds are no longer available, I would come back and move them."
After a pause, the God Emperor sighed and said:
"But then the army moved further and further away. After all, it was difficult to sell these things when they came to move them. In addition, the transportation costs back and forth, and the food and drink for the soldiers cost a lot, so they just left them behind and were too lazy to move them."
Ji Ping'an glanced at him and knew that the God-Emperor had a reason not to mention it, that is, during the period of conquering the world and the early period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the country was unstable.
The two of them were always worried about the change of power, so they kept these things so that if they were defeated, they would have the capital to start over.
After a brief sigh, everyone walked in the Yin Mansion and saw a mess along the way, all traces left by the God Emperor and others.
"Speaking of which, where is the body of King Zhennan?" Huang He asked curiously.
Fang Shijie said "Oh" and said calmly:
"That prince took a lot of weird elixirs during his lifetime, and after he died, he still played the role of a zombie decomposer. But there is no such thing as a corpse decomposer in this world. He was deceived by a group of Qi practitioners and turned his body into a gold and silver body. , we looked at it as valuable, and smashed it and smelted it and turned it into military expenses."
Everyone: "..."
Ji Ping'an coughed and pushed open the study door:
"The treasure left by the Imperial Master has been found."
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