The master wielding the sledgehammer was very professional. After a dozen hammer blows, a big hole was made in the secret door. The secret door finally collapsed as the marble cracked.
Sima Haotian and Xue Zhifeng immediately shined flashlights in it, and then both made sounds of surprise. Under the light, the things inside reflected all kinds of light, almost filling the third secret room.
Then everyone cheered. The emergence of the third secret room meant that there was likely to be a fourth secret room.
The next cleaning work is relatively simple. There are much more treasures in the third secret room than in the second secret room. Everyone else was surrounding the pile of treasures, only Li Mo was checking something in a few corners.
Seeing his abnormal behavior, Sima Haotian hurriedly walked over and asked, "Is there any other hidden secrets?"
"Professor Sima, take a closer look at the walls and the ground. This secret room must have been dug temporarily. The ground is wet and muddy."
"That's true."
"I'm wondering why a temporary secret room was dug out and most of the treasures were piled here."
Sima Haotian thought for a moment and said, "You mean that the biggest function of this secret room is to bury the most important treasure in the underground palace."
"No one knows what happened more than a thousand years ago, but this behavior can make people doubt the real purpose. If it was really to hide the most important treasure, it would not be found in that pile of antiques. So I If you just look around the corner, you might be able to find something."
Li Mo held a wooden shovel in his hand and dug soil on the ground.
"I'll dig with you."
Sima Haotian also took out a wooden shovel from his tool bag. He was not interested in the piles of various antique treasures. If you follow Li Mo to find the true body of Sakyamuni Buddha's finger bone relic, it will be a great harvest.
Others were so busy that they turned around and looked over curiously, and even the live cameras were pointed at them. Li Mo had already gone to another place to dig. Sima Haotian dug for a while and found nothing. He was about to stand up. His legs were probably numb from squatting for a long time. His body swayed and he subconsciously held the shovel in his right hand to support the ground.
As soon as the shovel went down, I felt like I hit something. Sima Haotian hurriedly knelt on the ground and poked the soil with a shovel a few times to reveal a corner of a wooden box.
There was really something buried in the soil. Sima Haotian dug up from the side, revealing more boxes.
"Professor Li, come here quickly, everyone, come here quickly."
Li Mo knew he had dug up the treasure. He couldn't move his position just now when he saw him squatting in the place where the treasure was hidden.
As the surrounding soil was dug away, a square wooden box was revealed. The wooden box had been severely corroded and would fall apart with the slightest force.
Sima Haotian carefully took it out of the soil and laid it flat on the ground. He looked at the experts gathered around him and said, "Professor Li, you should open the blind box."
"Go on."
"Professor Sima, if you find the wooden box, you can open it."
"Well, I hope you're lucky."
Sima Haotian opened the rotten wooden box and found a package hidden inside.
Is the stuff still in there?
Sima Haotian opened the package, and another iron letter appeared inside. No one would have thought that the heavy iron letter contained treasures one after another. Up to the fourth level, there is a gold treasure letter studded with pearls. There is a gold base on the top of the treasure letter, with a silver pillar like a finger upside down on it, and there are white flowers on the surface.
Are these Buddha bones?
Except for Li Mo, the other people at the scene were breathing heavily and looked at this Buddhist relic in disbelief. This is the legendary Buddha relic.
"No, this is a jade imitation, it should be the legendary bone shadow."
Li Mo did not take it directly with his hands, but took out a piece of clean cloth from his bag and wrapped it in the imitation piece. When he shined a flashlight on it, the light transmission was very obvious.
"It is indeed a shadow bone." Xue Zhifeng held back his excitement, "Professor Li, open this gold treasure letter and take a look."
Li Mo gently put the wrapped jade imitation into the box beside him, and then opened the fifth gold treasure letter. Inside was a sandalwood letter.
There is also a base on the top. The base is made of sandalwood and is inlaid with pearls. There is also a finger-like pillar upside down on the base.
This time, no one impulsively thought it was the real body of Sakyamuni Buddha's finger bone relic, but instead used a flashlight to shine it.
"The second jade shadow bone."
The more this happens, the more everyone looks forward to it. The function of the shadow bone is to protect the true body of the relic and act as a substitute at critical moments. Since two shadow bones appear in succession, there must be the real body of the finger bone relic inside.
Li Mo continued to open the sandalwood letter, which contained a crystal coffin. There was something wrapped in cloth next to the crystal coffin. Li Mo gently picked up the thing and opened the cloth to see that it was the third jade shadow bone.
"Professor Li, there is a jade coffin in the crystal coffin. Open it."
The crystal coffin is transparent and you can see what's inside. Li Mo opened the seventh treasure letter and revealed the jade coffin inside. He didn't hesitate and opened the lid of the jade coffin. There was a finger bone lying quietly inside the jade coffin.
There are lines in the middle of the finger bones, but the lines are not thorough.
"The true body of Sakyamuni Buddha's finger bone relic has been born!"
Seeing the most sacred object in Buddhism, Li Mo had a little vibrato when he spoke.
"The color and surface texture of this finger bone are the same as those recorded on the treasure account stone tablet, and the same as the description in the ancient books. It is correct, this finger bone must be the true body of the relic."
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Xue Zhifeng stood up excitedly, almost roaring. After many twists and turns, the supreme sacred object in the Buddhist world and the only remaining finger bone relic of the Buddha's true body finally appeared.
Cheers suddenly erupted in the third secret room.
Ten minutes later, four heavily armed policemen came to the third secret room. Sima Haotian enjoyed the highest honor. He personally carried the eight-fold treasure letter restored to its original form, three shadow bones, and a real body of Sakyamuni Buddha's finger bone relic out of the underground palace. Just after leaving the underground palace, the brown bear and eight security guards were already waiting.
At the most important moment, the brown bear showed his hidden ID to the head of the official armed police. The person in charge immediately saluted, indicating that he was ready to be dispatched.
Before entering the underground palace for the last time, Li Mo had already discussed with Brown Bear that when the real body of Sakyamuni Buddha's finger bone relic was born, he would immediately guard it and send it to Kyoto overnight without any reaction from the local government.
At the same time, he also took away the silver-flowered double-wheeled twelve-ring tin staff and the gilt-bronze pagoda, which means that so far, the most precious Buddhist treasure among all the treasures found in the underground palace of the Tang Dynasty was taken away by him.
"Expert Xue, Expert Zhou, the real body of Sakyamuni Buddha's finger bone relic has been found. I plan to leave Fufeng and return to Kyoto tomorrow. You also know the reason. In a few days, an invitation letter will be sent to you. Please invite me when the time comes. Everyone attend the press conference.”
"Don't worry, Professor Li. It's our honor. We will arrive on time."
Xue Zhifeng knew the agreement between Li Mo and the official. Now that the important matter had been decided, there was no need for him to stay here. It was normal for him to leave in a hurry.
The remaining things in the underground palace are relatively simple and can be completed by an archaeological team in one day. As for the later refinement work, it will take one or two months to do it slowly.
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Mo boarded the plane to Shanghai with eight security guards. As for what will happen to Fufeng next, it has nothing to do with him. Once things are settled in Kyoto, everything will settle down.
