After Xia Houyun said that, he walked quickly into the stone gate. Although Old Ghost Face had never heard of the beasts, he saw that the strange beast was only focused on licking food and did not pay attention to Xia Houyun at all, so he hurriedly followed the others. .
Behind the stone gate is still a dark cave. It seems that it is still some distance away from the open valley bottom. Everyone is worried that the beasts will cause trouble after eating Qiu Laohua's brain, so they don't dare to slow down at all. They are all one step away. He continued to go deeper into the cave step by step.
The old man with a ghost face glanced back at the stone gate as he walked, and saw a black iron door knocker on the left and right stone doors. Two wrist-thick iron chains were tied to the door knockers, and the other ends should be tied to the beasts.
He seemed to have figured out the principle of opening and closing the stone door - the blood sacrifice on the stone platform was magical. Unexpectedly, the function was actually very simple. It used the smell of blood to wake up the beasts inside the door. No one had guessed at all. In the end, it was Luo Laoqi who accidentally solved the puzzle. The reason was that he never expected such a strange beast to exist inside the door.
The beasts of Lan are as powerful as elephants and can easily break open the stone door, thus creating a scene of "the door opening for sacrifice". After the beasts of Lan have eaten the sacrifices, they will probably return to the cave, and in this way they will drag He closed the stone door again with the iron chain, and then everything returned to the same state as before, leaving only a pool of blood on the stone platform.
The Taoist priest with a grimace thought of this and said, "No wonder there isn't much Qiu Laohua's blood around the stone platform. It turns out that it was all licked away by this monster."
"Yes, most of Qiu Laohua's clothes were eaten by it without spitting it out. With such a big mouth, not to mention the length of his body, I guess I can eat a calf without any problem."
"But why does this beast return to the stone gate after eating the sacrifice?" The Taoist Priest with a grimace suddenly asked: "Since it likes the smell of blood so much, then it should stay in the cave?"
Xia Houyun heard this and replied: "That may be because the nest of the beasts is inside the stone gate, otherwise why bother to drag the iron chain back."
Sure enough, after walking for more than ten steps, the grim-faced Taoist priest who led the way found another cave entrance on the rock wall. The entrance was about two people high and only a foot deep. It was filled with smelly weeds. This should be Lanzhu's cave entrance. The beast's lair.
After seeing the cave, Old Taoist Ghostface felt a little relieved. He knew that if the person who designed this mechanism wanted to close the stone door again, the length of the iron chain could only allow the beasts to reach the lair. If it was too long, the stone door would not close. If it's too short, the beasts won't be able to return to their dens, and they're afraid they'll go on strike long ago.
The old Taoist with a grimace was very curious about what these beasts were, so he asked: "Senior Xiahou, have you ever seen the strange beasts at the door? I have been wandering around the world for several years, but I have never heard of them."
Xia Houyun shook his head and replied: "I have never seen it. I only read about it in Qin Nachuan's "Jiuzhou Spirits and Monsters", and I vaguely remember that there is such a strange beast."
"Senior, have you seen the strange beast chapter of "Kyushu Spirits and Monsters"?! Could it be that you have some friendship with Qinglong Bazi?"
"Faqiu Sect is indeed on good terms with Qinglong Bazi, but it is far from being able to browse through the treasures in their sect at will." Xia Houyun said: "The reason why I know this is actually because there is a copy of "The Record of Nine Provinces Spirits and Monsters" in Faqiu Sect. The manuscripts only have the 'Evil Ghost Chapter' and the 'Alien Beast Chapter', but the most complete manuscript including the 'Spirit Chapter' and 'Evil Demon Chapter' is still in the hands of Qinglong Bazi."
"Oh, so that's it." The old Taoist with a grimace nodded, then glanced at the lair of the beasts, and then said: "But I am really a little confused, not to mention who built this place, how did he let such strange things happen?" A beast dragging a stone door weighing thousands of kilograms back to its lair obediently? And if this place has been left untouched for hundreds of thousands of years, without the sacrifices to feed it, wouldn’t these beasts starve to death?"
"I don't know much about this beast. The record about it in "The Records of Nine Provinces Spirits and Monsters" is only rough. It is said that this beast has brute strength and is good at carrying heavy loads. It has no eyes or ears and can only rely on the sense of smell between its noses to move. It is One of the top ten ghost-eating beasts in Buddhism, I guess that the body functions of the beasts are more like turtles. They sleep soundly without food and can only be awakened by the strong smell of blood."
"Is that why Li Tianwen said that this door was not opened until several years ago?" He Siniang asked: "Is it because the Lan beasts are usually sleeping soundly?"
The old Taoist with a grimace nodded in agreement: "That's quite possible. Moreover, I seem to have guessed why Qiu Laohua's head is still in the cave."
"Oh? Why?"
"Recall the distance between Qiu Laohua's head and the stone platform. Could it be that after the beasts bit it off, it accidentally rolled away?"
"Does that mean it's out of reach? Is it that simple?"
"It's that simple. You have also seen what happened next. Qiu Laohua's head and pulp can be eaten by all the beasts, so there is no reason to ignore only the head. After all, it is not because of the chain. Can’t reach it?”
"..."
"The old man agrees with the Taoist priest. Many things seem complicated on the surface, but in fact the answers are unexpectedly simple. Just like this stone gate, leaving aside the rare beasts, isn't the principle of the entire blood sacrifice very simple? "
"Yeah, in a big way, it's nothing more than a way for all things to interact with each other, but the way to simplicity is to be able to use the simplest principles to design the most mysterious mechanisms. This kind of method reminds me of our Mushroom Gate. Let’s go together.”
"The Taoist priest is talking about the Taoist who moved mountains, right?" Xia Houyun said: "Don't mention it, that group of Taoist priests are really good at these methods that seem to be fantasy, but actually hide the laws of the growth and development of all things."
"It was them, and Pindao also learned about it from the Book of Shaking the Tomb. It really described the methods of the Taoist who moved the mountain so mysteriously that they were almost demonic."
"If the methods in the Mushroom Sect are said to be mysterious, no one can compare with you, the Taibao of the Immortal Family." A group of alchemists in the Qintian Prison who were responsible for designing the royal tombs built a tomb with weird structures that were said to be "hard for flying insects to enter". However, they somehow offended a high-ranking prince and were deported from the capital and entered the Mushroom Gate. However, although Taoist Banshan's methods are clever, there are traces after all. On the contrary, your Chen family's tomb robbing is really mysterious and confusing. I have been fighting for decades, and I still can't figure it out now. The principle behind it.”
When the Taoist priest with a grimace heard Xia Houyun talk about his family's affairs again, he was equally curious about the affairs of the Xian family's Taibao, but he also understood that this was not the time to talk about that, so he said perfunctorily: "I have left home since I was a child, and I am also curious. I hope that one day I can inherit the mantle of my ancestors, and when the current matter is settled, I will eventually go back and consider the long term."
