Under the leadership of Xuan Zhenzi, I held the demon fetus that had just burst out of Qin Tao's belly in my arms and walked step by step towards the secret door behind the stone room.
Huizhen has been following me, looking at the "baby" in my arms from time to time. Her expression is also not calm, and she doesn't even dare to get close to me.
Before we had time to say anything, we had already crossed the secret door, and the picture that appeared behind the secret door shocked Huizhen and me again.
After passing through the secret door, we saw a huge cave, almost larger than a football field.
In the middle of the giant cave, there grew a huge dark green tree with lush branches and leaves.
I bet a hundred bucks that this tree is definitely the biggest and tallest tree I've ever seen in my life.
The root system accumulated on the ground alone is more than five meters high. The dense tree roots are like a large entangled network, covering an area of more than ten meters in diameter. The straight trunks extend to the top of the cave, forming a giant, The canopy with a diameter of more than fifty meters almost covers the entire cave.
What's even more weird is that right under the densely intersecting roots of the big tree, there is actually a giant coffin made of bronze, which is even larger than the previous stone coffin.
The surface of the bronze coffin is covered with various ancient and mysterious patterns, which are as tightly clustered as clouds, covering the entire surface of the coffin. It is majestic and spectacular, exuding a sense of extreme vicissitudes and ancient prehistoric times.
I was not the only one who was shocked, including Huizhen who was following me. After seeing the giant copper coffin, he unconsciously opened his mouth wide and said with shock on his face,
"This coffin is so big. It's actually made of bronze. It's so spectacular. When my master dies, I will buy him such a big coffin..."
"Evil disciple, the bronze coffin is used to suppress evil!" Master Mingtong twitched the corners of his mouth and glared at him in confusion.
Xuan Zhenzi also regained his mean expression, and said in a nonchalant manner, "Master monk, I didn't realize that this disciple of yours is quite filial."
Only Huang Linggong looked stern and reminded in a deep voice, "Now is not the time for joking. Take action quickly. The evil energy under the copper coffin has been leaking, and the magic circle can hardly contain it!"
After he told me, I discovered that the bottom of the copper coffin was actually covered with very dense red stripes. These crooked talismans were all drawn with cinnabar mixed with chicken blood. The dense array patterns were complex and crisscrossed, forming a huge The evil seal sealed the copper coffin tightly inside.
I tugged on Xuan Zhenzi's sleeves nonchalantly and said, Master, what is the origin of this coffin? It looks so evil, and why does it grow under a tree...
The scene in front of me made me feel dizzy. I had never seen anything so evil. The tree that was more than ten feet high was enough to shock people. The most puzzling thing was the roots hanging down from the trunk. , actually all surrounding the giant copper coffin, almost growing with it.
From a distance, the bronze coffin looks like it grew out from under the roots of a big tree.
"This is called a tree coffin, a very ancient and evil burial ceremony."
Xuan Zhenzi stopped smiling, his eyes were lowered, and his tone was full of seriousness.
To put it simply, this is a special ritual popular among ancient ethnic minorities. They believe that after death, a person will continue to exist in heaven and earth in another form. Therefore, the body cannot be cremated and must be preserved in a "tree burial" method. .
The specific operation process has been lost. It roughly involves placing hundreds of corpses under the coffin of the tomb owner, and then scattering the seeds of this giant tree on the corpses.
The giant tree will grow by absorbing the nutrients from the corpse, and will become extremely tall. As the giant tree grows, its roots will cling to the copper coffin and gradually merge into one.
"As the ancient tree grows, it will continuously absorb the evil spirits from the earth's veins. At the same time, it will also integrate the absorbed evil spirits into the copper coffin, providing special nourishment to the owner of the copper coffin. After hundreds of years of sacrifices, the owner of the copper coffin You will gain eternal life in another way.”
As soon as Xuan Zhenzi finished speaking, he was met with a disdainful sneer from Huang Linggong,
"The owner of this Shura Tomb actually wanted to gain eternal life and created such an evil tree burial ceremony, but the result was just the opposite. He turned himself into an evil Shura who is neither human nor ghost. It's really ridiculous!"
Whoops!
As if in response to Huang Linggong's words, a cold gust of wind suddenly surged beneath the cave. The copper coffin, which had been placed quietly under the tree roots, actually began to shake violently, and a purple-black breath crazily flowed out along the coffin.
These strange evil spirits kept erupting outwards, and everywhere they passed was filled with an indescribable sense of evil.
Driven by the evil energy, the runes under the surface were also flickering one after another, squirming like earthworms, which looked particularly weird.
The evil energy in the copper coffin continues to spread, trying to break through the blockade of the magic circle, but these purple-black auras have no time to float far, and will be forcibly absorbed by the flashing runes on the surface. The two sides seem to be in a tug-of-war, constantly consuming. each other’s strength.
"This thing has come up with something, great monk, hurry up and suppress it!"
Xuan Zhenzi's eyes sharpened and he roared, Master Mingtong immediately took action.
I saw him taking off the yellow monk's robe, revealing his bloated body, taking off the Buddhist beads on his chest, clasping his hands together and turning them, with a solemn look on his face, and the speed of chanting Buddhist sutras continued to increase.
These rich Buddhist mantra sounds are constantly lingering in the air, ups and downs with each other, turning into invisible sound waves, one higher than the other.
The sound of the solemn Buddha's horn turned into a powerful Sanskrit sound. With each syllable raised, Master Mingtong's momentum would rise a bit, like a drum in the evening and a bell in the morning.
I don't know if it was my hallucination, but as the chanting of the Buddha's name got louder and louder, I actually vaguely saw a phantom of the Buddha, slowly covering the top of Master Mingtong's head, following the steps of his chanting of the Buddhist sutras. , formed a series of lotus seals.
Under the impact of this Buddhist scripture, the copper coffin that was shaking violently became much quieter.
Cluck...cluck...
From the depths of the copper coffin, there were several harsh friction sounds like fingernails scratching iron sheets, as if something was struggling hard and trying to rush out from inside.
Then there was a roar, and the entire copper coffin shook again, and the bronze coffin lid, which weighed several tons, was pushed up hard, and a corner of it flew away.
Under the open copper coffin, more purple-black evil energy was sprayed out. Even the runes on the ground were infected by this black energy and were dyed black at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Damn it, you can't even control the old monk's telepathy?"
Xuan Zhenzi and Huang Linggong shook their chins at the same time, and stepped away from each other.
Xuan Zhenzi stepped on the Taoist Seven Star Steps. As his steps moved, spells were quickly formed under his toes to supplement the runes.
Huang Linggong took out a pure steel sword from behind. A pair of yin and yang fish whirlpools were engraved on the end of the long sword. They danced in the wind, gathering a hazy blue luster. In conjunction with the runes under his feet, they started to move crazily. Another kind of Taoist Yubu!
