Li Boxen was stunned for a moment, but the first thought that came to his mind was, "It's the same thing again"?
At the beginning, Wujing Tiger also told him that there was a treasure somewhere and tricked him into getting the Xumi Fetus. But that time it was the tiger who wanted something from him, so what happened this time?
He thought for a while and said: "The Earth Master misunderstood. I just want to ask some questions, not any treasures."
After saying this, something moved in my heart - the twelve knights in front looked like they wanted to move but couldn't, and the few words the Earth Master said just now seemed to show weakness, and it sounded like they wanted to get rid of them quickly. walk on my own. Did he encounter any difficulties?
But no matter what, he is still the spiritual god of this place. Even if there are some difficult things, he shouldn't let himself know about them.
He then asked again: "Did the Earth Master... encounter any trouble?"
The twelve knights in front of them swayed for a while, and after a while, they heard the old man's voice again, which was full of pleading: "You gods are fighting, please let me go! I'm just from this county. He is a little spirit god whose jurisdiction is limited to a radius of thirty miles... He was just a mortal before he was granted the title, and he got his luck by chance... He never dared to overstep his bounds, let alone show any disrespect to the secret spirits of the heavens. ...Li Lingjun, leave quickly!"
Li Bochen was stunned again. If it weren't for the Yin spirit, he would have almost drawn his sword. He suspected that there was a trap in front of him - what was this earth master afraid of himself?
But the next moment, a thought came into his mind and he couldn't help but said: "You... know about me? Know about my stay in Zhangshan?"
The earth master immediately said in shock: "There are absolutely no treasures here, little god - the treasures are all in the big tomb more than 600 steps away! The owner of that tomb is the doctor of the Emperor Sheng Dynasty more than 7,000 years ago. There are many Gold and silver!”
It seems that he does know. Li Bochen frowned and wondered, does this earth master think he is a spiritual master who specializes in grabbing treasures? Do you think you killed Mr. Zhangshan? But at this time, he also became interested in another thing - when he was at Zhangshan Mountain, Zhangshanjun also knew what he was doing at Wujing Mountain.
Is it possible that these tigers, earth masters, and water uncles have other channels to convey news?
But no matter what, he never wanted to bear the reputation of harming people and seizing treasures, so he said: "I am definitely not here for the treasures. I just want to ask you a few words - has anyone dug a tomb on the mountain a few days ago? Where is the tomb in the village? Were the three people also killed? Does the Earth Master know what those people look like?"
After he asked these questions, the Earth Master became silent again.
Li Bochen slowly became anxious. The more things he knew, the more mysteries there were. But when he met this person who spoke vaguely, he became more and more impatient. Since the earth master showed weakness first, he was no longer polite and said: "The matter about Mr. Zhangshan was at that time——"
Sure enough, after hearing this, the earth master said: "Alas... alas... Lord Ling, why bother me! Well, if Lord Ling really isn't here for the treasure... can you help me out first?"
Li Boxen thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "If I can do it."
The Earth Master then said: "Then please Lord Ling... come to my tomb... and pull out the copper nails!"
After hearing what he said, Li Bochen realized that the mound did indeed look like a large tomb when viewed from a distance - was this earth master also a prince and general during his lifetime?
Listening to the Master said again: "Lingjun... my tomb is right where you are standing now, just walk twenty steps forward!"
Li Boxen said: "Okay. Wait a moment."
After saying these words, his Yin spirit quickly flew away and returned to his physical body. By this time, the funeral procession had passed by, and a layer of copper coins and paper fell on the dirt road. He thought for a moment, took the magic knife from his horse and stuck it in his waist. The horse also carried two packages, which contained his armor. He hesitated for a moment and didn't wear it.
At this moment, he felt a little chill in his heart - it seemed that the person who was tracing his life experience was extremely skilled. Arrogant people like Xu Cheng didn't want to go find trouble with Zhang Shanjun themselves and asked Ye Chengchou to do it for him, but these people seemed otherwise.
The Earth Master said that he was trapped, and Li Bochen guessed that it was those people who did it. Although these living spiritual gods may be strong or weak, and the earth master here rules over a radius of thirty miles, he can indeed be regarded as a "little god", but after all, he is also granted the title of Netherworld and can be regarded as a true god. They seem to be bolder than themselves.
It was probably that he had expected that he would come back before taking action, so he used some means to avoid being seen by the spirit god here. In this case, the information that can be obtained from the earth master must be very limited.
The Earth Master said before that "the gods" were fighting - his own methods could not be considered "gods", maybe he was referring to his own secret spirit.
So the two doubts in his mind were: If those people expected that he would come back, why didn't they ambush here? Through what channel did these tiger master Shui Bo communicate with each other?
He got up and jumped up the slope. It took another quarter of an hour to walk back to the mound and find the place where he had just stood. After walking twenty steps further from this place, you will reach the bottom of the slope. The entrance that the Earth Master mentioned should be right here.
He was a little confused for a moment. Because if there is really a large tomb of princes and generals under this mound, it will be extremely difficult to enter the tomb, at least it will take a long time to dig through the soil. The earth master asked himself to pull out the copper nails. Those copper nails must have been nailed somewhere in the tomb to perform some kind of magic. How did they get in?
Could it be that this place is a trap? But as soon as he had this idea in his mind, he discovered that there was something strange about the land in front of him - although it was also covered with pale white grass, there was no green among the grass. He leaned over and plucked it with his hands, and found that the grass had been pulled out long ago, and now it was just covering it.
Li Boxen thought to himself, this should be the entrance. He tucked up his hem, squatted down, and first used his hands to dig out the soft soil underneath, thinking that he might be able to find a stone door or mechanism. But as soon as the layer of floating soil on the surface was peeled away, a small stone slab was seen.
His heart skipped a beat, and he dug to the side again, and finally dug out a small sarcophagus. After a moment of hesitation, I picked at the seam of the stone and tried it. It came loose. It must have been opened by someone before.
Then he turned his body to the side and lifted the stone slab.
Fortunately, there was no mechanism in it, just a skeleton. Judging from the size, it was that of a child. The bones were as dark as iron, and there was a copper nail nailed to the skull between the eyebrows. Look at the twelve small stone sculptures inside the sarcophagus, which look like armored warriors riding horses.
He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the tomb mentioned by the earth master was actually this sarcophagus. The twelve small stone sculptures in the sarcophagus must be the warriors we saw earlier. The bones of this child should be the earth master's former body. He said that he was an ordinary person. After his death, he was lucky enough to be blessed by chance. He must have died at a very young age. So was it bluffing to speak in an old man’s voice just now? It's quite interesting.
It must have been the copper nail on the withered forehead that restrained him. This method is really magical.
Li Bochen then stretched out his hand to pull out the copper nail. The nail must have been driven in with great force. He exerted a little force before the copper nail came loose. But just when the nail was halfway out, he stopped.
Because it was suddenly discovered that the section exposed from the skull had some signs of wear and patina.
In fact, the copper nails also have patina on them, and the original color is almost invisible. But the newly exposed section had many scratches on some parts, perhaps due to friction by the broken edge of the skull.
However, if it had been newly carved out by the skull, the golden color underneath would have been exposed. But now there is green rust on the scratch, which means that the nail may have been pulled out and inserted into the skull for a long time...so long that the scratch has been worn deep enough that it will no longer be scratched, and it will no longer be scratched. Patina!
This means that it was not newly nailed a few days ago! Li Bochen stopped because of this thought that suddenly flashed through his mind. And at this moment, he thought of another thing - although copper is much softer than iron, it is still a metal after all. What kind of material is this skull made of? Can the broken edges scratch a copper nail so deeply?
Are these really human bones? ?
At this moment, when the copper nails were half pulled out, the skeleton that was originally lying in the sarcophagus suddenly bounced, and its limbs snapped like an iron whip, and then bent back to hug his body.
Fortunately, Li Bochen was on guard for a moment. When he saw it moving, he immediately pressed the copper nail down hard and pulled his hand out.
Then there was a crunching sound, and the skeleton curled up into a ball, with black bone spurs protruding from every joint. If it was really hugged, it would probably pierce into the body!
Li Bochen was shocked, grabbed the handle of the magic knife, and jumped back two steps.
Looking at the skeleton again, it was curled up into a ball, hugged empty, and then slowly relaxed, turning into a human skeleton again. However, Li Bochen saw clearly just now that its arm bones, leg bones, and ribs were not one piece, but divided into many small segments!
What a trap!
He took a breath and suddenly realized what this skeleton was.
It should be a "ghost beast" - it is said that this kind of monster has thousands of bones in its body, is ever-changing, and can even take on the appearance of an individual. He had only heard of it from veterans but had never seen it before, but now he saw that the thing in the coffin might really be an evil thing made from the bones of that thing!
At this moment, the bones in the sarcophagus suddenly started to move again - the head was nailed, but the bones of the limbs and body turned into bone whips, scraping the sarcophagus, as if they wanted to kill themselves. Pull it out. And in the eye sockets, there was a cloud of misty black energy, staring sideways at Li Boxen like eyeballs, and his mandibles made a tapping sound, imitating human speech.
Li Bochen was horrified when he saw it, so he simply pulled out the magic knife and chopped the skeleton into pieces with one blow, and also chopped off the twelve stone sculptures in the sarcophagus.
But then there was a gloomy wind around me, and in the wind there was the voice of the old man just now, who laughed strangely: "You helped me become a spiritual god, how do you want me to repay you!? Why don't I send you to the Netherworld to attain enlightenment? !”
