After all, he is a born Taoist boy with extraordinary talents.
So the speed of practice is very fast!
Judging from the situation shown in the mural, he quickly became a top-notch person among his fellow apprentices - even though he actually started relatively late.
It seems that the life of the tomb owner in the sect when he was young should be considered good. As a result, the colors of the murals on this wall area are more vivid and cheerful.
After that, things took a turn for the worse...
The content on the mural shows that the owner of the tomb seemed to have had a dispute with someone in the sect. Then the two of them had a fierce battle in private without telling their elders.
As a result, the tomb owner actually lost!
Not only did he lose, he lost miserably. Even one arm was broken...
I heard my master say that the rules of a prestigious sect are very strict, especially private fights between fellow sects are strictly prohibited. Once discovered, severe punishment will be imposed.
Paper could not contain the fire. After the tomb owner had a private fight with his fellow sect members, the elders of the sect also discovered it.
But what the mural shows is that the tomb owner who lost an arm was punished more severely than the victorious fellow disciple. This made him and his master find it difficult to accept, so they went to the sect's senior management to complain...
Yet the result remains the same.
The tomb owner suffered from the humiliation of losing the fight and the anger of being unfairly treated. The double blow caused his mentality to collapse. In front of his master and many elders of the sect, he expressed his resignation from the sect on the spot!
This mural vividly depicts the tomb owner tearing off the Taoist crown from his head and tearing the Taoist robes to pieces in front of everyone, and he was furious.
He left the sect and went down the mountain to go home.
I haven’t been home for many years, and both my parents have passed away!
The old housekeeper and a concubine brother born from his father's concubine help take care of everything at home.
Now that his eldest son is back, he naturally has to leave all the housework to him. We still have to wait for the canonization and succession documents from the imperial court...
That's right!
I circled around the tomb and looked at most of the murals, and I was already sure that the owner of the tomb was born in a royal palace and should be a member of the royal family!
"Royal family? Judging from the costumes of the various characters on the murals, they should be from the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the owner of the tomb should be a prince from the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, princes had their own territories outside Beijing. So, this The owner of the tomb should be a certain Shu king in history?"
I was a little shocked.
This is actually a royal tomb!
But think about it, only the royal family has the financial and material resources to build such a huge mausoleum deep underground.
Moreover, this King of Shu was actually a born Taoist boy, and he had once joined a famous and upright sect to practice cultivation. His experience was considered legendary!
I'll keep reading...
The owner of the tomb inherited his father's position as King of Shu, but the specific affairs inside and outside the palace and the fief were still left to the old housekeeper and his concubine brother to take care of.
He himself travels out every day, making friends and gathering some powerful practitioners.
After all, he has a noble status as a prince, and since he was once an upright disciple of a famous family, his magic is naturally very powerful!
As a result, a large number of practitioners soon gathered under his command as disciples.
But judging from what is shown on the murals, these practitioners are probably not good people at all... After all, the King of Shu himself does not look like a good person!
In short, the King of Shu gathered a large number of monks to discuss the way of cultivation together every day. Research some new magic methods.
Some of the murals even show the king of Shu leading his monks to test new spells with slaves in the palace and civilians secretly captured outside...
The fate of these poor people was very miserable.
I saw a mural depicting a slave monk under the command of the King of Shu who shined a light, and the body of a slave began to grow in size. Finally, it burst like a balloon.
The King of Shu was still laughing.
Seeing this made me feel an unknown fire in my heart!
"This King of Shu is really hateful. He is such a pitiful man. He must be hateful. If his childhood experience was not pleasant and he suffered unfair treatment in his sect, it cannot be the reason for him to become an evil cultivator. .”
I don’t know how much time has passed...
The mural shows that the owner of the tomb, the king of Shu, has grown a long beard and must be quite old. My spell cultivation seems to have reached a bottleneck.
Perhaps due to the fear brought about by aging and stagnant cultivation, he became more and more extreme and cruel, treating human life as nothing!
These are all shown in the murals, but he probably doesn't think there's anything wrong with them.
Finally, the King of Shu seemed to have met a very powerful evil cultivator.
The two of them sit and talk every day.
During this process, the owner of the tomb, King Shu, seemed to have mentioned to this powerful evil cultivator that he hoped to be immortal and gain stronger power!
Of course, since there is no text on the mural, this is my guess based on the content of the picture.
After that...
No more!
"What's going on? Why did it end so suddenly? It stands to reason that such murals depicting the life experiences of the tomb owner must have been painted until they were placed in the coffin and buried."
I was confused and took a closer look.
It was discovered that the stone wall of the tomb became thinner by one layer from the back. Not only were there slight horizontal lines on the edge of the stone wall, but there were also obvious traces of human scratches in the center area.
Turning to look to the right, there is also a long section of the tomb wall, showing this weird blank space. Go to the end of the right wall.
This shows that all the murals from here onwards have been destroyed!
"Obviously, someone deliberately destroyed the content of the mural behind it!"
I frowned, pinched my chin, and thought quickly in my mind.
"It seems that someone else has already entered the main tomb of the tomb of the King of Shu. Moreover, the person who came deliberately erased all the murals at the back. It seems that they don't want others to know the story of the tomb owner's subsequent experience. ?”
"It shouldn't be the villagers of Daling Village who did it! Those villagers are ordinary people. It would be nice to be able to enter the other burial chambers in the mausoleum and steal some funerary objects. There is no way to enter the main tomb chamber."
"There must be some kind of huge secret hidden in this! And this secret should be related to this weird mausoleum, the strange fungus tree in front of you, and even the truth about the disappearance of Daling Village."
At this moment, I know a lot about the tomb owner’s life deeds through the murals, and also know that he was a certain generation of Shu king in the Ming Dynasty...
But more questions remain unanswered.
I couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to myself.
"This matter is getting louder and louder, and more and more involved. Originally it was just a matter of investigating the disappearance of a village to earn a huge reward, but I didn't expect that even a prince with profound magical powers from ancient times was involved! "
What makes me even more wary is the person who destroyed the subsequent murals on the walls of the tomb - my intuition tells me that this person should be very powerful, maybe he is the root and the mastermind behind everything!
In addition to the murals, there should be some other clues in the main tomb chamber.
So I left the tomb wall and began to examine other places.
I dare not touch the bronze coffin placed in the center and the giant fungus tree growing on it...I don't even want to get too close.
So I walked around far away to see what was behind the main tomb.
There are many exquisite lacquered wooden boxes here, which should contain a large number of funerary objects - after all, they are the wealth of a prince. Now the lids are all open, and there is nothing inside. They may have been taken away...
Other than that, there seems to be nothing else special about it.
"Maybe there's something hidden?"
I thought.
Then with a thought, a part of Qi is summoned from the Dantian and flows towards the eyes and ears. This can greatly improve vision and hearing, and can also see through some information hidden by magic!
really!
I immediately made a discovery.
A large number of runes appeared on the entire wall behind the tomb. They are so densely packed that they almost occupy the entire wall!
I looked at it carefully for a while, and my eyes suddenly widened in surprise, and my breathing became rapid.
"Could these runes be... array runes!"
What is a formation talisman?
As the name suggests, it is a rune among the [talisman spells] that is specially used to cast formations.
The formation is derived from the oldest art of Qimen Dunjia.
In most cases, the formation technique is performed by using the Qi of the person who built the formation and using the original mountains and rivers. Have a physical or psychological impact on the people or things around you...
For example, I always carry some finely ground pebbles with me, just to be able to lay down some small-scale formations anytime and anywhere to assist me.
But in fact, formations can also be set up directly through spells. Moreover, it is even more varied!
It's just that it's more difficult than using Feng Shui to set up an array, because you need to learn additional special [Array Talismans].
The reason why I know this is because I happened to be learning this way from Master recently!
She taught me dozens of different basic spells that can be used in formations.
So when I looked at the dense runes on the tomb wall in front of me, I could recognize what they were.
It's just that the [Array Talisman] I'm learning now is relatively basic, but the one on the tomb wall in front of me is much more advanced, far beyond my current level!
I don’t know many of them, and it’s hard to guess what their functions are...
But it should be a very powerful formation!
"This must have been done by the King of Shu lying in the coffin? This guy is really powerful. The talismans and incantations on this wall alone are treasures for practitioners."
I sighed in my heart and began to seriously try to memorize these spells as much as possible!
After you go back like this, you can ask Master what it means and what it does.
Not only that, I could also faintly hear the sound of water behind the tomb wall... Could it be that there is an underground river behind it?
While staring at the charms on the tomb wall, I approached cautiously, wanting to listen carefully to the sounds behind the tomb wall.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Bang, bang, bang...
Crunch, crunch...
Suddenly there was a dull impact and harsh friction sound behind me.
I turned around in horror!
I saw that the giant bronze coffin was shaking continuously. At the same time, there was the sound of sharp nails scratching metal objects from inside the coffin.
"Then the King of Shu is still alive? Or is his corpse mutated? Will it turn into a zombie and break out of the coffin?"
