Chapter 93: Zhaoyao Mountain (2)
A baby, with his eyes closed, his hands clasped his knees, curled up in the transparent amber, looking extremely creepy under the light of the fire!
After staying for a while, Amber flew towards the three people on the boat.
Before he could think too much, Pu Zixuan used the power of purification to attack the flying amber.
Seeing this, Chen Shuqing hurriedly pushed Pu Zixuan down on the surface of the boat, raised his hand and waved the oars, and knocked the amber back into the Mercury Way.
Pu Zixuan was puzzled and said angrily: "Xiaojiu, what are you doing?"
Chen Shuqing rebuked: "How do you know whether the baby inside is a human or a ghost? If you accidentally hurt humans, wouldn't the power of purification be sealed?"
Pu Zixuan woke up from the dream and gave a sincere thumbs up: "Yes, yes, yes, you are still thoughtful." Then he turned around and asked Niu Da: "Didn't you say, this river is safe?"
Niu Da trembled and said, "I, I... I came before, and I was always going smoothly. I have never encountered such a strange thing!"
"What's going on with this Mercury and this baby? Even if there are monsters, it's not so evil, right?" Pu Zixuan looked at Chen Shuqing, hoping that she could be knowledgeable and know the answer.
Before Chen Shuqing could think, a heavier sound came from the bottom of the river, one, two, three... In a moment, dozens of amber that was the same wrapped in the baby jumped out of the water, hung in the air, surrounding the boat, making a "whimpering" cry, like a ghost crying and howling!
This is the strangest scene in this world!
Dozens of amber flew towards the boat, and the three of them waved their oars and knocked them down. Unfortunately, Niu Da was attacked by a series of attacks, his body became unstable and fell into the Mercury Way.
Seeing that Niu Da was about to be buried in the Milky Way, Chen Shuqing stretched out a fox tail, grabbed Niu Da's waist, and pulled it back to the boat.
Niu Da was so scared that his feet were trembling, and he said with gratitude: "Thank you! Thank you aunt!"
A batch of amber was knocked down, and another batch of amber drilled out of the water and continued to attack.
There are endless things to come!
It was already so suffocated by poisonous gas that everyone felt that disaster was coming, as if just one mistake would become a sacrifice for the tomb at any time.
Pu Zixuan shouted while waving his oars: "You can't go on like this anymore! We must have someone rowing!"
"Fanhua Heart Locking Formation!"
It was Chen Shuqing who used his unique skills, stretched out nine fox tails, stretched out towards the stern of the ship, and along the way, he shot down more than ten pieces of amber.
Pu Zixuan said: "It's useless. You can never finish them. You have to leave here quickly."
"I want to leave this place!" After saying that, the nine fox tails separated in petal shapes, rotating at high speed, like propellers, quickly pushing the boat away.
Niu Da exclaimed: "My grandma is so amazing!"
Pu Zixuan sighed, "I think I'm all god!"
The remaining pile of amber saw the target fly away, and then followed the boat tightly, but unfortunately it was always one step slower. With just a short while, the land reappeared.
Pu and Chen soared into the air and reached the shore one step ahead of the boat. The oars in their hands also returned to the branches under Pu Zixuan's purification technique.
Behind, an empty boat arrived slowly and gently hit the shore. A pile of amber disappeared without a trace when it was about to arrive at the shore.
"It seems that these ghost things can only cause trouble on the mercury." Pu Zixuan shouted, "Niu Da, what should I do next? Let's make it clear before leaving!"
No one answered.
"Niu Da, Niu Da..." Pu Zixuan looked around, "Where is this... Niu Da?"
Chen Shuqing gasped and said in a daze: "What... didn't you bring him up?"
Pu Zixuan shrugged and said, "I thought it was your tail that pulled him up! This... he wouldn't fall into the river, right?"
"If this is the case, then he will never be able to survive!"
Pu Zixuan slapped his legs and said, "Oh, forget it, this guy has no use for birds along the way, and it's not a good thing, just die if you die. What I want to know more is, what happened to the scene just now?"
Chen Shuqing said: "I have been thinking about various reasons just now. I have heard that in ancient times, mercury was mainly used in alchemy. Some sorcerers believed that burying newborn babies alive in amber, then putting them in mercury, and refining them forty-nine days can produce the elixir of immortality... The owner of the tomb also believed this evil saying during his lifetime, which caused a large number of babies' tragedies. After these babies died, they were too resentful and could not reincarnate, so they were entangled around this king. No one is human, no monster, no ghost, no ghost..."
"It's so evil!" Pu Zixuan cursed, "I really want to find the king's corpse as soon as possible and pull it out and tear it down!"
Suddenly, Chen Shuqing covered her abdomen again and squatted in pain: "Now I am afraid to use demon power more and more. Although the demon power has increased greatly after absorbing the fragments of "Huanyue Jue", the casting of the Fanhua Heart Locking Array will not exhaust the demon power, but every time I exert my force, the wound will hurt as if it is about to explode."
Seeing Chen Shuqing's appearance, Pu Zixuan felt extremely heartbroken: "Since that's the case, you have to find the immortal grass faster. However, it is not convenient for you and me to use mana. What should we do if we encounter difficulties again?"
"Try to use physical skills to defend yourself." After saying that, the branches in the hands of the two turned into swords again.
After a while of trimming, the two of them recovered their energy and continued to move forward. After turning left again, they soon entered a spacious space. The surrounding walls were extremely reorganized, and there were rich pictures and texts on the walls. In front of them, a set of copper doors were locked from a distance, blocking the way.
"Is this the center of the tomb? Where is the coffin?" Pu Zixuan looked around, but he didn't see even a box.
Chen Shuqing said: "It shouldn't be the case. The shape of the character "I judged" must be wrong. You have to pass through that door and turn left twice before you can reach the place where the coffin is."
"Then let's go." Pu Zixuan walked straight towards the gate.
This is a thick copper door, but the door is locked and has no keyhole. The only thing that can be called a "lock" is that there is a bird's head and a turtle pattern engraved on the left and right door panels. The two animals are wrapped by disks of ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches, and the heads point to "arms" and "scisses" respectively. The whole set of workmanship is extremely exquisite, as if everything is new.
The two of them looked at each other and Chen Shuqing said: "These two animals are Zhuque and Xuanwu. They form a heavenly stem and earthly branch lock together with these two discs. Only when the two discs are adjusted to the correct position will the gate be opened."
Pu Zixuan said: "That's simple. We just need to try these more than 100 combinations in sequence."
Chen Shuqing shook her head: "How is it that simple? For kings, princes, generals and ministers, the most worrying thing about their affairs is that the cemetery is destroyed, so they will try their best to prevent tomb robbers. If Mercury is the first line of defense, then this secret room is the second line of defense. If the disc is stirred up randomly, I think it will definitely trigger the hidden weapons of the mechanism."
"If this is the case, there must be corpses everywhere here, but this... is not like..."
"That only means that Mercury has intercepted all the tomb robbers, the first line of defense."
"But that Niu Da said that he had crossed the Mercury Way and said that the difficulty lies behind... Alas, if Niu Da is still there, it would be better to ask a few more questions..."
"Forget it, don't mention him." Chen Shuqing walked around and observed the murals. "We may find the answer when we study these murals."
Pu Zixuan walked in the opposite direction: "Oh, I know nothing about ancient culture and I am most afraid of doing questions. You study it slowly, and I will just take a walk."
Pu Zixuan walked along the wall. Suddenly, his palm touched a moving stone, and he thought about pushing it. Sure enough, a small wall slammed into the wall.
"Xiao Jiu, it seems there is a secret door!"
Pu Zixuan was about to turn around when he suddenly heard a shout of "Wow--" and a figure ran out of the secret door, scaring Pu Zixuan to death!
"Hahaha-Do you miss me very much?" The figure that ran out was no one else, Niu Da, who had just disappeared, made a face at Pu Zixuan!
"You... you fucked me to death! Why are you here? You thought you were dead!" Pu Zixuan asked in a panic.
"I said, I've been here many times. There is a secret door near the shore of the Mercury Way, which can lead directly to this place. I just saw you flying to the shore with a "punch" and I was too lazy to care about you, so I rushed into the secret door by myself. Anyway, we will still meet here!"
"It's great that you're not dead! Tell me quickly, how do you open this door?"
Niu Da shrugged: "Hahaha--the difficulty I mentioned is this place. Before I knew the password, I didn't dare to move even if I had ten lives! I'm still counting on you!"
Seeing Niu Da appear again, Chen Shuqing also stopped studying the murals and said while walking: "I probably understand that this Guangxi Lingnan area was a mixed place of Baiyue before Qin Shihuang conquered this place, so the words on the wall were not understood at all. But for this reason, it can be speculated that the owner of the cemetery lived before the Qin Dynasty, perhaps Xiou, Luoyue, or other small countries. However, the heavenly stems and earthly branches on the copper gate must have been introduced from the Central Plains. Therefore, it can be concluded that after Qin Shihuang's "Southern Expedition of Baiyue King", a leader of the Baiyue land died soon, and the tomb was built by the Yue people and the Central Plains people."
Niu Da sighed sincerely: "Miss is such a peerless master! She looks beautiful and has both civil and military skills. I, a bandit, admire you so much!"
Pu Zixuan said: "But the key is that I still don't know the password."
"I guess it should be the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of the year when the leader died." After saying that, Chen Shuqing walked towards the mural again.
Pu Zixuan asked: "That's even more troublesome. If you want to know when he died in the year, you must know who he is. The 'Honor of Baiyue', as the name suggests, has hundreds of kings. Even if my ancestor who is well-versed in history and knows the present, I'm afraid he's confused."
Chen Shuqing smiled and said, "Mr. He has extensive knowledge and has told me about the knowledge of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches countless times. Look again. The last picture of this mural is a giant falling down, and there is a pattern of a fire burning star on it. It is guessed that it implies the death of the leader..."
Niu Da was surprised and couldn't help but interrupt, "Then... do you understand everything?"
"I lived alone in the mountains and fields for decades, often watching the astrological signs at night, and I was so familiar with the shapes of the twenty-eight constellations in the sky that I was no longer familiar with. It was the room of the Hai Palace in the earthly branch painted. In the heavenly stems, Bing Ding belongs to fire, so the room of the burning fire is either Bing Hai or Ding Hai."
"Okay, it's simple now. Let's try both." After saying that, Pu Zixuan came to the bronze gate, turned the two discs, and pointed the heads of Zhuque and Xuanwu at "Bing" and "Hai" respectively.
When everything was right, the three of them stared at the door, looking forward to the miracle.
Suddenly, at the entrance, a stone door was dropped from the porch that was originally opened! The secret door on one side also closed! The copper door with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches locks was never opened!
Chapter completed!