Tomb Robber: I, Chen Yulou, am dedicated to cultivating immortality!

Chapter 138 The eyeless corpse in the Chihu coffin

See the scene above your head.

Partridge Whistle finally understood why Miss Hong would encounter obstacles even with her ability.

After all, this thing has been designed to prevent people like them from fighting against each other since it came out.

The surrounding walls are made of yellow-heart cypress wood, which is then stacked layer by layer.

Although it is not a mortise and tenon structure, the inward-facing structure can also make the coffin chamber airtight, and it is difficult to insert a blade as thin as a cicada in the gap.

Therefore, he got the name Huang Chang Ti Cou.

Judging from his many years of experience in fighting, it has appeared at least in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and reached its peak during the Qin and Han dynasties.

During the Han Dynasty, Huangchangticuo, together with the Zi Palace, the living room, the outer coffin, and the jade clothes with gold threads, became unique to the imperial tombs.

It represents the highest etiquette in funerals.

Except for the emperor's family, no one is allowed to use it without permission from the emperor, otherwise it will be regarded as trespassing.

If Huo Guang died, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty would specially give "Zigong, Bianfang, and Huangchangticuo one each"

However, after the Han Dynasty, Huang Chang Ti Cou almost disappeared from the world.

It's not because the inheritance is broken, but because the wood is cut too much.

Yellow-heart cypress, also called thuja, grows very slowly, often taking hundreds of years or even hundreds of years to mature.

A large tomb of a prince would cost thousands of cypress trees.

The cost of the imperial mausoleum is countless.

By the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was difficult to find enough yellow Thuja cypress wood in the world, so we had no choice but to use pine wood, nanmu or even stone bricks to build the structure.

So all kinds of things.

Therefore, even among the old Jianghu people present, only a few people had seen the coffin room with their own eyes.

I have encountered Partridge Whistle before.

But this is the first time that the inscription on the top of the head has been preserved as completely as it is.

Two thousand years have passed, and the cypress wood is still as new as yesterday, with no sign of water, moisture, mold or rot.

It is indeed a water dragon halo with endless vitality and endless energy.

now.

Two centipede ladders were hung against the cave wall, while two men were riding on the top, carrying mountain axes. They were sweating profusely and panting from exhaustion.

Through the surrounding firelight, you can faintly see the dense cypress trees covered with ax marks.

But even if he was so tired, he still had a shallow white mark.

"It's really Thuja."

Chen Yulou frowned slightly.

The wife of King Xian was buried in the coffin above the head. The burial objects were not too unusual, but they were the only way to the coffin of King Tianmen.

The tomb of King Xian is piled up layer by layer, from bottom to top.

The water dragon's halo has provided vitality for thousands of years and circulated endlessly in the tomb to maintain the feng shui of the place.

This is why, even though it has been sealed in dust for thousands of years, Wujiao's poisonous gas is not shocking.

It truly hides wind and gathers water, integrating inside and outside.

This thuja is quite troublesome.

Although thuja is not as valuable as golden nanmu, it is extremely dense and requires hard work with water to cut it down.

Otherwise, how can we stop the intruders?

"How about inviting the armored beast to try?"

The old foreigner held up the wind lantern and looked around. The coffin above his head was square, and the cave under his body was round, which coincided with the idea of ​​a round sky and a round place.

But other than that.

The exposed rock wall is not covered with cypress wood or bricks.

According to his idea, it might be feasible to ask the armored beast to dig a diagonal robbery hole from one side to enter.

"Up and down are one, and there is no separation between the inside and the outside. Unless we can accurately find the door to the ground floor, it will be... difficult to climb to the sky."

Chen Yulou shook his head.

If only it were as simple as he thought.

Huang Chang Ti Cou will not deter those in the fighting business anymore.

"Brothers, work harder and break it open little by little."

"Yes, from the shopkeeper."

Upon hearing this, the two guys responded in unison.

Take a deep breath.

Muster up enough strength to continue doing things,

The sound of chopping wood echoed back and forth in the cave.

Partridge Whistle stared at Huangchangti Minato for a long time, and then frowned and said.

"Brother Chen, is the coffin for the king above?"

Zi Gong and Ti Cou, no matter which one is singled out, cannot be used by ordinary people.

Until now.

The ancient tomb of King Xian has not yet been discovered.

Thinking again of the cellar coffin outside, if it were Zi Gong, Ti Cou, and gold-laced jade clothes, it seemed to be better than the cellar coffin in terms of burial ceremony.

"If you ask me to guess, it's most likely not."

Chen Yulou raised his eyebrows, "The burial system is quite high, but King Xian is determined to become an immortal, how can he trap himself here?"

"What does Brother Chen mean?"

"Accompany the mausoleum."

Slowly spit out two words.

Partridge Whistle's heart moved and he immediately came back to his senses.

"Xian Wang's wife?"

"You can't be wrong. Brother Tao, please read the title carefully."

Chen Yulou raised the wind lantern in his hand, and the light flickered, faintly reflecting the silhouette of a black bird.

The black bird is slightly different from the totem seen in Miao Village that day.

I prefer the image of Qin and Han phoenix or Qingluan.

You must know that in the pre-Qin period, the black bird had an irreplaceable symbolic status. The destiny black bird descended and gave birth to the Shang Dynasty.

The dragon is the leader of all beasts, and the phoenix is ​​the leader of birds.

There is also the theory of dragon and phoenix playing harp and harp throughout the ages.

The phoenix bird totem is embossed on the Zi Palace, and its meaning is self-evident.

"It seems like it won't end here for a while."

"Brother Taoist, aren't you very interested in that cellar coffin? Go take a look?"

Calculated silently.

If you want to dig through the top of your head, it will take at least an hour.

With this skill, the two coffins lying outside... no, it should be three unopened coffins, so naturally they cannot be missed.

For those who live in Xiling, they can make a fortune by opening coffins.

Is there any reason why the coffin should not be opened?

The guys behind them had never taken their eyes off the stone coffin and the cellar coffin since they entered the tomb. As for the open bronze coffin, they were even talking about it.

Even the old foreigners couldn't help but look back frequently.

Broken floor tiles, broken bronze debris and fallen bones.

It all shows.

While they were waiting to cross the river, a fight broke out here.

But no one dared to ask.

"...That's fine."

Partridge Whistle nodded.

He had indeed been thinking about the mandarin coffin.

Thousand-year-old tree, you may only see it once in this life.

Even though I would only ask for the Muchen Bead, it is a pity that I cannot get my hands on such a divine object.

"Senior brother, I'm going too."

"And I."

The conversation between the two was not hidden from others.

The eyes of the old foreigner standing next to him couldn't help but light up.

Hua Ling echoed with a smile.

"go with!"

Seeing this, how could Partridge Whistle not allow it?

A group of people passed through the stone door, and when they reappeared in the main room outside, a group of waiters were already waiting, one by one taking over. His eyes were burning, and his face was filled with anticipation.

The shopkeepers all say they want to open the coffin.

How could they delay?

"Okay, don't hold back, let's go."

Chen Yulou raised his eyebrows and waved casually.

However, it seems casual, but the mind does not dare to relax at all. The bones of the three hells, plus the shadow bones of the king, are all dangerous and hidden.

Don't be too cautious.

Changes may occur at any time.

"Yes, from the shopkeeper."

The group of thieves kept shouting and quickly took out their vagina-detecting claws and approached the stone coffin.

I just looked back and forth along the sarcophagus.

However, several people's brows became more and more frowned, and their faces became extremely ugly.

"No, can you guys do it?"

"The shopkeeper is still waiting. If that doesn't work, I'll do it instead."

Seeing that they were hesitant to take action and failed to seize the opportunity, the few guys who could only stay behind to take charge of lighting couldn't help laughing.

This way down.

After all the hard work.

Except for the crimson jade coffin in the banyan tree at the beginning, I finally saw another coffin.

Especially when I was fighting before, I saw gold and silver everywhere.

It made their blood boil.

"Don't make any noise."

The leader was an old man.

Several generations of people have eaten with the Chen family.

He has been influenced by it since he was a child, and he has been traveling around the world as early as the old shopkeeper.

If he had been teased by a few boys, he would have definitely scolded him back if he had normal times, but at this moment, he just frowned and made a silent gesture.

See this situation.

The group also knew something was wrong.

He immediately closed his mouth and held the box cannon at his waist with his backhand.

"This is a fucking seamless sarcophagus."

Turned away, just in case. He inspected it carefully again, and even wiped off the accumulated dust on the sarcophagus. After confirming that there was no doubt, he exhaled and cursed in a low voice.

"Seamless coffin?"

Hearing this, the group of people felt a little relieved, but their expressions also became ugly.

Coffin and coffin, outer coffin and inner coffin, upper cover and lower seat.

This has been true for thousands of years.

Even the coffins can be divided into dynasties and Han and Yi.

For example, in these years, they have seen boat coffins, horse coffins, single wooden coffins, glazed coffins and keel coffins.

But the general style will not change.

This coffin is seamless, the inside and outside are integrated. If it is not just a stone, how can the bones be buried?

"what happened?"

Although he had gone back and forth several times and even knew what was buried in the sarcophagus, Chen Yulou really didn't think much about it.

When I heard what the guy said, I couldn't help but frown.

He looked away from the copper coffin and walked over casually.

Seeing the shopkeeper coming and the thieves surrounding the sarcophagus, they immediately gave way.

The three brothers and sisters of Partridge Whistle followed closely behind.

When he arrived at the sarcophagus and received a wind lantern, Chen Yulou took a closer look and realized that the coffin in front of him was really made of grindstone.

There are still traces of ropes on the top of the coffin.

The entire coffin was extremely simple. Countless rings were carved on the body of the coffin, and they were connected end to end and closely interlocked with each other, forming a faint ancient black beast that looked like a tiger, but not a tiger, or a dragon, but not a dragon.

Across the coffin body, he raised his head and roared.

There was an indescribable primitive aura all over his body.

I think it is an ancient artifact from at least several thousand years ago.

"Chihu?"

If I remember correctly, there seems to be a similar strange beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

It was even more common after the Warring States Period.

The emperor's seal uses jade and tiger buttons.

Qin Shihuang's blue sky jade seal is the seal of a chi tiger, with the words "given the destiny of heaven, the emperor will live long and prosperous".

"what?"

Hearing him talking to himself, Partridge Whistle couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"nothing……"

Chen Yulou waved his hand.

His eyes moved to the bottom of the coffin following the light. There was a sturdy monolithic figure cast at each corner of the sarcophagus. The style was also simple and heavy.

Seeing him immersed in the coffin.

Partridge Whistle is not easy to ask.

He looked at the sarcophagus in front of him intently.

The style of this coffin is indeed strange.

And not just because of the seamlessness.

It is much shorter than an ordinary coffin.

He even tried to measure it, and found that it was only less than one meter. Even if the ancients were generally shorter, it would be difficult to lie down in it.

Unless it's a baby corpse.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head, and his eyes fell across the crowd on the three faint will-o'-wisps deep in the tomb, which were much dimmer than before.

Estimated to be two thousand years ago.

The grease of the black-scaled sharks in the copper pillar has been drained away.

It was because they pushed the door open and broke the balance here that the little grease soaked in the wick of the rebirth candle ignited again.

"Danqi!"

When he looked at the three corpses of the receiving boys.

Chen Yulou suddenly let out a breath, then took the bone knife from his waist with his backhand, and lightly scratched the sarcophagus.

Not very powerful.

But the next moment, the sound of broken glass was heard immediately.

Under the light, countless small cracks appeared on the surface of the sarcophagus, intertwined with each other, like a shadow of a tree emerging.

With the force in his hands.

The cracks quickly spread towards the coffin body.

Not long after, the translucent fragments, as thin as cicada wings, burst into pieces.

Partridge Whistle had quick eyes and quick hands. He grabbed it with his backhand and opened his palm. There was already an extra one in his palm.

He brought it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it carefully.

There is still a bit of an indescribable smell on the fragments.

"It's really red paint!"

It is recorded in the Book of Rites that hundreds of craftsmen were ordered to make bows, gold, iron, leather, and rubber-grey red paint.

It's just that this layer of red paint is too thin.

Shaped like glass.

It has already been integrated with the sarcophagus.

Even he didn't notice it.

"There is a gap in the coffin."

The broken red paint dispersed like feathers, and soon a sharp-eyed man pointed at the ring on the coffin and exclaimed.

The skill of the coffin hanger is amazing.

Not only is the coffin lid and body tightly sealed, but in order to hide the almost invisible seam, it is covered with patterns and red paint, making it almost exactly the same as a seamless coffin.

"Now that you've found it, why are you still hanging around?"

Chen Yulou shrugged.

He put away the bone knife in his hand.

"Yes……"

The guy smiled.

After all, he was already an old man, but in the end he lost an adult in front of the shopkeeper, and he really couldn't hold his head up for a while.

However, this emotion was quickly dissipated by the expectation of finding gold in the coffin.

Several people used their vaginal claws to insert into the gap and pry open the coffin lid bit by bit.

Wait until the gap appears.

The old foreigner immediately stepped forward with a kettle in hand to prevent the corpse aura from invading.

But to his surprise, the sarcophagus was quiet, and there were no poisonous smoke from the dark cellar, hidden fire or hidden arrows.

"open!"

Seeing this, the guys who were opening the coffin didn't hesitate anymore. With a low voice, they worked together to lift the extremely heavy coffin lid and lift it to the ground.

The boy next to him was carrying a lantern and moving it to the top of the coffin.

The rest of the people quickly looked into the coffin.

"Vertical burial coffin?"

"No, what the hell kind of burial method is this?"

"Could it be that they were buried alive and suffocated to death in the coffin?"

Through the light, everyone could clearly see a corpse huddled in the sarcophagus that had not yet decayed.

The figure showed an extremely weird posture.

"Buried in a huddle?!"

Hua Ling has never spoken.

He tilted his head and said one word softly.

During the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, foreign countries attacked, and the Zhou rituals fell apart. In addition, various countries intended to break away from the Zhou system, and various funeral rituals were derived.

Crouching is a derivative of that era.

Similar ones include hanging burials, leaning over, lying on one's side, and even upside down burials.

Looking at the bones huddled in the coffin.

Partridge Whistle also looked strange.

Before, he secretly speculated whether there would be a baby corpse buried in the coffin, but now it seemed that it was all a mistake.

While he was pondering.

Several guys had already taken out the corpse-binding ropes, reached into the coffin, inserted one set through the lower jaw of the corpse, and then pulled it back. The ancient corpse in the coffin instantly sat up half-sitting up.

But... when a group of people looked over.

But it feels like falling into an ice cave.

The ancient corpse was covered with strange runes, which were not very similar to the soul-killing talisman. It seemed to come from the strange witchcraft that had been seen on the walls of Shangzhen Palace.

But the most terrifying thing is far more than that.

The body of the ancient corpse was complete, but only two holes remained at the eyes.

Judging from the hideous wounds, it must have been forcefully dug away with a sharp weapon.

"Eye gouging?"

Partridge Whistle frowned.

I caught something subconsciously, but my mind was disorganized, and I felt like quicksand was flowing out from my fingers.

"This is the Tribulation of Three Hells."

"Gouging out the heart and gouging out the eyes."

As if aware of everyone's thoughts, Chen Yulou explained coldly.

Partridge Whistle's heart moved.

The corpse in the copper coffin from before came to mind.

Although the corpse was in a state of decomposition, but now that I think about it carefully, all the facial features were present, but the five internal organs seemed to be missing only the heart.

Brother Chen can say it so clearly.

I think he had already noticed it when he opened the coffin before.

Partridge Whistle sighed secretly.

From the moment I stepped into Xianwangxuan Palace, everything I saw coincided with the Taoist way of becoming an immortal.

The Bridge of Three Worlds and the Bones of Three Prisons.

Now in the three tribulations, since the heart and eyes were gouged out first, then... if I guessed correctly, the last coffin of the body was probably filled with evil means such as soul-stealing.

Subconsciously, Partridge Whistle glanced at the last demon coffin from the corner of his eye.

At this moment, it stood quietly in place.

When illuminated by the surrounding lights, the whole body suddenly reflected a dark luster.

do not know why.

Chen Yulou's previous words came back to his mind.

"Maybe it's an empty coffin."

"Eating souls and seizing souls... It seems to make sense. If a person has no soul, isn't he just a ghost?"

　I’m really sorry that I got off work so late and didn’t even eat when I came back. I’ve been writing until now. I’ll definitely post more when I get home during the Chinese New Year.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)