Knife splashing

Chapter 635: Snake Coiled with Turtle, Paper Figure Appears

Bang~bang bang!

"It's midnight, be careful with candles."

When the bangzi sounded, the whole city of Luoyang fell silent.

Because someone was killed in the ghost market yesterday and the Duwei Division was involved, the whole city was searched for him. Several city foxes and rats were even beaten to death in the street. Coupled with the paper man case, people were in panic.

At nightfall tonight, even the brothels and restaurants closed early.

At this time, Mangshan Mountain, north of Luoyang, became lively.

Call ~
The night wind howled, like crying and complaining.

Although the drizzle had stopped long ago, the sky was still covered with dark clouds, the stars and the moon were dim, and it was completely dark.

In the darkness, the sound of the wind was like something whimpering.

Before long, thick fog rose from the ground.

Old people often say that wind blows away the fog, and strong wind is the nemesis of thick fog.

But at this time, the stronger the wind, the thicker the fog.

The mist seemed to be gushing out from the cracks in the mountains, carrying with it the unique fishy smell of snakes, making the vision even more blurred. It was the "snake mirage" caused by the Suihou Snake Pearl.

There are people from the Xuanmen sect practicing on Mount Mang.

This is both a burial place and a sacred place of Taoism.

On Cuiyun Peak, Laozi and Zhang Tianshi both lived in seclusion and practiced cultivation. It is known as the "Source of Taoism" and the "Ancestor Temple"...

Pingfeng Mountain was once the residence of the Qi clan of the mother clan of Yan and Huang, and the dragon and horse of Huangdi were buried here, so it is called "Dragon and Horse Ancient Mound"...

Not to mention Mount Shouyang, which is the highest peak of Mang Mountain in Yanshi.

“When the sun rises, the light must reach first”, this is Shouyang.

After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, Boyi and Shuqi lived in seclusion in Shouyang, refused to eat Zhou grain, and died of starvation...

It can be said that the legend of Mangshan has lasted from ancient times to the present day.

There is not only Shangqing Palace on the mountain, but also Lu Zu Temple and Xiaqing Palace, as well as some hermits.

But on the one hand, Mangshan is not high, but it covers a vast area, and this place is far away from other places.

Secondly, the "snake mirage" has the ability to isolate Qi, and with the cover of night, no one from the Taoist priests on the mountain noticed it.

Only Li Yan and others hid in the dark and watched.

But the broken stele of Jingling Mausoleum and the yellow earth gullies in the distance were soon covered by thick fog.

The fog was gray as cloth at first, and then turned into lead gray.

Li Yan pinched the Yang Jue with his hands, his nose tip moved slightly, and his expression became solemn.

Sure enough, more flavors appeared this time.

He smelled the unique smell of rotten earth in a tomb, mixed with copper rust and incense.

There's also a little blood.

Gradually, the entire area around Jingling Mausoleum was completely shrouded in thick fog.

Even if everyone used their magical powers, they could not sense any movement inside.

"Hey~"

Suddenly, a strange whistling sound came from the fog.

It is also accompanied by the sound of musical instruments.

First came the ethereal sound of the xun, followed by gongs, drums and bells.

After hearing this, Lu San frowned slightly and nodded slightly at Li Yan.

Li Yan immediately understood that this was Nuo music.

Someone was performing some kind of sacrifice inside.

"It seems that the senior guess was correct."

He lowered his voice and nodded to Yin Jiuge beside him.

Yin Jiuge rolled his eyes and said, "Can I still deceive a little kid like you?"

Li Yan pretended not to hear and continued to ask: "We have tried various methods during the day, but it is difficult to detect, but it appears at night. Senior, do you know what the reason is?"

This question diverted Yin Jiuge's attention.

The hunchbacked old man did not speak. He took out the compass from his arms, checked it, and said thoughtfully: "In my opinion, this seems to be the 'Three Yins Locking Dragon'."

"This Jingling Mausoleum of the Northern Wei Dynasty was located at the intersection of the 'snake and turtle' of Mang Mountain. In the daytime, the main vein of the Pingfeng Mountain in the back looks like a black tortoise, and with the Yi River in the front, it looks like a 'black snake circling a seal'."

"That Xu Fu, using the earth energy from the tortoise shell to suppress the resentful evil spirits of the six nations, at midnight when the yin energy is the heaviest, the water veins are filled with mist, and combined with the Suihou snake bead, it forms the 'black snake spits out its tongue' phenomenon, and the underground palace is revealed..."

Despite the explanation, the old man was obviously still unsure.

Li Yan frowned and said, "If it only appeared at midnight, how could it be hidden for thousands of years?"

"Ask me, how could I know?"

Yin Jiuge also had a bit of the temper of an old naughty boy and was immediately displeased.

"Golden Eye Feng" beside him fell into deep thought, "Now that you've mentioned that, I remember it. When Zhao Luzi showed me the bronze tripod, there were snake and tortoise patterns on the bottom, and the sun, moon, and stars carved on the top. Is it related to celestial phenomena?"

"Oh?"

When Yin Jiuge heard this, he quickly calculated with his fingers and suddenly realized, "It's Qingming Festival soon. The shift of Ziweiyuan will indeed have an impact. If I'm not wrong, the dome of the underground palace must have been arranged, and it must be related to the twenty-eight constellations!"

At this point, he said solemnly: "Xu Fu is a dishonest person, but his methods are amazing. When you enter later, you must listen to my instructions and don't act rashly, otherwise both of us will be trapped."

"Don't worry, senior." Li Yan nodded seriously.

This time we went to the underground palace not to attack it by force, but to rescue people first.

His escape technique is so sophisticated that it is almost like invisibility.

Yin Jiuge was able to become one of the Five Yin Sacrifices of the Underworld Cult, so his means must be extraordinary.

Even though he is old, his Taoism is still at the fifth level.

So they made a plan during the day, and two of them would go in first to rescue people.

The others were outside to provide support.

"Well, let's not delay any longer and miss the opportunity."

Yin Jiuge said this, then grabbed a handful of soil from the leather bag on his waist, made some hand gestures and chanted a few incantations, then blew a breath and threw the soil around.

In an instant, cold wind blew around and dust flew.

Yin Jiuge's figure also disappeared, leaving a shallow dent on the ground.

What an exquisite earth escape technique!
Li Yan exclaimed in his heart and also began to perform the escape technique.

He pinched the Ziwu Jue, suddenly hooked his little finger, and a Chu Ling paper man flew out from the leather bag on his waist.

"The Black Emperor's Spiritual Book and the Heavenly Peng Treasure Talisman command the wind and fire to move, the mountains toppled and the trees withered, the nine lands were gloomy, all the generals are on the march... Hurry up and follow the orders of the Northern Yin Xuantian Fengdu Emperor!"

This is the Lingjiang Mantra in Fengdu Fa.

Summon the Eight Generals of the Outer Altar for blessings, and this can be done simultaneously.

Summoning the Eight Generals of the Inner Altar requires huge consumption, and one is enough.

call!
As he chanted the spell, a cold wind swirled behind him, and the paper figure of Chu Ling also flew into the air, with black mist swirling around it.

A black figure appeared vaguely in the wind and sand, and there was also a bird-shaped black shadow on its arm.

The person he summoned this time was Marshal Wei, the "Flying Eagle Officer of Fengdu".

Marshal Wei is in the underworld, and his main responsibility is to tour the nine underworlds, record the living and the dead, and examine and summon the wronged souls.

In terms of speed, he is the best among the Eight Generals of the Inner Altar.

Moreover, it can also add the ability of detection at the same time, making the range wider.

It is most suitable for covert reconnaissance.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yan used the Xuanshui escape technique.

His Xuanshui escape was already exquisite, and with the combined power of the Dragon Snake Card and Marshal Wei, he completely disappeared.

There wasn't even a trace of footprints on the sandy ground.

"Boy, you really have a good trick. Come with me."

A dull sound came from underground, and then a faint shadow quickly left and headed towards Jingling.

At this time, Li Yan not only disappeared, but his speed was also faster, and he followed behind easily.

In the blink of an eye, the two disappeared in the thick fog.

Wu Ba and others also began to make preparations.

Lü San commanded Rat Rat Two to gather all the nearby rats...Long Yan'er waved her sleeves, and the fine sesame-like poisonous insects immediately disappeared into the mist...

Wu Ba removed the tiger squat cannon and began to replace the magazine.

Seeing the three people in an orderly manner, the "Golden Eye Feng" next to them couldn't help but ask: "Ladies and gentlemen, aren't you worried about Young Master Li?"

Lu San glanced at him calmly and said, "If anything goes wrong, just go in directly."

"Hehe~"

Wu Ba grinned and patted the tiger squat cannon.

Looking at this terrifying weapon, "Golden Eye Feng" felt his scalp tingling and gave a thumbs up...

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The night was pitch black, and nothing could be seen in the thick fog.

If an ordinary person entered, he would probably feel like he was falling into the underworld.

With the help of Marshal Wei's power, Li Yan's supernatural powers recovered a little. Even in this terrifying "snake mirage", he could detect the movements a hundred meters away. In addition, he was already familiar with the terrain, so he walked ahead unknowingly.

Suddenly, the hair on the back of his neck stood up and he tapped the ground with his feet.

There were two bangs, and although the sound was light, Yin Jiuge stopped immediately.

“Hehehe…”

Suddenly, a strange laugh was heard in the thick fog.

Then, green will-o'-the-wisp flames jumped up and down and came from the left.

These will-o'-the-wisp fires were so fast that in just a short period of time, even the surrounding fog was dyed green.

But a team emerged from the thick fog.

In front of us are armored soldiers, dressed like in costumes.

Behind him was a sedan bearer dressed in black with a big “Shou” character written on his chest.

Their faces were all plaster-white, with strange smiles and blush on their cheeks.

What’s even more bizarre is that these sedan bearers were actually carrying a coffin.

The coffin is made of the finest nanmu wood, with a vermilion lacquer base and gold-painted dragons and phoenixes.

It looked new, but the bottom of the coffin had already rotted away, and corpse oil was dripping from it.

Li Yan held the hilt of the knife with his right hand, but stood still and watched coldly.

These things are obviously means of outer defense.

The joints all over his body were creaking, which was the sound of bamboo strips rubbing against each other. It should be the paper dolls that had been wreaking havoc in Luoyang recently. The reason why they looked like real people was because of the hallucinations caused by the "snake mirage".

If I get scared and take action, I'm afraid the people inside will notice it immediately.

Sure enough, when these things got closer, their appearance changed rapidly and turned into paper figures again.

And Li Yan finally saw the mystery of "paper people carrying the coffin".

The paper man looked fragile, but his spine and legs were pierced by a herringbone-shaped iron bar.

There were some small holes the size of green beans on the vermilion lacquered coffin.

Strands of transparent spider silk emerged from the hole, wrapped around the iron bars, and connected all the paper figures.

It is said that "paper people carry the coffin", but in fact it is the coffin that drives the paper people.

Li Yan also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

He said that even with the Xuanmen Fengdu method, it is difficult to drive paper figures to lift heavy objects, so how could this unorthodox sect have such ability?

But this thing is amazing enough.

I don’t know what kind of monster is in the coffin, but the spider silk is as hard as steel.

Soon, the pair of paper figures disappeared from their sight.

Li Yan leaned forward and asked in a low voice: "Senior, do you recognize that thing?"

"It's a five-colored corpse spider."

A dull voice came from underground. "It is recorded in Youyang Zazu that there are five-colored spiders, as big as wheels, with webs as tough as iron. Anyone who touches them will turn into blood. The webs are five-colored, appearing and disappearing, and no one can see them."

"This is an ancient strange insect. Alchemists in the Qin and Han dynasties often refined it and used it to guard mausoleums. I have seen it when I was in Guanzhong. This creature likes shade and hates light, and can be overcome by fierce fire."

"This method has long been lost. It must have been left in the underground palace below and was subdued by Wang Xuanmo."

"I see."

Li Yan suddenly realized.

Ancient strange insects are already strange and bizarre, some of which are not even recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Just like the "qin insect" that he helped Long Yan'er catch, it is simply beyond common sense and is extremely rare in this era.

The alchemists of the Qin and Han dynasties, employed by the imperial court, loved to refine these things.

Like the "red-haired and red-faced man" seen in Guanzhong before, they all have secret methods of guarding tombs.

Not long after they walked, two more pairs of paper figures appeared.

But once you know the origin of this thing, you will naturally get used to it.

Li Yan and the other man were too lazy to provoke them, so they waited for them to leave and continued on their way.

Finally, I saw the Northern Wei Jingling Mausoleum again.

The person buried in the Jingling Mausoleum of the Northern Wei Dynasty was not an ordinary emperor, but the famous Emperor Xiaowen of Wei, Yuan Hong.

During his reign, he implemented comprehensive sinicization, moved the capital to Luoyang, and changed Xianbei surnames to Han surnames.

Although the reform caused turmoil and indirectly led to the Rebellion of the Six Garrisons, it also laid the foundation for the integration of the Chinese nation and the subsequent prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" called him "the only wise king of Wei was Emperor Xiaowen." He made outstanding achievements and left his name in history.

But he probably never imagined that the mausoleum he chose, which was built on the Qin Palace that suppressed the ghosts of the six kingdoms, and the Yin Palace that was built at the cost of national strength, had already been robbed and even his bones were missing.

Emperor Xiaowen of Wei was sinicized, and the Jingling Mausoleum completely adopted the Han-style mausoleum structure from the Central Plains.

It has everything from dome roofs to sloping tomb passages.

Li Yan had been there once during the day and knew that the place had already collapsed and there was nothing inside, so he stopped and looked around, whispering, "Senior, where is the entrance?"

"follow me."

A sound was heard from underground, and then shallow traces moved forward.

Li Yan followed closely behind and quickly went around to the left side of Jingling.

This is still a dirt slope, but thick fog is swirling between the two huge rocks in the middle, forming a whirlpool.

"Get in!"

Yin Jiuge said this and rushed into the vortex of thick fog first.

When Li Yan saw it, he was a little surprised.

He has supernatural powers to see clearly.

Behind the thick fog vortex, it was clearly stone, with only some gaps between the gravel.

He can't burrow underground, so how can he get in?
But seeing that Yin Jiuge had disappeared, Li Yan had no choice but to move forward.

Soon, he noticed something unusual.

The thick fog seemed to form a passage. There were clearly rocks behind, but I went straight through it as if I had entered a cave.

Here, the "snake mirage" is more powerful.

The strong wind wrapped in thick fog was howling in his face, and the smell of snakes made his head dizzy, and his escape technique was almost broken.

The passage is winding, like a giant snake crawling out.

Turning left and right, we walked down for about a hundred meters.

The thick fog and strong winds all disappeared, and the scene before my eyes suddenly became bright.

Li Yan looked up and was immediately shocked.

In front of us is a huge cave.

They came out from the middle and landed on a stone platform.

Looking upwards, one can see twenty-eight huge meteorites arranged in the directions of the twenty-eight constellations.

At the location of the central Ziwei star, white mist was surging, and there seemed to be a bead emitting white light, shining on the winding and surging white mist, like a giant white snake floating in the sky.

"The meteorite of the 28 Mansions, the eye of Suihou, I was right..."

An old voice came from the side. It turned out that Yin Jiuge had untied the earth escape technique and pasted a paper man on his head, making his figure seem to appear and disappear.

But Li Yan didn't have time to listen to the old man bragging.

The Gou Die in his arms began to heat up again...

(End of this chapter)