From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

But that's normal.

Climate and phenology can be judged and their patterns summarized through plants and animals. However, while ancient people could judge and predict natural phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis by observing the sudden habits of animals, they could not summarize the patterns of these natural disasters.

The movement of the Earth's crust takes tens of thousands of years!

The saying "Man proposes, God disposes" couldn't be more true!

Click!

At that moment, the rotating array of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two pentads stopped.

It's Chen Yulou!

As he emerged from the main building, wiping the sweat from his brow, he addressed the crowd: "The mechanisms of this barbican are activated by gears beneath the main building. I had Kunlun use a crossbow bolt to jam the mechanism. The bolt is made of refined iron and is incredibly tough, so it shouldn't break. Once the people outside the tomb passage blast open that boulder, we can get out."

But as he walked to the outer edge of the city wall and saw the eight pale-faced corpses, and the absence of Luo Laowai, the ease on his face vanished instantly—

# Chapter 145 Laozi's Jade Bottle for Holding Water...

Where is Luo Laowai?

Chen Yulou was really anxious!

It wasn't that I was genuinely worried about Luo Laowai's life. The so-called sworn brotherhood was nothing more than a matter of self-interest, and it certainly wasn't a true connection of hearts.

It doesn't matter so much that Luo Laowai died outside, right under the noses of the other engineers. Instead, he can take this opportunity to bring Luo Laowai's men into Changsheng Mountain and further expand the scale of the Xieling lineage.

But you might die inside—

The soldiers in the engineer battalion and pistol battalion might be saying behind his back that Chen Yulou was the one who harmed Luo Laowai!

This is also why he had previously pleaded with Jiang Liu to save Luo Laowai.

Jiang Liu simply made an excuse to decline...

"Inside the main coffin!"

Jiang Liu revealed his guess, causing Chen Yulou, Hong Guniang, and the others to show disbelief. Even the mute Kunlun opened his mouth wide, his face full of surprise and uncertainty.

"Is there really such a thing as reincarnation?"

This wasn't the first time Chen Yulou had heard of such a thing; the last time he'd heard of it was in a novel of gods and ghosts:

Tieguai Li had not yet achieved immortality and could not ascend to heaven. He could only send his primordial spirit to Mount Hua to travel with Laozi. He told his disciple to return in seven days, and if he did not return in seven days, his body should be burned.

The disciple guarded his master's body day and night. During this time, he learned that his mother was critically ill, which made him uneasy. On the seventh day at noon, he had no choice but to burn his master's body and go home to fulfill his filial duty.

When his spirit returned, he found the corpse reduced to ashes. Helpless, he could only possess a dying person—a person of ugly appearance and a lame leg. Thus, Tieguai Li (Iron-Crutch Li) became the image of Tieguai Li in the world's eyes…

Chen Yulou thought it was just a legend, but he never expected that there was such a thing as "resurrection through a body". Moreover, if Ping Mountain had not tilted, the strange man who had been dead for hundreds of years might have been resurrected by Luo Laowai!

"I'm not sure if reincarnation truly exists, but I do know that some people with deep-seated obsessions can allow their spirits to endure and retain their wisdom."

Jiang Liu cited the example of "Dong Xiaoyu" he encountered in Renjia Town, "but she is generally unable to truly possess someone else's body; she can only temporarily attach herself to them."

Among the extraordinary individuals, there is a type who uses the control of spirits and spirits to assist their cultivation, and can gain power by having spirits possess them.

But we are not those kinds of people, so we know very little.

"That Luo Laowai?"

Chen Yulou was most worried about Luo Laowai's situation.

"That mass of Yin energy was too fragmented, it didn't even have a human form, so it's highly likely that it failed. But to find out for sure, we still need to open the coffin to verify." Jiang Liu didn't dare to make a guarantee right now.

Seeing is believing, after all.

Li Muxuan sneered, "Maybe that guy has already been possessed and become a 'zombie'. I suggest we leave him here, and when we get out, we can block the exit, bury him, and teach him a lesson in 'peace in the grave'."

Chen Yulou: "..."

He now suspected that what these people had said before was all a lie, and that their only real purpose was to bury Luo Laowai, who was at odds with them, right here!

However, considering that Jiang Liu had previously warned him against going into the underground palace, he listened to Luo Laowai's advice, which led to the loss of manpower...

Therefore, Chen Yulou dared not make any hasty conclusions at this time.

Buzz!

The entire barbican suddenly trembled, and eight huge openings appeared behind the four walls, from which clouds of yellow sand poured out and billowed towards the crowd.

"Damn it! The owner of this fortified city has no intention of leaving us a way out!"

Cold sweat broke out on Chen Yulou's forehead again. "This is a trap to wipe out our entire family! Once the previous mechanisms are destroyed, the last one will be activated, opening the gap and burying this place with the yellow sand from underground!"

The area beneath Ping Mountain and Lao Xiong Ridge is composed of a layer of moist, thick soil on top and a layer of dry, fine yellow sand underneath.

Among the Miao legends of the Laoxiongling area, there is a little-known story:

Legend has it that the area around Old Bear Ridge was once covered in yellow sand. When Sun Wukong stole Laozi's elixir of immortality, he accidentally knocked over Laozi's jade bottle used for holding water, causing it to fall into this area and transform into Bottle Mountain. This caused the yellow sand to ripple like waves, and the water from the jade bottle sprinkled down to earth, giving life to the desert and turning it into a forest, presenting this thriving scene of all things competing for life.

What?

Where did the Silver Horn King's jade bottle come from?

Of course, after Laozi lost the first Jade Purification Bottle, he later used the Eight Trigrams Furnace to refine another Jade Purification Bottle!

Who says there can only be one jade bottle?

Guanyin Bodhisattva also often holds a jade vase!

Regardless of the story's veracity, based on the reality that there is only yellow sand beneath Bottle Mountain and that Bottle Mountain is tilted, Jiang Liu suspects that Bottle Mountain might be a huge, peculiar meteorite that crashed onto Earth, or perhaps some kind of artwork left behind by aliens.

After all, the world of "Under One Person" really does contain extraterrestrial civilizations...

Boom!

At that moment, a tremendous noise came from the blocked tomb passage—

The boulder was blasted apart!

Seeing this, Jiang Liu picked up Chen Yulou with one hand, grabbed Hong Guniang with the other, and used his magnetic field to drag Kunlun, rushing towards the tomb passage at high speed.

Lu Jin and Li Muxuan each carried one of the two people and jumped down from the wall of the barbican, closely following behind Jiang Liu.

As for Luo Laowai, who's still in his coffin—

Nobody cares anymore.

Upon seeing the situation inside, the person blocking the tomb entrance immediately turned around and shouted, "Get out quickly! It's collapsed inside!"

Fortunately, these engineers and strongmen understood the importance of not crowding narrow passages, and only left about ten people in the passage; otherwise, a very serious stampede would have definitely occurred.

After everyone had run out of the tomb passage, Jiang Liu released his arms, causing Chen Yulou, Hong Guniang, and Kunlun to fall into the muddy yellow soil outside the tomb door.

A rumbling sound came from the tomb entrance, and yellow sand billowed out, revealing a human figure running out.

It's Luo Laowai!

[Not dead?]

Jiang Liu was surprised. He carefully sensed the presence of Luo Laowai but did not detect any spiritual energy on him. Luo Laowai was pale and lacked vitality, probably because he was frightened by the broken Yin spirit and had not yet recovered.

But how did he escape from the main coffin?

Are you Marshal Luo?

Chen Yulou didn't believe he could escape from the main coffin without external help. Still shaken, he actually believed Jiang Liu's earlier claim of "reincarnation."

This old man Luo in front of me might be possessed by a ghost!

"Bah bah bah!"

Luo Laowai rubbed the yellow sand off his tongue, snatched a water bag from a nearby man's waist, took a big gulp, rinsed his mouth for a moment, spat it aside, and shouted, "How can I not be Luo Laowai? I fell into that coffin earlier, hit my head, and passed out. Later, I heard a vibration, woke up, and tried to open the coffin lid, but I couldn't, so I just banged on it randomly..."

No, I calmed down, felt around for the coffin lid, kicked open the iron plate on the left side of the coffin, and that's how I escaped... Good heavens! The tomb was full of yellow sand! I risked my life to crawl out of that almost blocked passageway!

After saying that, he glanced back at the tomb door with lingering fear, and when he saw the billowing yellow smoke coming out, he was so frightened that he took a big step forward.

It was this large step that made Jiang Liu notice a tear in his clothing on the back, and twenty-four pale red marks on the skin around his spine, as if he had been pierced by something but had healed quickly...

# Chapter 146 The Mountain-Moving Taoist

Seeing the twenty-four light red marks on Luo Laowai's back, Jiang Liu became suspicious and said to Chen Yulou, "President Chen, bury your head back here."

"Absolutely!"

After this ordeal, Chen Yulou was also frightened. After climbing out of the pit, he immediately ordered his men to take hoes and shovels and fill the pit with the surrounding yellow mud and black soil in an attempt to block the entrance of the tomb in the walled city.

This time, however, the heavy loss of so many lives left Chen Yulou, who had escaped with his life, deeply troubled. Back at the mortuary, he secluded himself in his room, lost in thought, even contemplating giving up…

Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, and Li Muxuan stacked the bamboo cage containing more than seventy chickens again, carried it on their backs, and prepared to enter Ping Mountain to get rid of the monsters in the mountain.

Not for tomb raiding, but at the behest of the great sorcerer of Qinghe Village, to exorcise demons and monsters!

"I'll go with you too!"

Red Girl followed.

There are three main objectives.

Firstly, at Chen Yulou's request, I followed them to explore Ping Mountain again to see if we could find any other entrances to Ping Mountain.

Secondly, to enter Ping Mountain, those poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, such as the Earth Dragon King, or the Xuanjiao Snake, the Mo Pipa, etc., must be eliminated, otherwise even if they have guns, they will suffer heavy losses.

Thirdly, as an extraordinary person, Hong Guniang not only wants to find a big city to rebuild the Moon Gate and promote the ancient magic tricks, but also has a heart to slay demons and monsters. Now that she has the opportunity, she naturally wants to get involved and get rid of the scourge for the local people.

It can be said that as long as they are not all extraordinary individuals, they all have the heart to help the weak and punish the strong. Even the people of Yemaoshan are the same. It's just that the people of Yemaoshan have a bad character and are prone to going to extremes.

"Sister Hong wants to rebuild the Moon Gate? Why not join the Ghost Hand King's Magic Troupe?" Jiang Liu subtly began recruiting, since the Ghost Hand King's Magic Troupe mainly performed the ability to reverse eight directions, true ancient magic tricks—

not a single one.

If someone who truly knows ancient magic tricks could join, then the eight apprentices in the magic troupe would also be able to learn genuine ancient magic tricks.

"I'll think about it."

A polite refusal?

it's not true.