Chapter 32: Cloud Treasure Hall

In ancient times, the customs of burying the dead were different. Some people hoped to be liberated after death. However, between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties, they also advocated maintaining the face of the dead as if they were alive. The methods of retaining the body were different in terms of the form. It was "rich and rich, and poor, and poor tricks". Therefore, some used "jade box and jade clothes" to cover the human body with "cold jade" to help the human body, some contained "sustaining beads, and some were "sustaining beads, and some were "filled with arsenic and mercury" in the corpse. The poor people who were buried with a thin one also contained an old money as "sustaining money".

There are almost no taboos in the removal of corpses and pearls and jade. All kinds of techniques are used to the extreme. This is also related to the tradition left by the Red Eyebrow Army. At that time, the Red Eyebrow Uprising stole all the tombs of the Han emperor and destroyed the corpses of the ancestors of the power of the power. It was a way to boost morale in the peasant uprising army. Whoever cares about how the corpses in the ancient tombs were noble during their lifetime? Even if there were no obvious tools in the corpses, they would still have to harm them, either burn or dismember them. The methods were particularly cruel. They seemed to have a deep hatred between them and the noble tomb owners.

Therefore, Chen Xiaozi's subordinates still used these techniques and rules that had been left behind in the early years. This was because of his techniques. It had no special significance during the Republic of China. However, this method was extremely cruel. It was so cruel that the Taoist who moved the mountain was very happy. The method of moving the mountain was completely different from the Jinxiling.

I saw that there was chaos in the Dan Well of the Immortal Palace. The corpse was broken, and the mercury sand was everywhere. The harsh sound of swords and axes shattering the coffin and cutting the bones. The thieves had already let go of their hands and feet, hung the ancient corpses upside down on the bronze incense burner, stripped naked the clothes, and then controlled the poisonous substances such as mercury in the corpse cavity, and then opened the ancient corpse to its belly. Until it was confirmed that there was no more valuable in the corpse, then the corpse was dismantled.

When they arrived in the bamboo basket, they were carried out by engineers to the well. As the corpses and coffins in the danjing were transported out one after another, the whole picture of the bottom of the well gradually emerged. Chen Xiazi and Partridge Whistle looked around with the chaotic lights. Seeing the uneven stone slabs at the bottom of the well were extremely unusual, as if they were two vague human-shaped reliefs. They immediately burst into tears. The two looked at each other: "In addition to the corpses... could they also use ghosts as pill heads?"

Chen led the thieves in the Heling Mountains to smash the coffin and destroy the corpse in the Danjing. There was no taboo in the underworld? They all ignored their courage and were determined to do whatever they wanted. Seeing that the old corpse and old coffin were destroyed, they saw a relief on the stone slab at the bottom of the well, which turned out to be the image of two evil spirits emitting from the heads.

Although the shape is blurry, you can still see that your face is ferocious, like "Shura and Yaocha". What's even more strange is that these two ghosts are all aimless, with only a dark hole in their eyes.

Chen Weizi and Queqiao Whistle are very knowledgeable, but they have never seen any aimless blind ghost in the world. When they saw this strange and weird evil ghost being carved into the bottom of the well, they felt suspicious in their hearts. They really didn’t know what the name was.

Since ancient times, there have been people who use zombies to burn Yin Dan, but there is no saying that ghosts are used to refine alchemy. The magical Yaotai in Pingshan Dan Palace looks like the Qionglou Yuyu Temple, but there are corpses dug from all over the place. They specialize in making some evil tricks of side traits and left-mindedness. It cannot be measured by common sense. Moreover, it seems that the tomb of the general of the Yuan Dynasty was not set up in the main hall of the Dan Palace. What mystery would be hidden in the stone gate of the evil ghost carved at the bottom of the well?

Chen's eyes turned twice, and asked his subordinates to take the guide of the Dongmanzi to Danjing and ask him if there is any legend of haunted in Pingshan? Dongmanzi shook his head and waved his hands repeatedly: "You can teach all the heroes that we have learned that there have been only ancient zombies in our Pingshan, but we have never heard of how many ghosts have happened..."

After hearing this, Chen nodded. It would be good if there were no ghosts. People said that there was a treasure well where the Taoist emperor worshipped the gods in Pingshan. Could it be that it was located here? Perhaps after the Yuan army occupied Pingshan, they did not find such a secret place hidden under the pile of corpses at the bottom of the well. So they said to the Partridge Whistle: "The secret room at the bottom of the well is probably a treasure cave. Looking at this situation, it seems that it has never been swept away by Yuan soldiers. The emperor used corpse oil to refine elixirs. The laws of heaven are not tolerated. The treasure goods in the Dan Palace are just something that our brothers can do."

Partridge Whistle has regained two German-made branches. He broke his two companions for nothing, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of evil fire in his heart. Just as he was about to dig through the immortal palace, he heard Chen's words and said, "Now there are still hundreds of live chickens left. The rooster's rooster's blood is the most eccentric evil. Even if there are evil and poisonous things in the secret room, there is no need to worry about it. We should not refuse to resist and try to find out the strange things."

So Chen Xiaozi immediately ordered his subordinates to pry open the stone door with a ghost carved. The stone door was locked by copper cleavage outside. The lock heads were all dog-headed locks from the Song Dynasty lock city, and the lock teeth were closed like dog teeth. If there was no special key, it would be impossible to open it. The thieves in the ridge were "one force to descend ten times". Hundreds of shovels and chisels were sawed together. In less than a cup of tea, they pried the stone slabs into holes.

A big hole was suddenly exposed at the bottom of the well. There was no lamp inside. It was completely pitch black. I couldn't see my fingers. I could only hear the sound of the wind below, as if the cave was very wide and deep. An engineer fell off the lantern with a long rope to check it out. When everyone saw it clearly, they were all surprised. It turned out that the bottom of the well was a large osmanthus tree, which was shining with lush shade, with branches and leaves like crowns, growing very densely, and I don't know how many miles it covered.

This osmanthus tree grows at the bottom of the mountain with the corpse energy in the Danjing. The lush crown is full of yin energy. The thieves stand at the entrance of the cave and look down. They can feel the cool air in the tree and the whole body is covered with chestnuts.

Chen felt more and more strange. Why was the old osmanthus tree with lush branches and leaves at the bottom of the well locked by the stone door? The cave below was vast and it didn't look like a secret room with rare treasures. He cursed and asked his subordinates to carry a centipede hanging a mountain ladder, hang the branches of the osmanthus tree to find out what was going on.

The thieves moved bamboo ladders, each carrying chickens, birds and swords and guns, climbed down the trees with the wind. The osmanthus tree in the pit at the bottom of the well was big, but it was not tall, but the trunk was extremely thick, and the trees were covered with old bark. A famous thieves touched the tree and felt a little strange when they were tentacles. They took a lantern on the bamboo ladder, and almost turned over and fell, thanks to being grabbed by the partridge whistle.

The Partridge Whistle also used a horse lantern to shine on the trunk. It turned out that the bumps on the tree were all formed into a shape of a person's head, face, face, face, face, face, and face. It was vaguely distinguishable. It was full of facial features, which was very similar to human faces. However, the expressions on the tree body and human faces seemed to be crying and howling, and their faces were distorted and terrifying.

Partridge Whistle took a breath of air conditioning. The osmanthus tree is of yin nature. Many corpses were buried in the Dan Well, and the corpse gas inside was sucked into the tree. When he cut it with a knife, blood flowed out of the tree. Even if he wanted to break his head, he could not guess why such a large osmanthus tree was hidden in the alchemy fairy palace that absorbed corpse gas. This should be a "corpse osmanthus". Like "Ghost Elm", it is a rare osmanthus in the plants and trees. Legend has it that this tree is a passage between the yin and yang realms. There is strangeness everywhere in the Pingshan Dan Palace. I don't know where the real underground palace is hidden. When he thought of this, he secretly became alert.

Chen Weizi felt the same way. He and Partridge Whistle led the crowd to climb to the roots of the tree, holding the lanterns and torches, shining them all. The roots of the tree were pierced into the stone, and there was no dampness in the cave, but the shade was cool and the bones were shining. The elixir was growing from the yin energy in the ancient corpse, and the branches were almost hanging to the ground.

Under the canopy, the smoke smog sways like a illusion, surrounding the osmanthus trees and building four pavilions. The size and layout are all two-story buildings with "flying eaves and tiles, and the buildings are covered with windows". When you look at the bottom of the tree, you feel that it is quite a sense of being out of the world, not like the realm of the world.

But there was no light in the building. The entire pavilion was pitch black, and even the tiles and window edges were black. This fairyland-like scenery coexisted with the gloomy aura between the old osmanthus trees. The strong contrast was extremely inconsistent. The thieves looked around the tree and all felt like they were in danger. Li Li didn't need to issue orders. She spontaneously formed a formation against her back to prevent a sudden accident.

Chen Xiazi and others were frightened by the ambush in the Pingshan Mountain. Seeing the carved railings and jade-made outside the pavilions under the trees, they were particularly exquisitely made, they couldn't help but become nervous. They held up rattan cards and approached slowly. When they got closer, the exquisite pavilions were still as dark as if they were splashing ink, with no color on the whole body. In addition, there were no lamps in the cave, which seemed to have melted into the darkness.

The Partridge Whistle, with boldness and armor protection, carried a horse lantern on its own, carried a mirror box, walked out of the thieves and checked in front of one of the buildings. However, the pavilion was black and the lights were illuminated, and it was hard to see it. Only the outline of a hazy and tranced house in the clouds and mists were visible.

He had to poke the black building with "made in Germany", and immediately a "bang" echo came, as if it had hit the iron plate. Chen Xiaozi said in a strange back: "Is this pavilion all made of pig iron?"

Partridge whistle nodded. It was indeed iron in its entirety. No wonder it was not as color as the green tiles and red doors. He had never seen such a strange iron building. The iron doors and windows were exquisitely built, with hollow patterns. They were all like ordinary pavilions. They could open doors and windows. There were also houses in the building, but the whole was made of pig iron, which was particularly sturdy and solid. There was no inside visible outside. The lock should be closed organically outside the building. Because I didn't know where the news was, I didn't dare to enter lightly for a while, so I turned around and discussed with Xiaozi Chen for a few words.

Chen Jianzi thought about it and said, "The iron building is naturally not a human being. Seeing that the iron wall is so tight and locked very tightly, there must be some rare treasures hidden inside." The tomb robber of the Qiling Mountains came to seek wealth. When he found this treasure building, it happened that an old cat caught a fat mouse, so why wasn't he moved?

After he ordered, he sent out a group of thieves, all of whom were big and round waists. They were all strong men who were good at dismantling and demolition methods. They still used a method of using pry saws to chisel. Although they were a large number of people, they had to use a lot of effort to unload the iron door because they could not find the iron building. There were hidden weapons like even the ones hidden in the four eaves of the building, but the rust had already lost its function and did not cause much trouble to the thieves.

However, seeing that the iron building was equipped with a machine to prevent it, everyone was even more sure that there would be treasures inside. The iron door was pushed open with the sound of rust rubbing. The thieves were more cautious and sent two people to explore first. Then there was no mechanism. Then more than a dozen people came in, carrying horse lanterns to find the treasures hidden in the Dan Palace.

Partridge Whistle was curious and asked Chen to respond outside the building. He also carried a gun and a group of thieves into the iron building. He looked up and saw that the first floor of the door was the main hall. Even the ground inside was a pig iron shop. There was a barefoot jade statue in the hall. It should be the Medicine King in the Immortal Path. The statue was not high, about two feet, but it was all over. A few people immediately stepped forward and moved the Medicine Fairy Jade statue from the table and put it in the skin.

In his eyes, Partridge Whistle saw it and thought that the iron building was the Yaowang Pavilion. The place where the elixirs were stored in the Dan Palace was also called "Luge". The storage of the Luge must be extremely precious medicines. The large osmanthus tree at the bottom of the well should be to absorb the yin energy so that the Danwan paste in the Luge will not deteriorate. He looked while walking and walked around several narrow iron chambers behind the hall.

The back room was filled with porcelain bottles and jade jars, some of which were very tightly sealed, and the medicinal properties of the zicao and grass inside were still the same. Among them, there was a jade box with painted lacquer paintings on it, which were all exquisite patterns of pine, crane and fairy grass. The quail whistle opened the cover of the box, and saw several grids inside the box, and there was a small gold medal on each grid, and there were medicine stones of different shapes in the grid.

The partridge whistle was carefully distinguished under the lamp and saw the words "Lion's claw, spider treasure, snake eyes, dog treasure, turtle treasure..." written on the gold medal. They were all inner elixirs and stones of various spiritual objects. These were precious medicinal materials only available in the Great Inner Palace. Even the smallest-shaped spider treasure inside was the size of walnuts and was in the shape of black pills, which were rare and rare elixirs.

Most of the thieves were aware of the goods. The utensils and utensils were extremely expensive and gorgeous. The elixirs and stones inside were even more valuable. They were very happy at the moment. They took the same thing when they saw it. They were not polite. When they walked from the iron stairs to the second floor, the fog gradually became thicker, the iron wall was black, and nothing was real in the dim light.

The Partridge Whistle was holding a gun and holding a light. He walked in front of him first. As soon as he reached the second floor, he raised his foot and opened the iron door. He suddenly saw a woman wearing heavy makeup standing in the room. The man's face was facing inside the room, and he was still motionless in the dark iron room. His back looked like a living person, but he couldn't feel the smell of a living person on her body.

What are the eyes of Partridge Whistle, who specializes in stealing ancient tombs? As soon as the light shadow flashed, she could see clearly that the woman was dressed in a Ming Dynasty outfit. She wore wooden bow shoes and four kinds of paddy fields made of pieces of brocade. The style was a bit like a monk wearing a yarn and a set of armor on the outside. It was the paddy field suit that was popular among women in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty, scholars, farmers, industry, commerce, military and civilians have been prohibited from wearing Hu clothes. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty issued an edict to the world that "clothing and hats are as good as the Tang Dynasty" and restored the Han nationality's clothing system as a whole. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty continued to use the large-collar right-lantern cross-collar or round-collar clothing that was found in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Women in the Ming Dynasty mostly wore "clothing, armor, and backs". There were extremely strict requirements on the color of clothing. Only light colors such as purple, green, and peach red can be used, and no bright colors can be used.

The robbers of the Ming Dynasty had no less than ten ancient tombs, so naturally they recognized the age of the clothes at first sight, and they were filled with surprise. This iron building, which had been enshrined since the Yuan Dynasty, had a tight gate, like an iron cage. I am afraid that even a mouse could not get in. How could a Ming Dynasty woman appear? How could she get into the building? Will the bone shrinkage and body movement be impossible?

Partridge Whistle brought the thieves upstairs. The woman just stood still without moving with her back. She seemed to be unaware of all movements and stillness, like a wooden sculpture. Widths of mist flowed into the black iron window, and the hazy figure was like a ghost cloth in the ghost market.

The thieves crowded in front of the door and were stunned. There were too many tomb robbers, and they really hit the evil ghost. Although they didn't care about digging graves, they didn't really encounter evil things. When they thought of the real ghost, they couldn't help but stoop and wanted to turn around and run downstairs. But at this time, their legs and feet seemed to be out of control, and they were nailed to the spot like lead.

Partridge Whistle ignored the reactions of the others, and took the lantern forward and suddenly asked, "Is it a human or a ghost?" As he spoke, he raised his hand from behind to pat the woman in Ming Dynasty clothing. Unexpectedly, there was nothing in the tentacles.

Partridge Whistle saw a woman in a well-dressed costume standing on the second floor of the Iron Pavilion. There was a layer of dust on the ground of the Iron Tower and there were no footprints. It seemed that no one was walking around for hundreds of rooms, but he was a ghost. He snorted coldly in his heart, trying to see what was strange about this woman. He took two steps forward, raised his hand and patted the woman on the shoulder from behind, but his hand fell down and turned into a void.

Partridge Whistle's hand fell into nothing and hurriedly retreated. He saw that the woman was standing in the position where she was originally standing suddenly a fog of dust rose and drifted in the narrow building.

The thieves thought it was poisonous, so they quickly closed their breath and covered their mouths and noses to dodge. From the beginning of entering the iron building, the Partridge Whistle felt the medicine was heavy, and they were afraid that they would hit the poison smoke machine and had already taken precautions. However, the woman immediately turned into a piece of dust when she was touched, as thick as fog. There was no abnormal breath in the foggy dust.

Partridge Whistle had a squid-skinned hand on his hand. He picked up the lamp and carefully identified it. The gloves were stained like dead paper scraps, very finely broken, leaving only the meridian marks in the paper. He should be a exquisite paper-cutter. He had been left in the room for hundreds of years. The paper tendons had long been dissipated and turned into ashes when touched. He was even more strange in his heart: "Is this woman neither a human nor a ghost, but she is actually a human figure made of paper-cut? She is like a real person and a real magical craftsman, but since she is wearing a plain outfit, why is it in this pig-iron closed open room? In this era..."

Partridge Whistle encountered many strange things in Pingshan, and it was difficult to guess based on his natural knowledge. He turned around in the second floor iron pavilion. Seeing that there was no strangeness, the doors and windows were tightly locked. It was really difficult to judge how the paper-cutters of the Ming Dynasty were placed in it. He even had a little doubt whether his eyes were blurred. He was full of doubts, so he turned around and returned to the downstairs, went to the osmanthus tree to see Blind Chen, and told him what he had encountered in the open room.
Chapter completed!