Chapter 76 Eight Treasures Mysterious Pattern Glaze Cup

"Master Chen, forget it today"

Li Heng said to him with a smile.

Chen Zhouhe's face was stunned: "Why? I finally thought of it. I practiced at home all night..."

"No need, according to my calculations, you should be able to go through seven and a half strokes with me today, last about forty seconds, and be hit in the back by me in the third quarter, and lose after the sixth quarter."

"this……"

Chen Zhouhe's eyes widened: "Why is it shorter than before? Did I practice in vain?"

Li Heng shook his head and smiled: "That's because I am also making progress."

"And my improvement speed is much faster than yours."

"Tsk tsk~"

Chen Zhouhe shook his head and sighed, still so ruthless.

"Today I need to decipher something I found underneath that before."

"What?"

Li Heng looked towards the earth temple, where several pieces of moldy felt were hanging on the wall, with faint lines looming on them.

And as the sunlight gets stronger, the pattern on it becomes clearer, as if the energy absorbed by the sunlight is released again.

"What is this?"

Chen Zhouhe walked over curiously.

"Just a set of martial arts"

Li Heng said calmly.

"Martial arts?"

This makes Chen Zhouhe even more curious. As a master of martial arts, he has read many martial arts classics.

There are wire-bound books used in the early days, printed books used later, and later electronic files, but no matter which medium the content is, it is nothing more than text and pattern description. Even the video explanations that emerged in the Internet era,

It is nothing more than making two-dimensional information three-dimensional and clear.

But what are these things on the felt? Ghostly drawings?

The incomprehensible symbols are arranged in rows of lines of different shades, and the various patterns have no obvious rules. They are like a pile of vegetation and rocks that have no logic and are piled together so that people who look at them are confused.

"Is there anything special about this thing?"

Since he couldn't see why, Chen Zhouhe still had to ask Li Heng for advice.

"Have you heard of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?"

Li Heng sat down and watched the lines on it recover bit by bit and said.

"I have... some impression. Was it after the fall of the Tang Dynasty?"

Chen Zhouhe also sat down on a mound. He didn't know much about history. He could only know about the time period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but he had no idea of ​​which countries and dynasties were specific. As for what happened, it was even less clear.

Not sure.

"That was a 'time when human stars shine'..."

Li Heng said with emotion.

"At that time, there was a regime called Southern Han, which occupied a large territory in Lingnan, and the founder of this regime was called Liu Yan."

"This guy is a heavyweight. One of his great hobbies is to watch others being tortured."

"He likes to throw people into hot water and burn them, then take them out, soak them in salt and expose them to the sun, then throw them into hot water and scald them, and so on. He also invented a water prison filled with poisonous snakes and pushed people into it.

They are bitten by venomous snakes, trampled by elephants and buffaloes, or fought with evil tigers. In short, it is a process of cutting mountains of swords, burning oil pans, crushing stones with axes and sawing pools of bloody cesspools, everything is included."

Just listening to Chen Zhouhe felt outrageous: "Isn't this just a perverted tyrant?"

"Um"

Li Heng nodded and said yes.

"But such a cruel guy was actually a devout believer in Buddhism and Taoism. He practiced both Buddhism and Taoism. He built a total of twenty-eight temples, corresponding to the twenty-eight stars in the sky."

"After founding the country and proclaiming himself emperor, Liu Yan not only carried out large-scale construction projects and took pleasure in torturing people in all kinds of tortures, but he still had one regret that he could not achieve."

"So, he invited three people to his palace, namely monk Wenlong, Taoist Yuanqing and martial artist Zhang Pan. Among them, monk Wenlong was the most accomplished Zen master in Lingnan generation at that time, and Taoist Yuanqing was the most accomplished Zen master in the late Tang Dynasty.

The leader of the Taoist branch of Longhu Mountain, Zhang Pan is even suspected to be the early founder of the Southern Martial Arts."

"Gathering these three people into the palace, Liu Yan asked them a question that he couldn't think of - I have always respected Taoism and Buddhism and established good relationships, established the Han Dynasty to occupy the southern region for a long time, and wanted to unify the world and return to the great achievements of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

However, after many years of conquering the territory without any space, when will the north be regained? Today I have summoned several experts with profound attainments in their respective fields, hoping that they can work together to come up with a good recipe for me."

When an emperor wanted to expand his territory, he did not ask the prime minister or military advisers, but instead invited Buddhists, Taoists and martial artists.

"Then he even invited three masters to visit his eighteen levels of punishment hell, and even set up a grand banquet for the princes on the water and fire torture platform. While watching people being boiled in water and fire, they invited him over and over again.

The three masters enjoyed the banquet."

"Those three masters had quite a meal."

Chen Zhouhe said angrily.

"Liu Yan and the others were given half a year to come up with a good cure, otherwise those punishment hells would have to choose one each. In the end, the three top figures in their respective fields had no choice but to work together, and finally gave Liu Yan half a year later.

A good remedy!”

"Liu Yan was overjoyed when he saw this good recipe. He ordered a craftsman to create a glazed cup with eight treasures and mysterious patterns, and he inscribed this so-called life-saving prescription in a certain way."

"But before this so-called good recipe could help him conquer the world, Liu Yan died, and the glass cup was taken into his mausoleum, which cost hundreds of thousands of people to build."

"It wasn't until the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty that this large tomb, which was sealed with molten iron and said to be unopenable for thousands of years, actually cracked after a lightning strike, and many of the secret treasures buried there also reappeared and were stolen by the people."

"And that glass cup has also been lost among the people. As for the good prescriptions contained on it, no one cares about it. Most people still value its value as a treasure. It has been circulated on the market for many years, and the last time it appeared in the world was

It was a cultural relics auction held in Xiangjiang in the 1980s."

"In the end, the glass cup was auctioned off by an anonymous rich man for a high price of 8 million, and there is no more information about it since then."

"Eight million twenty or thirty years ago... tsk tsk"

Chen Zhouhe shook his head when he heard the price.

But he was still more concerned about the things in front of him: "What does this have to do with these things?"

Li Heng stood up and picked up a cloth bag from the corner of the earth temple, then opened the bag's rope to expose the inside to the sun.

I saw a magnificent and bright halo projecting from this old and dirty cloth bag. This is the brilliant color produced by the decomposition of irregular crystals and reflection of sunlight.

Chen Zhouhe's eyes widened as he looked at the things inside, and his words stuttered: "This, this, this...this..."

Li Heng nodded and looked at the contents of the cloth bag and said, "Yes, this is the glass cup, but it is far less valuable now than it was before."

Because, inside this cloth bag is a pile of scattered glass fragments!

The exquisite cultural relics and crafts that were once priceless are now just a pile of debris.

"how so?!"

Even Chen Zhouhe, who was devoted to Xiangwu and not very interested in foreign objects, was shocked. If this thing were put up for auction today, it would be worth 100 million if it were rounded up!

If something worth RMB 100 million is just shattered into pieces, who wouldn't want to scream?

"And this is not an accidental fragmentation, but a deliberate destruction by man."

Li Heng said firmly.
Chapter completed!