"Okay! You first do some exercise to warm up, and let's try other methods first!" Hou Jinfa and Hou Jinhai walked up to each other as they spoke, and each took out a few things from the bags behind their backs. Wei Yixian and other cultivators
People watching from the side felt a little strange.
I saw Hou Jinfa take out a bundle of short sticks about a foot long, and after tinkering for a while, he quickly assembled them one by one and connected them into a pole that was more than two feet long. There was a claw on the end of the pole.
Something like that.
Waiting for Hou Jinfa to stick the long pole into the river, he took a dozen steps back, holding a handle on the back of the pole, and groped in the river with the other end. There was no mechanism in the pole, but Hou Jinfa's
Under control, it is like a slender arm, extremely flexible in the water. Every time it explores an area, it will explore the next area with its "hand", as if it has not even missed a corner.
Hou Jinfa held his breath and groped the entire river from beginning to end. He also probed the long pole into the hidden rivers at both ends for a long time. However, he seemed to find nothing.
"The river is full of stones, and nothing unusual was found." Hou Jinfa shook his head and said.
"Let me try!" Hou Jinhai had already taken out a two-foot-long metal cylinder from his luggage. The front end looked like a small crescent-shaped shovel, with a semicircular opening and an arc-shaped shovel blade.
It flashes and looks very sharp. The back end is slender and shrinks into a tube shape. There are several thin rods inside, which seem to be some kind of mechanism. The thickness of the back end is exactly the same as the thickness of the long rod in Hou Jinfa's hand.
Hou Jinhai grabbed the other end of Hou Jinfa's long pole, removed the claw-like end, replaced it with his own cylinder, and took out a long tube that looked very soft, and connected one end to
In a hole at the end of the handle of the long pole.
The other end of the long tube was divided into two forks, extending out two little finger-thick hoses. There were two round holes with holes at the ends of the hoses.
I saw Hou Jinhai stuffing the two round soft balls into his ears, taking out a silk scarf and wrapping it around his head, firmly fixing the two soft balls in his ears, and then started to use the long
The pipe was thrust along one end of the river towards various places on the bottom of the river.
Under Hou Jinfa's reminder, everyone did not dare to make a sound and stood aside quietly, listening to the muffled knocking sounds coming from the bottom of the river. It seemed that the front end of the long pole hit the stone every time.
superior.
Every time Hou Jinhai knocked, he would close his eyes and listen carefully, not daring to miss the slightest abnormality.
However, even after digging through the two-foot-long river, no abnormalities were found underneath.
"Nothing unusual was found." Hou Jinhai shook his head and took off the silk scarf on his head and the stuff in his ears.
"I'll do it!" Hou Jinbo's voice came from a distance, "When it's time to get into the water, you can't escape it no matter how cold it is."
Everyone turned to look back, only to see Hou Jinbo, who had been hiding in the distance just now, had already put on a tight-fitting water support and was walking over with a long rope in his arms.
Hou Jinbo tied one end of the long rope to a stone, tied it firmly, and then tied the other end of the rope around his waist. He took out a pot of strong liquor and poured a few drinks.
mouth, and then handed the whole rope to the hands of the two brothers. After taking a few deep breaths, he held a luminous pearl in one hand and jumped into the water with a splash.
Hou Jinhai,
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Hou Jinbo held the rope tightly, and let go little by little as Hou Jinbo went deeper. After a while, the two lights under the water gradually disappeared, leaving only the rope that was still being brought into the water by Hou Jinbo.
In the blink of an eye, Hou Jinbo had been in the water for almost half the time of burning the incense, and almost all the ropes had been taken down by him, but Hou Jinbo had not yet returned.
Just when everyone started to worry about Hou Jinbo, two light spots suddenly appeared at one end of the river. Then, water sprayed up, and Hou Jinbo stuck his head out of the water with a splash, breathing heavily.
"How is it?" Wei Yixian hurriedly took two steps forward and asked expectantly.
"There is nothing downstream. The four walls of the underground river are full of rocks. I have swam until I have run out of energy and dare not go any further. Wait until I slowly look upstream!" Hou Jinbo climbed ashore, freezing all over.
Shivering, he quickly picked up the wine bottle and drank a few more sips. Hou Jinhai took out a blanket and wrapped Hou Jinbo up.
After half an hour, Hou Jinbo regained his composure, moved his hands and feet, and jumped into the water again.
However, this time Hou Jinbo returned to the shore in less than half a stick of incense.
"The water upstream is too strong! The thinnest part of the underground river is less than two feet, so you can't swim across it!" Hou Jinbo, wrapped in a blanket, gasped and said.
"It seems that we still have to find a way in this cave." Wei Yixian said in a deep voice, "Everyone, is there any other way to explore the secret? We can no longer hide it at this time!"
"Master Hu Ba, let me give it a try!" Master Hu Ba rolled up his sleeves, took out a compass from his arms, and took out a few candles from his bag, lit them and placed them in several corners of the cave. Then, with one hand,
Holding the compass, he kept calculating with one hand, muttering words in his mouth, and kept walking around. From time to time, he would place a few stones on the ground as markers.
When Qu Wuming saw this, he didn't know what Master Hu Ba was thinking. He couldn't help but look at Wei Yixian quietly, and saw that Wei Yixian also seemed to have a confused look on his face.
The three brothers Chen Yulou on the side looked at Hu Baye's operation, looked at each other, and secretly shook their heads.
After a while, Hu Baye put the compass in his arms, walked to everyone, took a deep breath, and was silent for a moment.
"What? What did you find?" Han Linger asked curiously.
Hu Baye raised his hand and scratched his head, then spread his hand and said, "I'm sorry, I haven't figured out anything... However, I can basically confirm that this secret has nothing to do with the tomb..."
Wei Yixian had seen Hu Baye's operation and was expecting him to announce some good news. When he heard this, the muscles on his face twitched with anger, and he wanted to go up and give Hu Baye a few slaps.
At this time, Chen Yulou said: "Next, let us three brothers try it!"
As he said that, Chen Yulou and the others took out some special yellow paper and bottles and cans from their respective luggage. There were dozens of them.
Chen Baolou found a relatively spacious and flat place, spread a thin blanket on the ground, and then neatly placed the bottles and cans on both sides of the blanket. Then, he took a piece of paper about a foot long.
A large and small yellow talisman paper was placed in the middle, pressed down with four paperweights, and moved aside.
After all the decorations in Chen Bao Building were completed, Chen Yu Building opened about a foot
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He took out a dark red writing brush from the long wooden box. He held a bowl of water in one hand and dipped the pen in the colorful things in the bottles and jars, writing and drawing on the talisman paper in the middle.
Every time he changed a material, he would rinse the brush in clean water. When the water in the bowl became turbid, Chen Baolou would quickly replace it with a bowl of clean water.
Not only Wei Yixian, Qu Wuming and others didn't know what Chen Yulou was painting, but even Hu Baye and the three Hou brothers had never seen it before. They stood by and watched fascinated, but also looked confused.
Chen Baolou seemed to have noticed everyone's confusion, and explained to everyone with a smile: "What my eldest brother is drawing is an ancient talisman. If we trace its origin, it can be traced back to the ancient Wei Dynasty!
"According to legend, King Wei of the ancient Wei Kingdom used troops for many years to fight in all directions. Later, in order to supplement military expenditures, he formed a special army with military ranks such as Faqiu Zhonglang General and Mojin Xiaowei. This army did not fight.
In fact, what they were doing was digging ancient tombs and stealing people's treasures.
"Everyone knows that the Immortal Way in ancient times was far better than today. Moreover, at that time, the line of forbidden magic had not been cut off. Some cultivators had forbidden magic formations inside and outside their tombs. Once those who attempted to rob the tomb entered the forbidden magic formation, they would be in danger.
Within the scope, none of the mana can be used - just like Mr. Qu and your current situation in this lawless land.
"The presence of those forbidden magic formations will not only make it difficult to find out where the tomb is, it will also limit the performance of the monks after entering the tomb - the defensive restrictions in those tombs are not restricted by the forbidden magic formations.
Their defensive role can be maximized - therefore, when those generals such as Faqiu Zhonglang and Mojin Colonel first stole the tombs of monks, they often suffered heavy casualties.
"In order to solve this problem, some powerful people later referred to more ancient sorcery techniques, and finally developed some ancient talismans, which can be used specifically for similar occasions without being restricted by the forbidden magic array."
Chen Baolou pointed to the bottles and jars on the ground and said: "These ancient witchcraft objects are often very weird. Do you know what is in those bottles and jars? Haha, there is toad blood in them.
, antelope horn, golden scorpion poison, Schisandra chinensis powder, honey, ghost grass, black dog blood, red turtle eggs, dragon bone powder, mithril juice, dragon scale grass juice, sunflower water, peacock gall, etc., many of them are related to Taoism.
It has nothing to do with it, and most of it does not contain any spiritual power.
"But after being drawn into a talisman according to the ancient method, it will become a talisman that ordinary people like us can use. However, this kind of talisman can only be used as soon as possible after it is drawn, unlike the talismans in the hands of you ascetics today.
That way you can save it for a long time after drawing and activate it again when you use it."
"It's so miraculous!" Ding Xian sighed after hearing this, "Thank you brother for clarifying my doubts. I have never heard of such methods."
"The wisdom of the ancients does not belong to today's people!" Mo Heng also praised at the side.
Qu Wuming also nodded when he heard the words, and thought to himself: "Sure enough, there is no end to the Tao. If I hadn't seen it today, who would have known that these ordinary things can also be used as materials for drawing talismans? I really don't know how many unknown things there are in this world.
Waiting for us to explore. Or, even if one spends one's life, we may not be able to get a glimpse of one or two of the great ways!"
Everyone was watching and sighing, but Chen Yulou's painting gradually reached a critical moment...