It was a good idea to bring Boss Hou here this time. If it hadn't been for him, Li Muchen wouldn't have thought about tomb robbing. At most, he could have searched the mountains around Yesanpo with the speed and consciousness of his flying sword.
But Yesanpo covers a huge area and is connected to Taihang Mountain and Yanshan Mountain. Without limiting the scope and direction, the search would be too difficult.
Moreover, underground tombs are often very deep, and the Yin energy of the earth can block spiritual consciousness. If Tantai Jade is hidden in a large tomb, it will be difficult to find it.
Boss Hou was originally the most insignificant among the four. Not to mention that Bai Fangxing and Xiao Minghe disliked him. Even he himself felt a little redundant and once regretted his impulsive decision to follow.
When he analyzed that Tantai Jade was probably hiding in the underground tombs and led everyone to search for it, his status suddenly rose, and even Bai Fangxing became much more polite to him.
According to Boss Hou, the tomb is located in a very large area. If you look up from a high place, the area surrounded by several nearby hills may be the place where the two dragons play with pearls mentioned by Mr. Feng Shui.
Boss Hou's tomb-robbing team spent several years and even used advanced modern instruments, but they were unable to find the exact location. However, they found several small tombs, which was quite fruitful.
After the tomb robber was caught in a foreign country, Boss Hou was afraid of being implicated. After a few years of fear, he vowed not to do this business again, but to run Panjiayuan's stall well and become a serious businessman.
Unexpectedly, today, I would embark on this treasure hunting journey again.
Fortunately, Tantai Jade's whereabouts provided them with clues. Since Tantai Jade chose to settle in the ruined temple, the entrance and exit of the tomb must be nearby.
Boss Hou opened the satellite map on his mobile phone and quickly defined a range centered on the ruined temple.
But the range is still very large.
Boss Hou stared blankly at the map.
Li Muchen said: "Can we start with this temple? Since ancient times, there are only two ways to build temples, either for practice or for incense. It is not convenient for pilgrims to come to offer incense, and there is no aura for practice. Why is it here?
How about building a temple?”
Boss Hou made a sound and slapped his thigh: "I understand!"
Everyone else looked at Boss Hou.
He said: "Maybe this temple is not a temple. Just because there are Buddha statues in the temple, we all regard it as a temple. I know that there is a ravine not far from here. There are many cliff caves and stone Buddha statues in the ravine, which is called
It’s Qianfogou. When we were looking for tombs, we visited Qianfogou more than once. Looking back now, the appearance of the Buddha statues in Qianfogou is the same as that in this ruined temple.”
"You mean, this is not a temple, but a resting place for the craftsmen who built Qianfogou?"
Li Muchen thought it made sense. Otherwise, it would be totally unexplainable why a small temple should be built here alone.
Boss Hou nodded and said: "This is just my guess, it may not be correct."
“A place like Qianfogou must have been developed for tourism, right?”
"There are many stone carvings on the cliffs at Longmen Tianguan, and stone Buddha statues are also very common in the mountains around Yan and Jin. Yesanpo is a battleground for military strategists of all ages. The Qianfo Valley was destroyed in the war, and it is very
It is remote and has little value for tourism development, so the local government has not spent any effort to develop it. There is only a wild trail leading there, and few tourists go there. But..."
Boss Hou thought for a moment, frowned and said, "At first we also suspected that Qianfogou was related to the underground tomb. We have been there several times and checked very carefully, but no passages or mechanisms were found. And as far as I know,
When Yesanpo was undergoing development planning, the local cultural tourism and archaeological departments also sent people to check it out. If there is anything, they should have discovered it, right?"
Xiao Minghe smiled and said: "If they can find out, what's the matter with you tomb robbers?"
Boss Hou blushed and wanted to argue that he was not a tomb robber, but just buying cultural relics.
Li Muchen said: "Let's go, let's go take a look and find out."
Under the leadership of Boss Hou, the group entered a ravine along an ancient wild path that had long been submerged by weeds.
There are towering ancient trees in the ravine, and the shade of the trees blocks out the sun.
Not long after walking, we saw a bare cliff. There were many cliff statues on the cliff, some big and some small, with different postures. It was indeed the "Thousand Buddhas" ditch.
Walking inside, many caves appeared on the cliff. I don’t know if they were formed naturally or were dug manually. There should have been Buddha statues in the caves, but now they have staggered around and their limbs have been severed. Only a few of the Buddha statues are still intact.
But it is also overgrown with grass and mottled.
Li Muchen had already launched a spiritual search, but found nothing at first. This place looked like an ordinary cliff carving, with a thick layer of soil underneath, and the rock walls on both sides were also very thick. The occasional space was only inside the mountain.
Natural stone cracks.
But soon, he discovered that something was wrong. At one of the cliffs, his spiritual consciousness swept across, and the void swayed slightly, like gentle ripples of water.
There is actually a barrier here.
Moreover, this barrier is very clever. If he hadn't specially launched a spiritual search, if he was just passing by, I'm afraid Li Muchen would have ignored it.
After experiencing the thunder tribulation, Li Muchen has acquired innate Dharma eyes, and his spiritual consciousness is much stronger than before. It is easy to miss it, and it is even less likely for ordinary practitioners to discover it.
For example, Bai Fangxing was also developing his spiritual consciousness at this time, but his cultivation was still shallow and his spiritual consciousness was weak. He was only a little stronger than Xiao Minghe's warrior intuition, so he was not aware of the existence of this barrier at all.
Li Muchen stopped after discovering the barrier, and searched for the hinge of the barrier with his spiritual consciousness. It would be very difficult to break such a barrier with magical power, unless he used the dance of the demon to inspire the Xuanming Sword Qi and open the mountain with one sword.
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But in that case, I'm afraid it won't break this barrier, but will also disturb the Taihang Dragon Vein.
While he was still exploring and thinking, he suddenly heard Boss Hou exclaim in shock: "Come and see!"
I saw him crawling along the rocks until he reached a grotto. It was a larger grotto. There were several headless statues swaying here and there. Only one of them was intact and stood upright.
Boss Hou pointed to the Buddha statue and said with some excitement: "This Buddha head... this Buddha head... is the one in the ruined temple! I remember clearly that the last time I came here, the Buddha statues in this grotto had no heads!
This Buddha head is exactly the same as the one in the temple, it was moved from the temple!"
Everyone was shocked and ran forward to take a look.
Li Muchen scanned it with his consciousness and immediately determined that this was the hub of the barrier.
He had long seen that all the statues in Qianfogou were not made randomly, but formed a magic circle.
He was still confused just now. There seemed to be no relationship between the magic circle and the barrier. He thought it had lost its original function after being damaged by the war.
Only now do I understand that the stone statues in Qianfogou are used to confuse people, and they are fake and real, just to cover up the real junction of the barrier.
"Boss Hou, I'm lucky to have you today. When I catch Tantai Yu, I'll give you credit."
As Li Muchen spoke, he put his hand on the Buddha's head, and the magic power surged out from his palm, penetrated along the Buddha's head, and flowed along the special texture inside...
Boss Hou, who had received Li Muchen's praise, was feeling complacent when he suddenly saw a scene that he would never forget:
The towering open mountain cliff in front of us suddenly opened up, revealing a black crack.
In the biting cold air, several ghost-like shadows rushed towards me with shrill whistles...