The three of them were shocked. They didn't know why Li Muchen suddenly lost. Suddenly they heard a voice coming from the darkness in front: "I'm here."
Bai Fangxing held up his mahogany sword and quickly rushed into the darkness.
Xiao Minghe didn't care anymore and followed closely behind.
Both of them were masters, and their movements were extremely fast. Before Boss Hou could react, the glimmer of light had gone away, leaving him in the darkness.
Boss Hou was so frightened that he had goosebumps all over his body. Regardless of whether the road was smooth or there was something in the dark, he suddenly burst out at a speed he had never seen before and caught up with the light in a few strides.
After seeing the three figures clearly under the sword light, Boss Hou breathed a sigh of relief, his heart still beating fast.
As his eyes slowly adapted to the darkness, the light from the peach wood sword became much brighter, and the surrounding things gradually became clearer.
This is a stone room with many large ceramic jars half as tall as a person, a bit like the pickle jars in the warehouse of the old pickle factory in Beijing.
Directly ahead is a stone door. The door is open, but there is a large ceramic jar blocking the door.
Li Muchen stood in front of the jar, facing the wall.
Boss Hou is in the antique business. When he saw these porcelain jars, he instinctively became interested.
He walked to a nearby jar and squatted down to take a closer look. However, the sword light was too weak. At this time, a bright light came from the side.
Boss Hou turned around and saw that it was Xiao Minghe who had turned on the flashlight function of his phone.
Only then did he remember that he was also carrying a mobile phone. He had been so frightened by the darkness just now that he almost lost his soul, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Boss Hou also took out his mobile phone, turned on his flashlight, shined it on the porcelain jar, and started studying it.
"This jar is not modern. Although the bottom cannot be seen, judging from the shape and glaze color, it is at least from before the Ming Dynasty."
Boss Hou watched several in a row, and the more he watched, the more shocked he became.
"If this thing is put up for sale, it will cost at least three to five million apiece. If it goes up for auction, it will cost two million. Damn it, I have been working in Panjiayuan for decades, and I have never seen so many.
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Boss Hou was so excited that he even cursed.
"I don't know what's in them. They couldn't be gold and silver treasures, right? Decades ago, three large jars from the Tang Dynasty were unearthed at the Hejia Village construction site in Xijing, and they were all filled with gold and silverware."
Xiao Minghe pointed to the mud seal on the mouth of the jar and said, "I think it's for wine."
Boss Hou said: "If it's wine, it's worth money. Wine from thousands of years ago!"
Xiao Minghe said: "You will know if you open one and take a look."
Boss Hou also had itchy hands. Seeing that there were enough cans in the house, it would not be considered damaging to open one of them. At most, he should be careful and open the sealing mud on the cans.
As soon as his hand touched the sealing mud, he suddenly heard Li Muchen say: "Don't move, these jars are not clean."
Xiao Minghe asked curiously: "Master Li, do you know what's inside?"
Li Muchen said: "It's a person, to be precise, it's a corpse."
"Corpse?!"
Boss Hou was startled and retracted his hand as if he was electrocuted.
"How do you know?" Bai Fangxing asked.
Of course Li Muchen knew. His consciousness could clearly see through the porcelain jar and see what was inside.
The porcelain jar was filled with liquid, and a twisted person was immersed in the liquid.
The mouth of the jar is only the size of a human head, and I don’t know how it was stuffed in.
The body was soaked in and showed no signs of decay.
Li Muchen could even clearly see the man's broken bones and the painful expression before his death.
A room full of jars is a room full of dead people.
Although Bai Fangxing's cultivation level is shallow, he still has spiritual consciousness, but his spiritual consciousness is weak and cannot see through such a large porcelain jar. He can only vaguely feel the twisted and ferocious shape inside the porcelain jar, but he cannot determine what it is.
That's why he asked, because he felt that even he couldn't see clearly, how could Li Muchen know?
Although doctors also practice supernatural powers, such as seeing, hearing, asking and asking questions, the skills of seeing are similar to those of Taoism.
Could it be that this kid's telescope has reached the point where he can see through walls?
Li Muchen said: "Come over and look at this wall."
The three of them moved forward with some confusion and looked at the wall.
There are many mottled marks on the wall, much like murals. Unfortunately, the light is too weak to see clearly.
Bai Fangxing held up the sword and muttered something. Suddenly, the sword's light increased greatly and the room was filled with light.
The murals on the walls suddenly became bright and vivid.
This is a coherent picture, just like a comic strip. Although it has been a little mottled for a long time, the general content can still be seen clearly.
The same ceramic jar that was seen in the stone chamber appeared in the mural, followed by a man whose limbs and bones were broken alive by several burly men, and stuffed into the jar, and then some unknown liquid, whether it was water or some other liquid.
It was poured in and the mouth of the jar was finally sealed.
Then, a man who looked like a mage was doing something to the porcelain.
"What on earth is this?" Xiao Minghe frowned, "The living sacrifices in the tombs of ancient emperors were not so cruel, right?"
Boss Hou said: "This is simply a great geographical discovery. I have traveled all over the country and visited countless tombs, but I have never seen anything like this."
Bai Fangxing glanced at Li Muchen and said to himself that he only knew it after seeing the mural. He almost thought he could see through the wall.
He said: "Let's go, it's important to find Tantai Jade."
He raised his sword and took the lead, bypassing the porcelain jar blocking the door, and walked into the next stone room.
Boss Hou felt it was a pity and wanted to leave some souvenirs, so he took pictures with his mobile phone. But when the flash came on, he vaguely saw the hideous appearance of the corpse, which scared him so much that he did not dare to take any more pictures, so he quickly followed him.
After passing through the stone gate, there is another stone room, in which many of the same clay pots are neatly stacked.
There are also murals on the wall, similar to the one outside. The only difference is that the color of the mage's robe is different. The outside is red, and the mage here is yellow. There is fire around the mage outside, and there is a dragon coiled in front of the mage.
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The four of them had seen the murals and continued moving forward without stopping.
After passing four almost identical stone chambers in succession, we arrived at the fifth one.
Bai Fangxing muttered: "Strange?"
Xiao Minghe asked: "What's weird?"
Bai Fangxing said: "These stone chambers are arranged in the order of the five elements. This can be seen from the mage's robe on the mural. The color of the mage's robe in the outermost room is red, which represents fire, and then yellow.
It represents earth, followed by white, which represents gold, and the fourth room, which is black, represents water. Logically speaking, water produces wood, so this fifth room should be the cyan wood mage, but why is it still black here? And the picture has also changed!"
The mural scenes in this stone room are even more cruel than the previous ones. They are simply scenes from the eighteenth level of hell, with skin peeling, cramps, fire, and oil pouring over them. Each one is more miserable than the last.
Boss Hou suddenly said: "I know the origin of these jars!"
"What's the origin?" Xiao Minghe and Bai Fangxing asked at the same time.
Even Li Muchen didn't feel curious.
Boss Hou said: "I have been in the antique business for decades. My skills are not as good as yours, but my knowledge and knowledge are not necessarily inferior. According to folklore, there is a way to raise ghosts, which is very similar to the scene here. It is to put living people into corpse jars.
Inside, soaked in special oil, the body will not rot when a person dies, and the resentment about death is also sealed inside. The longer it is stored, the heavier the evil will be, just like old wine stored in a cellar.
After cultivating, the corpse is taken out and baked in corpse oil until all the fat of the corpse is transformed into new corpse oil, which is then placed in a corpse oil bottle or a coffin box made of special material. The ghost keeper can use this to control the resentful spirits.
It is a ghost. It is said that this method is still used by people in Nanyang."
At this time, they had reached the door of the sixth stone room.
Bai Fangxing suddenly stopped and said, "Be careful, there's a ghost ahead!"
Boss Hou was startled and looked up. There was endless darkness ahead and he could not see anything.
But the less he could see, the more scared he felt, and he instinctively took a step back, trying to hide behind the three of them.
Suddenly I heard a "pop" sound coming from behind me.