Chapter 306: In the Tomb

Chapter 306: In the Tomb

Zhong Li was now condemned by the heavens, so she definitely couldn’t be left outside, and Xu Qi’an had always been a compassionate man.

However, bringing her to the tomb might risk the destruction of the group. Therefore, Daoist Golden Lotus’s decision was the safest and was unanimously approved by the crowd.

That night, accidents were frequent.

Zhong Li sat cross-legged in meditation when a large boar suddenly sprang out of the grass beside her and gave her a savage charge. The flying bird passed over her head, leaving behind a pile of golden bumps.

A tree was suddenly blown down by the wind and clattered on her head; a stray arrow from a hunter hunting in the mountains at night nearly killed her.

Too bad, too bad, the few men who witnessed what happened to Zhong Li were silent.

Male silence and female tears.

Finally surviving until dawn, Zhong Li made a list of items to restrain the yin filth and let Qian You go into the city to purchase them.

“I-I’ll take a nap.”

Zhong Li reached out her small hand and tugged on Xu Qi’an’s sleeve, “Don’t you leave me.”

Qian You returned from acquiring the list, Zhong Li was still sleeping, so Xu Qi’an carried her on his back and headed to the southern cluster of mountains along with Daoist Golden Lotus and the others.

“Boing,” Bell Lite muttered.

“You keep sleeping, I’ll wake you up when we reach the entrance to the tomb.” Xu Qi’an said softly.

Zhong Li was relieved to continue sleeping soundly.

Two incense sticks of time later, Qian You led his party to a mountain depression, and familiarly found the entrance to the tomb, where it was covered with chopped down branches.

Chanyou moved the branches to reveal a narrow tunnel that only allowed one person to pass through.

“Let’s go in.” Daoist Golden Lotus said.

“Uh, yeah.”

Chu Yuanjian and Hengyuan nodded, then looked at Xu Qi’an along with Daoist Golden Lotus.

“Give me a reason!” Xu Qi’an said in a deep voice.

“The divine sense of a God Refining Realm martial artist can sense a crisis in advance.” Daoist Golden Lotus laughed.

“The Vajra Divine Skill protects the body without equal.” Chu Yuanzheng added.

“. Well, you guys convinced me.” Xu Qi’an carried Zhong Li on his back and bent down into the robber’s cave.

The four members of the Golden Lotus Taoist Master followed behind, not getting too close and maintaining a relatively safe distance.

Entering through the mouth, it was very narrow at first, and only then did it open up to people. After a few dozen paces, it opened up.

Drilling out of the robber’s hole, there was a wide space in front of him, and when he leapt out of the robber’s hole, Xu Qi’an stepped on masonry, which must have fallen from the walls when the grave robbers were digging the robber’s hole.

clatter (of horses’ hoofs)

He tapped the flint and lit the prepared torch, which blazed.

This hole has been open for nearly three months, the air is circulating and the oxygen content in the tomb is extremely high. This is not good ah, will destroy the artifacts in the tomb, some things once exposed to oxygen, will quickly deteriorate. Hey, I don’t need to go through the trial, why do I think of these survivalist lines Xu Qi’an mentally spat.

The sound of footsteps came from behind them, as Daoist Golden Lotus and the others drilled out of the robber’s hole and jumped into the tomb.

The crowd simultaneously lit torches to illuminate the dark space.

Xu Qi’an lowered his head, picked up a brick, and squeezed it, realizing that the hardness of the masonry was countless times stronger than he had expected.

“What kind of brick is this?” He asked.

Daoist Master Jinlian moved the torch and shone it over, gazing at it for a few moments, “Greenoka bricks.”

“?”

Xu Qi’an looked at him.

“It’s a relatively rare stone characterized by being strong and not easily weathered.” Chu Yuanzhan explained:

“I’ve seen this kind of brick in books, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it.”

Xu Qi’an nodded, ”What we’ve entered should be the edge of the tomb, and based on these bricks, it’s presumed that the entire tomb should be made of bricks of Qinggang stone.

“The owner of this tomb is more honorable than we thought.”

Worthy of being a wizard in solving crimes, flexible thinking, strong ability to deduce and analyze . Chu Yuanzhen thought to himself.

The crowd searched the chamber and found twelve coffins and four corpses, they had been dead for several days and their bodies emitted a very faint odor of decay.

“Three of them are brothers from the gang, and the other one is an invited expert.” Qian You whispered.

Although in this business, the risk is great and often encounter crisis, but his heart is still heavy.

Xu Qi’an put Zhong Li down and handed her the torch, squatting down to examine the body, “Face greenish-black, lips black, this is death by poison.”

“There’s no poison in the air.” Zhong Li said.

Xu Qi’an nodded and quickly stripped the dead man’s clothes, realizing that at the arms of this corpse, there were several tiny wounds that looked like they had been bitten out by some kind of insect.

“They were in the coffin, and these few dead people must have moved the coffin.” Chu Yuanzhan suddenly said.

Xu Qi’an’s ears twitched, catching the sound of a slight, yet dense, writhing, coming from inside the sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus seemed to be a vessel for raising parasites, filled with poisonous insects.    ”Should we open the coffin and take a look?” Hengyuan said, looking towards Daoist Jinlian.

Daoist Master Golden Lotus then looked at Chu Yuanzhuan.

The Scholar nodded and flexed his fingers to flick out a sword intent to shoot at the sarcophagus, which violently shook and the squirming sound stopped.

He waved his sleeve and the sarcophagus lifted off, a foul odor coming out of his nose.

Those present were all experts and were not afraid of the toxins in the area, Zhong Li spread out her palm, holding a brown pill, and said to Qian You, “This is the Poison Resistant Pill.”

“Thank you girl.” Qian You gratefully took it and swallowed it.

The four members of the Heaven and Earth Society stood by the sarcophagus, scrutinizing the interior, densely packed with knuckle-dragging venomous insects blown to bits and spattered with dark brown liquid all over the walls of the coffin.

In addition to the poisonous insects that had been shocked to death by Chu Yuanjian, there was also a skeleton that was badly deformed, unable to determine the exact age, only knowing that it was long in years.

It was a pity that this world did not have the appropriate technology, or else the age of this skeleton could be verified. Xu Qi’an thought to himself.

“There are no burial goods, the coffins in this chamber should be those of the pallbearers.” Chu Yuanzhan said.

“It seems like Da Feng doesn’t have a system of burying the living with the dead.” Xu Qi’an asked Chu Scholar for humble advice.

“The system of martyring the living has existed since ancient times, and the initial date cannot be verified. However, the real abolition of the martyrdom system was in the Great Wing Dynasty of two thousand one hundred and twenty-three years. At that time, the Confucian sages had not yet been born.”

Chu Yuanzhan did not hesitate, naturally surfacing the relevant knowledge and responding.

“That is to say, the age of this great tomb is above two thousand.” Daoist Golden Lotus said.

After checking for a while with no luck, the group left this chamber with torches in hand and headed deeper in. Along the way, they occasionally encountered one or two corpses, all of which had died in traps.

After a few moments more, they entered a wider chamber, the top of which was in the dark depths, and the darkness ahead knew no bounds.

Xu Qi’an waved his torch and saw many corpses sprawled on the ground, some of them were flesh and blood, dead for only a few days. Some were withered corpses, wearing tattered and torn garments whose original styles could not be seen.

None of these withered corpses were intact; some had their heads torn off, some had their limbs ripped off, and some had been hacked to pieces.

In addition, there was a coffin that had been lifted.

As you can imagine, there had just been a fierce fight here.

The grave robbers uncovered the coffin and startled the zombies sleeping inside.

“What’s with the zombies? I remember it’s the Wiccan religion that can manipulate corpses, right?”

Xu Qi’an, whose “cultural level” was extremely low, was the first to speak, his gaze sweeping over the coffins in the distance that hadn’t been uncovered.

Zhong Li shook his head, “These zombies have nothing to do with the Witch God Cult, they were nourished by the Yin Qi and became stiff for a long time. Fortunately, these zombies have been destroyed, saving us the trouble.”

As soon as the words fell, the sound of “thump, thump, thump” rang out in the empty chamber, the sound of the coffin lid being pushed open and falling to the ground.

In the darkness, a black shadow stood up, they were shaped like withers, but had sharp, black nails, and their eyes were turquoise and cold and terrifying.

“Amitabha!”

Hengyuan recited the Buddha’s name, striding forward, taking the initiative to meet the zombies, and whacking a zombie’s head with one punch.

After solving the zombies, they found murals on the walls on each side of the chamber.

The content of the mural on the left wall was engraved with a group of people wearing ancient clothes and odd hats, who were prostrate on the ground, kneeling towards a high platform.

Chu Yuanjian knew a little about it, but not much, while Hengyuan and Xu Qi’an had not heard of it.

Daoist Master Golden Lotus mused for a moment and narrated, ”The Daofather is known as the Ancestor of All Dharma, and his studies are extensive, and of the Dao lineages he passed down, the three sects of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind are the main ones, but there are many side schools as well.

“There is a school that focuses on dual cultivation, where yin and yang converge to participate in the Great Dao. At the height of its splendor, it was no less powerful than the three sects of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. There were many visitors, and they were regarded as guests of honor by officials and dignitaries who aspired to immortality, and there were even female visitors who lingered at the Taoist temple and voluntarily practiced dual-cultivation. According to the records of the Earth Sect, some of them included women of noble status.”

Damn, this tributary faction is very good at playing. No, no, no, this is the obscene seeing obscene, in their eyes, the common reference to the Great Dao is the core purpose, the rest is all floating clouds . Xu Qi’an was shocked, staring fiercely at the mural, trying to memorize the meridians running.

Hengyuan shook his head and gazed at the mural with a clear gaze, as if the things on it were all floating clouds that could not shake his Buddha heart.

“This technique is conducive to cultivation refinement, but it’s a pity that it’s too difficult to find a dual cultivation partner.” The Scholar commented.

Since it is a dual cultivation, it is natural to look for a woman who is also proficient in this path, and it is never a matter of finding a woman in a green house to cultivate.

“The yin and yang of heaven and earth, the illusion of the five elements, dual cultivation techniques are orthodox techniques that refer directly to the Great Dao. However, there are no categories of techniques, but people are different. The art of dual cultivation progresses slowly and requires the maintenance of one’s own heart, which is not occupied by desire.

“Gradually, in order to achieve quick success, this stream school created the art of mending in the art of double cultivation, and thus fell into the devil’s way. They swindled the female janitors, imprisoned them in the kwan for the purpose of their mending, and robbed women all over the place, causing the people’s grievances to boil over.

“Finally invited the imperial army, as well as the Jianghu warrior’s anger to this annihilation, and now the Taoist Sect does have the remnants of the dual cultivation art, both remnants, the use will not be very useful. I can’t imagine that there is a complete Dual Cultivation Technique here.”

Daoist Master Jinlian lamented.

“Then, why is there a complete Dual Cultivation Technique here?” Xu Qi’an questioned.

PS: This chapter is a little less, or I won’t be able to update before twelve.