The Fenghua Continent is one of the twelve volumes of Feng Shui atlas collected by the Liu family in Wollongong. It shows mountains and flowers, full of vitality, and magnificent mountains and rivers.
After Liu Banxian laid the album on the ground and spread it out, Ma Xiaoyu also came forward and followed Liu Banxian's instructions to pinch the sword formula with one hand and two fingers together, while placing the other hand on the album.
"This album is also a magic weapon. You can use it with confidence. Pour your magic power into the album, and then silently recite the nine-character mantra to move it. Maybe you can make the mountain wall that was moved by the mountain Taoist's magic fall apart." Uncertain.”
"Collapse?" Ma Xiaoyu asked again.
"Yes, it just fell apart."
Liu Banxian was very confident. He said seriously: "In fact, this mountain wall is not part of the mountain here. It was moved by mountain movers from elsewhere, and it is actually not consistent with the atmosphere here.
I didn't find any clues when I first checked here. I only discovered the problem with this mountain wall after you reminded me.
I am planning to use the Fenghua Continent map to correct and modify the conflicting atmosphere here.
As long as our spell works successfully, everything will be fine. ”
"Okay, then I'll do as you say."
Ma Xiaoyu held her nerve, and after reciting the Heart-Cleaning Mantra silently in her heart, she finally began to follow Liu Banxian's instructions step by step to cast the spell.
"Those who are approaching, fighting, and fighting are all in formation, array, in front, and flowers are growing!"
Ma Xiaoyu shouted loudly. Beside her, mountain flowers bloomed, and the smoke filled the air. The path composed of flowers spread to the bottom of the rock wall, and then began to climb up the mountain wall at a certain angle.
Everyone looked at the sea of flowers with different expressions, either surprised or amazed.
I don't know how long it took, but after the gorgeous sea of flowers finally covered the mountain wall, Ma Xiaoyu exhaled a breath of white air and blinked her watery eyes.
"Is this okay?" she asked Liu Banxian.
"Okay, that's great."
Liu Banxian nodded repeatedly and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that even our Liu family's feng shui technique is magical enough, but it can produce such an exaggerated effect under the use of the Ma family's heavenly master."
Hai Dongqing was confused, and when he was about to ask, Yin Xiu grabbed him, pulled him back, and took a few steps back.
"What are you doing to me..."
Before Hai Dongqing finished asking, he only heard a slight sound of an eggshell cracking, and then the sound became louder and louder, gradually like a millstone pushing, or like rolling thunder.
Hai Dongqing looked up in the direction of the sound. Above their heads, there were horrifying cracks on the several-story rock wall, like tiny cracks in a porcelain bowl.
While his eyes widened, the rock wall really collapsed as Liu Banxian said. The originally thick barrier fell apart and turned into huge stones, falling off and disintegrating.
It seems that the power of these mountain flowers caused the rock wall to collapse.
That's right, these tender, gorgeous and lovely flowers are actually much more useful than dynamite and shovels.
Ma Xiaoyu couldn't help but shed tears when she saw this scene.
She remembered that when she was a child, she was walking on the ridges of the fields in Malaysia, and suddenly she heard a small crackling sound in her ears, and then the soft soil under her feet began to bulge and crack.
She was still young at that time, and she just thought that the toad that had been hibernating under the soil for a whole season was about to break out of the ground, come out from the ground, open its terrible mouth, take a big breath of fresh air, and make a noisy sound.
Just when she was extremely nervous, she discovered that what grew out of the ground was not a toad, but spring grass, green and lovely.
At that time, Ma Xiaoyu had vaguely understood that although life is soft, it is more powerful and worthy of awe than those hard inorganic objects.
The formation of the mountain wall takes tens of thousands of years, but its disintegration is just a matter of a stick of incense.
After the smoke and noise subsided, Yin Xiu saw two small bronze figures standing among the rocks.
They are called villains, not because they are small. In fact, the bronze statues are still as tall as a person, but they are dressed as children, so they are called villains.
"This is the [Golden Boy and Jade Girl]." Liu Banxian was a little excited.
"The Shang Dynasty also believed this?"
The golden boy and the beautiful girl are generally the last "line of defense" guarding the tomb.
Nowadays, they are replaced by a pair of paper figurines, which are burned together after the work is done. In the past, they were made of wood carvings and pottery sculptures. If there were really such things in the Shang Dynasty, they should have been thrown directly into them, maybe... …
This pair of golden boys and girls are sent to the owner of the tomb and cremated or buried underground together, in the hope that they will be responsible for taking care of the owner's daily life after they arrive in the underworld.
"Why can't the Shang Dynasty believe this? No, you shouldn't say this."
Liu Banxian shook his head, "There is a word called Yuan Yuanliu, which means that something has gone through a long time from its origin to the present. Why do you think we worship Bodhisattvas and emperors?
Because these are the habits and beliefs of our predecessors, these behaviors of our predecessors were also inherited from their predecessors.
Maybe the rituals and rituals we have today had their prototypes in the ancient Shang Dynasty, or they were more complicated at that time, but maybe they were simplified when they came here.
For example, human animals were transformed into paper dolls, and human heads were replaced with steamed buns and pastries. ”
"But since they are human sacrifices, why are there two bronze statues here? Even if they are golden boys and girls." Yin Xiu still asked him.
Now Liu Banxian couldn't answer. He twisted his neck, pursed his mouth, and couldn't answer for a long time.
After a long while, I glared at him and said, "Hey, that's just the thing. It's good to know a rough idea. So what's the point? We're not archaeologists who want to publish articles. We can just briefly touch on many things. ”
"Okay, okay."
Yin Xiu spread her hands, "Master Liu, why don't you give us some advice on what to do next?"
"It's easy!"
Liu Banxian pointed at the feet of the two bronze statues, "One of the entrances to the tomb is right here."
"One of them?"
"That's right. Do you think the tomb of this great man is only as big as a villa in the middle of the mountain? It must be more than several football fields. Some imperial tombs even hollowed out a mountain."
Liu Banxian said this, and Yin Xiu also understood. This may be the reason why they haven't bumped into anyone else yet.
Because those guys may be on the other side of the mountain. After all, this place is not only big, but also winding, like a maze that is not very exquisitely designed, but is barely enough.
After a pause, Yin Xiuchong raised his chin and said, "Brother Master, it's up to you."
"What?" Ren Qi was a little confused.
"Oh, I mean, you are a master of synesthesia after all. Unlike us small fishes, shrimps, and women and children who have no strength, it should be easy for you to move these rocks. Right? ”
Ren Qi was stunned for a moment and glanced at everyone. Except for Liu Banxian, he really didn't see the words "without the power to restrain a chicken" from anyone present.
So he looked at the messy stones under the bronze statue, frowned and said, "I can't do so much on my own."
"Hey, what kind of expert or grandmaster can't handle a pile of rocks?"
Yin Xiu sighed, rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward, ready to clear up the pile of rocks with Ren Qi.
After taking two steps, he looked at Liu Banxian again, "How about you..."
"Don't!"
Liu Banxian waved his hands repeatedly, "Uncle, my bones are not like those of you young people. I have to lie down for several days to do heavy labor. Unless you can guarantee that someone will carry me in and out in the next few days, I won't be able to do it." Maybe." "I understand!"
Yin Xiu sighed and looked at Hai Dongqing again.
Hai Dongqing glared at him and rolled up his sleeves.
Yin Xiucai was finally satisfied, and his eyes met Ma Xiaoyu's.
"I have done the most important thing."
Ma Xiaoyu pointed to the stone in front of her, "You should be able to see it, right?"
"Of course, without you, Ma Tianshi, to blow up this pile of things, where would our hard work be?"
Yin Xiu shook her head, knowing that Ma Xiaoyu was definitely not willing to do this dirty and tiring work, so she could only do it by herself.
They may be said to be strongmen and martial arts masters, but in fact, when they lift stones as big as washbasins or as thick as millstones, they seem to be no different from workers on the dock.
Even because Hai Dongqing has been working as a coolie on the dock all year round, he is actually more skilled than Yin Xiu and Ren Qi in doing these moving and lifting tasks. He is much faster than them, which made the two of them look at each other in surprise.
Liu Banxian stood aside, looking more like a supervisor.
He couldn't help but shake his head as he watched Ren Qi and Yin Xiu carrying the stones.
"Oh, that's not how it works!
Did you know that you have to use your legs to move things, not your waist?
I thought martial arts masters wouldn't say they could walk a horse on their shoulders, but at least they could walk with a boulder of two hundred kilograms in one hand and fly as fast as they could.
As a result, you look no different from ordinary people, except that the things you move are a little heavier.
I originally thought that by hiring a dozen martial arts masters like Yin Gezi to work as site workers, moving cement, steel bars and the like every day, within half a year the construction industry on Hong Kong Island would be nothing like Li Jiacheng.
Now it seems that I paid by mistake! Martial arts masters are not as famous as meeting them. ”
"This is moving things, not fighting, can it be the same?" Yin Xiu gritted his teeth.
Ren Qi also had a bad look on his face, partly because he was embarrassed by the dirt, and partly because he was aroused by Liu Banxian's cynicism.
Seeing this, Yin Xiu asked Liu Banxian while moving the stones: "Did you know? The emperor also plowed fields in the forbidden palace."
"Huh? The emperor also plows the fields?"
Liu Banxian really didn’t know, “If the Forbidden Palace isn’t all made of glazed floors, sapphire bricks, and jade railings, where would the fields be for farming?”
"Back mountain!"
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "There is a lot of fertile land in the back mountains.
Every day before the sun came up, when he heard the rooster crow, the emperor got up and ate two large pancakes with four eggs fried by the queen.
Then he went to the ground with his golden hoe, worked hard for two hours, rested for a while, picked up the jasmine tea soaked in the kettle and took a big sip. There is nothing more comfortable than this in the world. ”
"Really?"
Liu Banxian felt that he had never heard of it, so he looked at Ren Qi.
The corners of Ren Qi's mouth twitched slightly, but he still clenched his fists and nodded: "Yes, it really can't be true anymore."
"Oh, it turns out that the hoe used by the old emperor is really made of gold. I thought it was just a storyteller who told nonsense."
Poof!
Ma Xiaoyu finally couldn't help it and sprayed a mouthful of water on the ground.
"What's wrong?" Liu Banxian asked strangely.
"Nothing, the water is a little scalding."
Ma Xiaoyu pursed her lips, and when she was about to explain, Hai Dongqing suddenly let out an ouch.
Everyone turned around and saw that one of his feet had sunk into the ground at some point, and he almost fell to the ground.
"It's broken, I stepped on a mechanism." Hai Dongqing's face turned pale.
He remembered the terrible traps Liu Banxian and the others had mentioned before, as well as the deadly mercury vapor he had seen in the palace.
At this moment, Hai Dongqing remembered the plots he had heard the scholar tell before.
"Leave me alone, run away! Otherwise no one will be able to escape!"
Just when he was about to shout this, several people not only did not run away, but instead came over one by one and stood beside him.
Hai Dongqing looked at them and didn't know what to say.
In fact, Hai Dongqing was not the only one who was speechless. Everyone present looked at me and I looked at you, but no one said a word.
They all seemed a little nervous, but this nervousness was mixed with excitement.
After a pause, Liu Banxian finally spoke, his voice trembling: "Brother, it's not some trap, it's you who stepped on the entrance to the tomb."
"What!?" Hai Dongqing's eyes widened.
However, no explanation was needed. After Ren Qi and Yin Xiu carried away a few more stones, a secret entrance appeared in front of everyone.
It was a cave entrance that could allow four people to enter side by side. It was just underneath. It was still covered with gravel, so the exact size couldn't be seen clearly.
But among the gaps left by the rubble, there was the appearance of a staircase.
It seems that this is a staircase leading to the tomb, and the bottom is like most places under the ground, it is dark and nothing can be seen.
Yin Xiu lit up a piece of talisman paper and threw it away.
The talisman did not go out, but burst into flames after landing.
So under the light of the fire, everyone could clearly see the scene within 20 meters in front of them.
A staircase made of bluestone goes straight down. The walls on both sides of the staircase are also large pieces of bluestone, neatly divided, and painted with similar murals and sculptures as before. They are all immortals guiding the way, and soldiers going out to fight. Each one is gorgeously dressed and lifelike. .
Hai Dongqing had forgotten when and how he got up. He just stared at these murals in a daze. He always felt that this place seemed familiar, as if he had been here in a certain period of time and left here again.
"Hey!"
Yin Xiu suddenly patted his shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Hai Dongqing said blankly.
"Go down!"
Yin Xiu nuzzled her chin, "If you don't want to go down first, don't block the way."
So Hai Dongqing turned his head and looked deeper into the unilluminated darkness. (End of chapter)