Chapter 138 The Eyeless Corpse in the Chihu Coffin
I saw a scene above my head.
Partridge Whistle finally understood why Miss Hong encountered obstacles even with her ability.
After all, this thing has been designed to prevent those like them from fighting.
The surrounding area is made of yellow-heart cypress wood, which is piled up to form a square, and then the square wood is stacked layer by layer.
Although it is not a mortise and tenon structure, the inward-facing structure can also make the coffin chamber airtight, and it is difficult to insert a blade as thin as a cicada in the gap.
Thus, I got the name Huang Chang Ti Minato.
Judging from his many years of experience in fighting, it has appeared at least in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and reached its peak during the Qin and Han dynasties.
In the Han Dynasty, Huang Chang Ti Cou was even more unique to the imperial tombs, together with the Zi Palace, the living room, the outer coffin, and the gold-studded jade garments.
Represents the highest etiquette in funerals.
Except for the emperor's family, no one is allowed to use it without permission from the emperor, otherwise it will be regarded as trespassing.
In the event of Huo Guang's death, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty would specially give "one each for Zi Gong, Bian Fang, and Huang Chang Ti Cou"
However, after the Han Dynasty, Huang Chang Ti Cou almost disappeared from the world.
It’s not because the inheritance is broken, but because the wood is cut too much.
Yellow-heart cypress, also called Thuja, grows very slowly, often taking a hundred years or even hundreds of years to become useful.
A large tomb of a prince would cost thousands of cypress trees.
The cost of the imperial mausoleum is countless.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was difficult to find enough yellow Thuja wood in the world, so we had no choice but to use pine wood, nanmu or even stone bricks to build the structure.
So all kinds of things.
So, even among the old Jianghu people present, only a few people have seen the coffin room with their own eyes.
I have encountered Partridge Whistle before.
But this is the first time that a structure as complete as the one above the head is preserved.
Two thousand years have passed, and the cypress wood is still as new as yesterday, with no signs of water, moisture, mold or rot.
It is indeed a water dragon halo with endless vitality.
At this moment.
Two centipede ladders were hung against the cave wall, and two men were riding on the top, carrying mountain axes. They were sweating profusely and panting from exhaustion.
By the light of the surrounding fire, you can faintly see the dense cypress trees covered with ax marks.
But even after being so tired, there was only a shallow white mark left.
“It’s really Thuja.”
Chen Yulou frowned slightly.
The wife of King Xian was buried in the coffin above the head. The burial objects were not too unusual, but they were the only way to the coffin of King Tianmen.
The tomb of King Xian is piled up layer by layer, from bottom to top.
The halo of the water dragon has been used for thousands of years to provide vitality and circulate continuously in the tomb to maintain the feng shui of the place.
This is why, even though it has been sealed in dust for thousands of years, Wujiao's poisonous gas is not shocking.
The true hidden wind and water gathering, the inside and outside are integrated.
This thuja is quite troublesome.
Although thuja is not as valuable as golden nanmu, it is extremely dense. If you want to cut it down, you must use water to grind it down.
Otherwise, how can we stop the intruders?
"How about inviting the armored beast to try?"
The old foreigner held up the wind lantern and looked around. The coffin room above his head was square, and the cave under his body was round, which coincided with the round sky. meaning.
But other than that.
The exposed rock wall is not covered with cypress or masonry.
According to his idea, it might be feasible to ask the armored beast to dig a diagonal robbery hole from one side.
"Up and down are integrated, and there is no separation between the inside and outside. Unless we can accurately find the door of the house, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky."
Chen Yulou shook his head.
If only it were as simple as he thought.
Huang Chang Ti Cou will no longer deter those in the business of fighting.
"Brothers, work harder and break it open little by little."
"Yes, from the shopkeeper."
Hearing this, the two clerks responded in unison.
Take a deep breath.
Gather your strength to continue working.
The sound of thumping wood echoed back and forth in the cave.
Partridge Whistle stared at Huang Changti Minato and was stunned for a while, then frowned and said.
“Brother Chen, is the coffin for the king above?”
Zi Gong and Ti Cou, no matter which one is singled out, cannot be used by ordinary people.
Until now.
The ancient tomb of King Xian has not yet been discovered.
Thinking again of the cellar coffin outside, if it were Zi Gong, Ti Cou, and gold and jade clothes, it seemed to be better than the cellar coffin in terms of burial ceremony.
“If you ask me to guess, it’s most likely not.”
Chen Yulou raised his eyebrows, "The burial system is quite high, but King Xian is determined to become an immortal, how can he trap himself here?"
"What does Brother Chen mean?"< br>
"Accompany the mausoleum."
Slowly spit out two words.
Partridge Whistle's heart moved and he immediately came back to his senses.
"Xian Wang's wife?"
"You can't be wrong. Brother Taoist, please read the title carefully."
Chen Yulou raised the wind lantern in his hand, and the light flickered, faintly reflecting the figure of a black bird.
The black bird is slightly different from the totems seen in the Miao Village that day.
I prefer the image of Qin and Han phoenix or Qingluan.
You must know that in the pre-Qin period, the black bird had an irreplaceable symbolic status. The destiny black bird descended and gave birth to the Shang Dynasty.
The dragon is the leader of all beasts, and the phoenix is the leader of birds.
There is also the theory of dragon and phoenix, harp and harp in the past dynasties.
The phoenix bird totem is embossed on the Zi Palace, and the meaning is self-evident.
“It seems like it won’t end here for a while.”
"Brother Taoist, aren't you very interested in that cellar coffin? Go and have a look?"
Calculated silently.
It would take at least an hour to dig through the top of your head.
With this skill, the two coffins lying outside...no, they should be three unopened coffins, so naturally they cannot be missed.
For those who live in Xiling, opening coffins makes a fortune.
Is there any reason why the coffin should not be opened?
The guys behind them had never taken their eyes off the stone coffin and the cellar coffin since they entered the tomb. As for the open bronze coffin, they were even talking about it.
Even the old foreigners couldn't help but look back frequently.
Broken floor tiles, bronze debris all over the floor, and fallen bones.
It all shows.
While they were waiting to cross the river, a fight broke out here.
It’s just that no one dared to ask.
"...that's fine."
Partridge Whistle nodded.
He has indeed been thinking about the coffin.
Thousand-year-old tree, you may only see it once in this life.
Even if I only want the Muchen Bead from my mountain range, it is a pity that I cannot get my hands on such a divine object.
"Senior brother, I'm going too."
"And me."
The conversation between the two did not hide anything from others.
The eyes of the old foreigner standing next to him couldn't help but light up.
Hua Ling echoed with a smile.
“Go!”
Seeing this, the partridge whistle would not allow it.
When a group of people passed through the stone door and reappeared in the main room outside, a group of guys were already waiting, one by one taking over. His eyes were burning, and his face was filled with anticipation.
The shopkeepers all said that they would open the coffin.
How could they delay?
"Okay, don't be nervous, let's go."
Chen Yulou raised his eyebrows and waved his hand.
However, it seems casual, but the mind does not dare to relax at all. The bones of the three hells, plus the shadow bones of the king, are all dangerous and hidden.
Don't be too cautious.
Changes may occur at any time.
"Yes, from the shopkeeper."
The group of thieves kept shouting, and quickly took out their vagina-detecting claws and approached the stone coffin.
Just looked back and forth along the sarcophagus.
However, several people's brows became more and more frowned, and their faces became extremely ugly.
"No, can you guys do it?"
"The shopkeeper is still waiting, if not, I will do it."
Seeing that they are still reluctant to take action , failed to seize the opportunity, and could only stay behind to take charge of lighting the few guys couldn't help but laugh.
This way down.
After all the hard work.
Except for the crimson jade coffin in the banyan tree, I finally saw another coffin.
Especially when I was fighting before, I saw gold and silver everywhere.
It made their blood boil.
“Don’t make any noise.”
The leader was an old man.
Several generations of people have eaten with the Chen family.
I have been exposed to it since I was a child, and I have been traveling around the world as early as the old shopkeeper.
Being teased by a few boys, if it had been normal in the past, he would have scolded him back, but at this moment, he just frowned and made a silent gesture.
See this situation.
The group also knew something was wrong.
I immediately closed my mouth and held the box cannon at my waist with my backhand.
“This is a fucking seamless sarcophagus.”
Turn around, just in case. He inspected it carefully again, and even wiped off the accumulated dust on the sarcophagus. After confirming that there was no doubt, he exhaled and cursed in a low voice.
"Seamless coffin?"
Hearing this, the group felt a little relieved, but at the same time, their expressions became grim.
Coffin coffin, outer coffin, inner coffin, upper cover and lower seat.
This has been the case for thousands of years.
Even the coffins can be divided into dynasties, Han and Yi.
For example, in these years, they have seen ship coffins, horse coffins, single wooden coffins, glazed coffins and keel coffins.
But the general style will not change.
This coffin is seamless, the inside and outside are integrated. If it is not just a stone, how can the bones be buried?
"What's going on?"
Although he had gone back and forth several times and even knew what was buried in the sarcophagus, Chen Yulou really didn't think much about it.
When I heard what the guy said, I couldn't help but frown.
Looking away from the copper coffin, he walked over casually.
Seeing the shopkeeper approaching and surrounding the sarcophagus, the thieves immediately made way for them.
The three brothers and sisters of Partridge Whistle followed closely behind.
When he arrived at the sarcophagus and took a wind lantern, Chen Yulou looked carefully and realized that the coffin in front of him was really made of grindstone.
There are still traces of ropes on the top of the coffin.
The whole coffin is extremely simple. Countless rings are carved on the body of the coffin. They are connected end to end and closely interlocked with each other, forming a faint ancient black beast that looks like a tiger, but not a tiger, or a dragon, but not a dragon.
Across the coffin, he raised his head and roared.
There is an indescribable primitive atmosphere all over the body.
I think it is an ancient artifact from at least several thousand years ago.
"Chi tiger?"
If I remember correctly, there seems to be a similar strange beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
It was even more common after the Warring States Period.
The Emperor's Seal uses jade and tiger buttons.
The blue sky jade seal of Qin Shihuang is the seal of a chi tiger, with the words "God's decree, the emperor's longevity" written on it.
"What?"
Hearing him talking to himself, Partridge Whistle couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"Nothing..."
Chen Yulou waved his hand.
Looking at the bottom of the coffin following the light, there is a sturdy monolithic figure cast at each corner of the sarcophagus. The style is also simple and heavy.
Seeing him immersed in the coffin.
Partridge Whistle is not easy to ask.
Looking at the sarcophagus in front of him attentively.
This coffin is really weird in style.
Not just for seamless reasons.
It is much shorter than an ordinary coffin.
He even tried to measure it, and it was probably less than one meter. Even if the ancients were generally shorter than this, it would be difficult to lie down in it.
Unless it is a baby corpse.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head, and his eyes fell across the crowd on the three faint will-o'-the-wisps deep in the tomb. They were much dimmer than the previous will-o'-the-wisps.
Estimated to be two thousand years ago.
The grease of the black-scaled sharks in the copper pillar has been drained away.
It was because they pushed the door open and broke the balance here that the little grease soaked in the wick of the rebirth candle ignited again.
"Danqi!"
When he looked at the three corpses of the receiving boys.
Chen Yulou suddenly let out a breath, then took the bone knife from his waist with his backhand, and lightly scratched the sarcophagus.
Not very powerful.
But the next moment, the sound of broken glass was heard immediately.
Under the light, countless small cracks appeared on the surface of the sarcophagus, intertwined with each other, like a shadow of a tree emerging.
With the force in his hands.
Cracks quickly spread towards the coffin body.
Not long after, the translucent fragments, as thin as cicada wings, burst into pieces.
Partridge Whistle has quick eyes and quick hands. He grabbed it with his backhand and opened his palm. There was already an extra one in his palm.
Put it up to the tip of your nose and smell it carefully.
There is still an indescribable smell on the fragments.
“It’s really red paint!”
It is recorded in the Book of Rites that hundreds of craftsmen were ordered to make bows, gold, iron, leather, and rubber-grey red paint.
It’s just that this layer of red paint is too thin,
and it looks like colored glaze.
It has long been integrated with the sarcophagus.
Even he didn't notice it.
"There is a gap in the coffin."
The broken red paint dispersed like feathers, and soon a sharp-eyed man pointed at the ring on the coffin and exclaimed.
The man who hangs the coffin has amazing skills.
Not to mention the tight fit between the coffin lid and the coffin body, in order to hide the almost invisible seam, it is covered up with patterns and red lacquer, making it almost exactly the same as a seamless coffin.
“Now that I have found it, what are you still doing?”
Chen Yulou shrugged.
Put away the bone knife in your hand.
"Yes..."
The guy smiled coquettishly.
After all, he was already an old man, but he lost an adult in front of the shopkeeper. For a moment, he really couldn't hold his head up.
However, this emotion was quickly dissipated by the expectation of finding gold in the coffin.
A few people used their vaginal claws to insert into the gap and pry open the coffin lid bit by bit.
Wait until the gap appears.
The old foreigner immediately stepped forward with a kettle in hand to prevent the corpse aura from invading.
But to his surprise, the sarcophagus was quiet, and there were no poisonous smoke from the black cellar, hidden fire or hidden arrows.
"Open!"
Seeing this, the men who opened the coffin no longer hesitated. With a low voice, they worked together to lift the extremely heavy coffin lid and lift it to the ground.
The boy next to him was carrying a lantern and moving it to the top of the coffin.
The rest of the people looked quickly into the coffin.
“Vertical burial coffin?”
"No, what the hell kind of burial method is this?"
"Could it be that a person was buried alive and suffocated in the coffin while alive?"
Through the light, everyone could clearly see the sarcophagus. Inside, a corpse that had not yet rotted was curled up.
The figure shows an extremely weird posture.
“Buried in a crouch?!”
Hua Ling has never spoken.
Tilted his head and said one word softly.
During the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, foreign nations attacked, and the Zhou rituals fell apart. In addition, various countries intended to break away from the Zhou system, and various funeral rituals were derived.
The burial is a derivative of that era.
Similarly, there are hanging burials, leaning down, lying on the side, and even upside down burials.
Looking at the bones huddled in the coffin.
Partridge Whistle also looked weird.
Before, he secretly speculated whether there would be a baby corpse buried in the coffin, but now it seems that it was just a mistake.
As he pondered.
A few guys had already taken out the corpse-binding ropes, reached into the coffin, inserted one set through the lower jaw of the corpse, and then pulled it back. The ancient corpse in the coffin instantly sat up half-sitting up.
But... when a group of people looked over.
But it feels like falling into an ice cave.
The ancient corpse was covered with strange runes, which were not very similar to the soul-killing talisman. It seemed to come from the strange witchcraft that had been seen on the walls of Shangzhen Palace.
But the most terrifying thing is far more than that.
The body of the ancient corpse is complete, but only two holes remain at the eyes.
Judging from the hideous wounds, it must have been forcefully dug away with a sharp weapon.
“Eye gouging?”
Partridge Whistle frowned.
I caught something subconsciously, but my mind was in a mess, and I felt like quicksand was flowing out from my fingers.
“This is the Tribulation of Three Hells.”
"Gouge out the heart and gouge out the eyes."
As if aware of everyone's thoughts, Chen Yulou explained coldly.
Partridge Whistle's heart moved.
The corpse in the copper coffin from before came to mind.
Although the corpse was in a state of decomposition, but now that I think about it carefully, all the facial features are present, but the five internal organs seem to be missing only the heart.
Brother Chen can say it so clearly.
I think he had already noticed it when he opened the coffin before.
Partridge Whistle sighed secretly.
Since I stepped into Xianwangxuan Palace, everything I saw coincided with the Taoist way of becoming an immortal.
Three Worlds Bridge and the Bones of Three Hells.
Now in the three tribulations, since the heart and eyes were gouged out first, then...if I guessed correctly, the last coffin of the body was probably filled with evil means such as soul-stealing.
Subconsciously, Partridge Whistle glanced at the last demon coffin from the corner of his eye.
At this moment, it stands quietly in place.
When illuminated by the surrounding lights, the whole body suddenly reflected a dark luster.
Don’t know why.
Chen Yulou's previous words came back to his mind.
"Maybe it's an empty coffin."
"Eating souls and seizing souls... It seems to make sense. If a person has no soul, isn't he just a ghost?"
I’m really sorry that I got off work so late and didn’t even eat when I came back. I’ve been writing until now. I’ll definitely post more when I get home during the Chinese New Year
(End of this chapter)