Chapter 13 The Dead – Unidentified

In front of the campfire, Prof. Sun was organizing the information he collected today, and at the same time, he was telling us the legend written on the inscription, the stone pillar under the chair of the Wulumuqiang king was left from the water treatment in those years, and the carved seal scripts are extremely detailed, the pattern is “light and heavy thunder pattern”, and the seal scripts are “snail and cicada ancient seal scripts “Idle people can’t understand these strange snail seals, but Prof. Sun has been immersed in this field for dozens of years, and has devoted endless efforts to this field, and his attainments are extraordinary, which is not comparable to that of ordinary scholars and experts, so he can read and understand 70% to 80% of the seals.

I am secretly grateful, if not dead to say live dragged Sun Jiu master to Qingxi, with Shirley Yang and I, Fatty three people, even if you see these ancient riddles, but also have to take it as invisible, and now no longer say, listen to Professor Sun’s story, it turns out that looking for the entrance to the tomb of the Immortals implied that, in addition to hiding the secrets of the Qingwu feng shui, and also with the “coffin The ancient legend of “Coffin Gorge” is also related.

In the early years, due to the unique topography of the Wushan Mountain Range, without the benefit of the yin and yang fish water diversion, this mountainous area was flooded, floods and natural disasters year after year, every year there are countless people and animals were swallowed by the floods, and became the food of the fish in the river.

Just when the top and bottom of the helpless, a hermit in the mountains came forward, stout, full of gnarled beard, dressed in black robes, calling himself “Wuling King”, have the art of moving mountains, can drive the Yin soldiers dredge the river.

But he also put forward two conditions, one is to move the mountain to open the river during the project, to the local offerings of wine, meat and food, to the time of the meal, the wine, meat and food piled up in the entrance to the cave, the cave in front of a large tripod, the people to send food beforehand, sound the tripod, and then rushed out of the mountain to avoid.

The second condition, is to ask the son of heaven, in recognition of his merits, at that time suffering from the project is huge, even if they are willing to pay money, food and people, but also can not do to move the mountains and rivers, the dynasty and extraordinarily valued the Taoist masters, and immediately promised.

So Wuling King whole day practice, drive the Yin soldiers Yin will dredge the river, since then every day in the mountains are gloomy, attacking the sound of the mountain open stone rolling like thunder, the local people feel its virtue, chose a woman surnamed Li, married with the King of Wuling as his wife, and since then for the opening of the river Yin soldiers to dedicate to the matter, by the lady personally supervise the rate.

Water project is both difficult and long, one day suddenly heavy rain, Wuling King commanded the Yin soldiers to cut down the river is not good, sent to the wine and food for two days in a row did not move, Mrs. worried up, they sent into the mountains.

To the scene of the river, everyone was shocked, a big black pig in the canyon is in the water with the head of the mountain, it is behind countless mountain ghosts and mandrills of the genus to carry the soil and stone, the original mountain Wuling King is a mountain of sheep, to show the original form of the river with the power of the ghosts and gods, so they never want to let the people into the mountains to see.

Wuling King saw the original form was recognized, from then on hiding in the mountains, no longer refused to open the river, even more ashamed to meet with the lady, the lady kneeling in front of the mountain and begged in vain, had to throw the cliff and died, Wuling King consciously feel ashamed of the lady, will rate the last section of the river dredging, completely cured the flooding.

The dynasty awarded a heavy reward, to invite the Wuling true ruler to manage another section of serious flooding of the river, if you can collect the full success, when there will be a king of the period, but the Wuling King said that he wanted to go back to the deep chasm, unless the lady resurrected, or never open the mountain, the day of the resignation, there are thousands of people to see them off.

Wuling King was drunk, mistakenly go to Xiling Mountain, show the original form of sound sleep, the result was the local unaware of the mountain people captured, immediately tied up tightly, burned up the cauldron, and is fading hair and bloodletting a busy, and so on underlings to find the whereabouts of the King of Mountain Wuling, the King’s water has been cooked for a long time.

Subsequently, the local first plague, followed by locusts, the people said this is the Wuling King of the ghost, so in the gorge built a large tomb, convergence of his remaining remains to be buried, but only a body of flesh and bones, the first and probably eaten, and can not be retrieved, and built the temple year after year sacrifices are not ceased to make a jade body and copper head for worship.

“Coffin Gorge” crisscrossing the canyon, and full of wall all over the bird road dangerous path, are when the king of Wuling serves to open the river of the remains of the yin soldiers, successive generations in the process of opening up the river to rule the water in the death of the natives, were included in the hanging coffins, with the gradual lowering of the flood, layer by layer in the crags, it was unintentional, but never thought of it actually constitutes a piece of a giant statue of the headless Figure, I’m afraid it is also the omen of the death of the king of Wuling, and the king of Wuling out of the mountain, had led the Yin soldiers in the mountain digging witch salt vein, “Coffin Gorge” within the salt mine, that is, where its mausoleum, from the Hall of Honor to the king’s tomb, to pass through a section of the “hundred paces of the bird road” of the absolute danger to arrive at the entrance to the tomb road. To reach the entrance of the tomb.

Prof. Sun put this record, originally told us out, I suddenly realized: “the original when the head of the seal left this paragraph, in fact, only the last sentence is useful, or this is only the first paragraph, meaning that the entrance to the tomb of the Immortals may be hidden in the original tomb of the king of the Wuyang, so want to visit the Immortals, the first to look for the Wuyang, and the king of the Wuyang open the legend of the river is to find the important clues to the king’s tomb, can be found. important clue to find the king’s tomb, but this knowledge of the first step in the search for the Earth Immortal Village, the next certainly should also have a number of hints, now it is unknown.”

Shirley Yang was also puzzled by the legend of the “Wuling King”, and asked Prof. Sun, “This legend doesn’t sound like a historical fact, according to this, the Wuling King should be a virtuous man who opened up the mountain to control the water, and made great achievements to the people, but the corpse in the cave is so violent, which is very different from the deeds on the inscription, and there is really Guangde’s coffin in the gorge, which is the most important clue to find the king’s tomb. Is there really a tomb of King Guangde in the gorge?”

Professor Sun said: “bells and tripods inscriptions on the tablets, most of them are singing the praises of words, can not be trusted, but the ancient remains here, can not help but believe that the tomb of the king of the Wuling hidden in the Coffin Gorge, but the real story, but not necessarily so, the legendary king of the Wuyang appear original form of the open mountain, more than the color of the creation of the gods within the natural can not be taken seriously.” In addition, this matter in a variety of historical records are not recorded, witch culture secret ancient, there are many things have been screened in the long river of history, now can not be verified.

Fatty interjected: “I see the coffin gorge is so steep, not like the ancient primitive labor force can be chiseled through, may be all the look forward to their face gold rhetoric, the king without a brain, should be full of evil, for fear that after the death of the people were down the bucket, only to find a monument to set up a biography poke in front of the tomb, but then again, the king of the Wuling, even if the life of the king and then how tyrannical, his head were made into a pig’s head and brined, but also to say, the king of the Wuling, even if he was born again how tyrannical, his head were made into pig head meat and brined and burnt, also counts retribution.”

Professor Sun said, “This statement has a certain degree of truth, according to my experience, Wuling King may not really be what Wuyang, ancient Chinese history is too much flip-flopping wind, flipping his hand for the clouds, flipping his hand for the rain, anything is not good to make a final judgment, I remember that history has mentioned a similar to the deeds of the king of the Zhuhai, but it’s not Wuling, but Longchuan, it’s said that the king of the Longshan was brutal in life, Extravagant, but dredge the river, root out flooding, is a person who has merits and faults that are difficult to evaluate, when he died, he had been split into corpses by random blades, his descendants were worried that someone would steal and send the king’s mausoleum in order to retaliate against him, so he changed his name when he was buried, and then he used all sorts of tactics to hide his name, as to which region the king of the Dragon Mountain was the ruler of, now there is always a difference in the statement, with the remains in the Coffin Gorge, I think that the king of Longchuan was probably the king of the King of the Moved Mountain Wuling.”

Sun Jiuzi usually in the work has always been afraid to talk more, but in front of us naturally do not have to worry about the words out of the wrong, so the magazine opened, there is some control over it, gushing Pang Leibao, and then talk about Longchuan Wang, the man will be the astrological foreign arts, in ancient times to rule over the water to open up the mountain, can not be separated from the square art, if you do not understand the layout of the mountains, rivers and rivers of the veins to the direction of the layout of the mountains, rivers and rivers, not only half-heartedly, but also endless consequences, I am researching the Dragon Bone Riddle text, found a lot of information about flooding and earthquakes , I found many records about floods and earthquakes ……

I said to Prof. Sun: “tube he Wu Yang Wang or Longchuan Wang, his mausoleum has long been stolen hair hundreds of years, right and wrong, so we do not need to go to the examination of the history of the merits and demerits of the immediate should first find a way to find that section of the hundred steps bird road, if the placement of a human chair jade statue of the cave is really the place of the tomb, according to the layout of the feng shui system of burials, the entrance to the tomb road, is certainly in the jade behind the direction of the orientation, it will not be too difficult to find It won’t be too hard to find, what I’m worried about is that entering the tomb passage isn’t the end of the story.”

Prof. Sun and Shirley Yang were also deeply worried, the hints left by the head of the Feng Group were only the first paragraph, after finding the entrance of the tomb of the Woolly Goat King, we would not have any reference at all, we could only take one step at a time and see what happens, no one knew how far away the ancient tomb of the Dixian Village was, all of us deliberated for a long time, and we could only say that it was unpredictable and the future was hard to predict.

Rest in the cave to the early hours of the morning, on the spirit, continue to the end of the cave into the cave, to the hole empty look, really is through the mountains over, this side is the “Coffin Gorge” another canyon, although more than hanging full of hanging coffins in the area of the open a lot, but there are also some other treacherous situation.

The mountain peaks are misty, and the view is endless, the water at the bottom of the gorge is torrential, impacted by the cliffs, forming an “A” turn, and the far upstream is a roaring thunderous waterfall, the rapids in the canyon between the “sudden fall and turn”, stirring up the water mist in the sky. The water mist in the sky, just like a body batch of silver scales of the dragon, flying down the sky, drilling into the depths of the canyon, hitting the cliffs on both sides of the sky split.

I looked at the bottom of the gorge rapids, although I am not afraid of heights, but also feel dizzy to the extreme, and then look at the opposite side of the crags, there are really a lot of winding bird paths in the air, such as a huge spider’s web, inlaid in the thousand-foot wall, lost intricately, and for a moment to see the eyes of the people all blurred.

Shirley Yang held up the binoculars and looked for a while, did not feel hesitant: “the opposite side of the more than do a few hundred embedded in the mountain trail, in addition to many of the road, the end of the other quite a number of caves, how do I know that a hundred steps of the bird road is actually referring to which section?”

I said not to worry, last night Sun Jiuzi contributed a lot, otherwise how to know the origin of the headless king? But we can not let him take all the credit, today let the comrades to see the “gold inspector” means, I also confirmed with Professor Sun, Feng leader of the original words are not “bird road across the hundred paces, nine times”?

Prof. Sun immediately took the honor guarantee, this passage has been repeated in his head for more than ten years, certainly not wrong.

I secretly nodded, the heart has already been a way, “Bird Road vertical and horizontal, a hundred steps and nine back” the key word should be “nine”, looking across the cliffs on the bird road, just like “dragons entangled in the mountain “The situation, no matter that this canyon in the ancient relics of who is left, definitely not random construction, perhaps others are difficult to peek at this mystery, but some of the pattern of pushing the stars to play the trigrams, but it is precisely hit the tip of the knife to touch the gold mysticism.

All the ancient burial, its local or whole, must be “nine” number, take is “long survive” meaning, “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art” of the “dragon secret” have clouds: “The dragons wrapped around the river to do nine curves, the curves are all nine rings; nine turns outside the compound nine turns, nine turns nine heavy around the dragon building; nine nine circles end up one, three three two into the spirit mountain ……”

Fatty wondered, “Hu Commander you count well, will read nine nine eighty-one, but you nine half a day, I froze did not hear out in the end we should go to which side?”

I explained, “When did you say 991? Still three nine seventy-two it, we are called the Dragon into the potential know-how, nine palace gossip of the wonders are in the inside, if even you and other brown people can understand, I might as well tear off this book passed down by my family thrown into the river forget, you see this mountain bird road as dense as a spider’s web, in fact, there is only one road is true, as long as the tenth from the bottom to go up, every third fork in the road to turn one turn, turn twice after the turn, the intervals between three differences and then turn, go down not go up! , go left not go right, so repeated nine times, see the hole to enter, I guess there is the entrance to the tomb road of the Wu Yang King.”

Professor Sun even more strange, he is out of the habit of work, all things like to investigate the root, then asked me, “when Zhuge Liang almost take eight door array trapped East Wu General Lu Xun, as if which makes use of the principle of the five elements of the birth of a grams, which can be lost for how many years things, how do you still know? I heard Chen say that this set of things are passed down from the elders of your family? What exactly do your family elders do?”

I glanced at Shirley Yang and thought to myself, “Shirley Yang’s maternal grandfather was the head of Moving Mountain, what kind of high reputation is that? Her grandfather’s side of the family is also a family of books, with anyone can say, even the youngest sister’s godfather, are “honeycomb mountain” in the old Yuanliang.

How come my old Hu family to my grandfather’s generation, but is a stall fortune-telling to promote feudal superstition? Awareness is too low, say it all embarrassed, so I whispered in Professor Sun’s ear and said: “My grandfather was walking across the sea harrier, famous all over the world, to participate in the revolution is also relatively early, but to participate in the Xinhai Revolution, but the jianghu tube of his old man’s line is called the gold point, I am all these crafts are passed down from family to family, did not learn to learn a hand one or two into the, let you see the ridicule. ”

Professor Sun on the road did not less to Shirley Yang inquired about the mountain scripture cuts, sniffing the words of understanding, praised: “No wonder, no wonder, if it is not a green family origin, it is not possible to have such a wizardry.”

I am worried about Sun Jiuji master to ask further questions, hurriedly take the lead to find can walk the dangerous path down the mountain, two seemingly endless cliffs between, and a few iron locks wooden bridge connected, walking on the top of the people with the bridge swinging, the bottom of the river is running, inevitably thrilling, to this is difficult to turn back, the people hard to the opposite side.

Canyon between the clouds and rain suddenly rose, in the rain and fog, the surrounding scenery have become blurred up, fortunately, previously looked at the path, looking for the entrance to the Hanging Mountain Bird Trail, in accordance with the “Dragon into the potential” recipe all the way up the road, this road was wet by the rain, walking up the danger of more than razor sharp, a hundred steps to nine turns, walking in the back of the people, you can see in front of the people’s feet! The person walking behind could see the feet of the person in front of him on his own head.

I secretly recite “dragon secret”, in the absolute danger of the crags all the way up, and worry about leading the wrong way, can not help but be distracted from time to time, as the saying goes, “up the mountain is easy to go down the mountain is difficult”, to go up to see the road in front of us, even the fat man can hold on to, but if it is towards the downward direction, what you see in your eyes is heartbreaking. What you see in your eyes is the deep chasm of the fog that makes your heart tremble, if you do not pay attention, lose your footing and tumble down, even the body can not be retrieved, but the bird road is suddenly up and down, a hundred turns, there is no certainty.

Kansan to the end of the bird road of a hundred steps nine turns, the mountain wall appeared a strange and unfathomable depth of the tunnel, I climbed in first, probing arm to the other four people one by one access, this is a careful look at the situation in the cave, this time the fog is thick, breathing is not good, the rock layer of the traces of the mother of stone, and the previous tunnel of the Qingxi air raid shelters are very different, it should be an ancient tunnel, I do not know where it leads to.

I do not have any certainty about whether this road is correct, perhaps just turned the wrong path in the cliffs, the heart can not help but some trance, holding up the wolf-eye flashlight a few steps inside, and suddenly saw a tombstone stood next to the monument in front of the knees sitting in front of a dead body, the face of the clothes have been weathered, the skin and flesh has been dissolved, I do not know how long it has been dead, I hurriedly greeted the back of the Sun Jiuji masters to come over, so that he can see if it is not a Feng Feng chief of the remains of the body.

Sun Jiuji saw the dry corpse, the mood immediately appeared to be a bit excited, trembling wearing masks and gloves, the head of the deceased cupped up and carefully scrutinized: “Not like …… not like …… I remember Feng leader in the absconding before, had been in the quarry Wounded, was knocked out a few teeth, this corpse has more teeth, it should not be the old Feng, but who is this person? Not right …… You guys quickly come to see what is this?”

We thought Professor Sun was talking about that “nameless dead body”, was about to look, but heard Professor Sun say: “Not a dry body, is this tombstone, really is the road marking of the Earth Immortal Village.”

My spirit was invigorated, hurriedly and the fat man lifted the “nameless body”, only to see the original dead body blocked the tombstone, there is no name of the deceased, but engraved with the “Guanshan finger fan fugue” five strokes strong concave characters, there are a number of other lines on both sides of the small words, I swept a glance, exactly I scanned, it is that the search for the ancient tomb of the hint: “good king, body without head; the mother does not come, the mountains do not open ……”

I saw a few paragraphs on the remnants of the tablet hints, far more than the Feng head of the year to reveal to the Sun Jiu master of the complete, do not feel happy color: “The original about the entrance to the village of the Earth Immortal secrets of this hints, is called the Guanshan refers to the fan fugue, the back of these sentences is ……