Chapter 49: The Mountain of the Casket

This way into the mountain, our noses are almost choked by the corpse stench waste, but at this time still feel the bloody gas straight to the brain, “corpse blood” dirty stink, and normal “blood” has a big difference, to see this situation, not inevitably reminiscent of the coffin mountain legend of the “corpse fairy”, in front of this grave is buried in the “corpse fairy”? “The corpse fairy, this grave in front of us …… is not buried in the “corpse fairy”?

According to the words of Master Sun Jiujiu, “the ground immortal” is Fengshigu, this person in the coffin mountain exhaustive effort to build “Yin House”, in order to be able to get after death, the degree of refinement cultivation as “corpse immortal”. The concept of “immortalizing corpses after death” has existed since ancient times, and the corpses of the monks who died outside the square are called “mortal remains”. If a person’s soul is not dispersed after death, it will remain in the body of the corpse and will be able to transcend the cycle of reincarnation, and will be immortalized in the same way as heaven and earth.

So I think the grave in the back of the house is probably the burial place of the “Earth Immortal” Fengshigu, but I never believe in him as an immortal, and I wanted to open the grave to see the truth.

Shirley Yang said: “The blood seeping from the grave is an omen of misfortune, and the blood of the corpse must be poisoned with corpse poison, so we can’t take the risk of excavating it easily. Guanshan Hidden Bone Building guarding mausoleum looking at the grave, maybe there will be some clues hidden inside, can let us understand what is buried under the ground, and so on to grasp the details of the situation and then make a plan.”

I think Shirley Yang does make sense, then let the fat man and the youngest sister to stay in front of the building, so that the whole group into the building were a net, only I and Shirley Yang plus Sun Jiuji masters three people to go in.

Triple wooden building heavy door dish portal, tightly closed, the door was several wooden locks tightly fastened, no room to enter, this building manufacturing brilliant, exquisite extraordinary, beam square placement fit, rivets and tenons splicing precision, a lot of crafts in the modern era seems to have been lost, and can be seen in this building used in the wood age is very old, are underground sinking things, but those bricks, wood and earth are retained extremely well, ancient times, a building the most Weak is the wood, wood a rotten, brick and tile and then strong also want to collapse, but the square beams in the pavilion in the column wood, are well preserved, in addition to the material in addition to the fine, this is due to the precise design, constructed tight, between the components of the tightly seamless, without leaving the slightest gap in the sake of the cause. Legend has it that master craftsmen made Liang Fang, water corrosion is difficult to invade, insects and ants do not come close to, but also to avoid lightning and fire, this underground pavilion eighty percent is that kind of building.

Building door is a number of wooden square, the structure is rigorous and thorough, beams, pillars, purlins, citrons all rely on mortise and tenon joints, and a heavy wooden locks bite each other, stable as a rock, but we have “honeycomb mountain” in the craftsmen to help, lock prying the door is not waste of time, only to see the youngest sister from the accompanying bag of treasures to touch out of the “master key”, pointing at the “master key”, and the “master key”. The key is a “universal key”, which is aimed at the lock hole, and the first lock will be opened by the sound. And show to open the life of learning, avoiding the heavy and light, layer by layer demolition peeling, honeycomb mountain box maker’s basic skill is to repeatedly practice dismantling “Lu Ban locks”, due to the ancient halls do not use iron nails, for fear of breaking feng shui, all of them are all to mortise and tenon precision combination, such as the “six children in a row”, “three stars in position”, “six children in a row”, “three stars in a row”, “three stars in a position”, “three stars in a position”. “Three Stars” and other joints of the Lu Ban locks, the youngest sister is more than familiar with, without a moment, will finally in the center of the pavilion to break through a number of portals, from the outside to look down, inside the building is a dark and dead silence.

Her degree of proficiency to see us froze half a day, the fat man said: “sister’s craft can really not tide, four nine city’s most powerful Buddha, I’m afraid that you are not as good as these two, the safe you will not open?”

“Master Buddha” is the name given to thieves and pickpockets in Beijing, but the box makers in the “Beehive Mountain” have been specializing in various kinds of “pin organs” for thousands of years. “Screwing doors and locks” is just one of the minor skills, the youngest sister has been taught a lot of real, do it naturally clean, she did not know what the fat man said “Master Buddha” is the meaning of the word, but also thought that it was a good word, quite complacent, after all, these nearly lost After all, these nearly lost crafts, stay in the remote mountainous towns simply can not be performed, learn also know when it is not useful to see the “Dragon Slayer”, I did not expect to really have a “place to use”.

At this time Shirley Yang carrying the “Golden Steel Umbrella”, gently pushed the door into the hidden bone building, Sun Jiuji master followed him, one after the other, followed in.

I told Fatty to guard the outside shall be put more carefully, do not break our back. Fatty said: “Old Hu you intentional is not it? To me so responsible people, still need to tell? When have I ever made you uneasy? I also have to tell you a word, you go in if you see the Mingqi, don’t be polite with that Sun Laojiu, he owes us this old boy, there are good things that should go along with, looking for jindan although it’s the right thing to do, but a goat is to drive, two goats are also put, can not delay we don’t delay it.”

Listen to the fat man mentioned the word “Jindan”, my heart “thump” sank a bit, look at the “Coffin Mountain” in the weird situation, I’m afraid that this time is a sheep can not be driven, I cursed Professor Sun! I cursed Professor Sun is too able to disguise, perhaps because of his personality isolation, rarely contact with people, so this guy pretends to be a grandson, simply more than a grandson grandson. I am “always fighting geese, but was pecked out by geese”, but he was bluffed. Now the possibility of hiding a thousand years of corpse Dan in the “ancient tomb of the immortal village” has been reduced to the lowest point, and this time we entered the “Coffin Mountain” by mistake, we are like deeply plunged into a disaster that should not have belonged to us, and also by the Sun Jiu master of this old man to the deeper and deeper into the mire, it is difficult to extricate ourselves. We were dragged deeper and deeper into the mire by this old man, Master Sun Jiu, and it was difficult to extricate ourselves.

Although I refuse to admit it, but I may really be some of the bones “but the world in chaos” component, in the subconscious, very much want to know the “Daming Guanshan Taibao” secret, but also the heart of the luck, only hope to be able to find the ancient corpse of the immortal village from the “village”, the village of the immortal village. “In order to find the ancient corpse Danding, so simply cross my heart not to care about the results of gains and losses. Thinking of these, I will mess with the fat man accounted for a few words, out of the “engineer shovel” to, from the half-open two wooden doors through, touched into the darkness of the “Guanshan hidden bone building”.

Shirley Yang and Master Sun Jiu are waiting for me in the second entrance, see me come in from the outside, then turn on the “tactical spotlight” pushed open the “Ruyi door” of the inner hall. Inside the building is so dark that you can’t see your fingers, “creaking” sound of wooden shafts rotating, the first floor of the inner hall of the wooden door opened, inside the gloomy air with a sandalwood aroma of medicinal gas. I know that in ancient architecture, there is a long lost craft, made out of the pavilion hall can make “birds do not fall, mosquitoes and flies do not enter”, in addition to the special building materials, but also to use to the “ink division” of the ancient formula, this wooden structure of the building will be Hidden in the wooden structure of the building will have a dark fragrance, a thousand years will not dissipate, called “free fairy pavilion”, Guanshan hidden bone building may be a rare “free fairy pavilion”, it seems that “Guanshan Fengjia” in the construction, feng shui, It seems that the “Guanshan Feng family” really has a lot to offer in terms of architecture, feng shui, tombs and other aspects that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

We stood in front of the hall to look around, only to see the building has a lot of square antique sandalwood shelves, inside the display, are a piece of tortoise shell and dragon bone, I said to Shirley Yang and Sun Jiuji master: “Guanshan Taibao in the Coffin Gorge hanging coffins in the theft of the hair of the things, I’m afraid that all of them are in this.”

Mr. Sun nodded, took us up to look, found that the bone armor is full of symbols of the sun, moon and stars, those ancient symbols and diagrams, some similar to what I have seen “Hetu, Luoshu”, but more complicated, should be recorded some extremely ancient feng shui riddle, but do not see one of the “sixteen trigrams of the week”. Zhou Tian 16 hexagrams” of the trigrams, the original “hidden bone building” is used to store this thing, perhaps “immortal Fengshigu” is not in the building.

Shirley Yang asked Mr. Sun Jiuji: “Feng’s coffin mountain refers to the magic art is from this?” Mr. Sun nodded as he stared at the bones and armor and said, “That’s right. There are many ancient hermits buried in the Coffin Gorge, and these heavenly bones and bones contain all sorts of things, including the ancient way of feng shui, astrology and witchcraft, as well as many other strange and incredible techniques. As the saying goes, “What goes around comes around, and what goes around comes around,” my ancestor used this to make a fortune, but in the end, it was not destroyed on top of the word “tomb raiding. If you have not stolen these hanging coffins bone armor, descendants will not be obsessed with the demon delusion, caused by the disaster of the destruction of the day.” Said sighing.

But Sun Jiuzi currently most want to find, obviously still “Immortal Sealed Corpse Ancient”, he casually looked at a few pieces of “bone armor”, the mind will be more than not put on it, and straight eyes continue to the back of the hall to search for, I Shirley Yang made a wink, and the two of them from the back tightly! I just stepped into the back of the hall, I saw Sun Jiuzi “thud” kneeling on the ground.

I thought to myself, “What are you doing on your knees for a good reason? I thought to myself, “What are you doing kneeling down? To reach out to help him up, but raised his eyes, and saw the back of the hall hanging many portraits of people in the paintings of people in different clothes and colors, appearance and temperament are also different, not the same era of people, portraits before the tablets, it turns out that the back of the hall is actually the “Guanshan Feng family” ancestor shrine.

Shirley Yang and I curiosity, can not help but also in the back of a few more eyes, but see those paintings of the ancients, the number adds up to almost a company, although the temperament of the outstanding, but they are all dressed bizarrely, indifferent, we stand in front of the dense portraits of people, a kind of being countless dead people gazing at the feeling comes up, all around the body up and down are uncomfortable.

Back then received the imperial seal of the famous family prosperous family, now only left Sun Jiu master this last person, and also was over sent to foreign surnames. His stooped back, in front of the ancestors of the Feng family more pale, I also had to sigh the world change, the rise and fall is unpredictable.

It was not easy to wait for Sun Jiuji this “ungrateful grandson” to pay homage to the ancestors, the three of us to see the “hidden bone building” in the middle of the first floor, there is nothing more noteworthy place, from the stairs up, in the “tactical spotlight Under the “tactical spotlight”, we saw that the second floor was a “scripture storage” place, on the shelves were ancient books and Taoist collections, the contents of which were nothing more than those “Huang Lao, furnace fire” techniques.

The two sides of the window pavilion, hanging a pair of ancient paintings, paintings depicting the scene, tomb raiders in the cliffs to steal hair hanging coffins, this painting has a very good history, it is the legendary “Guanshan Bones”, is a hidden many historical information of the antiquities.

I said to Master Sun Jiu: “This painting is the town treasure of the Guanshan Feng family, right? You still do not give it back, left in the coffin mountain rotten is not a pity.” Master Sun Jiu said, “Not only is it the treasure of the town house, it is not too much to say that it is a national treasure, but once this object comes out, it will surely cause an uproar, because it is related to the secret history of the Ming Dynasty imperial tombs, and moreover, many histories may be revised because of it, do you think that the history which has been finalized long time ago is so easy to rewrite? Instead of asking for trouble, why don’t you just let it remain just a folklore forever.”

I said, “You’ve sort of looked away, you really don’t want to be a reactionary academic authority?” Master Sun Jiu said, “You opportunist, leering at me to bring back the Guanshan bone stealing map can be what good intentions? In fact, now say these are meaningless, the previous is not my alarmist, I think we do not want to climb out of the coffin mountain to see the light of day again.” The words are quite desperate.

I heard him say so, more feel the head of the fire: “Sun Jiu master in Beijing when he claimed to be on our ship of thieves, the result in the end is that we are on his ship of thieves, and now want to get off the boat are difficult.” However, I do not intend to give the “Guanshan Taibao” burial, and thought: “I have to Guanshan bone map to go back to the inevitable, or this broken painting to our home windows, it is difficult to solve my heart hate.” My brain playing crooked ideas, mouth but told Sun Jiuji said: “We’ll see, now is not looking for the time to retreat, the first to find the Immortal Fengshigu is the most urgent. But also strange …… a big coffin mountain, how even a year into the village of the immortal did not see people? Really live not see people, dead not see corpse ah.”

Shirley Yang said: “Since the ancestor hall and sealing the treasure of the house Guanshan steal ancient map are in the building, this building must be an extremely important place, we look carefully again, pay attention to the building whether there is a mezzanine floor and the dark attic.”

This layer of the building in the artifacts in the collection of books, a moment where to see over, only to walk like a row of rows and rows of search, to the depth of the place, to see the back wall above the other hanging four ancient paintings, Shirley Yang borrowed the light to look at, happy, “like a detailed topographic map of the coffin mountain.”

Sun Jiuji stepped forward to identify in detail, pointing to the first painting in the upper scroll of the handwriting read: “Coffin Mountain Xiangzhai Tu …… This is Feng Shigu’s own handwriting authentic.”

I also went over to take a closer look, only to see the first scroll, depicting the deep underground “Coffin Mountain”, surrounded by the coffin board like wall around, the terrain is long and narrow; the undulating gullies in the coffin, it looks like a headless corpse, the entire “Earth Immortal Village” built according to the mountain terrain, the village houses and mansions. And built, the village houses house distribution is very regular, dark with the shape of the nine palace eight trigrams.

Painting in fine detail, the architectural features of the houses are all available, from this “coffin mountain phase house map” in the view, we enter the mountain that the entrance to the dark road, is located in the “headless body” at the left shoulder, after the “Cannon God Temple “, and along the street into the “Feng family old house” of the backyard, to this point is already reached the “corpse-shaped mountain” where the heart of the nest.

At the end of the headless corpse-shaped gullies, painted a tightly closed hanging hilltop stone door, its bones are similar to the scale of the magnificent “Palace of the Woolly Goat King”, and the overall style of the village of Dixian is very different, it should be the first people in the mountains left behind the monuments, said Mr. Sun Jiuzi, “when Fengshigu may be through the stone door into the coffin mountain, we have to go through the door. stone door into the coffin mountain, the dark passage we took was opened later.”

I nodded, and went to look at the second picture, a look is a shock, and the first picture is very similar, but not the “immortal village”, but is located in the village of the large underground tomb group, almost all of the burial chambers, layers of interlocking, are all clear, the size and pattern and the upper part of the mansion is comparable.

I said, “These two paintings are the maps of the two mansions of yin and yang, the paintings are the same as what we have seen, there is nothing unexpected, we still don’t know where Feng Shigu is hiding.” Shirley Yang said, “You see what is on the belly of the corpse-shaped mountain?”

Sun Jiuji and I busy according to Shirley Yang said position to see, the coffin mountain lying on its back in the giant corpse, only its shape, is not really a dead body, but the outline of the undulation is extremely cool like a corpse, in the corpse shaped mountain of the abdomen, painted with a road wound-like cracks, as if the coffin in this body, was killed with a sharp blade in his lifetime, the knife marks are especially in the world’s creation of the strange, it is difficult to think about.

I can not see the mystery, had to look at the third scroll, this painting is not what yin and yang two house graphics, depicting a narrow deep ravine, the terrain is steep and treacherous, the soil layer reveals a number of strange bronze rituals, and many people with lanterns and torches, is lined up in a long line, from the wall winding bird road through, to the deepest part of the ground to walk, into the mountain stream of people to see the head to see the tail, and the painting of the characters of each And the figures in the painting are all strange, men and women, young and old, with the words “Walking by candlelight at night” on the side, full of unspeakable mysterious atmosphere.

Shirley Yang said: “This is probably with Feng Shigu in the mountains to build the yin and yang mansion of those people, with the candles in the picture depicted in the deep ravines, could it be precisely the corpse-shaped mountain abdominal rift valley?”

I said, “It’s not too far from the truth, it seems that Feng Shigu, the old landlord, mobilizes the masses or has a set of skills, but what do those people do when they go to the belly of the corpse-shaped mountain? Do they really want to seek immortality, or do they have other plans?” Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered something: “Right, look at this deep valley in the mountain, isn’t it leading to the corpse-shaped mountain’s dantian?” And remembering that the contents of these scrolls were all related, maybe the last one would hide even more important information, I couldn’t wait to look at it at that moment.

But in the last scroll, the scene depicted with the previous ones is very different, I look but feel very familiar: “This …… seems to be the tomb that we initially went to, the mausoleum of the Woolly Goat King that was emptied by the Guanshan Taibao.”