Chapter 50: A Strange Encounter

Professor Sun nodded and said, “It is indeed the ancient tomb of Wu Yang Wang, but at that time, it had not been emptied, and what is painted in the painting should be the situation when Feng Shigu opened the coffin by stealing the tomb in the underground palace ……, there are words written on the scroll to make it clear that this is the …… Coffin Mountain meets the immortal picture.”

When Feng Shigu contrary to the ancestral training, robbed the “Coffin Gorge” in the largest tomb, the result after the return of the temperament changed greatly, on the encounter in the tomb obscure as deep, just say they want to become a great way to the “Earth Immortal” self-proclaimed, and with the demonic words to confuse the crowd. In the future, he built the village of the immortal, to “body refining medicine” to become an immortal of all kinds of things, are from this, not only is Shirley Yang and I feel curious, Sun Jiu master is the bitter speculation of a lifetime, at this time at first glance see the “Coffin Mountain meets the immortal map”, the excitement is really difficult to self. I’m not sure if you’re a good person, but I’m not a good person, and I’m not a good person.

I advised Mr. Sun to control his emotions, this is just a self-portrait of Fengshigu, not the real “immortal”, not yet the time to get excited. At this time, the three of us fixed eyes to look carefully, although we have done all sorts of guesses, but when we really see clearly “Coffin Mountain meets the Immortal Picture” depicted in the situation, or shocked nearly dropped his jaw on the ground.

The scene painted in the “Coffin Mountain Encountering Immortals”, the main body is the “outer coffin hall” of the ancient tomb of the Wuyang King, the lower part of the scroll is painted with the tomb passage in front of the hall, and many tomb robbers dressed in costumes are carrying piles of “bright weapons” in the tomb passage; and in the In the “outer coffin hall”, it is another thrilling scene.

In the “outer coffin hall”, the stone coffin was opened wide, and six grave robbers were lying around, each of them was blood splattered and died in a very miserable condition, two of them were carrying the “Guanshan Waist Plate”, which should be the “Fengshigu”, the same clan brothers or the same family members of the “Fengshigu”. “The same clan brothers or disciples, only a middle-aged man wearing a black robe is still alive, look at this person in the painting of the body temperament, it is “a black robe wrapped in cloud brocade, two points of cold eyes shooting cold stars, hand-held three-foot green blade sword, like a cave guest on the Eight Immortals,” compared to the group of ordinary grave robbers, it is really a few points! Compared with the ordinary grave robbers, he really has a certain “wild crane in the flock of chickens” outstanding style, I think this person is the “Coffin Mountain Encounter with Immortals” in the “Immortal Fengshigu”.

That was removed from the life cover of the stone coffin, there is a gold head zombie from which to explore half of the body, because the painting depicts a clear, in the neck of the ancient corpse there is a road cut, so it is not with a “gold mask”, but the zombie without a head, connected to a hideous face of the “gold head”. Both in the “tomb of the king of the goat” in the coffin hall, so it can be sure that this coffin from the coffin out of the “headless zombie”, is the “body without a head” to move the mountain Guangde king.

“Gold head goat king” body suit big and sturdy, far more than ordinary people, two hands of the nails grow long, the upper side of the blood, hanging with broken meat, may be those who died in front of the coffin of the tomb robbers, are in the unveiling of the coffin by the time it was victimized, killed on the spot.

Surviving Fengshigu, did not greet the companions in the tomb, but sacrificed himself to go forward, single-handed handheld sword through the ancient corpse’s chest, the other hand shaking open the “body rope”, spread “dragnet”, even the stone coffin with the dead body and a set of positive.

I looked at this picture, the heart of the astonished, only because the “Coffin Mountain encounter fairy map” in the scene depicted, it is hard to believe, zombie pouncing on people for the role of bioelectricity, the ancient stiff for the “dead and not the thing”, in contact with living things in the moment, may produce a violent mold, appearing corpses and other horrific phenomena. But there is a point, the head for the “limbs of the ancestor of the hundred veins”, under the sky absolutely impossible to have no head of the corpse rose up to hurt people, the picture of the situation, can be said to be “rare in ancient and modern”.

My grandfather is a character from the old society over, often tell me some of the early years of the “strange stories”, he is also considered half of the “touch of gold” heirloom, but I have never heard in his mouth that there is such a thing exists; in addition, even “unloading Ling Chen blind man, and “moving mountain Taoist” partridge whistle left in the notes, have not mentioned this matter; this shows that from ancient to modern “hair mound touch gold, moving mountain unloading ridge” generation, have not run into the This means that from ancient times to the present day, people who “touched the gold in the hills and moved the mountains” have never encountered the strange incident of “headless corpses”.

In addition, more puzzling is that this “Coffin Mountain meets the immortal map” named “meets the immortal map”, but looking at the picture painted, where there is what “immortal”? It would be more appropriate to call it “Coffin Mountain Tomb Raider” or “Coffin Mountain Corpse Descending”. As the saying goes, “if a name is a name, there must be a reason for it”, but the picture seems to be a hidden mystery, which makes it impossible to speculate by common sense, what is the connection between “The Coffin Mountain Encountering the Immortals” and “The Coffin Mountain Interviewing the Mansion” and “Walking by Candlelight at Night” in the previous picture?

Shirley Yang also feel puzzled, she asked me and Professor Sun how to look at this picture, Sun Jiuzi gazed at the “Coffin Mountain meets the Immortal Figure” looked for a long time, his face looks more and more difficult to see, he told us that: “If the picture painted in the contents of the truth ……, well… …Looking at the first three pictures, I think this picture of encountering immortals will not be a falsehood created out of thin air. But from the picture, there is no encounter with the immortal thing, unless …… unless wearing a gold head of the king of the sheep is not a zombie.”

I wondered, “What is not a zombie? Could it be an immortal? It if the real immortal how still dead mounted in the coffin?” Sun Jiuzi looked grave, slowly said, “Surely not a zombie, Guanshan Taibao in the outer coffin hall to uncover the life cover, that the king of the goat may still be alive ……”

I do not think this theory, suspect Sun Jiuji head into the water, said to him: “Wu Yang Wang even have no head, how can you say that he is still alive in the open coffin? And this move mountain Guangde king if still alive, in thousands of years ago also could not be mounted in the stone coffin; looks like he did not look like because of tyranny and lawlessness, was crucified alive in the coffin, because that gold head luxurious and exquisite, by no means temporary to build out.”

Sun Jiuzi said, “you say good, but you look carefully at this picture, in Feng Shigu down the sword place, move the mountain Guangde king body clearly have blood dripping out, flowing down the sword blade, a thousand years of zombie death but not melt, naturally will not flow out of the blood, even if there is blood must be black corpse blood, this detail is enough to prove that he came out of the stone coffin is still no different from the living people. ”

I looked at the details of Sun Jiuji said, but still refused to believe: “The ground immortal Fengshigu Danqing pen and ink attainments are good, know the art of exaggeration, but the zombie body painted blood like a spring, can not be the right attitude towards historical facts.”

Shirley Yang asked Master Sun Jiuji, “You mean that the stone coffin in the king of the goat is still alive, ‘Coffin Mountain Encounter with the Immortal Picture of the Immortal Encounter’ means that Feng Shigu opened the coffin to see the undead?”

Master Sun Jiu nodded slightly and said, “That should be the case, but I think there may be a hidden message in it, after all, the ‘Coffin Mountain Encounter with Immortality’ depicts just one moment, although there is a ninety percent chance that it is a sinister scene that Feng Shiku personally experienced, but what did he encountered after he killed the thousand year old undead Oolong King? What exactly made him change his temperament, and then enter the coffin mountain to avoid the world and seek immortality? These things we would be hard pressed to learn from the drawings.”

We really can not see more mystery, then take the wall hanging a Yin and Yang two “Coffin Mountain phase house map”, and then straight stomp up to the top floor, this floor of the wooden floor space is much narrower, there is only a shrine-like stone cabinets, placed a lot of artifacts, there are more than a dozen books and scrolls, a number of varied vases, and a sword with a scabbard.

It seems to be “the immortal Feng Shigu” belongings, I thought that on the basis of this, Feng Shigu is not what can pinpoint the true immortal, did not expect his descendants, will take the gold inspector into the “immortal village tomb”, these things are so uncovered to put! We have been deceived by the “Guanshan Taibao” for a long time, how can we justify not to copy a few real things from him?

I thought of this, I reached out and picked up the sword, according to the spring pull out the sword sheath, only to see the edge of the cold flash, end is the mouth of the sharp weapon, I said to the Sun Jiu Master: “Guanshan Taibao’s things are the inverted fight income, I do not know the master are which grave in the ancient people, now this control knife I will confiscate, although I do not know sword art, but I have heard that the sword can be a home to suppress evil spirits, I go home to hang better than the rust. Put here to rust.”

Sun Jiuji master said in a bad mood: “You kid is a thief eat thief, the more the more fat ah, but …… only you have to help me find the ground fairy hiding place, his things you despite take is.”

I thought this loss you also say out, is about to say to him two sentences “poke people waist eye child” words, but see Shirley Yang has been from the scrolls to find a “Guanshan excavation Tibetan Records”, is the “Immortal Fengshigu” handwritten book, recorded Fengshigu The life of Feng Shigu, and the successive generations of “Guanshan Taibao” stolen hair of the ancient mound one by one detailed, Sun Jiuji as a treasure: “looking for it, the secrets of the coffin mountain …… surely are written in it. ” At that moment, they borrowed the light, hurriedly flipping up.

I said you don’t just focus on their own look ah, “Guanshan Taibao” thing I and Shirley Yang is also quite concerned about how he wrote this book? Mr. Sun had to read and give us a rough explanation.

It turns out that the mountain guards since the “king ceremony” began, will be subject to the imperial grace, with the driver to listen to use. But everything in the world, there is a rise and fall of the number of certainty, to the Wanli Emperor when the dynasty, has been the internal and external problems, outside of Guanwai Jin Jin attacked the Ming; coupled with corrupt officials raiding the people’s money, so that the people around the constant civil unrest; and within the dynasty there is a party, a moment of internal and external problems all to come from the ancestor of the ancestors of the foundation down to the building has appeared to be signs of the building is about to fall.

But the emperor of the dynasty, “faint-hearted God”, but also particularly like to take medicine and alchemy, recruited many outside the party, specializing in mixing a variety of secret medicines for him, but also often ask Feng Shigu to immortality matters.

At that time, Feng Shigu was the head of the family of “Guanshan Taibao”, and he was loyal to the Emperor, but at that time, Feng Shigu did not really believe in the “way of the fire”, and he believed that “since ancient times there has never been an immortal person, and there is no mound in the world that does not have hair! He believed that “since ancient times, there has never been a man who does not die, and there is no mound that does not develop in the world”, and that people live and die, and that mausoleums are dug up and plundered sooner or later. Since there is no no hairless mound, then who digs in the tomb is not digging? So he presided over the construction of the mausoleum on the one hand, on the other hand, secretly sent people to various parts of the grave robbers, mainly to seek the ancient tombs of the scriptures, especially like to collect the ancient art of Qi Men and so on the “bone armored, bamboo”, to this thing for endless, which is also from his ancestors inherited the glorious tradition.

For the Emperor Wanli swallowed pills hobby, Feng Shigu do not think, the art of fire has always been harmful to people, said that the ancient immortals left the degree of refining the way out of the world is to help people in the world, but try to see from ancient times to the present day, who have seen with their own eyes? Serving for the Immortals, more for the wrong medicine, not to mention the other, alone the various dynasties of the true Dragon Emperor, in this matter is not a few lives, how can not help but the hearts of the most easily obsessed, do not understand the mechanism of heavenly creation.

To this end, he repeatedly played the emperor Wanli, immortality medicine is ultimately illusory and remote, it is difficult to force, and advised the emperor to move the Anhui “Ancestral Tomb”. The result is not happy with the face of the dragon, that “Guanshan Feng family” is not much real ability, and from then on he will look down on him.

In addition, there is also a thing, is because the Feng Shigu order people in the capital near, robbed a Liu’s nobleman’s grave, the tomb is a woman, this Liu’s head is not small, is the number of magic Liu Bingzhong after the tomb is arranged with a lot of machine pin, there are a number of mathematical textbooks, so it is the Guanshan Taibao eyes, secretly will be dug out of this tomb.

But at the foot of the emperor’s capital, is the place of the five mixed gatherings, although the Guanshan Taibao acted carefully, it is inevitable that there is a leakage of information, the descendants of the Liu family is also in the dynasty as an official, heard about this matter after the great annoyance, but bitterly did not find Feng Shigu evidence of grave robbers, had to secretly give the “Guanshan Taibao” planted evidence to frame the victim.

Feng Shigu is a very shrewd person, and also know the metaphysics, natural understanding of the “way to protect themselves”, they have the intention to retreat, choose a day, will be the same clan brothers come to discuss, he said to the crowd, since ancient times is often said to be “accompanied by the king such as a tiger”, and now look at the Ming dynasty’s gas is about to end, the world is in turmoil! Nowadays, it seems that the Ming Dynasty is about to end, the world is in chaos and danger, and the fields will be turned over, so why don’t we go back? We might as well return to our hometown while we still can, and operate the salt mining industry left by our ancestors, and live a quiet life behind closed doors, which is not as strong as accompanying the king all day long and being afraid of the king.

Because Feng Shigu has a different technique, Feng family members have always looked up to him as a god, there is no disobedience, and immediately discussed the retreat, Feng Shigu will be sick to return to their hometown, the family left the capital to return to their ancestral home, “Qingxi Town”.

Back home, Feng Shigu closed at home, specializing in the study of a variety of strange and bizarre no side of the foreign arts, most of these skills from the hanging coffins in the “Coffin Gorge”, although many of the contents of which are mutilated, alone the rest of the part is also enough for him to figure out the three and a half generations, the more the more research felt that the ancient formula is unfathomable, the mystery seems to be The more he studied, the more he felt that those ancient arts were unfathomable and their wonders seemed endless.

Feng is a big family, and has been sealed by the royal mouth, although secretive, not well-known in the world, but in the local area is a call, collected countless disciples, specializing in some drawings and swallowing water to send the peace of the hook, just like a big “witch door” between the Ba Shan Shu Shui.

Feng Shigu has a few brothers ambition is not small, see their own forces are getting bigger and bigger, the government can not do anything about them, advised Feng Shigu gathering rebellion, can follow the practice of the Yellow Turbans, calling themselves “Dade Tianshi,” the call of the high, must be like a cloud from the even if we can not do big, we cut a side, cracking the land to divide the territory is also good.

Feng Shigu is not moved, “Guanshan Feng family” the reason why today’s weather, mostly on the basis of specializing in making the illusion of the art, to put it nicely is “the art of illusion”, in fact, it is “demonic magic”, all the “Crooked” things, you think carefully, the history of the rise and fall of many successes and failures, but a few are based on “beans into an army, cut paper for the horse” blindfold to get the world? Since ancient times, where the magic spells to bewitch the people to plot a rebellion, there has never been a good end, it is difficult to become a success, only because of the act of rebellion, has always been the taboo of the heavens, the fate of the blessings of the Dragon is not, don’t be fooled, or sooner or later, to get into the disaster of extinction.

The world is nothing more than a struggle for fame and fortune, who can do nothing? Although Feng Shiku did not have the ambition to rebel, he had his own motives for accepting disciples, because Feng Shiku was obsessed with grave robbing, and in order to obtain all kinds of ancient tombs, he ordered his subordinates to go out to excavate the ancient tombs.

The “Guanshan Taibao” grave robbers were different from the usual ones, and these people had to dress up in “costumes” in advance, such as “Zhongkui, Uncanny, Judge, Yanluo, Ox-head, Horse-face”, all of which were in the netherworld. Attire, the means of “smoke, shrinkage method, paper people handling, drive the corpse insects” and so on, seemingly extraordinarily bizarre and mysterious.

In fact, the so-called “smoke art” is a kind of hypnotic art similar to “Xiangxi zombie driving”, “Guanshan Taibao” by spitting water smoke into the tomb, it can hypnotize the corpses in the tomb, the smoke looks like a human figure, covering the corpse, the smoke is like a human figure. Smoke shaped like a person, covered in the body of the corpse buried with the corpse, can be controlled by the corpse to open the coffin of the tomb, take out the Ming ware, the corpse will fall to the ground on their own, the coffin of the tomb room, the coffin of the machine coffins what pin ware, but also by the dead body to trigger the end of the last “Guanshan tai-bo” to go in to the tomb will be things to be searched empty.

If there is no ancient corpse buried in the tomb, you can also fold the paper man, with “smoke” to manipulate insects and ants to transport the paper man into the tomb, which belongs to the “handling and transfer” of the art, in the current point of view, this kind of sorcery is actually the use of smoke, attract some cold-blooded creatures, such as snakes, ants, insects and other things. For example, snakes, ants, insects and other things, so that they are entangled in the body or paper people attached to the grave robbers; in addition, the “smoke” can not be sustained, or the casters are bound to lose their souls and die. All of these are long lost witchcraft, Wushan “Coffin Gorge” hanging coffins in the bone armor, there are many records of this secret magic, and astrological witch divining method, was Feng’s general summary of the “Coffin Mountain refers to the mystery of the art”.

After the “Guanshan Taibao” robbed many ancient tombs, Feng Shigu felt that the harvest was not big, although he also got some danfa and foreign arts, but not as much as the fraction of the ancestor passed down. Finally, he remembered the ancestral training mentioned that in the “Coffin Gorge” there is a large-scale ancient tomb, the use of natural cave construction, the internal city of heavy, solemn and grand, the legend is “Wu Yang Wang” mausoleum.

“Coffin Gorge” in the hidden coffins no less than 100,000, is a large area of ancient burial complex, “Wuyang King Tomb” is located at the end of the deep ravine. According to local legend, “the king of the sheep” believe in witch wind, extremely brutal and harsh, but dredging the river wells for salt, but also has a certain merit, can be said to have mixed reputation, and finally killed, no head, had to wear a gold head to the burial.

Feng’s ancestors in the “Coffin Gorge” in the bone armor, found the “Wu Yang Wang tomb” the exact location, but also learned that the ancient tomb of the coffin hall full of curses, once break the eternal silence in the underground palace, the world will pay “! Blood will flow into the river, corpses accumulated like a mountain” price.

The Feng ancestors who stole the hanging coffins knew that the “Coffin Gorge” was indeed buried with endless secrets, and had been a mysterious and unpredictable witch land since ancient times, and there had been repeated visions here, so of course, they did not dare to violate this ancient “taboo”, and so they left instructions to warn the Feng family’s descendants that All generations of children and grandchildren, “no matter what, never enter the tomb, otherwise there will be the scourge of extinction of the family, who if the first violation of the ancestral teachings, who is the great unfilial sin of deceiving the teacher to destroy the ancestor”. In the traditional concept of ancient China: “all evils are obscene, filial piety first”, no one can afford such a crime, “Guanshan Feng family” descendants from generation to generation to honor, and then into the “Coffin Mountain Tomb Raider! “Normally, one would not even dare to think about this idea.

But Feng Shigu holds himself to be highly skilled, and feel that the “Wu Yang King’s Palace” must be hiding many strange and mysterious things, he has always been a peeping tombs of the fetish, the idea of moving, can no longer be suppressed, will be the disciples and grandchildren and their own brothers and nephews called to the hall in front of the claim that the night observation of the heavens, to see the “murderous star offending the Lord! “, the world will have a great catastrophe, to protect the peace of the family, you need to go into the “Coffin Gorge” grave robbers, “Wuyang Wang Tomb” in the Gua map of the sky hidden mysteries, can point out the way, so that we can find a peaceful and quiet place to go to avoid the world of hermitage.

In fact, “Coffin Gorge” in no trigrams, Feng Shigu just as an excuse to convince the crowd into the mountain tomb robbers, a group of “Guanshan Taibao” through the mountains and mountains, the use of a variety of means, not just one day, before digging open the outer coffin hall.

The outer coffin is very huge, the group of thieves guessed that inside the treasure must be more, but I did not expect to uncover the life cover, a gust of wind from the coffin, all the lanterns and torches are all extinguished on the spot, Feng Shigu with a luminous pearl, and hastily took out a light, found around the huge coffin before a few people, have been dead on the ground, the coffin out of the probe out of the golden light of a hideous head.

This Feng Shigu has seen a great storm, wide range of magical powers, is not an idle generation, shaking open the body rope, raise a sword will be the zombie poke a zombie through the king of the sheep, who knows that the “golden head of the king of the sheep” body is actually the same as a living person, the sword in the blood splattered.

Feng Shigu has a wide range of knowledge, know that in the early years of the “ancient corpse into immortal” said, but can not believe that there really is such a strange thing, at that time in danger, before thinking calmly, the “King of the sheep” dismantled eight pieces, and see the outer shell of the temple in a lot of ancient artifacts, they will be the ancient corpse hidden to a “animal face two ears bronze kettle”, firmly sealed, and from the stone coffin to take away all the valuable artifacts.

Then Fengshigu only greeted the tomb in the associates to come in, to the death of several “Guanshan Taibao” to collect the body, the tomb, “Guanshan group of thieves” will not only steal the ancient artifacts, and even the mural in the tomb room is not to be spared.

Secretly arrived at the Qingxi Town “Feng family mansion”, Feng Shigu closed the door, day and night to study the things in the tomb, due to the “outer coffin hall” in the strange encounter, so that it believes that there really is “corpse immortal “Existence, he no longer care about what taboo, exhaustive efforts to find out the coffin gorge in the ancient” mystery of immortality “, the secret may be hidden in the ancient corpse of the king of the goat” golden skull “in the middle.