My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Jiang Li immediately took out a candle from his storage bag, lit it, tied it with a rope and put it into the hole. However, the candle went out less than a meter after being hung down. "It seems that there is an oxygen-free enclosed space inside!"

"Keep digging and expand this cave. I want to see what's underneath."

Upon hearing this, the soldiers could only continue to clear the debris and dig the soil. After another two hours, a large hole with a diameter of three meters was finally dug out in the ground.

When Jiang Li saw that the burning hay bale thrown in would soon go out, he knew that the air inside was not circulating yet, so he asked someone to dig a small hole next to it.

Then he asked someone to make a fire and cook. Two hours later, after finishing his meal, Jiang Li sent people into the cave.

Because they had just tried it with hay bales, the burning hay bales burned out quickly, and the air was obviously circulating, no longer in the previous oxygen-deficient state.

"Master, don't worry. Everything is normal down there!"

After hearing this, Jiang Li led several Taoist soldiers into the underground. After going down, he lit a torch and took a look. He saw large stone slabs all around, and it was obviously a secret room.

Although there were no pictures or words on the walls of the secret room, Jiang Li could still feel the traces of time, and dust fell off as soon as he touched it.

He patted his hands twice to shake off the dust, then took out a few oil lamps and a bottle of lamp oil from the storage bag and gave them to San. Soon the secret room was illuminated.

Although the visibility is not higher than outside, it still allows people to see the situation clearly.

As the oil lamp lit up, Jiang Li looked at the stone chamber carefully. He saw that the stone chamber was less than 100 square meters, but except for a sarcophagus in the center, the rest of the room was empty.

When Jiang Li saw this scene, a thought suddenly came to his mind, "Am I robbing a tomb?"

He shook his head and threw the idea away, then ordered people to open the sarcophagus. When he saw the Taoist soldiers coming forward, he didn't notice anything unusual.

Jiang Li then walked up and lit a candle to provide some illumination. He then saw a skeleton with torn clothes lying inside.

"I think this is the corpse of the evil spirit, but I don't know who he is and why he is placed alone in this secret room."

As his eyes moved downward, he saw at a glance that there was a bead in the mouth of the skeleton in the sarcophagus, and there was a long sword at its side.

He asked someone to take out the beads and the sword, but he didn't even take a second look at the skeleton.

After taking these two items to the entrance of the cave and observing them carefully, it was found that the bead was just an ordinary night-shining pearl, which should be used for preservation.

The sword was obviously not an ordinary object. Jiang Li stretched out his hand to pull it out, only to see the cold light flashing in it which was extremely extraordinary. On the sword body were two seal characters "yaoguang" engraved on them.

When he saw this, he had an idea and injected his magic power into the sword. Then he saw the sword shining brightly.

Jiang Li was so happy. Weapons that could carry magic power were not ordinary items, at least they were magical weapons. But seeing its bright light at this moment, it was obviously not an ordinary item, maybe it was a spiritual weapon.

But after checking it over and over again, he did not find the sword's spirit. "Could it be that I guessed wrong?"

"This is just an ordinary magic weapon, it just has a light and shadow effect?"

After looking at it for a long time without making any sense, he simply put it and the night pearl into his storage bag and stopped asking about it.

He went back to the sarcophagus and searched again but found nothing. Then he turned around and was about to leave.

But when he thought about it carefully, it was more or less unkind to just leave like that, so he set up an altar directly in this secret room.

After releasing the evil spirit, he began to chant the mantra for rebirth:

"The Supreme Lord has decreed that your lonely soul be liberated, and all ghosts and spirits be blessed..."

After reciting it several times, the evil ghost's body became increasingly ethereal and finally disappeared into the stone chamber.

"I took your burial objects first, and then helped you to reincarnate. This way, we have settled the cause and effect, right?"

After searching carefully in the stone chamber again for a while, he successfully found the door of the secret room. However, due to the long time, the door had already been blocked by mud, sand and stones and could not be pushed open at all.

Jiang Li immediately ordered his men to use severe torture. After a round of fierce hammering, a big hole was smashed in the stone door, and then a stream of air rushed in from the door.

As they were worried that there was still a lack of oxygen behind the door, Jiang Li arranged for Asan to light a candle and try, while the others waited in the stone chamber.

Upon hearing this, Ah San took a deep breath, held the candle and moved forward with a bitter face. However, the moment he put his hand over the hole, the candle went out.

Seeing this, Asan had no choice but to go back to the sarcophagus. Jiang Li also frowned when he saw this. At this rate, it would be difficult to finish exploring this place today.

But there is no other way. Although he has reached the level of a human master, he is still a mortal after all. It is impossible for him not to breathe. Now he can only wait here.

This wait lasted for more than an hour. Asan had already run seven or eight times before the candle finally stopped burning out. He casually threw a bundle of burning hay in and waited until it burned out before putting out the candle.

He then said loudly to everyone, "Okay, you can go in!"

Then everyone entered the other side of the gate, and as soon as they entered, they felt that the space inside was extremely large, but they also felt a little short of breath.

So they had to withdraw again to prevent themselves from fainting due to lack of oxygen.

It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the ground. Jiang Li simply took his men to stay here for another night. However, to prevent accidents, he specially set up an early warning formation at the entrance of the cave to prevent anything from running out at night without their knowledge.

But his worries did not come true, and nothing happened that night.

After breakfast, Jiang Li and others went underground again. As a night had passed, they no longer felt anything abnormal in their breathing.

Jiang Li then ordered people to light the oil lamps, and then they saw a huge underground palace, which was spacious and magnificent inside.

The surrounding walls are engraved with ancient runes and patterns, exuding a mysterious atmosphere.

There are many passages in the underground palace, connecting many rooms like the stone chamber we came from, like a complicated maze.

When they opened the rooms, they found many boxes inside. They thought that there would be precious treasures hidden inside.

When they opened them, they found that there were many books that were in rotten state. Jiang Li had no choice but to ask Jing Liang to search for valuable items.

After a long time, he finally searched all the rooms, packed up everything, and came to the hall of the underground palace.

Standing in the hall, looking at the ancient runes and patterns, he couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that this place must have been quite powerful in the past. I don't know what happened, and it was abandoned directly."

They were indeed abandoning things, but they must have left in a hurry and did not take everything with them, only some important things.