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

At this time, a Maoshan Taoist priest at the back spoke up, "May you be blessed with infinite blessings. I know that you, the lay Buddhists, feel resentful for having suffered this unprovoked disaster."

"I am a humble monk, but I am willing to recite the mantra for you to help you enter the samsara sooner, so that you don't continue to wander around in this world without support."

As he spoke, he took out some talisman papers, sat cross-legged, and began to chant the Amitabha Sutra.

As he sat down, three other Taoists followed, and everyone was shocked and confused as they watched the four of them chant the mantra for rebirth.

After thinking carefully about what had just happened, everyone except Kunlun guessed the truth of the matter, so they all involuntarily moved closer to the four Taoist priests who were chanting the spell.

Only the stupid big Kunlun was scratching his head, at a loss, "Why are you all retreating? What are these Taoists doing sitting on the ground?"

After hearing this, Chen Yulou felt a little worried about his brain, so he walked over and pulled him into the crowd.

Afterwards, he just said a few perfunctory words to prevent him from getting startled and disturbing the Taoist priests' chanting after learning the truth.

It’s strange to say, but in the past, when they recited the Rebirth Mantra, the ghost messengers would soon arrive and take the ghosts to the underworld. But this time, for some reason, they recited it several times, but no ghost messengers came to pick them up.

Afterwards, everyone looked at each other, realizing that it might be caused by the recent unrest in the underworld, so they could only continue chanting, hoping that it would have some effect.

Finally, hard work pays off. After reciting it countless times, several Maoshan Taoists immediately felt a strong yin energy coming.

Then he opened his eyes and saw a ghost in uniform robes appearing in the tomb. He waved the soul-calling flag in his hand left and right a few times, and the ghosts in the tomb were collected by it.

After that, without waiting for the Maoshan Taoists to come forward and say anything, he simply clasped his fists and bowed, then disappeared into the tomb.

Seeing this scene, the four of them looked at each other in bewilderment. In the past, when they, the Maoshan disciples, encountered such things, the ghost officials would often say a few polite words to them, or at least say hello. It was absolutely impossible for them to just leave like that.

Combining the news they had heard recently with the fact that the underworld had not sent messengers to take away the souls of the dead for a long time after they recited the Rebirth Mantra just now, they had a rough idea. It seemed that the underworld was indeed short of manpower!

When the people from Banshanluan saw the four Taoist priests stop chanting, they immediately stepped forward to ask, "Excuse me Taoist priests, have you cleaned up the things here?"

In fact, they themselves could feel it. They had felt a chill to the bone before, but now they no longer had that feeling. However, in order to be absolutely sure, they still asked, and the answer did not surprise them.

"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission. The souls of the dead here have been taken to the underworld by the underworld messengers. You can search without any worries!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately smiled and began searching. The first target of Chen Yulou and others was a huge sarcophagus that they saw when they entered the tomb.

Everyone came carefully to the sarcophagus and looked at it carefully. Looking at the exquisite patterns on it, Kunlun said with a smile: "This sarcophagus is so beautiful, it must be the owner of the tomb."

As he said this, he was about to reach out to push the lid of the sarcophagus, but was stopped by Partridge Whistle.

"Wait a minute, I think there's something wrong with the sarcophagus!"

Everyone was confused when they heard this, and Chen Yulou spoke up at the right time, "It's indeed wrong. This tomb is too small, and there are no decent decorations. It doesn't look like the configuration of a great general's tomb!"

After hearing this, everyone looked around carefully and found that it was indeed the case. The tomb was only a few hundred square meters and there was no decoration on the surrounding stone walls.

If there wasn't an exquisite sarcophagus in the middle, it would be reasonable for someone to say that this was a cave.

This is what Partridge Whistle also added: "More than that, according to our previous speculation, this stone chamber is used to trap these craftsmen to death, if it is really as we think."

"How could a great general from the Yuan Dynasty place his coffin among these desperate people? What if it was vandalized by someone maliciously?"

Everyone heard that it was indeed the case. Chen Yulou touched his chin and muttered, "It seems that there is indeed a problem with this tomb. But if this is not the main tomb, then where is it?"

Then he raised his head and looked around. Others were also searching everywhere. After some searching, they found another piece of almost identical granite directly opposite the Dragon-Breaking Stone.

When everyone saw this, they immediately guessed that this might be the real entrance to the tomb, but after knocking on the stone wall, they found that it was also unshakable. They could only turn their attention back to Partridge Whistle and his two pangolins.

Seeing this, Partridge Whistle could only nod, but since they had already dug holes many times before, the two guys didn't want to move again. Finally, after Partridge Whistle comforted them and made promises for a while, they reluctantly started digging again.

After another hour, the two guys dug out a C-shaped passage on one side of the Dragon-Breaking Stone again. They wanted to make more effort and open another opening on the other side, but they were unwilling to do so.

In the end, everyone had no choice but to give up and just wait quietly for the air to slowly flow in.

But there is only one hole, so the air cannot form convection, and the air exchange in the tomb is extremely slow.

After an unknown amount of time, Kunlun could no longer wait and came to Partridge Whistle to ask, "What do you think it will take for these two pangolins to continue working? If not, I will go out and catch some wild animals for them to eat so they can have enough food!"

Hearing this, Partridge Whistle was also helpless. "These two mountain digging beetles only eat ants, especially red-headed ants. The food we brought before has been eaten by them. I'm afraid it will be difficult to use them again!"

At this time, Miss Hong spoke up, "In that case, we might as well go out first and let Marshal Jiang think of a solution. Anyway, there is only one entrance to the cave, and we can't get in for a while. It's better to go out and rest first, and then come back when the air flow in the cave is smooth!"

When everyone heard this, they thought it made sense. It was not a good idea for a group of people to just wait here. After getting out, even if they could only rest for a few days, at least for a night, that would be great.

After all, today we climbed the mountain and encountered ghosts. I was so nervous and exhausted.

After the discussion, everyone was ready to turn around and leave, but at this time a Maoshan Taoist priest took out a few talismans from his body, walked to the cave entrance and pasted them on it, thus sealing the cave entrance.

Then he turned around and smiled at everyone, "If there's anything unclean in there now, it can't get out!"

When everyone heard this, they nodded but didn't say anything, and left in an orderly manner.

On the way back to the base, apart from a few people who almost fell because the cliff was too steep, no other accidents happened.