Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Seeing how serious Taoist Master Zhang was, I quickly pricked up my ears and listened carefully.

"The previous divination was based on the Kan hexagram, which represents water, and the first line is moving."

In the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes, the first line is the bottom horizontal line of the hexagram, representing the foundation and beginning of the hexagram. Upwards are the second line, the third line, and so on until the sixth line at the top.

Depending on the time of divination and other conditions, one of the lines from the first line to the sixth line will change.

When the first line changes, it is called the first line movement; when the second line changes, it is called the second line movement.

Every changing line is extremely important.

It indicates the current situation of the divination event and its subsequent development and changes.

"The first line of the Kan hexagram says, 'Entering the Kan trap is bad luck!'"

"The depth of the pit is the depth of the ditch. Hundreds of rivers flow through the earth. This is because the water has lost its path..."

This passage means that Kan itself is a low-lying place, and Xie is a cave in the depression.

The water that should have been flowing in rivers and streams poured into the caves in the depressions. The water did not flow in the right direction, so it was extremely dangerous.

"Kan originally means a sunken place, and 璞 means a sunken place within a sunken place. Our current situation is a trap within a trap!"

"It's extremely dangerous!"

"Whether you can get out alive depends on God's will!"

"Alas!" Taoist Priest Zhang sighed heavily, his expression unable to conceal his sadness as he said, "I shouldn't have let you get on the boat just now."

"I'm the one who hurt you!"

"You carry these things with you."

Taoist Master Zhang took out an oilcloth bag from his arms and handed it to me.

That was the oilcloth bag that contained the flint.

He took out another leather bag-like object and put it in my hand.

I picked it up and looked at it carefully out of curiosity.

It is a balloon-shaped thing with a small hole on it for blowing air into.

"This is a pig's bladder."

"I brought it with me when I was practicing my swimming skills. I blew air into it, tied the mouth, and used it to breathe underwater."

Don't think pig bladders are dirty.

The outer layer of the skin of cooked meat products such as pine nut tripe is made of pig bladder.

This thing is not a big deal if it is placed outside, but it is very valuable now.

If you can take a few more breaths in the water, your chances of survival will increase significantly.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a life-saving weapon.

"Lao Zhang, this is too expensive..."

When I was about to go back, Taoist Master Zhang stopped me.

He waved his hands and smiled, "This thing is useless to me. After cultivating Qi, I can stop breathing for a short period of time."

"I brought this thing with me to practice my water skills because I was worried that if I encountered any problems underwater, the Qi in my body would become unstable and cause problems."

"Ah?" I exclaimed.

From what he said, it seems that one can enter the state of fetal breathing, with complete internal breath circulation without having to breathe air.

"Hahaha."

Taoist Master Zhang laughed heartily and said, "When I cultivated Qi, I was as surprised as you are now."

"At that time, I was sitting cross-legged in meditation, and suddenly I felt my breathing stop, and I entered a very wonderful state..."

When Taoist Master Zhang first entered that mysterious state, it didn't last long. His mind became confused and he fell out of the fetal breathing state.

Later, I meditated for more than a month and was able to enter the fetal breathing state every time, but it did not last long.

He thought that his fellow disciples could all enter the fetal breathing state while meditating.

So I asked my fellow practitioners for advice, hoping to maintain the fetal breathing state for a longer period of time.

The fellow disciples all shook their heads and said that they had never entered the fetal breathing state, and that not breathing could lead to death.

In the end, Taoist Master Zhang gritted his teeth and asked his master for advice.

But he was scolded by his master, who said that he was lazy while meditating and fell asleep and dreamed.

It was then that Taoist Master Zhang came to his senses and realized that he had reached a level that even his master could not reach.

Later, when he was over eighty years old, Taoist Master Zhang compiled his lifelong experience in practicing Qi into a book titled "The Origin of Qi".

"So take the pig bladder and use it, and keep this as well."

Taoist Master Zhang took out another porcelain bottle.

The porcelain bottle is the size of a palm and is in the shape of a flat gourd. It is obviously a bottle for storing elixirs.

"There are fasting pills inside."

"You can take one if you're hungry."

When many people hear about fasting, the first thing that comes to their mind is not eating anything during the fasting period.

This is actually wrong.

The ancients placed great importance on the Bigu Pill when practicing Bigu.

That is to say, you should take the Bigu Pills during the Bigu period and not eat anything else.

Bigu Pills are actually made based on high-calorie foods.

Later, I asked Taoist Master Zhang for the recipe for the Bigu Pill.

He said to first boil and dry the pork to make minced meat.

For every pound of minced meat, add one pound of cooked rice, half a pound of coix seeds, half a pound of lotus seeds, half a pound of lentils, two taels of astragalus, two taels of dried ginger, and one tael of ginseng. Mash them into a paste and add refined honey to make large honey pills.

During the fasting period, take three pills a day and drink only water the rest of the time.

The fasting pills made with this recipe can be said to be the ancestor of dieting for weight loss.

As long as you don’t eat too much, the weight loss effect is amazing.

I have tried to make this recipe several times since then.

Sometimes it would take several days to dig into a large tomb, so I would bring some fasting pills as a supplement for my food.

It’s really effective in relieving hunger, resisting hunger and refreshing the mind.

After giving me the flint, pig bladder and fasting pill, Taoist Zhang smiled and patted me on the shoulder.

"You have a blessed appearance, and you will naturally be blessed by God."

"I'll go ahead."

Taoist Priest Zhang resolutely turned around and swam towards the underwater cave.

He is willing to risk his life to clear the way!

When Taoist Master Zhang dived into the water, I gritted my teeth and followed him.

If two people go together, they can look after each other.

If they are separated, they will be easily defeated one by one.

Before diving underwater, I inflated the pig's bladder and tightly wrapped the rope around the mouth to seal it.

Then he dived into the water.

We walked along the underwater cave, but did not see the figure of Taoist Master Zhang.

I don't know how he swam, but he disappeared in a moment.

After swimming forward for a while, the cave gradually narrowed and traces of artificial excavation appeared on the cave walls.

I leaned in closer to take a closer look, and then touched the traces of repair and chiseling with my hands to feel them.

The fingers felt very rough.

It seems to have been carved by hammering with stone tools.

The width and height of the cave further back are less than two meters.

It is obviously artificially excavated and intentionally controlled.

When did people dig this cave?

What is this cave used for?

Oh, and I haven't seen the coffin that was sucked in before...

I thought while I swam, and when I couldn't hold my breath anymore, I took a breath of air from the pig's bladder.

The pig's bladder gradually deflated.

But the end of the cave is not in sight.

A sense of despair gradually grew in my heart.

It feels like this underwater cave has no end!

It is impossible to back out, I can only go all the way.

I swam forward desperately.

I hope to see the exit in the next second.

But the more you hope for something, the less likely it is to come.

I inhaled the last bit of air from the pig's bladder, hoping that good luck would come soon.

Swim forward more than ten meters.

The strong feeling of suffocation made the body unable to obey.

I kicked my legs wildly in the water, trying to float to the surface.

But my head hit the ceiling of the cave and there was no space to breathe.

Am I going to die now?

When I was desperate, something suddenly grabbed my ankle.

Is this a dying hallucination?

Or is it that damn water monkey that's got me?