Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Cui Hao rubbed his hands excitedly.

It was as if the elixir treasure was right in front of him.

I was a little worried: "Don't be too happy too soon."

"The stone fairy on the door is gone. I'm afraid there's something fishy going on inside."

Cui Hao was stunned for a moment, then slowly turned his head to look at the stone gate below.

The fairy who was supposed to be on the stone gate had long disappeared.

"She's gone... Could it be that the fairy has become a spirit?"

"The Lady Shiji in Investiture of the Gods is a stone that became a spirit, and Sun Wukong is also a stone that became a spirit."

"hiss!"

The more Cui Hao spoke, the more frightened he became, and he couldn't help but gasp.

Tomb robbers are most afraid of strange things happening.

"Is this place as eerie as the tomb of the King of Bi?"

Crunch.

The sound came from the stone gate.

We both looked out at the same time and saw the stone door slowly closing.

It was as if an invisible hand was closing the door.

"The door is closed! The door closed by itself!"

"Brother, do you want to run?!"

Cui Hao was extremely nervous.

Once the stone gate is closed, we will have no way out.

Either you hurry down before the door is completely closed, or you have to walk all the way in the cave.

The most important thing is that there may not be any other way out of the cave.

If we can't open the stone door later, we will be trapped here to death.

To be honest, there are tomb robbers who are trapped in dead tombs.

This usually happens when tomb-robbing gangs fight among themselves.

In a very small number of cases, tomb robbers were trapped and died in the tomb due to reasons such as collapse of the tomb passage.

Crunch.

The door was a third closed.

The back of the stone gate was revealed.

There are talismans painted in cinnabar on the back of both doors, and the talismans are stamped with a Dharma seal.

I recognized the word "thunder" on the talisman at a glance.

This means that this is a thunder talisman used in Taoism to ward off evil spirits!

"Brother, why is there a talisman painted on the back of the door?"

"Could it be to suppress the stone fairy?!"

As soon as Cui Hao finished speaking, a cold wind blew over.

call!

The cold wind penetrated my body, and I felt a chill in my bones.

We both shuddered at the same time.

"It's so cold...why is it so cold all of a sudden?"

"It feels like a cold wind in the dead of winter!"

Cui Hao clasped his hands together and rubbed his palms hard on his arms.

I want to use the heat generated by friction to resist the cold.

I'm cold too.

Make a semicircle with your hands and place them near your mouth, then use the air you exhale to warm your hands.

The cave is so weird!

It's so cold before I even go in.

If you continue to go in, you might freeze to death.

call!

The cold wind blew even harder.

A layer of white frost appeared on the cave wall, indicating that the temperature inside the cave was dropping rapidly.

Cui Hao curled up in a ball due to the cold, his whole body trembling.

"Brother, it's so cold I can't stand it!"

"It's as cold as an ice cellar!"

My hands and feet were also cold, and I even felt like my arms and legs were numb from the cold.

"Rat, jump down!"

"Ah? Jumping from such a high..."

Our current position is about five meters above the ground.

It does take some courage to jump from this height.

"If you don't jump, you'll freeze to death here!"

Crunch.

The stone door was half closed, leaving only a gap of more than half a meter wide.

I pulled Cui Hao and jumped towards the half-meter-wide gap in the door.

Bang!

The two doors that were originally half closed were slammed shut tightly.

It seemed as if the invisible hand closing the door knew we were going to run, so it closed the door directly, blocking our way out.

We both fell on the stone gate and squatted on our butts.

There was a feeling of being doomed.

"Brother, the ghosts here don't want to let us go!" Cui Hao's voice trembled.

I put my left hand on the door panel, trying to gain leverage to stand up, and my fingers felt the scratches.

He touched it carefully with his fingers.

The densely packed marks include horizontal, vertical, left, and right strokes, as if words were carved there.

I quickly looked towards where my hand touched.

Under the light, the words that I had just ignored were revealed.

Because the words were carved on the edge of the door, and the two talismans were too eye-catching, I didn't notice them just now.

I found the beginning of the text and started reading.

Cui Hao also came over to watch.

The words were carved very poorly, and he couldn't recognize many of them even with his eyes wide open.

I couldn't help but ask curiously: "What's written on it?"

I struggled to decipher the words: "My disciple Shanqing has a short lifespan, so I have come to the master's place of cultivation to comprehend the Dao. I hope the master will bless me..."

The text in front of you was written by a man named Shanqing.

When he was about to die, he came to the ancestor's place of practice to comprehend Taoism, hoping to receive the protection of the ancestor Wang Chongyang.

He must be trying to take advantage of the ancestor's blessings, hoping to gain enlightenment and achieve immortality.

Wait, Sunkyung?!

The Master Yu that Grandpa Ai mentioned before happened to be named Shanqing!

Could it be that he was the one who carved these words?!

I was stunned.

If you think about it again, it all makes sense.

The heyday of Chongyang Palace coincided with the time when Yu Zhenren was the abbot, and it was very easy for him to enter and exit the Tomb of the Living Dead.

Well, abbot and abbot are not exclusive terms in Buddhism.

These two words are also used in Quanzhen Taoism to refer to the highest person in charge of a temple.

Because of TV dramas and other reasons, most ordinary people think that only monks use these two titles.

Regarding the origins of the terms "host" and "abbot", Buddhism and Taoism each have their own opinions.

The Buddhists said that Taoism copied theirs, while Taoism said that it was based on ancient texts. The Buddhist and Taoist sides have had many verbal battles over this issue.

In fact, before Quanzhen Taoism, Taoism did not use the titles of host and abbot.

During the development of Quanzhen, it absorbed and borrowed from Buddhist precepts and other contents, and the highest person in charge of the temple gradually used titles such as host and abbot.

When Yu Shanqing was in charge of Chongyang Palace, he was called the abbot.

"There are thousands of ways to achieve immortality, but all of them lead to the same destination. My ancestors were blessed by meeting immortals, and I am also a hero by becoming a ghost immortal."

"Your humble disciple, Yu Shanqing, bows in respect."

After reading the text to the end, it was exactly as I guessed.

This was engraved by Yu Shanqing.

Here he comprehended the way of ghost cultivation, and then built tombs to refine hundreds of ghosts.

"Brother, there are words here too. It seems to be carved by Li Zhichang." Cui Hao pointed to another stone door.

I hurried over to take a look and saw that the signature at the end of the text was Li Zhichang.

Li Zhichang, the third generation leader of Quanzhen!

"Yu Shanqing rebelled against his master, practicing the ghost path and doing things against heaven. He turned the ancestral land into a ghost land. This is truly my fault for not supervising. Now I have no choice but to suppress him with the thunder talisman..."

My scalp tingled when I saw it.

Judging from the text left by Li Zhichang, this cave has long become a haunted place!

He was unable to clear the ghosts in the cave, so he could only use two thunder talismans to suppress them, and strictly ordered his disciples not to enter the Tomb of the Living Dead.

The cause and effect are understood.

But the question is how to get out?

The two stone doors were closed tightly together, and even an iron rod could not penetrate the gap, so it was impossible to open them from the inside.

"Mouse, look around to see if there's a mechanism that can open the door."

We checked separately.

But after looking around twice, I didn't see any mechanism.

"There's nothing, no mechanism at all... Bro, why don't I feel cold anymore? Instead, I feel hot all over."

Cui Hao lifted his clothes and fanned himself: "It's so hot."

"Why don't we go to the cave and take a look before it gets cold."

"Maybe there's another exit inside."