Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

The two white marble doors were pushed open, and a damp, rotten smell immediately hit the door.

Old Wu stopped Old Dog Wu, who was eager to go in, and scolded him, "What's the rush? Wait for the miasma to dissipate before you go in."

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, Old Wu finished the last two puffs of his pipe before nodding.

"That's about it, we can go in!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Laogou and his second brother became excited and hurriedly stepped into the white marble gate.

Behind these two white marble doors is a huge space.

It is about the size of a football field and more than three meters high.

At the very center is a high sacrificial platform.

Around the sacrificial platform stood rows of upright coffins!

A rough count revealed that there were no fewer than a thousand mouths!

"Sir, this tomb is way too big!"

Seeing the more than a thousand wooden coffins erected around the altar, Wu Laogou was shocked and felt that his brain was not enough to process it!

Wu Jizong touched the rock wall next to the white marble gate and exclaimed in surprise, "Father, it looks like the craftsmen hollowed out half of the mountain to carve this out."

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.

A space the size of a football field was painstakingly hollowed out of the mountain by craftsmen, bit by bit. It's a mystery how they managed to do it during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

of course!

What surprised everyone present even more was the forest of a thousand coffins before them!

Old Wu has traveled all over the country and has seen countless ancient tombs.

But he had never seen so many coffins gathered in one large tomb chamber.

The sixth black-backed man looked slightly puzzled and couldn't help but ask, "Even the tomb of a feudal lord wouldn't have so many people buried with him. If they were slaves or captives used for sacrifices, they wouldn't be given coffins. Usually, their heads would be cut off and thrown into a big pit! What's going on with so many coffins?"

If you ask where there are the most coffins, it must be the Coffin Gorge in the southwest!

There is a local custom in Southwest China that after a person dies, they are not buried in the ground, but are put in a coffin and transported to a remote canyon cliff far from human habitation.

Over thousands of years, this gradually formed the Thousand Coffins Gorge and the Ten Thousand Coffins Gorge...

However, that is a custom of a minority tribe in the southwest, and there is no such custom in Changsha.

Wu Laogou said nonchalantly, "Who cares what's going on? With so many coffins, we're going to make a fortune this time!"

Even if only one or two treasures can be found in each coffin.

These are thousands of precious items, yet they can't just be sold for tens of thousands of dollars.

Thinking of this, Wu Laogou rubbed his hands together, unable to resist the urge to go and open the coffin to retrieve the treasure.

But just then, his father, Wu Jizong, grabbed him and scolded, "What's the rush? Wait for your grandfather to give the order before you make a move!"

Old Wu narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the thousands of coffins in front of him, and hesitated.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation!

He wouldn't be so surprised if what he was facing was a mass grave with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

However, the Thousand Coffin Forest, and the previous Coffin Dew, always made Old Wu somewhat unsure of what to do.

He quickly turned to Su Chen and asked, "Young Brother Su, you are a descendant of the Tomb Raiders School, do you know why there are so many coffins in this sacrificial pit?"

Su Chen observed the wooden coffins erected around the altar and shook his head.

"I don't know why there are so many coffins, but old man, I know this Thousand Coffin Forest is definitely not simple!"

"Oh?"

Seeing everyone's gaze, Su Chen explained in detail: "First of all, the way this coffin is buried is wrong! Old man, in all your years in this industry, how many times have you seen a coffin buried upright?"

Old Wu raised his head, listened carefully, and then shook his head and said, "Very rare. I've only seen it once in the past few decades. There was a rice dumpling in the coffin. Luckily, I had a black donkey hoof with me at the time, so I stuffed the black donkey hoof into its mouth and managed to escape with my life."

Su Chen nodded, his expression solemn, and said, "Upright burial is also called legal burial. It's not that you can't bury someone like that, but if you want an upright coffin, you have to find a blessed land! If you have a blessed land, upright burial can bring blessings to your descendants. But if you don't have a blessed land, doing so will only bring disaster."

As he spoke, he pointed to the nearest upright coffin and continued.

"Also, look, the material of this coffin is very special!"

Upon hearing this, Old Wu hurriedly looked in the direction Su Chen was pointing.

He took two steps forward, standing about two meters away, and carefully observed the vertical coffin.

A moment later, Old Wu suddenly exclaimed, "This is... a dark wooden coffin?"

"Sunken wood?"

Wu Laogou and the others were taken aback. They moved closer and realized that the color of the coffin was indeed somewhat unusual.

It wasn't one of the five colors of a common coffin; instead, it was black with a hint of red and red with a touch of blue!

It should be noted that submerged wood is actually not that rare!

Simply put, ordinary wood is buried under the silt of a riverbed where it is not exposed to sunlight due to floods, mudslides, etc., and then its properties are slowly changed by microorganisms, bacteria, and high pressure.

This type of wood is called sunken wood.

Of course, if the wood was already valuable before it was buried under the riverbed, it would naturally be even more precious millions of years later.

It can be called the finest ebony. If it is ordinary wood, such as the most common cedar or camphor wood, although it is also ebony, it is not considered rare.

In addition, there are simple methods to distinguish between ebony and ordinary wood.

One type is ebony, black with red undertones and a hint of blue.

Secondly, ordinary wood burns to a black color. But ebony is different; it burns to a yellow color.

Black-backed Lao Liu walked to the coffin, looked it over, and then turned around and asked, "This kind of ebony is very common, and many people make coffins from it. In my hometown of Lintong, there are quite a few people who go to the riverbed to dig up ebony to make coffins. Is there something wrong with this?"

Su Chen nodded.

“An ordinary dark wooden coffin is naturally fine; in fact, it’s a top-quality coffin.”

“But look at these dark wooden coffins, they are small at the head and large at the tail, and their shape is completely different from ordinary coffins. In the Book of Burial, it is an extremely taboo shape.”

Most people have seen coffins, but if you have ever paid close attention, you will find that coffins are not the same size at the head and tail, nor are they small at the head and large at the tail!

Regardless of the material or region, all coffins are uniformly large at the top and small at the bottom!

Wu Jizong touched his beard and said with a sudden realization, "I have heard people say this before: coffins cannot be made to the same size, otherwise when a person lies in them, it will look like the character for 'prisoner'! They also cannot have a small head and a large tail, otherwise it will be a reversal of yin and yang."

Su Chen nodded slightly. The Dragon Seeking Manual says, "Treat the dead as if they were alive, treat the departed as if they were still alive; this is the principle of burial!"

This means that the dead should be treated as if they were alive, without any carelessness or negligence.

This forest of a thousand coffins before us, each one with its yin and yang reversed, is a great disrespect to the dead.