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

Bao Dongha's face showed a look of reminiscence.

“That year, I went hunting in the mountains with my father. At night, I saw a fire dragon on Jiugong Peak. I thought it was a wildfire and called my father to get up. But my father was not worried at all. He told me that every few years, a fire dragon would burn the mountain on Jiugong Peak. The old hunters in the area were used to it. When I went into the mountains the next day, I found that there was nothing wrong with the mountain. There was no trace of fire at all.”

"What exactly is 'Fire Dragon Burning the Mountain'?" Wu Jizong asked.

"do not know!"

Bao Dongha glanced at him, shook his head, and answered.

"do not know?!"

"No one knows why the fire dragon burned the mountain. Some hunters were brave enough to go to Jiugong Peak under the cover of night to investigate, but without exception, they all lost their memories after returning and did not remember what happened in the mountains."

Upon hearing this, Su Chen frowned and immediately turned to look at Zhang Qishan.

Zhang Qishan understood and said, "Fifty years ago, that strategist?"

If Bao Dongha wasn't lying, the person who rescued the artifact fifty years ago most likely lost their memory after experiencing the fire dragon burning the mountain.

Su Chen thought for a moment and asked, "Baodong, will there be a fire dragon burning the mountain tonight?"

"Not necessarily. The timing of a fire dragon burning the mountain is not fixed. It may happen once every three to five years, or it may happen once every ten years or more. According to the hunters in the area, the last time a fire dragon burned the mountain was eight years ago."

The group discussed the fire dragon burning the mountain for a while, but couldn't come to any useful conclusions, so they could only return to their tents to rest.

The next morning.

As dawn broke, everyone had already washed up and was ready to go.

Under the morning mist, the distant Jiugong Peak seemed to be draped in a thin veil, hazy and indistinct, like a goddess reclining half-hidden.

Led by Bao Dongha, Su Chen and his group entered the mountain from the south ridge.

We walked until noon before finally reaching the halfway point of Jiugong Peak.

Looking back down the mountain path we came from, Chentangpo was dozens of miles away, and we could only vaguely see its outline.

Once you get into the mountains, the road becomes even more difficult to travel.

The group had no choice but to follow the animal trails in the mountains, trudging along with great difficulty.

Wu Jizong took a couple of breaths and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Su, how much longer until we reach the Earth Dragon's Luminous Immortal Cave?"

Upon hearing the sound, Su Chen walked to a high slope and looked down at the surrounding mountain ranges.

After a moment, he recalled the contents of the Dragon Seeking Manual in his mind, made some calculations, and then pointed to a peak in the distance shaped like a pen holder.

"The Earth Dragon Aura should be located at that mountain peak, almost certainly!"

Upon hearing this, everyone regained some hope, perked up, and followed Su Chen and Zhang Qishan to continue climbing the mountain.

After walking for about an hour, the group passed through a valley and arrived at a peak shaped like a pen holder.

This Penholder Peak is located within the Nine Palaces Peaks, and its height can only be considered medium!

However, its geographical location is excellent. The peaks on both sides seem to guard the Bijia Peak, and it can also overlook the Xiangjiang River to the east and reach the Guanyin Mountain Range to the north.

"Wow, the scenery here is beautiful!"

Wu Jizong praised her, and then couldn't wait to ask Su Chen more questions.

"Brother Su, we've climbed the mountain, let's quickly determine the burial site!"

Hearing this, Su Chen shook his head.

"I can't divide it. I can only calculate up to this position. For a more specific position, we'll have to find it ourselves."

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Jizong was immediately dumbfounded.

"This pen holder is so big, it'll take forever to find it."

Su Chen shrugged and advised, "Let's look for it first. Having a clue is better than having none."

If Su Chen possessed the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique, especially understanding the Celestial Feng Shui Technique within it, he could also use the stars, sun, and moon for positioning.

However, the "Dragon-Seeking Technique" is merely a mantra used by tomb raiders. It only helps them roughly determine the location of a large tomb.

In terms of accuracy, it certainly can't compare to the Heavenly Star Feng Shui technique.

Zhang Qishan wasn't too surprised. Instead, he said, "It's already quite good that we were able to find this peak. Otherwise, Guanyin Mountain has more than forty miles of mountain ranges and more than a dozen peaks of varying sizes. We might not be able to find it even if we searched for a hundred years."

With that, Zhang Qishan ordered his men to spread out and search for clues to the tomb.

He stood atop the mountain, gazing at the Guanyin Mountain Range stretching endlessly into the distance, his expression solemn.

Actually, the disappearance of the Xie family patriarch had nothing to do with the Zhang family.

Fifty years ago, the Zhang family didn't even exist in Changsha!

Zhang Qishan joined forces with several prominent families in Changsha to reopen the Guanyinshan Tomb.

Firstly, he wanted to use this opportunity to establish his authority and unite the families in Changsha City.

The second reason was that he had a vague premonition.

The large tomb inside Guanyin Mountain may be related to the Zhang family!

Although Zhang Qishan himself didn't know where this premonition came from.

Bijia Peak is not small; its summit covers an area of ​​thousands of acres.

The seven or eight Zhang family members dispersed and quickly disappeared into the dense forest at the summit.

Wu Jizong realized he couldn't be of much help, so he pulled Black-backed Lao Liu aside and started bragging about his glorious days in Xieling.

Su Chen shook his head, about to speak.

But then they heard a fellow servant named Zhang shouting loudly in the distance, as if he had made a discovery.

"So fast?"

The group looked at each other, somewhat surprised.

I originally thought that such a large summit would take at least a day or two to find, and we might not even find anything.

But who would have thought that in just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, something would be discovered...

Zhang Qishan's face lit up with excitement, and he hurriedly ran towards Zhang's servant.

A moment later, the group arrived at the edge of a steep cliff at the summit.

The man looked excited and pointed to a section of the cliff below, saying, "There's something down there, it looks like a Luoyang shovel!"

"Luoyang shovel?"

Everyone was startled by the sound and quickly leaned out cautiously.

Below this steep cliff, about ten meters from the top, there was indeed a Luoyang shovel embedded in the rock face.

The Luoyang shovel looks as if it grew out of the rock face, half inside the mountain and half exposed outside.

Zhang Qishan frowned slightly and reached out his hand to the waiter.

The latter quickly handed over a pair of binoculars.

After observing for a while through binoculars, Zhang Qishan said, "That's right, it's a Luoyang shovel. Judging from its shape, it should be a southern style. Brother Wu, take a look, is this the Luoyang shovel used by your families?"

Wu Jizong took the binoculars and carefully leaned out to observe.

He exclaimed after just one glance, "It really is! The shovel has the Xie family's insignia on it; this is the Luoyang shovel used by Xie's clerk!"

but……

After saying this, Wu Jizong was completely baffled.

"That doesn't make sense. Our families came to explore the tomb only fifty years ago. How could this Luoyang shovel have grown into the mountain? It's not like five million years of ocean changes..."

Anyone in the tomb raiding business knows that the more recent the tomb, the less it has changed.

The older the tomb, the greater the changes in its terrain.

Fifty years is not enough time for the Luoyang shovel and stone to become one, even with natural disasters such as earthquakes and flash floods.

Zhang Qishan decisively said, "We'll find out once we go down and take a look!"

Having said that, he immediately ordered two Zhang fellows to prepare ropes.

I'm going to go up to this cliff face and find out for myself!