I travel through the heavens as a human being

Chapter 14 Guest appearance as a tomb robber

Xu Yang searched for three days in the back mountain range.

During this period, Xu Yang went into the water more than ten times, but still could not find the pool that connected the underground river.

Until one day, when Xu Yang was chatting with the old Taoist priest, the old Taoist priest said something that made Xu Yang suddenly enlightened.

According to the old Taoist priest, he has lived in Zhongnan Mountain since he was a child. When he was young, he often went out to climb mountains and collect medicine. At that time, he was very familiar with the terrain in the mountain.

But now because he is older and rarely goes out for walks, I am afraid that the boundaries of Zhongnan Mountain are already different from when he was a child.

Because he has lived for so many years, he has personally experienced many times when the earth dragon turned over and the mountain god became angry, and each time it caused some changes in the terrain.

The earth dragon turning over and the mountain god becoming angry mentioned by the old Taoist priest are the earthquakes and landslides we are talking about now.

It was precisely because he was aware of these geological disasters that Xu Yang gave up looking for that special water pool.

After all, after searching for so many days, I have found all the nearby water pools that I should look for. I haven't missed a single place, but there is none.

Further out, the distance is too great, and the topography can only form shallow pools.

Obviously, Xu Yang's secret passage in the ancient tomb should have been destroyed by a geological disaster during an earthquake or mountain collapse.

Over the past few hundred years, who knows how many geological disasters have occurred in Zhongnan Mountain.

After realizing that the search for the secret passage to the water pool was already in the mirror, Xu Yang turned his attention again to finding the main entrance of the ancient tomb, and he also set a time limit of half a month for himself.

As long as he had not found the main entrance of the ancient tomb in half a month, Xu Yang would not stay here any longer. After all, this ancient tomb was not the only one he knew of opportunities.

It's just that the martial arts of the Huashan School are closely related to the Quanzhen martial arts, so I chose this place as the first stop.

puff!

puff!

On the mountain behind the Chongyang ruins, Xu Yang was seen holding an iron drill nearly two meters long, with a ring at one end and a sharpened iron at the other end, and thrust it downwards into the ground.

As the saying goes, "If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools." This iron drill is Xu Yang's sharp tool for searching for ancient tombs.

After so many years, the ancient tomb has been covered with soil and vegetation. Trying to find it with the naked eye is no more than a dream.

So it must be assisted by tools.

The method of inserting an iron drill into the soil was based on the methods used by tomb robbers. To be precise, the iron drill he used was also one of the tools for tomb robbers.

Insert the iron drill into the soil and then pull it out. By observing the color changes and texture structure of the soil, you can easily determine what is buried under the soil layer.

There are even masters of tomb robberies who can judge the situation underground just by smelling the dirt they lifted up.

But Xu Yang didn't have that ability at this time, so he could only observe carefully with his naked eyes.

Of course, with the help of a search method like the iron drill, Xu Yang didn't just find a place to insert it randomly. The back mountain was so big that if he inserted it aimlessly, he wouldn't be able to finish it in a month.

Xu Yang had already planned this, specifically looking for the slightly bulging ground to explore.

After all, according to the structural principles of the building, the main entrance of the ancient tomb must be higher than the ground to prevent external rainwater from penetrating into the ancient tomb.

Five days later, Xu Yang finally determined the location of the main entrance of the ancient tomb and dug out the soil covering the surface.

But facing the dragon-breaking stone that blocked the main entrance, Xu Yang felt a little dizzy for a while.After a lot of exploration, Xu Yang finally determined that the dragon-breaking stone was too thick, and its texture was granite, a relatively solid rock in nature.

With the tools Xu Yang currently has on hand, it would take a long time to break open the granite.

Looking at the large piece of broken dragon stone in front of him, Xu Yang frowned. With such a large piece of granite, the main entrance was blocked.

But even the back door can’t be found. Do we really give up?

Xu Yang touched his chin with one hand and thought while walking around the main entrance of the ancient tomb.

boom~~~
There was a sound of metal, but the iron drill leaning on the side was kicked down by Xu Yang who was distracted, making a noise.

Xu Yang lowered his head and looked at the iron drill that fell to the ground. An idea vaguely appeared in his mind, but he was still a little unclear. He stared at the iron drill on the ground.

That's it!

After a dozen breaths, the thoughts in Xu Yang's mind became completely clear.

Since the front and back doors are not accessible, why don't you just open another way out?

Think about the tomb robbers who rob tombs. Most of them break holes into the tombs. Who is still walking at the front door?

Thinking of this, Xu Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seemed that he was really going to play a guest role as a tomb robber.

After finding a way, Xu Yang did not hesitate and quickly began to use an iron drill to detect the direction of the ancient tomb in order to find the location for the next robbery hole.

The direction is easy to measure, and it can be done in an hour, but the robbery hole is not easy to find.

This ancient tomb gets deeper as you go in, and this is in the Zhongnan Mountains. There are a lot of stones in the underground soil. It would be too time-consuming to dig it simply by hand.

But since you have chosen to be a tomb robber, of course you have to learn from those tomb robbers when digging holes.

After Xu Yang briefly covered the ancient tomb, he went down the mountain to a nearby town to buy sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal. These three are the raw materials for black powder.

Grind the three things into fine powder and mix them, then wet them with water to make small particles, and finally wrap them in paper to make a simple big firecracker, and you're all set.

Speaking of which, I came up with the idea of ​​using black powder to blow up a robbery hole, and I have to thank a TV series about tomb robbing that I watched in my previous life.

The tomb robber gang inside once used this trick. They dug a robbery hole in one night, which was very convenient.

But this trick also has a disadvantage, that is, the movement is a bit loud.

However, Xu Yang is not too worried about this, because there are no people living near the mountain behind Chongyang, and it is in the mountains. Isn't it normal for there to be any movement, and no one will check it.

boom! boom! boom!
As the gunpowder exploded, a burglar cave large enough for an adult to enter began to appear in front of Xu Yang.

Xu Yang only used half of the black powder firecrackers he carried, and he completely opened the hole leading to the ancient tomb.

Looking at the dark cave in front of him, Xu Yang was not ready to go down like this. He had to ventilate it for a while first.

I don’t know how long this ancient tomb has been closed. After opening the robbery hole, Xu Yang threw a torch down, but the torch went out after a while.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yang knew that the oxygen content in the ancient tomb was too low, so he dared to enter the ancient tomb rashly.

No matter how impatient he is, no matter how eager he is for those magical secrets, he still has to endure it now.

(End of this chapter)