Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 274 Exploration
After hearing this, Zhao Zhen and others looked over hurriedly and vaguely saw two tomb-guarding beasts at the end of the corridor slowly standing up from a sitting position, shaking their heads, as if they had been disturbed and had just woken up.

Everyone walked forward cautiously, and saw two tomb guardian beasts. The one on the left was a human beast, wearing a helmet, shaped like a warrior, with eyes wide open, a body like a leopard, and feet like horse hooves. The whole body was outlined with leopard spots in black, blue, and white.

The one on the right is more powerful, with yellow, white and green glaze all over its body. It has an animal head with an open mouth and exposed teeth, two curved sharp horns on its head, large ears standing upright, and leaf-shaped wings and eagle claws on both sides.

The two tomb-guarding beasts stared at Zhao Zhen and his group with an angry look on their faces, as if blaming them for trespassing and disturbing the tomb's owner.

Taoist Dong shouted, "Use swords and knives, don't use magic weapons."

Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi heard this and attacked from the left and right with three bright silver forks in their hands. Du Qian and Song Wan followed closely behind, Liu Tang and Tang Long guarded Zhao Zhen and his men, and Shi Qian and Zhu Fu wandered around.

The four men were all armed with long weapons, and two of them besieged a tomb guardian beast. Wood chips and debris flew everywhere, and the two tomb guardian beasts were defeated step by step under the siege of the four men. Zhao Zhen saw this and felt relieved. He looked carefully and found that the two tomb guardian beasts were only level one, and their skills were aimed at Fang Liang and Wang Xiang.

Soon, the two tomb guardian beasts were smashed by the four people. Zhao Zhen asked: "Old Taoist, have you seen a tomb guardian beast? How do you know to kill it with a sword?"

"Sir, I have done a lot of work in Niutou Mountain choosing graves for burials. This tomb guardian beast is not evil. "Zhou Li·Xiaguan" says: 'Fang Xiangshi is covered with bear skin, has four golden eyes, wears black clothes and red skirts, holds a spear and holds a shield, leads hundreds of subordinates and deals with difficulties, searches the house to drive away epidemics and major funerals. Put the coffin and the tomb first, then put it into the grave. Use the spear to hit the four corners to drive away Fang Liang.' Later, tomb guardian beasts were used to replace them and buried with the dead to prevent Fang Liang and Wang Xiang who like to eat the liver and brain of the deceased." Taoist Dong said.

Zhao Zhen said: "In that case, this tomb guardian beast is indeed not evil."

Taoist Dong nodded and said, "Next, we need to prepare the magic tools when we enter the tomb."

After hearing this, everyone perked up. Shi Qian stepped forward and searched among the remains of the two tomb guardian beasts. He turned back and said to Zhao Zhen, "Master, these are all broken pieces of ceramics and wood."

Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "This is just a corridor after all, not a real tomb chamber. Even if there are treasures, they are inside."

Shi Qian was still the first, followed by the two Ruan brothers, Song Wan, and Du Qian. Zhao Zhen and others followed in, and finally Liu Tang.

After entering the front room, Zhao Zhen had no time to look around. He used his clairvoyance to look around. The first thing he saw was the portraits of warriors on both sides of the tomb door. Both warriors were wearing armor and holding swords. However, his clairvoyance did not give any feedback.

Looking around, there was not even a ghost in the front room. Apart from the murals on the wall, the most eye-catching thing was the altar built in front of the tomb door leading to the back room. On the altar was an incense burner and three pottery bowls.

Shi Qian went forward to investigate and found that there was no danger. He picked up the incense burner and the pottery bowl and brought them to Zhao Zhen: "Sir, this pottery bowl doesn't show anything, but this copper incense burner looks like a treasure."

Zhao Zhen looked over.

World Log:

Copper incense burner (first level, made from 12 layers of brass, nourished and refined by Yin Qi)
Effect 1: Worship (burning incense with this will not go out with the wind, and the smoke will rise straight up, worshiping the ancestors and gods.)
Shi Qian knocked along the wall and found two niches on the east and west walls. Unfortunately, the things hidden inside were either rotten or ordinary.

Seeing that the tomb door leading to the back room was blocked with bricks, Tang Long raised the black iron hammer in his hand, gathered all his strength, and hammered it down, blasting open the brick wall.

After they cleaned up carefully, they entered the back room. The back room was much larger than the front room. The first thing they saw was a red painted wooden coffin on the coffin bed in the middle. A long-burning lamp was burning in the southeast corner.

According to the previous agreement, everyone stood in a circle, back to back, and slowly moved towards the coffin, intending to deal with the ghost in the coffin first, and not rush to extinguish the eternal lamp.

As they walked, Zhao Zhen threw sticky rice on the ground. He followed the crowd and moved slowly, looking around. On the east wall, there were eighteen armored warriors, each holding a knife, sword, spear and other weapons, and above them was a white tiger. On the west wall, there were also eighteen warriors, with the same clothing and weapons as on the east wall, but above them was a blue dragon.

Zhao Zhen carefully distinguished that the white tiger and the blue dragon on the wall were normal, but the ten warriors on the east wall and the nine warriors on the west wall were transformed from ghosts.

The painting on the south wall is the most complex. At the bottom are three girls. Above them is a Taoist wearing a Taoist hat, holding a tablet, and wearing a cross-collared, wide-sleeved robe, as if welcoming someone. Above is the sun and the moon facing each other, and there are seven male babies with fluttering clothes, as if flying. Zhao Zhen carefully observed that these sixteen figures were actually transformed ghosts.

Zhao Zhen seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly shouted: "Stop..." Before he finished speaking, Shi Qian, who was walking in front, had already touched the coffin. With a sharp whistle, the ghosts transformed into warriors, girls, Taoist priests, and babies rushed towards the crowd.

Zhao Zhen and the others were shocked. Taoist Dong shouted, "Sprinkle dog blood."

Everyone took off the cowhide water bags from their waists, pulled out the wooden corks, and sprayed them hard at the ghosts that were rushing in from all around.

The ghosts that were sprayed had black smoke coming out of their bodies, their expressions were painful, and their figures became increasingly faint. After spraying the black dog blood, the crowd drew out peach wood swords and other magical weapons and chopped at the incoming ghosts.

With wailing cries, the peach wood sword and the dagger of the wood chopped the ghosts apart like a hot knife through butter. Zhao Zhen seized the opportunity and even offered up the peach wood gourd, and unexpectedly collected six ghosts in it.

Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the coffin suddenly shook. "Quick, sprinkle the remaining glutinous rice into the coffin," Taoist Dong shouted.

Everyone did as they were told, and the coffin in the outer coffin began to shake less, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "So there really is a ghost, but it is too weak."

Pei Xuan said: "It's not that the ghost is weak, we are fully prepared. Once the black dog's blood is spilled, the ghost has nowhere to hide, so we can kill it so easily."

Taoist Dong also spoke up: "Besides, we are holding magical instruments, so these ghosts dare not come up. If they hadn't touched the coffin, these ghosts would have pretended to be murals."

Zhao Zhen said: "The one in the coffin should have become a zombie, right?"

"From the noise, it is indeed a zombie. Open the coffin a little and pour the black dog blood and sticky rice in. This is the easiest way to kill it."

Shi Qian said, "I have dug several graves, but I have never encountered these things. Sir, now that this zombie is the only one left, why don't you let it out and have a look? Otherwise, you won't recognize it if you see it in the future."

Zhao Zhen saw that everyone was eager to try, even Hu Sanniang, Ji Minghan and Ji Mingdan who had not said a word since going down to the tomb. Zhao Zhen looked at Dong Laodao.

"Sir, the sticky rice in this coffin can calm it down. Judging from the situation, the zombie in the coffin is at most level two, not a powerful character. There are so many of us waiting for this, so we don't need to be afraid of him."

"This zombie's vital point is on its head. If you chop off its head, it will die. But this zombie is extremely strong and good at sucking blood. Please be careful of it. We will sprinkle sticky rice around it, and this zombie will naturally be cautious."

Zhao Zhen said, "To be on the safe side, brother Shi Qian, be prepared. If this zombie is difficult to kill, cover this eternal lamp with sand."

When everyone saw that Zhao Zhen agreed and made preparations, Du Qian and Song Wan suddenly lifted the coffin lid.

A corpse wearing a robe, with pale skin, green face and fangs, stood up straight, and when he saw everyone, he roared and jumped out of the coffin. He raised his black and sharp nails and grabbed at everyone.

This zombie was also unlucky. It was jumping on the glutinous rice scattered on the ground. As if it was burned, black smoke came out of its feet and it jumped backwards.

Seeing this, Liu Tang said: "Brothers, please help me to clear the battlefield. I will go and meet him."

Liu Tang walked out of the sticky rice field, holding his broadsword and heading straight for the zombie. The zombie could only jump forward, and although it was not slow, it was much stiffer.

Liu Tang adapted himself, seized the opportunity, and chopped off the zombie's head with one knife.

(End of this chapter)