Grave Robber: Beginnings Fusion Hydra Cypress

The entrance to the third floor is in the belly of the statue.

Ji Changsheng found the mechanism at the base of the statue, and after twisting it, a secret door opened in the belly of the statue.

Everyone entered the secret door, and behind it was a narrow tunnel.

The tunnel was not long, and the exit was seen in less than ten minutes.

After coming out of the exit, people were already on the third floor of the underground palace.

However, unexpectedly, this floor was much smaller than the two above.

Looking around, it was less than 10,000 square meters, and the entire underground palace was in full view.

There were dozens of coffins on this floor, each of which was very advanced in shape, and it was obvious that it was at the level of a king.

In addition, unlike the coffins above, these coffins were not of a unified shape, but were different.

Some were square red lacquer coffins, which were coffins of princes during the Warring States Period, the same as the coffins in the Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi.

Others were huge stone coffins, which looked like a stone house.

The most eye-catching thing is the two bronze coffins, which are very beautifully cast.

These two coffins are located in the center of the entire third floor, and the other coffins are arranged around them. Obviously, the owners of these two coffins are of extraordinary status.

Everyone came directly to the bronze coffin and took a closer look, and they were surprised.

This bronze coffin is engraved with dragons, phoenixes and the Big Dipper, which is a pattern used exclusively by the royal family!

The fat man looked at it and his eyes almost popped out.

"Oh my god, this is used exclusively by the emperor!"

"Brother, has your ancestor ever been an emperor?"

The little brother shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Wuxie immediately denied this statement.

"The Southern Dipper is responsible for life, and the Northern Dipper is responsible for death. This is a popular saying in Taoism. Only the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, who advocated Taoism, would carve the Big Dipper on the coffin."

"But the royal family of the Ming Dynasty was obviously surnamed Zhu, not Zhang."

The fat man couldn't help but laugh.

"Young man, your ancestors were really bold."

"They even dared to use the emperor's coffin. I'm afraid they were going to rebel."

After Ji Changsheng stepped forward to take a look, his eyes lit up and he said something that stunned everyone.

"This is indeed the coffin of the royal family. It belongs to the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty!"

Wu Xie was immediately confused.

"But this is the underground palace of the Zhang family. How could an emperor of the Ming Dynasty be buried here?"

He immediately stepped forward to check it out and became even more confused.

"The shape is indeed used exclusively by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, but what's going on?"

Ji Changsheng did not answer, but directly pushed open the coffin lid with a palm.

The coffin lid weighing thousands of pounds was easily opened.

Everyone stepped forward to take a look. There was another smaller coffin in the coffin, which was made of golden nanmu.

The young man was also puzzled and reached out to open the nanmu coffin.

In the coffin lay a man in a dragon robe. He was not very old, only about twenty years old.

The Ming Dynasty royal family believed in Taoist immortal cultivation, and several emperors died of heavy metal poisoning after taking inner elixir.

Among them were several young emperors.

What was even more surprising was that the emperor's body was extremely well preserved and lifelike, as if he was asleep, and it was completely unrecognizable as a corpse.

The fat man's face suddenly lit up and he said to the little brother.

"Little brother, this guy is not the ancestor of your Zhang family, can I?"

The little brother knew what he meant and replied with a casual word.

The fat man was overjoyed and jumped in immediately, picked up the body and put it aside, and started to touch the coffin.

After touching it all over, he couldn't help but raise his head and said with a sad face.

"This is outrageous. For an emperor, there is nothing in the coffin except some medicinal materials!"

"The Ming Dynasty was at least a unified dynasty in the Central Plains, why was it so poor?"

There was only a thick layer of medicinal materials in the coffin under the body, and the strong smell of medicine was tangy.

Perhaps it was these medicinal herbs that kept the body from decaying.

Wu Xie was even more shocked after checking the body.

"The dragon robe he was wearing was genuine. I've seen it in a museum. It was made of gold thread and southern pearls, jade and embroidery. It was not something that ordinary craftsmen could make. It was made by royal craftsmen."

"This man is really the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"

The fat man thought about it, jumped out of the coffin, walked to another copper coffin, and pushed the lid open with all his strength.

He muttered to himself.

"These emperors who cultivate immortality, extort the people's blood and sweat, and waste money for their own immortality. I, Fatty, am also venting my anger for the ancient working people."

He was not talking nonsense. The royal family of the Ming Dynasty was obsessed with cultivating immortality, and the annual expenditure was unimaginable.

According to historical records, the fuel cost of alchemy in the palace was as high as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver each year. Alchemy required top-grade charcoal, white wax, and precious wood and medicinal herbs.

In addition, a large number of Taoist temples and palaces were built for cultivation, and the cost was more than several million taels per year!

Even in order to move a huge stone or a huge piece of wood, a road was specially built, and the cost was unimaginable.

During the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the expenses on cultivating immortals and refining elixirs alone accounted for a large part of the national treasury income.

As a result, no one became an immortal, and Zhu Yuanzhang's country was completely destroyed.

As he spoke, the fat man had already opened the nanmu coffin, and a young woman was lying inside.

The woman wore a double phoenix dragon crown, a golden silk shawl, and was covered with jewels. She was a Ming Dynasty queen!

"So it was a couple buried together. My goodness, the woman's clothes are more valuable than the man's!"

The fat man took away all the treasures from the female corpse without saying a word, and threw the corpse aside, but there was nothing under the coffin except medicinal herbs.

Fortunately, the jewelry on the queen was priceless, and they finally got something.

The people here had no intention of stealing gold. What was in front of them was actually two real Ming Dynasty emperors and queens.

The royal family members were not buried in the imperial mausoleum, but in the underground palace of the Zhang family. What does this mean?

Ji Changsheng looked at Aning and smiled.

"Aning, your guess seems to be true."

Aning had proposed a bold idea before, and the two royal bodies confirmed her guess.

The dead are resurrected!

In order to pursue immortality, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not hesitate to bring disaster to the country and the people. If there is a possibility of the dead being resurrected, they will never let it go!

Ji Changsheng turned his head and looked at the middle of the two copper coffins. It was a round stone platform made of white marble.

The carvings on the stone platform were not the royal dragon and phoenix totems, but the pine and crane patterns of the immortals, and the yin-yang fish of Taoism.

He walked up to the stone platform and measured it with his feet.

The diameter of the stone platform was nine feet and nine inches, which coincided with the number of nine yangs, and the position corresponding to the yin-yang fish was exactly the two bronze coffins.

"This is not an ordinary stone platform, it is a dragon transformation platform."

"Sure enough, you want to be resurrected and seek immortality!"