White Bone Monkey King

At the end of the palace complex is a narrow tomb passage.

When the three of them landed from the stone beam, they were almost startled by the two rows of white figures in the tomb passage.

This is an underground palace, a tomb where dead people are buried. If you see a white figure in the tomb, you will subconsciously feel nervous.

"Is it a living person or a dead person?"

The old Taoist priest bravely shouted to the two rows of white figures.

But the tomb passage was deserted.

No one answered.

Jin An was still brave. When he saw the two rows of white figures, he kept silent and took a few steps forward holding a torch. Only then did he see that the so-called white figures were actually lifelike human-shaped lamp holders carved from white marble.

Even after so many years, these white marble human-shaped lamp holders are still as white as snow. If you suddenly see them, you will subconsciously think of them as ghosts in the cemetery.

The human-shaped lamp holders are shaped like hands holding lamps. If these lamp holders were still on, the tomb passage should be brightly lit and as magnificent as a fairy palace.

But now all these lamp holders are extinguished, leaving only a long and narrow passage to the tomb, dark and spooky, like a ghost passage.

With Prince Xiao Ling and the others walking in front, even if there were any cold arrows or kerosene traps in this tomb passage, they would have been destroyed long ago. Besides, the immortals buried in the immortal palace would not bother to use such secrets. The three men held torches and bravely walked into the dark tomb passage.

This tomb passage is quite strange, it is actually red.

The old Taoist priest curiously came closer to look at the red wall and said: "Little brother, look at these walls, you can still vaguely see some outlines of paint. The two sides of the tomb passage should have been covered with murals... It looks like they were completely destroyed because of the murals. , the pigment and the stone dissolved together, so the red walls were formed?"

Jin An was not interested in this. The three-person team passed through the tomb passage safely, and a stone staircase leading up appeared in front of them.

"If this underground palace is really buried twenty feet deep, it seems that this underground palace has more than one or two floors." The old Taoist priest looked up and saw that the stone stairs were dark and long.

Jin An asked the old Taoist priest and Xiejian to wait for him below, while he went up first to see what was going on.

The environment in the underground palace is narrow, and it is no longer suitable to use the stone bow as a weapon. Since entering the underground palace, Jin An has carried the stone bow behind his back. After he finished speaking, he always paid attention to the air conditions with a torch in one hand, and held the red Kunwu knife in the other hand, stepping on it. Go up the cold stone stairs carefully, step by step.

Snap.

Snap.

The sound of footsteps in this empty, quiet dark environment, each step is like stepping on the heart of the person, so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat. Under the worried eyes of the old Taoist priest, Jin'an gradually disappeared from the old Taoist priest's field of vision.

They say time flies very long in the dark.

Without the sun, moon and stars as a reference, I don’t know how long it has been since Jin An was here. Maybe it has been the time of a stick of incense? Or is it a moment? The old Taoist priest stretched his head several times to call out to Jin An, but he was worried that it would bring danger to Jin An, so he kept it back every time.

"Old Taoist, sharpen your sword, come up. There is no danger up here." Jin An's voice finally came from the upper level. The old Taoist priest, who was concerned about Jin An's safety, immediately ran up the stone ladder to the upper level.

"Little brother, why have you been gone for so long without any movement? I am worried about your safety. I want to call you to find out what is going on, but I am also worried that you will be put in danger, but I am worried about you." The old Taoist said. When he saw Jin An, he just complained.

Jin An, who knew he was in the wrong, apologized profusely to the old Taoist priest, saying that I had just explored this terrain and only called you up when there was no danger. I also wanted to save some fuel for the Five Zang Taoist Temple to avoid being taken over.

The old Taoist priest hurriedly said, "This is the underground palace. Little brother, can't you say some auspicious words? If you insist on saying these unlucky words in the underground palace, be careful that the retribution will come quickly."

"Yes, yes, you are right, old Taoist. I will try not to worry you and Xiajian next time." Jin An did not dwell on these trivial matters. He then talked about the situation of the underground palace in front of him.

Jin An: "There is no danger in this underground palace. There is also a sarcophagus and a human-shaped lamp holder. The sarcophagus is also opened, leaving only an empty coffin and the human-shaped lamp holders are also extinguished."

In fact, Jin An didn't need to say that the underground palace in front of him was dark, and there were many human-shaped lamp holders placed against the wall in the darkness.

However, the human-shaped lamp holder on this floor is not made of white marble, but a gold figure.

After so many years, these golden figures have been covered with dust and looked dim. At first, the old Taoist priest mistakenly thought they were bronze figures. It was not until Jin An reminded them that they were surprised to find that these were golden figures.

The old Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief at the golden man who fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. He wiped it hard with the corner of his clothes, and it turned out that it was made of gold.

But the next moment, the old Taoist priest discovered that the fracture of the golden man was not made of gold, but of stone heart.

"There are more than dozens of golden figures here. These golden figures are not pure gold, but a layer of gold paint sprayed on the surface of the stone figures." Jin An explained.

And continued: "Where we are now, on the edge of the wall, the stone ladder leading up to one level is on the opposite wall. To get to the stone ladder on the opposite side, we must first pass through the middle sarcophagus stacking area."

The old Taoist priest didn't try to scrape some gold paint and take it out to make a fortune. It was probably because this was a Taoist palace. As a Taoist disciple, he was afraid of offending his ancestors and giving him a bad old age.

Next, the three of them held torches and walked towards the stone staircase on the opposite side.

Sure enough, as Jin An said, the sarcophagi on this floor were all open. There were no corpses buried inside, only empty coffins.

The placement of the sarcophagi on this floor is a bit strange. They look messy but also seem to follow a certain regular order. Some have three sarcophagi side by side, some have two sarcophagi side by side, and there are also many messy and overturned sarcophagi.

As they were walking, the old Taoist priest suddenly let out a light sigh and his brows wrinkled involuntarily.

Jin An asked what happened?

The old Taoist priest still frowned and replied: "Nothing, maybe I am overthinking it..."

After giving the old Taoist priest a strange look, Jin An continued to walk in front, leading the two of them to the stone staircase opposite.

At this time, when I passed through the sarcophagus area, my eyes suddenly opened up. In the central area of ​​​​the sarcophagus, there were several golden lamp holders upside down, and there were actually two ancient pools.

The ancient pool has been buried by collapsed rocks and turned into ruins. Even though there was a spring of living water here, it has now dried up and turned into a lifeless stagnant pool.

When he saw the ruins of the two pools of water, the old Taoist suddenly realized and said: "Qiannan, Kunbei, Lidong, Kanxi, Duitongnan, Zhendongbei, southwest Xunda and northwest Gen, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, soil produces gold, and metal produces Water and water produce wood, and metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal... Little brother, these sarcophagi are not arranged in a haphazard manner, they are all arranged according to the Nine Palaces and Bagua in Qimen Dunjia Technique. of."

The old Taoist priest became curious. He wrote down the arrangement of each sarcophagus in this underground palace, and then arranged them according to the order of Qian (), Kan (), Gen (), Zhen (), Xun (), Li (), Kun (), Dui (), draw the directions of the Nine Palaces and Bagua in the central space.

The more he drew, the more he marveled at the exquisiteness of the Qimen Dunjia technique. However, in the eyes of Jin An, who had not studied this aspect deeply, he was completely confused.

The old Taoist priest deduced the Nine Palaces Bagua by himself on the ground. The more he deduced, the more surprised he became: "Using the corpse of the immortal as a large formation, and setting up the Qimen Dunjia here, it's amazing! How wonderful!"

Jin An was confused and looked at the old Taoist priest who was drawing on the ground: "Old Taoist, I have always heard you marvel at the exquisiteness of the Jiugong Bagua here. Why do I feel that the Jiugong Bagua here is different from the Jiugong Bagua seen at fortune-telling stalls on the street? There is no difference between the pictures, they are all Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Dui.”

The old Taoist priest shook his head with a serious face and said solemnly: "Little brother, the same Nine Palaces Bagua, in the hands of different experts, no longer adheres to the conventional rules, but has countless modifications at your fingertips."

"It's just like the Qimen Dunjia in front of you, which is covered with a sarcophagus. The corpses are divided into men and women, parents, children, husband and wife, monarchs and ministers, twelve zodiac animals, limbs, five internal organs, six internal organs and seven orifices..."

"For example, Qian is the father, Kun is the mother, and Zhen is the eldest boy. Kan is the middle boy, and Gen is the young boy, which is the yang hexagram; Xun is the eldest daughter, Li is the middle girl, and Dui is the maiden, which is the yin hexagram."

"Also for example, Qian is a horse, Kun is an ox, Zhen is a dragon, Xun is a chicken, Kan is a hog, Li is a pheasant, Gen is a dog, and Dui is a sheep."

"For another example, Qian is the head, Kun is the abdomen, Zhen is the foot, Xun is the stock, Kan is the ear, Li is the eye, Gen is the hand, and Dui is the mouth."

"Qian is the king, Kun is the minister..."

The old Taoist priest solemnly said: "Little brother, tell me, if the corpses of these immortals are buried here, what changes will they use to deduce the Nine Palaces Bagua? Is it based on male and female monarchs and ministers? Or is it based on the twelve zodiac signs or the body, hands and feet? If between men and women, If we combine several of them and deduce them together, then the evolution of Qimen Dunjia here will be more complicated and changeable, and impossible to find. It will be even more impossible to pass through this Corpse Immortal Bagua Formation."

When he said this, the old Taoist priest showed a look of regret: "It's a pity. I'm afraid the people who built the underground palace didn't think that this underground palace was not destroyed from the outside, but from the inside. First, the sky collapsed, the sarcophagus was overturned, and the formation was destroyed." Discourage, and internal destruction from the lower level to the upper level, caused such an ingenious design of the Corpse Immortal Bagua Array to disintegrate from the inside, and it is estimated that even one thousandth of its power has not been exerted."

The old Taoist priest said it more and more regretfully.

Afterwards, the group of people continued walking to the upper level.

Also follow the stone stairs to enter the underground palace on the upper level. This level also has a human-shaped lamp holder with the lights out, this time it is an iron man.

There were also a large number of sarcophagi placed there. The sarcophagi were opened, leaving only empty coffins.

This time the sarcophagus was also arranged using the Qimen Dunjia technique, this time it was the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Corpse Immortal Formation.

The formation diagram here was also destroyed in ruins, so the three of them easily found the Shengmen and followed the stone stairs to the upper level.

The new floor is a bronze lamp holder, an empty sarcophagus, and a silhouette sarcophagus array with copper chains. The copper chains were broken in pieces, and a large number of sarcophagi hanging overhead were smashed to the ground.

According to the old Taoist priest, this copper chain silhouette sarcophagus array can suppress a person's shadow, just like copper water pouring on the body, making the person's body heavy and unable to move.

Speaking of this, Jin An remembered that in the Dragon King's tomb, Mr. Yi also used the same mysterious technique to step on the monkey's shadow to immobilize the monkey's body.

The three of them continued walking upstairs.

This floor is a stone lamp holder and an empty sarcophagus. The top of the head and the walls are densely packed with hanging coffins, which is as complex as a maze.

A large number of hanging coffins here also fell to the ground, and the maze was broken.

Continue to the upper level, which contains wooden lamp holders, empty sarcophagi, and wooden pile arrays.

After finding the stone stairs and going up, this floor is not so particular. There are just densely arranged sarcophagi in a neat and orderly manner, and there are no Qimen Dunjia variables.

Of course, these sarcophagi were also opened, leaving only empty coffins.

So many coffins are empty. I don’t know if they are empty coffins to create suspicion, or if the people who were originally buried have been dug up and robbed.

This time there was no more stone stairs, and they finally reached the first floor.

"Why do I feel like this is more like a morgue? Yizhuang? There are seven floors of morgues in total?" Finally reaching the end and reaching the first floor, Jin An breathed a sigh of relief. He thought they were going to keep walking forever. .

Unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest said: "Little brother, it is not appropriate to call it a morgue. It should be called a morgue."

He said the reason with a solemn expression: "Because I have measured each floor and found that the walls on each floor are eight walls, which are built according to the octagonal tower."

An octagonal tower buried deep underground?

Jin An was startled.

"Hey, all the corpses in the morgue tower are missing. I'm afraid that after someone broke Qimen Dunjia from the inside, the Taoist ancestors buried in the seven-story tower will be pulled out of the coffins, and their bones will be smashed into ashes. Come on..." The old Taoist priest's eyes looked sentimental, and Zhi Fenhui sighed.

…

"It smells like blood in here!"

Suddenly, Sharp, who had been silent all the way, turned around and looked at a dark corner of the first-floor tower.

Jin An frowned and walked over holding a torch.

Then I was surprised to find that there was a sarcophagus tightly covered here.

This was the first time they had seen a co-authored sarcophagus.

Because they saw too many sarcophagi along the way, people were numb and lacked vigilance. In addition, the sight in the tower was dim and there were many sarcophagi, so they did not notice this unusual sarcophagus at the beginning.

When he got close, Jin An could already smell the smell of blood without sharpening his sword to remind him.

Although it is blocked by the coffin lid.

But there was still a trace of bloody smell leaking out of the sarcophagus.

"Is it someone from the Tianshi Mansion? Or someone else?"

"Why is someone hiding alone in a coffin?"

At this time, the old Taoist priest consciously stood behind Jin An.

Jin An raised his hand and made a silent gesture. He would know who he was when he opened the coffin. He handed the torch to the old Taoist priest hiding behind him and walked towards the closed coffin with the knife in hand.