Or I was cheated by Senior Brother Zhuang, and he knew that this watch was not worth much money.

The watch in Liu Shangang's hand was also scratched by the blood baby, and now he still has a wound on his wrist.

Now I can't know the exact time, which makes the anxiety in my heart a little heavier. This catacomb is full of unknowns. Before that, at least we can still know exactly when we entered the tomb, but now even time has become unknowns.

The yang energy is still declining, and the yin energy has spread along with our steps. I can only ask everyone to speed up and avoid the yin energy behind them.

The battle with the Blood Baby just now made everyone very tired. Liu Shangang had too many things in the waterproof bag, so Senior Brother Geng took turns carrying him on his back. The two of them supported each other, and they could barely keep up with me.

I don’t know how long I walked, but a faint yang energy appeared in front of me. I guessed that I was about to arrive at the main tomb, so I asked Luo Fei: “How is it recovering?”

Luo Fei said: "It should be able to activate the soul-summoning banner. You can put me down, I should be able to leave myself."

I smiled and said, "You have a good rest and maintain your energy. When you find the main tomb, we will set up a formation."

At this time, Senior Brother Geng's voice came from behind me: "No, there is a saying, let's take a break, Xiao Liu and I can't walk anymore."

I turned around and looked at Senior Brother Geng and found that he and Liu Shangang were both tired. Liu Shangang waved his hand at me, and then he sat on the ground, took out the kettle, and started drinking in big mouthfuls.

I asked Liu Shangang: "You are not in shape today? Why are you tired so quickly?"

Liu Shangang had just poured a stomach full of water and breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I might have hurt my ankle when I was at the tomb last time, and it hurts as soon as I walk."

I asked him, "How about your shoulders?"

Liu Shangang smiled bitterly: "It's almost broken."

In just half a month, he had to go down three large tombs in a row. Although one of them was the first to be buried and Liu Shangang and the others did not go down, he had been driving for the time being, and he probably had signs of overdrawing his physical fitness long ago.

I felt that the yang energy in front showed no signs of continued decline, and the yin energy behind it no longer moved towards us. I simply gave others some rest, ate something to replenish their energy, and then acted in half an hour.

Senior Brother Geng took two packs of compressed biscuits to sit next to me: "Oh, this is how you have been here all these years?"

I chewed the biscuits and raised my eyebrows: "You said you're going to the grave?"

"Ah." Senior Brother Geng responded.

I smiled: "It's not like to set up a tomb every day. I still live on the ground most of the time. Brother Geng, the main tomb room should be in front of me, right?"

Senior Brother Geng shook his head: "No, the structure of this tomb should be more complicated than I imagined. The First Ancestor may have used more than just a mistress."

He paused and said with some uncertainty: "There should be other arrangements."

I sighed: "You said, why did the First Ancestor hide the Yin Jade? Can't destroy them?"

Senior Brother Geng didn't seem to hear me and said to himself: "Zhu Shuanzhu dug out an iron mass from the bottom of the Yellow River... Well, there may be a structure similar to the Eight Gate Golden Lock. Those iron mass was to lock the Iron Dragon King, and the other hand, they should be to stabilize the Qi field in the **..."

His words became increasingly difficult to understand, so I simply stopped listening and leaned against the stone wall to close my eyes and rested.

After a while, I saw that Liu Shangang had basically recovered, so I put on a waterproof bag on my back and walked towards the depths of the tunnel.

Luo Fei insisted on leaving by herself, but I couldn't twist her, so I asked Xian'er to help her walk slowly.

Not long after walking, the fox fire began to tremble violently. The running fire made the surrounding scenery become a little unrestrained. I threw a questioning look at Xian'er, and Xian'er shook her head: "I didn't do it."

I frowned and opened the sky eye. I noticed that the yang energy around me was also beating. It was the change in the Qi field that caused the instability of the fox fire. Then I lifted a corner of the fire silk cloth, let the Fantian Seal leak out and continued walking quietly.

Although the yang energy is beating, the concentration has not changed at all. I know in my heart that when the concentration of yang energy suddenly increases, it means that the Iron Dragon King will appear in front of us. I tried hard to calm my mind, but my heart still beating faster and faster, and my entire chest is vibrating slightly.

I don’t know how long it took to use it, but I only remember that when my legs just started to get sore, I finally arrived at the end of the tunnel. Just in front of me, a two-meter-high stone door blocked the way.

Under the illumination of the fox fire lantern, I saw a pair of strange birds standing upside down on the huge door panel, including tiger feet, cow bodies, wolf heads, bird wings, snake tails. Isn’t this beast-headed four-legged bird unique totems of the Female Stork? The bronze medals found outside the Huaihe Bronze Tomb last time had such a pattern.

Why did the female stork's totem appear here again?

Senior Brother Geng came over and used a flashlight to illuminate the pattern on the stone door. I saw that his face was also full of confusion.

After a while, Senior Brother Geng said to me: "Be careful when pushing the door, there may be mechanisms inside."

I nodded, waved to Liang Houzai, and came to the door one by one with him.

Liang Houzai did not recommend pushing the door immediately. He first lay on the door panel, listened carefully to the movement inside, and then freed up one hand to fumble on the door, and finally curled his lips, as if nothing had been found.

I stretched out my hands to press the stone door, let Liang Houzai pull my waist from behind. Once something went wrong when I pushed the door, he pulled me away.

The air nearby was very dry, and a lot of dust was piled up on the relief. I pushed it hard, and the dust suddenly became fluffy. Liang Houzai quickly pulled me back.

It was just dust flying, and no other situation occurred.

I pushed the door panel hard, and the upper half was shaking, but the lower half was very stable, as if something was blocking the door from behind.

Senior Brother Geng lay on the ground, pressed the bottom of the door panel with his hands and tried his best to push it. The stone door first slid open a very narrow gap, but it quickly closed again.

Senior Brother Geng pointed to the bottom of the door: "Youdao, come and try it."

I squatted down and pushed hard twice. When I first exerted force, the door panel was immediately pushed open a two-inch-wide gap, but after that I felt a strong resistance, and no matter how hard I pushed it, I couldn't push it. When I was venting my strength, the door panel slid back on its own, and the gap that I had just pushed opened closed.

Xian'er frowned and asked me, "There will be no living creature behind this door, right? Why do you feel like something is wrestling with you just now?"

Senior Brother Geng shook his head aside: "It's not a living thing, it's a stone ball. Everyone comes to help me and pry the door panel up."

While he was speaking, he found the engineer shovel from the waterproof bag and tried to insert the blade of the engineer shovel into the bottom of the stone door, but unfortunately he failed several times in succession.

Liang Houzai looked at Senior Brother Geng's actions and frowned constantly.

I also took out the engineer shovel, pressed the blade against the gap at the bottom of the door, took out the climbing pickaxe, and smashed it twice at the handle of the engineer shovel, easily smashing the blade into the bottom of the door.

As a result, the door panel was slightly raised. Senior Brother Geng used all his strength and finally inserted his shovel into the bottom of the door.

Next, we all started to work together and inserted six engineer shovels into the bottom of the door at the same time. Senior Brother Geng took out an iron rod from the waterproof bag and said to us: "Pry the door up."

A few of us stepped on the handle of the engineer shovel and pressed it hard with the weight of our bodies. The bottom of the door was immediately pried open a gap wide with fingers. Senior Brother Geng quickly stabbed the iron rod into the gap and picked it hard. I heard a "gurgling" sound from the other side of the door, something was rolling quickly.

After that, I tried to push the stone door again, and with a creaking sound, the door was easily pushed open.

On the other side of the door, there is a zigzag groove on the left and right. One of the grooves is a stone ball the size of a monkey head, and the other ball falls next to the door panel I pushed open. When the door opens, it rolls along the door.

I was exposed to resistance when I pushed the door before, probably because the stone was stuck on the protrusions in the tooth in the groove.

When Xian'er came in with the fox fire lantern, the flames swayed quickly a few times. Then, the flames in the lantern quickly dimmed, and the range of light suddenly shrank a lot.

Now, only the light can be seen within about ten meters of our body, and the rest are pitch black.

Liu Shangang took out the flashlight. As soon as he turned it on, the searchlight could penetrate the darkness, but soon the beam of the flashlight faded. I also took out the flashlight and tried it. It was also lit up violently. Then the flashlight quickly dimmed as if it was out of power.

Liu Shangang looked at his flashlight and said, "It's evil."

I took the lantern from Xian'er's hand, raised it over my head, and walked slowly forward. Even after entering the stone gate, the concentration of the yang energy still did not change, and the Iron Dragon King was still deeper.

On the edge area that the faint light could illuminate, I vaguely saw a squirming shadow, and my heart suddenly stumbled. I raised my hand and signaled the people behind not to speak.

Every step I took, I lowered my steps and breathed, and my speed became extremely slow. As the flames flashed, I roughly recognized the outline of the shadow.

It was a tree that hung down from the zenith, with no leaves on it, but distinct branches.

As we gradually approached, the tree became clearer and clearer. It should have been poured out of metal, with large rust spots growing on the huge tree, and on the branches, there were a large number of animal-headed and four-legged bird statues hanging high. Each statue was about the same size as my fist. It was a long time ago, and many bird statues had fallen off the branches and piled on the ground.

I held the lantern and accelerated my pace a little. While walking, I found some vague reliefs on the ground. After thousands of years of corrosion, I could no longer see the above content.

When I came to the tree, I looked up at the ceil. The metal-cast roots spread everywhere. The stone slabs near the root system broke and fell off, revealing large schist layers. But there was nothing extra on the ground except bird images. In theory, shouldn't they fall after the stone slabs were broken?

Senior Brother Geng stared at the hanging tree body and frowned: "Decorate an iron tree here...tsk, what does this mean?"

Liang Houzai came to me and pointed to the four-legged bird hanging on the branches: "Why are these birds facing up?"

After he said this, I realized that the totem of the female stork clan should be with the beast head underneath and the snake tail above, but the bird statue hanging on the tree was completely reversed, and the shape was different. The four-legged bird on the female stork clan's totem had slightly closed its wings, but the wings of these bird statues were completely spread out, looking like they were flapping their wings and about to take off.

Senior Brother Geng also looked at the bird statue on the tree, and after a while, he said to himself: "This is a reminder left by the first generation ancestor. I understand, I understand, this tomb is a structure that reverses the universe!"
Chapter completed!