After taking a short rest, the three of them returned along the original route. This time it was much smoother than when they came here. Not long after, they returned to the palace where they were chased before.
The palace door was wide open, and the square was completely silent, with no trace of the half-armored figurines.
"Where are those armored servants?" Fang Yuan asked in surprise.
"It looks like they are still trapped in the maze-like passage and haven't come back yet." Si Yueru looked around and saw nothing unusual. She turned back and waved her hand, and walked out of the palace door first.
"Fang Yuan, look at these words, can you recognize the general meaning?" Si Yueru squatted beside Bai Gu, pointed to the blood book on the ground, and called Fan Yuan over.
Fangyuan turned on the flashlight and studied the words on the ground intently. After a while, he raised his head and said: "There is not much content. It just mentioned one thing, saying it can destroy some formation, and nothing else."
"Thing? Formation?" Si Yueru thought for a moment, "Could the formation refer to that weird sound that puts me in crisis again and again? As for that thing, most likely it is placed in a copper box with the map.
That skull.”
"Judging from previous encounters, the formation that can make strange sounds is obviously a method used by the owner of the tomb to control the dead creatures. Since this white skeleton came prepared, it naturally carries a magical weapon that can handle it.
It’s just that he died here before he could reach the main tomb.”
Thinking of this, Si Yueru quickly asked Fangyuan, "Has the skull fallen off? Take it out quickly and take a look. Isn't there a lot of inscriptions on it?"
When Fangyuan heard this, he hurriedly searched his body to find it. Fortunately, he still took out the skull from his arms. He probably stuffed it into his arms when he was attacked by human figurines and ancient corpses before, and then forgot about it.
Using a flashlight, Fangyuan carefully identified the inscriptions on the skull. After a while, he shook his head: "These words don't look like everyday words. I can't recognize what they mean. I feel like they look like some spells from that period."
, spells and the like.”
Seeing what Fangyuan said, Si Yueru felt confident. Si Yueru was proficient in the art of spells. This skull was similar to a spell, but the carrier was different. The inscription on it was the spell.
Once the spell is formed, it can be used directly. For example, if Si Yueru draws the soul-fixing spell on yellow paper, it does not require additional triggering and can be used directly.
Si Yueru took the skull from Fangyuan's hand and hid it carefully. Although this thing was not used to deal with the owner of the tomb, it could at least keep the armored figurines quiet.
When they returned to the palace, they did not dare to stay any longer and walked directly into the middle passage.
The passage was not long, and they soon entered a spacious hall.
The main hall is paved with green bricks. There is a dragon-shaped relief in the middle of the hall. Surrounding the relief are five tall stone doors. The stone doors are all closed, except for the stone door in the middle. The huge stone sealing the door has been broken.
Don't know whose handiwork it is.
This should be the outermost coffin room. The stone door in the middle leads to the second coffin room inside. The surrounding stone doors that have not been opened should be filled with weapons and armor from the intention of the tomb owner in building the tomb.
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Generally speaking, no matter how many layers a coffin has, they are wrapped in layers, like peeling an onion, and are opened layer by layer until the innermost coffin is exposed.
However, this tomb owner did not build this underground tomb according to the specifications of the tomb. To be precise, this should be an underground palace that he built for his afterlife. Therefore, the specifications of the tomb are more like a normal hall than a common one.
tomb style.
"The structure of this tomb is also different from the tombs on the upper level." Fangyuan observed.
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This tomb follows some styles of the Central Plains, but has been mixed with some other elements, which should be the influence of the early Miao tribe. This clan may have been assimilated by ethnic minorities during the long process of migration and adaptation."
Climbing in through the gap in the opened stone door, they arrived at the second-floor coffin room.
The shape of the coffin room is basically the same as the outside, but the scale is much smaller. There is still a stone door with a hole in the middle, and there are only two stone doors on both sides.
"It seems that the previous tomb robbers have entered the main tomb chamber." Fangyuan said while looking at the broken stone door.
Si Yueru nodded without saying anything. The thousand-year-old corpse she encountered before was the owner of the tomb. Since it was already jumping around outside, it was natural that someone had entered the main tomb chamber and woke it up.
After passing through the second stone door, a palace-like hall appeared in front of them.
The hall is quite large, with tables, chairs, curtains, screens and other items all available, but they are all carved from a single piece of stone and are still intact despite being thousands of years old.
Instead of the bed, what appeared in the middle of the palace was a huge jade platform, with a transparent crystal coffin placed on it. The lid of the coffin was flipped to one side, and the interior of the coffin was empty.
This is the last level of the coffin room, where the tomb owner lives.
Although the thousand-year-old corpse was not there for the time being, the three of them could not help but be more vigilant. This was their lair. Once it returned, they would be trapped and die here.
There are also two stone doors on both sides of the palace, and Si Yueru also noticed a detail. The small door on the left had obvious signs of damage, but it had not been opened yet.
Considering the empty coffin, it is not difficult to guess that the tomb robbers woke up the thousand-year-old corpse when they broke into the door. What happened next can be roughly estimated.
Judging from the situation along the way, the intruders before them seemed to have ignored the peripheral side chambers and did not care about the funerary objects in the side doors. They broke through two stone doors in a row and rushed straight into the main tomb chamber.
appearance.
The scene before her eyes gave Si Yue a familiar feeling of déjà vu.
According to common sense, if the people who broke into this place were ordinary tomb robbers, they would have no reason to let go of the funerary objects in the side room outside. At the very least, they would open the stone door and take a look at the things inside.
Their approach obviously goes against the greed in human nature.
Speaking of which, didn't the group of tomb robbers turn a blind eye to the burial objects in the Han Dynasty tomb above? The main chamber of that tomb was clearly within easy reach, but they didn't even bother to open it and take a look.
"What exactly is hidden in this tomb that people are determined to obtain?" Si Yueru's eyes wandered around the stone door.
"Yueru, come and take a look, this seems to be an altar." Fangyuan's voice sounded from the corner of the palace, interrupting Si Yueru's thoughts.
Si Yueru looked up and saw Fangyuan and Huang Qiuding there, curiously looking at a stone table that looked like an altar table.
When I walked in and took a look, there was a metal base placed on the altar table, holding a skull the size of a gong. Although the edges and corners had been smoothed, I could vaguely tell it was a cow skull.
The cow skull is also densely engraved with inscriptions, and there are intricate patterns painted around it. No wonder the mooing sound heard before, it turns out that the eye of this formation is a cow skull.
"It's strange. If it's just an animal skull, it wouldn't be better to just break it. Why do you need to prepare a special magic weapon to break it?" Fang Yuan said curiously, and also reached out and knocked on the cow skull a few times.
Si Yueru was so frightened that she quickly stopped her: "Don't move around. Fortunately, this is just a sound-controlled array. If it were anything else,
Be careful, if you touch it casually, something will happen."
Fangyuan immediately retracted his hand. After this night's encounter, he knew what was good and what was good, and obeyed Si Yueru's words.
"This skull cannot be broken easily. If you break it, although the thousand-year-old corpse can no longer control dead objects, those uncontrolled human figurines are still a big trouble."
Si Yueru paused and continued to explain: "It will be different if the magic door is broken. Those dead creatures will return to their original place and will no longer run around and jump around."
"Oh." Fangyuan nodded as if he understood.
"Ignore this method for now. There is nothing chasing them anyway. It doesn't matter whether it is broken or not. It's better to find the exit first. I guess it should be here."
The other two people nodded in unison, separated from each other and began to carefully search for signs of the mechanism. The focus was of course on the area near the empty coffin.
Si Yueru walked to the stone door of the side room and wondered what was there that made the mysterious intruder so determined to get it?
"Yueru, look at the door!" Just as Si Yueru was looking at the stone door intently, Fangyuan's voice sounded in her ears again, but this time, there was unconcealable panic in her tone.
Si Yueru turned around and saw a person appearing at the door where they came in. It was "Ma Weiguang". She didn't know where he came from, and there was no water on him.
As if noticing Si Yueru's gaze, "Ma Weiguang" turned his head and stared straight at her, as if he wanted to eat Si Yueru alive.
Seeing "Ma Weiguang" appear again, Si Yueru suddenly felt a little numb.
This resentful charm is very powerful. Si Yue has fought against it before. The cave where the Seven Yin Gathering Formation was located was quite big, so you can deal with it by tossing and turning. Now that it is blocked in this closed coffin, it will be difficult to deal with it.
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"Fang Yuan, hurry up and use that skull to break that formation!" Si Yueru roared, and she could only hope that the magical weapon obtained from the bones would work.
Almost at the same time, "Ma Weiguang" raised the saber in his hand and rushed towards Si Yueru.
The space in the coffin room was not large, and "Ma Weiguang" rushed in front of Si Yueru almost instantly. Si Yueru didn't even have time to draw the soul-fixing talisman, so she could only dodge the saber in his hand in embarrassment.
Compared with Ma Weiguang himself, "Ma Weiguang's" movements were a bit stiff, but his strength was surprisingly strong. With the two offsetting each other, Si Yueru could barely avoid the blade, but she did not dare to block his movements.
Blocking once was like hitting an iron plate, the pain made Si Yueru's hands and feet weak.
Huang Qiuding's poisonous insects were of no use against the possessed evil spirit, and she was so anxious that she was wandering around.
Si Yueru dodged to avoid another crosscut by the saber in "Ma Weiguang's" hand. She turned sideways, formed an exorcism seal with her right hand, and patted him on the shoulder, knocking him staggering.
Taking advantage of this gap, Si Yueru rushed to Fangyuan and shouted: "Fangyuan, hurry up and get that formation!"
"But, I don't know how to do it!" Fang Yuan was so anxious that she almost cried.
In the time it took for these two sentences, "Ma Weiguang" had already recovered from the evil-exorcism seal, and once again beat Si Yueru to a pulp, unable to find any space to speak.
"Bah!"
Unable to dodge, the sharp blade slashed under Si Yueru's ribs, leaving a trail of blood on her ribs.
These dead creatures are tireless monsters. In a short period of time, Si Yueru's body has been covered with seven or eight injuries. Although they are all minor injuries, if this continues, Si Yueru will be dragged to death by him.
Chapter completed!