The task of prying the door of the tomb filled with molten iron was given to Yi Shiting, who was a professional at this.
Yi Shiting was not polite and walked over directly. After kicking the top stone nailed to the door, she took out a screwdriver-like thing from her backpack.
I have seen this thing on the computer before. It seems to be a thing specially used to cut iron. If the electric energy is stimulated all at once, it can instantly generate a high temperature of more than 3000 degrees, while the melting point of iron is only 1535 degrees, so it can directly melt the iron.
I see that Yi Shiting has even done something to this guy. I have to sigh that everything is progressing. Even his mother's tomb raiders have begun to use high technology to rob tombs.
The usage of this thing is also simple. There is a button on the handle. After Yi Shiting turned on the button, she could see the blade of the iron cutter turned red after a while. She pushed the blade to the place where the molten iron was poured. After a while, the iron that sealed the door gap began to melt, and the iron cutter also pushed in inch by inch. Then Yi Shiting began to pull it downwards. It took a short time for all the iron that sealed the door gap to be cut open.
Yi Shiting pushed the door and found that the tomb door shook a few times, but it still didn't open, so she was happy: "It's really cautious. It's okay that the door gap is filled with molten iron. There are door stones on both sides of the stone door. It seems that they are guarding against tomb robbers like us who don't take the usual route and run in from the back!"
After that, she took out the nail key from her backpack, dug it into the door gap that just crashed, and scratched it back and forth, and directly hooked the door stone behind the stone door. She pushed it forward fiercely, and heard a bang, and the door opened directly.
This technique... I have only one word - convinced!
This person's technique is definitely not worse than the fat man's!
The stone door opened, and after trying it, the air inside was not bad, so we went in directly.
This tomb is similar to the previous auxiliary room, but it is empty. There are murals all around the tomb. In addition, there is a tower as high as a person in the middle of the tomb. Next to the tower is a stone tablet with some obscure runes engraved on it. There is also a stone door on the opposite side that is exactly the same as the door just opened!
The structure of this tomb is weird enough!
It seems to be different from the tomb in the general sense.
As mentioned before, the structure of ancient tombs was actually built according to the style of residential buildings at that time. Unless it was an imperial mausoleum or some mausoleums of princes with particularly high specifications, the structure of general mausoleums was similar, which was nothing more than a front room, a main tomb room, two side chambers, and a side chamber, and then connected by a corridor. As for whether it was facing south or south, it was not certain. It had to be determined according to the Feng Shui position of the tomb, or according to local customs. There were great differences in different places, and the north and south were even more opposite. At least the few tombs I had visited so far were like this.
But the tomb in front of me was very special. The door of the side chamber was not a corridor, but directly entered another tomb chamber!
When I raised this question, Yi Shiting explained it to me. She said that this is called a "one-character tomb". It is not common. The most popular one was in the Western Regions. The structure of the tomb chamber is a "one" character. There is no corridor. One tomb chamber is connected to another tomb chamber with the same door. But it is hard to say how many tomb chambers there are. It depends on the identity of the tomb owner. The higher the status of the tomb owner, the more tomb chambers there are. It is said that a foreign tomb robber once found such a tomb in Dunhuang. It was the tomb of a Xiongnu Chanyu. The "one"-shaped tomb had 49 tomb chambers. The coffin of the tomb owner was in the middle tomb chamber. Unfortunately, this is a rumor in our industry. The tomb was discovered by the tomb robber. After stealing, the tomb robber never told the location, and even did not give the approximate range. So it has not been discovered by archaeologists until now, and it has not been excavated. So I don't know this kind of "one"-shaped tomb at all!
Entering the tomb chamber, several of us were directly attracted by the murals in the tomb chamber!
Generally speaking, the murals in the tomb mostly record the experiences of the tomb owner before his death, but the tomb we entered was not like that. The murals inside seemed to be painted with Buddhist Bodhisattvas!
What's even more strange is that the images of these Buddhist Bodhisattvas are completely different from what we normally know!
Bodhisattvas such as Guanyin Bodhisattva and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not appear here at all. They were all images of Bodhisattvas that I had never seen before. If there were no things like the demon-subduing pestle and the lotus throne in the murals, I would not even be sure that the portrait was a Buddhist Bodhisattva! !
"So familiar..."
At this time, Cao Yuan suddenly spoke, tilted his head and looked at the murals on the wall. After a long time, he suddenly said: "I seem to have seen these murals somewhere!!!"
After that, Cao Yuan frowned and pondered. After a long time, he slowly said: "This seems to be a Tantric Bodhisattva image!"
Tantric Buddhism, anyone who believes in Buddhism should be familiar with it.
Buddhism is divided into Tantric Buddhism and Zen Buddhism. Needless to say, Zen Buddhism is well known to everyone, but Tantric Buddhism is relatively unfamiliar to ordinary people because Tantric Buddhism is very different from the traditional Zen Buddhism in terms of doctrines and beliefs, and is relatively mysterious. Tibetan Buddhism is a branch of Tantric Buddhism that emerged after Tantric Buddhism entered Tibet in our country. It can be seen from Tibetan Buddhism that this Tantric Buddhism is not quite the same as the Buddhism in the impression of ordinary people.
In fact, Tantric Buddhism in China is not only Tibetan Buddhism. It is said that there was a branch called "Tangmi" in the Tang Dynasty. This branch was believed by only a few royal family members or nobles at that time, and it was not passed on to later generations. Instead, it was learned by the Koreans and the Japanese. Therefore, some "Tangmi" can still be seen in Korea and Japan. As for the authentic "Tangmi", it has been lost in our country for a long time.
It is said that the real "Tangmi" was created by a Taoist master who started worshipping Buddha and combined the essence of Buddhism and Taoism. He obtained the power of Bodhisattva. It seems that just arranging the statues of Bodhisattva can generate special power. Anyway, I can't explain it clearly with my little ink. I have only read some records from some ancient books, but those records are only a few words and very vague. I guess the authors who wrote those ancient books also have only a partial understanding!
However, I am not surprised that Buddhist murals appeared in ancient tombs in the Western Regions. As we all know, Buddhism originated in India, and the Western Regions are much closer to India than the Central Plains, so Buddhism appeared in the Western Regions much earlier than in the Central Plains!
"I remember it!"
At this time, Cao Yuan suddenly jumped up, and excitedly grabbed my hand and said: "The arrangement of Buddhist images in this tomb is a demon-suppressing formation of Tantric Buddhism, called the 'Thirty-six Evil Buddhas to Kill Evil Formation'. It seems that when Tantric Buddhism was first introduced to the Western Regions, a Taoist master who traveled here studied the things of Tantric Buddhism and combined them with Taoist magic formations to create it. The main purpose is to suppress evil spirits!!"
This little girl speaks heartlessly. As long as it is an academic issue, she says whatever she thinks of, completely disregarding other things, which makes me speechless. When I heard her say "Thirty-six Evil Buddhas to Kill Evil Formation", I immediately smiled bitterly. Turning my head, I saw that the faces of others really darkened!
What kind of evil-killing formation appeared in the ancient tomb, what's the point?
Isn't it because there is something in this ancient tomb that the magic formation is set up here to kill evil! ! !
This also corresponds to the cinnabar burial mound outside. It seems that this tomb is really not peaceful.
"Okay."
Qing Yi frowned and said, "You can't tell anything from these. Xiao Tian, you are proficient in all kinds of characters. Come and see what is recorded on the stone tablet in front of this tower!"
I nodded and walked over to carefully read the inscription on the stone tablet. It was not a big deal at first glance, but it also made me a little puzzled.
The inscription on it seems to be... Sanskrit, and it is ancient Sanskrit. Judging from the ancient trend of Sanskrit, it should be the earliest Sanskrit that appeared in the third century BC!
The earliest Sanskrit is the most difficult to recognize. Now there is probably no one in the world who dares to say that he can decipher all Sanskrit 100%!
And I... I only have a half-understanding of this.
After staring at the stone tablet for a long time, I only understood a few words incoherently. After hesitating for a while, I said to Qing Yi and the others: "To be honest, I can't decipher it completely. I can only see part of the content recorded on this stone tablet. It seems to say that there is a piece of Buddha bone relic in this small tower!"