The most wonderful thing about this wind burial tomb is the arrangement of these limestone columns.
Whether it is the ghost hand fern or the red saltpeter powder, if I have such a rich family background and can take out these objects, I will also arrange them. The difficulty lies in how to reconcile yin and yang.
These limestone columns are responsible for this task. Their arrangement is scattered all over the place. As a whole, it is a famous formation - the nine-son chain formation.
This is a military formation in ancient military tactics, which originated from the nine-palace method of Qimen Dunjia. The arrangement is like a nine-palace grid and intersects with each other. The most essential part is the word "trapped".
The arrangement of the last heavenly official can be said to be ingenious.
The power of the two tombs of water and fire is inherently mutually exclusive, and the forces of water and fire are poured here all at once, as panicked as chaotic soldiers. The last heavenly official used these limestone pillars as powerful soldiers and laid out the nine-character chain formation, which naturally trapped this chaotic Feng Shui Qi field and slowly dissolved it.
He treated the Feng Shui arrangement here as a battle, and he was still the winner. On the contrary, I, as a descendant, am not a master of military tactics. I have only occasionally read some ancient formations and cannot do it at will. Even if I stand in front of this arrangement, I can't see the way for most of the day.
To find the life gate here, the key is to break the formation.
The nine-character chain formation is a well-known ancient formation. The method of breaking it has long been determined. The most critical point is to attack its running joints fiercely to make it ineffective, and then hit the top position to make its back empty, and this formation will break by itself.
The location of this robbery hole is exactly at the joint of the Nine Sons Linked Array. The limestone pillars turn strangely here, which is the so-called Nine Bends and Turns. If a robbery hole is dug here, it will naturally reach the next level of tombs.
"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a master of the Northern School, or even a descendant of the legendary General Fa Qiu, an old rival of our ritual officials. We built the tomb, and they robbed the tomb. Don't say that the ritual officials are vicious. It's really that the opponents are too powerful. It's hard to defend without some insidious and vicious means. For example, these people have too sharp eyesight. They can see at a glance that this is the belly of the stacked tombs and burials, and they directly find the location of the next level of tombs. Unfortunately, they still fell."
While muttering, I stood up and carefully explored this old crooked rock pillar.
These tomb robbers found the right location, but the way to enter was wrong. The real portal should be nearby. If nothing unexpected happens, the possibility of it on the rock pillar in front of me is the greatest.
"Got it!"
After a moment, a smile appeared on my face.
When my fingers brushed against the rock column, I clearly felt a slight difference.
The touch there was not the roughness of the rock column itself, but rather very sharp, like the edge of a blade brushed horizontally.
Brother Yaozi turned on the mining lamp, and I almost lay down there to observe carefully, and then I saw the door clearly.
It was a very, very fine gap, like a hair, placed on this uneven and weird limestone column, it was almost completely invisible.
"These tomb robbers are quite pitiful."
Zhang Xinya muttered: "The door is right in front of them. Not only did they dig such a long hole, but they also forced themselves to go in."
"You can't say that. Such hidden doors are extremely hidden. I guess there must have been an earthquake in the hundreds of years after these tomb robbers failed, which made the door slightly embedded. Otherwise, this kind of door would be impossible to touch, let alone see the slightest gap.
I can only say that we are lucky. There are these tomb robbers in front of us, and God is also helping us in the back. We found the right place. If the earthquake happened before these tomb robbers came, maybe we would have nothing to do now. These guys can find the right place. If there was any damage or flaw in the door at that time, it would definitely not escape their eyes."
I shook my head and groped along the gap bit by bit. After a while, the shape of the door was clear.
This is a "Gui" door.
Tomb doors like this are very common in this shape, because the joints are easier to make and highly concealed.
This kind of "Gui" door is most likely an embedded door, and it is disposable, with the entrance behind it.
I tried to push it inside, and there was a "booming" sound inside the rock column, and some gravel rolled to the ground.
The door moved, and the shape of the tomb door could be clearly seen.
However, that's all. No matter how hard I tried, the tomb door didn't move at all.
"What's going on?"
Brother Yaozi asked suspiciously, "Is there any other mechanism?"
"It should be gone."
I shook my head: "Maybe the earthquake damaged the door. It was originally tightly fitted, but there were cracks, which means that the tomb door is a little tilted, just like a crooked screw, it's stuck!"
"Let me try!"
Brother Yaozi pulled me to one side, gently patted the "Gui" door, roared, and suddenly exerted force.
With a loud bang, the "Gui" gate was pushed back several dozen centimeters in an instant, and the entire rock column began to crack.
"Where is the entrance?"
Brother Yaozi retreated breathlessly: "It has been pushed to the end, where is the entrance?"
"Maybe... I guessed wrong?"
I was also a little dumbfounded. The "Gui" gate had reached the end, but there was no entrance.
I had to move closer to observe more carefully, and found a metal slide on the ground. This slide was originally pressed by the Gui gate, and now it was completely exposed in front of us with the movement of the Gui gate. There were some rusty metal parts inside, which were very delicate.
"Although I guessed wrong, I didn't find the right door."
I laughed and said, "There shouldn't be any accidents this time. This 'Gui' door is not the tomb door, but something like a mechanical button. You see, there is a metal slide underneath, connected to the real tomb door. To put it bluntly, it uses the principle of leverage. Press this 'Gui' door, and the real tomb door will open..."
After all, I have only one meaning - although I guessed wrong, I still found the real tomb door.
"Where's the tomb door?"
Zhang Xinya's face was dark, and she went straight to the point: "According to what you said, the button was pressed, but there was no response!"
"This..."
I scratched my head: "Look, this metal slide is rusty, which means that the mechanism is a bit old. This thing is just like modern machinery. It is not flexible after aging, and... God knows how many levers are connected to each other. Generally speaking, the longer the reaction time, the heavier the tomb door is. To open it, more levers are needed. Let's wait a little and let them move around and warm up..."
Zhang Xinya curled her lips and was about to mock me. At this time, there was a loud "boom" under her feet, mixed with bursts of "clicking" mechanical operation sounds.
A crack appeared silently on the ground.
The crack was very long, and I'm afraid it extended at least dozens of meters.
"Damn it, the tomb door is right under our feet!"
Brother Yaozi exclaimed: "How big is this tomb door?"
The size of the tomb door doesn't seem to be the most important issue now, escaping is the most important thing!
The tomb door is on the ground, which means the passage is vertically downward!
This is called a tomb, but it is more of a prison, and it cannot be judged by common sense. There are ways to kill people everywhere. Who the hell knows how deep it is below? If you really fall down, you will definitely die or be disabled!
"Run!"
I yelled and headed into the ghost hand fern not far away.
In fact, if we talk about danger, I am the most dangerous. After Brother Yaozi pushed open the Guizi door, he and Zhang Xinya retreated a little, but I ran over to study the slide. Now the situation is not right. The two retreated in the blink of an eye, and I am more miserable...
Boom!
There was another loud noise underground, like a bomb exploding, making people's ears buzz. The soil on the ground collapsed instantly, and the tomb door opened just like that...
No, to be precise, it shouldn't be described as opening, but rather bouncing open, very suddenly and very swiftly.
My feet were empty, and I plunged into the endless darkness without even a chance to scream.
"It's over, the Guizi Gate shouldn't be so broken!
That thing is connected to the tomb door, it should be pressed slowly, and the tomb door will slowly open...
If Brother Yaozi pushed it in all at once, wouldn't the tomb door collapse all at once? Unfortunately, the mechanism has been out of service for a long time and is slow to react. It came suddenly and was hard to defend against. I deserved my bad luck. This is the result of not being good at learning skills!!"
As I fell into the darkness, this was the only thought left in my mind...