Chapter Thirteen: The War Stone Essence Has Another Heavenly Cave

  At this time, the golden knife on my body suddenly shook violently. The urgent shaking sound of the golden knife reminded me of what Master said when he passed it to me: "Disciple, if this golden knife encounters a very strong yin-cold object, it will automatically alert you. If you encounter such a situation, the best way is to escape quickly."

  But judging from the current situation, escaping is definitely a bad idea. I don't want anyone among these people to get hurt.

  Houleng looked at my terrified face and asked uneasily: "Ghost Dao brother, what is a stone essence?"

  "This thing usually appears in the cemetery with extremely heavy yin energy and excellent feng shui, often carved by the tomb owner to guard the tomb, using sacred beasts or Bodhisattva Vajra statues to ward off evil spirits. They absorb the yin energy and the essence of the sun and moon in the precious land of the tomb, and after a long time, they become spirits and become the loyal guardians of the tomb owner."

  On the other hand, he ordered everyone to hurry up and support the sixth brother, taking advantage of the firelight to quickly retreat to the corner of the wall. At this time, the stone spirit was still following us slowly, strangely, it walked without making a sound, as if its entire body had no weight at all. The intense yin energy made everyone feel a bit breathless.

  When they came to the corner of the wall, unexpectedly, there was still some unburned pine oil in the stone lamp on the wall. Sima Lin saw this and hastily lit several lanterns with a torch, and the hall suddenly became bright.

  That stone spirit saw us retreat to the corner of the wall, as if it was what it had been waiting for, and a terrifying laugh of 'heh heh' came out of its mouth.

  I shielded the crowd behind me and pulled out the golden knife that was still shaking from my back, biting my tongue and spitting out fresh blood. At this time, it was already too late to draw the Five Mystical Trigrams on the ground. The stone spirit laughed as the grave hall suddenly echoed with the eerie laughter of countless vengeful spirits.

  Upon hearing the terrifying laughter, Sima Lin exclaimed: "My predecessors said that ghosts who can laugh out loud are extremely terrifying evil spirits and malevolent spirits. It seems that there is something even more terrifying in this tomb hall."

  "Could it be that there are countless evil spirits in this tomb? How come I didn't notice anything when I came in just now. It's clear that Shi Jing is playing tricks on us." Upon hearing Sima Lin's words, I couldn't help but think to myself.

  Everyone was shocked and hastily said: "Quickly cover your ears, ignorance is bliss."

  After finishing, he swung the golden knife and led the way to attack the stone essence. Since you won't come to attack me, I can't just sit and wait for death. The stone essence saw me attacking and swung its stone arm to block my golden knife. That stone arm seemed to have life, and where it was cut by my golden knife, it revealed a blood-red color.

  Seeing this, he was overjoyed and said loudly: "Since I can hurt you, I'm not afraid of not killing you. Today, I met you, Ghost Grandpa, you're unlucky."

  As we spoke, he swiftly swung his sword, forcing the Stone Essence to retreat continuously at an extremely fast pace, as if it had teleported away instantly, causing my every slash to land empty.

  "Was it just afraid of my Golden Sword earlier and didn't dare to show itself, hiding its dark energy and waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack on us? It seems that this thing is just an empty shell after all, although the heavy dark energy made my Golden Sword tremble."

  I couldn't help but secretly admire the ingenuity of this monster, and for now, there was nothing I could do about it. So I turned around and signaled to everyone to continue walking deeper into the tomb, letting the stone spirit follow silently behind us.

  Everyone rushed forward while conveniently lighting the stone lamps on the stone wall. With the guidance of the stone lamps, we were able to feel our way and finally found that this tomb hall was still an empty space without the treasure we wanted to find.

  At the end of the tomb hall is another connected stone chamber. After drilling into the stone chamber and lighting up the stone lamp, the entire stone chamber suddenly became bright.

  It's clear that the stone spirit has reached its limit, seeing us enter this stone room, it just lingered at the door and didn't dare to follow us in. This actually reduced a lot of our worries.

  This stone chamber is not very large, similar to a study room. The interior decoration is very grand, with various patterns painted on the four stone walls, mostly flying apsaras and Buddha's preaching pictures, the painting skills are extremely high. Some desks and chairs inlaid with glass are placed separately in each corner of the room.

  I think even if we don't find the treasure on this trip, taking these murals back intact can also sell for a good price.

  Compared to the previous tomb, this stone room is much smaller but has less foul air. Everyone walked here with bated breath and was already exhausted. They all felt that this was a great place to rest and took out dry rations and water from their bags to replenish their energy.

  Sitting on the ground, greedily eating dry rations, Sima Lin said: "Ghost Dao big brother thinks that along this road we've encountered centipedes and stone demons, although no one was injured, it's still quite an adventure. I'm afraid there are even more strange things happening under this stone room."

  I know what Sima Lin means. He must be regretting bringing us in to find the treasure now. It's a small matter if we don't find it, but if there are casualties, that would be a disaster that no one wants to see happen.

  Seeing Sima Lin a bit discouraged, I comforted him: "Don't worry, we've all been through thick and thin. If anything else happens, we can only adapt on the spot. At that time, I think we'll have our own way to deal with it. Now that we've come this far, going back would be laughable. In the future, when it's told in Jianghu, what face will we brothers have left?"

  Sim Lin nodded in agreement as soon as I said that. He turned his head to look at Sixth Brother Hou Ling, who was taking care of him. After resting, his body had no major problems, although he had blocked the vicious blow from Shi Jing.

  "Look at me, I'm fine now. With Brother Six being so robust, that one won't take my life, let alone with Sister-in-law taking care of me."

  After a brief rest, everyone shouldered their luggage and continued to move forward. They passed through the stone chamber and entered another long tomb passage. The tomb passage was filled with piles of corpses, and the sound of cracking bones came from underfoot. Seeing so many corpses in the tomb passage shocked everyone into silence along the way.

  I think the dead bodies under our feet should be the laborers who built this tomb. Previously, Sima Lin said that those who built tombs would often dig a secret passage to escape the tomb owner's massacre when they finished building the tomb. They knew they had to leave themselves a way out, otherwise, when the tomb was completed, it would also be the end of their lives. But here, the geological structure is very special, and the granite gets thicker as you get closer to the surface, so I think these people didn't even have a chance to dig a secret passage to escape. After entering, they could only wait for death.

  The deeper we went into the tomb passage, the more corpses there were. The extremely high piles of corpses greatly hindered our progress forward. Sometimes it was even necessary to use a Luoyang shovel to clear away some of the corpses in order to open up a path and continue walking, which was quite troublesome.

  Enduring the stench of corpses, they walked for more than half a watch. Finally, everyone arrived at the end of the tomb passage. In front of them was still a stone chamber, but this time there was no obstruction from the stone gate. They easily walked in.

  As soon as I entered this stone room, I felt a surge of gloomy energy. After lighting up the nearby stone lamps, everyone was shocked by the scene inside the room. Countless inverted square stone coffins were neatly arranged in an orderly manner within the stone room.