Chapter 7: Destroying the Guardian of the Separate Cave Heaven

  After the centipede's eyes were stained with realgar wine, it looked extremely painful, dragging its huge body around and rushing wildly as if it had lost direction and could no longer attack us.

  Everyone shouted and drew their weapons to attack the monster. Gu Ling also drew her curved dagger, and Sima Lin joined the battle with his Luoyang shovel.

  Lao Liu's feet were on the centipede's body, like a heavenly general, holding a knife and aiming at the weak point where the centipede's legs were connected. With a fierce slash, the entire stone tomb was filled with shouts and screams. The centipede, which had lost its ability to see, soon fell under everyone's attack.

  Everyone gathered around to take a closer look at the giant monster after it was killed. The creature's entire body was blood-red, including its thousands of legs. It seemed that the corpses inside the stone tomb were also its doing.

  Sim Lin seemed to be a little sad at this time, holding the Luoyang shovel and still hitting the centipede's head with force.

  After smashing for a long time, the shovel had already been turned over and could only be abandoned. With a bitter sigh in his mouth, he muttered: "Brothers, today I avenged you all. Wait until I hit this beast's head to vent your anger."

  Everyone knew his suffering but no one came forward to stop him. Gu Ling used her hand to wipe away the white paste on my face and said with concern, "Ghost Dao brother, are you okay?"

  I smiled and said: "If it weren't for your careful examination of the body just now, everyone might not have been able to make preparations in time."

  Sixth brother inserted his big knife behind him and walked over with a wronged expression, saying: "I also have a lot of plaster on my face, why doesn't anyone wipe it for me?"

  Everyone burst out laughing at that. The centipede head had been beaten to a pulp by Sima Lin, and the scoop was bent out of shape.

  "Alas, this evil creature has been rampant here for hundreds of years, relying on the poisonous fog in its mouth to suck out the essence and blood of countless people, leaving behind so many corpses on the ground. Today, it encountered us and was finally punished by the Bodhisattva." The second brother shook his head and sighed.

  "Yes, I don't know what kind of person the tomb owner is. He actually put such a monster in this stone room. No wonder he's not afraid of people coming in." The third brother continued from where the second brother left off.

  The centipede is dead. There shouldn't be any other monsters in this stone room, otherwise they would have fought each other to the death according to the principle that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

  After getting rid of the monster, everyone began to search for the tomb owner's burial place. After searching, it was found that this stone room was empty and there were no signs of the tomb owner's burial, not even a single piece of silver was found. Everyone couldn't help but curse and felt like they had been cheated.

  "There must be a hidden passage leading somewhere else." Sima Lin said with the intuition of a seasoned detective, "There must be some kind of mechanism."

  After finishing speaking, he looked at San Di. San Di smiled and nodded to Sima Lin, then started searching inside the stone room, hoping to find some kind of mechanism or something.

  Searched the entire stone room, didn't find anything unusual. The only place that hadn't been checked was the middle stone tablet. At this moment, staring at the stone tablet and muttering: "You don't move me, I won't move you. You move me, I will definitely move you."

  I saw him standing there thinking and I walked over to ask: "Old Three, is there something wrong with this stone tablet?"

  "Yes, I think this is where the mechanism is triggered. But it says 'You move, I don't; you don't move, I do; if you move, I will definitely move'. I'm afraid that if I trigger it, something abnormal might happen, but after looking for so long, I haven't found anything that can activate a hidden device. Let's take a gamble."

  After finishing speaking, he ordered everyone to hide in the corner and pick up the Luoyang shovel from the ground and throw it far away at the stone tablet.

  Only a loud noise was heard from the eastern corner of the wall, but no hidden weapons were seen shooting out from the stone monument. After waiting for a while and seeing that there was nothing unusual, everyone headed towards the place where the sound came from. As they approached, they saw that a stone gate had opened on the wall, revealing a long flight of stairs leading deep into the underground tomb. Seeing that there was now a passageway, everyone cheered in excitement.

  At this time, Sima Lin suddenly said: "You see there are words behind this stone gate."

  "After finishing, he recited: 'Those who enter my tomb, please automatically start the mechanism to close this door and then retreat along the original path. Although you have killed the guardian, if you do not heed this warning, you will inevitably make yourself taste the suffering of the eighteen layers of hell.'"

  I raised the torch and shone it on the stone gate, which was not only engraved with ancient characters but also carved with many strange totems. They were all patterns of fierce ghosts and monsters, and they looked terrifying.

  "Going down will definitely have great danger behind us as the tomb owner said, so it's still possible for us to get out now."

  Everyone looked at me with a suspicious expression, "But there must be many rare treasures below." I continued. When they heard that there were treasures below, everyone suddenly showed a surprised expression again.

  "Alas, it's true that people die for wealth and birds perish for food. Just a moment ago, he was still full of doubts, but now his face is suddenly filled with surprise." I sighed silently to myself.

  Sixth brother was particularly excited, puffed up his neck and said: "What's there to be afraid of, big brother? We've already taken down this centipede, what else is there to fear? With you here, even the most ferocious ghosts and zombies are nothing but a piece of cake."

  My sixth brother's words left me speechless, in his heart I had become a role that could see ghosts and kill them, see gods and kill them. It made me think of the time when I met the Green Hair Corpse King in Guzhang, if two or three green hairs jumped out from below, everyone would be finished.

  "Now that we're here, we should at least go down and take a look. Who knows what dangers or treasures lie ahead? It's not like we can just turn back now." Sima Lin looked at me as if seeking my opinion.

  "Since Sima brother and Sixth brother both say so, how about everyone's opinion?" I asked the crowd.

  "Onmyodo brother, as long as you're here, I'm not afraid of anything." Kou said with concern, but his words gave me immense courage. My third and second brothers also told me to go take a look.

  "Alright, since everyone agrees, let's go down. Who cares about the knife mountains and fire seas? Even if King Yama is down there, with our brothers around, we'll definitely make him step aside."

  After finishing speaking, he stepped forward towards the stone steps. The long stone steps led all the way to the depths of the ground. It was very strange that the geological structure here was covered with granite on the outer periphery of the mountain, but the granite disappeared completely here.