Chapter Twenty-Five: Golden Silk Cushion

  The stone gate was melted open, and this became the only way for people to survive in this place now. With the appearance of the opening on the stone gate, the dark tumors that were rushing towards Zha Qian and others suddenly stopped.

  This gave them a glimmer of hope, but for the time being, they couldn't escape from Cha Qian and his men. They were all deeply moved in their hearts. It seemed that just as Du Zhong had said, after the stone gate was opened, this place would indeed become a forbidden land for these evil spirits.

  Pang San brought his men to charge towards the mouth of the valley, followed by Jin Douzi and Du Zhong. At this time, only Cha Qian and his men from Haoziying and Chuanshanmen Qinling were left here.

  Zha Qian said to Qin Lingdao: "You go in first! I'll wait for someone!"

  Qin Ling also knew that he couldn't be of much help at this time, so he nodded towards Cha Qian and slipped into the tomb.

  Then, Commander Zhang shouted loudly to the less than ten brothers of his own Consuming Camp: "Brothers! You go in first, I'll wait for Third Brother here!"

  Most of the people in Haoziying didn't move, and one of them said to Cha Qianzong: "Second brother! Brothers don't like to hear this!"

  Cha Qian glanced at several brothers around him and knew that saying anything more would be unfair to them, so he stopped talking.

  Those yin tumors that didn't dare to cross the thunder pool were now stirring, after all, the tomb was where they had to stop, and Cha Qian and others hadn't entered yet, and these yin tumors weren't far from Cha Qian and others.

  Zha Qian gazed at the surging dark masses under the firelight, knowing that Zhou Futong and his men would definitely not make it. Now he himself couldn't really bring all the people from the Haoziying camp to their deaths in this place.

  "He shouted loudly: 'Old Three! Take the brothers back to find Old Six! I will definitely let Big Brother's son return safely!'"

  The tens of thousands of people from the Consuming Camps, blocked by the dark tumor, heard Commander Cha's shout and also knew that it was impossible to rush past those things in front of them.

  "Be careful, Second Brother! I'll go join Old Six and think of another plan!"

  Cha Qianzong was now too late to say anything, those dark masses surged towards them again, more frantic than before.

  Zha Qianzong, who looked back at the rear one last time, followed the figure of Haoziying people entering the tomb in front, and was also the last to enter the tomb.

  There is nothing special in the tomb chamber. It's just like the ones they've entered before, with two ear chambers on either side of the main tomb chamber.

  These two ear chambers are naturally burial objects. The people who entered earlier, such as Pang San Ye, are now in one of the ear chambers.

  As soon as Qin Ling saw Cha Qian enter, he walked over and said, "Cha Qian, this tomb is too ordinary."

  Zha Qian also looked around and indeed, as Qin Ling said, the tomb chamber was very ordinary, but it was precisely this ordinariness that made it seem strange.

  Because it is really mismatched with the outside danger of losing people's hands, this tomb chamber seems too mediocre.

  Pang San Ye came out of the left ear room, holding a clay jar in his hand. The jar was reflecting dazzling colors under the torchlight.

  Upon seeing this vase, even Qin Ling couldn't help but exclaim: "This place actually has 'Lang Tao Sha' - a rare ceramic piece!"

  The people who came out of the left ear room also looked at the pottery again after hearing Qin Ling say this, although they knew that this thing was absolutely unusual when they saw it earlier, but they didn't know what its origin was.

  Even the pottery jar couldn't be recognized by Zhang Qian's subordinates, but after Qin Ling's astonishment, he didn't say much, just took a few more glances at the pottery jar.

  The people here naturally all have their own purposes for coming, and although this vase is definitely worth a fortune, compared to what they want to find, it's not as valuable.

  Zha Qian didn't care about such things at this time, and he led the people from Huoziying to carefully examine the tomb chamber.

  Now the outside is surrounded by dark tumors, going out is to die, and if you want to leave this place, you can only find a way out from inside the tomb.

  It is said that when each tomb owner built this tomb, they would leave a secret passage. However, some of the secret passages were left by the people who built the tomb. The tomb owners mostly left secret passages for their descendants to enter and pay respects in the future. As for the people who built the tomb, they mostly did so to escape, fearing that once the tomb was completed, they would be trapped inside by the tomb owner and become a companion of the tomb owner.

  As for some other tombs with secret passages inside the tomb chamber, there are many strange and bizarre sayings.

  However, the hidden passage inside the tomb was the only way for people like Cha Qian and his men to leave this place, so in the end, Pang San Ye and others also found it inside the tomb.

  The chamber with two ear chambers can accommodate people like Zha Qian now, and these people will not let go of any place in this chamber.

  There is nothing special in either of the two ear chambers. Now there is only the main chamber, where on that seven-inch high platform a coffin was placed.

  Looking at the coffin, most people here didn't have any feeling because they had seen this thing too many times. Then Bai Peng, from the Earth Dragon Sect, slapped his palm on the coffin.

  Watching Bai Pengju's actions, no one here said anything. The five忍耐 of the White Dragon Sect are now left with only three, including him. It would be strange if he didn't hate the tomb master of this place.

  Although he also knew that the coffin might not be the real tomb owner, he still couldn't hold back his anger and said to the people around him: "This 'resurrection' matter will be handled by my Earth Dragon Sect!"

  The crowd didn't say a word, they all made way for the three people from the Earth Dragon Sect. Bai Peng and the other two each pulled out a long awl from their sleeves, their movements were skilled and practiced as they began to pry open the coffin at the "yin" position.

  There is a saying that "the coffin sinks for ten years, and the coffin lid is as hard as stone". It refers to a well-made coffin. After being buried, the coffin lid will gradually merge with the bottom over time. The place where the coffin lid meets the body of the coffin is called "Liu Yin" by all the undertakers.

  The first time someone tries to pry open the "sly yin" coffin, they might struggle for a whole day and still not be able to open it. In the end, they can only resort to brute force and break the coffin lid. However, once this is done, strange things will start to happen inside the coffin. Either the corpse will suddenly be stimulated by external air and become a zombie, or the buried objects will quickly leave behind "yearly filth".

  And what the Geelong faction is doing now, "slipping yin", is to slowly pry open the coffin lid, so that there can be a process of air circulation between the inside and outside of the coffin, and the possibility of the corpse changing inside is very small. The burial objects in it will not rot all at once!

  Bai Peng and the three men are now facing the coffin, although they didn't directly pry it open. However, when they were "sneaking in the shade", they were quite rough. If not for protecting the things inside the coffin from being damaged, they wouldn't have been so cautious.

  The three of them quickly circled around the coffin, then simultaneously inserted the long cone into the gap and let out a loud "huff" sound. The coffin lid emitted a dull thud, sounding like someone had struck a drum with great force.

  The coffin lid is now separated from the coffin body, and with the joint efforts of three people, the coffin lid was opened halfway. There was no corpse inside, but a set of bright new crown clothes were placed inside.

  And under the crown was a piece of golden silk cushion, this time everyone together lifted the coffin lid and looked inside.

  The crown was reduced to ashes due to prolonged exposure, without even being touched. This unexpected turn of events was anticipated by those familiar with the situation, but the golden silk lining underneath would not be so.

  The most important thing is that on the golden silk pad, a black silk thread was woven into many patterns. People who saw the pattern on it thought it looked like a topographic map.

  And it doesn't seem to be just one place, but rather several places that are simultaneously woven onto this golden silk cushion.

  The white swan was about to grab the golden silk cushion, but its arm was caught by someone beside it and couldn't move at all.

  Bai Pengju turned his head back on horseback, just in time to meet Wu Jiang's eyes that seemed to want to kill him. Bai Pengju sneered and said: "What? You also want this thing?"

  Wu Jiang slowly released Bai Pengju's arm and said: "This thing is not something you can move, don't forget that we are hired."

  Pang San Ye, who had been silent all along, suddenly said: "This thing is useless to me."

  After hearing what Pang San said, Bai Peng and Wu Jiang were about to take action to get the golden silk pad, but the doctor beside them snorted coldly.

  The two followed the sound and saw that Qin Ling was now standing beside Cha Qianzong, staring at them.

  Wu Jiang first withdrew his hand and bowed to Cha Qian, then retreated a few steps. Bai Peng hesitated several times before finally doing the same as Wu Jiang.

  Cha Qian didn't say anything, and a few people from the Haozi camp looked at Du Zhong, who had been silent since entering the tomb. Now he was even more speechless, like a dead man. As for Jinchouzhi, his face was full of indifference, with an attitude that said "take it if you want".

  Qin Ling said to Cha Qian: "Cha Qian, let me handle this matter."

  After seeing Cha Qian's silent consent, Qin Ling looked at the golden silk pad in the coffin. His right hand shot out like lightning and then withdrew, only then did everyone react, and the coffin was already empty of the golden silk pad, while Qin Ling had it clutched in his hand.

  After this move was revealed, everyone looked at Qin Ling with a new gaze. Even Pang San, who had been the first to invite him, took a serious look at him.

  "Good 'Thousand Mile Palm', indeed just like the rumors."

  Qin Ling didn't have much to gain from it, and handed the golden silk pad over to Cha Qian, but at this time, he heard someone on the side calling out: "There's a mechanism!"