Chapter Nineteenth: Coffins and Writings

  And now Jiang Yunshui, he was so confused that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't figure out why he suddenly fell asleep for no reason and then entered what seemed like a "nightmare".

  Even keeping a dangerous movement, half of his body was protruding from the cliff, looking down at the bottom of the deep abyss.

  Just as Jiang Feng thought of this, he wondered if he had thought of something. Was it that he had fallen asleep so strangely, and was it related to the tower-shaped object and the green coffin he saw below?

  However, Jiang Yunshui did not dare to look again. He didn't want to risk getting trapped in that "nightmare" once more. Maybe he could escape from it once, but if he came back again, it would be hard to say whether he could get out clearly or not.

  Moreover, staying in this place, Jiang Yunshui doesn't think it's better than the two places he escaped from. The dangers of those two places he could still see and know when they would appear, but the dangers of this place are silent and stealthy, and then people sink into them. If you're not careful, you'll lose your life here in a muddle.

  However, if he really wanted Jiang Yunshui to leave, he couldn't do that, but the only place he could stay was where he came from.

  Five steps to his left, the rock face disappeared, and three steps to his right, it was bare, so if he wanted to leave, he could only follow the path leading down to the depths below.

  Jiang Fengshui crouched there scratching his head, to put it bluntly he was now just a kid who hadn't even reached the age of majority, although at home he had been tempered by his mother and was considered better than his peers, but after all he was still an eighteen-year-old kid.

  Jiang Yunshui also has this characteristic at this age, he is curious about everything unknown and mysterious, and this curiosity will only grow stronger with time.

  After scratching his hair vigorously, Jiang Feng stood up. He wanted to go for a walk alone on the plank road, take a look at the pagoda-like object, and most incredibly, the green coffin.

  Having made up his mind, Jiang Fengshui really came to the front plank road and took a few deep breaths before taking his first step towards the plank road.

  The plank creaked out a "creaking" sound, and Jiang Yunshui hesitated whether to withdraw his own step. However, when he gradually pressed the weight onto the plank under his foot, it did not break or crack, and only then did Jiang Yunshui feel slightly at ease.

  Jiang Fengshui grasped the handrail chain and began to move his feet, but he was still being cautious, after all, this plank road looked like it had been around for far too long.

  After walking for over a dozen steps, the swaying of the plank road was also quite fierce. Jiang Yunshui let out a long sigh and stopped, readjusting his somewhat stiff body before continuing along the plank road.

  He gradually got used to the swaying of the plank road and the sound of the river, but now he was getting closer to those coffins hanging on the wall.

  Li Dejiang's coffin was the nearest one made of wood, and the outer shell had already cracked open, revealing the inner coffin. When Li Dejiang approached, he stood under this coffin.

  He looked up at the coffin, which was of unknown age, and the patterns on it had become blurred. However, on the outer coffin, there were four bronze-green corner wraps on each of the four corners.

  These four bronze green wrapped corners look like the head of a beast, but these four beasts are of the same shape, which can be seen from this Jiang Yunshui.

  After stopping for a while under the first coffin on the plank road, Jiang Feng continued to move forward. This time, there was a coffin every dozen or so steps, some made of wood and others made of stone.

  But what truly shocked Jiang Feng was that, fifty steps away from him, hanging above his head, was a "coffin" that looked as if it were made of yellow mud.

  But when Jiang Fengshui slightly lifted his foot to take a look, he found that this was like a "yellow mud coffin" and it didn't seem like what he had thought at all.

  This "yellow mud coffin" was absolutely not like the ordinary yellow mud he had seen before, because the density of this thing was different from those. Even when Jiang Yunshui used the pearl in his hand to shine on it, a layer of luster appeared on the surface of this "yellow mud coffin".

  Jiang Fengshui looked at it for a long time before leaving this particular coffin on the cliff wall, which was also quite unusual. As he walked away, Jiang Fengshui couldn't help but wonder who was buried inside this coffin? What was the origin of that yellow mud-like thing?

  However, when he walked seventy steps further, he was shocked again by the coffin that hung there, because this coffin was hanging vertically on the wall of the abyss, and its shape looked like a sword!

  Jiang Feng's eyes widened in shock as he stared at the coffin, he couldn't think of who would use such a thing. It was too unbelievable, how could a coffin look like a sword?

  It wasn't until he had spent a considerable amount of time under this strangely shaped coffin that Jiang Fengshui finally took a step forward. However, during the time he lingered under the coffin, he discovered some special features about it. On the side of the coffin, there was an engraved mark that looked like a sword shape.

  The inscription on the sword-shaped coffin was the same as the coffin, which gave Jiang Yunshui some clues, but he didn't dare to confirm it, after all, many people would not believe this matter if it were said.

  After a hundred steps, Jiang Feng followed the plank road and approached the depths of the abyss, but there was still a long distance from the real bottom, only to say that the plank road was winding down.

  Jiang Fengshui looked at the plank road, still fifty steps away from the first turn, and two of the five coffins hanging in front also caught his attention.

  Without staying for a moment beside the first two coffins, Jiang Feng arrived at the third coffin. This coffin was entirely green in color, but it wasn't made of any stone or jade, rather it was completely made of wood. From the grain on its surface, this wooden coffin seemed to be carved from the heartwood of an enormous tree trunk and directly chiseled into a coffin shape.

  Jiang Fengshui took a closer look and found that the lid of this wooden coffin was also carved, the only special place was that there were very small cut marks on the "big yin head" of the wooden coffin, it seemed that the person who was put in this coffin at that time entered from the "big yin head".

  It's just that if it wasn't as heavy as Jiang Yunshui's all morning, the seal at the "big yin head" wouldn't be easy to find either.

  After sighing under the wooden coffin, Jiang Fengshui skipped over the fourth coffin and came to the fifth one. This coffin was similar to the previous one he saw, both of which had a bronze color, but some parts of this coffin had green copper rust.

  However, this copper coffin is still different from the one Jiang Yunshui saw before. The lid of the copper coffin is undulating, looking like mountains and valleys. And on the body of the coffin, it is also different from what he has seen along the way, with all the carvings depicting mountains, rivers and canyons.

  Looking at the things on top of the coffin, Jiang Younian estimated that the person buried in this coffin was a famous and influential figure in his lifetime. He must have been a real ruler who had dominated a region, otherwise he would not have made his own coffin look like this after death, thinking that even after death, he wanted to take another look at his mountains and rivers.

  Jiang Fengshui lingered under the coffin for a long time, then looked ahead and walked a few more steps before turning to the left wall of the abyss, where many coffins of different styles and materials were also suspended.

  Just as Jiang Feng was about to turn the corner, his peripheral vision swept across the wall of the abyss. Under the light reflected from the stones embedded in the wall, he saw that there were some words carved on the surface!

  These characters were familiar to Jiang Meng, because from the time he was old enough to read, his mother had taught him some unusual and ancient characters. And now the script he saw was "Jīn Wén", also known as "Zhōng Dǐng Wén".

  This is roughly composed of thirty "钟鼎文" characters in two lines, but the last dozen or so are obviously carved by someone who was not careful, so the characters are somewhat unclear, and even extremely sloppy. However, the first dozen or so Jiang Yunshui knew what they meant.

  According to the meaning expressed by the previous dozen or so "Zhong Ding Wen" characters, it means that this place is extremely dangerous and one must be extremely careful. Having arrived at this most critical juncture, those dozen or so "Zhong Ding Wen" characters behind are no longer something that Jiang Yunshui cannot understand.

  However, it should be connected to the front, and people who enter here are careful about what things, Jiang Yunshui is not dead yet, and he has been searching for a while, as a result, except for these thirty or so "Zhongdingwen" nothing else was found, only to continue forward.

  This time Jiang Yunshui was even more careful about the wall beside him, no longer focusing all his attention on those strange and peculiar coffins.

  However, after Jiang Fengshui walked more than 50 steps, he still didn't see any other characters carved on the wall of the abyss. He could only walk another dozen or so steps before turning back along the plank road to the other side, which was exactly opposite the direction he had been walking in previously.

  The number of coffins hanging on this side is not much less than the opposite side, Jiang Fengshui continued to walk forward while sizing up the coffins and also keeping an eye on the wall beside him.

  Twenty steps later, Jiang Yunshui stopped again. He looked up at the coffin above him and couldn't help but take a deep breath of cool air. This coffin was really too big, it could probably fit three people inside.

  It completely blocked the plank road that Jiang Feng had walked on in the past, and even extended a long way beyond the plank road. Moreover, Jiang Feng saw that another part of the coffin was inserted into the wall of the abyss.

  Jiang Fengshui walked to the bottom of the coffin, using the pearl in his hand to illuminate it. After shining on more than half of it, just as he was about to give up and leave, there were a dozen or so words carved at the edge near the wall of the abyss.