Lao Gong kept on making faces and nodding his head, as if he was very satisfied with the scene before him.
My parents, without stopping their actions, crawled into the hole and continued to dig upwards!
A significant amount of soil had fallen, so I lent a hand, spreading and leveling it out on the surface of the tunnel, otherwise, all this soil would have been enough to block our section of the tunnel.
The solid sound of digging soil was replaced by a sibilant sound, as if the diggers had hit an empty space, and the shovels were inserted into the area without soil!
"Shine God, come up!" In the tunnel, my father's voice was a bit muffled.
I climbed up the hole, and there was another entrance above. When I emerged, my parents were right beside me.
The ground was especially flat, and the entrance they had dug out looked like a well.
The spotlight illuminated a space, and this place was similar to a cave, with an arched top, the place we stood was the largest, and the deeper we looked, it got smaller and smaller, the light could not reach there, only darkness remained.
On the other side, there was a vertical wall! The wall was made up of large, solid rocks... At first glance, it seemed that this had once been a cave that had been blocked up like this!
"Ze ze, they can be considered a male and female bandit!" Lao Gong exclaimed in admiration.
My mom looked a bit awkward and unnatural, forcing a smile.
My dad coughed, but said nothing.
After a moment, he said, "The color, smell, and wetness of the soil are different, and the soil from above is more permeable. I noticed the orientation of the appearance earlier, and it seems that our current position should be superimposed on it. The dug-out hole did not break through the ground to reach the appearance, which means that we have dug into a mountain wall leaning against the appearance."
My dad's words made me realize the situation at once.
At the time, Si Yan and I came to the exterior. Due to Jia Jin's reason, we moved to the innermost part of the exterior leaning against the mountain wall. Lao Gong felt there was a problem, even killed a female Taoist, dug up the ground, and firmly believed that there was a tomb underneath the exterior.
Later, Xu Shengbao found me and revealed the secret of Tian Gongquan.
These two things were combined into one.
The destruction of the Tian Shou Taoist Temple and the attack on Xian Dong Mountain were all because of the crime of "possessing a jade and attracting sin."
But I didn't expect that the tomb passage under the Taoist Temple was just used to raise She Shu, and the mountain wall above was where the tomb was located?
It's said to be a tomb, but in reality, there's nothing of a tomb here. Tian Gongquan was hidden away, and those Taoists from that time all "ascended to heaven" and became immortals.
Once upon a time, the mountain under Li Ping Mountain was renamed Xian Dong Mountain, and Tian Shou Taoist Temple claimed this place as their own...
The instant I thought of it, I was shocked and whispered to myself, "Xian Dong Mountain? Xian Dong? Tian Gongquan, inside the cave?!"
"Exterior... Is that really the exterior? Could it be the Taoist temple on Lei Ping Mountain?"
"The back of the temple is where Tian Gongquan's cave is located. This wall was sealed, and Tian Gongquan never emerged. Tian Shou Taoist Temple hid this place in plain sight, and no one would ever guess that such a secret was hidden in the mountains! This is far more hidden than actually putting the true mountain gate of Tian Shou Taoist Temple here!"
I said a lot of things, leaving my parents staring at each other, while Lao Gong kept nodding his head, just like a chicken eating rice.
Looking at the wall made of rocks, one can imagine that below the outside, there are Taoist residential buildings clinging to the mountain.
Xian Dong Mountain refers to something. Tian Gongquan was once so close to us.
But I was misled and thought it was underground in the appearance...
This must have been a two-in-one idea of Tian Shou Taoist Temple? They could raise ghosts and also have people with ill intentions killed? Of course, She Shu was raised by the current generation of Tian Shou Taoists. Perhaps the previous Tian Shou Taoist Temple wasn't so sinister in their methods.
"Father is becoming more and more powerful, the more he talks, the more I, Lao Gong, feel thirsty. Today, I must taste Tian Gongquan's flavors."
Lao Gong's head rolled sluggishly towards the deeper part of the cave.
After my parents nodded and gestured to me, they stepped forward to follow Lao Gong.
While I walked in, I looked at the mountain wall and indeed found something unusual.
The normally weathered rock wall would not be so flat, and there was indeed a cave here once. Over the years, a large number of Taoists polished and built it, leaving distinct human signs. Some stone surfaces even had incantations.
As the cave got smaller, from originally being about three or four meters high, in front of me there was only about two meters high and about two meters wide.
After walking forward for about ten meters, the cave came to an end, and another thick rock wall blocked our path!
The wall was well-packed and heavy, completely merged with the cave wall, far beyond human strength to push it away!
"Playing around with illusions." Lao Gong muttered and cursed.
My dad's face turned darker, and suddenly he said, "If there is Tian Gongquan, then the spring water... must be just behind this wall! The cave in front is sealed off with no trace of any entrance left, making it impossible for anyone to enter."
"Having another wall here is like a double insurance. Since Tian Shou Taoist Temple has concealed it from others, it's impossible for them to come in from that place again. That's why they opened up another passage, or perhaps the passage was already there, leading to the side of Tian Gongquan."
This line of reasoning is quite logical. Following that, he gently hit the wall with a shovel and I could hear the hollow sound, but the sound was even deeper, indicating that the wall was too thick.
"It's at least forty centimeters thick and cannot be dug through... unless there is explosives."
My dad furrowed his brow, stamping his feet as if listening to the ground's vibrations, and muttering to himself.
My dad seems to be analyzing the problem in his own professional field.
"……We need to come up with another plan. We can't go down the mountain. The world has changed, and we're not in Jinsun, so many things are difficult to handle." My mom whispered.
The atmosphere became much more tense.
Lao Gong tried to crawl into the wall directly.
A door and a wall can block people, but they cannot block ghosts.
But I didn't expect that as soon as Lao Gong had crawled into the wall, he was catapulted out with a thud, his entire face having rotted, only to slowly recover in the gray mist.
Lao Gong cursed loudly, indicating that some foolish thing had drawn spells on the other side of the wall!
"My dad exhaled softly, even more composed. 'The ground was added with stones, and I feel that the range within which this stone wall exists might have been filled with stones to prevent anyone from bypassing the door and digging in. Displaying God, this path is blocked, and it may be necessary to find another path. Perhaps the entrance is within Tian Shou Taoist Temple.' "
To be honest, I'm still not calm in my heart. It's mainly because we're so close to Tian Gongquan, just a stone's throw away.
"If we go to Tian Shou Taoist Temple again, that's another story. First, we don't know what kind of passage can directly pass through the mountain belly and reach the rear mountain wall within the appearance. More importantly, Tian Shou Taoist Temple may not be safe..."
Staring at the stone wall, I didn't answer my dad. For a moment, I remained silent.
Lao Gong stopped cursing and stared straight at the wall, also thinking and analyzing.
After a while, Lao Gong muttered, "If we can crawl into the wall, we can also figure out whether there are any traps on this wall, and whether Tian Gongquan is really inside. If we go to Tian Shou Taoist Temple in the end and finally find our way here, what if it turns out to be a big joke?"
