His meaning is already very clear.
The previous Vice-Yuanyang Monk came together with Mr. Ding Rui Pu.
The purpose has been achieved.
It's just that when he went out, Ding Rui Pu killed someone. The two here died for this reason, and by the way, they also became the evil corpses guarding the tomb path!
It's quite understandable after a slight thought. Either the others died in the more dangerous area inside, or after achieving the goal, Ding Rui Pu used a strategy to kill everyone here.
"Not necessarily the things you want are still inside. Once you've come, go further inside, it won't matter." The old Gong continued.
Fei Fang remained silent.
After a relatively dry hour of walking, this tomb path finally reached its end.
What came into sight were two particularly thick stone doors, their joints broken and lying on the ground.
There were fresh bloodstains and footprints on the ground.
Continue to walk further inside, and there are more and more obvious bloodstains.
After about ten meters along the tomb passage, the view suddenly opened up!
This was a huge, square tomb chamber. Without the light from a flashlight, the interior of the tomb, on all four walls, had bronze candlesticks flickering dimly.
These candlesticks were shaped like some kind of animal with a very large mouth and an even rounder belly. One could see that the fierce bronze mouths were filled to the brim with grease.
What's in front of us is a water channel around three meters in length, around three meters deep, and pitch black. The candlelight can't penetrate it, and neither can the flashlight light.
However, there were two small arch bridges above the water channel that people could cross. There were stone animals on the bridges, with an arm span of about half an arm, somewhat like the ghostly creatures we saw in the bamboo forest, but not exactly the same. These things resembled birds of flight and were somewhat similar to eagles.
On the opposite side of one of the arch bridges, there lay a person covered in blood from head to toe.
It was actually He Sai who had come up to explore earlier!
His chest was emptied, and he was full of puncture wounds, already dead beyond repair.
The bloodstains on the ground were very obvious, extending deeper into the tomb chamber.
There was no coffin inside the tomb chamber, but there were at least eight tombs on the other walls.
Therefore, even though the tomb chamber was very large, it remained oppressive and cramped.
It can be seen that the bloodstains are leading towards one of the tombs.
However, no one moved first. They were waiting for old Gong to speak.
Old Gong stopped on Fei Fang's shoulder, but his eyes were scanning over the walls of the tomb chamber.
The walls were covered with murals, some of which still had color, while others had weathered and even flaked off.
The position that old Gong looked at, there was a huge human figure on the wall.
But this shadow was not just a person, its body was that of a bird, and its head was human.
He was not standing, but hanging upside down, which was particularly strange.
In front of this figure, there was a table, and offerings were placed on it. However, these offerings were very strange, not the common three kinds of meat, but fish.
Then old Gong moved his eyes to another place, and we followed his gaze.
The mural was completely different from the previous one, much more detailed, and it was composed of a series of cartoon strips that made up a complete painting.
At the beginning, there was a family standing in one place.
A woman was carrying a toddler, holding a baby in her arms, and standing next to another toddler.
In front of the woman, there was a man carrying agricultural tools.
Later, the scene became the woman managing household chores. She held a cane in one hand and seemed to be feeling around with the other, and a strand of fabric was drawn to represent her eye position.
Because the mural faded, many parts were not as clear as they should be, and because of its age, it was very brief and somewhat abstract.
The mural changed again, depicting a child climbing out of the water, with bulging things on their waist.
In the house, the child put some fine bugs into a pot to cook.
The mural turned into a woman eating bugs. Then the cloth over her eyes disappeared.
In the final section, the entire family was neatly lying on the ground, covered in insects, which was quite terrifying.
These two murals seem to explain different pasts, covering both walls.
On the third wall, there was a forest. Above the mountain wall, there were many ghostly creatures flitting in the air. Below was a riverbank and a river. The water surface floated with many cocoon-like objects. There were many insects on the riverbank.
The flying ghostly creatures were feeding on the insects.
The fourth wall, which is the one we just came out of, is a huge coffin suspended in mid-air.
The bottom of the coffin was suspended with those ghostly creatures that were like human heads and bird bodies……
Looking up for too long made my neck feel slightly stiff.
Old Gong whispered in a low voice, "The paintings here depict Yundu Mountain. Many years ago, they worshipped a ghostly creature with a human face and a bird body."
"Inside the mountain, there was a family. The mother was blind. The son dug out a kind of bug from the water below the mountain and let her mother eat it. After eating it, her vision was restored, but the whole family was infested by bugs."
"The ghostly creature they worshipped ate the bugs. From the paintings and these stone carvings, it is indeed Luanhou."
Old Gong first glanced at the statues on the two arched bridges, then turned to look at the murals behind us.
"So, the coffin is the ghostly creature in question?" Fei Fang suddenly said: "Ding Rui Pu and the previous Vice-Yuanyang Monk came here, took away this ghostly creature, and controlled it? That's how the things in the bamboo forest formed? She used ghostly creatures to protect her ancestral tomb?"
"Not that simple, Old Fei. You are truly as your name suggests."
Old Gong swayed and stumbled, his body swaying slightly, as if he couldn't keep his balance.
He raised his arm, pointing to the coffin in the mural, then to the tomb chamber, and finally to the tombs on the walls.
"A single ghost creature, even if buried by humans, wouldn't be buried so meticulously. This is a tomb created by the Shadow and Mountain Sealing technique. Do you think the mountain people of that time could create such a place?"
"The coffin contains a human! Either it's the master of Luanhou, or it's someone who summoned Luanhou and can control it simply."
"Ghosts are not easy to control. Not even the greatest among them could control Mother, and the Zhou family could control the mouse-crowned courtiers, or your Liang family could control the fox crowners. It's all due to the good deeds of our ancestors and some unknown methods they got hold of."
"Take the Hao family for example, they have ghost creatures called Xuehong, but they're not easy to control. They can only be controlled by people with a specific bloodline. Only after death can they turn blood into fireflies."
"Ghosts are much more interesting than ghosts and corpses."
"I'll make a bold conjecture: That old woman dug up this tomb because she wanted to get the person in the coffin and the means to control the ghost creatures. Keeping her ancestral tomb safe is secondary; it's this ability that's most important."
"Ghosts and corpses may turn against their masters, but animals can have a sense of intelligence and will recognize their owners."
"The previous Vice-Yuanyang Monk also wanted to obtain this method, so he followed Ding Rui Pu here. He did manage to get the method, but he died here."
Old Gong's words were long, yet they were delivered with absolute certainty!
He added with emphasis: "Oh, Mr. Ghost-trainer, you train ghosts and corpses, which may lead to killing people. Killing is wrong! Those who don't kill but instead command others to do so have real abilities and blessings from heaven."
"The old woman is deep-seated, cleverly playing her hand. She's much higher than Song Fang and difficult to handle."
