Chapter 48: Dragon Tomb Opens

"Go get the things and prepare to open Longling."

"Yes!"

The Taoist priest gave orders, and the strong men began to move. They seemed to be carrying something, busy going back and forth inside and outside.

Li Daoxuan pricked up his ears and listened to the movements of these people. There were the sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground, the sounds of iron objects colliding, the sounds of porcelain hitting rocks, and the sounds of copper bells ringing softly.

"There are porcelain, magic tools, and wooden boxes. What on earth are these people going to do?" Li Daoxuan was able to distinguish some of the things based on his experience during this period of time. For example, the copper bell must be a magic tool, and the sound of its shaking music is similar to that of the Taoist rituals.

For example, the porcelain must be filled with thick liquid, and the shaking sound should not be made by sand or gravel.

Speculating secretly, he quietly opened his eyes. He could see the place where these strong men were going to set up their formation, and he felt quite happy.

"God will never leave me without a way out. I have to take a good look at what these people are going to do." Thinking secretly in his mind, Li Daoxuan observed the situation in front of him.

They were in a stone cave. The cave had traces of excavation on all sides, and there were many stone sculptures with both spirits and forms around it. They were not very clear, but they were probably tomb-guarding stone sculptures such as stone statues.

The four sides were lit up by blazing torches, and strong men in yellow robes were guarding everywhere with swords in hand. And right in front of him, several people were chiseling a stone wall. They dug holes in the stone wall and stuffed round objects into them.

Li Daoxuan smelled the odor and immediately understood what these round things were.

"Gunpowder! Are these people crazy? They actually used explosives in a cave! Aren't they afraid of burying themselves?" Li Daoxuan was shocked. He never expected that these strong men would use gunpowder. He thought they had done enough, but the bigger thing was still to come.

"They are a group of ruthless people."

In his heart, Li Daoxuan had a new evaluation of this group of people. This is a group of desperate criminals who can do anything to achieve anything. If you really have to face them, you must not hesitate for a moment. There are only two choices you can make, either he dies or the other party dies.

The fuse was placed about dozens of feet away, and everyone retreated. When the hissing sound of ignition was heard, the men in yellow robes had already raised their shields and stood in the front.

boom--! ! !
Along with the earth-shaking sound, Li Daoxuan felt as if thunder was filling his ears, and his hearing made a buzzing sound. He felt the ground beneath him shake, as if a dragon was turning over.

He struggled to get through the discomfort of hearing, and at this moment he even envied those who actually fell asleep. At least they didn't have to suffer this kind of pain.

Countless pieces of stone flew everywhere, hitting the shields continuously and making crackling sounds. When the shock wave of the explosion dissipated, the smoke and dust in the cave gradually settled down. The strong men in yellow robes removed their shields and focused their torches on the explosion site.

At the explosion site, countless rubbles broke apart. Someone carried a hammer and hit it a few times, and the rubbles fell down with a rustle. A wide stone door appeared in front of everyone.

The stone door was extremely smooth, with two real dragons flying in the clouds carved on it. Eight circular holes also appeared at the closed part of the stone door. They were arranged in the form of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams, neatly arranged on the stone door.

"Sure enough, it's here!" The Taoist was delighted and walked a few steps to the stone gate with a torch to take a closer look. He reached out and touched the pattern on the stone gate, with a happy smile on his face.

"Master, is this really Longling?" The eldest son of the Wang family, who had changed his clothes beside the Taoist, asked with a sullen face. He also looked at the stone gate and felt that the stone gate several feet high was so majestic. It was hard to imagine who built this thing here and why it was built.

"Longling, this is the real Longling!" The immortal laughed. "When Zhu Yuanzhang was competing for the throne, he went to Nanjing and got advice from a master. He looked around Nanjing and found the dragon's head. In order to protect the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for eternity, he built Longling as his mausoleum. The world only knows that Zhu Yuanzhang was dissatisfied with the Fengshui of Nanjing during his lifetime, and ordered the crown prince Zhu Biao to find a new capital. Unfortunately, Zhu Biao died early, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not move the capital to another place. After his death, he was buried in Xiaoling. But how could the world know that Longling is his real resting place."

"As long as Longling is not declining, the fortune of the Ming Dynasty will not fall. In this way, the Zhu family royal family will be able to prosper from generation to generation, and virtuous emperors will emerge. It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang figured out everything, but forgot to calculate people's hearts. How could he have expected that Zhu Di would rebel and become the emperor, abandon Yingtian Prefecture, and move the capital to Shuntian Prefecture BJ. It was like two dragons fighting, and cholera was endless in the world. The wind was not adjusted and the rain was not smooth, so the Ming Dynasty was easily taken away by the Manchus. Hateful, lamentable." The real person said, with a little regret in his tone. But this regret flashed by, and then it was replaced by a happy look.

"It is truly God's will that I have found this Longling. We will surely achieve something in this peaceful and prosperous era, and make the world belong to us, not the Jiannu."

"Congratulations, Master, for achieving your goal." The eldest son of the Wang family congratulated him. He lowered his head and a dark smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. There was no respect in his eyes, only coldness as cold as a glacier.

"Bring the dragon pillar and open the Longling Tomb." The Taoist waved his sleeves, and the people in yellow robes got busy.

They took down eight arm-length stone pillars from the carriage and placed them in front of the stone gate.

"Master, is this pillar the relic left by the King of Heaven?" asked the eldest son of the Wang family puzzled.

"That's right." The Taoist nodded. "When the Heavenly King invaded Nanjing and established Nanjing as his capital, he found these eight dragon pillars in the Nanjing treasury. But the Heavenly King didn't believe us and was stubborn. The Righteous King didn't agree with him, so he took these eight stone pillars to find the Dragon Tomb. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and the Righteous King believed the villain's way after all."

As the Taoist said this, he could not help but sigh, "How can you know that the affairs of the world are not determined by bravery and force? The Manchus seized the Ming Dynasty, which was like a dragon swallowing a real dragon and becoming a powerful dragon. The two dragons have already become weak after fighting each other, so how can they stop the luck of the Jian slaves? Although the King of Heaven has human hearts, he has no luck. Even if he can be happy for a while and be the hero of one side, he will eventually decline and die. If you had listened to my advice and found this Longling to make up for the deficiency of the sky, you would have rested and treated people with kindness. How could the increasingly declining luck of the Jian slaves stop the rise of the real dragon that has been dormant for a hundred years? What a pity, what a pity, what a pity!"

"Master Wu Ai, we will use the dragon energy of Longling to revive King Yi, and we will surely make a comeback and drive the Jiannu out of China." The eldest son of the Wang family said firmly. "No matter how powerful the King Hong Xiuquan is, he is just a farmer's son. We have been planning for more than ten years. Now the new emperor of Jiannu has just ascended the throne, and the two evil queens in the east and west are fighting for power. The drought in the north is coming, and people's hearts are uneasy. This is a great opportunity for us to seize the world!"

"Ugh."

The Taoist sighed and stopped talking about these things. He stroked the dragon pillars and asked people to stuff them into the gaps one by one. He also placed eight colored glaze lamps on the ground and lit them. After everything was ready, he began to walk on the magic circle and chant the magic formula.

When he stepped into the lamp, he suddenly opened his eyes and pointed at the stone door: "Luo Hong!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two men in yellow robes came forward carrying porcelain. They threw the porcelain at the stone door, and there was a loud bang, and thick blood splashed everywhere.

Li Daoxuan squinted his eyes and took it all in. He saw the blood on the stone door gradually gather and magically merge into the carved dragon statue. It was like a bright red dragon, appearing before the world.

"What is this!" Li Daoxuan was shocked. Before he could figure it out, the stone door began to shake violently.

(End of this chapter)