Daomu Biji

Purple jade is amethyst. It is generally used as a charm and to ward off evil spirits. It is rarely used as a box. This box seems to be dug out of a whole piece of purple jade. It is very rare. Purple jade is not good at polishing. Therefore, there is no pattern on the box, and there is only a gold edge on the lid. Judging from the position where it is placed, it should be used as a pillow for the corpse. Generally speaking, jade pillows are already very precious, and purple jade pillows are even more valuable. I am afraid that the emperor at that time did not receive such treatment.

We carefully took out the box and put it on the ground. The box had no lock. We opened it and found a roll of golden silk inlaid inside. The fiber of this thing was inlaid with gold thread and it was very well preserved. We unfolded it. Look, the line from the left says [The Book of the Underworld's Shang Wang], and then there are densely packed small characters on the side.

The fat man was more interested in the jade figurines than the silk book. He couldn't understand it, so he muttered a few times and ran to study the jade figurines. Menyouping pulled out the knife from the tree and laid the jade aside. Beside the bed, he stared at the corpse of King Lu Shang silently, his eyes blurred.

My third uncle and I sat next to him and carefully read the text on the silk book. With my level, I can only understand some fragments, but by connecting these fragments, I can get a general idea. The things recorded in the Book of the Earth are simply unbelievable. If it weren’t for the fact that I have experienced so many weird things, I really can’t believe that there is such a thing in the world.

Beside the words in the Book of Death of King Hades, there is a line of small characters, which is a preface written by himself. It is only a few lines. What follows is all the major events from his birth to his death. If all of them were translated, , I’m afraid I won’t be able to finish it in ten days and a half. Fortunately,

I understand the two most important things.

The first thing is how King Lu Shang obtained the Ghost Seal. It was written in a relatively simple way in the silk book, so I briefly thought about it and then read it out.

He inherited his father's official position at the age of twenty-five, and robbed ancient tombs for the Lu army, collecting gold to pay for the army. Once, he entered a tomb of unknown age, and there turned out to be a giant snake lying in the coffin. King Lu Shang was very courageous. He thought that the giant snake lying in the coffin must be an evildoer, so he chopped the snake into pieces with one knife, and forcibly ordered to go down and disembowel the snake. As a result, the snake was A purple gold box was dug out of his belly.

When I saw this, I couldn't help but wonder. Could it be that the box I put in my bag was cut out of the snake's belly? The third uncle saw that I had stopped talking and said impatiently: Don't stop, keep talking! I couldn't think about it carefully, so I had to regain my senses and continue reading.

King Nalu Shang didn't pay much attention to the box. He just thought it was swallowed by a snake. Later, when he went to bed at night, he dreamed of an old man with a white beard and asked him: Why do you want to kill me?

King Lu Shang was usually very violent. He often killed people and forgot about them. He didn’t know who this old man was, so he said, “Kill if you want!”

The old man suddenly turned into a giant snake and bit him. Unexpectedly, King Lu Shang was so fierce that he cut the snake with another knife in his dream. Then he stepped on it and tried to cut off the snake's head. Suddenly he began to beg for mercy, saying that his body had been killed by him, and if his soul was killed by him again, he would never be reincarnated. If he let him go, he would pass on two treasures to him. It could make him the most powerful official. Although the officers who robbed the tombs at that time were under the direct management of the emperor, their status was very low. King Lu Shang had a very high self-esteem, so this condition was very attractive to him. I agreed.

The snake told him how to open the purple gold box in his belly, and also taught him how to use the treasures inside. After hearing this, King Nalu Shang understood the beauty of it and felt that this matter was just In response to God's knowledge that it should not be spread to the world, he chopped off the snake's head with one knife.

When I saw this, I couldn't help but wonder, this King Lu Shang is too cruel.

The fat man ran over at this time and asked: That treasure must be the Ghost Seal, and what is the other one? It has never been mentioned in ancient books. Could it be this jade figurine?

I signaled him not to rush,

Keep looking down by yourself,

After King Nalu Shang woke up, he tried the method in his dream and indeed opened the box. However, he never wrote what treasure was inside. He just said that after using it for a while, it was quite convenient. He felt that this box was As the matter could not be known to others, the followers he had brought with him were killed one by one, as well as their families, even the children who were just one month old were not spared.

I gasped again when I saw this, thinking that King Lu Shang must have some mental problems, otherwise how could he be so cruel.

The fat man said: How could he kill so many people by himself? He must have used that treasure. I'm really worried. Can you look at what's written below?

I scolded: Why are you talking so much nonsense? Go and clean up your jade figurines!

He said, Okay, it's okay if I don't interrupt. You should read faster, your intestines are itching!

I ignored him and continued reading.

In the following decades, with the help of those two treasures, he was invincible, whether in war or in government, and he was famous for a while. However, in his later years, due to many years of exposure to corpse energy, he developed many stubborn diseases in his body, which was very inconvenient. As a result, the emperor thought that he was too old, so he removed his military power and asked him to only fight in reverse and not to deal with military affairs. This actually demoted him.

As his health deteriorated day by day, he began to be a little afraid of death. One day, he dreamed of the giant snake that had been there for decades. The giant snake told him that the day of his death had come, and we were all waiting for you in the underworld. When he took a look, almost all of them were people he had killed indiscriminately before! After he woke up, he was very scared when he thought about the contents of his dream. So he went to ask his military advisor for advice.

His military officer was a tough-faced man who was proficient in fate and Feng Shui. He thought for a moment and told King Lu Shang that in ancient times there was a kind of jade figurine that could rejuvenate people and make them immortal when worn on the body. Unfortunately, it has disappeared long ago. If you want to find it, The only way to find it was in the ancient tomb. King Lu Shang was at the end of his rope at that time. Regardless of whether Mr. Ironface's words were true or not, they gave him a glimmer of hope, and fighting upside down was his strength. So he studied ancient books all night. The literature at that time was still relatively rich, and many things had not been lost. Finally, he discovered a large tomb that might contain jade figurines based on a simple book.

Then, he mobilized more than 3,000 people and spent half a year excavating the mountain, and found a huge Western Zhou imperial tomb in the area he estimated. At that time, the national power of each country was not very good, so the scale of this imperial tomb was already large at that time. It's amazing. It was built out of the mountain, using natural caves. The tomb passage inside is extremely complicated using the principles of Zhouyi Bagua. If King Lu Shang hadn't mastered Qimen Shield Armor, there would be no way to walk in. The most peculiar thing is that in the main tomb, In the cave, there was a giant tree that he called Hydra, and an almost skinny young man corpse, wearing a black gold-lined jade garment, was meditating on a jade bed under the giant tree.

After looking at it, Mr. Ironface said decisively, this is the jade figurine. The young man's body seems dead but not dead. Every once in a while, the dead skin on his body will fall off and new skin will grow out from inside. He estimates that this young man , he must be a decayed old man when he dies.

This Mr. Iron Face was so amazing that he actually knew how to restrain the bloody corpse. He used a special method to take out the male corpse from the human figurine and sealed it in the sarcophagus in the auxiliary tomb. King Lu Shang followed all the instructions set by Mr. Iron Face. Plan, he took the fake death medicine and faked his death in front of the emperor. The emperor thought that he could really come and go freely between the yin and yang worlds, and was very scared. In order to appease him, the emperor gave him a higher burial treatment than ordinary princes and kings, and his cronies Using the excuse of digging a tomb, he secretly built a fan-like ancient tomb on top of the Western Zhou imperial mausoleum. Because he was familiar with the various techniques of tomb robbing, he set up suspicions everywhere, leaving seven fake coffins, and robbed himself Hidden in the thousand-year-old tree in the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Before he put himself into the coffin, he killed everyone involved in the project, pushed them into the river, and then poisoned all his followers, leaving only two loyal confidants, a man and a woman, to bury him. People also take poison and die after completing everything. I estimate that the many ancient corpses in the corpse cave should have been accumulated at this time.

At this time, I had a question and said to my third uncle: What happened to Mr. Iron Mask in the end? It doesn't seem to be mentioned here. Could it be that he was also buried and died?

The third uncle shook his head and said: This kind of person is very smart. He should have expected that King Lu Shang would kill someone and silence him. He should not be buried with him foolishly and loyally.

Menyou Ping said lightly: Of course he won't, because in the end, the one lying in the jade figurine is not King Lu Shang, but himself.