Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 175 Soul-inducing Lamp

In the dark cave, the crunching sound of monkeys chewing the giant snake's corpse was extremely harsh.

The huge nest was surrounded by stone walls, which created a kind of echo effect in the darkness, amplifying any strange sounds in the nest.

The two macaques broke off a piece of the giant snake's body and chewed it, but they were still not satisfied.

After they finished eating, they jumped up again, excitedly lying on the giant snake's shriveled corpse, and biting the gaps in the corpse.

He looked so crazy and agitated, as if he had mania.

Apparently, the giant snake carcasses they ate had some effect on the two monkeys.

They lay on the giant snake's corpse and bit it madly for a long time. Their excited and manic movements even injured their mouths, and both monkeys had mouths full of blood.

But they did not feel any pain, instead they became more excited and fanatical.

Finally, they jumped off the giant snake's body and ran and shouted around the coffin, extremely excited.

Under the light of the eternal lamp, the fur of the two monkeys turned a strange blood red.

They ran around the coffin for a while, and finally ran frantically into the darkness. From the dark cave came the sound of monkeys climbing and jumping on the stone walls.

The two monkeys left roaring and shouting, like two drunkards going crazy.

Ran Qing and the others looked at each other in confusion.

"Is this snake...dead?"

"Seems to be……"

"That giant snake in the stone forest just now..."

Several people couldn't understand it, but considering that this was the Yin-Yang Demon Realm, perhaps the giant snake in the stone forest before was an illusion?
Ran Qing spread out the gloomy wooden card in his hand, and the destiny card pointed to the nest below.

"The ghost I want to catch is in the coffin below..."

Ran Qing stared at the coffin in the snake god's lair, guessing the identity of the coffin's owner.

This coffin looks like it has been around for quite some time.

Maybe it was left behind by Taoist Zhang and others a hundred years ago.

Ran Qing took a deep breath: "At least I found the target..."

This dark and strange underground cave is really depressing and unsettling.

If he still can't find his goal and continues on this path, Ran Qing is really worried that he will go crazy.

They searched along the cliff and finally found a slope that was barely enough to go down in the corner of the edge.

Although the slope is very steep, there are many rugged rocks on it.

As long as you grab the strange rock and rub it down a little bit, you can reach the bottom of the nest.

The ropes they prepared in their backpacks also came in handy.

Considering the need to enter the tiankeng and pass through the cave, Long Zongshu suggested that everyone bring ropes to facilitate climbing up and down.

I didn’t use it on the way here, but I use it now.

After tying the ropes carried by the three people together, one end was tied to a protruding solid rock, and then the three people prepared to go down.

Long Zongshu's crazy cousin was now much more sober and no longer talking nonsense.

He was afraid that the three men would leave him alone, so he didn't even need to pull the rope. He moved flexibly on the slope and was the first to reach the end.

"I'm coming down, come quickly."

The dark-skinned young man shouted from his position in the pitch-black den.

Under his feet were dry tree trunks and branches.

In the gaps between the branches, you can vaguely see some black, dry hair...

Ran Qing and his companions came to the bottom one after another and looked at the coffin in the center of the nest.

And the huge snake corpse next to the coffin.

Just now, when I was standing on top and looking down, I didn’t realize how shocking the giant snake’s corpse was.

Now that I had reached the bottom, I stared straight ahead at the giant snake's corpse. In the darkness, it looked like a small mountain.

The sheer size of the corpse was truly terrifying. I couldn't imagine how terrifying this thing must have been when it was alive.

Ran Qing murmured, "Did the ancient people of Zangke worship monsters like this?"

Even when fighting against such a monster, he could suppress it under the stone forest...

Long Zongshu was also deeply shocked: "I heard from the elders that the ancestors of the Long family also fought against huge monsters in the mountains. But a snake monster this big is simply beyond imagination..."

Both of them were in shock at the giant creature.

Mo Li glanced at it and sneered coldly, saying with disdain: "It's just turned into dried sausage, and the body is eaten by monkeys at will..."

"It just looks big. Forget about modern technological weapons. Even the ancient people of Zangke could kill it with bows, arrows and traps."

Mo Li reacted coldly to the giant snake and was not afraid at all.

After all, the giant snake was just as she said, it turned into a dried sausage, and any two monkeys could eat its meat.

After hearing what Mo Li said, Ran Qing's fear of the giant creature subsided a lot.

He took a deep breath and walked towards the coffin in front of him.

After the destiny card entered the nest, it began to jump rapidly, as if it had some kind of induction.

And inside the coffin, there was dead silence.

The evil spirits inside seemed to have no reaction to the approach of Ran Qing and the others.

The eternal lamp standing on the coffin emitted a faint candlelight with a steady flame. Even when a cold wind blew through the cave from time to time, the flame of the eternal lamp did not flicker.

Mo Li walked around the coffin, carefully looked at the bronze eternal lamp on the coffin, and said in surprise.

"I think I heard the old woman say about this lamp..."

Ran Qing stared at the lamp, his expression normal but his heart pounding.

It was an incredible surprise.

The base of this bronze lamp is a hideous and painful human face.

The person's face was turned up to the sky, his mouth open in pain, and his mouth was soaked with lamp oil and wick.

On the neck of the human face, there were two sharp ghost claws, tightly pinching the neck of the painful human face.

These two extended ghost claws and the lower half of the neck together form the lamp base.

The words in "Witchcraft, Ghosts and Magic" emerged in my mind, corresponding one by one to the strange bronze lamp in front of me.

Ran Qing murmured something.

“…Soul-guiding lamp!”

In "Witchcraft, Ghosts and Magic", there is an ancient treasure that has been missing for many years by the ghost-walking people. It is said that it was a bronze artifact made by the evil ghosts of the ancient Luo Kingdom, which was used to enter and exit the underworld.

Later it was acquired by a lineage of ghost walkers and passed down from generation to generation until it mysteriously disappeared several hundred years ago.

...The bronze lamp on the coffin in front of me is exactly the same as the soul-guiding lamp recorded in "Witchcraft, Ghosts and Magic".

Ran Qing looked at Mo Li in astonishment. As expected, Mo Li had also heard of the soul-guiding lamp.

She looked at Ran Qing in astonishment and said, "The old woman came here, but didn't take this soul-guiding lamp away?"

Logically speaking, Aunt Liu should have written such important information in a booklet as a reminder.

Ran Qing looked at the soul-guiding lamp on the coffin and was about to speak.

But at this moment, the flame of the bronze eternal lamp on the coffin suddenly jumped for a moment.

In the shadow at the edge of the candlelight, a figure that Ran Qing seemed familiar stood there, wearing a dirty batik skirt, looking at Ran Qing sinisterly.

Ran Qing's face showed a look of astonishment.

"Sixth Aunt?!"

(End of this chapter)