Tomb raiding: Carrying a coffin during a funeral procession, rewarded with the Dragon Elephant Prajn

"I see!"

Just then, Xiang, the foreman, suddenly shouted, attracting everyone's attention.

Xiang walked to the center of the warehouse and pointed to the tomb bricks on the ground, explaining.

"Actually, we've all been deceived by this 'using the false to cultivate the true' concept. Historically, the idea of ​​using the false to cultivate the true has existed in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. It's somewhat similar to Zhuangzi's saying, 'As long as the sage lives, the great thief will never cease.'"

The phrase "Xiang Batou" comes from Zhuangzi's writings.

This means that good and evil in the world are relative; only the existence of evil can highlight good. If there were no evil people in the world, then everyone would be a saint, yet no one is a saint.

The concept of "using the false to cultivate the true" is the same; it means that in order to cultivate the true, one must first have the false!

Buddhism uses a similar concept: one must first take up something before one can put it down and attain liberation. If one has never taken anything up, how can one talk about putting it down?

Xiang's words were very logical and reasonable, but unfortunately, not many people present could understand them.

His henchman, Tiger, gaped, and after a long pause, finally managed to ask, "Boss, what does that mean?"

Xiang, the foreman, said helplessly, "I've already told you to read more books."

Ah Ning seemed to be deep in thought, and quickly asked, "Does Chief Xiang mean that Feng Wangli's tomb is both real and fake?"

"That's right! There's a line of poetry in *Dream of the Red Chamber* that goes, 'What is false becomes true, and what is true becomes false; what is nothing becomes something, and what is something becomes nothing.' The boundary between truth and falsehood is inherently blurred. If you consider it false, then it is a false tomb; if you consider it true, then it is a true tomb."

It would have been better if Xiang hadn't explained; his explanation only made his men even more confused.

"No, that container has been hollowed out, how can it be both real and fake?"

Li Changsheng understood the implication in Xiang Batou's words and said with a smile, "If you think the tomb has been hollowed out, then it has been hollowed out; if you think there's still something in the tomb, then there is."

Hearing this, the group of foreign mercenaries under Aning's command were even more confused.

Mike, an American, couldn't help but mutter to his companion, "See? These are the Chinese riddle people. We can't understand any of their encrypted language at all."

"Mike, don't you speak Chinese?"

"No, no, no, 'know' and 'understand' are two different things. For example, do you know the meaning in Chinese, or do you know what it means?"

"this……"

Seeing that everyone was still confused, Chief Xiang decided to explain things clearly.

"I've heard my master mention that the alchemists of the pre-Qin period possessed a secret technique for borrowing the false and returning the true. But this technique was lost after the Qin Dynasty, and even my master doesn't know exactly how to borrow or return it. I suspect that Feng Wangli may have obtained this secret technique and used it in his own tomb."

Upon hearing this, many people finally understood.

After thinking about it, Aning decided to explore Feng Wangli's tomb again that night.

These tomb bricks, which had just been transported back, also had to be transported back. They even prepared several extra water pumps.

Late at night, the mining area was brightly lit.

A Ning, along with her men, prepared their equipment and set off for the tomb of the King's Ceremony.

Upon reaching the mountain ridge a few kilometers away, the tomb of Feng Wangli was still the same as during the day, with the excavated pit not yet filled in.

Aning, Li Changsheng, and others descended to the bottom of the tomb one after another.

With several diesel pumps working simultaneously, the knee-deep water in the tomb was quickly drained.

Once the floodwaters had drained, Aning's men quickly got to work, clearing away all the debris piled up on the tomb floor.

After the ground was completely exposed, everyone discovered that the area in the middle covered with black tomb bricks seemed to be the same area where the fake cultivation diagram was pieced together!

Upon seeing this, Xiang, the foreman, perked up and immediately ordered everyone to carry the tomb bricks down.

"When you're laying the bricks later, you have to lay them upside down, with the patterned side facing the ground."

Hearing what Xiang said, A Ning's men didn't understand, but they still did as he was told.

After working for most of the day, the last brick was laid, but the tomb chamber remained unchanged.

A Ning couldn't wait any longer and couldn't help but turn her gaze to Xiang Ba Tou.

"Why hasn't Chief Xiang changed?"

"Miss Aning, I'm only guessing. I'm completely clueless about whether this tomb is a fake or not, and how to open it."

Before the words were finished, the person inside the tomb suddenly felt dizzy and lightheaded.

It felt as if you were on a ship at sea, with your feet bobbing up and down.

Before anyone could react, the dizziness and lightheadedness vanished instantly.

Immediately afterwards, everyone was shocked to find that the tomb chamber in front of them had completely changed.

The sky above was no longer the night sky, but a solid tomb roof.

"What's going on?!"

"Where are we?"

"How come you've changed locations in the blink of an eye?"

The tomb chamber suddenly became noisy.

Seeing this, Ah Ning's expression turned slightly cold, and she said in a low, sharp voice, "Quiet!"

As she spoke, the people in the tomb gradually calmed down.

"Mike, take some men and search the area around this tomb chamber, and while you're at it, look for an exit!"

"yes!"

Mike, accompanied by several fully armed mercenaries, searched the tomb chamber bit by bit.

The remaining people looked at the tomb chamber in front of them, which seemed to have appeared out of thin air as if by magic.

Of everyone, only Li Changsheng and Hei Xiazi remained the most composed.

Li Changsheng remained calm because he knew that there were many such strange spaces in this world.

For example, in the city of Erohai in the Kunlun Demon Kingdom, time is forever frozen three thousand years ago, and even the mutton soup in the herdsmen's pots is always warm.

There's also the sea eye in the South China Sea Ruins, which absorbs water from all four seas!

And the tomb of Li Chunfeng in Gulan County, it even developed self-awareness and could constantly change its location.

Compared to that, the tomb that was supposed to be a fake but actually real one, the Fengwangli tomb, is indeed nothing special.

As for Hei Xiazi, it's because he personally visited a space a hundred times more mysterious than the one before him, and there he gained the ability to live a long life and have the ability to see ghosts.

Seeing that Li Changsheng and Hei Xiazi both looked calm and composed, A Ning immediately suppressed her surprise and resumed her usual cold and aloof demeanor.

What you see before you is more like a laboratory than a tomb!

Aning discovered that there was no coffin in the tomb chamber, but rather two walls lined with antique display shelves, and in the center of the chamber was a pill furnace as tall as a person.

There are two display shelves, one side filled with books, and the other side with wooden boxes containing herbs, rare minerals and other items.

However, apart from the mining area which is still well preserved, both the books and herbs have basically shown signs of weathering. Some of them are so badly weathered that they crumble into powder with the slightest touch.

Of all the books, only one scroll of bright yellow silk remained intact.

Ah Ning picked up the silk and examined it for a few moments, then asked疑惑地, "I remember that yellow fabrics were reserved for the imperial family during the Ming Dynasty, and ordinary people were not allowed to use them. This silk..."

Before Aning could finish speaking, Xiang explained.

"The title of 'Grand Protector of Guanshan' was personally bestowed by Zhu Yuanzhang. The fact that the Sichuan Provincial Governor, a high-ranking official, personally wrote the inscription for the monument shows that his status was extraordinary. It is not surprising that he received several rolls of royal silk as a reward."

The Guanshan Taibao was the royal geomancer, specifically responsible for constructing imperial mausoleums for the royal family.

It's important to know that the ancients viewed death as life, and they would certainly have set up traps to prevent tomb robbery.

It is conceivable that the geomancer who had access to all the blueprints must have been a confidant of the emperor.

Ah Ning nodded and then opened the scroll of silk.

To her surprise, the scroll of silk contained a series of complex alchemical terms.

Aning couldn't understand it, so she had to hand it over to Xiang Batou and Gou Daoshi.

After studying it for a long time, the Taoist priest Gou said with some uncertainty, "It should be the Taoist alchemy technique. The king wanted to refine the elixir of immortality, but the alchemy technique recorded on the silk is extremely strange and does not seem to be for human use."

"If this isn't a pill made for people, what is it for? It can't be for rice dumplings, can it?"

Black Bear shook his head and casually made a joke.

However, before he could finish speaking, Mike, who had left the tomb to lead the search, suddenly shouted, and the sound came over.

"Miss Aning, there are... there are zombies here!"