General of the Heavens

Chapter 66 Treasure List

"Ding! Your third time-traveling journey is about to begin. The third world is—The Antiquities Bureau's Treasure List! Please choose Yes or No?"

Another month passed quickly. During this time, Ning Chen lived a leisurely life, with hardly any guests during the day.

Ning Chen went to the park to practice boxing with the old lady.

When the old ladies practiced Tai Chi, Ning Chen practiced Xingyi Quan. When the old ladies switched to Xingyi Quan, Ning Chen switched to Tai Chi, making the group of old ladies experience the harshness of society.

Seeing this group of elderly women, all full of energy and trying to get rid of him, Ning Chen felt that he had successfully made their lives more exciting.

Ning Chen was very pleased with this.

Furthermore, through studying the "Boxing Manual," his strength has made significant progress, bringing him one step closer to the realm of transformative power, where yin and yang are integrated and light and darkness are unified.

But even though life was comfortable, he couldn't forget that traversing the heavens was Ning Chen's true battlefield.

"System, initiate the time travel!"

The next second, Ning Chen's vision blurred.

When I opened my eyes again, it was a completely different world!

.........

"Ding! System tasks issued, task issuance complete. Task 1: Faction, Task 2: Tomb Raiding. See attachment for task details."

Ning Chen: "..."

Here we go again. Ning Chen reluctantly opened the attachment: Task 1: Power. In the antique world, the Five Families are the most respected. Therefore, this system task requires the host to establish their own power and compete with the Five Families within the story time!

Task Two: Tomb Raiding. The owner of the Tomb Raider Seal is bound to be the nightmare of all ancient tombs in the world. Please steal a famous tomb within the story time to promote the great name of the Tomb Raider General.

"Antiques? Tomb raiding? What a perfect combination! Haha, these two system missions are just what I want, I love them!"

If you think this world is just about antiques and curios, then you are seriously underestimating it.

This world contains two ancient tombs, each with a remarkable history. The treasures and burial objects buried within are vast and boundless. Stealing either one could ensure a life of abundance for generations to come.

One of the two unparalleled mausoleums is the Eastern Qing Tombs. Construction of the Eastern Qing Tombs began in the 18th year of the Shunzhi reign and lasted for 247 years. A total of 217 palaces and memorial archways were built, forming 15 mausoleums of varying sizes.

The mausoleum area is 12.5 kilometers long from north to south and 20 kilometers wide, and contains the remains of five emperors: the Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, Xianfeng, and Tongzhi emperors.

除此之外，林林总总15位皇后、136位妃嫔、3位阿哥、2位公主共161人共同构成了清东陵。

The "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" records that Emperor Yongzheng once summarized the essence of the imperial mausoleum as a place where the essence of heaven and earth gathers and yin and yang converge.

The land is auspicious, with beautiful landforms and water features. The terrain and energy flow are perfectly balanced, and the mountain ranges and water features are clearly defined. It is truly a superior auspicious site.

In the novel "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost City," Hu Bayi used this passage to fool Professor Chen, but it actually describes the Eastern Qing Tombs.

So even the Yongzheng Emperor probably never imagined that the auspicious burial site he had identified for his late father would become the guide for tomb raiding at the Ningchen Eastern Tombs…

Moreover, Emperor Yongzheng had some eccentricities.

This guy originally decided that his auspicious burial site would be at Jiufeng Chaoyang Mountain and transported a large amount of building materials there.

However, in the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, Yongzheng abandoned the site on the pretext that "although it was large in scale, its layout was incomplete and the soil in the burial chamber contained sand and stones." Instead, he opened up a new burial site at the foot of Taining Mountain in Hebei and built the Tai Mausoleum.

This is why there is a distinction between "Eastern Tombs" and "Western Tombs".

However, Ning Chen thought this must be Emperor Yongzheng, who harbored resentment towards his father, Emperor Kangxi. He probably suffered a lifetime of humiliation while alive and was planning to vent his anger in the afterlife.

Such a tomb is considered the pinnacle of imperial tombs. Ning Chen felt his blood boil with excitement at the thought of challenging such an ancient tomb.

However, the Eastern Qing Tombs are only one of the two extraordinary tombs. The other ancient tomb is even more remarkable than the Eastern Qing Tombs, and it is called the Qianling Tomb!

Qianling Mausoleum is one of the eighteen Tang Dynasty mausoleums in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province. It is the joint tomb of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, covering an area of ​​more than 30 mu.

Throughout history, Qianling Mausoleum is one of the best-preserved imperial mausoleums and the only Tang Dynasty mausoleum that has never been robbed.

Those who engage in tomb raiding know how mysterious Qianling is. During the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao's rebellion occurred, and Huang Chao mobilized an army of 40 to plunder Qianling.

Finally, they dug a trench more than 40 meters deep, but still couldn't find the entrance to the tomb, so they had to give up. The best proof is that there is still a deep trench called Huang Chao Trench on the west side of the main peak of Liangshan Mountain.

Moreover, during the Five Dynasties period, there was a man named Wen Tao, the military governor of Chongzhou during the Later Liang Dynasty, who organized an army to excavate all the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty.

Wen Tao declared, "All the Tang imperial tombs within the territory should be excavated and their treasures taken." However, the final result was: "Only the Qianling Mausoleum could not be excavated due to wind and rain." The Qianling Mausoleum was spared because of its sturdy construction.

In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords fought amongst themselves, and tomb raiding became rampant. Under the pretext of protecting the Qianling Mausoleum, Sun Lianzhong, a member of the Kuomintang, led his troops to be stationed near the mausoleum. He then mobilized a division of soldiers to loot the mausoleum.

The engineers used explosives to blast many places, but they still couldn't find the entrance to the tomb. The Qianling Mausoleum was so secure that it amazed the world, hence it was also known as the tomb that could not be robbed.

Furthermore, there is another theory that when building the Qianling Mausoleum, Wu Zetian commissioned two legendary feng shui masters to select the site: one was Yuan Tiangang, and the other was Li Chunfeng.

These two masters are basically the top two in the field of Feng Shui. Those who can compare with them are extremely rare throughout history.

After receiving the imperial decree, Yuan Tiangang searched both banks of the Yellow River, but could not find a satisfactory burial site. It wasn't until he went to Guanzhong that he observed the celestial phenomena at midnight and saw a purple aura rising into the sky above a mountain range, which happened to intersect with the Big Dipper.

Yuan Tiangang immediately realized that this was a treasure land, so he hurriedly ran up the mountain, found the right spot, took out a copper coin, placed it on the ground, and covered it with loose soil.

Then he went down the mountain to return to the capital and report back.

Another feng shui master, Li Chunfeng, after receiving the imperial decree, traveled eastward along the Wei River in search of auspicious land. One day, at midday when the sun was shining brightly, he saw a strange stone mountain suddenly rise from the Qin Chuan land.

Looking from south to north, it resembles a young woman sleeping naked under the blue sky and white clouds. The woman has all her facial features, a pair of firm breasts... and even a navel.

What surprised him even more was that Shi Shan's legs were slightly apart, and a clear spring flowed endlessly between them all day long! Li Chunfeng narrowed his eyes.

So I began to observe carefully…

He used his shadow to determine the meridian, arranged the eight trigrams with pebbles, and then inserted a hairpin into the ground at the intersection of the two fish. He then went down the mountain to return to court to report.

When Wu Zetian heard that the two of them had chosen a burial site, she sent people to investigate and discovered that Li Chunfeng's hairpin was stuck in the eye of Yuan Tiangang's copper coin!

Although these are just unofficial historical accounts and legends, Qianling remains as mysterious as ever. Moreover, from a feng shui perspective, the terrain of Qianling perfectly embodies the principles of yin and yang, as well as the harmony of heaven and earth.

As the saying goes, Qian represents Heaven and Yang, while Kun represents Earth and Yin. The vital energy of life flows endlessly throughout the year, and the interaction of Yin and Yang gives rise to all things…

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