Chapter 223
The internal energy part of the Xuan Ji Secret Canon was written in the "Zheng Zi Jue". This was also the first exercise that Pang Jun came into contact with and learned. He had already memorized it by heart. He closed his eyes and silently recited for a while. After re-confirming the formula of the "Zheng Zi Jue", he suddenly jumped high and tapped the Shenting acupoint on the top of the statue's head, followed by the Baihui, Taiyang, Renzhong, Fengchi...
He kept going down, flying left and right. Every time he poked the hole deeper, the stone door would make a "clicking" sound, followed by a "rustling" sound of fluid. Obviously, the mercury in the stone door was guided by the mechanism and flowed out of the stone door little by little. As time passed, the "correct word formula" in the "Xuan Ji Secret Book"
Pang Jun had already pressed all the 360 acupoints described, and for the last one, Pang Jun pressed heavily on the dantian, as if he was an immortal pointing the way.
Then, with Pang Jun's final blow, the stone door suddenly made a "rumbling" sound, and the stone door automatically rose up, revealing the entrance directly below. Pang Jun held up the torch to illuminate the dark cave. He saw that there was a long groove on each side of the cave. In the groove, there were some things piled up, covered with dust. Not knowing what it was, Pang Jun wiped the things in the groove with his hand, put it to his nose and sniffed, and found that these greasy things were actually pine resin!
He took out a torch and touched the resin in the groove. With a "pop" sound, the resin inside was instantly ignited, illuminating the entire passage as bright as day. The dreamy flame combined with the smell of pine resin turned the originally dark and terrifying passage into a ladder to heaven.
"Let's go." Pang Jun turned around and said to Shen Yujing, while extending his hand to the beautiful woman.
Shen Yujing was stunned for a moment, then she smiled sweetly, put her jade hand on Pang Jun's hand, and the two of them walked inside holding hands.
Not long after they walked, they heard a rumbling sound behind them, and the stone door behind them closed automatically. Shen Yujing smiled and said, "This is the Dragon Breaking Stone. It's small, but it weighs a thousand pounds. Now we can only move forward."
They kept walking along the ladder which was as bright as daylight. After about half a cup of tea, they reached the end of the ladder and came to the door of a stone chamber. The peculiarity of this door was that there was a handprint carved on each of the two doors.
Pang Jun stretched out his hand, covering the place where the two handprints were, and pushed forward with all his internal strength, but the stone door did not move at all. No matter how hard he tried, he could not move the door at all. After trying for a long time, he sighed, shook his head and said, "No, even if I use 100% of my power, this door still does not move. We may be trapped here."
Shen Yujing stroked her chin with her jade hand, and carefully examined the two handprints through the light in the passage. Pang Jun was stunned for a moment when he saw Shen Yujing's jade hand. A flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and he immediately said, "Why don't you try it?"
"Me?" Shen Yujing was confused. "You think a weak woman like me can push the stone door that you can't push?"
Pang Jun nodded and said, "Perhaps it is because of you that I can push it. It's like the relationship between a key and a lock. I may just be a pry, but you are the key to this lock."
Shen Yujing said thoughtfully, "That makes sense." After that, she prepared to push the door.
Pang Jun stopped her and said, "Are you just going to push the door open so rashly?"
"What else?" Shen Yujing looked at Pang Jun with interest and said, "Since you can't push it open, I'm the only one who can try. If after I push the door open, there are several arrows piercing me, you can find a way to build a tomb for me here after you escape. If after you push it open, there is something that can kill both of us, then we can only be a pair of mandarin ducks with the same fate here." After saying this, regardless of Pang Jun's attitude, a pair of delicate jade hands just covered the handprint on the stone door and pushed it forward.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble..." Without any effort, the stone door that Pang Jun had worked so hard to open was actually pushed open easily by Shen Yujing!
As the stone door was slowly pushed open by Shen Yujing, the true appearance of the stone chamber was revealed to the two of them: the stone chamber was about fifty meters long and wide, and about sixty or seventy meters high. In the huge stone chamber, a large number of eternal lamps were lit all around. Large boxes were piled on the ground, and next to each box was a corpse. A sharp knife with a cold glow was placed across the abdomen of each corpse. Obviously, these people were the death warriors guarding these boxes.
Pang Jun approached one of the boxes and blew away the dust on it. On the lid of the wooden box, there was a big word "Yan" written on it. The iron lock that locked the wooden box was rusted. Pang Jun easily removed the iron lock and opened the lid. The golden light was shining brightly. The box was filled with gold, silver and treasures, pearls, agates, jadeite, etc. The value of the things in just one box was worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. He counted them and found that there were at least hundreds of such boxes in this stone chamber. Such a wealth was comparable to the treasury of the Great Jin Dynasty. However, this was originally the treasury of the Great Yan Dynasty. It was rich enough to rival a country, which was understandable.
"If you can transport all these treasures out, I'm afraid you won't have to worry about lack of military funds in Liaodong anymore, and you can enjoy yourself." Shen Yujing teased.
Pang Jun smiled bitterly and said, "You also said that we should ship it out. Now we can't even get out ourselves, let alone ship these boxes out."
Shen Yujing tilted his head and said, "Look over there, there is an exit, I don't know where it leads to, do you want to go and see it?"
"Okay, let's go and take a look." Pang Jun followed the direction Shen Yujing pointed and saw a door. So he walked through the stone chamber and headed for the exit.
After leaving the gem room, the two entered another stone room. This stone room was much smaller than the previous gem room, but it was also taller because there was a stone statue several meters tall placed here. The statue was a general wearing armor, with a sword on his waist and a Fang Tian Hua Ji in his hand. He had a handsome face and an imposing manner, with an aura of majesty without even being angry.
When Shen Yujing looked at the stone statue, tears came to her eyes involuntarily and she murmured, "Jing'er, Jing'er..." Only then did Pang Jun realize that the stone statue in front of him was Shen Yujing's husband, Murong Jing, the founding emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty.
He walked up to the stone statue and knelt down, saying as he knelt down, "I, your humble descendant Pang Jun, pay my respects to His Majesty the Emperor Taizu."
After kneeling three times and knocking nine times, he suddenly discovered that there were some words engraved on a piece of floor right in front of him. Next to the floor, there was a long golden nanmu box. He walked forward and carefully examined the words on it.
After reading it, he could not help but sigh: "Your Majesty Zhenzong is truly a god."
Shen Yujing heard what Pang Jun said and asked, "What's wrong?"
Pang Jun pointed to the stone tablet with inscriptions and said, "You will know when you see it."
Shen Yujing read the words on the stone tablet carefully with doubts, and couldn't help laughing. She scolded with a smile: "This little guy is so bold that he even took advantage of me. If Jing'er knew that he had such a descendant, would he be furious?"
It turned out that what was engraved on the stone slab was the truth about Emperor Zhenzong's treasure: Emperor Zhenzong saw the ambition of the Yang family and began to accumulate wealth secretly, but he couldn't let the Yang family know about this wealth, at least he couldn't let them know where it was. But the influence of the Yang family was throughout the court and the country, so he chose a suitable place - Shadow Moon Valley, where Empress Shen Yujing of Wude Gaosheng was placed, and a trustworthy non-official person - Xia Xuanzhang, the head of the Songshan School at that time. With the secret help of Xia Xuanzhang, he built this mountain palace and these dark rooms.
After the treasure hiding place was repaired, only one entrance was left, which was the entrance to Shadow Moon Valley. However, to pass the entrance of Shadow Moon Valley, one must pass the "Illusion of Lust" and Shen Yujing's level. To pass Shen Yujing's level, one must completely learn the "Xuan Ji Secret Code". Even if one passes Shen Yujing's level, after reaching the valley palace, one still needs someone who understands the "Xuan Ji Secret Code" to open the Dragon-Breaking Stone. If this person is indeed resurrected and recognized by Shen Yujing, Shen Yujing will help him obtain the treasure. As for the stone door of the stone chamber, in this world, only Shen Yujing's hand can match the handprint and open the door of the treasure stone chamber, otherwise he will be trapped inside for life. Only those who can do these are qualified to obtain the treasure of Zhenzong.
Not long after the stone chamber was repaired, Xia Xuanzhang chose to commit suicide in order to keep the secret, and most of the people who participated in this matter at that time committed suicide or were killed by Zhenzong. The only person left who knew about it was the crown prince, who later became Suzong. However, because the Dayan Dynasty was destroyed by the Yang family, the five volumes of the "Lankavatara Sutra" that recorded the "Xuan Ji Secret Classic" were lost. Finally, it was not until the generation of Pang Yingtian and Pang Jun that they collected them again, allowing this treasure to see the light of day again.
As for how to leave here, there are instructions on the stone slab: behind the stone statue of Murong Jing is a stone staircase. By walking up the stone staircase to the top of the stone statue, you can reach the top of the stone chamber. At the top of the stone chamber, there is a hole that leads directly to a suspected coffin in the upper ancient tomb. After reaching the upper ancient tomb, you can use a mechanism somewhere in the ancient tomb to open the tomb door and return to the world.
Pang Jun picked up the wooden box beside him and opened it solemnly. Inside was a sword embroidered with patterns, decorated with colorful beads and Jiuhua jade, with a cold glow and a blade as cold as frost and snow.
When Shen Yujing saw the sword, he couldn't help but say, "Chixiao, this is Jing'er's sword."
"Chixiao? The legendary sword Chixiao of the emperor?" Pang Jun asked in surprise.
The beautiful woman nodded and said, "You can't be wrong. This is the Emperor's Sword Chi Xiao, which is second only to the Saint Xuan Yuan among the famous swords in the world. It is also placed here. Take it away, take it, and go to gain your own world."
Pang Jun solemnly took out Chi Xiao from the wooden box, raised the sword with both hands, knelt down in front of the stone statue of Murong Jing, and said, "I am the unworthy descendant Pang Jun. Today, I have received the sword of Taizu and the help of Empress Wude Gaosheng. I am willing to do my best to restore the Murong family. I hope that Taizu will protect the descendants of the Murong family!" After the ceremony, he said to Shen Yujing, "Let's go."
At this time, Shen Yujing pointed to the gem room and asked, "What are you going to do with the treasures? Don't forget, this is Songshan. Your sphere of influence is in Liaodong. How can you transport the treasures without alerting the local tyrants?"
After hearing this, Pang Jun was stunned for a moment, then smiled mysteriously and said, "The hermit has his own ingenious plan."
Shen Yujing squinted her eyes and glanced at Pang Jun. She didn't say anything, but followed him up the stone stairs behind the stone statue. When she reached the last step on the top of the stone chamber, she turned her head, her eyes seemed to pass through the rocks and returned to the stone chamber full of corpses. She looked at it with nostalgia, chuckled, and followed Pang Jun away from here...